Staff, and members of the public, the Commission Chambers and city hall are closed. Furthermore, the mayor and governor have issued emergency orders suspending select laws applicable to boards and commissions, making it possible to hold Commission Hearings remotely. On april 3, 2020, the Planning Commission received authorization from the Mayors Office to reconvene through may 3, 2020, recognizing that the commissi commissions condition of concern projects is an essential consideration. It needs to consider action items pertaining to infrastructure, housing, and Small Businesses. Today, the Planning Commission reconvenes for the first time in its history remotely using telecommunications. It may at times be slow, and it may be clumsy. Therefore, we ask your patience. Commissioners and staff will be participating in the meeting remotely but participate as if we were physically present. To enable public participation, sfgovtv is televising this meeting live. 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As always, you may submit written comments so the commissions. Secretary commissions. Secretary sf. Gov. This is also a friendly reminder to mute your mics. Commissioners, remember to turn them on when speaking and mute them when not. At this time, i would like to take roll. [roll call] clerk excellent, we have an agenda. Commissioners, first on your agenda is the matters considered for continuance. 2018001443 map, item 2, 2019, 021215 cua 3751 a 24 street, item 3, 2019014251 drp02, 2009 chestnut street, item 4, 2017010281 drp02, at 236 el cami no del mar, item 5, 2018013511 drp at 350 liberty street, item 6, 2019014211 drp, 667 mississippi street, item 7, 2016008561 cwp, item 8, item 9, 2019020999 cua at 150 waverley place and item 10, 2016003164 gpa, Health Care Services master plan, is proposed for continuance to april 23. Well open this up now for public caomment. Im sorry. Before you continue, sir, this Public Comment portion of the hearing is only to the matter of continuances. Which item are you are you speak to . Caller this is for the 350 project. Clerk 350 liberty street . Caller no. I guess ive been premature. I apologize. I dont have the agenda in front of me. This is all new to me. Clerk yes. When we get to 350, well let you know. Caller okay. Thank you. This is all new to me. Clerk okay. Chan, can we have the next speaker, please. Caller go ahead. Clerk okay. I believe those persons queued up early before their items. I will remind members of the public that this opportunity to comment is on the items proposed for continuance, items 1 through 10. If you wish to speak to items coming up that have not yet been called, we will give you that opportunity and remind you when that does come up. Caller the additional caller deactivated. Clerk okay. Very good. Through the chair, i do see commissioner milicent requesting to speak commissioner johnson, actually. President koppel so seeing Public Comment is closed, ill turn it over to my fellow commissioners. Commissioner johnson i would request continuing items 18 a and b at 1846 grove street. The issues was wanting to get more information, and there has not been any Additional Information submitted. I would like to give the project sponsor a couple of weeks to get correspondence from or hear directly from the Fire Department about the life safety issues that we are concerned about before voting on that project. So for your consideration, i would propose that these items be continued. President koppel is that a motion . Commissioner johnson that is a motion to propose all ite ite items stated continued and to continue items 18 a and b for two weeks. President koppel commissioner diamond . Commissioner diamond could we get some direction how the project sponsor could respond to commissioner johnsons request. Are we asking the sponsor to meet with Fire Department and staff and come back with a report on fire egress . I understand the request, but i want to be as specific as possible as to what it is we want the sponsor to actually do. President koppel commissioner moore . Commissioner moore, you may need to turn your mic on. Commissioner moore to repeat, it is my reading the staff report, it is my understanding that the applicant had spoken with the fire marshal and gotten clearance to all of his issues that pertained to the length of the corridor, width of the corridor and proper firefighting access to the property. If staff report that kind of a finding, i have to assume there is a consensus to us as to having got it done. If we in the course of hearing the project later on in the meeting want to continue it because of other questions, i would say lets wait until we come to the project, but i feel that question was sufficiently answered in the staff report. President koppel commissioner hillis im sorry. Director [inaudible] director hillis we can go through the questions when we come to that item and see where we get. President koppel mr. Dido, do y do dito, do you have any comments . Yeah. Like the director said, the project sponsor is here if you want to have that expanded upon now or obviously if we have the hearing later, we can go into more detail then. President koppel commissioner johnson . Commissioner johnson thank you all for weighing in on this, and i appreciate it, and agreed, and so happy to hear it and amend my motion to actually hear items 18 a and b and have a conversation about it. Clerk so there is a motion to continue items 1 through 10 as proposed. Do