2019 items 3a and b for case numbers 2015010589 and ofa2300 harrison street, large project authorization and Office Development authorization are proposed for continuance to november 14. I have no other items for continuance and i have no speaker cards. Do any members of the public have any comment about the ims proposed for continuance items proposed for continuance . Public comment is closed. I move to continue the items to the dates specified. Thank you commissioners on that motion to continue items as proposed. Commissioner [roll call vote] the motion passes unanimously. Placing under the consent cal calendar. 1046, 14th street a condominium subdivision. Do any members of the public wish to provide Public Comment on this item . Okay. Public comment is closed. Commissioner koppel. Move. Second. Thank you commissioners on that motion to approve item 4 on the consent calendar. [roll call vote] so moved. The motion passes unanimously. Commission matters consideration of adoption of minutes. Do any members of the public have Public Comment on the draft minutes . Okay. Public comment is closed. Commissioner koppel. Move to approve the draft minutes. Second. Thank you commissioners on that motion to adopt the minutes for september 26. [roll call vote] the motion passes unanimously. Item 6 commission comments and questions. Commissioner richards. The governor signed sb30 yesterday. I know the staff has been holding back waiting until its signed to understand the exact implications. I have three Major Concerns i would like staff to understand. First is do we have the resources to do whats needed in the timelines provided. Two the limit on the number of public hearings, whats the impact, especially around discretionary equity where we have continued project in order to have the Community Come up with a package for the developer. Three a Historic Resource evaluation within 30 days, do we have the capacity to do worried that these things are going to be imposed on us and we are not going to be able to react with the staff we have and things are going to sift through and get approved. So i would like to see different types of hearings maybe do ones on ones we have had in the past, buttonhole those and see how they fit with the legislation that was passed and we could at least all understand that. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner. Seeing nothing further, we can move onto department matters, item 7 directors announcements. Good afternoon. No new announcements today. Thank you. Item 8 review of past incidents of the board of supervisors. Aaron star is out sick so he asked me to relay to you only that the ceqa appeal for 13th street was denied and the cp was up held at the board yesterday. Hell give you a full report next week. I will also simply announce that well, theres no report from the board of appeals in the Historic Preservation commission didnt meet yesterday. But to inform you the mayor nominated sue diamond to be here on the Planning Commission. If theres nothing else commissioners we can move onto general Public Comment. At this time members of the public may address within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meet. Each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. I have this one speaker card. Okay. Anybody else who wishes to provide general Public Comment, please come up now. Good afternoon. I dont know if you had a chance to read the email i sent this morning and i did send a copy to director. I want to amplify some of those themes. The confluence of the fact that the survey, the sample for five samples from 2015 had a 40 percent should have been demos reviewed as demos. And the staff in the past two years reviewed demos and 38 percent of those should have been demos so i think these numbers are interesting. I want to show you this project which was approved in 2015. Can i have the overhead . That was a unit merger. And that was in the flat area of noe valley and that was 7 million in 2015. Heres one that was done recently. It was two units. Purchased for 6 million. Heres this project here. Not going to tell you where it is. But there it is as it was. And it was recently sold for asking 1. 295 million and sold for 2 million. Got an alteration permit and theres some of the work. And heres more of the work. And here it is as its done and they are asking 7. 5 million for a Single Family home, five bedrooms. But the thing thats interesting is down the street, and these were built in 1941 or mely so they go with that thing i sent you in the general plan in the Housing Element about housing that should be preserved. This is down the street. They are not doing a vertical expansion. The other ones, the demo, this one is three bedrooms, the other one is five. And just one more item to show you that something thats going on now. Its not a democrat in addition. Here it is. Demolition. I dont know what the counts are on that. I guess my point is you need to do something about the demo. I think the Housing Element, ask for it, you can do it. You dont need the supervisors. I think you need to do something about 176 but you need the supervisors for that so ill go with that. I got bad news today so im shaky right now so i apologize for the personal things and i hope you read my email and thank you so much and have a great day. You too. Thank you. Any other general Public Comment . Okay. Public comment is closed. Commissioner richards. So when we had that street i asked the attorney to look into whether the directors it seemed to have overwritten the Building Code and redefined what demolition is. Its actually legal or not. Thats now, i think it was may 22, 2015 that was done. And i would hope that we could get some type of a determination on that, because thats really whats at the root of a lot of what a lot of us are seeing in our neighborhoods. Thank you. We can move to your regular calendar for item 9 the better Market Street project Environmental Impact report. Good afternoon president melgar and members of the commission. I am Jenny Department staff and environmental coordinator. Joining me today is gibson, Environmental Review officer and principal planner with the Planning Department. Members of the project sponsor team and citys consultants for this project. The item before you today is a certification of a final Environmental Impact report or final eir prepared for the project in acore dance with the California Environmental quality act or ceqa. The draft for the project was published on february, 2019. The public hearing on the draft eir was held april 2019 and the Public Comment period for the draft concluded on april 2019. On september 23 of 2019 the Planning Department published comments received. And the responses to comments document contains a copy of all comments received on the draft the responses and any necessary revisions to the draft. The draft along with those responses to comments comprises the final eir. Please note the Planning Commission doesnt have an approval action for this project instead you will determine if the final eir is adequate, accurate and objective. The project sponsors, the San Francisco public works and Municipal Transportation Agency are subject to take approvals pending your certification of final eir. The project corridor would redesign and provide transportation and street improvements to 2. 