Entirely. Its been several years since the new season deal has fallen through and the Grocery Store still does not have a full service Grocery Store. Now, theres light at the end of the tunnel. We have an interested tenant, trader joes. This is not a done deal. Theyre still in the process of doing their Due Diligence and exploring the viability of opening a store in the neighbourhood. Hayes valley has a formative retail ban. We have to make a special exemption to allow former retail Grocery Stores. The exemption only applies to the potentially Grocery Store and the retailer still has to go through a conditional use authorization which will include time to discuss community concerns. It is not an open door. It does not repeal the entire form of retail ban in hayes valley. That will remain intact. The legislation does not allow certain uses such as medical cannabis dispensaries, hospitals, nonprofit or office space and it does allow for general Retail Services and sales, pharmacies, and Hardware Stores and the like. We also know that the Property Developer has out reached 80 non formally Retail Businesses to occupy the two other retail spaces at the site. But securing a major tenant would help in securing Additional Co tenants in that development space. As you know, under supervisor browns ordinance a potential grocery retailer is subject to affordability requirements to make sure the western edition and haze valley has access to a fresh affordable and healthy food and what today is a food desert. This is important because the medium Household Income on the north side of fulton across the street is around 24,000 a year and over onethird of the residents live below the poverty rate. The new developments incluse hayes valley north and south, public housing, freedom west co oppositcoops and the last bit f Affordable Housing stock in the city that serves low income, African American and asianpacific islander residents and they deserve better. Existing Retail Options in the neighbourhood are too expensive, dont accept wic or cal fresh and they have a terrible representation in the community for the quality and fresness of their food. They Treat Community members poorly or racially profile them. Its a real problem and we need to address this. Like i said, we have a viable option, our residentses are better. This is only the first step. Trader joes has to go through a c. U. And entitlement process and supervisor brown is committed to the following. Number one,. We think the mitigation measures we have a potential to delay or derail a project that would bring a low cost affordable Grocery Store to a community thats been waiting far too long as i stressed and then also, any sort of transportation measures should be vetted by actual traffic engineers and sfmta and supervisor browns preference is we keep flexibility to adjust any conditions at that site as a change horry involve. So, moving forward, well continue to work the tenant and the developer to make this a reality and we want to avoid a huge gaping vacancy on fulton and bring a Good Neighbourhood. Trader joes has been in San Francisco for 25 years and theyve been a Good Neighbour in different parts of the city and we will press on them to do the same in the western edition. We saw that Market Research shows that local residents in the shops at Convenience Stores and full service grow restores and we can sustain smaller mom and pop shops and larger Grocery Stores. Supervisor brown, id like to thank that planning staff for their hard work and recommendations they put forward for this ordinance and she is incorporating said suggested changes into her ordinance and we thank you for helping us try to ensure that the western hayes valley can meet the diverse needs of our constituents and im available for any specific questions for the commissioners. Thank you kindly. Thank you. Thank you to supervisor brown and ms. Simile, thank you for presenting on this. This is your lifelong work also. I really appreciate it. Veronica flores Planning Department staff. She gave a very thorough overview of the neighbourhood and project history but ill take a few moments to highlight the amendments from the ordinance. So the ordinance in front of you will amend the planning code to allow a formula retail Grocery Store with conditional use authorization and the fulton store sud. The ordinance also includes further changes including number one, removing the building high exception, number two, eliminating Square Footage requirements for commercial uses in the district other than a Grocery Store and for subsequent uses in a location previously approved for a Grocery Store. Number three, in addition to the standard continual use authorization finding any proposed formula retail Grocery Store will need to provide information regarding food affordability projections at the time of the application. This information will also be required every five years. Upon the change of ownership of the Grocery Store site, or upon the change of operations of a new Grocery Store at the project site. Which is earliest. Lastly, the ordinance will extend the time period for effectiveness of controls for the district to five years from Effective Date of the ordinance. The Department Recommends a few modifications as follows the first recommendation