Which expect richards to be absent. Item 1 consideration of Adoption Draft minutes for june 6th, to 19. I have no speaker cards. Would anybody like to provide Public Comment on the draft minutes . With that that comment is closed. Commissioner hillis. Thank you, commissioners, on that motion to adopt the minutes for june 6th, 2019. [ roll col call ] so moved. That motion passes 50. Item 2. Commission comments and questions. So i would just like to comment on the hearing that we just had in respectfully request that the Department Come back with the work that you started a couple years ago and improve upon it. Because i think that part of what is going on is that they have been coming up every week begging us to look at the demo calcs and weve been waiting for this legislation and we havent taken the appropriate action. We need to do what is right. Im hoping we can support staff in doing that. Seeing nothing further we can move on to department matters. Item 3, directors announcement im sorry, did you want to Say Something . Im happy to take that message back to staff and i think im thinking that we have we would come up with kind of a conceptual level and an alternative level. Were not solving for the world. Were solving for this specific issue. Other than that i have no new announcements. Thank you. Item 4, review the board of supervisors board of appeals and the preservation commission. Good afternoon, commissioners, i will give you the report, the summary of board of activities for this week. And the Land Use Committee there were three items of interest. The first was supervisor ronens ordinance to legalize 3150 18th street. You heard this item on may 23rd and voted to approve with modifications. The commissioners proposed modifications were to decrease the programs time period from 10 to three years for office uses. At the land use hearing, the item was continued per the request of sponsoring supervisors to provide more time to work with work on the proposed amendments and there was no Public Comment. Next, the Committee Heard supervisor mandelmans building standards and modifying buildings and residential districts and commissioners, heard this ordinance on april 11th and you recommended four modifications. Only one individual spoke about the item during Public Comment. The speaker mentioned that increasing building heights a forwards the opportunities to house the citys homeless and provides space for other public uses. The committee moved to continue the item to june 24th, one week to give the sponsor time to further refine his amendments. Because the Land Use Committee moved to continue the item, there was no deliberation. Last was the small brings streamlining ordinance. It would, among other things, expand the types of liquor licenses allowed with a bar use, reduce the one quarter mile buffer around limited non conforming commercial uses to 300 feet, amend the definitions of general entertainment and allow Outdoor Activities areas that operate between 10 00 a. M. In order to approve with modifications and the proposed modification was to retain the condition a lot use authorization requirement for Outdoor Activity areas associated with the bar use. Without Public Comment, this item continued to june 24th because the committee ran out of time. And then on tuesday at the full board, there were three items that all passed on second read. The landmark designation for 524 union street, a. K. A. The paper doll, the planning code amendment, a regional commercial and folsom street transit districts and the last ordinance was the accessory dwelling units in new construction. Thank you. Thank you. There are no questions the board of appeals on behalf of the Zoning Administration the board of appeals met last night and the Planning Commission considered two requests for discretionary review for the project at 463 duncan street december 8th. The proposal was to expanding a singlefamily home and the concerns were mostly related to privacy and the across the street neighbors concerns were related to anesthetics. The Planning Commission took d. R. And reduced the depth of deck and required a privacy screen along the eastside of the deck to better address the neighbors privacy concerns however due to the addition of the second dwelling units and its parity the commission tornado no other modifications to the project. It was appealed by the same two d. R. Requesters and they raised similar concerns and arguments to the board of appeals however there were two issues that needed to be addressed. First the permit had only included a planner box as the required privacy screen with an intent to provide vegetation as the screen. All parties agreed that the planner box should be instead replaced by a solid screen, second the additional dwelling unit was approved with three bedrooms and a study but d. B. I. Determined that two interior bedrooms did not have egress and con be considered bedrooms. They were a mended to relabel those as library and media room resulting in an 1800 square foot unit with one legal bedroom. Considering these issues, they voted 31 to approve the permit that the privacy glass be used for the three eastfacing windows at the first floor and the required privacy screen on the eastside of the second floor rear deck is seven feet tall and made of opaque glass. Third, the new basement level dwelling unit be revised as needed to ensure it contains at least two legal bedrooms per the building code. The Historic Preservation commission did met yesterday. They considered a couple