i hear a second . Second. Clerk thank you, commissioners. If theres nothing further, ill call the roll. On that motion, then, to continue items 1 through 10 to date specified [roll call] clerk so moved, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously, 60, which would place us on item 11 under consent. I understand that commissioner moore wishes to remove item 11 off of consent, and through the chair, we will take up that matter at the beginning of the regular calendar, placing us on item 12, adoption of draft minutes for february 27, 2020 and march 5, 2020. So for persons listening on the phone, you only need to press onezero if you wish to speak to this item, number 12, which is the draft minutes. If you do not wish to speak to this item, then, you just continue listening. Caller id like to address all these issues have been addressed by the fire marshal. We contacted the fire marshal and asked for part of the clarification. Clerk sir, im sorry to interrupt you, but we are not taking comments on items 18 a and b. We will take those up later in the calendar. Well, my objection was everything wasnt covered in the initial all right. Thank you. Clerk right now, were taking Public Comment on the draft minutes. Caller oh, gotcha. My bad. Thanks. Clerk i dont see theres anybody else in the queue. President koppel okay. So Public Comment on the draft minutes is closed. Clerk do i hear a motion . President koppel commissioner diamond . Commissioner diamond move to approve. President koppel second. Clerk thank you, commissioners. On that motion to adopt the minutes of february 27 and march 5 [roll call] clerk so moved, commissioners, that item passes 60, placing us on item 13 for comments and questions. President koppel so let me take a moment to talk to the public. Due to this serious epidemic were facing, were really trying to balance the functioning government process that we have in regards to everybodys wellbeing and life safety. This is something weve never had to do before. Again, i want to firstly thank director hillis, jonas, and kristin specifically along with all of the staff for making this hearing possible. Im proud to be here with you all today. We all are definitely out of our comfort zone, but we need to continue moving forward. The continuance calendar is definitely backing up, and we are going to be asking for your patience today during the hearing and for future hearings. Were doing the best we can, and im comfort well keep moving forward without compromising the publics accessibility to comment. So for today, we have definitely been reviewing all of the emails that have been submitted to us, and those who do not have internet service, there is a callin phone number. Again, please be patient with us throughout that process. There may be a 30second delay throughout the hearing, but we definitely want to make you sure that your voice will be heard. Commissioner moore . Commissioner moore i ask the commission to close todays meeting in memory of gerald adams. Mr. Adams was a journalist for the San Francisco chronicle on april 8, 2020. From the 70s until his time retiring from the chronicle in 2005, his contributions as a writer and key contributor to the city made him an ingredient in the citys formative years in the conversion plans. Jerry adams covered years of the downtown plan hearings, which was a requirement for Office Planning developers having to pay for the hourly rates of workers. I have summarized his history, and it will become part of todays meeting records. Director hillis and the clerk, secretary jonas ionin have graciously gre graciously agreed to do that, and i ask that we close todays meeting in his memory. President koppel commissioner imperial . Commissioner imperial thank you so much, commissioners. How we view meetings in the future will change. We cannot day that there are disasters going to come, and this is one of it. So i just want to bring up that i think last about two weeks ago, the San FranciscoBay Development commission issued a study. Its called adopting to rising tides, and it is one of the things that i think we should also read, and i think the Planning Commission should also take into account when considering the future Development Plans, and also when Development Plans have already been approved. This is very and i would say its very thorough, and at the same time, what kinds of infrastructure are going to be affected when the sea level rises and what kind of communities are going to be affected. So this is something that we need to take into consideration when considering plan amendments. So yes, i recommend the Planning Commission take this into consideration. As for what were doing now, you know, at the same time, because of the virtual hearing that were having, it also gives us, like, limitations on what can be heard and what can be approved. And so definitely patience from the public and how to be responsible and how to connect this kind of information to the public. And its going to be really new to us, and i applaud already the Planning Department in having this virtual hearing and having this out in fact public, but we need to figure out because we dont know what the future is going to look like once the shelter in place is lifted, how the different sectors are going to be behaving. So, you know, i know we are trying to see what were all doing. Thats just my comments for commissioners. Clerk if theres no other comments, we can move onto other matters. Item 14, directors