Careers in education field. Most of them with classic teachers and urban public schools. Some of them right here in San Francisco. All of this transformational work happens at s. F. Day school. We share the resources, classrooms, technology, instructional supplies and more. That strong connection with the community was a division of the families that founded s. F. Day in the late 70s and it remains true today. This project under consideration today, not only increases the learning opportunities for s. F. Day students [bell ringing] it expands opportunities for the tune of 50 break your students that will make use of this new space in pursuit of their dreams of higher education. The dozens of inspired educators that will be launched with our careers. I know they will use it well. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is reed coley. This is my second year as board chair of the trustees at San Francisco day. My family is a fear of the school. My wife and i have four children, to fourthgraders, noah the seventh grader olivia, and a son that graduated last year, jake. Together they share a community at s. F. Day. His will that makes them feel safe, known and excited to learn. As board chair, safeguarding the Financial Health and wellbeing of the school is my main priority. As such, this expansion project provides an opportunities for our students in our teachers. The space and resources will enable our Academic Resources to flourish and give the kids the tools they need to continue driving. Of course the aspect of safeguarding our schools will wellbeing is the security of our teachers. Providing housing to some of our teachers as a meaningful step forward and demonstration of support for those made vulnerable by our citys high cost of living. This expansion will allow us to further our diversity Equity Inclusion initiatives through this increased tuition. At s. F. Day we take our partnerships with our neighborhood we will Work Together to address any concerns to create a better neighborhood for all. I respectfully request your approval for this project. Thank you for your time and your consideration. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. I am the eighthgrader at s. F. Day. I have three younger brothers and fifth, second in kindergarten who attend s. F. Day as well. One of my favorite things about s. F. Days our creative aspect to every. In math we talked problems in different ways and are encouraged to show our work. In science we dive deep into the concepts we are learning and social studies, handson projects to understand what we are learning and have really deep and meaningful extractions. A favorite of the mall is probably english. We write and perform plays about weakness, perform shakespeare and read classics like animal farm and outsiders. It inspires me to learn new things every single day. I think this new campus will have my younger brother with this new experience. I request your approval with this project. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, president and commissioners. My name is adam. I am 14 and im in eighthgrader at [bell ringing] s. F. Day. Have a sister in fifth grade. My family and i live one block from school, and ive lived in this neighborhood my entire life. I have always loved stem at the school. Math has always been a passion to me whether researching independent projects are watching math videos to learn something new. Ive always wanted to share this passion with others. There a short presentation or by working with younger students at school. Last year my friend henry and i had the opportunity to meet with fourthgraders at our school. Who shared our fascination with math. We talked with them about concepts like triangles and look at challenging problems together. I also enjoy the maker space which has allowed me to be creative and helps me to express my ideas in real life with the help of a 3d printer and laser cutters. I love of math goes handinhand with my other passion, music. Which is a special program in we have fall and winter assemblies were every grade performance along with the lower and Upper School Choirs and jazz band. Music is not just a subject that we take. It is a way to bring our community together. We are introduced to the wonders of singing together and unique instruments like the xylophone and the glockenspiel. We each get an instrument. I played the piano for over six years and i also play the clarinet. I also get to participate in the annual concert fundraiser called concert for community. I play in the band and also perform a piano solo. I have always loved music. Our school has a wonderful way of uniting the whole school through song. I respectfully request your approval of this project. Thank you for your consideration. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, stephen boss. Of course, i am in favor of this project. We should absolutely expand the school, bill teacher housing. Its a complete nobrainer. I am pleased to see so much support from the community. Not to be a downer, but this highlights the absurdity of our process. None of us should be here. It is a school. Of course we should do it. Kids should not have to take a day off of school to come here and begged us for permission to add more classrooms or build homes for their teachers. This is broken, and we have to stop doing this. We have to change the process. Of course, i know all of you will vote to in support because you are all reasonable people who are used two succeeding i want our teachers to have housing. This process should not exist. Thanks. Any other Public Comment on this item . Okay, commissioner koppel . Thank you all for bringing the kids out. It is always a treat for us to see different speakers at the microphone. You will get an a for public speaking today. Really good job. We dont normally like to see on our agenda, that we will be losing a housing unit. In this case, i am in full