minor permits but it may have been of interest to the Planning Commission as they recommended legacy Business Applications for a number of Small Businesses including hockey haven out in the avenues and anchor brewing. If there are no questions, we can move on to general Public Comment. I have no speaker cards. Ok. Hi. I was there last night thats why i said i needed a nap. Can i have the overhead, please. I saw this and i was thinking something else. Anyway. I saw this problem back in february when i looked at plans. He had relabeled the plans. And i thought, that was one of the reasons at the d. R. That i wanted someone to do something about the facade was its a medicine terrain yall revival at outlined by mary brown and her studies and i thought it was worth saving and i still think it is because here it is and now it will be gone and i dont know what im looking at but this is nice. Back in february i saw 2 and here it is and you see and i thought what the hell. Scum. Excuse me. Its a onebedroom det below the garage. Thats not what she wanted. I suggested the time that they put the second unit in the garage level and go out and follow a nice standard San Francisco plan. Thats typical medicine terrain an revival house. You have kitchen and a breakfast nook and the two bedrooms there and put the second unit in a garage and preserve the facade. I mean, theres a house around the corner from it built by the same guy as i said last night and there it is. They preserved it. Its going for two and a quarter Million Dollars and that is the pending. I dont know what it sold for. Again, you know, here is another one that is gone. Another one of thats gone and this is it in the process so im getting back to your whole issue with the demo calcs. There it is and there it is now. Its all gone. So, i want to thank the commissioner for considering the demo calcs. You never started the clock on me but thats ok. I do want to thank mr. Heppner because he worked hard and his heart is really in the right place. I hope that you know, people appreciate that and that we proceed and everybody is happy in the end. Thank you, very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I have a mental clock. Overhead as well. And i have copies of this to to handout. Because you cant see the whole thing, you are not seeing the top. This is a notice of pre application meeting. I want you to notice the date. July 3rd at 6 00 p. M. What is the address of the project . The project is one block south of what the Ground Breaking was this afternoon for the city. This and folsom. How many years did they say here . Its really obscured. A lot of units. Ive never seen the nerve of a person having a preapp meeting at 6 00 the eve of a holiday. July 3rd, is july 4th. At 6 00 no one is there. Theyre going out of town for a long weekend. Including the Planning Department. This kind of manipulation provokes people sometimes saying we got to change it in the rules. They should be able to change it by strict humiliation. The Planning Department and the Planning Commission should say, what the hell are you doing . Pardon me. Im not allowed to say that word. What is going on here . You cant have a real meeting with a real community, one, the night before a holiday at 6 00 in the morning. 6 00 in the afternoon and secondarily, you see up here its at fourth and third and folsom. The meeting is in the financial district. At montgomery and post. [ please stand by ] good afternoon, todd david. I want to give a sacramental update. A new housing bill sb592. So, its a technical issue to the housing can really act. Claiming that there are some and buick get it i just wanted to give a quick update about what thats about. Its a technical fix to the houses accountability act. Accountability are denying code compliant housing. There are ambiguities in the housing act of this piece of legislation is an attempt to close those loopholes. Sb 592 will make its way through the process. Thank you. Next speaker, please. That was my notice for the preapplication meeting. We followed all of the guidelines of in the Planning Departments preop requirements. Sue, if you would like to meet personally, i would like to be with you to discuss the project. We originally intended to propose a Hotel Project on the site, working on entitlements on that since 2016, due to the change in zoning at the very end, we are now doing residential on the site. Hopefully an hst project. We are very excited about it. My Contact Information is on that flyer. Im reaching out to anybody who would like to meet with us and i would love to meet with them. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else for general Public Comment . Okay. General Public Comment is now closed. That will place us under your regular calendar item 5, [reading items] Diego Sanchez with Planning Department staff. The item before you is proposed legislation regarding intermittent activities and temporary use. The ordinances proposed by supervisor brown. Allowing operation for Farmers Market at the dmv Office Located at 1377 fell st. By allowing an intermittent activity to be located on the lot with a public facility in specified residential Zoning Districts. If they are located on a parcel that contains a hospital in post secondary education institution. Intermittent activities would be allowed in these Zoning Districts if they are located on a parcel that contains a hospital. Post secondary institution or public facility. Public facilities are similar to other facilities that already allowed