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Commissioners, first on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance. Item 1, case number 2020002743d 2020002743drp at 1555 oak street, proposed for continuance to december 3, 2020, item 2, 2019015984 cua, at 590 second avenue, proposed for continuance to december 10, 2020. Items three, 2019021010 cua, the Zoning Administrator will need to comment on the pending continuance date. Further, commissioners, under your consent calendar, item 7, case 2014. 0243d rd02, 3997 throu through 3927 to 3929 19 street, and item 14, 1145 Mission Street, and item 15, 628 shotwell street, have also been proposed for continuance. Before we entertain a motion to continue, we should also take Public Comment on these items. This is for the item at 19 street. The address is 3927 to 3929 19 street. My name is vivian. Were the neighboring homeowners. We only recently moved into the neighborhood and have not had time to sufficiently review the proposed Development Next door and get an independent review of what the project would mean for the preservation of our home and the culture of the neighborhood in particular. In order to provide or consent for the project, we need additional time to have a structural expert review the proposed construction plans and to validate that it does not pose any construction danger to our home. Two, theres a tree on the property that contributes to the beauty of the neighborhood and should be eligible or significant for landmark tree designation. This species is noted as a rare species by the california native plant society. The proposed development would require removing the tree, but given the status, we believe there should be additional work done to see if this tree meets the significance of the z designation of a landmark or significant tree. David wu with soma filipinas. I support the continuance for 1145 Mission Street until i have continued conversations between the community and the project sponsor, and i also just want to raise concerns of this project with the housing element. Thank you. My name is jeffrey quinto, and i live down the street clerk hello, caller. We can hear you. Hello . Hello . Clerk we can hear you. Did you Say Something . Clerk yes, we can. Were just speaking to the continuances. Hello clerk yes, sir, we can. Yeah, i just have concerns about hello . I didnt hear that, im sorry. Okay. Clerk i dont know whos speaking, but we hear you. Theres been so much luxury housing developed in the neighborhood lately, and thats been, i guess, that had a fire, but it seems like getting rid of that, you know, and just being, like, oh, sure, fine, well get into more condos doesnt seem like a great addition to the neighborhood when we should be having so many other thinks. Thats all. Thank you. Director hillis jonas, just so you know, youre sounding a little [inaudible] clerk oh, delayed in like, my audios coming in late or director hillis you were speaking, and he was clerk can people hear me . Director hillis yes, thank you. Are others hearing that . I can hear you, but i think youre delayed because you were answering his question, it seemed, later. Clerk yeah, i guess so. Director hillis maybe you should turnoff your camera for now. [inaudible] clerk is this any better . Director hillis jonas, can you hear us . Jonas, can you hear us . Clerk i can hear you, yes, i can hear you. Okay. Well director hillis youre answering is delayed. Youre answering several seconds after we ask the question. Clerk chan right, so let me do this. Chan, if you could take over as host, and director hillis, if you could take over for the motio motions and rich, if you could take over for the motions for staff . Good afternoon, commissioners. This is rich sucre, aPlanning Department staff. Commissioner imperial . Commissioner imperial move to continue items as appropriate. Commissioner diamond second. Okay. We have a second from commissioner diamond. All right, commissioners. Okay. So we have a motion to continue the items as proposed from commissioner imperial and a second from commissioner diamond. Going through the roll [roll call] okay. That motion passes 70. Zoning administrator, what say you on item 3b . I will continue that item for 526 lombard street [inaudible] yeah, theres definitely a sync issue between the video and the audio. Clerk members of the public for members of the public okay. So i just got off the phone rich, i got it now. I think were all delayed, to some extent, so if everyone could bear with me for one moment, what i think were going to try to do is end this event and then restart it, and hopefully, that will eliminate the lag. So why dont we all log out and then log back in. Lets try using the original invitation so that we dont have to send out and create a brandnew one. I think thatll be difficult for members of the public, and so for members of the public, hopefully, you can stay on if you just called in as an attendee, and well, were going to end the event and restart the event. So chan, if you can hear that, lets end the event and then restart it and have everybody log back in. So commissioners and staff can log back out, and then give us, clerk