We actually do like the location because of the convenience. At the time we were living there , i do not own a car, so we proposed not to have a garage. We do like the neighborhood because the convenience for groceries and also other amenities. As well as the neighborhood. My two daughters would like to go there for school. Lastly, we would like to build the structure where we would [indiscernible] we are also striving for a rating for the building. Along with the architect, we chose to do a study to the building itself to enhance the neighborhood. I guess we would like to request your commission to approve the project. Thank you. Thank you. Now we will open this up to the public. Are there any members of the public would like to comment . Come on up. Hello, my name is dan waters. I submitted the photos online. I apologize for my lateness. I did not have a lot of time to see the plans and make a determination on how this would be impacted. We talked with sam a number of years ago and we expressed our concerns about the destruction of the light well that flows into my unit, which is the two units next door. Also, as i am looking online, on page 33 of 61 for these plans, i remember seeing that this new deck would actually give a natural view into my unit itself , specifically right into my kitchen, my bathroom, and my living room. As well as completely blocking my view of any light. I would be amenable to seeing changes to the plan, but i dont think this is very acceptable as it is. Thank you. Any other members of the public who wish to comment on this item you live to the east of the building . That is correct. He is over here. Next figure, please. I think the project is too immense in relationship to the whole neighborhood. Besides that, there is no garage it will take a lot of space and parking in our area. It is so dense anyway. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else would like to comment on this item . Good afternoon, commissioners my name is jessica middleton. I was born and raised within the city and county of San Francisco i am the coowner of the house adjacent to the west of 2478. My property is similar to 2478. I have a onestory home built in 1885. As sam mentioned in his consideration letter for today, i understand some of the things that he submitted to the hearing board. I dont think he mentioned it today, but he said with our two properties that are old, i understand the issues and problems that he has with his property of owning an old home. It is leaning, water leaked, near a hallway, small sized rooms, the yard is bigger then the home, and i understand the issues he is going through because my parents own this home for i believe over 20 to 30 years. I have just inherited the home approximately two years ago. I am a coowner with my sister. What this project will provide is something that i would like to have for my children. I have always thought that our properties were historical landmarks and we cannot rebuild to make our home seismically fit and appropriate for our children with our family sized girls. Currently, because on a coowner with my sister, a onestory home , between us, we have five kids and we would like to rebuild thought home just like sam wants to do. He has two daughters and he would like to leave something for them, for their families, and he wont be able to do the he will be able to do that if he can build several units, which is something i would also like to do as well. It is just not feasible to split it onebedroom, onestory home between five children. My experience, i am a nurse at seven cisco General Hospital, and every year we get a new enrolment of medical students, residents, and interns moving to San Francisco to work at San FranciscoGeneral Hospital ucsf. This property is located across the street from kaiser. I am a member of kaiser. I am aware that they are also a teaching facility. In my communication of working with doctors, many of them move from other counties and states and they love San Francisco, the diversity the population. Sorry. Thank you for listening. Thank you. Anyone else with wish to comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner richards . One question. Did they talk about what will happen to the tenant . Yes, we moved out of the property because we were expecting some construction, so then the construction didnt come. We went up to a couple which was shortterm. They are going to move to los angeles in september. They would like a short lease. Thats why we gave it to them. That is the reason why we gave them the april to september lease. That is all. Thank you. Commissioner phone . Laura, this is a four story building. The top floor on this building is not set back because it is r. H. Three . No, this project was evaluated in the context of the neighborhood and because of the mixed character and commercial nature that is adjacent and across the street, four stories all the way to the front of the home was approved. [please stand by] on the second unit. Are you saying two . Commissioner hillis he said a2. 