Are more compact for folks to use in a variety of ways. I certainly understand the desire to make sure that theres continued Community Space for meetings for the community and i think the unique nature of this building means the common space needs to be used for residents and so over all, an unbalanced this is a good project and i support it and i make a motion to approve. I second. Thank you, commissioners. To adopt findings for requested waivers. Commissioner fung. Aye. Commissioner johnson. Aye. Moore. Aye. Richards. No. President melgar. Aye. So moved. The motion passes 41 with commissioner richards voting against. Case number 2019014525pca. Parking requirements planning code amendments. We could take item 10 out of order. Very good, taking 10 out of order. Pca for the full ton Street Grocery store special use district this is a planning code amendment. Good afternoon, commissioners. The item before you is proposed legislation regarding the flton greece respecial use. Its by adviser brown. Good afternoon, commissioners. President melgar. And our fellow Planning Commissioners. Im a legislative aid for supervisor vallie brown who represents district 5. Im here to allow form lar retail Grocery Store to be permitted within the fulton Street Grocery store special use district known as the sud. This specific location in question is at 555fulton at laguna in the hayes valley border. Before i present, id like to note to our commissioners that we have representatives from the Property Developer as well as leadership from the potential grocery tenants in the audience for any specific questions. And secondly, id like to submit into the Public Record that we have 37 letters of support from the western edition and hayes Valley Community and these letters are in support of supervisor browns legislation and of the potential retailers, trader joes, coming into the neighbourhood. Id like to submit these with the commission secretary. Ill introduce to move quickly. Our Community Members in the Western Addition of hayes valley neighbourhood have been agitating for fullservice, affordable and fresh Grocery Store for years. In fact, it has sfgov overhead projector one of our communities have found a newspaper clipping from 1881 that promised a new produce store at that very corner and this is a heck of a long time to wait for a Grocery Store. So, supervisor brown has spent over a decade actually working to bring a full service Grocery Store to 505fulton and it was when mayor breed was supervisor. Its been a struggle to find a grocery tenant that can maintain and fill up that space and keep prices affordable for the community. We know that the Property Developer has reached out to a number of local boutique grocery retailers but many of those owners over the past several years decline as an opportunity due to their higher price point for groceries. The developer had to look for larger companies. Supervisor brown was close to negotiating with portland based new Seasons Market into the space but the company pulled out suddenly of the bay area 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