Can i have a motion and a second, please . Second. Aye. [laughter] Planning Commission regular hearing for thursday, december 19, 2019. I will remind members of the public that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. Please silence cell phones. I would like to take roll at this time. [roll call] we expect commissioner richards to be absent today. First on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance. Items 1a and b at 2028 through 2030 leavenworth street, discretionary review proposed to continuance for january 16. Case 201700515, 1300 columbus avenue is proposed for continuance to january 16. Item 3 at 54 fourth street, conditional use authorization proposed for continuance. Item 4, 2255 judah street conditional use authorization at the time of issuance was proposed for continuance. Item 5, 1100 van ness avenue, allocation revocation is proposed for indefinite cowans. I have no other items for continuance and no speaker cards. Commissioner koppel. Im sorry. Lets take Public Comment. Hi. Leavenworth, i want to make a note that that was one of those fake g mail accounts using my name. Someone set up a fake account using my full name, taking advantage of things i talk about here. And they also half of the staff with it. So i want to make a note of that. Its illegal and i hope it stops. Thank you. Right now we are only taking comment on the matter of continuance. Justin on behalf of project sponsor for 2255 judah. We are working with community aid. They have requested a continuance and we hope you can accommodate moving it to the 30th. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on the continuance calendar . Public comment is closed. Move to continue items 1a, 2, 3, 4 and 5 to the dates specified. Second. Thank you. On that motion to continue items as proposed, [roll call vote] that motion passes unanimously, 60. Continue item 1b. That will place you under your consent calendar. The only matter listed here under it is considered to be routine and may be acted upon by single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of this item unless a member of the staff or public requests. It will be considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. Item 6 case number 2019013953cua at 196 states street. I have no speaker cards. Thank you. Do any members of the public or any commissioners wish to take item 6 all of the consent calendar . With that, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner koppel. Motion to approve item number 6. Second. Thank you. On that motion then to approve item 6 with conditions under your consent calendar, [roll call vote] so moved. That motion passes unanimously, 60. Commission matters item 7, consideration of adoption, draft minutes for the december 5 closed session and december 5 regular hearing. Do we have any Public Comment on the draft minutes . Public comment is closed. Motion to approve the minutes from both closed session and regular session on december 5. Second. Thank you. On that motion to adopt the minutes for december 5, [roll call vote] that motion passes unanimously, 60. Item 8, commission comments and questions. Commissioner. It was on consent, typically housing projects are not. No answer necessary. Second comment is i would like the commission to take a very close look at the package submitted for 196 state street which i consider to be an exceptionally wellput together package. It should raise the bar for how we look at packages. Thats why i ask that each of you pull out the package and look at it. My only comments. Thank you. Commissioner diamond . An inquiry, and i know hes hes not here but i did talk to him about it yesterday and told him i would be raising it today. And that has to do with deciding whether or not the staff can present more information, current information to the commission on the issues of displacement and gentrification. Theres four places where i feel like Additional Information would be really helpful. The first is presentation of the data thats available on the causes and effects and impacts and what you have been seeing. Second is the community, what you are hearing from the Community Activists in the areas undergo the most impact from the issues of displacement and gentrification. The third is some kind of analysis as to how the regulatory system that was put in place a number of years ago to deal with these issues is actually working on not working. And then the fourth is guidance about what changes, if any, might be suggested either to guidelines or regulations or the planning code, if in fact we feel like the goals or the intent is not being accomplished based upon the data and the Community Group input. Im confident that you just communicated that to him directly. Hes unable to be here today but i suspect hes there. But i will communicate that. What we talk about is, at least my hope, and he thought he could do this before he left. Because it feels like to start this with the new director, i would really like to understand where we are on these issues before he moves on it. Thank you, commissioner diamond. So i will just chime in and say that one of the things that we have been working on as a commission was that was outstanding in the park plan, the work plan was methodology around racial impact and Economic Impact. And so the department has done a lot of work in that, but we havent quite attached a methodology for assessing the impact of development, racially and economically. And so some of us have been pushing for that. And thank you for having your