Good afternoon, commissioners. On behalf of the owner of the two henry adams building. Im here to provide an update and request. As a reminder, the project for this building has been pending since 2013 and with this commissions input, landmarking was allowed late last year. Allowing us to work. Were happy to report that ceqa should be done later this week, allowing us to move into the entitlement hearings. It is also adding a new outdoor plaza and it will involve comprehensive, interior and exterior improvements that will benefit all tenants of the building and also insure its long term preservation future. Im here because we have a concern we wont be able to make a hearing here until december, particularly if this Commission Moves to one hearing a month schedule. Our next step in the entitlement process is to come to this commission for certificate of appropriateness. And we respectfully ask that you consider keeping two hearings a month, at least in october and november, so we may have an opportunity to make our case. Thank you very much. Jonas any other member of the public . Seeing none, close Public Comment. Department matter. Item 1, directors announcements. I dont have an announcement from the director, but about the director. As you all know, our beloved director is john ram, is retiring on march 1st. I wanted to inform you that tomorrow at Planning Commission under commission mathers, there is going to be a discussion of potential desired qualities for the next planning director. That of course is an agenda item. There will be opportunity for public discussion. And youre all welcome to participate as well. Thats it. How is the new director going to be selected . Is there a Selection Committee . Who is on the committee . The Planning Commission is responsible presenting three names to the mayor. And the mayor makes the final selection, so the Planning Commission through the department well be conducting a nationwide search. Okay. Thank you. The mayors selection could be from the list or from another list. Or not [laughter]. There is nothing further, commissioners, move on to item 2. Review of the past events. No report from the Planning Commission. I didnt want to inform you that the commissioners moved through rules committee yesterday the board correct . They were both moved through the rules committee a week ago and yesterday in front of the full board, they were continued. Okay. Can we get an update on who that is . The names that were nominated by the mayor are chris foley and lydia so. There is nothing further, commissioners. Item 3. President s report and announcements. President hyland i have no report. Jonas item 4, consideration of adoption of draft minutes. President hyland open Public Comment. Would any member of the public wish to comment on the Meeting Minutes from august 21, 2019 . Seeing none, close Public Comment. Commissioners . Jonas on that motion to adopt the minutes, commission black . Johns . Pearlman . Matsuda . Hyland. So moved. That passes unanimously, 50. Item 5, commission comments and questions. Commissioner pearlman me. I have, as in my practice as an architect, ive been approached by someone who has a property that has a legacy business in it. Its a one Story Building and they want to take advantage of the home sf program to build 2030 units of housing, which would require that building to be demolished. Its something for future discussion. Im in the early stages of this. I guess the question is, if the owner is willing to retain that business back in the new building after its completed i mean, what would the stand be for the Historic Commission relative to the processing of that project which would cause the demolition of an approved legacy business . And then, you know, depending on its future, you know, how would we look at that . This is a staff question. I posed this to caltagirone and she said we havent had that circumstance yet, so it is something that would have be to discussed. I wanted to bring that up as something to think about. And maybe we could have a short discussion of this on a later agenda. President hyland okay. Jonas nothing further . We can move onto consideration of items for continuance excuse me, do we want to talk about the future meetings, jonas, and closed session october 2. Make sure we have a quorum. Jonas i polled everybody except for president hyland you also did that . The city office is requesting a closed session before the commission on october 2. I didnt hear confirmation from yourself or the suspevice presi but i believe everyone is available. I anticipate being here because the time is what im more it would start probably before 12 30, around 10 30, 11 00. My preference is a little later. 11 would be fine. Do we anticipate it being more than an hour . No. So if we could do 11. On october 17, just want to make sure so in response to the Public Comment on us trying to be more efficient in our agen s agendas, were not necessarily going to one meeting a month, but if we only have agenda items for one meeting a month, thats what weve been trying to do to take advantage of our time here for a fuller agenda. But at the moment, october 16, we have nothing on the calendar. Jonas currently there is nothing on october 16. There is an a. R. C. Meeting for november 6 and full calendar on the 2nd and 6th. But, yes, we dont cancel one of the meetings in a month. If something needs to be heard, well youll hear it. Well address that on the second if we need to put something on the agenda for the 16th . Jonas sure. Anything else, commissioners . I have a question about that. If we get into a situation where we only have one meeting a month and somebody has something that for some reason had to be heard, is there some provision for us to call a special meeting . We could. I would suggest we dont cancel the meeting formally, and we send out cancellation agenda. We would probably do that a week in advance, though