Commencement of construction of the project, the conservatory will provide temporary, comparable housing. The sponsor is now in advance discussions. If all or most of the temporary units can be located at this residential complex, it will minimize disruption and anxiety for the tenants knowing they will be in the same neighborhood. Additionally, the project sponsor will pay the tenants cost to move to temporary housing and the new units once the building is ready for occupancy. San francisco conservatory will pay for utility reconnection fees and work with the San FranciscoHousing Authority to ensure that tenants with existing section 8 vouchers will continue to be eligible during temporary replacement and in the replacement units. Existing tenants will be offered a lease on substantially the same terms as they were paying prior to the commencement of construction. The sponsor is working with tenants to resolve concerns, circumstances or barriers that require specialized access to all services. To date, the project sponsor has spoken to every existing tenant to provide information and answer any questions they have. Finally, the conservatory has developed a protocol for tenants to receive ample notice for relocation. It includes opportunities for the tenants to tour the project site, review floor plans and provide a ranked preference list. As further community benefit, this serves the general public and enhances the area. There will be Free Entrance to performances. Thank you for your time. And i will be available if you have any questions. President hillis thank you. Project sponsor . Can i get the computer presentation put up . Good afternoon. Im suzanne brown. And im with Equity Community builders. Im here representing the conservatory of music today. We were here in january to talk about the 100year history of the conservatory music in San Francisco. I have with me today our team, david stall, president of the conservatory, our architect, planning consultant, director of public affairs, who has worked with many of the tenants for all the tenants at 200 van ness. Land use attorney, our attorney on the tenant relocation plan. And were pleased to be here in front of you today and can answer any questions you may have. A little bit of history. In 2014, the conservatory acquired the buildings at 200 and 214 van ness. What we show in the presentation is the new building. With the intent to provide Student Housing and Community Resources within three blocks of the current campus at 50 oak street. Since then, the college has been a good steward in maintaining the existing rental housing on site and developing plans for safe, modern housing. It ensures replacement of all 27 existing units, fulfilling the desperate need for Student Housing in the city. Weve worked with oewd on the Development Agreement, including replacement housing. Weve worked with the existing tenants for the last three years to get to know who is in the building and what their needs are as far as relocation. Weve designed a comprehensive plan during the twoyear construction period and permanent relocation to the new building. As anne mentioned, we were fortunate enough to have the building come on online this spring, so they can be relocated across the street for the twoyear construction period and the relocation costs will be paid entirely by the college. All the tenants will be under their current lease terms at temporary housing as well as new housing and we hope this plan can be an example for future developments in the city. The current residents have expressed a desire to move forward with the project and move into their new homes as quickly as possible. Its important to get our students into the new Student Housing for the 2020 academic year, therefore, we ask you to move forward with your approval today on this important and impactful project. Now i would like to turn it over for architectural design. Thank you, suzanne. Thank you, president hillis, fellow commissioners and thank you for allowing us to be here today. I will move quickly through this. I know were not allocated a lot of time and i was here just a month ago. There is is the setting. You can see the dark blue building is the conservatory music proposed project, on the edge and in the heart of the performing arts area and broader civic center. The building slated for removal and the new building as proposed, the bulk of which is the housing. The two floors of replacement housing. Student and faculty housing above that, but more importantly, for ground floor, second floor, and top two floors. Heres the section that i apologized, its bleached out on the screen. Two basement floors expand the facilitation of the building and teaching spaces that are critical. Two public floors on levels one and two. Replacement housing on three and four. Student housing up the building. At the top, a couple of floors of grand public spaces. This is basement level two, which is important and i show you only to underscore how critical the space is. How every cubic foot of volume was needed and much of the basement is being used for educational purposes. This is basement level one, which reinforces the same. Most of the floor is used for educational purposes and is integrated to the ground and second floor for those purposes. The street level in yellow, you have a cafe. In blue on the level, a Performance Space on the corner of hayes and van ness. On the right, Student Commons. Theres the lobby down the middle. Replacement housing, faculty housing, Student Housing, everyone comes in the same front door. Its really one very distinguished lobby that will facilitate an integration of the entire building. If we go up the floor, a rental space that may be an ancillary use. Thats exciting for the conservatory to have in its building and educational offices. Again, i