without any kind of a broadcast delay, and for the record, we took up the matter of continuances, and all those matters were continued as proposed unanimously, 70. I think what was remaining when we recessed was for the Zoning Administrator to opine his matter. So Zoning Administrator teague, if you could opine item 3b 12 . Sure. I will opine and continue the matter at 717 california street. Clerk okay. Commissioners, that brings us to 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 5, at 2765 16 street and item 6, 1465 donner avenue. Members of the public, this is your opportunity to comment on the items on the consent calendar. I just wanted to make sure that item 7 was continued to december 10. Clerk that was the date of the continuance, and i appreciate. President koppel commissioner moore . Clerk just one moment. Caller, are you calling to comment on the items for consent . Yes. Im calling to see when item 7 was continued . Clerk it was continued to december 17. Were going to combine that item with the variance hearing on december 17. Were combining the two matters so they can be heard concurrently. Okay. Got it. Thank you. Clerk all right. Thank you. Okay. So i dont believe any member of the public is actually speaking to any of the consent matters, so Public Comment is closed, and the two items on consent are now before you. Commissioners . President koppel commissioner moore . Clerk commissioner moore, youre muted. Vice president moore i move to approve items five and six. Commissioner fung second. Clerk thank you, commissioners. On that motion to approve items five and six on your consent calendar [roll call] clerk so moved. That motion passes unanimously, 70. And looks like were out of the woods, so under which will place us under commission matters, item 8. Condition of adoption of draft minutes for november 5, 2020. We should take Public Comment. If any member of the public would like to public on the item, please press star, three to enter the queue. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is now closed. Commissioners, the item is now before you. President koppel commissioner diamond . Commissioner diamond move to approve the minutes. President koppel second. Clerk thank you, commissioners. On that motion to adopt the minutes [roll call] clerk so moved, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously, 70. Item 9, commission comments and questions. President koppel commissioner moore . Vice president moore i was reading the paper this morning, and something struck me as a very, very bright idea. Im not sure if its possible, but somebody asked with schools closing again with the uptick of the coronavirus as to whether or not parks could not also be adapted as possible classrooms for students. I think it would be a great idea. I would like to hear from someone at planning not tonight, but at some point in the future as to whether that would be a feasible idea. President koppel commissioner tanner . Commissioner tanner thank you. Thank you, commissioners, for the warm welcome and to staff for the welcome to the commission. I was able to meet with leadership at the Planning Department this last week to get reacquainted, and i want to thank commissioner hillis and everyone for making themselves available. I also want to encourage folks to rethink my thanksgiving plans. I know just this morning, myself and my household decided to cancel the plans that we had for thanksgiving and just decided to do thanksgiving with our household. We need to do everything we can to listen to our Public Health officials. I want to encourage people to think about not only the safety of themselves but the safety of others before they decide to do something for the holidays. President koppel commissioner imperial . Commissioner imperial just in the light of like, i know this is a struggle for all of us in terms of the public hearings, but whenever we have these kind of issues, im always worried about the public participation, and i wonder if we could do some sort of whether before the hearing and especially on the live, of how were going to because it can be frustrating especially if we have these kinds of issues, and we may deentter so comments. So just for the next hearing, i would be open to some kind of faster session, live session, but thats it. Clerk seeing no further requests to speak from commissioners, we can move onto department matters. Item 10, directors announcements. Director hillis thank you, jonas, and thank you, commissioners, and we will follow up on the items that you brought up. Number one, thank you for those that attended the call on monday. I think it was a productive conversation, and thank you for suggesting it, commissioner moore. It was well received by staff. I want to introduce you to [inaudible] accepting my offer to be the director of citywide planning. She has been acting in that role, she was acting director i mean Deputy Director for seven years. Shes been with the department 15 years, started as an intern and moved her way up to planner one, two, and three and now director, so im sure you recognize her work, and we look forward to continuing to work with her. One of the first things shes tackling