Good afternoon. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the october 23 meeting of the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of sfr supervisor. Im supervisor melgar joined by voice chair dean preston and board of supervisor president aaron peskin. The Committee Clerk today is john carroll. I like to acknowledge the folks at sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Thank you madam chair. Please insure you silence cell phone and Electronic Devices you have. Any documents to be included you should submit them to me and items acted on today are expected to appear on the board of pr visor agenda of october 24, 2023. Please call item 1. Ordinance amending the planning code to change the phroneing controls in the castro street neighborhood commercial district to exclude article 10, land mark buildings from use size limitation and allow night Time Entertainment with conditional use authorization on the second floor. Affirming the Planning Department ceqa determination. Okay, this item was continued from our last agenda. We have adam here from supervisor mandelmans office, sponsor of there legislation and also mr. Aaron star from the Planning Department if anyone has any questions or comments. If not, lets go to Public Comment on this item, mr. Clerk. Thank you. If you have Public Comment on item 1, please come forward to the lectern. Good afternoon supervisors. Im [indiscernible] executive director for the Castro Community benefit district and here last week and want to come again to reaffirm the cdb board support for this ordinance and this zoning change and we feel it is critically important to bring the castro ncd into alignment with the rest of the neighborhood as far as zoning is concerned and important for the success of the castro theater. Thank you. Thank you for sharing your comments. Next speaker, please. Im ralph and here to support what andrea said. Thank you. Could you say your name one more time on the mic . Ralph hibbs. Thank you so much. Anyone else with Public Comment on item 1 . Madam chair. Okay. With that, Public Comment on this item is closed. I like to make a motion that we send this to the full board with positive recommendation as a Committee Report. On the motion offered by the chair this be recommended to the board as Committee Report im sorry, mr. Carrollim going to clarify the motion, because there is a question. The motion was to send it out with a positive recommendation as a Committee Report. Madam chair, in order to stay consistent with myi dont want to hold up in committee, but to stay consistent with my previous position i prefer we send without recommendation. As a Committee Report . Yes. Okay. There is a alternative motion. Do we have toi will withdraw my original motion. So, the chair is withdrawing the motion it be recommended as Committee Report and offering a new motion . The new motion is to send it out with no recommendation as a Committee Report. On the motion offered by the chair this be sent as Committee Report without recommendation, preston aye. Member peskin, aye. Chair melgar, aye. Madam chair, no opposition. That motion passes. Mr. Clerk, please call item number 2. Item 2 is ordinance amending the planning code to create the non profit Arts Education special use district. Okay, supervisor peskin. Madam chair, supervirez preston, due to a lack of quorum at the Historic Preservation commission, i would like to make a motion subject to Public Comment to continue this to november 6. Okay. Lets take Public Comment on this item. Very good. Anyone here have Public Comment on item number 2 . Please come forward to the lectern. Eileen boken in support of the legislationblock 49, lot 01. The language of this proposed ordinance is clear and unambiguous. The purpose definition and controls are clearly defined, and focused on specific institutional uses. At the zoning variance hearing august 23, several items on the agenda were in the Bernal Heights special use district. 151 nevada, 109 porter street and 801 crescent avenue. During this hearing the Zoning Administrator stated, the purpose of this sud is to be more restrictive. The proposed non profits Arts Education is consistent with the criteria for the Bernal Heights as it is more restrictive. There are currently several other proposed suds. Are they also consistent with the za criteria for being more restrictive . Are the other proposed suds using clear and unambiguous language . To the other proposed suds have a clearly defined purpose, definition and controls . And are the the suds using principally permitted uses, versus conditional uses . Thank you. Thank you for sharing comments with committee. Anyone else with Public Comment on item number 2 . Madam chair. Okay. Public comment is now closed. President peskin made a motion we continue this to november 6. On the motion offered by member peskin continue to the regular meeting of land use on november 6, vice chair preston, aye. Member peskin, aye. Chair melgar, aye. Madam chair, no opposition. Thank you mr. Clerk. Do we have any other items . There is no further business. Great. We are adjourned. [meeting adjourned] hi, friends. Im pria here at the palace of fine arts in San Francisco. Here with skylar who is the new managing director of the San Francisco examiner. Skylar, would you start by telling us about the examiner . Absolutely. The San Francisco examiner is San Franciscos oldest locally owned newspaper. It is the newspaper of William Randolph hurst and mark twain, so incredible history in San Francisco and we cover all it the evenlts events in San Francisco and particularly focused now on everything happening to bring San Francisco back. Which is a big part of the story right now where San Francisco has been and where it is going. You brought us here to the palace of fine arts because it is one of your favorite places. Why are we here . Tell us why it matters the palace of fine arts was built in 1915. It was part of the exhibition meant to show case San Francisco after recovering from the 1906 earthquake. Since then it has become a symbol of ingenuity and rezil silience. On a personal level i used to come here as a little girl and the exploratorium amazing Scientific Museum was based here and as i have gone through life, i come back here and see there is lots of Community Members out, people like to picnic here and i have a two month old i get to bring him down here and go for walks and a beautiful place to reflect, so really a special part of San Francisco and i wanted to share it. If people come here to check out the palace of fine arts, what else is there to do in the neighborhood . Tell them about this incredible area. There is so much to do. My perfect saturday would be taking a walk to the Golden Gate Bridge and you can touch hoppers hands at the bridge. Come back through here, circle through the palace of fine arts and gaze up and wonder. You can go into the presidio and walk around a Beautiful National park and when you are done, if you are tired or hungry, you can walk to chestnut street. Tons of restaurants and wonderful places to get a famous San Francisco craft cocktail. That sounds perfect. A lot of our videos seem to end on cocktails. [laughter] welcome to San Francisco. Thanks skylar. Is streaming and broadcasting this hearing live and we will receive Public Comment for discussion and action items on todays agenda. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes and when you have 30s remaining, you will hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. When your allotted time is reached, i will announce that your time is up and take the next person queued to speak. 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Best practices are to call from a quiet location and please mute the volume on your television or computer for those persons attending in person in city hall, please line up on the screen side of the room or to your right. Please speak clearly and slowly and if you care to state your name for the record. Finally, ill ask that we all silence any mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings. And now i would like to take royal commission. President matsuda here. Commission Vice President nageswaran here. Commissioner foley. High commissioner vergara here and commissioner right here. Thank you, commissioners. First on your agenda is general Public Comment. At this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items with respect to agenda items. Your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. Again if youre in the chambers, please come forward. If youre calling in remotely, you need to press star three or raise your hand via webex. Seeing no requests to speak under general Public Comment, it is closed and we can move on to department matters. Item one department announcements. Good afternoon, commissioners. Rick Sucre Department staff. Just wanted to provide you an update on your landmark designation work program, the Parkside Branch library and the columbo arch are both on their way to becoming our next city landmarks. The columbo arch is just waiting for signature from the mayor, so we will have two more new landmarks added to our long list of work that we have been working on. I also wanted to provide you an update that last week we had the opportunity to present the San Francisco survey in front of San Francisco heritage and the meeting went well. We are working towards establishing a partnership with heritage on the San Francisco survey to kind of better assist in the efforts we are planning to come back to you in december for with our first round of findings is focused on the inner sunset. So that way then you will get a full update on all of the activity from sf survey as well as what weve been doing to date for the last couple of years. So happy to answer any questions and this concludes my report. Thank you. Okay. If there are no questions for mr. Sucre, we can move on to commission matters item to consideration of Adoption Draft minutes for september 20th, 2023 and the draft minutes for october 4th, 2023. Commissioners for the october 4th, 2023. There is a typo and so we are we would like you to adopt amended minutes. Basically on the october 4th minutes for items five and six. Commissioner rights commissioner wright was indicated as a vote nay when he was actually absent. So we would just simply ask that you adopt them with that correction and at this time members of the public, it is your opportunity to address the commission on their minutes. Again, if youre in the chambers, please come forward. If youre calling in remotely, you need to press star three or raise your hand via webex. Seeing no requests to speak, commissioners Public Comment is closed and the minutes are now before you motion to approve with the with the correction. Second. Thank you commissioners on that motion to adopt the minutes as corrected. Commissioner vergara yes, commissioner wright. Yes. Commissioner foley. I commissioner warren. Yes president matsuda yes. So move commissioners. That motion passes unanimously. 5 to 0 and well place this on item three commission comments and questions. Any comments or questions from the commission . Commissioner wright. Yes, i would like to just announce to everyone that i participated in a conference last week. Its the apt conference, which is the association for preservation technology, ag and thats an International Oil preservation technique, Oil Preservation organization. And i had the privilege of meeting and i had met him before, but working closely with and talking with john sander of the National Park service. And he let me know that they the nps has just the week before. Published an update to preservation brief number 16 on substitute materials, which which he then incorporate into some of his discussion and presentations in in a wood workshop that i participated in, as well as a symposium on composite materials. At the end of the conference and composite assemblies that tended to be a little more modern architecture focused, but i thought it would be helpful for everyone to know that there is an update to that. Thats now on the nps website. Thats great. Thank you very much for sharing that. Any other comments or questions from the commission . Seeing none, we can move on. I actually do have a couple of announcements. Hans baldauf is was confirmed by the board of supervisors some time ago and will be joining us when he returns to the country after thanksgiving. And. Amy campbell was was moved forward from rules committee to the full board. So there is an outside chance that she may be able to join us november 1st at the earliest. Finally yesterday at the board of supervisors, they voted to no longer accept remote Public Comment with except option to advance requests for a reasonable accommodation. Oh, i see. Wow. Thats a big change. Big change. Um commissioners that will place us now under consideration of items proposed for continuance item for case number 2019 hyphen 017325coa for the property at 109 liberty street certificate of appropriateness is proposed for continuance to december six, 2023 and item five case number 2021 hyphen 010176. Koa at 2259 through 2261 fillmore street a certificate of appropriateness is proposed for indefinite continuance. Members of the public. This is your opportunity to address the commission on either of the two items proposed for continued use only on the matter of continuance. Again, if youre in the chambers, please come forward. If youre calling in remotely, you need to press star three or raise your hand via webex. Seeing no request to speak, commissioners, your continuance calendar is now before you. Is there a motion motion to approve . Second, thank you, commissioners, on that motion to continue items as proposed. Commissioner vergara yes. Commissioner wright. Yes. Commissioner foley i. Commissioner warren. Yes. And Commission President matsuda yes. Commissioners. That motion passes unanimously 5 to 0 and places us on your consent calendar. There were no items on your consent calendar, so we can move on to your regular calendar for item items. Six a and b for case numbers. 2023 hyphen 008838 lbr r and 2023 hyphen 008839 lbr for the properties at 599 castro street and 916 kearney street respectively. These are legacy business registry applications. Hello commissioners elena moore, planning staff. We have two legacy businesses before you today. Staff will give their presentations and afterwards members of the public and business representatives will have a chance to share their stories during Public Comment. Thank you. Hello, maggie dong, planning staff the first legacy business application that is before you is for ty house, a 38 year old business on castro and 19th street in the castro neighborhood. Ty house is a family run restaurant that serves authentic thai cuisine. Some of their dishes include crispy money bags, sweet and tangy pad thai and rich coconut curries. The restaurant was founded by husband and wife suraphol