02. By the way, i just got bingo. Theres probably a better view that shows the elevation. Commissioner hillis do you have it with you . I do. Im trying to find it. Commissioner hillis you can put your phone on the overhead, sir. Okay. The phone, and theres a dial on top thatll zoom in or out. Commissioner hillis okay. So which deck are you concerned about . Vice president koppel and then, also make sure you speak into the mic. So my unit would be the bottom unit, and the dotted lines refer to the windows in my unit. Commissioner hillis you have windows on the side of your unit. Are they Property Line or set back off the Property Line . Im not sure what that means. So currently his unit ends right at the window to the right, so i have i a sun well from the other building, and other buildings are there, so it allows sun light to come into my building in the afternoon. Commissioner hillis jonas, will you put that up . I have a picture on my phone of the actual window. Commissioner hillis yeah, okay. No, were looking at the side. Commissioner hillis just zoom out. Well, this is not the view. We need the east view. Commissioner hillis this is the back of your house. Vice president koppel one at a time on the projector there, people. One at a time. Commissioner hillis so just generally, on your building, which is to the left on the screen there, can you point on that picture to where your windows are, sir . On this view . Commissioner hillis yeah. My window my windows would be on this west wall facing right here. Commissioner hillis and the deck youre concerned about, point to the deck. This deck right here. Thats going to give a view down into my living room, my dining room, and my bathroom. I dont know about you, but i dont want to give people a show. Commissioner hillis no, i get it. Ive often used the example that my neighbor can turnoff my daughters news button because our homes are so close. This is the view that im talking about, the windows right here. Commissioner hillis okay. I get it, but i dont know theres much we can do. Like, hes set back, youre set back. Well, what about the light well . Commissioner hillis whats the issue with the light well . So currently, i have light coming in, and this will completely block it. Commissioner hillis where . You have a light well in your home. No, i have light coming into my home. Commissioner hillis but youre set off from the Property Line. Most of your line comes in directly from your back yard. Thats essentially the light that comes through right now. Commissioner hillis yeah, on the side window, but youve got windows that face your back yard, also. Yes, theres some there, but thats not a sun light. Commissioner hillis theres no doubt theres impact to you by building a threeunit building next to you, but some of it is inevitable. I get it, though. Vice president koppel commissioner moore . Morei i see a constriction in your drawings. A103 is being labelled as only accessible to the upper units, however, your other drawings shows it accessible to the rest. Its only for the top unit. The design was to keep the number of penthouses down. There is a Fire Department requirement on a fourstory building with a roof deck, all of the units to have at least one penthouse for the Fire Department to get out there, but theres a theres also a requirement for any because were above the fourth level to have two means of egress. But one of the means of egress if its a private deck can be the retractable hatch, and thats how the design was arrived at. The design was the entire ground unit has the rear yard, and the top unit has the exclusive use of the top deck. If we did make it accessible to all units, i did talk to the Fire Department, youd need both penthouses, and not a penthouse and a retractable hatch. I thought that was a combination of that. The middle unit, which is the smallest of the units, the way it was designed, has a nice size deck the way it was just talked about, and the bottom floor really has the exclusive use of the open level, and that theyre all realistic open spaces for everybody. The comment i would make is the space is generally, i like the design. I think its a good idea. I would like to have seen more communal use of the back yard and not have such a massive roof deck on top. Just to form, i think the transition from the smallscale residential that is still in this transitional area of geary boulevard makes it a very large building. Im concerned that. I would prefer a sixstory building or a building that does not add a roof deck of this size because youre tre trending towards luxury units. Vice president koppel commissioner richards . Commissioner richards im not a big fan of roof decks. Ive had friends that lived in top three full units from front to back, and they never used the roof deck. If you im open to reducing the overhaall height of the building as commissioner moor samoore said, but im just not open to the apartment sharing the yard. Vice president koppel commissioner fung . Commissioner fung im supportive of the unit as constituted. I think this area can support larger structures, the three units. The only suggestion is i probably am not going to suggest anything that deals with the separation between the adjacent neighbor and this building on a on windows that are parallel to the Property Line. However, a small suggestion would be that a sixfoothigh solid screen on that side of the deck so there is no visibility between the deck and his kitchen and bathroom. Commissioner hillis second. Vice president koppel commissioner richards . Commissioner richards can you make the screen translucent . Yeah. Ive been doing a ton of these, and we get the same comments. We call that opaque screen. You tell me, 6 or 7 feet high. Commissioner fung accept it as amended. I didnt know i made the motion. Vice president koppel well accept that. Clerk all right, commissioners, there is somewhat of a motion thats been amended to include a 6foot opaque screen for a privacy screen. Commissioner hillis that translucent or opaque . Commissioner richards opaque is fine. Rich, rich, rich. [roll call] clerk so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously, 50. Vice president koppel meeting adjourned. [gavel] everything is done inhouse. I think it is done. I have always been passionate about gelato. Every single slaver has its own recipe. We have our own we move on from there. So you have every time a unique experience because that slaver is the flavored we want to make. Union street is unique because of the neighbors and the location itself. The people that live around here i love to see when the street is full of people. It