intermittent uses on the parcels. This ordinance will allow Farmers Market to expand, allowing more vendors to participate. Additionally the ordinance provides more opportunities to introduce new Farmers Markets and other neighborhoods as it is reaching citywide. After the packet was published, the department determined that the ordinance had a different sequence determination than what was published. I have a second version of the draft resolution that has that determination and i brought here for the record. The department supports the proposed ordinance because it supports the commerce goal to strengthen the neighborhood serving goods and services. The Department Recommends approval of the ordinance. This includes staffs presentation. Thank you. Thank you. Go ahead, sorry. I will be brief because i know you had a long day. Thank you for your time today in considering those resolutions. Supervisor brown introduced update to the planning code you are considering today after learning that the Farmers Market through the pan hold panhandle had negotiated an agreement with the state Department Motor vehicles to move the department from grove street to the dmvs parking lot at broderick and fell. Then they found out they cannot move to the lot because of the current planning codes. The Farmers Market is of particular importance back in 2008 when she was a legislative aide she played a major role in working with the community to get that market open. 11 years later, she is asking the commission to approve a sensible fix to allow this important, much beloved neighborhood institution to grow and continue to serve the neighborhood. We currently allow intermittent activities like Farmers Markets, hospitals and post secondary educational institutions. Its surprising we do not allow them at public facilities like the dmv parking lot. The Pacific CoastFarmers Market association which runs the Farmers Market is a great neighbor. The move and expansion they are proposing has the full support of supervisor brown. [reading items] in addition, merchants support the move and expansion. Furthermore, the proposed market will reopen grove street on sundays providing relief to the folks living on grove who currently have to make contingency plans for accessing their garages every weekend for the last 11 years. It will activate a space of in district 5 that is currently not being used on sundays. To clarify, some folks do gather there for freestyle skateboarding which we fully support. The proposed side of the market will not have an impact on them. Finally with the planning code update, the potential for additional Farmers Markets open in the parking lots of our schools, museums and other public facilities will be a great benefit to the city. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Do we have any Public Comment on this proposed legislation . Okay. Commissioner koppel. [laughter] supervisor brown, great job, definite better use of a parking lot, a large parking lot to help out the neighborhood. Motion to approve. On that motion to approve, fung . That motion passes unanimously sixzero. [reading items] good afternoon, pres. Melger and commissioners. My name is audrey harris, senior manager of the Planning Department. I am pleased to present to you the 2018 downtown plan monitoring report. As a refresher to you and to the public, the downtown plan was adopted in 1985. At the time garnered National Attention earning a front page debut on the new york times. This plan grew out of a need to foster a thriving economy and to retain the urban patterns and structures built there. It would do this by absorbing cities new rob joe job growth by increasing carpooling and transit use to accommodate growth. In short, progress in 2018 indicates that office is still hot. Retail is cooling, and we may be losing some ground on some of our goals around transportation. The purpose of this annual report is to monitor the plans progress of meeting its goals and to evaluate the growth and effectiveness of the plan. The report gathers data from a variety of sources on metrics relating to the goals of the downtown plan, including information on commercial space, employment activity and revenue trends, and the downtown support infrastructure such as housing and the production of it and the infrastructure for transportation. We can start by looking at office and retail vacancies as an indicator of the health of the downtown market. Nationally speaking a vacancy rate of 10 is healthy, 10 or lower is healthy and 5 is even better. Some vacancy is recognized as being needed to keep the prices of the market more stable. The Office Vacancy rate downtown continues to fall from a highend 2016 of 12 receipt to 7. 7 in 2018 and concurrently average Downtown Office rents continue to rise increasing by 6 to just over 75 per square foot of office space. For more context, these changes occurred even as over 1,000,000 ft. Of new office space came online. On the other hand, the Retail Vacancy rate downtown rose by 2. 5 from 2017. At a 6. 6 vacancy rates, this is still considered to be healthy. However this increase is enough to still raise some flags and as a result the Planning Department, the office of economic workforce and development are working together with supervisors and yourselves to keep an eye on this. Furthermore, Hotel Occupancy and average room rates have climbed back up from the low rate in 2017. This recovery in the Hotel Industry and the changes in retail can be attributed to multiple factors. Two of which may be the e