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If you have a question about the schedule, speak to the staff after the meeting or call the board office tomorrow located at 1650 mission street, suite 304. This meeting is broadcast live on sfgovtv cable channel 78. Dvds are available to purchase directly from sfgovtv. Thank you for your attention. Well conduct our swearing in process. If you intend to testify and wish to have the board give your testimony evidentiary weight, please stand and say i do. Please note any of the members may speak without taking the oath pursuant to the sunshine ordinance, and thank you. The testimony youre about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth . I do. Okay. Thank you we will start with item number one general Public Comment this is an opportunity for anyone here to speak on a matter within the subject matter and jurisdiction not on tonight calendar seeing none, commissioners questions or comments commissioners anything. Strength in numbers. Okay. And well move on to item 3 the boards krfrths minutes of march any addition or corrects. A motion by commissioner fung to adopt the minutes any Public Comment on the minutes seeing none, on that motion commissioner lazarus commissioner honda commissioner wilson and commissioner swig okay. That that motion carries with a vote of 5 to zero. Item 4 is a jurisdiction request the subject property on florida avenue from ken and dennis and dan and t. J. And charlotte and jennifer and greg and daniel kim and others requesters to take jurisdiction over the application which was issued on october 21st by the department of building inspection that appeal ends anticipate a jurisdiction filed on march 17, 2016. Permit holder is here and a one story shed and replace the study and one full bath and roof deck with stairs to rear yard and commissioner honda were not grazed with the presence of our representatives from the City Department so im not sure it make sense to hear this item quite yet. What else do we have to go over they dont need the presence. We have a public works represent on the project although i dont think mr. Buck is here yet okay. Mop from that department here. There is someone from public works not from the bureau of urban forestry mr. Buck will refer to the other representative we can move forward and hear that case so well hold off think item 4 and then move on to item 5 appeal Sunset Neighborhood Association versus the San Francisco public works of urban forestry appealing the issuance of a tree removal of 33 street trees with replacement of 77 palm trees as part of urban Streetscape Project and the hearing on that was held only matrix 9 and on for future consideration it was continued to allow time for a meeting to be convened if additional agreement can be agreed on for a specie to recommend nonpalm trees species with the president s consent first if public works and report back on their efforts and whatever recommendations to the board step favored mr. Weaver 3 minutes. Weve heard a prior before so it is just why not go to the podium and pass that up and the board has to agree to accept those documents you might want to explain what they are. Thank you my name is mike project manager are San Francisco public works the urban Streetscape Project im going to glow a quick presentation with my 3 minutes and try to get it all through just a reminder the urban from 19th avenue to 27th avenue through the process we had our board of appeals hearing an march 9 that was continues to allow us to do further Public Outreach public works staff project team met with the bureaucracy of urban forestry to review the traditional canopy trees for the publics consideration we set a public hearing dates in 2016 an Jefferson Elementary School an urban street and tonight well present the finding from there so the meeting was held on april 6th we had 77 attendees sign in we received 90 votes at that merging we sent out mailers to 17 hundred project areas between lincoln and n judah and 19th avenue and 28 avenue so 17 hundred residential addresses we sent the marital and gave residents the option to mail in their vote if they couldnt make the meeting on the slide here on the left is an example of the marital and on the right we have postings on poles throughout the corridor we advertised the meeting this slide shows an example of the ballot that we presented 4 trees available for selection by the county those were select by the project team with the urban Forestry Staff and chosen to do the availability to handle the likelihood of establishment we received 200 and telephone votes and 90 at the meeting and one hundred and 20 mailed in the results here in terms of number one choice for the street tree that was 52 percent 36 palm and 5 percent oaks when we looked at a different one one block in each direction off the corridor number one choice 52 8 percent olive and the merchants on irving streets theyre number one choice for the street tree overall was excuse me. 76 percent wind mall palm and down from there a couple of more slides. Just continue. So basically, the results of that vote we found the community preferred this the merchant preferred the wind mall palm that met the upper storage and long term maintenance awhile also addressing the neighborhood canopy tree question we assessed it to reach a Party Agreement and proposed for the palm in certain place in their place incorporating this. So for your approval asking that the board of appeals uphold public works with the promoted provisions the revision will be that a recommendation to approve the removal of 33 street trees and approve the planting of 