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SFGTV Transbay Joint Powers Authority July 13, 2024

Residents. More than 40,000 square feet including private balconies, large podiums and terraces on different sides of the building give the unique masking. Ground floor the level has a Public Open Space at the Market Street intersection. Mid block pedestrian passage between market and 12th. All three streets will see streetscape improvements coordinated with Planning Efforts by the city. Project will construct a new interest for the vanness muni station in the ground floor of the building pending city approvals from bart. The project is subject to the citys housing requirements electing to use the land dedication as means to comply with 415 requirements. In this alternative the sponsor would dedicate sites or sites for Affordable Housing. It did not need to be finalize prior to planning. It would accommodates 35 of the units in the project. It would contribute approximately 17 million in Affordable Housing fees due to market requirements. Environmental application was first accepted in september 2015 t. Determined it would require Environmental Impact report. This was started prior to the vir and it has its own e. I. R. It was open until december 11, 2018 for comment. The comments were on december 6. The department prepared responses to comments received during the draft e. I. R. And published the document on march 3 this year. The final e. I. R. Was the draft and the responses to comments document and is to be before the Planning Commission this afternoon, march 21st, for certification. Currently scheduled for june 4 they are seeking approval from planning consisting downtown project authorization and request for exceptions, conditional use, adoption of shadow findings with recommendation of this and director of Parks Department and variance from zoning administrator. Sponsor has conducted Community Outreach regarding the project dating back to 2017 and met with stakeholders both individual and with established neighborhood organizations. Sponsor held meetings with the hayes valley neighborhood, vanness corridor, San Francisco heritage, civic Central Business and San Francisco Housing Action coalition. The project has received very little Public Comment and staff is not aware of opposition or comments made with regard to shadow impacts not already addressed in the responses to comments document for the final e. I. R. Department finds the project is consistent with general plan and area plans and will recommend approval at the upcoming Planning Commission hearing. That concludes my presentation. Back to chris to discuss the shadow impacts. I am happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you very much. Getting back to the project shadow analysis. This slide provides the map of the shadow park in relation to the project site. Project site is in pink at the center abshown in relation to the hub boundary in black. The 98 franklin street street in light blue and 30 vanness in orange. There are a total of 7 parks shadowed as previously listed numbers on the right. Referenced by the green on the map. A street view of the existing project site the former honda dealership is located at the corner of market and south vanness that is the photo image of the center. For the first park. The green park is. 41acres on octavia boulevard between fell and hayes street in the Western Addition neighborhood with central freeway. It is divided into three sections at the north end the seating area on hayes street. Middle section features circular plaza with bench seating around the exhibit space, and this mid section has two equal sized lawns. At the southern end of the park is a small childrens play area. There is currently a 20. 208 existing shadow load on this park. The project would add. 319 for a total of 20. 527 . New shadow would occur in the morning winter and fall for an average duration 29 minutes 33 seconds covering 66 of the total park area. The shadow from across the mid section of the park over the Central Plaza in the rectangular lawn as you can see. The dates of maximum shadows february 22 and october 8 at 9 00 a. M. For 11895 square feet. The second park, mini park is. 55acre. 15. The park is accessible from the sidewalk on both ends bordered by one to three story remember homes on both sides. A linear pathway goes through the middle with landscaping throughout in the plan. 49. 427 and this would add. 05acres for a total of 49. 485 . Shadows in the morning of summer and spring for 19 minutes over the southern portion of the park covering the landscape areas halfway and bench seating for a maximum of 18. 8 of the total park area. Dates of maximum and largest shading may 3 and august 9 at 7 45 a. M. And would cover about 1236 square feet. The next park is howard mini park. 23acre Neighborhood Park and Community Garden on the Southern Side of the Howard Street corridor at the corner of lincoln street. It is heavily vegetated with metal fence, trees on the interior and divided by pathways that crisscross throughout the site around the Community Garden bed. The park has a 49. 850 existing shadow load this would add. 002 for a total of 38. 852 . Shadow in the evening of fall and winter for six minutes over the Northeast Corner of the park covering a portion of the Community Garden bath way and corner park entrance for 5. 