is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. This is the move we are happy to provide to the people. I always love union street because its not like another commercial street where you have big chains. Here you have the neighbors. There is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. People have they enjoy having their daily or weekly gelato. I love this street itself. We created a move of an area where we will be visiting. We want to make sure that the area has the gelato that you like. What we give back as a shop owner is creating an ambient lifestyle. If you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it i went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. I am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. I am a community ambassador. We work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. What i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. They ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. Checking in, you guys. Wellness check. We walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. You never know. Somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. You never know if they are alive. We let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they dont want to call the police on, they dont have to call the police. They can call us. We can direct them to the services they might need. We do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. There are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. It is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. When we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. They give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. We take pride. When we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. It makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. The stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. You can see the community ambassadors. I used to be on the streets. I didnt think i could become a community ambassador. It was too far out there for me to grab, you know. Doing this job makes me feel good. Because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. I am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. I used to be like this, you know. I have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. It reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now. Good morning, and welcome to the San FranciscoPlanning Commission and Building Inspection Commission joint hearing for thursday, june 20th, 2019. I would like to remind members of the public that the commissioners do not tolerate any outbursts of any kind. Please silence your mobile devices, and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Technically speaking, all of those persons standing who cannot find a seat are causing a fire hazard and cant remain in the room. We are setting up an overflow room. Were just trying to figure out where Media Services can accommodate us. Id like to take roll for the Planning Commission. [roll call] for the Building Inspection Commission. [roll call] very good. Commissioners, we have one item, item one for case 21802728 for the controlled demolition merger conversion and alterations. This is an informational meeting. Before you start, i wanted to go through for a couple of things of how this is going to go this morning. Good morning and welcome to our commissioners. I missed many of you. So what we are going to try to do is have this is a very complicated piece of legislation, and folks have a lot of opinion about the different aspects of it. We, the president mccarthy and i, want to give as much time to the public to opine. So with that being said, we only have a limited time. So what im going to ask first is that there is going to be times after each section that staff can pause and allow for commissioner questions. I beg my fellow commissioners to ask questions of clarification only. Lets leave the comments to the end. So please keep your questions short and succinct, so we can allow everyone to ask questions for clarification, and allow as uch tim much time for Public Comment. After staff presentation, we will open it up for Public Comment. Please fill out a speaker card. I will try to get through as many of those as possible. You will have two minutes to make your Public Comments known, and we will hopefully get through everyone. We will leave 30 minutes at the end of the meeting for commissioner comments. Hopefully all your questions will have been answered by then. And i will also, again, because there are so many of us, ask that we keep it short and succinct as well. I encourage you to write down your comments as we go so we can get through it expeditiously. Do you have anything to add, president mccarthy . In, thank you, madam commissioner. With that, i think we can go straight to presentation. Thank you. Good morning, commissioners, audrey maloney, Planning Commission staff. Before we give the planning presentation, supervisor peskin is here to speak. Thank you. Chairwoman welcome, supervisor peskin. Thank you, president melgar. President mccarthy and commissioners, good morning. I will be very brief because im actually in the middle of a Committee Hearing downstairs, and let me thank you for vetting this piece of legislation. I think we all agree, and have agreed for many, many years, that there is a problem relative to definitions of demolition in the code relative to demolitions. We all know the numbers. The reality is, as we see in the housing balance report, for every two units of Affordable Housing that we build, we lose one, probably more than one, if we counted the numbers a little differently. It is not just about the highprofile things weve seen in the meeting, like 49 hopkins, and the willis polk house. It is a larger, systemic problem. I am not the first supervisor who has tried to fix this. It ha