support and willing to make the exception. I really appreciate the last sentence that was spoken by one of the higher ups, just relating students, parents, faculty and neighbors and then putting in the context, shows how those four groups to get to incorporate themselves within the whole city. Very supportive today. Commissioner johnson . It is really wonderful to hear about geocaching is still a thing. [laughter] the kids are still doing it. And also just to hear about the values of the day school through the staff, and the families, and through the educators. Thank you all for sharing. One question that i did have her staff that i just wanted to clarify in the project description, it says that the addition would increase, or sorry if there was an illegal unit conversion to use for storage, can you just say a little bit about what happened there. Perhaps the project sponsor would be better out it than i am. Theyve been using it for storage for a couple of decades. There hasnt been a unit occupied there since the 1990s. Of the school purchased the building in 2,001 and immediately started using it as storage. To 12001 there was no requirement in the planning code that somebody needed to go and ask for special permission that did not come until 2,008. Unfortunately they did not file any Building Permit showing they were going to use something as storage, which i would argue is understandable considering i went to storage. Fastforward 1819 years later, and staff made the determination that because there were no Building Permits the last legal use was technically a dwelling unit even though it had been used since the early 2,000s. Thank you. I am fully supportive of this project as well. Commissioner. For . Question for staff. This property is not part of an imt. Do they own other properties . I am not aware of any other properties that they own. Just these three parcels right now. Commissioner richards . I am in support of this project. Just a comment, if this was a brown field and we were building a school, i doubt we would need to go through all these hoops. If you look at the actual case packet you see we are demolishing a unit which is something we need to approve as well as to amend planning code decisions as well as to make exceptions for dwelling unit exposure by simple parking all of which are livability issues. I just want the public to know we are not putting the school through some ridiculous process, its how we get to this point to what we need to approve thats actually before us. I am absolutely fully supportive of the project and move to approve. Thank you. I am also fully supportive of this project. I wanted to give kudos to the San Francisco day school for providing housing for its teachers. I think it is hopefully the start of a trend. We dont require it, but, you know, it is really great that you are living your values by using some of your space to provide that option for people who need it. I wish others did it, too. Thank you so much for doing that. I am fully supportive. Seeing nothing further, commissioners. A motion that has been seconded to approve this matter with conditions. On that motion. [roll call] that motion passes unanimously 50. Placing us on item 11, case number 2016009538cua. 905 folsom street. This is a conditional use authorization. Good afternoon, commissioners. I am at the Planning Department staff. This is a conditional use authorization for planning code sections 203. 5 and 303, to allow the demolition of the Automotive Service station within a mixed used Residential Zoning District the project includes demolition of the existing building currently providing an Automotive Repair garage, doing business as shall pay to construct a new eight story 85foot tall residential building measuring approximately 14,140 square feet with nine dwelling units including five twobedroom units and the four onebedroom units. Providing approximately 1160 square feet for a ground floor commercial use street. Nine class one bicycle parking state spaces. The project includes 18,035 square feet of usable open space via a second floor courtyard and a common deck. To date the department has not received any correspondence regarding the proposed project. Since the publication of the report that the project sponsor has clarified that the usable open space Square Footage staff would like to read into the record for the final motion. Private usable space measures 540 square feet and common usable open space measures 1295 square feet. Measuring 1835 square feet. Slightly less than what was published in the Planning Commission packet. The project is located on one lot, lot 146 block 3753 with the lot area of approximately and has approximately 25 feet of frontage and a lot depth of 90 feet containing the Automotive Repair garage and the storm. Over the existing Automotive Service stations across two lots, lot 1469001 and block 3753. The second continuous lot at 300 fifth street is not part of this project. The project is under review at the Planning Department. That is at 300 fifth street. The Department Recommends approval with conditions. The Department Finds the project is on balance consistent with the central soma plan. The objectives im findings and policies of the general plan. [reading notes] the project does provide a new ground for commercial units as well as seven stories of housing adding to the citys housing. The Department Finds that the project is necessary, desirable and compatible with the surrounding neighborhood and does not find it to be detrimental to persons or adjacent properties in the city. This concludes staffs presentation and im happy to answer any questions. Thank you very much. We have a project sponsor . Allow me to set up the powerpoint. I can give you a quick summary of the design of the building. It is a slender building, eight stories tall, as you can see on the aerial that was taken, i guess by google, just pulled off a few days ago. You can see the neighbors are an eight Story Buildings, occupied space with the gardens. 