Continuance to october 24. It is now proposed for continuance to october 10, 2019. No other items for continuance and no speaker cards. President melgar do any member of the public wish to speak on the matter of continuance . Jonas i apologize, commissioners. Items 14a and b, for case number 2016001794, 95 hawthorne street, shadow findings, we received a request to continue this matter to october 10th, 2019. And under your discretionary review, 19a and b for case numbers 002545env90 at 2417 green street president melgar sorry to interrupt you. Commissioner richards needs to recuse himself from one of the items proposed for continuance, so i believe we have to vote on that first. Jonas we do, but if i could just read them into the record. You could let us know which one you need to recuse yourself from. Again, items 19a and b for case number 2417 green street. An appeal of the preliminary negative declaration and discretionary review. We received a request from the Supervisors Office to continue this matter to november 14, 2019. Now i have no other items proposed for continuance and no speaker cards make a motion to recuse commissioner richards. Jonas from which matter . 258 noe street. Its a procedural matter, i dont think you need to leave. There are two other items proposed for continuance, you should vote on. So on the recusal of commissioner richards, from 258 noe street, commissioner fung . Richards . Koppel . President . So moved. Commissioners, that motion passes 50. Commissioners, the project sponsor for 21st street is also requesting a continuance. President melgar i think were going to hear 21st street when its we may choose to continue it when we hear it. Jonas very good. So on the three matters proposed for continuance. President melgar does any member of the public have any Public Comment just on the continuance . Thank you, commissioners, here on behalf of john, the project sponsor of 95 hawthorne. It is 2019, but a lot can happen in three hours. Were way aware of the continua request. I ask that the commission give us the time around 4 00, or 5 00 and we can revisit the issue then . Thank you. I did not quite understand the question. My apologies. Here requesting that the continuance staff recommends for the 26th be considered for the 10th of october. The necessary being read into the record continued to the 10th. Thank you very much. That was my comment. Thank you. President melgar any other Public Comment on the continuance . With that, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner koppel i guess well take the noe street first because of the recusal motion to continue item 1 to october 10. Second. President melgar commissioner fung . Noe is being proposed by staff and the other two from the supervisor office. On the motion then to continue 258 noe, commissioner fung . Commissioner moore . Commissioner koppel . And president melgar . So moved, that motion passes 40. Items 14a and b and item 19a and b. Commissioner moore look to continue items 14a and b and 19a and b to the days noted. President melgar commissioner koppel, second . Commissioner koppel i actually wanted to see if something could materialize for the 14th. I wasnt going to second. I was literally see if we could honor mr. Kelvins request. President melgar why dont we vote on green street first and then we can take on okay, who made the you made the motion. Can you amend the motion . Yes, move to continue 19a and b to november 14. Second. Jonas on that motion to continue items 19a and b to november 14, commissioner fung . Commissioner moore . Commissioner richards . Commissioner koppel . And president melgar. So moved. That motion passes unanimously 50. Is there a motion for items 14a and b . President melgar i will let this was at the call of the chair that i defer to the supervisor, you know, whenever a supervisor asks for something in their district, you know, i take them at their word theyre working it out. So there has got to be like a really great reason for me not to defer to the supervisor. I appreciate you giving me 10 seconds. The supervisor had requested a continuance. We were working out final negotiations with the construction trade. You should have received an email this morning from the supervisors president melgar i didnt. It was attempted to be emailed to you, it didnt make it there, so supervisor haneys office has withdrawn the request for the continuance. Were actively working with him at this moment. Its not from the supervisor. Secretary, i can forward you that email. Its been forwarded to me. Thank you for the president melgar im sorry, can you please come up. Good afternoon, president melgar. Supervisor haneys office. I did email yourself you last night. I apologize if you didnt get it. I ccd courtney and patrick to let you know we were withdrawing because of the Building Trades and theyre negotiating. There might be developments going on with the different continuance request. The request we received yesterday was with the Building Trades and labor. It appears there is Something Else were not involved with that theyre trying to work out. President melgar i appreciate you clearing it up. I have a text from your boss asking for a continuance just a few minutes ago. Its okay, well hear it. Yeah, a lot of moving parts. President melgar thank you. So we dont vote on the continuance, right . Its been called up as a matter of continuance, if any commissioner would like to make a motion to continue, if not, it will remain on the agenda. Commissioner richards why dont we hear it out of order to give them time in the hallway to negotiate. President melgar okay. Lets do that. Very good. Items 14a and b will remain on your agenda. I dont think weve had that much confusion on a continuance calendar yet. That places us on the consent calendar, all matters listed constitute a consent calendar, considered to be routine by the Planning Commission and may be acted upon by a single roll call. There will be no separate discussion of the items. In which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item. Item 