48 percent winld mill palms and other trees i have plans of where were proposing those trees to get to you a copy of the revised order recommendation. Can you show that plan on the overhead so everyone can see that, please. Their copies are available if you want them passed out it is kind of small. Let the public view. Sure. So ill try to show 4 different sheelts since an 8 block corridor. You can pull the mike over. And scroll up the view finder so we can help pull out the view. There we go. Thank you here 27th avenue to mid block the overall in the mid block location remove the windmill palms and replace them the overall behind did concept there were a handful of merchants that prefered one over another we tried to prioritize and working to develop some reasoning behind where theyre located so the tra sustain from the ned h north side from block by block. Have you provided those documents. I emailed them. Did you receive. You can see on that reddish the trees with the green circle is the tra sustain as a one for one removal of windmill palms with tra sustain as. Could you refreshing refresh our memories. There are 3 weeping wool brush in front of the the San Francisco credit union and law school trees at 21st avenue and two other species of trees actually that the bureau of urban forest denied for removal i dont know the specifics species of those trees one in front of the goodwill and another one on 23 on the south side not sure of the distance there. Thank you. Can we hear in mr. Buckeye know you indicated you wouldnt have comments but do you have anything to say. I participated in the Community Meeting a great turnout we received a lot of great feedback there was a lot of interest in the tra sustain a we also received a lot of preference for the windmill palm by the merchant so trying to balance that sort of split interest as best as possible my sense this is a pretty good compromise by adding a number of tra sustain trees im feeling pretty good about the process we spent the extra time it was have well that attended and got a lot of feedback thats all the feedback i have. What do you on about the collage of species. Not a major problem for me it is done a lot in streetscape architecture i reaction to what exists and the aircrafts make the design it is done quite a bit and sometimes every other tree and sometimes in groupings within the palate of design that exists in an urban forest to do those kinds of mixing and matching i have no problem it is reasonable and hard to come up with a perfect compromise but in this case it is based on the amount of feedback for both the windmill palms and tra sustain a reasonable design. And mr. Buck how many of the corridor have sustainable tree replacements were going from right now. In terms of the trees permitted for removal part of project. Right. It is pretty in the low 30s. What others kind of corridors such the irving tree corridor there is a number of different sites i will say for irving the deter of commonplace cover is not able a lot of trees but not a lot of commonplace removlot o it is a pretty i mean, i dont think the removal no debate about in were trying to remove the trees in Poor Condition work out a doubt a number of projects but. My question was initially when it came before the board the windmill palms people of the pushed on with the selection and the question is that in further merchant corridors noah valley and others is this process going to effect how the university treats those corridors coming up. It didnt fact those we have no agenda to keep the passages im excited to see some of the tra sustain come into the plan. Thank you very much. Sure. Thank you. Well hear from the appellant now. Good evening, everybody and thank you, again, for giving our community this opportunity we took this involuntary seriously and work hard to organize the turnout was closed to one hundred people and 200 and 12 votes were collected this shows our community does care and time our voices to be heard and credit card the canopy trees got 65 of respondents ranked that as the number one choice smaller tra sustain is a small leadership and 52 respondents prefer this tree people are asked to rank their choices this was at total points that each species received is the important number to look at. I dont mean to interrupt you, we gave extra time to the department youll have it,too. Sorry to interrupt. So if you look at the total points statistics again, it the interesting with the leader of the points are frustrateless olive and the palm is third received third place so in general when looking at the ratio the canopy is a 4 to one ratio when looking at the number one rank it is a 2 to one in favor of the canopy theyre an overwhelmsing support but at the Community Meeting we one or two trees will be selected then sustain and olive from the look at the ranking vote the voters lead to believe that will determine what trees to be planted, however, the proposal is to plant that only 20 canopy trees out of 68 only 29 percent of canopy that is in contrast it they have 79 percent and 69 percent of the voters want canopy trees it is not very clear how the number of canopy trees was derived and not a fair compromise not in line with the vote the continuity and consistency is not clear regards to the compromise the plan has vary amounts the trees and varying amount of canopy trees per block that was substantive you know and also not going to be consistent to have all canopy trees that would be a very unified look for the neighborhood regarding the viability of shop signs they have a canopy spread and it is a 10 to 15 feet as opposed to the regular palm 10 