25 feet wide, very slender 90 feet long. Sorry, im trying to figure out how to make a go forward. This is a photo of the existing conditions. It is currently a shell station and a smog testing facility. As esmeralda noted, the larger property that has the gas station, the pumps on the tanks is not our property. Ours is the slender portion that has the Convenience Store and the smog testing. Those items we have gone througl evaluation and have identified duplicates within a close range. We chose to show you a couple of pictures here, the before and after with the current and the projected. Right now, it looks like a very tall building. It matches many of the buildings in the neighborhood. We anticipate the neighbor will be even higher. I know you have been looking at that project as well. So, as you can see on the top, there is the existing service station support building that will be demolished. This demolition would not be taking out fuel tanks or anything like that. The lower image shows the site plan, we do the traditional enhancement of the sidewalks. The second floor in the back is the rear deck. And we lost our image. The first floor you can see has some commercial trade we are not anticipating a commercial kitchen or anything like that. It is long and narrow. We have to provide both stairs and elevators, one elevator to the residence above. The above image is the second floor where you can see the rear deck that qualifies as the rear yard. The third and fourth floor represent the two of floor plans the third floor is to onebedroom units, and on the fourth floor it is one twobedroom unit. I slow down, because it is ones and twos backandforth. That goes up to the eighth floor, and then on the eighth floor we do the roof deck. A 5foot radius of landscaping wrapping around which is, the planning Bart Department is asking everybody to do now so everybody doesnt get close to the edge. The deck itself is in the center. The planning code does allow you to count the landscape plans for area as open space. Even if you did not do that, we still meet the requirements for common open space. This image shows elevation on folsom. As you can see it is very narrow and tall, 61 ratio. It is very modern. There are balconies. Let me back up. There are bay windows on alternate floors. The alternate floor, there would be small roof decks. This would be the east elevation. [bell ringing] this will be covered by the new project coming in adjacent. If that project okay. Approved, this will be the like. Think you so much. We will now take Public Comment on this item. Anyone who wishes to provide Public Comment please do so now. Okay. Public comment is closed. Commissioner koppel . Housing replacing a gas station. I am supportive. Okay. I did have some questions. You mentioned that the station itself isnt in the process of entitlement. Can you tell us a little bit about that . Sure, yeah. The continuous parcel is 300 fifth street. That project has submitted an application for the department, currently electing the bonus project as well as the housing sustainability district. It was created as part of the central selma project. What is being created nextdoor is a 16 story residential building. I see. That was my question, because the three buildings, dividing the parcel, right next to it they are all eight stories. Then you have a 16 Story Building right next to it. Do we have any worries in terms of the design, or some of the windows. Part of what the housing sustainability district wanted to allow was buildings up to 16e project meets certain findings shows the Zoning District allowing for 85 feet if it elects to pursue the Agency Program and provide certain benefits than it would be allowed to build up to that height. I think, in general, this sounds like a big height difference. Is the adjacent site at a corner . I think on those corners it can handle the height,. [inaudible] what is the building across the street . There is a big building across the street. It is another housing complex. That is also like really tall, right . Yeah, it is 85 feet. I can set it up on the screen. You talked a little bit about the lot line there. What is going to happen to it if the parcel gets developed, which i think it most likely will. Can you go back to that slide . We have an elevation developed that has a pattern of colors. It is a concrete frame building. We wanted to create some patterning and regularity to the rhythms. Because it is on a Property Line you cannot do a whole lot. The best we came up with was the pattern that we presented. Thank you. Commissioner richardson . I agree with commissioner koppel, nobrainer. I sat in a meeting probably 2008 and 70 from a Neighborhood Association said what is going to happen to all of the gas stations . And i laughed. We have hundreds of gas stations in the city. I know we mentioned this before. I cannot wait until the end of fossil fuels as well. There was a big article in the chronicle commercial charging stations, as well. I think the city should get ahead of that, as fossil fuels or wind down and take flight. We have a plan for where we put those charging stations. I know people would have them in their buildings if they are here. But if they are visiting in their electric car, where in gods name where they pulled this big honking thing to plug it in somewhere . If we keep getting rid of land we need to look at the street or something. I think it is an action item list for this commission to take after the Director Director leaves. [laughter] action item list. You said after the director leaves. Commissioner koppel . I would like to move to approve. Second. On that motion to approve this matter with conditions. [roll call] so moved by that motion passes unanimously 50. That will place us on item 12 for case number 2018016600cua, 2241 Chestnut Street