apologize for these images. No doubt you are used to this, but they look much better in reality than on the screen. Trust me. [laughter] this is an image of the corner of hayes and van ness. Its a Performance Space. The conservatory intends to use it constantly. It will be really great for the city in terms of sidewalk, pedestrian activity and those driving by, on hayes, south of market or up or down van ness. It will be a new sign post that we dont have right now in this part of town. This is on hayes and you see the Student Commons on the right. Another very public, very open space. And this is immediately followed by the lobby, which is, again, shared by everyone. There is no public door, back door, replacement housing, Student Housing. Everyone comes in the front door. To the right, you will see the Performance Space. To the left off camera here, the cafe. This is the cafe, looking to the northwest. That would be the opera, across the street, davies hall. And it can be full of students for general public use moving through it. As i quickly move up the plans, on level three, this is the first of the two replacement floor plans. You see the area barely on the right. There are three units off of that that are part of the schools use, but the entire u, everything facing the street, are the replacement Housing Units. Theyre not units with a lot of light andrew. Up to level four, more of the same. Replacement housing in the u shape, if you will, going across the three streets, with Student Housing in the back, looking at the open space. As i move my way up through the buildings, level five, all Student Housing. Six, Student Housing. Seven, Student Housing. Eight, Student Housing. Im trying to keep up here with my notes. Im moving too quickly for myself. One more. And now we get to the floor thats the most markedly different and new were on level 10. The bright blue space is Performance Space and its intended to be something quite terrific. It is seating approximately 200 people with a beautiful view looking out to the ocean to the west and at city halls dome to the north. Theres a reception area and more housing area around it. These spaces are intended to be open to the public for performances most of the year. It is replacement tenants that will be able to go upstairs and hear the music and be part of a performance should they want to when they want to. This is the Performance Space with its view towards city hall. This is the floor above where you see the blue area is a Student Resource center. Green is the open space for the students that would be used for events, so tenants and the general public would no doubt be thereafter or before a performance in the space. And you would see more housing and faculty units on the bottom of the screen. Those are the Housing Units shown. This is an overview of that outdoor, open space on the top floor. Looking out over the civic center. A view of the building looking north on hayes with texture and variety. The units stagger up and down to give the building some life and some scale. A lot of glass along the street and a lot of glass up in the sky to let people know theres a great public, accessible space to go and use the building will be very much alive. The students are there learning, rehearsing, its very much a part of the sense of the community. And we think it will be exciting for the civic center to have such an alive building in the middle of it. Thats it for me. President hillis thank you. So we will open this item up for Public Comment. We have a bunch of speaker cards. Phoebe vaned vanderhost, david alicia sandoval, jim host, and araia i cant read the last name. You can line up and speak in any order. Over there . President hillis yes. On this side, so we dont block the door. Welcome. Hi there. Im phoebe vanderhost. Im a resident at 200 van ness. Im here to encourage you to approve the project. I feel that the conservatory is being very, very genuine in replacing our units and were going to live in a very, very nice building for two years. Were going to get out of this vermininvested rat trap that were in and go back to a very, very nice, iconic building. I wont take 3 minutes of time, but get this done so we can get the hell out. President hillis thank you very much. Next speaker, please . Good afternoon. Im randy wong. Im a resident at 200 van ness. Ive lived there four years. I want to say in support of this that i appreciate the conservatorys willingness to bring people back in after construction to provide temporary housing during construction. One thing i would point out is that during this process, the conservatory staff has treated residents with a general respect, which is very nice. With that said, i think that the project would do right by the residents, as well as to provide excellent space for students and people in the community. Thank you. President hillis thank you very much. Next speaker, please . Hi. Im emmy dip. Im a 20year resident at 200 van ness. In the last two decades, weve had a half dozen different owners that have constantly neglected the building, but conservatory after theyve taken over, they cleaned up really well. Theres less crime and its more sanitary. In regards to the project, i hope that as long as all parties involved are very clear and concise with communication, terms, and agreements, that we all understand what is happening, then i think this project is a real winner. Theyve done a really great job and i think its amazing that San Francisco can actually develop and modernize while still respecting the community. And this is really the change that San Francisco needs. Thank you. President hillis thank you very much. Next speaker, please . Good afternoon. Im james steel. Im a live long resident of the San Francisco bay area. I was born on valley street. Ive lived all over this crazy city and