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SFGTV Planning Commission July 13, 2024

Patience in advance. The merged platforms are not perfect and at times may even seem clumsy. If you are not speaking, mute your microphone and turn off your video camera. Do not hit any controls that may affect other participants. Allow the producer to do her job. To unable participation, sf gov is streaming this hearing live and we will receive Public Comment for each agenda. They are streaming the tollfree number across the bottom of the screen. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment periods are available via phone by calling 888 2045984, hitting access code 3501008 and pressing pound and pound again. When you are connected, dial 10 to be added into the cue to speak. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes to speak. When you have 30 seconds remaining, youll hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. When youre allotted time is reached, ill announce your time is up and direct my ta staff to take the next speaker. Speaker clearly and slowly and mute the volume on your television or computer. At this time, i would like to take role. role call . Commissioner fung, you may need to unmute your mic. Commission imperial. Here. Commissioner johnston. Here. First is consideration of items proposed for continuance, 201900711c, 1,417th street. Propose ford a continuance to june 18th, 2020. 2018002124c at 54 fourth street, conditional use proposed for continuance to june 18th, 200. 2019016388, ocean avenue, conditional use authorization is proposed for a continuance to june 25th, 2020. Item four, 201800162 drp at 26 diamond street, discretionary review proposed for continuance to june 25th, 2020. I have no other items proposed for a continuance. Chan, if we can open up the Public Comment portion. Your conference is now in question and answer mode. To summon each question, press one and then 0. Members of the public, this is your time to dial or call into the 800 number and to press 10 to get into the cue in order to submit Public Comment. Operational you have one question remaining. This is matters proposed for continuance and clayton street is under the consent calendar and we are aware members of the public wish to have it pulled off of consent and will be doing so when we reach that section of the agenda. Thank you. Thank you so much. Operator you have zero questions remaining. Very good, commissioners. The matter is now before you. No do i hear a motion . Through the chair, i pushed a button and i move to continue items 14 to the dates suggested. Second. Thank you, commissioners. If theres nothing further, theres a motion seconded to continue matters as propose pro. role call . Commissioner president koppel . You may need to unmute your mic. Commission president. Aye. Thank you. And commissioners, that will place us under your consent calendar tor matters under constituted consent calendar considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single role call by the commission. There will be no discussion unless the member of the commission, the public or staff so requests, in which it shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered at a future hearing. Im trying to say aye. Can you hear me. We can, commissioner koppel. And weve moved on to the items under your consent calendar. Can you hear us . I dont think he can. Ok. And so we can continue. Item 5, for case number 2018 201804176 1045 to 1048 claytop street and item 6 for 2019022072 cu at the 858 brandon street. As previously acknowledged, item five for clayton street, weve received multiple requests to remove this from the consent calendar is so we will do that automatically and consider that under the regular calendar. Commissioners, we should probably take Public Comment on any other item that may be either commissioners or members of the public would like to pull off of consent. Chan, lets go to q a. Operator your question is now in question and answer mode. To summon each question, press 10. I will remind members of the public that this is your opportunity to call the 800 number and hit 10 to get into the cue to speak. Operator you have one question remaining. Yes, and maybe im confused. Would liki would like to have te opportunity to comment on 1043 clayton street. Yes, sir. Well be considering this as a regular item later in the agenda. Thank you. So youll have to call back in or hit 10 again to be cued up to submit your testimony at that time. Thank you. Operator you have one question remaining. We will go to the actual regular hearing, since this is being removed from the consent calendar, thank you. Operator you have zero questions remaining. Very good, commissioners. Then item 6 under your consent calendar is before you. Commissioner johnston. I move to approve. Second. Very good, commissioners. On that motion, then, to approve item 6 under your consent calendar, commissioner diamond. Aye. Commissioner fung. Aye. Commissioner imperial. Aye. Commissioner johnston. Aye. Commissioner moore. Aye. And commissioner president koppel . Commissioner koppels Internet Connection seems to be poor. So we will approve. That motion passes unanimously 50 at this time. Commissioners, that will place us under commission matters for item 7, consideration of adoption for april 23rd. inaudible . The minutes are before you, commissioners. And chan, lets go to q a for anyone who would like to submit Public Comment for the minutes. Your comment is in question and answer mode. To summon each question press 10. Again, members of the public, this is your opportunity to hit 10 to get into the cue. Operator you have one question remaining. Question hi. Im calling into support the project on 10431045 clayton. inaudible . Sir, im sorry to interrupt you, but were taking point comment on the draft minutes. Youren opportunity to speak to clayton street will come up later in the agenda. Operator you have zero questions remaining. Very