Transcripts For SFGTV Historic Preservation Commission 91615

Transcripts For SFGTV Historic Preservation Commission 91615 20151020

And if this is not a tullys and expanding to jason spot were hearing that. Yes. Section 178 describes the situations where a formula retail use operator can convert from one use to another and allows for formula retail use of the same type to enjoy that nonconforming status with the conditional use authorization so if tullys wanted to be base hardware thats not the same thing. Im generally supportive of that i actually go around the world with my iphone and take a picture of starbucks bylaw is hardly a starbucks so i am generally supportive. Commissioners there is a motion and a second shall i call the question. On the motion with conditions commissioner antonini. Commissioner johnson. Commissioner richards commissioner president fong. So moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 4 to zero which will place us in general Public Comment there are no speaker cards. Any general Public Comment . Seeing none, meeting is adjourned. Thanks. Perfectission regular hear wednesday october 7, 2015. I would like to remind the public that the commission doesnt tolerate any disruption or out burst at any time and please silence all cell phones and if you care to state your name for the record. President wolfram. Here. Vice president hyland. Here. Commissioner hasz. Here. Commissioner johnck. Here. First item is general Public Comment. At this time members of the public may address the commission within the subject jurisdiction of the commission and your opportunity is when the item is reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. I have no speaker cards. Does any member of the public wish to speak so a non agenda item . Seeing none Public Comment is now closed. Great. Commissioners that places us under department matters. Item 1 directors announcements. Good afternoon commissioners. Just one item i thought might be of interest to you. Last week the mayor introduced legislation called the Affordable Housing Bonus Program which is legislation that will allow density and if necessary height in return for additional Affordable Housing units. This is one piece of a much larger package of policies and legislative actions that we are putting together to try to address the issue of Affordable Housing. This is a two piece program. There is one piece that would allow us to comply with state legislation which requires us to provide additional densities for development that does provide Affordable Housing. There is a second piece of the program that is designed to Incentivize Development for middle income housing. This will apply to many parts of the city where we havent done area plans in years, places we didnt change the zoning in a long time, so we think its a program thal create incentives and pools of Affordable Housing in the city in areas that havent seen a lot of development and growth. The impact on Historic Resources we think is minimal. Conceivably would allow for additionos existing buildings. We think its more likely to be new development from the ground up but if youre interested were happy to have a hearing and get you information about the program. Thank you. Commissioners if there is nothing further we can move to item two, past events of the Planning Commission staff report and announcements. Commissioners time frye staff and a few things to share with you of updates and housekeeping things. I wanted to give the advance consent calendar for the cultural hearings and we will have one in november and december. It is my understanding were moving the november hearing to the 18th to accommodate commissioner matsudas schedule. Right now we have lined judy from the Sf Arts Commission to talk about the cultural program. This was a request by the committee a couple of months ago and shes the Program Director at the arts commission. Does december 2 members from supervisor campos office as well as regina from the office of Small Business will come and present an overview of the legacy business Historic Preservation ballot fund measure and the assumption is if it does past we thought it would be great to have an overview before it goes into effect with the commission since theres a rule for the commission as part of that ballot measure. The University Mound ladies home is scheduled for a Land Use Committee hearing. The Committee Hearing will be on october 26, and the Department Staff will be there representing the commission on that proposed designation. Also last when we there . September 28 Department Staff, myself and ms. Shannon ferguson we attended a buildings grounds and services Committee Hearing at the board of education. This was to give the board an update on the proposal to locally designate washington high school. As you recall that supervisor mar gave the department 10,000 to hire a consultant to prepare an article 10 designation report for that high school. The committee was very interested in the report and eager to work the commission and forwarding the designation they did have a number of questions how a designation would affect a state owned property like a high school, and we agreed just to keep them in the loop, invite them to a future hearing. Once this Commission Takes up the matter and we will go back and share the designation once consultant has been secured. There was discussion on including Roosevelt High School since its the same