89 of total park area. The dates of maximum shading on january 18 and 22 at 5 27 p. M. To cover 600 square feet. Next park is hayes valley playground. 75acres on the Western Addition on the western half of the city block hayes to the north and lyndon street to the south and buchanan street to the west. The parking is 2500 square foot clubhouse building at the southwest, childrens play area and exercise area north of that building. Tennis and Basketball Court to the east. The hayes valley playground 26. 588 existing shadow load. Project would add. 024 for 26. 612 . New shadow in the morning of fall and winter for an average duration of nine minutes 54 seconds. Covering 23. 6 of the total park area. New shadow on the western and southern portion of the park, the chains play area and clubhouse building. The dates maximum shading march 8 and october 4. Largest shadow same date at 8 1e feet of area. The Community Park and Learning Center. 2acres buchanan and page street in the Western Addition. There is a 7 story residential building on buchanan street at the bottom of the image. There is a tall retaining wall on page street down sloping with bermed earth bermed earth with mature trees. Park programming from west to east basket ball half court and childrens play area and Community Garden space at the east end of the park. There is currently a 16. 233 existing shadow load this would add. 064 for 16. 297 total shadow load. In the morning of spring and summer of 10 minutes and 36 seconds covering a maximum 55. 27 of total park area. The shadow in the Southern Park over the basketball park and childrens play area and Community Garden. Dates of maximum april 26 and august 16 at 7 25 a. M. 19,722 square feet coverage. Buchanan street mall 1. 81acre linear Neighborhood Park north and south on buchanan street for five blocks in the Western Addition neighborhood. The mall has sidewalks on both sides. Bordered by one to four story residential building on the eastern and western edges. Park programming including childrens play areas, basketball half court and Community Center. The existing shadow load is 27. 873 . Project would additional. 003 . For a total of 27. 876 . New shadow in the mornings winter and fall for an average of 7 minutes and 3 seconds covering 3. 17 of the total park. It was fall acros across the mis over the pathway north of mcallister. The dates of largest shading january 18, november 22 at 8 00 a. M. Covering 2475 square feet. Last park is a future park. It is the future park site. It is. 45acres south of market between ministry to the north and bordered by 11th street to the west. Future park sited occupied. Not yet developed. Future park sight has 20. 788 existing shadow load this would additional 1. 438 for total of 22. 26 . New shadow in th in the evening of the park area. The shadow would fall on the northwest, southwest and southeast quadrants. Dates of maximum shading may 17 and july 26. Largest shadows may 31, july 12 at 6p. 11679 square feet. That concludes the shadow load for the seven parks. This slide is just to provide broader context. It is the pipeline project which includes 10 south vanness and 30 vanness which you will be hearing. In addition to the surrounding neighborhood and parks. Projects are in orange, collective shadows in blue with darker representing more frequent shadows. Light blue more occasional shadows. The shadows more frequently surrounding the project footprint and dissipate away from the project site. In closing, i want to highlight the pemmonth pro memo provides the shadow impact. The guidance provides under two acres greater than 20 shading, no additional shading, no standard for smaller than two acres with 20 or less. All parks are less than two acres. All but one Community Park and Learning Center have existing shading over 20 . The cryteria includes time of day, year, shadow size, duration, location and Public Benefit served by the project. This concludes my presentation. I am available for any questions. Thank you very much. We are now on Public Comment. If you would like to comment on item 7 of the mixed use project and you are online, please dial one and zero to be added to the queue to speak. You have two minutes to comment. Please state your name first. Caller corey smith. Good morning. Corey smith on behalf of the San Francisco Housing Action coalition in support of the project here today. As you know the 10 south vanness project and hub plan have been in the works for a better part of a decade now. I am happy to see this significant step forward. We are creating the homes and understanding the impact on parks is essential, and with all of this project we are proud to support and ask you to continue moving the project forward today. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. No further questions. Commissioners, i turn it over to you. Commissioner low. Thank you. I have a question for andrew. Patricias green was created under the central freeway. Is this extension of the hub to the market octavia plan an extension of that central freeway plan . In other words, in creating patristhe green which would shae development within the central freeway plan, would this project be included so that the new shadow created by this project would be permitted under that plan . Commissioner, perhaps lilly may be better suited to answer that. I am not really sure how to answer that question, unfortunately. The hub boundary is in the plan. The freeway is in that plan as well. A number of the central freeways have been slated for Affordable Housing many of which are constructed and some construction has not be gun. Patricias green was one of those provided. This wasnt a parcel that was contemplated under that original plan then . No, this is a private parcel in private hands for a long time. It was a honda dealership that has since closed, and a residential developer is choosing to develop housing on the site. We have to do the shadow analysis for patricias green. In other words if it was in the original plan, there would be some consideration that in creating patricias green there would have been included in that plan. This is outside so we have to really look at the shadow impact of this project on patricias green . As i understand any Development Project we are looking at shadow impacts on adjacent parks. Now, can you plush out the affordable, how the developer satisfies the Affordable Housing requirements . I couldnt quite follow how it is intending to satisfy. It looks like they are doing it off site. As part of the proposed market octavia or hub amendments, the planning code actually allows for what is a land dedication option. I believe it is allowed in central soma, for example. Basically, as one of the equivalent options of meeting section 415 requirements instead of providing on site or off site units or paying a fee, the public sponsor has the option to dedicate the property in fee title to the city. They dont have the obligation to construct on that property. The land will be conveyed to the city for the purpose of constructing Affordable Housing in the future. The site to be dedicated would need to be shown to accommodate 35 of the units in the Development Project. The Development Project has 966 units. Is this going to be a developer that is going to dedicate the monster in the mission . I dont know the street address. I believe that is a site being considered. It is not the time sell eye final selection of the site. They have 180 days to obtain a letter from the Mayors Department of housing and development. They can finalize the Site Selection following the Planning Commission approval. That is one of the sites being considered. Six months after planning approval . They can accommodate 300 units . Correct. The way it will be written in the Planning Commission motion is that the the land dedication option for whatever reason does not happen, the project sponsor would be obligated to meet the inclusionnary requirements in some other manner. They could choose on site, through a fee. In that case they would have to come back to the Planning Commission. I am drilling down. One of the requirements under the 1989 memo. What is the public good provided by the shadow caster, the term under the memo, not my term . This project casts a lot of shadow on a lot of parks. The quantitative test on a number of parks including shadows on active areas. What i am struggling with is how do we make assurances the Affordable Housing piece will actually be developed . If it is off site, okay. What happens if that option falls through . Do you have to come back to us for approval of the shadow . We are making a decision based on the idea that there is going to be some offsite project that is going to be developed. The land dedication option really requires the project sponsor to dedicate a site, it does not require them to construct the affordable units on the site. That would be the citys city would take that on through the Mayors Office of housing. If the land dedication option does not happen, the project sponsor would still be obligated to meet Affordable Housing developments. That would look like on site units or payment of fee. It would not need to come back to this commission for reapproval of the shadow but there would be an obligation to meet the inclusionnary Affordable Housing requirements. In terms of other benefits, Affordable Housing is a large piece of that. The provision of this number of units at this particular site, 966 units at transit rich site at the intersection of the two main streets in the city, number of streetscape improvements, project sponsor intends to construct a new entrance to the muni station. Looking beyond the Affordable Housing benefits, there are certainly other Public Benefits included as part of this project. I get that to provide the large number of units. Maybe you answered this once before. One more time. The land dedication doesnt happen they could fee out or put it on site . I believe the way it will work, the backup option will be on site units. If the project sponsor changes from that in the future and they want to do the fee, that would require them to go back to the Planning Commission for reapproval. That is going to be included in the motion that goes before your commission . Correct. Thank you. Any other commissioners that have questions . Thank you. No questions, we are good. The chair would entertain a motion and commissioner low, perhaps you could make it. I think there is a qualification we have to say whether we are recommending no Significant Impact or significant. I would move this forward for approval finding that while there is a quantitative impact on a number of different parks, that the commitment to provide 300 Affordable Housing units provides the public good on which to move the project forward. I would recommend that under be the 1989 memo that general manager poured this to the Planning Commission with no

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