2, case number, 3137 camp street. Item 3, case number 20170133, 2015 diamond street. I have no other items under consent calendar and no speaker cards. President melgar does anybody have any Public Comment on the items on the consent calendar . Or want to pull anything off consent . Commissioner koppel motion to approve items 2 and 3. Second. Jonas thank you on the motion to approve items 2 and 3 under the consent calendar, commissioner fung . [roll call] so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 50. Placing under item 4, consideration of adoption of draft minutes for september 5, 2019. There was one misspelling that has been corrected. President melgar any members of the public wish to comment on the draft minutes . Okay, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner moore . On that motion then to approve the minutes for september 5, 2019 [roll call] so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously, 50. Item 5, commission comments and questions. President melgar so i will just take a minute to thank commissioner former commissioner rich hillis for his time and his service. As president last year. I think he did an outstanding job. Bringing us all together and setting very clear policy priorities. And i really appreciate that about him. I also very much appreciated his keen intellect and his outstanding sense of humor. I think i have worked with very few people who are as funny with a very dry and intelligent wit as commissioner hillis and im really grateful to have had this time on the commission with him. So thank you, commissioner hillis, for your many years on this commission. Commissioner richards . Commissioner richards ill do a mia kul pa as well. Hes an incredible guy. We are still able to tell each other to go to hell and go out and have a drink after the hearing, and celebrate the fact that we come to a decision as a commission. The legislative session has ended in sacramento. I just received this morning, sb330 and what it would do to the processes in los angeles. I want to understand, based on all the ways we approve projects here, including such things as 650 divisadero how this law affects us, how it affects public input and democracy . And how this law affects other things like Historic Preservation. Staff has already done a great job with the bigger piece of sb330. They did a update on the smaller piece, now its final and sitting on the governors desk ready to sign, but we dont know the actual impact. I hope we do it how our processes are followed, such that, what is included in a public meeting. A prop k shadow hearing, is that included in a de novo hearing . We need to understand this. Im not sure exactly what this does. Id like to form an opinion on it based on departments fact of what a typical project requires. And also the fact that determining theyre turning up the permit streamlining act and theyre requiring Historic Resources to be identified within 30 days. Im not sure we even have the head count or staff to implement these things. I would also like to understand what its going to do to the department in terms of what its impact is. Take a look at l. A. One, its an exhaustive one. That, plus the one we did, shouldnt be a big burden. One other thing, it seems like were becoming a bit to our senses. I have to say the chronicle i dont think has always been at its senses. This mornings editorial, im not sure if everyone read it, i know commissioner moore says everyone reads the paper, but President Trump was in San Francisco. He railed on the fact that weve got homeless, needles in the storm drains and on and on, yet not Offering Solutions in terms of additional money. The chronicle has been coming out against strict violations with serious doses of the editorial, nimbyism. Theyre major contributors to the housing crisis. But while there is overlap, they arent necessarily the same thing. So heres the punchline. There are excellent reasons to increase housing development, but doing so isnt going to solve the homelessness problem. You cant build a Million Dollar condo and expect the person living on the streets to be able to afford it. They go on to say, Homeless People arent in a position to compete for market rate housing. Bingo. Maybe there is actually some place in the middle where we can meet and its not the damn supplydemand problem weve been being spoonfed. Thank you. President melgar commissioner moore. Commissioner moore i wanted to second and chime in on you, thank you to commissioner hillis. He will be missed. I have to pick the subject which really struck me. He is the funniest person ive ever met, particularly in a public forum. Hes the funniest. We always agree to disagree and we were good friends, respected colleagues. And i think in his triangulating into a different realm, based on the significant amount of experience, he created just the tension in the Commission Discussions that i really appreciated. Ill miss him and i wish him the best of luck whatever his next step will be. President melgar commissioner koppel . Commissioner koppel im going to make comments along the same lines. Hopefully its not me, commissioner fong, director ram, commissioner hillis, i dont know if i have anything to do with that, but they sit next to me when they leave. I want to thank rich. Hes taught me a lot and his experience and time through many departments through the city will be greatly missed. And hope we will get a good replacement for him. President melgar commissioner fong . Perhaps we should all have training as a comedian in chicago. It may help in the discussions. This is the second time now that commissioner hillis has resigned on the commission that ive been involved with. I wish him the best. There is a pattern there. President melgar i will end the comments by apologizing for not being here last week while you guys were talking about the balboa reservoir project. It is something that i really care about. But i just wanted to just bring to your attention, my bedtime reading this week is a book called the road to resegregation, by