architect and likely period of significance, so there maybe an expansion of the designation and i will let you know as more information is available to us, and if we can secure additional funding for that part of the project. And then i thought there was one more thing oh, there is one more thing. Sorry. Yesterday this is more just for your information. Yesterday at the board of supervisors, supervisor breed introduced an amendment to the fillmore sign ordinance and primarily to allow Entertainment Venues like the fillmore to install signs that are much larger than what is allowed today. The department is supportive of the measure because we feel it helps define neighborhoods much like the castro theater sign defines that area and currently the sign requirements do not allow for signage in excess of 24 feet, so we were able to work closely with the Supervisors Office in drafting criteria to make sure that residential windows arent impacted by flashing lights or bright lights from one of the signs and that the architectural features of the buildings wouldnt be impacted either. We dont anticipate this will come to the commission for review and comment but if youre interested were happy to reach out to the Supervisors Office to see if theyre willing to present. That concludes my up dates to you and happy to answer any questions. Commissioner hyland. Commissioner matsuda. No, no im sorry. I just wanted to ask. You were referring to roosevelt middle school. Yes, middle school, thank you. Commissioner hyland. Yes mr. Frye when the Cultural Assets meeting for december has supervisor campos update could we ask his office to update us on the legacy registry legislation. Yes. And there was a deadline of december for the Small Business commission to do some recommendations. I would like to know what the status of that is. Okay. Or have that in advance of the meeting. Yeah. And i had a question for you related to past events of the Planning Commission. This commission wrote a letter regarding the 5m project at the time we saw the preliminary draft eir mostly regarding the demolition of the building of the name i cant remember and look at that and i am wondering if that project is now approved and tell us what happened with that Historic Building . Certainly and that is a large item to neglect. I apologize. And i will certainly get more information. I believe youre talking about or referring to the camline buildings. Thats right. I dont recall the specifics that occurred at the hearing, but maybe mr. Ram is able to fill that in but i know from discussions with the project sponsor we were able to confer the preservation of the building and as part of the central soma survey and the area plan we are now proposing that building be designated under article 11 of the code so once the area plan moves forward and comes to forward for neerkz you will see an initiation to protect that building and as you know heritage was very initial in providing influ yecial and protecting that project. The Planning Commission approved the smaller alternative that allowed for the retention of that and i think a couple of other smaller buildings in the process. Okay. Thank you very much. Commissioners that places us under commissions matters. President s report and announcements. I have no official report but i want to tell the audience were planning on moving item 12 to the ging of our regular calendar. There has been a request for a continuance from the submitter of the landmarks report and make senses to take it up as a regular item before item 7 so item 12, the item 11. Im sorry. No, item 12. Or is my calendar out of date . Youre looking at a draft. Okay. Item 11 which is at 815825 tennessee street will move forward before item 6. All of the numbers are off. Sorry about that. Commissioners if there is nothing further we will move it to item 4. Consideration of adoption minutes of september 16, 2015. Commissioner. Yes, i have a suggestion. My recollection is for the Hunters Point informational presentation we had a recommendation to denor and the staff lenore and the staff here of what we would like to see in the future with Hunters Point and my recommendation is that the minutes include or sentence along the lines of commissioners expressed great interest in the plans for the Historic District at Hunters Point and would like Progress Reports from lenard regarding i know we were interested in security, interim reuse opportunities and potential preservation of buildings [inaudible] so thats the sentence i would suggest adding to the minutes if that is appropriate. If its too much detail we can narrow it down but do you agree with that . Totally and we clarified what security meant and not only physical security of the premises but the longevity of the building being [inaudible] stabilized so it doesnt deteriorate. I am wondering if a member of the commission can confirm is the name spelled correctly . [inaudible] so mr. Turney is churny . Its item 6 on page three of eight and it occurs in numerous places there. Cher . Just a point of clarification. Theres no e. Its just y at end. Yes. Yes, i believe thats it. Its not the [inaudible] attorney no. Okay. Does any member of the public wish to comment on the draft minutes of september 16 . Seeing none we will close Public Comment and bring it back to the commission. Do i have a motion . Motion to approve yeah, second. Great. Thank you commissioners. On that motion then to adopt the