Your calendar. [agenda item read] [agenda item read] [agenda it [agenda item read]. Clerk further, commissioners, under your regular calendar, the project sponsor just advised me that they are requested items 13 a and b at 95 hawthorne street shadow findings and downtown authorization to be continued. They are requested july 25. That hearing date is closed on your calendar, but entirely up to you what date you continue this matter to. Is there any members of the public that wish to comment . Mr. Reuben . Yes, commissioners. Im jim reuben, reuben, junius, and rose. You received a letter the other day from john elberling. Hes here, and you can talk to him, as well. We ask for july 25 because we think 30 days is enough to get our issues resolved, on our way to get being our issues resolved getting our issues resolved, or cant. Reuben, junius, and rose removed 300 masonic from your calendar that day, so there should be a spot to fill, so we stipulate to that continuance. Thank you. Thank you. A any one else wish to comment on item 13 a and b . Our client is not available for the august 29 date, and we would request july 25, as well. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else from the public . Good afternoon. Daniel bornstein. Im the attorney for the project participant. Were asking for a continuance while we continue to dialogue with the tenant who has requested discretionary review, see that if we can negotiate a further potential resolution. Clerk which item . Commissioner hillis item 17. Okay. Thank you. So i move to continue items 4, 5 thats the consent calendar. Excuse me. Wrong page. Items 1 and 3 to the date specified, item 2 to july 26 clerk 25. Commissioner richards 25, since weve heard it once before. Item number 13a to august 29. That was the slot that 233 san carlos had, and item number 17 to august 29, i think they said. If i might, just for one moment, speak to the continuance dates. We had requested july 25. I didnt hear that in the motion. If the commission is inclined not to give us july 25, then wed prefer to go into september because of some schedules and other issues. Commissioner richards okay. How about, then i appreciate that. How about september 12 would be the date. Commissioner richards sept 19 . Commissioner hillis why not why not in july . Commissioner richards because the san carlos one, its already been heard twice. You dont have to vote for my resolution. You dont have to second it. Second. Clerk very good, commissioners. There is a motion that has been seconded as proposed, item 2 to july 25, item 3 to august 27, and item 13 to sept 25. [roll call] clerk your discretionary review item, number 17, has been continued to august 29. Commissioners, thatll place us under your consent matter. All matters here in are considered to be routine by the commission and will be voted on by a single vote of the commission. It [agenda item read] [agenda item read]. Clerk i have no speaker cards. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment on the consent calendar . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner richards . Commissioner richards move to approve. Commissioner hillis second. Clerk thank you, commissioners. On that motion to approve items 4 and 5a under your consent calendar [roll call] clerk so moved, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously, 50. Acting zoning administrator, what say you . On item 5b, close the hearing and inclined to grant that variance. Clerk very good. Commissioners, thatll place us on item 6, consideration of adoption of draft minutes for june 13, 2019. Vice president koppel any member of the public like to comment on draft minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner richards move to approve. Vice president koppel second. Clerk thank you. On that motion to approve the minutes [roll call] clerk thank you, commissioners. That item passes 50. Next item, commissioner comments and questions. Commissioner richards thank you. What happened in oregon started with a rent cap of 7 . I know we have some laws here in california part of the protect, preserve, and produce. New york, when i was gone, actually had a sweeping rent law passed. Ill just read a couple of excerpts from june 19, 2019. Just imagine hearing these words from california and imagine that you could have this great leap of faith. New york law makers three fridays ago passed a package of sweeping rent Protection Laws and dealt a blow to the states most powerful Real Estate Industry. The law signalled a Seismic Shift not only in relationship between tenants and landlords, but also in the power balance of albany. Try to put the word sacramento in there. Where deep pocketed developers had enjoyed strength and influence. The Real Estate Industry had lobbied fiercy against the proposed changes, warning they would discourage landlords from investing in properties and award thousands of contractors of jobs. Their appeals met skepticism from the legislature. For far too long, this legislature gave landlords tools to game the system, referring to the years of alliance between the industry and republican law makers. In a radio interview on friday before the bills passage, govern Governor Cuomo said, at the beginning of the legislative session, i called for the most sweeping protections in state history he said in a statement. Im confident the measure passed today is the strongest possible set of reforms that the legislature was able to pass and a major step forward for the tenants across new york. Can you imagine that happening in this state . I think its a dream, but i think we can actually get there someday. Secondly, while i was away, and not coincidentally, we heard the thursday i was here last the large home piece of legislation proposed by supervisor safai on the number of homes in a conditional use requirement exceeding a certain number of bedrooms. I dont know where it ended up in the land use, if its been heard yet or not. As well, i wasnt here for the marathon demolition hearing, which im glad i probably wasnt. I did watch the whole 5. 