Structure constructed in 1958. The site features include various metal tanks for water and pesticides, two hand dug wells, a woodframe shed, in approximately 20,450 square feet of open space. The subject property, as a cut flower nursery from 1921 until 1990 by the garibaldi brothers. They immigrated to San Francisco from italy in the early 20th century and were one of several italian born families that owned and operated cut flower nursery is in the city, particularly in the portola neighborhood, 770 woolsey was one of 20 similar cut flower nurseries in the portola district in the early 20 th century. The garibaldi family were also members of the San FranciscoFlower Growers association, which was a Business Group established by the local italian community. This association worked in partnership with similar japanese and chinese flower cut organizations to establish San Franciscos first wholesale market in 1924. Followed by the current San Francisco flower terminal in 1956. The subject property closed in 1990 and is the last remaining cut flower nursery in the portola district. The department agrees that with the applicants that the property is significant under a criterion one, both for its association with commercial flower growing industry in the portola district , and verse association with the rural italian and italianamericans that played in the city flower growing industry furthermore, staff finds a subject property is a rare example of a smallscale urban agricultural site and therefore it is significant, it is a significant Cultural Landscape under criterion three. Designation of 770 woolsey meets the three of Historic Preservation commissions four priorities for designation. It meets the First Priority which is the designation of underrepresented landmark property types, including landscapes. There are no urban agriculture landscapes or similar vernacular Cultural Landscape sites currently listed on article ten. Designation also meets the third priority which is the designation of buildings located in a geographically underrepresented area. There is only one individual landmark building located in the portola district. This is the University Mound will ladys home. There are no article ten landmark districts in the vicinity. The proposed designation meets the fourth krait priority which is the designation of properties with strong cultural or ethnic associations. The property is associated with the role italian and italianamerican communities played in the local flower growing industry and in the portola district. The case before the Historic Preservation commission is the consideration of the Community Sponsor lead landmark designation for nomination of 770 woolsey street. Staff asks the commission to consider whether the property is eligible for, and therefore should be added to the landmark designation work program, or the property is not eligible for the work program. The third option is there is insufficient evidence and further research is needed to determine whether the property is eligible for the work program the department believes the property meets the established eligibility requirements and is therefore eligible for designation. The Department Recommends to the h. P. C. To add the property to the work program. If added to the work program, the commission may direct staff to finalize the landmark designation report. The department will then schedule a second hearing before the commission for the initiation of the resolution followed by a third hearing for the commissions recommendation of approval for the designation. This concludes my presentation. I will be available to answer questions. The sponsor for the landmark designation is here and would like to say a few words. Great. Do you have a memory stick . Do you have your presentation on a memory stick . Give me five minutes. Okay. While were waiting, if you want to speak during Public Comment and fill a speaker card, we are happy to. Ready . Okay, great. Welcome. Sorry for the delay. My name is alisa and i am with the group, friends of 7070 woolsey, we are the applicants. I am going to hand over most of my time to stacy far who wrote the report, but i just wanted to give you a brief introduction of who we are. We are i dont have time to go through all of this, but i just wanted to be sure to emphasize and put to bed any notion that the application was in some way related to the condo development, which is the alternative. This has been an idea and a project that has been long in the works. From this timeline you can see that we have started having meetings about potential urban agricultural sights there since 2013. That is what this slide is that i will rush through because we are short on time. There was a green plant done by the community, there was a Feasibility Study that was done over two years ago. I will get to that in just a second. We also have had consistent support from the city and the supervisors office. So the Feasibility Study is 100 is a 110 page document. Obviously i will take a high level view of it just to let you know that 24 farms were considered in that study. We scaled the revenues and cost from all of those to what potentially could fit and could be done at 770, we created four potential operational models with Different Levels of investment required for each and concluded that it would be financially self sustainable to have an urban commercial farm there. I say all of this just to let you know that if this were landmark to, it would not be sitting there stagnant. It would not be left there to continue in its current state. It would be something that would have life and vibrancy for the community. I will skip that for time. So we did have we do have a signed campaign on going around the neighborhood. We