minutes as amended and corrected for september 16. Commissioner hyland. Yes. Commissioner johnck. Yes. Commissioner matsuda. Yes. Commissioner wolfram. Yes. Excuse me, commissioner president. Yes. Commissioner. Yes. And commissioner president wolfram. Yes. Thank you commissioners. That motion passes 50. And places us under item 5, commissioner comments and questions. Any . Commissioner johnck. I have a question about the minutes and doesnt require a change in the minutes but about the Cultural Landscape inventory. We spent a lot of time looking at the issues that mr. Hasz brought up about the inaccuracies and wondering how that is going to be handled . In the revised report . Commissioners, time frye Department Staff. We have been meeting internally to talk about editing will be made without throwing off things and we got a revised edits to make them in house. I think we saw that that. He may have copied you on the email. I cant recall but he sent a follow up email which has been helpful. Our goal is have it done in the next month and send you a finalized report but we think we can handle it internally fairly quickly. Great. Thank you. And make all of the ed r edits suggested. Are there any disclosures commissioners . I received communication from Tara Sullivan regarding the tennessee street landmarking as well as members of the dog Patch Neighborhood Association. Ive also received an email from Tara Sullivan. So have i. Okay. Thank you commissioners. If there is nothing further we can move on to the regular calendar and the Commission President has requested to pull item 11 out of order so we will take that up now for case 2015oo 2015oo718 upon first at 815825 tennessee street. Thank you. Good afternoon commissioners. Shannon ferguson planning Department Staff. I wanted to clarify a few points regarding notification and meeting requirements for this type of hearing item. There is no required notice for this type of hearing item and i just wanted to also point out that the applicant was informed of the hearing date on september 29, 2015, and packets and hearing agenda were forwarded to the applicant and the dog Patch Neighborhood Association on october 1, 2015. Once it was published online. After several calls and emails with them the dog patch neighborhood respondod october 2 they would like a continuance. Regarding meeting for the landmark designation application this meeting is not a requirement. It is discussed in the application as an opportunity for the department to work with the applicant in case there are any Unanswered Questions questions or Additional Research requirements regarding the application. Given theyre two consultant reports on the property and the Central Waterfront survey form there were no additional questions to warrant a meeting. So this item is a Community Generated landmark designation for application for 815825 tennessee street. This subject property was designed by August Nordin in 1926 with bowie switch company and addition of william muser the second or third. The commercial building is located at the Southwest Corner of tennessee and 19th street. Its two stories tall with one story addition to the south and that is the tennessee street facade. The 19th street elevation has a partial basement due to the slope of the street and primarily one story with the second story to the west. The North Elevation has two signs. The property is outside of the boundaries of the dog patch Historic District. The Historic District boundary is actually across the street. It has been the subject of numerous previous evaluations and determined to be a contributor to the potential third Street Industrial district but not individually eligible for the california registrar. The Planning Commission approved this demolition with part into a five story residential unit with 69 units. The application lists the permits and ownership history, a description of the subject property and neighborhood, copies of patents by the original owner and photographs. Not include are things historical photographs and maps and drawings and other references. A statement of significance is provided for events, persons, architecture and as a valued visual landmark. So first the property is nominated for its association with historic events. Its nominated for the Cultural Association with ethnic workers in the area. Documentation does not support the unique role in the electrification of the United States as the first new technological enterprise of the bay area and early precursor to sill sill nor valley really and the property is nominated for the association with an important person who had dants on electric switches. Staff peoples that bowie switch manufactured the inventions in the building but invented and patented the products before construction of the building in 1926 so the important achievements are not directly associated with the property. Furthermore his roll in the development of Silicon Valley is unlikely. Its nominated for the classic architecture by architect August Nordin and represents an architectural shift in response to the shift from light to heavy manufacturing. Staff finds its not a strong example of strong revival architecture but example of utilitarian warehouse with minimal classical detailing and typical of the businesses in the area during this time period. Department staff agrees that hes an accomplished architect and designed

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