It almost looks lick this except the trees are 10 years down line from where it is today. Our project is the revitalization of the theater building which has been closed since 2004 for 15 years. The project will retain all of the historical fabric of the building while providing new Community Uses. The project is a new direction from the approved program in 2013. The new Program Includes a swim center with two swimming pools. Which will include a 1,100 square foot addition in the west alley from the theater. It cant be seen from the street. For a visitors gallery from the swimming center. Expand the second floor has been done in the 2013 plan and for a Learning Center and utilizing the old upper portion which is all poured concrete of the seeding and it will create the forum for a lecturehall space. A new third floor center for Business Center which is space for non Retail Professional Services with shared conference space. So going into the building, the swim center and the Learning Center will come in from under the old marque in the front door of the building through the lobby. The existing lobby and all of the historical fabric is retained including the water fountain that looks like its made of emeralds but its just glass beads. The only change well make there is the candy counter used to be located along the curved wall. Well open up windows there so from the lobby you can see into the swim center. The grand stair, unfortunately its been painted pink which we will change. The grand stair, the old bronze railing. All the features of the lobby that are there now will be retained. The swim center will use the in 1976. The Movie Theater was cut in half with the addition of the it were new leaders in the upper tiers of the theater. The swim center is in that front trunkated part and it has two pools. One for adults and one for children and on the left, the lower side is the visitors gallery and the space will be separated environmentally from the spaces above and you can see their sky lights over this visitors gallery which lined the two sides of the building where there are murals above on the long side walls of the old auditorium. So this is the plan you can see the two pools. The long curving side have the murals on them and the event trance and the lower left corner with the lobby. The curving kind of curving lobby is still retained. Retail space on the street. Its been there since the building was built in 23. Well still have restale space on the street. We will be excavating to create Pool Equipment area and large locker rooms on a basement level and its interesting because under the theater floor, theres a four to five foot high cavity where they used to heat the theater. Already has been excavated in that particular area. This is the Business Center, i mean the Learning Center and you can see were building a building inside a building so that we can retain all the murals that line the sides of the building so theyre setback seven feet away and with windows wrapping all the way around, all these classrooms, you will be able to still experience from many vantage points the sense of the space as well as being in a place where youve never been before right up close to see the murals there. This is the form space that i mentioned. Theres kind of seal thing that goes up. That is one of the old theaters and you can see on the side, again, well have kind of a glass wall where you can look down the length and see the murals as well as the historic 1923 ceiling there but then have Projection Capabilities and lecturetype space there. So you can see the layout of that floor. The pulled in space. If you are standing on that second floor you would look down and see these sky lights separating to the pool area and this forum space on the lower left. And the Business Center is the roof of the Learning Center and up on a new third floor under this beautiful 1923 classical ceiling. It has a big dome in the center and asian tahrir from 1923 that is still in good shape hanging there. So this is that space and it will have access to a conference space and this is this forum space so people who office here might use that space. So this is a section through the existing building. In the center of the dome it was cut in 1976. The area on the right is the big theater and the two theaters are located to the left. This is a section that shows where the murals are. You can see theyre pulled off to the upper right but where the pool is where the front theater is and we have the two floors located in the space with the upper space under that this is where you can see the building in the building. The Central Building with the set backs of seven feet and then where you see the big space in a unique way that is never been able to it be seen like that before. In 2013, it included the residential building on the right and commercial space on the ground floor and i restaurant on the second floor and one small 220seat theater. Thats what were modifying here. And, you know, in terms of conditional use, we have to show its necessary and desirable and compatible. Well, a building thats been there 96 years is compatible with its neighborhood. The building has been vacant for 15 years so were revitalizing that and bringing life back into this area. Well retain this historic tur of the building. These are new communityserving uses because all these uses will be open to the public. And it will, the Business Center will offer unique office space to professionals to expand the opportunities for local neighborhood employment and then in terms of the other things that we need to show is that the nature of the site of course is revitalize and existing building. The parking is in the lower levels, the basement levels of the residential building that is next door. The traffic study that we did indicated that theres, this is a less