voice. Thats something thats been needed. And in fact, we have had this conversation about density and supply and demand and looking after the passage of the housing accountability act. There have been a call about being able to quantify, like have a housing accountability act score. Some of us have also said that along with that, we need some kind of scoring system or methodology for assessing the racial and Economic Impact of development in all communities, but particularly those that are facing gentrification and displacement. So i thank you for saying that. I think that we need something. I want to acknowledge i know a great deal of work has gone on in this area, both by the department and the commission. And i would just like to know where we are so that as we make decisions going forward, i understand the context. Yes. I was going to say. We still dont have what we are looking for. Anyway. Did you want to Say Something . I wanted to chime in and say i was reading about this assassinating in the city of philadelphia to address the issue of the loss of canopy in philadelphia. Apparently theyve lost some a quarter of their tree canopy in the last ten years for various reasons. But they actually did the data analysis, and they put together a plan. And we have had efforts in San Francisco here and there. We did have the Planning Department staff come and talk to us about biodiversity in the city, which is really great. I would really love to know where were at with our canopy in San Francisco and touching back on the issue of communities that are underserved. We do know that the canopy suffers in lowincome communities, and that it has an effect on the heat and generation in those communities and all sorts of other stuff. Run off. But it would be great to have some data on that as well. I noted when we saw that can a yay 24 plan that the ficuses calle24 plan that the ficuses are beautiful. I want to follow up. And thank you for bringing that up. There was an article about environment tallin equity as it relates to San Francisco environmental inequity as it relates to San Francisco. In neighborhoods where theres a three, four Property Line development, theres hardly any tree coverage, and temperatures are rising. There is a real, clearly evident inequity about how planting and tree canopy is applied. That is a recent article about los angeles. You can probably google it. Thank you. Seeing nothing further, we can move onto item or under department matters, item 9, directors announcements. First in response to commissioner moores question about state street, a relatively modest project, no letters or comments received, either in opposition or support. For that reason it was placed on consent. No report from the director himself. But i did want to take just a moment to thank you for your Extraordinary Service today on what hopefully will be the last dual hearing for some time. So thank you for that endofyear gift. No other comments. Item 10, review of past events at the board of supervisors, board of appeals are on break and the Historic PreservationCommission Good afternoon. You are looking very colorful today. This week the committee considered the mayor and supervisor haneys ordinance that would allow certain interim activities at Development Sites that are proposing demolition. You heard this on april 25 of this year and voted to recommend approval with modifications. The proposed modifications were to amend the requirement to increase residential density and require an increase in residential density only if theres an existing residential on the site. And two, to clarify section 5. 5 to clarify that retail use refers to retail use and service. About half a dozen people spoke in support of the item. Most of the discussion focused on the types of uses allowed as interim activities. Initially it allowed social service or homeless shelter use, any agriculture or beverage processing 1, manufacturing or metal working use permitted either conditionally or principally in a pdr1 district. Any retail or institutional use regardless of use size and any use conditionally permitted in the subject Zoning District. Finally, any and or any office so long as such office space is at least 5,000 gross square feet and equal or greater Square Footage is established for arts activities or Light Manufacturing use. Supervisor peskin made a motion to only include uses that are principally permitted in the district and strike other uses. Supervisor safai questioned whether this was too limiting. There was discussion about keeping the office provision. They invoked the general arts activities in the amended version but the recommended modifications didnt make it into the ordinance. The supervisors did indicate they would continue to discuss this item now that it has been forwarded to the full board and further amendments are likely at the board hearing. At the full board this week, supervisor fewers 100 percent Affordable Housing ordinance passed its second read. The zoning map planning Code Amendment for the flower mart passed their first read. Thats all i have for you today. Thank you. The Historic Preservation commission did meet yesterday. They adopted a recommendation for approval for establishing the American Indian cultural district. They recommended approval for a number of legacy Business Applications and they adopted a resolution endorsing the racial and social equity action plan for the phase 1 that weve already adopted. If there are no questions, we can move onto general Public Comment. At