good, commissioners, the matter is now before you. Commissioner moore. Move to approve. Second. And thank you, commissioners, and on that motion to adopt the minutes for april 23, 2020,. role call . Seems as though president kop particulakoppel is still having difficulties but that motion passes 50. Commissioners, that will place us under item 8, commission, comments and questions. Commissioner imperial. Thank you. I just would like to thank the staff, the Planning Department in coming up with a covid19 social distancing Public Participation guide and i think overall, its a satisfactory guide. I may need somewhat of a suggestion, but thank you for doing this. Greatly appreciated. It appears as though there are no other commissioner comments. And we can move on to department matters, item 9, directors announcements. Et. Good afternoon, commissioners. Just a couple of quick items. One, i want to let you know and you may know that this president yee has nominated dee lin chan to fill the vacant seat and she has to go to the committee and full board and as early as two weeks, she will sit on the commission. She currently works on samford in urbastamfordas an urban plans well qualified and familiar with our work. And also eric shaw was approved as director and dan adams has experience in background and planning with Economic Development with Salt Lake City and he was working for the state of california related to the fire and youll no doubt see him in the coming weeks. And thats my report. If there are no questions, commissioners, we can move on to item 10, review of past events at the board of supervisors, board of appeals and the preservation commission. This is eric star. At this weeks land hearing, the land uses was continued. And there was a provision from 317. Commissioners, you heard this item on april 23rd and voted to recommend approval with a recommendation to add a grandfathering clause. At the land use hearing, there was another modifying amendment. In addition, supervisor peskin proposed two amendments of his only to section 317 which would significantly expand the definition of what is considered a defacto demolition and would strike the word and in b and c and place them with an or. This would have number of impacts on the types of projects this commission would see. For example, the demolition would be the removal of more than 50 of the sum of the front facade and rear facade or all exterior wall. Previously it had to meet both criteria to be considered a defacto demolition. Future projects would be significant and staff estimates that this change would put 445 projects that are currently pending at the department on the commissions doctor. While this antidepressan amendmt debated, this idea was stated at the hearing. In this case, it was proposed by a Planning Commissioner. And since it behave ththis is bt would have not only on staff time but Small Businesses seeking approval for proposed shelter in place. We dont believe this is the right fix for 317 and will make the process worse with a few benefits. There was some significant back and forth between staff and committee members. Supervisor safaye expressed reservations and thought a more wholeisic approach to revising 317 was warranted and mentioned a possible approach. There were 50 members that commented and many were opposed and many inaudible . There is an additional time to resolve issues with the Planning Department. Since that time, the appellant has augmented their project team and provided plans that accurately are reflect the scope of work on the building. Appellant provided the variance hearing. They wantethey wanted to cancelr permits and submit revised permit expospermits and plans ot property. And the Historic Preservation commission did meet yesterday for the second time remotely. Among a variety of items, they heard the Certified Local Government Program annual report and they approved the landmarking of the new royal bakery on Mission Street and also received an informational presentation related to the Small Business commission and legacy business program. I have to other items to report and seeing no questions, commissioners, we can move on to general Public Comment. At this time, members of the public may address the commission that are within the subject matter. Operator youre in question and answer mode. Again, members of the public, this is your opportunity to call in to the 800 number and press 10 to get into the cue. Operator you have two questions remaining. Question im concerned the Planning Commission and Planning Department are ignoring district 6 residents and the situation therein. District 6 has the biggest concentration, the low income people of the city and i have never seen this in the Planning Commission, even when it was alive. You have put an entire project out which is mostly market rate housing and 500 units an. 701 harrison street, we dont have an abundance of need for in the city. The market has been dealing with the neighborhoods plan, western soma plan, central soma plan and now theyll be the hub. And there has been no opportunity to talk to the supervisor and you are set to adopt that plan next week. And next week im guessing the entire thing that you will have to read is a couple thousand pages long because its three big hours as well as an amendment to the plan, as well as certification of the eir. And in addition to that, which is inappropriate hearing, when a lockdown is going through, you have on your calendar the conversion of an entire Residential Hotel at 54 fourth street. Residents deserve the time to meet with themselves and supervisor hainey, not a remote callin, as youre doing. So i am pleading with the Planning Commission, as well, to look to your souls. I think you have souls. And its the wrong thing to tell people they cant talk to themselves when theyre dealing with a housing crisis. Youre stressing people out by not paying attention, thank you. Operator you have two questions remaining. Question good afternoon. This