have there are dozens of signs everywhere. We submitted over 120 letters of support. Twenty more were dropped off on my doorstep this morning and i emailed them to you so you may not have gotten them just yet, but they are waiting for you. We had an online petition with over almost 3,000 signatures online, and another 250 on paper because not everybody is online. We had a meeting last month, 108 people from the neighborhood showed up, which is a pretty good turnout if you have ever been to a neighborhood meeting. People are infested in this community and they care. That is ass, and that is some of the phases that are attached to some of those letters. I will turn it over to stacy now great, thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners thank you for hearing our landmark net on nation. I wrote it along with some assistance from donna graves who wrote the section about the broader horticultural industry. As i got started, you can tell by looking at it, it is a unique property type in San Francisco. When i started doing my research , this historic significance of the site really became clear very quickly. The portola really was the city s you flower growing district starting in 1865 for about 100 years and there are 60 different commercial flower nurseries in the neighborhood and the cap was in 1925 which was just a couple years after this nursery was established. In 1925, there were 21 nurseries that covered over 30 blocks in the portola, and 75 of them were owned and operated by italians and italianamericans. The significance of the flower culture industry in the bay area in San Francisco detailed in the report has already been recognized in the finding of california register eligibility for the flower marked. These greenhouses were what supplied that industry with the flowers. They were the roots that power the significant industry and from a peak of 30 city blocks, this is the last remaining commercial greenhouse in the city. It tells a very specific, very significant story about the city s history that no other site can tell. There is not another one. Once i determined the significance, i got into integrity. Obviously the greenhouses and the boiler house are in pretty poor condition, but the Historic Preservation professionals know there is a difference between condition and integrity. I developed a rubric to evaluate material integrity of the greenhouses and i found that 12 out of 18 retained sufficient integrity to convey their significance. I also want to say these are very the materials are not precious. The greenhouses are designed to be replaced, that is why they have small panes of glass. I dont think we would lose too much significant material for reconstruction. Thank you. Your time is up. Im available for questions if you have any. Great, thank you. We will open it up for Public Comment. There will be three minutes per Public Comment. I have two and front of me right now. Karen, and after karen it will be michelle. Sorry if i mispronouncing. Can i make a request of the public . I would like to make a request of the public. Theres obviously a lot of you and i suspect that many of you will be saying similar things to the people before you, so if you have things that you are going to repeat, please try to limit your time. We would all appreciate that. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners i have lived in San Francisco since 1968 and i reside in the western edition. My interest in the University Nursery dates back many years to when my family and i discovered the greenhouses. I cannot tell you what the site meant to me as a daughter of a missouri cut flower grower. I lived and worked in greenhouses growing up. I shared some of my experiences then with my two young sons. Little did i envision that both would become connected to the portola as adults. Even though not residing in the portola, one carlos was one of the founders of the greenhouse project and miguel recently moved to dwight. From the introduction, you can surmise that i am here in support of the friends of 77 770s advocation to designate the university a historic landmark. Our city has many needs, among them are diverse and connected neighborhood, as well as spaces for community, for education, and for inspiration. In my humble opinion, we also need to growing spaces. The portolas vision to develop the University Mound nursery as a Community Asset for the neighborhood will add irreplaceable growing space for the city. The portola has been working towards this for many years as people have talked about it, long before the property was purchased for development a few years ago. Their efforts are inspirational. I had not heard of the Preservation Commission before. Very few of the 287 landmark designations are known to me. I now have a new item on my bucket list walking towards all 287. In scanning the list of 287, i did not see one like the one that is before you. A piece of land that was part of our history was the Garden District, but it was long forgotten. It has been renamed since and you saw the sign earlier, by the board of supervisors as the Garden District. Let part of that history remain standing at 770 wolseley. At 770 wolseley. If i am from missouri, i hope you will show me the portola and the city your support by protecting this important and frankly oneofakind Historical Resources. Help me add 288 to my walking tours. On my bucket list. Thank you. [applause] if you could refrain from clapping, that would be great. Thank you. Jonas you have the next speaker cards. She just spoke. Michelle wolf. The next speaker will be greg homes and then Caitlin Galloway and then laura kemp. Hello, commissioners. I have raised three daughters in this district and in our district we dont have very many historic