Turnoff their microphone. In fact, ill ask all to turnoff their microphones. Okay. Were getting feedback from someone playing back the sfgov delayed broadcast. Josey, if you can move your cursor to take away the floating menu bar. Okay. Welcome to the meeting of the Planning Commission on february 16, 2020. I will remind the public that on february 26, the mayor declared a state of emergency. As we a and then, she declared that we may hold meetings remotely. Some tips to keep in mind. We are learning that there are problems with the at t bridge conference line. It is extremely finicky and has a limited capacity, so as a result, were asking members of the public calling in through the 800 public line is to call in once essentially. Call in and follow the hearing. Every time someone calls in, hangs up, and calls back counts against the city. In the event that our at t bridge fails, we may be forced to recess and call back in. However, this should not take too long, about five minutes at the moment, okay . So just, again, i do apologize in advance for the clumsy nature of this remote hearing, but this being the third time my staff at least is working through the hearing process, im beginning to feel much more comfortable. Commissioners, at this time, id like to take roll. [roll call] clerk thank you, commissioners. I will remind not just the commissioners but staff and anyone on the teams live event, if youre not speaking, mute your camera. This will allow a much more efficient meeting to be run, and our producer to see all the cameras necessary. Commissioners, first on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance, items 1 through 6. [agenda item read]. Clerk further, commissioners, under your discretionary review, item 16 for case 2017015019 drp, discretionary review, is proposed for continuance to may 21, 2020, and item 17 a and b for case 20717009796 drp is requested for continuance, and both of those come from the supervisorial offices. I have no other requests for continuances. Members of the public, please, if you wish to speak on these matters of continuance, and only on the subject of the continuance itself, now would be the opportunity to do so by dialing 8882733658, and enter access code 3104572. So chan, if we can go to the queue to allow people the opportunity to speak. Is anyone on the line to speak to a continuance . Caller yes. Operator you have three questions remaining. Yes, im speaking on item 16. The continuance is to be for 60 days, not 30 days because the item had to be renoticed. I discussed this with david winslow. Im representing some of the neighbors at 350352 san jose avenue, so we request that you move it to june 18 or 25. Operator you have two questions remaining. [inaudible] on behalf of the resident of 1088 howard. We are happy to agree to a short continuance to accommodate the d. R. Requester, but we ask that it be as short as possible. All of us are adjusting to the new reality of Video Conference hearings, and its unclear if itll be in different in a month, so we have to have a hearing other than that. The project has been proposed since 2017, and we need an opportunity to present before the commission. Thank you for your time. Operator you have one question remaining. Good afternoon, commissioners. Audie raun. I am here to ask you to postpone the project for 350 san jose off. The public deserves to have their 311 notification. I dont know if theres enough time to discuss individual errors and omissions that the planning should have caught, but basically, we need more than 30 days, and the project needs to be renotified. So im asking the commission to do the right thing. Renotify the project with the correct drawings, and 30 days is not going to make that happen. Also, we believe that the lockdown is not going to be on indefinitely. At some point, we are going to have to come out, and hopefully, we will be facing you in person to present to you the exhibits and documentations of why we think this is not a just project. Thank you very much. Operator you have zero questions remaining. [inaudible] clerk okay. Whoever has their mic on and is watching the sfgovtv broadcast, please mute your microphone immediately. Jonas, i have additional questions. Clerk okay. Why dont we push them through . Operator you have three questions remaining. Hello. My name is kathy lipscomb, and i am a neighbor of this project a noe valley neighbor. I think it should be delayed very long. I am furious that apparently tenants were evicted, and they were theres no record of any buyout process, and i dont know why a project like this has any legitimacy. The owners the present owners are the ones who evicted tenants, and now they want to make luxury structures a linked to this building, and they also want to have luxury condos in the present fourunit building. Outrages. It should be delayed, yes, most definitely. Thank you for listening. Operator you have two questions remaining. Hello, Planning Commissioners. This is anastasia yovanapolous, also from noe valley. Im urging the commission to consider a continuance of 60 days at 350352 san jose avenue. The notice to the neighbors must be renoticed. Well have more to say as noe valley tenants about who got evicted and what happened at this project. Thank you. Operator you have one question remaining. Oh, im sorry. This is georgia, but i agree with everything i heard. I thought i was on b, but i agree with everything i heard. Ill wait till later. Thank you. Bye. You ha operator you have questions remaining. Clerk okay. Commissioners, i believe you can begin your deliberations now. President koppel so before i start calling on commissioners, i did receive the request for the 30day continuance, and so that was as far as i knew things are going. If the other commissioners or staff want to chime in, thats fine, but let me start off with commissioner moore. Clerk commissioner moore, is your microphone on . Commissioner moore sorry, my microphone was not on. On todays agenda, it was 750,000 for improvement of dewey park to be undertaken this summer. This was on the part of Community Activism to