and something she was tackling, even as Deputy Director, is expanding our services working with d. B. I. , so were working to expand our permit services, both inperson and to the extent that we can, to follow, and as you know, our revenues are going to continue to suffer both from the permits and fines, and we will continue to update you on that. I just wanted to let you know that the mayor issued an executive directive this morning for related to implementation of stoppage related to the city working together for us to issue permits related to Small Business. So for us, the department of building inspection, the health department, fire department, and others to Work Together to come up with a plan to make sure we can implement the voter mandates in prop h, but youll hear more about that in the informational session. So thank you, that concludes my report. President koppel commissioner diamond . Commissioner diamond yes, i have a question for director hi hillis, and perhaps hes going to address this in regards to the informational discussion. But john king wrote a good article in the chronicle about winterizing resources that were seeing with entertainment and restaurants, and i was curious where the Economic Recovery Team is in helping to expedite and do whatever is necessary in order to allow for that winterization. Director hillis good question, and we will address that as part of the informational discussion, as well. Commissioner diamond great. Thank you. Clerk sorry. I was muted. That will place us on item 11, items passed at the land use, Historic Preservation commission, and the board of supervisors. Good morning, commissioners. The project proposed a new whole Foods Grocery store with a restaurant and coffee shop to move into the vacant 5,000 area foot retail space. You heard and approved this commercial use authorization on september 5 of this year. The project sponsor submitted a consultant prepared loading demand analysis which confirmed the departments calculations of loading demand. The project sponsor and the appellant both submitted consultant prepared air quality study. The appellant conducted his own study and Environmental Impacts. During the hearing, Public Comment in support of the project was focused on the benefits the Grocery Store would have in this location. Public comment in support of the appeal were focused on the Business Practices of whole food market and in particular amazon. Others sites the potential of traffic and air quality impacts. One of the things that came up was the department rescinded its class 32 exemption and issued a commonsense exemption. During the hearing, supervisor peskin opined that rescinding the class 32 should have invalidated the c. U. In issuing a commonsense exemption, the Department Found that there was no possibility that a significant Environmental Impact could occur. Several supervisors were unconvinced of this, citing the volume of trips to the site and the conflicting items in the air quality report. The department awaits the final motion to determine whether this actually results in implications to our ceqa review that are beyond this project, and that concludes my report for today. Thank you. Director hillis okay, jonas, i just wanted to clarify because i did not want to [inaudible] of citywide planning. [inaudible]. Clerk thank you. I think everybody understood what you meant. Commissioners, the board of appeals did meet, and theres actually a tardy report from the assistant Zoning Administrator. He wanted to convey that on november 4, 2020, the board of appeals met and heard an appeal of a rear yard variance for 1222 tungsten avenue. The variance is required because the project does not maintain 25 between the dwelling and an existing noncomplying structure at the rear of the lot. The Planning Commission heard an associated d. R. For this project on july 23 and voted to not take d. R. The board of appeals upheld the Zoning Administrators approval of the variance but required an additional condition that no further decks be added to the new building. On november 18, 2020, the board heard a jurisdictional request for 2622 greenwich street. This permit revised a previous permit that was heard as a d. R. On march 25, 2018. This permit legalized additional excavation that was performed by the permit holder without benefit of a permit. The excavation undermined the foundations of the adjacent properties and resulted in the issuances of notices of violation. The board found that the city did not cause the requester to miss the appeal period and denied the jurisdiction request. The department of building inspection did note that the enforcement case remains open, and they are working with the parties to achieve a resolution. The Historic Preservation commission met yesterday, and they did adopt a recommendation for approval for landmark designation of the japanese ywca east bay womens building at 1834 sutter street for landma landmark designation, and they heard from staff regarding the Citywide Services survey and were excited that this is gaining momentum, and staff will be actually conducting surveys throughout the city. 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