intensive use than the one approved in 2013 and the bicycle parking for the project exceeds code requirements. Safe guards on offensive emissions. One of the things that is interesting about this is most of the construction is inside the building so it will minimize the issues that come up around construction and then things about landscape and signage and the signage, the most Important Signage is the big marque and that 50foot high blade sign you can see from a mile away. Those will be restored and hopefully the permits have been issued and hopefully well be ready by the end of this year. One of the concerns was losing a Movie Theater but the project sponsor has talked to lows theaters which is now amc and even four star around the corner and each one of them indicated this is not an economically viable option. So i think what were doing is something that will be incredibly desirable for the neighborhood to bring all these Community Uses in and i hope you will approve the conditional uses. Thank you. I do have the owners here. If there are specific questions as well. If there are specific questions. Yes. Thank you. Thank you so much. We will open this up for open comment. I have Catherine Petrin and ron miguel. Good afternoon, commissioners, i have a letter from the San Francisco neighborhood theater. Ill leave them to distribute. Im representing San Francisco neighborhood theater foundation. We are disappointed with regard to the proposed project for two primary reasons. One having to do with access and community benefits. I did hear some things in this presentation that i didnt understand before so this may be a up for debate. In accordance with the final mitigate deck of may 2011 and as part of the larger multiuse p. U. D. Project, the project sponsor committed to adaptively reuse the theater incorporating new commercial spaces a sin a ma and restaurant. These would have provided Broad Community benefit and Public Access to appreciate the alexandria interior defining features. With elimination of the si cinea its curtailed. The design could be achieved in a way that more meaningful reveals the characterdefining features. We just saw in the presentation the construction of a building within a building. I wonder about some aspects of what that will feel like and how you experienced the space. It doesnt appear theres Natural Light and i wonder about the viability of the uses. We suggest that more treatment of the interior that appreciates the volume of that original auditorium could be highlighted as part of a modified project so we request the commission hold off on approving the pending c. U. A. Until anna approved design is submitted. We think it would better highlight the publics access to the interior charterdefining features. After many years of construction, neglect at the alexandria, the community deserves a better project and were lucky its intact and be sure to maximize the potential of this neighborhood landmark. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Long day. [ please stand by ] the housing on the parking lot is already being done which is fantastic. It was a pleasure to be able to work with your committee. We are totally absent from any neighborhood involvement. What i really want to talk to you about is the problem that you have heard interface with a y was continuing until recently they have shown absolutely no interest and have turned it down. That was a no go. The housing on the parking lot is artie being leased which is fantastic. It was a pleasure to be able to work with your ugly and other present owners because previous owners were totally absent from any neighborhood involvement. What i really want to talk to you about is the problem that you have heard constantly, and believe it or not started about 15 years ago. That is the problem of neighborhood commercial districts. Theaters such as this where linchpins of neighborhood commercial districts. They brought people, they brought shoppers, they brought kids, they were essential to them. That is why you found them in neighborhood commercial districts. 15 years ago was the start of the demise of neighborhood commercial districts including gary. To revitalize this space is absolutely essential. Several of the large theaters have been made into gems, not unlike the use that is going to happen here. Believe it or not, if youve gone into some of those, and i have, just for curiosity sake the, if i can use the term history city, of the building, of those is nowhere near what is going to happen here. I have to congratulate mr. Perlman on being insistent on keeping everything we can. The previous speaker i understand, i work with her in the beginning trying to get a theater operator. No one wants to touch it. That was a no go, nearly from the beginning although we had hopes. This is the only practical way of doing it. I think this theater building coming into a totally different use but viable to the neighborhood. Will allow the general public of today, my grandkids to understand what these theaters really were in their glory days. I urge you to approve this. Thank you mr. Miguel. Next speaker, please. Thank you commissioners, i am jeff gordon, the board chair for the Richmond District ymca. I want to make a quick clarification with regard to the statements made by mr. Miguel. The ymca did approach the various owners of this property. In fact we had also come at one point i think sent them a letter of intent regarding what use we would make of the space and in fact i think the response we got was we didnt get a response. The interest was not that there was no interest on our part, the interest was actually coming back the other way. Obviously the ymca is concerned about this project. We want to make sure that its a good project for the neighborhood and doubted impact benefits the neighborhood. I think right now, we are