improving the park, and i would like to get some clarity on how the park would be affected by this potential this building being rather large and intruding into what was originally the rear yard of the building. Im not taking any position, but i believe i would like to get more information on the park improvements and what they entail in that area, and that would make me gravitate to a longer extension than the 30days proposed for 350352 san jose avenue. President koppel commissioner imperial . Commissioner imperial thank you. Since there are im you know, im cautious when there are history of evictions when it comes to proposed developments, so i would support the community request to extend it to 60 days . I think there needs to be more scrutiny about this building, the 350 san jose avenue . And the community deserves to be renotified. And in these times, everyone is in emergency mode, and to think about planning is something that is, like, on top of it, too. So i would support a motion to move it to june 25. Clerk did staff person may want to chime in . Yes, good afternoon. Commissioners. Chris may of Planning Department staff. I am speaking on item five, the proposed continuance of 2417 green street. That was heard by the commission on january 9, 2020, and it was continued to mediate between the d. R. Requesters and the project sponsors to hopefully come up with a compromise. That meeting was scheduled for march 17 at city hall, which had to be cancelled because of the shelter in place. We also wanted to seek the commissions direction on the mediation of that meeting, and whether that would board the commissions direction on january 9. President koppel thank you. Commissioner diamond . Commissioner diamond i have two questions for staff on the requested continuance on the san jose matter. First, when did the supervisor request continuance . I understand the continuance came from the supervisorial office, and second, if its staff view that renotification is required. David winslow regarding 350 san jose. The Supervisors Office requested a 60day continuance to reengage with neighbors on the issues before them. Coincidentally, yesterday, we also reviewed the project with respect to some of the contesting the 311 notification accuracy with the sponsor, and we determined it was inadequate, and therefore needed to be renotified. So thats another 30daytime frame, and i think 60 days is probably a reasonable time for this to be continued out just because theres a process that will require the supervisor convening meetings with neighbors as well as project sponsors to hash out issues with the sponsor as well as adequate notification. Clerk commissioners, im notified that there is one other Public Commenter that would like to submit their testimony, and were just waiting for them to call into the bridge. Operator your summit is now in conference mode. You have one question remaining. Clerk okay. Go ahead, speaker. Okay. Somebody needs to mute their microphone, please. Caller, are you on the phone . Clerk mr. Kaplan, are you ready to speak . Hi. Im sorry. This is georgia, but when im listening, there is nothing on the phone, and i have no clue as to where you are in the agenda. So i dont know whats going on, im sorry. Im very confused today. Is this like last week . Im not getting anything on my phone. I dont know if you can hear me. I dont know. Im sorry. I dont know what to say. I dont know if anyones hearing me now. Thank you. I can hear you. Clerk yeah, but apparently, she cannot hear us. Caller really consult. Commissioner moore i could hear mr. Kaplan in the background, but too faint to discern every word. Operator you have one question remaining. Caller good afternoon, everybody. I dont believe that im able to hear any audio any of the audio commentary in discourse that is occurring in this meeting at this time. If you could please check the signal or the way that the communication is coming through the phone. The phone is not i cannot hear what you are discussing. I would like to give Public Comment, as im sure many san franciscans would like to do. However, we dont even know whats on the agenda, and i dont even know what project is being discussed right now that i was allowed to give Public Comment for, although i do have some projects that im highly interested in. And again, san franciscans would like to be hearing this via phone, not necessarily via video. So if you could please help, once again, this is sarah with yimby action, and we advocate for housing in all areas. Clerk commissioners, were going to have to take a fiveminute recess and rebridge the at t conference line. As you can see, were already experiencing technical issues with it. So i would okay. Weve remerged. Clerk thank you, chan. Okay. So Commission President koppel, if you could close Public Comment for the matters proposed for continuance . President koppel okay. Seeing no other Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Before i call on the other commissioners, heres where im at on the san jose project. I do understand supervisor requested 30 days. I do think it is take slightly longer than that but potentially not 60 days, so im leaning towards the 30day continuance with potentially just maybe pushing it back a week or two after then. Commissioner imperial . Clerk commissioner imperial, is your mic on . Commissioner imperial thank you. Sorry. I did not so i have a question on staff regarding another development that is 1088 howard. Did the supervisor you know, did the supervisor also request a 30day or is there a timeline that the supervisor recommended . Clerk both requests were for 30 days, commissioner. Commissioner imperial okay. For regarding the 350 and san jose avenue, i would still push for the 60 days just because again, because of the renotification, and it looks like there are people, various of the communities that would like to speak more about this development, and it would be a good and also the staff mentioned, as well, that, you know, usually it would be also a good time for you, supervisor, and the community to discuss [please stand by]. Hi. David