Ocean avenue. It is proposed to continue to january 16, 2020. Item two 201901795 7pca for the mason nick special use to january 23, 2020. Item three 2018012442drp at 436 tehama. Indefinite continuance. Item four. 2101 ellis street subdivision is proposed for indefinite continuance. Further, commissioners, under your discretionary review calendar item 22. Green street discretionary review we received a request from the project sponsor as well as d. R. Request to continue the matter that is proposed to continue to february 20, 2020. I am pleased to inform you item 23. 3500 jackson street has been withdrawn. I have no other items proposed for continuance and no speaker cards. Thank you. Do we have any Public Comment on the request for continuance . Public comment is closed. Motion to continue items 1, 2, 3, 4 and 22 to the dates specified. Thank you. On that motion to continue as proposed. roll call . So moved. That motion passes unanimously 50. That places us on the consent calendar. This is considered to be routine by the Planning Commission and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote. No single separate discussion unless it is requested at which time it will be removed. Item 5. 215 threemen215clement street. No speaker cards. Anyone wish to comment on that. With that Public Comment is closed. Motion to approve item 5. Second. Under the condition sent calendar. roll call . So moved that passes unanimously 60. Placing us under commission matters. 6. 2020 hearing schedule. I am surprised that 2019 is coming to a close. We generally take a look at the next years hearing schedule. You are provided with a draft schedule. On average at this time we cancel about 10 hearings understanding that on average throughout the course of a year you cancel 11 to 12 hearings, reserving one to two for something throughout the year. This past year we had to cancel two unexpectedly for lack of quorum. January 2 has been cancelled from last years hearing schedule. The next one is thursday, march 26. It is only there proposed because in the past there has been a desire by the commission to take a break at or around that time. It would be the first hearing that you have cancelled after the new year. January 30th is the fifth thursday which we traditionally cancel. Given we have canceled the first hearing in january we generally keep that. Thursday, january 26th is prince jonah day. The state holiday inn hawaii. Lets go. Then in april, i know commissioner diamond you might want to speak to this. April 16th falls after easter but before the orthodox either. It is generally a time when students are on spring break so we used to have a large number of commissioners with families that like to take that week off, but if there is a preference for another week, we can certainly discuss that. The other is july 2. Then you have three weeks hiatus in august. Then no proposed break until the fifth week of october, thanksgiving and christmas. December 31st happens to falling as fifth thursday. You can consider it a fifth thursday. We traditionally cancel the first hearing in january. This year it happens to falling a week after the new year holiday, however, it falls on orthodox christmas. I wont be here regardless if you choose to have that. I am not the important one. January 7th is another consideration for you. I have a list of holidays throughout the year you might want to take a look at. Commissioner koppel. Commissioner diamond. I would like to request the Commission Consider not holding a hearing on april 9th. It is the second night of passover which is when the jewish families celebrate. I wont be here that night. I will be at th at that. I wont be here that night as well. Something i thought of is you could keep the march 26th hearing and then have a two week break on the ninth and 16th. Commissioner moore. Couldnt we do it different leann take thursday, the 16th and keep it following commissioner diamonds request have the ninth off and the 16th on . The 26th of march is my birthd birthday. I am not going to make a big deal out of it, but it would be nice. I think i am the only one with school age children. Is that your spring break, too . It is. I am okay with doing what commissioner moore suggested swap those two. First one is more important. Any other suggestions . Commissioner fung, please. Question on the august. Is there a strong reason to match that up against the supervisors . Is there a reason to match that with the supervisors . That is the reason. In the past we used to take two weeks off in july. It was determined it might be wiser to take three weeks off when the board of supervisors take the month of august off. It is to match the supervisors hiatus. I still raise the question. Is it important . It is up to you. I was going to ask about the august. The last couple years you take the august break in the early weeks as opposed to the end. It used to be the end of august to match labor day. I think you started doing that because of child age children or families. Is that still as important . I want to make sure you recognize that if that would be early august rather than later in the month . It is important to me. I have a child. Commissioner fong. I raised the point. If other commissioners feel it is important. I dont see why we have such a large gap. Some of us need it. Commissioner moore. I didnt mean to push the button. Sorry. Somebody want to make a motion to accept this . We can still change it. I will make a motion to accept the 2020 calendar including april 9th. Second. Instead of the 16th. Second. If there is nothing further there is a motion seconded to adopt the 2020 hearing schedule, canceling the ninth and reinstating the 16th on your draft. Nothing more about the first hearing in january at this time. On that motion. roll call . So moved that passes unanimously 60. That places us on item 7. Commission comments and questions. I have one thing. I am