not certain. I think it is obviously a project that we will follow with interest and we want to make sure that there is Good Community use. We are happy to work with the owners we had indicated that with regard to how the y might be involved in whatevers going on over at that project. I wanted to clarify that statement made by mr. Mcgough and the executive director for the Richmond District ymca is here with me as well today. Thank you for your time. Next speaker, please. Good evening, commissioners. I am patrick connolly. I may richmond resident i live on sixth avenue, i am a dad of two young kids. One of which is currently in swim lessons and currently take him outside of the neighborhood to have the swim lessons. I think a use like this would be useful for the neighborhood. Theres a lot of families out there. Maybe my kids and my younger kid when hes old enough to take swim lessons can go and take swim lessons there. Id also just generally say as a resident of richmond that thank goodness somebody finally wants to do something with this theater. Its been like this since i moved to San Francisco 1011 years ago. Thank god somebody wants to do something with it. Ill leave you without. Thank you. Any other Public Comments on this item . Public comment is now closed. Commissioner johnson. I, too, am a resident of the richmond. Yes, thank goodness. Somebody wants to do something with alexandria. When i originally saw the plans in 2013, i was really excited. I think i am a huge fan of Civic Infrastructure and making sure we are using these crown jewels of our city to find ways for people to come together and interact with each other. I was really excited by the idea of theater space or something coming on that could provide traffic, vibrancy to the community. I was interested, if i am honest, slightly confused by the new use. I recognize that our neighborhood could use more pools. The nearest one is the rossi which is right around the corner from my house which is under construction right now. We will get upgrades. But, i would love for you to just add a little bit more color to the understanding of the Community Uses that you arrive to, and help us understand how will be operated and run and how it will be truly accessible to the neighborhood. And neighborhood survey. Sure. After working with four different owners, the current owner did try to work with the ymca, i did get responses. The thought was that the y could move into this building on housing to be built on the side of the current why. They did have demands for taking over the building that were just unattainable. What is interesting is, this particular owner, i can introduce him to you, it is mr. Lee over here, he has two programs like this in the south bay called star aquatics. They have swim programs that are for kids, and then also Club Membership open to the public. As well as the Learning Centers. He has been operating these for many years and has found that they are profitable. That is when it didnt make sense with hawaii, the idea of having the pools is great because it is a complement it is not in competition to the why. They do not have that service. The afterschool programs and things are things that maybe he could speak more to them specifically. He operates these 2 other facilities down in the south bay. Since he was the owner of the building, it seemed like it made sense for these 2 particular uses. To be frank that having another use that could be income generating. The idea of some kind of a business work center will people could be coming and going and local people could have some space was a way to actually provide some method of having a little bit more income to make this a viable, economically viable, project. A small theater attached to it . That is like a classroom space. The classroom spaces for afterschool programs from just after noon until about 6 pm. In the Morning Hours on the evening hours, this space will be available for community use. Neighborhood organizations can schedule time there. I think it becomes a really fantastic facility for nonprofit groups and other groups, the Planning Association of richmond, for instance, could meet there. That space is part of something that could be offered to the community for showing some evening events, Something Like that. I mean, it was seat maybe about 75100 people. As well as for the professionals that might be doing presentations for their clients, things like that. It would be an option for them to use. The building is interesting. It is a poured concrete structure. That whole upper tier area is all poured concrete and it kind of locks the building across. We didnt want to take it out, because it is a very important feature of the structure of the building. Then it was like what do we do with this space. It kind of has a meaning relative to the uses. Last question. I know there were several theaters, i get it with Movie Theaters that did not want to touch this project. I am curious what work was done to explore this as a small music venue like the independent or the paramount . We did not talk about music venues. We didnt. That would still be, we would be in the same place relative to demolition of a Movie Theater if it became Something Like that. Also, that would only really be an evening use. The beauty of this project is starting about 6 am for people to come swim come all the way until 1011 pm the building can be an active use for most of the day. I think that is a great benefit to the community of the neighborhood. I think this is a very probative adaptive reuse of a building. I have no objections. I am prepared to support the modifications. The Business Model is obviously described to us in words that i would have liked to see some form of formalized understanding of what private membership means. I would like to see a balance between an income generating fac