winslow, staff architect. There were some minor modifications that needed to be corrected in the drawings, and that was what led to the need to [inaudible] those can be corrected pretty quickly, i believe, by the architect. Just a matter of staff time in order to notice. But, however, i believe that there will be other outcomes as a result of the involvement through the supervisor that might also want to be incorporated in that that noticing. I think its realistic to be, you know, 45 days something necessarily it doesnt necessarily need to be 60. Clerk commissioners, if i may, if we continue it 30 days, and we determine that it needs to be continued further, that is easily accomplished. President koppel commissioner johnson . Commissioner johnson i, too, would like to hear from the parties, so i make a motion to continue items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 to the date specified. Continue item 16 by 60 days, and items 17a and b by 30 days. President koppel commissioner diamond . Commissioner diamond second. President koppel commissioner moore . Commissioner moore somehow there was a delay, but i seconded that motion, too. Clerk very good, commissioners. If theres nothing further, i have a motion that has been seconded to continue items 1 through 6 as proposed, item 16 to june 18, and item 17 to may 21. On that motion [roll call] clerk so moved, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously, 60. If the acting Zoning Administrator could act on item 17b, the variance, for 1088 howard street. Director hillis okay, jonas, well continue that to the same day. Clerk thank you, mr. Acting Zoning Administrator. Commissioners, next is your consent calendar. All matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine by the Planning Commission, and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission, there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests, in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. Item 7, 2018011717 cua, 1369 sanchez street, and item 8, 2020002054 pca, reauthorization and extension of fee waiver, legalization of unauthorized dwelling units. And i did get a motion from georgia sciutish to remove item 8 from the consent calendar. President koppel okay. Would anyone else like to pull an item off the consent calendar . Commissioner moore . Commissioner moore i would like to remove this item from the consent calendar because it was on the open calendar last week, and i believe it should be there. Clerk very good. Well take item 7 off the consent calendar and hear it at the beginning of the regular calendar. Chan, is there any Public Comment . Is there anyone in queue, chan . Caller no. Clerk okay. Did you want to ma did you have anything else, commissioner moore . Commissioner moore no, i would like to make a motion to approve item 8 on consent. President koppel second. Clerk very good. Commissioners, on that motion to approve item number 8 on consent [roll call] clerk so moved, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously, 60, and again, for the benefit of the public, item 7 will be taken up at the beginning of the regular calendar, placing us under commission matters, item 9, commissioner comments and questions. Seeing none, we can move onto department matters. Item 10, directors announcements. Director hillis excuse me. Good afternoon, commissioners. I just wanted to give you a quick budget update for the department. We are due to submit our ninemonth report to the Controllers Office tomorrow, and were estimating a 6 million loss in fee revenue or, you know, were not going to meet budget by 6 million for our own fee revenue. Were also awaiting direction from the Mayors Office for general fund impacts. Our fee revenue is about 40 million per year, so we believe were about 6 million under for the year, mostly due to a lack of revenue in income from applications. So well come back more and talk to you about that. We believe we can bridge that gap by keeping positions vacant and reducing some of our nonpersonnel expenditures, but i wanted to make you aware of that as we send our estimates to the Controllers Office. Thank you. President koppel commissioner moore . Director hillis commissioner moore, are you on mute . Commissioner moore im sorry, director hillis. I was asking as to whether or not the additional cost for conducting these televised meetings will continue in the form that they do contribute extra costs, and do they have to be borne out of the budget . Director hillis jonas, i dont know if you can provide any information on that. If they are, theyre not significant. Definitely, the fee revenue is going to be the driving factor in any changes to our budget. Clerk the city already had contracted the m. S. Teams application, and we had existing contracts with the at t bridge conference line, and so there are some nominal fees associated with it. I believe less than 100 associated with going to the live event broadcast, but other than that, these remote hearings are not incurring additional significant costs. Commissioner moore thank you for clarifying that. Clerk okay. If theres nothing further, we can move onto item 11, review of past events at the board of supervisors, board of appeals, and Historic Preservation commission. Good afternoon, commissioners. Aaron starr, manager of legislative affairs. The first item was supervisor stefanis [inaudible] and three reduce the ground floor ceiling height prosecut from 14 feet to 12 feet. The Planning Commission heard this item on january 28 of this year. While this recommendation was not included in the ordinance, supervisor stefani indicated during the meeting that she was amenable to the change and was discussing the option with the City Attorneys office. There was no Public Comment during the hearing, however, supervisor preston expressed concern that the option for inclusionary or housing fee goes against the original intent of the f. U. D. Supervisor preston questioned what made this bad precedent. Both supervisor safai and peskin agreed with supervisor preston. Supervisor stefani also indicated she had initial concer