am here to offer my full and unconditional support for it. I read their pdf online and i thought it was a very thoughtful project and it will activate the area as a whole and be a vibrant bridge between neighborhoods and allow easier transfer between the neighborhoods. It continues to add to the fine arts. Beyond that, it fixes a problem where two populations, Young Students and young artists, finding it difficult to move here due to the affordability crisis. Over 400 are given a safe place to lay their heads. I hope that while there, they will interact with the conservatory and the community as a whole. And many of them would stay and keep their talents and lives here. Not only the fact that we have to take care of Young Students and young musicians, but i could not support this without keeping the 27 units residences residents in the community. I they theyve gone above and beyond. Its so commendable that theyve kept them on the same block and i hope it gets approved and i would be proud to call this group of men and women my neighbors. Thank you. President hillis thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Im demarcus davis. Im a senior at the San Francisco conservatory of music and chairman of the Student Council and resident assistant for the school. When i made the decision to come to the San Francisco conservato conservatory, it was top of my list. Its the most diverse conservatory in the country. And being that that is the case, it sits in a city like San Francisco, which is extremely diverse and colorful and we just add to that. Were the students that work in hayes valley and go to the coffee shops after school to study. In addiction, 98 of the students receive scholarships. During the orientation, they asked, how many of you are on scholarships, and everybody in the room with the exception of maybe four or five people stood up. And were proud to say were on scholarships and that speaks to the commitment that the conservatory has for its students. The conservatory provides a safe space for us. Were in a building now where 210 of our students are housed. The rest of the students, however, they all live around the city, live in outside districts. When we leave at 11 00 at night after a performance or rehearsing all day, its not necessarily always the safest. And so 214 van ness will provide a safe space where were in close proximity to the school and also can study. In addition, many of our teacher and faculty live outside the bay. My violin teacher is concert master of the seattle symphony. She was chosen because shes phenomenal. And the conservatory commits to bringing in the top instructors. For them to have a space where they can reside when they come without having to look for a hotel means the world to us because we get more of our teachers time. And it shows them that the conservatory cares. The conservatory really creates a safe space for all the students. It would be appreciated by the students. Were extremely excited by the project and hope to be a part of the community for a long time. Thank you. President hillis thank you. Next speaker, please . Im alicia sandova. I have been in communication with a number of tenants, rentcontrolled tenants, who have been at 200 van ness. And my understanding is that they are going to be relocated temporarily for approximately two years. I just want to make sure that there is transparency in terms of if something comes up, if they have to wait longer than two years, making sure its communicated to them. My understanding is that i want to make sure that everyone is accounted for. Everyone that moves out can move back in. Its really, really important. They are under rent control, so making sure thats sustained throughout the process, and as they return. Also, my understanding is that theres not going to be any terms changed in their lease. Thats really important, because under the rent ordinance, 12. 20, the terms have to be approved by the tenant in writing, so thats really, really important, so for any new things that come up. I also want to make sure that theres communication, a dialogue that continues, between the tenants, rentcontrolled tenants, and also the conservatory. I appreciate all the work that the conservatory of music and also supervisor kims office has done to accommodate the tenants that are residing in the 27 units. So i really im open to working and having a dialogue with the conservatory and also the tenants in case they want some type of support. Thank you. President hillis thank you. Next speaker, please. Commissioners. Im jim hass. I live at 100 van ness. Ive been involved all things civic center for decades. Im on the board of the Civic Center Building district. We reviewed this proposal and sent a letter saying that it met most, if not all, of the items there, which i believe is in your file. I want to make a few personal comments. You will recall a number of years ago, we went through a process to enact law that would allow for Student Housing. That after it was passed, it was slow to be implemented because many of the institutions were not prepared or not capable of acting, although today we are seeing a lot of activity. The conservatory is one of the early ones. They signed up for the panorama, which is on mission street, along with California College of the arts. And as far as i know thats been very successful. And new theyre preparing their own Student Housing project, which is before you. And i think thats very commendable. Secondly, the residential building weve been talking about is, i guess, an example of, if you will, slum housing. Its been owned by a variety of people. Security has never been really good. Having it gone is not a great loss. It is a great value to the city to be replaced by the building that will be proposed. Thirdly, the urban design of civic center starts with the