the rules say we need to provide 72 hours notice minimum, but that way, it provides for that opportunity to have items to be heard, if they need to be. Okay, thank you. Jonas anything else . If not, commissioners, we can move on to consideration of items proposed for continuance. Items 6a and b. I have no speaker cards. Does any member of the public wish to speak to the continuance . Closed Public Comment. Back to the commission. I move we continue them. Second. Jonas thank you. On that motion to continue item 6a, commissioner black . Johns . Pearlman . Matsuda . Hyland . So moved that passes unanimously 50 if the acting Zoning Administrator could continue item 6b. So so move to continue to october 2. Very good. That will place this under the item 7. Item 7, 2622 jackson street. This is a certificate of appropriateness. Good afternoon, commission. Shannon ferguson, department staff. The item before you is request for certificate of appropriateness for the property. Also known as the george gibbs residence. The building is on the north side of jackson street between scott street and pierce street in the Pacific Heights neighborhood. The house was designed by willis polk and constructed in 1895. The proposed project is a facade restoration, window replacement and the replacement of the portion of the front retaining wall. The scope of work for the facade restoration includes limited inkind replacement of sandstone, cladding and the portico elements. Where the stone units are deteriorated beyond repair. Limited inkind of deteriorated portions of the sandstone, facade cladding and portable elements. Pinning of delaminated sandstone. Repair of the smaller areas of cladding that needs patching. Repairing the cracks on the stone facade cladding and portico and underpinning for larger cracks. Replacement of a portion of the front retaining wall with new stone cladding, with a cap to match the existing retaining wall. And finally, selected inkind replacement of 19 existing wood windows with new wood windows. The project sponsor has completed studies, including a report that details the areas in need of restoration and recommended Treatment Options for each feature. Mortar color recommending the color and type of mortar to be used youll also find a material sheet in the packets, that shows the new stone will match the existing as close as possible. Staff has determined that the proposed work will be in performance with the quotes. The secretary of the interior standards and will be compatible with the characterdefining features of the landmark. Based on this analysis, staff recommends approval with the following conditions. The project sponsor shall accommodate site visits. With the approved project description and conditions approval. And in addition to regular site visits, mockups and repairs and the replacement materials provided prior to completion of work for Planning Department review and approval. This concludes my presentation. The architect is also here and would like to make a brief presentation. Welcome. Would five minutes be sufficient . I think less will be fine. Okay, perfect. Im louis butler, the architect and lead member of the team fort restoration. Incidentally, one of the restorations we did was ellenwood, thats the landmark on the corner of pacific and divisadero. It was a fascinating exercise, actually and we expect this to be at the same level. I just like to emphasize this starts with the portico restoration. The portico is in very, very bad shape and has been temporaried braced for a while. You have the letter from the Structural Engineers on that process. The scaffold will be starting the restoration. Well be doing sounding surveys and the south elevation will be cleaned as outlined on page 7 of the report. The entire portico will be carefully numbered. A steel ring will be inserted. And we will stabilize the columns and the bases with steel plates. We have to core existing steel columns to allow existing columns to have steel. Only one column, number 3, will be new. The sourcing of the stone is interesting. Weve done that in an exhaustive way that will be satisfactory. All the stove will be carved to match exactly the detail on sheet 8. 1. We move onto the west facade, then the rear and east. Those involve micro pinning. The square feet of the amount of repair is on age 42 for the south. 76 for the west. We also have qualification sheets for all of the team members. You heard from shannon ferguson. Weve also brought actual samples with us if you have interest in the carved stone and wood windows. We have additional detail. The project architect is here with me and id like to move this quickly to specific questions. I think thats the important part of the discussion. So thank you very much. President hyland do we take Public Comment on the item . Any member of the public wish to comment on 2622 jackson . Closed Public Comment. Bring it back to the commission. Commissioner black i just want to begin by and we can get into the details later, but i wanted to begin by commending the team for working so hard on a house that is a very significant house and very special in superb especially its cladding, which is the subject of a lot of the work proposed. This appears to be a very wellresearched and thoughtthrough process that the team put into it. And i wanted to commend the team and the client for going through these steps to preserve such an important house. Its why we get pleasure serving here, is when a team of people and a client get together to do Something Like this. It did have one comment on a window. It seems so petty in the grand scheme of everything that is being done. On sheet a3. 