sure most of us saw the many stories that came out of the study in new york linking rezoning with displacement and gentrification. Lots of articles came out of that looking at the method and the different aspects. I really want us to look at that and look at our own rezoning. The director and i were honored to be part of a panel at spur about a month, month and a half ago. Looking back at the eastern neighborhoods rezoning and what happened, whether the tools we thought were going to work for this and that ended up doing what was intended. I think the jury is still out on that. As we face the multiple initiatives from the state to increase density, i would encourage us to look more more e comprehensively at financing and the markets. We think we can zone Something Like this and it will happen. Often tigh times it is who has s to capital and who doesnt that drives change. I would love it if at some point we could have that discussion here that we had at spur about the neighborhoods in light of what other cities have experienced when they rezoned entire neighborhoods, and the effect on the population of those cities as it pertains to gentrification and displacement. Seeing nothing further we can move on to department matters, item 8 directors announcement. No new announcement except i think it would be a good discussion to have. If time i would like to do it before i step down. I will see if we can make that happen. Item 9. Review of past events at the board of supervisors. No report for the board of appeals and no Historic Preservation commission yesterday. With the ordinance to require half of the residential units to have two or more rooms to eliminate the requirement that educator housing has three bedrooms. You heard this on november 21st. Public comment came from Community Housing organizations who were in support. The committee voted to forward to the full world as committee record. With interim controls that required changes of use to another use for conditional use authorization. That would expand requirement to unauthorize Residential Care facilities as well as authorize Residential Care facilities. These are controls that were not heard before the Planning Commission. The committee voted to forward to the full board with positive recommendation. They considered the zoning map and Development Agreement with the flaw were matter. They had extensive presentations. Supervisor peskin wanted to ensure this remain in San Francisco. Public comment for the item was long and most speakers expressed concern over the future of the flower matter and continued presence in San Francisco. How suitable the redeveloped sight would be for the matter and messe competentes expresseda different location. In the end both ordinances were forwarded to the full board with no recommendation. The committee considered the ordinance that resulted from the settlement for the academy of art university. You heard this november 21st and voted to recommend approval. The hearing was brief with presentations from planning staff. There were two speakers on various concerns relating to the proposed settlement. Supervisor peskin complemented them and it was forwarded without recommendation to the january 7th date. At the full board the Housing Ordinance passed first read. Annual report on job growth and housing production, an amendment to the administrative code sponsored by supervisor mar passed the first read and the interim controls for Residential Care facilities was adopted. Thank you, mr. Star. Seeing no questions. We will move on to Public Comments. Each member may address for up to three minutes. I have speaker cards. We have jane and francisco. Anyone else who wishes to speak during Public Comment, you can do so now. Come on up. The Planning Commissioners from exceeding the scope of the permit, subverting the processes . Place. I think any commissioner who is not willing to hold themselves to the standards to which they hold private sponsors should not be on the commission. I consider discretionary review must be destroyed. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Commissioners, i am francisco de costa. From time to time i come here to remind you all about whose land this is. So there are two commissioners here who have been on this Commission Long enough to have witnessed when the chairperson came into this room and spoke to you all about her land. So you commissioners from time to time should revisit how this land was stolen. In this particular case they exercised the right of first review sal in 1991. They have lived her 13,000 years. What is unique was that up until 1927 they were federally recognized and then they were moved by an agent of the Bureau Indian affairs. Read the history so you will understand the situation at hand. What is happens is here in San Francisco we are losing our soul. Many of the authors and we dont have many authors looking at it from are the perspective of the indigenous people. More and more now because of what is happening all over the world, Carbon Footprint and so forth, people are beginning to understand that when we talk about the Carbon Footprint and talk about recycling and all of this holistic things that we ought to do it. If we do not do it in the next 10 years, we will be losing thousands and thousands of species. We dont need to be educated on that. If you take a cruise toscana witness how this huge glaciers are melting. It is a sign that tells us what is going to happen everywhere. Here you have a good director of planning. I have known all of the directors, and i have known john for quite some time. His heart is in the right place, and he is a good leader. I am not saying the other commissioners are not good leaders, but you need one good leader to be focused on issues. I am here to talk about what i said. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. Executive director of livable city. I want to talk about transbay. Last week you had the initiation of some general plan amendments for parcel f project. We have been watching this unfold over years and the plans happening. One thing that is lost is really the public good. A sense of how do all of these individual projects fit together and create a greater whole . Back in november i was here to comment on the proposed project on parcel f and point out that the project is going to be destructive of walking and cycling in the neighborhood. It is proposed to have a loading dock to cut through the bike lane on howard street. In soma bicycles is harrowing. It is going to get worse with this project. What is equally troubles is the proposal to turn a block of thaf natoma street and taking away a pedestrian access. I am here to ask you to not approve those curb cuttings. When which project comes back to you or maybe before this project comes to you so the developer has time to fix it. I ask you to think about if we are going to spend billions of dollars of public funding to create a Regional Transit terminal, there should be a pedestrian oasis around it. The public good should be a priority over parking and loading. Parking is not required downtown nor is it desirable. Every project is loaded with parking. If hotel guests or residents want Parking Spaces they can park in adjacent spaceis. You dont need parking in this project. The other thing is if you wanted to stay in a hotel without a car, the hotel is across the street from the Regional Transit terminal. Carfree hotels would be fine in this location. I want to show you the pedestrian circulation map from the downtown plan. You can see the embarcadero freeway on it which was removed in 1992. Updating the pedestrian plans is not a priority with the department here. There is a note saying the exclusive pedestrian walkway is a policy of your general plan. We ask you to go beyond this plan and create new pedestrian priority areas. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Any other Public Comment . Okay. Public comment is closed. Very good. That places us under the regular calendar item 10. Code 2019. This is a planning code amendment. Good afternoon, commissioners, Planning Department staff. The item before you is the adoption of code as initiated on november 7th to amend the code to correct typographical errors, update outdated crossreferences and make language revisions to simplify the code language. It will also a article four to move language regarding timing of speed payments to the beginning of the article and crossreference in each individual section. It will add an additional fee waiver based on replacement of gross floor air in buildings damaged or destroyed by fire or other calamities. The department received one Public Comment letter. The Department Incorporated the cleanup items. These are non substantive except for clarification to 155 which could be argued to be substantive. The change involves protecting pedestrian streets by not allowing curb cuts. It protects the neighborhood commercial streets but not commercial thruway streets as defined by the better streets plan. Valencia would be protected but not mission street. This will ensure that all major corridors are protected. I also want to pass outdare viced summary list that includes changes made after the initiation hearing. Those are the new changes since you received the packet. Second list on the last page includes changes not in the final ordinance with us today but should be adopted as part of your recommendation. During the code cleanup process we identified outdated planning code references in the Administrative Health and police codes. The list was included in the packet for you. Since the plans commission can only initiate changes to the planning code. The Department Recommendation to the board of supervisors they initiate an ordinance to make corrections to outdated planning code section references we find later. Department recommends the commission approve the ordinance with modifications as described in the summary list and recommends change to the board of supervisors regarding the other codes. These are non substantive except for those described an and will improve the planning code. Any Public Comment on this item . If good afternoon, commissioner. Executive director of livable city. I am the Public Commentator. I am glad to see these included. I love to see you cleaning up your code. I want to talk about the piece alleged to be substantive. There is a better way to fix it. First of all, if i could have the overhead slide. This is the map of street types in San Francisco. You will not be able to see this because the lines are too fine. There is different streets. Neighborhood commercial streets in ping, you can see them here in the Fishermans Wharf area, northeast waterfront area on the various commercial streets. Those are neighborhood commercial streets protected under 155r. The rule is those are the streets where we want to preserve walk ability. We say no driveway cuts on those streets, put them around the corner or dont put them in. The proposed change was to say rather than neighborhood commercial streets in neighborhood districts but a group of other districts, chinatown, wharf. The change said streets and neighborhood districts. That is different in two ways. One would exclude from protection a lot of streets in china town now protected from driveway cuts. It would remove those protections. It would extend protection to other streets that are physically located in the neighborhood commercial district. It is not streets that define the district. It is lots. They will wraparound the corner. Valencia and 15th and 16th and 18th streets we will protect from driveway cuts. In many cases if you were located within the district you would not have a frontage that you could put a driveway cut on or it would treat the commercial street and the side street creates confusion. The goal is to protect wa