landmarks. We have the old ladys home on university and we are kind of a forgotten neighborhood. I know that we have a nice billboard that designates us as the Garden District, but we really dont have much to play pay homage to the midto to the italians. This is another structure that they built and they maintained and it flourished. It was a very successful nursery for decades. It is very well known to the residents and to the neighbours in our district, but it is something that we dont want to lose. It is too precious. There is nothing else like this in the city of San Francisco. No matter where you go you wont find anything like this and we would love to see it preserved. Thank you. Thank you. Caitlin galloway . Good afternoon, commissioners i am here i used to run run a farm called little city gardens in San Francisco. It was the citys only commercial farm and we ran operations from 2010 to 2016. We lost access to our parcel that we farmed, it was a threequarter aigle acre parcel. We lost access when it was approved for development into a private school. I am here on behalf of of the thousands of visitors and volunteers that joined us at the farm in our six years of operation. Im also here on behalf of the hundreds of neighbours and residents that we fed from the farm in our years of operation, and also here on behalf of the dozens of Small Businesses that we collaborated with during our time, and all of us in that time were united in our enthusiasm and appreciation for San Francisco as a city that supported and had a history of supporting urban agriculture. In the years since little city garden has closed, i have still stayed intimately aware and involved in urban agriculture in San Francisco, and i have to be honest, it feels like it is dwindling. I see 770 woolsey as a crucial and very unique opportunity for the city to, you know, recommit to urban agriculture as a priority. I think we all know that we are in a climate emergency. Urban agriculture will become increasingly important and crucial for any future city, so as a long time urban agriculture practitioner and advocate, and on behalf of the communities that i have worked with, im here to say that this where parcel is such, it represents not only the history of our city , but also a very important potential. Thank you. Thank you. Laura kemp and then after laura kemp, bonnie bridges and jesse. Good afternoon, commissioners my name is laura and i have been residing in the portola district for the past 24 years. Im here today to speak in support of historic landmark designation for 770 woolsey. The portola neighborhood has a ground vision. Yes, we want to preserve this unique site. What it is the only one of its kind remaining in the city of San Francisco. To preserve its history and legacy for future generations. However, our vision is much more than this. We have a plan to create and activate a center for learning, for hope, to foster knowledge, to develop and engage the skills needed to become a more resilient community. To provide access to locally grown food to both nourish and plan for the future. This is not just about cut flowers. Life is not always a bed of roses. The site at 770 woolsey honours the unique contributions that immigrant families for immigrant families, but it guys are Community Vision and contributes in the face of uncertainty. This is about a community, the Garden District of San Francisco , coming together, learning to grow food together, share skills. It is about mutual support and cooperation and selfsufficiency the greenhouses at 7070 woolsey once provided the necessary food and nourishment for the community during the world war ii era. The next assignment might be even more urgent as we face an impending Climate Crisis and an uncertain future. Let us be bold and visionary. We urge you to support our request for historic landmark designation for 770 woolsey. Thank you. Thank you. Bonnie bridges . Hi, bonnie bridges. I am a resident of the portola. I have lived there for 20 years and raised my twin daughters there, were now off in college. I am an active participant in our nonprofit, and i got involved about eight years ago when we realized that the idea was so bold that it needed all the help it could get. I am involved in this project primarily from the idea of a sustainable city future and sustainable cities have many different parts to them, and a big part is grow your food where the people live. I think that is increasingly going to be important in the world at large. This project, being landmarked as historical agricultural use provides the validity for future agriculture. So i request your support in designating this as a landmark agricultural use. Thank you. Is it possible to use a projector . Great. Thank you. Im the project sponsor and l 37 partners. This light is to represent our local team working on this project. Page turnbull has peerreviewed the h. R. E. Very quickly about the partners, i have concluded included this slide. Weve a 20 year track record. Im sorry, are you here to support or comment on the agenda item . I am. Okay. We have just been advised by the City Attorneys Office that you should not be presenting the project today, we can comment on the merits of adding the property to the landmark work program. Okay. I would be glad to. This was just present contacts for who our company is. Great. May i begin . Sure. Fantastic. Thank you. We have been doing development in San Francisco for 20 years. The warfield being one of the projects that has extort significance that we are currently working on. What i wanted to share today is that as far as this being preserved for land marking, there is nothing more that we would like to do then work with the community and coming up with a viable solution here.