ii want to push my opinionn large project authorizations. Ive mentioned this before with the valley projects, but i think its worth your consideration. That within six months of the cfc, thats by the building department, that you get back information on tenure and occupancy. I think that thats a key thing to know, especially the occupancy. It would be nice to know the occupancy of the buildings that have been approved in the eastern neighborhoods and downtown for the last, i dont know, 10, 12 years and there a way to do that with meta data, but thats a different issue. Going forward, after we get through this emergency and as you dense few, it would be nice to know if you are getting the density that you want and its the type of density you want in terms of the affordability and tenure rental purchase, whatever, and if and how theyre occupied. Now maybe it would be hard to get that information out of the project sponsors, i dont know. But its worth a try, because i think its data you can use Going Forward as you dens densiy throughout the city. Take care and be well. Operator you have one question remaining. Question im with the San Francisco coalition. To echo miss hesters call from taking a break from approving these projects as they come to you, i just want to read what i read at Mission Local regarding the state of the city and this is what this one lawyer has brought up and im just reading it to you vertebra verbatim. People are hoping to break lease agreements to live with their families but are reliable for the remainder of the leases rent and people who cannot pay and no where elsand have nowher. People should be allowed to break their lease. Its not fair to people who lost their jobs who have to be on the hook for their full lease and this is one little antidote of whats going on in the city per mr. Tobiners account. But in reality, you know what is happening and you know you have friends, you have family and you know that people are having a hard time paying their rents and some who have families outside of the city are just giving up their units and moving out. So densification as you know it and has what has been the o orthodoxy needs to be revisited. I dont know if your plans will go forward in light of the economic trouble that were facing. And i do not believe the banks will be lending money for towers to go up and speaking of towers, i really urge you to put a break on revealing the hub and market octavia expansions and these are things that need to be revisited once were out of this crisis and once the city takes on the task of evaluating where we are and how much damage the crisis has done to us. We do not have to approve these projects and instead, we should focus on what we can do to deal with the crisis of people leaving the city and roommatroos that with the rent and with the lease and how theyre going to be paying for these. These are serious crises and i hope this commission would use its discretion to do something about it. Thank you. You have one question remaining. Question hello. Im a resident of the excelsior and i think the commission is not making good use of its time. I saw before the one item was pulled off the consent calendar, the only things that were being to discuss were hours of neighbors, rich neighbors complaining of the other neighbors Construction Projects and we spend more time on that than, say, zoning the Industrial Area of the city. It seems to me it would be more productive to reexamine things like when you approve so many projects, so many of them dont actually get built for such a long time after they get built or examine why housing is so expensive to build around here. And can we reexamine the neighborhood that puts towers downtown while the middletype housing has been ban from the valley and exc elsior and the west side of the city executive would like t. San francisco doese shanty towns, why not . We have Homeless People living in crosshomes and i am not convinced this was better. I think we should reexamine what types under what conditions are we allowing construction to happen in the city and adjust our expectations accordingly. Thank you. Operator you have one question remaining. Question good afternoon, commissioners. Im a district 8 tenant. I am also supporting what miss hesters comments were about jamming comments through. Particularly the hub project where districts five, seven and nine are all involved. There are many neighbors, constituents, groups there that need to be brought into the process and they havent had the opportunity to talk among themselves as to what the effects would be of passing these things, just like that. So there needs to be time for robust discussions and outreach before bringing these items forward. So i urge to delay write bringim forward. Thank you. Operator you have zero questions remaining. Very good, commissioners. Seeing no additional Public Comment, we can move on to your general regular calendar, which at time of issuance, there were no ims under your regular calendar. However, we have pulled item five under your consent calendar off for case 201810431045 clayton street, conditional use authorization. Staff, are you prepared to present . Good afternoon, commissioners. Im with the Planning Department staff and the item before you is a request for conditional use authorization, pursuant to planning code sections 303 and 317 for the demolition of a twounit resident building that spans across three contiguos lots. They will demolish lots 131 and 133 at 1033 to 1045 clayton street to facilitate the cop construction of two new buildings. This includes six dwelling units, sixoffstreet Parking Spaces and six classone bicycle Parking Spaces. The project comply wa complies h planning code 317. Since the publication of the staff report, the department has received seven letters in support and six letters of opposition regarding the project. And the Department Finds the project is

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