4. There is a single glazed kitchen window. Probably a double hung window originally. And theyre proposing to put a single pane window in. Its right next to an existing double pane. N104 . Yes, n104. Its a side elevation. Its not a streetfacing elevation. It would be bring this house into perfection if i guess the question is, why is it not a double hung . Commissioner black that is a good question. President hyland please come to the mic. Youve got to come to the mic. Im dave stern. That existing window is covered up on the interior. There is a pantry there. Its long been covered. So it exists currently on the facade, but its no longer truly a window. We were going to keep it, of course. That certainly could become a doublehung if it needed to be replaced. Commissioner black since its being replaced, if that at all helps it pair up with its neighbor . I dont know. Subject to the. The statement on the obvious. We didnt come this far to not do that last little bit. So if you feel strongly, thats fine with us. I would agree with commissioner black, its a tiny gesture, but that would from the outside at least it would look authentic. Just the matching window to existing 105. Agreed. Okay. By the way, this is the posting affidavit. Okay. Sorry. Questions or comments . Yeah, i also want to compliment the team. This is extremely impressive. I was particularly interested and just find it fantastic that not only is the stone from calusa county which is where it was originally not from there originally sorry [laughter]. Sorry to make you jump up and down. Actually its from the akiana bay in oregon. We did try to source sandstone in calusa, but there was a limited quantity. And what were going to actually use is a barea sandstone from southwest ohio. And it matches. I like that the stone carver is nick fair play. Thats impressive, too. All right. Yeah, i endorse this. I think this is very impressive and you know kind of the could be a guide for how this kind of restoration work should be done. Not often done, but should be done. I really compliment the owner for wanting to take it on at that level of detail. So, thank you. President hyland any other comments, questions . Motion . I would move to approve this with conditions as written. And with the amendments of commissioner to replace or to replace the opening at 104 with a matching doublehung at window 105. Commissioner black second. Jonas thank you, on that motion to approve with conditions as amended to condition of replacing 104 to match double hung window on 105. Black . Johns . Pearlman . Matsuda . President hyland . So moved, that motion passes unanimously 50. That will place is us on items 8a through g. For case numbers 2019515652lbr, 2019154657, 662lbr, 683lbr, and for properties at 313024th street. 857 geary street. 57 post street. 772 pacific avenue. 1555 pacific avenue. 510 green street. These are legacy businesses registry applications. Hello, commissioners. Shelly caltagirone. We have seven applications. Ill give you a quick summary of each and note what were recommending for safeguard. We have several applicants here ready to speak. The first is the dobey books arts cooperative. 316, 16th street. Facing a large rent hike, a group of supporters came together to form a cooperative Business Structure to preserve the store. It moved to 3130 24th street where it joined independent book stores adding to bookstore row. The cooperative is interested in building a connection between the bookstore and the exhibition space by encouraging artists to make sitespecific works of reference or engage with the bookstore. Were recommended dedicated gallery space, cooperative Business Model and commitment to live events. The next applicant is the hara club. I did not check the pronunciation. The club was opened at 857 geary street in the tenderloin in 1956. By a boxer and henry hank hampstead, a wrestler. The name comes from a combination of the names hank and ralph. The club was owned solely by ralph until 1987 when he passed it to his son rick. Rick owned it until 2015 when it was sold to an ownership group. With the closure of the gangway, the club has become the neighborhoods longest running bar. The property is also a contributor to the National Register listed uptown tenderloin district. Were recommending the following features to be safeguarded. The geary facade with the brick walls, the original brick floors, wooden bar, and the reproduction of red wallpaper. The next applicant is the Mechanic Institute located at 57 post street. It is the oldest surviving library in california, and the oldest chess club in the nation. It was conceived on december 11, 1854 by a group of mechanics, artists, craftsman and laborers who was satisfied with the lack of libraries and Educational Opportunities for adults. In 1908, they hired someone to design the current home. A nineStory Building finished july, 1910. It was declared local landmark in 1981. Were recommending the following features to be safeguarded. There are Library Events and chess departments, the landmark building and characterdefining features and independent learning, grassroots, Community Building and social responsibility and cultural exploration. The next applicant is new asia restaurant established in february 1987 by a husband and wife. 772 pacific avenue to chinatown. It is the largest restaurant in the neighborhood, with seating of 100 tables. In addition to banquets, many fundraisers, beauty pageants and Lunar New Year celebrations are held. It is the last remaining Chinese Restaurant of its size in chinatown now that the empress of china and Gold Mountain have closed. The current owners of new asia restaurant purchased the business in february 2002. Were recommending the following features to be safeguarded. The southern chinese cuisine, the push carts, the large floor space, including the dance floor and the script above the center stage, meaning Double Happiness in chinese script. The next applicant is National Picture framing centers. It was established on july 1, 1974 by peter im going to mispronounce this as a result of his personal experience looking for accessible and affordable framing. The company consists of frame, located at 1920