5 hours on sfgov on tape. There is a nothing burger bill from senator scott wiener. On march 27, he morphed it into a cosmetology bill, requiring the cosmetology board to update the address of a licensee if the address changed. Then, when he substantial amended it, he replaced it entirely with some of the text of sb 50. It includes singlefamily homes, a. D. U. S, and additions to singlefamily homes. I would request that this commission ask staff what the Impact Analysis would be, one, in the workload of the department, whether it goes down or up in terms of making additions to singlefamily homes, especially bedrooms, redefining the division of what a unit is, if it doesnt become a unit, it becomes a bedroom, on how this would affect your ability to do discretion year reviews, and role the public is going to have anymore in terms of these additions. Theres one other thing in the law that i read that im going to note on market rate housing. A city cannot disapprove any housing based on density unless the state the city finds within 30 days that all three of the following applies. The density process is mandatory white powder laws that cannot be amended by the Planning Commission and general supervisors. If the project has adverse impact upon Public Health or safety weve been down this road before with the h. A. A. , and third, theres no feasible method to satisfactorily mitigate or avoid the adverse impact of the project. I think we need to shed the light on what this actually is and have a hearing on what this actually is. Thank you. Clerk seeing nothing further, commissioners, we can move on to item 8, directors announcements. Two things. First, i wanted to introduce you to the summer interns that are in the audience. Want to ask them to standup for a couple of minutes. We have its a 12week program that started on june 3, ends at the end of august. There are a total of 23 interns this summer, which includes interns from the citys High School Interns program. Theyre working on Climate Resiliency program, Environmental Justice policies in the general plan, the southeast mobility stat gee, guidelines for public for popos, guidelines for institutional master plans, and the Housing Affordability strategy, the Historic Context statement and the Citywide Historic survey. As you know, each intern is paired with a planner who mentors their work. In the final week, the interns will present their findings to staff during a week long lunchtime lecture series. We are very excited about the program, and as you know, many of our staff started at interns with the department, so we think its a great training for the department and we get some work for the department as a result, so we welcome you to the department. [applause] director rahaim secondly, commissioners, i have a bitter sweet announcement. I think, as you know, andrea green is leaving the department. Tomorrow is her last day. Andreas been with the department for 24 years, and for the last 15 has been the executive assistant to the director, which means she has been my assistant the entire time ive been here. Andrea has become the heart and soul of the department in so many ways. I think one of the great assets she has brought to the department is kind of the ability to treat everybody with equal respect and kindness no matter who they are and how upset they are. She is one of the front doors of the department, if you will, where she is the face of the department and has really kind of helped us in putting a personal face forward. I will miss her terribly, and i know the department will, and i know you will. I just want to honor her. I might reiterate a thanks to supervisor peskin who honored here at the board of supervisors on tuesday. The board signed a commendation in her honor on tuesday which was quite lovely. We will miss her greatly, and andrea, id love for you to come up and say a few words. [applause] first, i would like to say thank you so much. John, its been a pleasure working with you. Im not going to cry, because i am a cry baby, but im going to fight them back. But thanks to all that ive worked with at the commission, the staff, and everyone. Its been a long road, but a fun road. Its had its ups and downs, but the ups have been greater than the downs, so i really appreciate working with all of you. I know commissioner hillis from way back. City attorney, kate, we go way back, so i appreciate all of you. My heart will be with the department, which is the best department in the city and county of San Francisco, so thank you so much, and ill miss you and i wont be a stranger, i promise. Thank you. [applause] Vice President koppel commissioner fung . Commissioner fung andrea, we will miss you. We wish you the best, and youve just taken away one of the best reasons for me to visit the department. Vice president koppel commissioner richards . Commissioner richards i wont be able to be there tonight, but i have very fond memories on that side of the aisle. As a pipsqueak activist, you treated me with respect, and i appreciate what you did. Vice president koppel commissioner hillis . Commissioner hillis yeah. Its been great knowing you all these years, and youre kind of synonymous with the department. I never liked calling john rahaim or dean makras, but i called because i like talking to you. So congratulations. Vice president koppel commissioner moore . Can we convince you to stay . New desk, new everything up there. If not, congratulations, and thank you. Vice president koppel yeah. Congratulations on everything. Well deserved. [applause] clerk item 9, review of items at the board of appeals. There is no Historic Preservation matters yesterday. First on the agenda this week was the mayor and supervisor brown amended street licensing ordinance. [inaudible] and allow