this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. I just have the one speaker card. I have three minutes, please . You may. Good afternoon. On the eighth of december, i sent you all an email, and it attached to my 2015 email and some pictures. So i want to show you pictures again if i may have the overhead, please. I showed the overhead, hello. Anyway, i showed this to you when i was here last time. I cant remember when that was. No s. F. Gov tv. There it is. I showed this to you. I was talking about the efficient use of space in this as well as the questionable demo calculations. This is the old part of the project and there is the new. Here are examples i showed you in the past. These are all alterations, not demolitions. I think the demo calculations need to be adjusted as i laid out. Here is this here. This is one of my oldies i sent before i had a printer. I had to go to walgreens. You can see that. Now i want to show you a real demolition. This is from the noe valley voice on billy goat hill, redevelopment agency. To me they look the same. And heres another one. This is an actual demolition. It had a mandatory d. R. In 2011. And thats it. Theres nothing built around it. Its the same thing, and the consequences are the same. Because you are going to have expensive housing. So thats it. And heres another copy. I never gave you an official copy of my june 10 letter. I hope you read it. And on a happier note, i really want to thank everybody in the Southwest Quadrant for all their help this year, including the people that got shifted out the beginning of the year. They are in other places now. I want to thank ms. Chan, shes very helpful. And then the people at the front desk, wang, melissa wong, theo chen, they are the frontline people. They deserve credit. Maybe next year we will talk about demo calculations and adjusting them and why. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Here are wards to the continuance calendar. Just a cleanup item. I advised from our planner the continuance needed to be separately motioned and moved and because it was not, it was all lumped together, that it would have to go on the continuance calendar again for the 23rd. Just to make this more efficient i was hoping this could be cleared up. I just got an email from our planner saying that. So i wanted to clarify that. Thank you. Thank you. Any other general Public Comment . With that, Public Comment is closed. Very good. That will place us under your regular calendar for item 11. 2019022159cwp, japantown special area Design Guidelines adoption of the japantown special area Design Guidelines, this is for your adoption. We have handouts as well. Good afternoon, commissioners. Maya small, Planning Department staff. We are returning today to give you an update on the japantown special area Design Guidelines as well as to recommend their adoption. We were here two weeks ago at an informational in which we gave background into japantown and approaching it through the process and revisions. And just to note, the history of japantown, over 100 years, some of the critical and key, major impacts to the built environment mostly have been from exterior forces, both beginning with post earthquake development as well as japanese internment and return before and during world war ii and after world war ii as well as redevelopment and the many phases of redevelopment. There was an underpinning for a neighborhood that revitalized, continued to revitalize, evolve and grow, and of course there was quite a bit of Community Development that came out of that process in response to redevelopment devastation. It was the formation of the first cultural district in the city, and the Neighborhood Task force has been shaping the future of the neighborhood for many decades. In 2006, 2009, there was a development of the better neighborhood planning process, which was rejected, but so much came from that process. And in 2013, the adoption of the japantown Cultural Heritage and Economic Sustainability strategy was foundational and fundamental in the origin of this guideline process. Within one of the strategies under it was the creation of japantown Design Guidelines and it asked for this process to continue, and it began in that time, originating in actually earlier before the adoption and then developing particularly in 2014 as a process with the community and with the Planning Department staff and was put on hold for the urban design guideline adoption in 2018. It was revised this year. And as a way of making sure that there were more specific ways of addressing unique qualities of the neighborhood, the community and as a way of helping to shape potential new development as well as open space and public space. So in this process, particularly in the last few weeks, the Planning Department staff has participated and attended two Japantown Task force board meetings on november 20 and december 10. In both of the meetings, there were votes by the task force. On the 20th to support the process and on december 10th in support of adopting the Design Guidelines as they had been revised at that point in time. There were two Public Meetings that were general Public Meetings. And many members of the task force worked diligently to make sure the Property Owners, members of the public, Larger Community participation could really occur. So there was a lot of work to have significant attendance at both of those meetings. That was the 21st and december 3. And drafts were published on november 27, revisions on december 6,