announcements. Welcome, director hillis. Director hillis thank you, jonas, and thank you, everyone for your support, and thank you, staff, for all the work youve done and pride youve shown in the past month. Its led to an incredible piece of change that weve all seen and recognize, and we recognize this at any time business as usual, and that the impact of this crisis will likely continue after the shelter in place order is lifted. Were already getting indications from the Mayors Office about the general fund impacts and about the budget impacts that well see, the unemployment impacts. Were also seeing particularly the impacts to Small Businesses in the commercial corridors, and were already seeing an increased level of vacancies in business corridors, and the impact will be felt harder in some of our most vulnerable communities. So all of this will necessitate a change in our work in various programs, and wed like to come talk to you in the future to get your feedback and Public Feedback in scheduled changes to our work program. Certainly, projects around housing, Affordable Housing, and Community Stabilization, those priorities will be fully intensefied. Building housing and making sure we have the right supplies, the right sizes of units in the right neighborhoods, building more equitably in more portions of the city and not just certain portions of the city, strengthening and broadening our Community Stabilization work in disadvantaged communities are going to be particularly important. Our housing stability strategy phase two, which is going to be key, and extremely important, so we want to make sure that work is completed and prioritized. Also our work in commercial corridors, strengthening Small Businesses, providing more flexibility to fill vacancies is some of the things that were working on with the mayors economic teams to help Small Businesses in commercial corridors. As far as for business, the Department Remains open, obviously, with reduced capacity. Our investment in infrastructure over the years has paid off, with digitized files, being able to accept applications online, so staff deserves a ton of credit with regards to that. Well continue to prioritize Housing Projects, affordable projects, Affordable Housing projects, but theres going to be a slow down, and i think, Commission Commissioner koppel and imperial, you commented on that. This wont change when the shelter in place is lifted, and we want to come talk to you about potential changes to our work program. President koppel commissioner moore . Commissioner moore directors, i would be very interested to hear if you think the shelter in place and slow down has any impact on making the move into the new building. Director hillis so far, it has not. Construction was continuing at least as of last week, so there has not been a slow down. That may change as the definition of essential projects continues to evolve, so well keep you posted, but to date, its still on schedule. Commissioner moore thank you. President koppel thank you. Commissioner johnson . Commissioner johnson yes, i just wanted to say welcome, director hillis. Ive always appreciated your bold vision, your genuine desire to engage Community Across bold perspectives, to challenge and be challenged, and your clear and deep commitment to the city of San Francisco. While these are certainly challenging times for all of us, im glad you are at the helm and just want to echo so many other peoples comments of thanks to staff and to you for looking during this challenging time. Agreed that this is not business as usual, and will we wont get back to business as usual for a long time. I look forward to working with you and everyone on staff to make it through these challenges, to change our work to make it more relevant to these times and meeting the needs of our communities, and hopefully to aid us in the recovery and vibrancy of our city Going Forward, so welcome, and thank you. Director hillis thank you. President koppel commissioner diamond . Commissioner diamond despite the unusual circumstances, it is your very first meeting, commissioner or director hils, alis, as well, and i want to let you know how much i look forward to working with you. We all face enormous challenges as a result of covid19, and im glad you are at the helm to lead us through this, so welcome. President koppel commissioner fung . Commissioner fung welcome. Its good to see you. Director hillis thank you. Clerk okay. If there is nothing further, commissioners, we can move back to item 15, review of past events at the board of supervisors, board of appeals and the Historic Preservation commission. There was no Historic Preservation commission over the last several weeks, nor was there a board of appeals over the last several weeks. They both hope to reconvene on april 15. Good afternoon, commissioners. Aaron starr, managers of legislative affairs. At the land use hearing on march 30, the committee considered two planning code amendments. The first was supervisor peskins ordinance that would regulate intermediate lane occupancy which includes rental occupancy that lasts between 30 and 365 days. This item was not acted on but instead was continued to the call of the chair with no commenters or presentation. The second was an ordinance that the Planning Commission sponsored. This ordinance would correct the planning code regarding timing of fees and adding an additional fee waiver or buildings damaged or destroyed by fire or oth