2mile corridor as shown on this slide encompassing Market Street between stewart and octavia boulevard and the corridor includes portions of street that intersect Market Street and four off street corridors. The project would introduce new private vehicle access restrictions and change the road way configuration traffic significant analogies facilities for people walking, passenger loading surface transit. Surface transit changes would include new muni only lanes changes to muni stop locations stop characteristics such as enlarged boarding islands and construction of a new f loop. This figure illustrates some of the transit changes in the project including the sidewalk level bikeway and expanded transit boarding islands. This figure shows the changes from an aerial perspective including curb side islands passenger loading zones and the f loop. In addition to the project the sponsor is considering the analyzed a project variant known as the western variant. It is located within a portion of the same quarter of the project between octavia boulevard and a point 300 feet east of hayes and Market Street as shown on this figure. However the western variant would implement changes beyond those of the project related to roadway configuration private vehicle access, surface transit, facilities for people walking and passenger loading. The eir did you remembers it would result in the following impacts. Construction related impacts on transportation construction related impact on noise, Operational Impacts on the Market StreetCultural Landscape district a Cultural Resource under existing project and Operational Impact on the muni 27. The eir determines all other impacts were less than significant or could be reduced to less than significant with mitigation. The eir analyzed five project alternatives including the no project alternative which is required by ceqa law and would mean no changes to the project corridor as proposed. The only alternative that would avoid unavoidable impact is the full preservation alternative. It would avoid the impacts to the Market StreetCultural Landscape district that would occur under the project. Under the preservation alternative spacing and service, bicycle facilities and commercial and passenger loading facilities would be similar to existing conditions. Lighting standards would remain and curb lines would be retained. Private vehicle access restrictions would be the same as the proposed project. The other alternatives would reduce Significant Impact but not to less than significant levels. The Planning Department prepared the eir in acore dance within acore ceqa. As a reminder you dont have an approval item for the project. That concludes my presentation. Im available for any questions. Thank you. We are probably going to have questions. Thank you so much for the presentation. We will now open up this item for Public Comment. I have a few speaker cards. Amber ronnie, darren charter. Anyone else who wishes to speak please line up on my left. Come on up, please. Hello. My name is amber speaking on behalf of nature in the city today. In the 1960s and 70s Market Street underwent Major Development and london plain trees were planted. At that time no one would have guessed the street would be transformed into ideal habitat for western swallow tail butterflies. However that is exactly what happened. In 1984 during the first annual San Francisco butterfly count harriet notedd in highrise downtown areas the western swallow tail is the main species seen in the entire length of Market Street has been plantedd with plantedd with trees. We are overinvoiced because plans for the newly improved street would include trees that enhance has been at the time for habitats for insects and birds. The plan includes areas for planters wherever they can be maintained and supported and we urge the city to require these planters to contain San Francisco native plants and nectar sources. The imperative elements not only enhanced by diversity but also improve quality of life for residents, commuters, and visitors alike. We are committed to continue our advocacy and Fundraising Efforts so the new Market Street includes wildlife. We are happy to set up meetings with anyone wanting to learn more about this natural phenomenon. We urge the city to reduce cost cutting measures such as eliminating trees and planters that support wildlife. Thank you for your time today. Thank you. Next speaker please. Im ron miguel. I chair at the Citizens Working Group for better Market Street. I took a look back in my files. In march of 2011 asked me to chair a Design Committee on Market Street and considering San Francisco nine and a half years is not too bad. I have some concepts regarding the plans that have been proposed. Well see whether or not changes are made. They will be. But in my opinion the eir is adequate accurate and objective, which is the criteria for certification. There will be changes to it as it goes along and i hope the public understands that that happens with every project. But those changes will be within the boundaries of the eir. And thats what its for. So without further ado please certify the eir and lets get a shovel in the ground. Thank you mr. Miguel. Next speaker please. Good afternoon commissioners. Im vicechair of the working group with him here but im a Senior Community organizer on staff at the San Francisco bicycle coalition. And im here today on behalf of our 10,000 plus members to lend our strong support to this project and ask that you certify the Environmental Impact report in front of you today. As you all know, hundreds of thousands of people use Market Street daily, riding buses or the thousands of people riding. So it is the backbone of our transportation system. But its also one of the most dangerous streets for people riding in San Francisco. Because of that this project really is the most important safety project for people walking or biking in our city. We need to take this opportunity to create a street that is safe and inviting for all users while preventing future lives lost. So the project thats proposed and represented in the Environmental Impact report will make Market Street safe for people walking and biking and also for restrictions that would reduce the number of vehicles on the street. I want to speak in support of the western variant. It is included in the report. We want to see it move forward extending private automobile restrictions west of tenth all the way to goth, will support the goal of the project to create safe bicycle routes. So all this scope of the project is on the network. So we want to make sure that every aspect of it does get the Safety Improvement we need to make it safe and remove it from that network. So ultimately this project is key to the future of San Francisco. And we should do everything that we can to create a street that is safe for everyone. This will set the future decades of Market Street so we cant lose this opportunity by limiting potential Safety Measures like private auto restrictions west of tenth. Thank you for hearing this and thank you for certifying this Environmental Impact report and moving this to approval and like ron said, towards a shovel in the ground. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. I do have two additional speaker cards. Jody and peter. Wonderful. Okay. Good afternoon commissioners. My name is darren. Im a Campaign Coordinator at the San Francisco bicycle coalition. Im here today to urge this body to help certify the better Market StreetEnvironmental Impact report. Market street has three of the deadliest intersections in San Francisco. Every year like clockwork people are hit and killed by cars on this street. And as a cyclist that rides this street every day, i understand this danger intimately because im being sandwiched between buses, trying to stay on schedule and cars rushing to their destinations and also working with pedestrians that are trying to navigate the crosswalk. The street has a tremendous amount of chaos as it stands now. And it stems from the lack of planning that is fortunately remedied through the better Market Street project. And taking cars off the street will save lives. Ive been fliering to the community to notify people about this opportunity to change the street. The one thing i hear every time i mention auto restrictions is its about time. So as the commis