Outdoor Activity areas to operate between 6 00 a. M. And 10 00 p. M. Commissioners, you heard this item on march 7 and voted to approve with modifications. Your vote was to retain the conditional use authorization for Outdoor Activities associated with a bar use. During the hearing, there was significant debate around whether the restricted use districts in the city should retain their quartermile buffers for l. C. U. S and l. C. C. S uses. Supervisor peskin recommended going to the individual communities to let them decide whether to retain the buffers. Many members of the public came to speak in favor of the legislation, along with neighbors, a few neighborhood advocates who came to speak in opposition. Supervisor peskin submitted his proposed changes to the committee. The committee voted to continue the item with all proposed amendments submitted at the hearing by supervisor brown included and with the request for the committee to consider the additional amendments submitted by supervisor peskin at the following hearing on july 8. Next, the committee considered supervisor mandelmans amendments on building standards. You heard this item on june 8 with required amendments. The full board only had one planning item this week, which was a ceqa appeal for the Safe Navigation Center at seawall lot 330, which would include 200 beds to serve the citys homeless community. The Port Commission approved the unanimous agreement between the port and h. S. A. On april 23 of this year. The appellant raised ceqa issues with regards to contaminates soil, adequate emergency services, and impacts on noise and transportation. Nonceqa issues were also raised during the in regards to the state lands commission, fair Property Value and merits of the project. Public comments were nonceqa. The few ceqa comments were about contaminated soils and emergency services. Public comments in opposition to the appeal were primarily nonceqa and related to the need for homeless shelters and services. Supervisor haney was the only member of the board who asked questions, most of whom were aimed at jeff kosinski, director of homelessness and supportive housing, elaine forbes, director of the port, and ron ewashima, the ports engineer. Supervisor haney did not believe the comments raised by the appellant were related to ceqa, and therefore voted to uphold ceqa. Just to let you know, i had been reviewing the hearing from last week. I had a longplanned family vacation, so i couldnt be here, but i did want to be here, not necessarily for the four or fivehour hearing, but i wanted to be there to support audrey, who did spend a tremendous amount of time working on that, and i wanted to support her in that, so thank you. Vice president koppel thank you, mr. Starr, and i have no questions from the board of appeals. Clerk and at this time, well move on to general Public Comment. [agenda item read]. Clerk i do have several speaker cards. [names read] good afternoon. Im going to resubmit this email that i sent you on june 24, 2015, and i was it was about Public Comment that i made on june 25, 2015, so almost precisely five years ago. And whats in that email is about whats been happening in noe valley and other neighborhoods. De facto demolitions, however you want to call them, unstable housing in noe valley and the mission. Many units in noe valley are being absorbed in large singlefamily homes. Students are disheartened and disgusted with the fact that they dont feel its a democratic process. Neighborhood character. The residential Design Guidelines being ignored by staff and abused by developers and their attorneys, and the economic and social impact. To quote from my email directly, i said i believe that a greater oversight is needed at the building and Planning Department to make sure that developers are following the rules that would at least regulate and temper these developments, most especially those that are alterations that may be did he fae facto demoli when they are filed. Staff needs to use their considerable professional skills and zeal to make sure that the rules are being followed and neighbors are being informed and active in the process when projects arrive at the Planning Department, and i guess i would add the Building Department to that, too. This would help all of our citizens. Regulation is not a pejorative. I also urge you to please watch the sfgovtv Public Comment that day. There were three speakers. Myself, talking about this, miss hester, and miss petron talking to things that were important to them, but the important thing in that Public Comment which runs about 14 minutes is a colloquy between commissioner richards and director sanchez. Four of you were not on the commission at that time, so please watch that hearing. I submitted it again, and if you want to read it again, maybe ill watch it again, ill submit it again in the email. Vice president koppel thank you so much. I need the overhead. Good afternoon, commissioners. Im richard frisbee. You should have a copy of all the slides, so im only going to show a couple. The first slides a comparison chart which shows the Community Smart growth plan. As noted previously, the Community Plan matches a number of proposed unit by the developer. The Community Calls for 56 units of moderate income housing, something that the developer is silent on. Considering the fact that middleincome housing is the most underserved component by a factor of five is unacceptable. So the question needs to be asked, who was looking out for middleincome families such as teachers, nurses, blue collar employees, and many others . The study called for all the housing to be completed in three years. The developer has a much more leisurely understanding of our housing crisis. After three years, the developer has completed a mere 196 units. We built a Salesforce Tower in five years. Somehow this doesnt jive with our housing crisis. The third slide which ill show you