feet a similar spread and sum up we understand the concerns and open to a compromise but we want to stress that compromise should be in line with the votes because the Community Came out and expressed their opinion and everyone has equal weight again, we hope you consider all the numbers considered and the community wishes and make it in favor the canopy trees or a fair ratios between canopy and the other palm trees. Wyoming you propose. Well, you know if we go by what we were told and everyone thought that would be you know the top 2 trees that won the vote if you go gi by total points this should be true for the olive tree we look at the merchants and the merchants overwhelmingly supported the palm then why not go by the some sort of ratio between canopy trees and pages and thats a 4 to one ratio we have a so it is either you know it depends on how you looked at the never mind if you go by the one vote and canopy more dick. Im asking you what you propose. All canopy trees or if you go by 79 to 21 percent palms then this will amount to 14 palms and 15 canopy trees weve discussed this plan okay. This. Thats okay. 14 palms and 44 tra sustain we spoke with tom the architect and one of the ideas for example. Thank you i wanted to get a sense. Basically. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Commissioners we can take Public Comment then can we can see a show of hands of how many people wish to speak under Public Comment . Okay. Great so if you could sorry okay. Well give 2 minutes given the number of people here the first person and line up on the far side of the room if you havent fill out a speaker card or give a speaker card to the gentleman pest. Im bill the president of the outer sunset we had our merchant meetings on april 6th on 19th avenue happy to report we had a good turnout and civilized four and a half years ago we had a meeting in the same locations, in fact, 3 times in dpw got the blue chips and the community got involved as you may know this involves the merchant and People Living on 19th avenue and 27 directing your attention my associate has 11 meetings and dpw has been out to the meetings several times to belief us i thought everything was fine until i got a call from dpw the association was protest they were going to be totally surprise thats four and a half years they were aware, in fact, we know for 40 years the vp has been in contract contact with us i wanted to get this resolved after 4 nature years one thing ive learned i didnt know what the word arborist meant after four and a half years im the representative northbound golden gate heats. Thank you, bill next item, please. Good afternoon. Im on 26 avenue i shop and walk an iving several times visually everyday i advocate for the planting of the trees and voted for the tra sustain i took note of the prospective of the merchants that maintenance of the more desire trees milestone miter be a burden that attacks the bottom line the reality of the contention we want to commend californian state i and many other members of the iveing Street Community m many of whom i spoke with volunteer our Services Free of charge to help to maintain those in cooperation with the organizations in closing the merchant vote reflects a business oriented location and ignores the deceptively making the entire block especially attractive place to shop and stroll and as a result is satisfied customers who want to return and shop here Property Owners and residents happy to live here and more revenue and repeat business for all the merchants thank you thank you. Next speaker. Good evening commissioner im thomas im with the Sunset Residents Association ill also an architect of 4 decades experience and done retail projects and urban Design Projects similar to this weve heard dpw indicates that their would be a proposal for a mix of trees the problem with a mix of trees theres a large difference between the palms species and the common place trees the community has stolen that they prefer the common place tree and if you add the percentages that increases if 52 to 64 percent now at approximately 2 00 p. M. This afternoon we received the plans from the dpw and we were able to go through this one the questions you asked was what would you propose we would propose so work on this plan together with dpw but the percentages that dpw expressed the tra sustain represents about 29th percentile should be the percentage that a palm would be given in this strip so we the important thing the Overall Concept has to work we want a rentcontrolled place to come to as a community and be inviting so the citys priority to get us out of our cars and go to a place that is inviting so what we propose we work on this plan but the percentages that the vote represents plan thank you thank you next item, please. Hi good evening kathleen part of sundown Association Im here to support what was said precisely we can have all canopys and properly represent what the community voted, and, secondly, there was an boundary that limited did voting we thought that was arbitrary from listening to n judah and didnt include kirkland and shopped an iving street that whole time we dont understand the procedures people didnt. Could the meeting and the other folks did and thirdly, with all due respect to the merchant shouldnt receive priority we deserve a place to go and shop the merchant will not be there without us they come and go we live there we have some written letters of support for the canopy trees from the certification and on independent saucer supporting the canopy trees overwhelmingly thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Can i get some help to pl