a professor of planning at u. C. Berkeley. Hes got a lot of great ideas, brilliant and researched book with planning in the bay area, but one of the things he talks about is how our fragmented Planning System has reinforced patterns of racial segregation in the bay area. Because we approve transportation and planning, you know, and office and things in different departments, different jurisdictions and certainly different municipalities, and that has reinforced the patterns we as a society has chosen to prioritize. I was thinking about this as i was watching you last week. Because we are, you know, adding housing, as we need to. Were asked Affordable Housing in the west side, like we need to do. But yet the transportation decisions are lagging woefully behind. And you know, i am hoping that connect sf and some of the work that were doing with transportation actually helps us make progress in realizing some Racial Equity and density equity between the west and the east side. So i would highly recommend the book to everyone, its a dense book, but also emotional hard to read because weve been part of the system. And sometimes its hard to say, well, we made that decision, and that led to Something Else. But highly recommend it. Commissioner richards . Commissioner richards while on books, i think i mentioned this a couple of weeks ago. If you want to understand how we got where we are today, please take a look at capital city gentrification, the rise of the real estate state. I read it from cover to cover in two hours. I bought a copy for each member of the commission. And every time i walk into dog eared books on castro street, they say 10 more copies . I say yes. Its a great book. Thank you. Can i have richs copy . Would you read it . If there is nothing further, commissioners, we can move on to item 6. The planning director desired qualifications. This was placed on your agenda to allow yourselves to deliberate and allow the public and anyone else who so desired to submit their opinions. President melgar thank you, jonas. As you all know, our director of planning has announced his retirement. So this commission is charged by the charter to have a process and send the top three candidates to our mayor, from which she will pick one. So in an effort to reset what were looking for in the head of this department, we put this on the calendar to allow folks who care about this commission, who come and interact with the department, to let us know what you think are the top qualities that we should be looking for in the candidates for our next planning director. And so the last time we hired for a director was 14 years ago. And times have changed in San Francisco. We are dealing with the climate crisis. Were dealing with an Affordable Housing crisis, homelessness. All kinds of things. And so we thought this would be a good time to hear from everyone to tell us what you think we should be looking for. Ius to tell you about the process, well be having an open process. Folks will apply to the position. And we will be interviewing candidates and selecting the top three to send to the mayor for her convenience. So she can pick one. So with that, im going to open it up for Public Comment. I will be this will be recorded. I will be consolidating the comments and sending them over to our h. R. Director. Okay. I have a few speaker cards, but anyone who wants to come up can. I have georgia, stefani, jerry, jim, and anastasia. Good afternoon, hello. Welcome back. I sent you a pdf with my listing of qualifications. The first thing i put up there was that the new director should watch that hearing on sfgovtv when you had the kids come from excelsior, i think was back in may. Because theyre going to be growing up under the next directors tenure. Maybe that sounds glib, but its important to think about the children and neighborhoods like the excelsior. I think there should be an occupancy study of all the luxury condos built in the last 10 years in the eastern neighborhoods to see are they really occupied fulltime . What are usage . Metadata, you can get a sense of who occupies and how often. You look at your water bill away and when youre here, they change. Quickly, understanding the geology of San Francisco. Understanding the land use history of San Francisco. Including what happened in the 70s. The gentrification displacement of the last two decades and its a city of renters. I have a long list of understanding the r. H. Neighborhoods. The money bomb in some neighborhoods. The rgds need to be strengthened and reinforced. The importance of mid block open space. Is that a place to capture carbon . More efficient use of interior space and new constructions. Problems with excavation on 25 by 114 lots. Demolitions versus alteration. Reports to preserve viable housing. And assessment of densification as it occurs. And finally, close and continual collaboration with dbi and dic. And it should be with the planning and dbi staff on a daily basis. If i could have the overhead. This is my little supplemental thing. That is a table. The goose with the golden egg. I think we all know the story. You dont kill the goose to get all the eggs. Need to have sensitivity. Heres a chart showing the income and equality. Ive shown that before. And then finally, an article from the new york times, a couple of weeks ago, which is that [bell ringing] buyers at the high end of the market are not buying in new york city and i think we follow new york city closely. Ill submit these as extra, plus what i sent you. Heres a copy, officially, and thats my comments. Good luck. Im sorry about commissioner hillis. I have my favorite joke, but ill refrain from telling it. President melgar thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, president melgar and Planning Commissioners, my name is Caroline Kennedy from the delores heights improvement club. I couldnt agree with you more, president melgar, on the backdrop and need for a really strong new planning director. So thank you for asking us to give input before you begin to elect. I worked wit