is to remove the periodic reporting requirement and instead staff recommends that new subsequent Grocery Stores provide affordability information to the commission at the time of the application review. The second recommendation relates to removing the sunset clause based on two primary reasons. The first reason is after the effectiveness of the controls sunsets only Grocery Stores with fewer worldwide locations would be permitted since they would be considered a less intensive use at the project site. And the second concern relates to the Grocery Store if down the road if its successful tenants they can vacate the property theres a concern of a vacancy at this primary project site. And the last recommended modification relates to clerical amendments to amend the lot references and correct the board number listed in the ordinance. To state the department has received six letters of support citing support for an affordable Grocery Store in the neighbourhood. The department supports a proposed ordinance because it alliance with a commerce and industry elements to strengthen neighbourhood serving goods. It also allows an opportunity for a familiar retail Grocery Store and more affordable goods within these neighbourhoods. The Department Recommends approval of the ordinance with modifications as discussed and this concludes staff presentation. Thank you. Thank you. We will now take Public Comment on this item. Do we have speaker cards . Anyone who wishes to comment on this item can do so now. Good afternoon. My name is stephanie and this is daryl with trader joes. We opened our first store in San Francisco 25 years ago on ninth and bryant. We have six locations and the city from north beach to stone town and we love the chair and we hope to be a benefit a Neighbourhood Store and our first commitment is to offer value in the form of great products at great prices with Great Service to our customers and we are also committed to being a Neighbourhood Store and well work closely with the community through our donations programmes and we will also work closely with the local neighbourhood organizations and we will higher 100 people and its a practise of ours to focus on local hiring and we have reached out to establish local organizations to promote hiring within the community and we are committed to listening to our neighbourhoods and have participated in Many Community meetings and we have been fortunate to hear feedback from several Community Leaders and members and are working to come up with the plan to address communities concerns that does involve hiring, traffic, and General Community involvement. Were still very early in the process but we look forward to strengthening our relationships with the organizations to create as much of a benefit as possible as their future Neighbourhood Store. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Any other Public Comment on this item . I thank you for allowing me to speak on this. My name is bob anderson and im a member of the hayes building neighbourhood association. And, i think the idea of a trader joes is is great. Its very much an asset to the community hopefully. They were kind enough to meet with us and the Transportation Planning board with hayes valley the other night which is very nice. They are something that people are thinking about and are the issues of parking and traffic and fulton street is a bicycle route that goes down fulton street and there are concerns about left turns and out of the parking lot and left turns off of fulton into the building itself and we would like and the number of Parking Spaces is 70 which they have zero and 30 that function very well and the idea of decreasing parking is not i dont think unreasonable. I think the idea, the local neighbourhood hiring is important and they dont have numbers or percentages and i know supervisor brown is talking and working on that and we would like to see something solid and something very memorialized within the agreement to make sure these things happen. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item . Good afternoon. Im a member of the hayes valley transportation and Planning Group and speaking for myself. I think its a little premature to approve this right now until we get some of these agreements made. The concerns that bob raised are common to the members of the group about traffic patterns, the number of Parking Spaces, and also, charges that met that gives them at least a few months that we can get these agreements made about local hire about traffic patterns and so on. The delays on this project getting a Grocery Store here are due to the developer and we shouldnt russia head just because lets get these things ironed out now. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item . Public comment is closed. Commissioner johnson. Thank you. I just want to take supervisor brown for that passionate presentation about the project and the issue that were trying to adjust them by opening up the possibility of a Grocery Store being there by approving it s. U. D. The issue of food justice, which i know shes been working on forever is very historic to the bern Edition Black and brown communities and now we have an opportunity to right that wrong. I think i really also appreciate i have one question for ms. Simile which is staff has recommended some modifications and im curious if the supervisor is supportive of those. What do you think . Thank you for your comments, commissioner johnson. Yes, supervisor brown is supportive of the recommended modifications put fourth by staff and plans on incorporating changes into the ordinance. I know theres another comment but with that i make a motion to approve with modifications. Second. Commissioner richards. So, i believe every neighbourhood should have its own say and its own termination and im going to support this s. U. D. However, i do want to let folks ive had and i have not had any conversations with trader joes in eight years but they tried to come into debowes triangle at the corner of 15th and sanchez and market and oey and the Community Needs to demand a traffic and parking study. Planning oversaw one for the 2011 one at 2278 Market Street and it found that it was a 15,000 square foot store and 36 Parking Spaces. The store would have generated between 2100 and 2500 vehicle trips to day to the store. Trader joes is a store where you load up on stuff and i know uber and lyft but you load up on stuff and you can get it home somehow and there has to be creative in what they do and i know the project that we were looking at at 15,000 feet created a demand from 1,050 to 1250 Parking Spaces per typical weekday. This was done by wilber smith associate with the overseeing of the Planning Department. In the end, we tried to work with trader joes on some mitigation measures and i know there was traffic calming at the corner of market and oey street in the end, trader joes only said they provide carts at a reduced rate. I hope that in 2019, trader joes has changed and that you dont want to retro fit your suburban model into an urban environment since you have several stores that do have parking. Ill go ahead and approve it but you have to have a traffic study. You would be crazy not to do it given what we saw what it would do to our neighbourhood. Theres food and justice and i agree and everybody should deserve to have food at a reasonable price within reach. But theres also 2,000 cars idling a day at a parking lot creates pollution and justice. Theres a motion seconded to approve this staff with modifications on that motion. Commissioner fung. Aye. Commissioner johnson. Aye. Moore. Aye. Richard. Aye. President melgar. Aye. So moved. That motion passes unanimously 50. Bringing us back to item 9, for case number 2019014525pca parking requirements. Good afternoon. Deago owe sanchez with the Planning Department staff. Im present an ordinance that proposed the planning code to modify parking regulations, street signage controls and update outdated references and make other clarifications, however, before i provide the staff recommendations, i with like to provide supervisor mandelman office with time to present to you. Id like to take the time to provide context to this effort. Earlier this year, supervisor mandelman introduced a resolution for a state of Climate Emergency which was passed unanimously at the board. As part of the resolution, we requested the department of environment to produce a Technical Report examining the source of Carbon Emissions in our city. The report published in july found that the transportation sector was responsible for 46 of city wide emissions. With most 71 , coming from private cars and trucks that also cause traffic congestion, safety hazards and negative tax impact on the quality of life. We must reduce our reliance on private vehicles if we meet our reductions goals and the ordinance is an effort to modify offStreet Parking priorments to achieve those goals. We believe modifying off Street Parking standards is one of the most effective strategies for reducing auto traffic and pollution. Encouraging a shift towards sustainable modes of traffi trad meeting our climate protection goals. This ordinance follows efforts last year led by jane kim to eliminate minimum parking requirements city wide. This will clean up, clarify and better organize the parking related provisions of the code and rational eyes and simplify the planning codes existing parking code requirements. Standards and freight loading requirements. It simplifies parking maximums acknowledging uses in buildings change frequently and making enforcementss easier. It requires above ground parking for housing and retail. Its lowered the maximum amount of residential parking permitted in the densist and transit corridors. It reduces the ability to add excess residential parking through the conditional use process in transit rich Zoning Districts and standardizes the conditional use procedure and criteria for adding excess parking. In addition, the ordinance expands requirement to add bicycle parking to uses that did not previously have such requirements. This is an attempt to promote more sustainable modes of transportation and the use of private vehicles that actively harm our environment. Turning now to the staff report, i want to start by thanking the Planning Department for their analysis of the ordinance as well as the thoughtful recommendations made in the report. Staff has a number of recommendations. We agree with several of them and in the interest of time, i will focus on the recommendation with which we most