Somehow the 24th is not available. I would like to ask for a continuance for the next available date. And i believe we are reasonably close to an agreement so we can avoid a dr and i think we might be able to do that. October 8th. All right. That would be fine. I think the commission can likely accommodate that. Commissioners. I need to and i apologize with all the excitement that i need to recuse myself to this item. I motion to recuse president fong. Second. On that motion to recuse president fong from item 3, commissioner michael j. Antonini commissioner rich hillis general manager jerry n. Johnson commissioner Kathrin Moore commissioner Dennis Richards president cindy wu and commissioner fong. Hes gone already. So moved, commissioners. Well take that item up soon. Okay. Thank you. Is there further Public Comment on the continuance calendar . Im here to request that you continue no. 7 until the date you have chosen for no. 5 which is october 15th. Can i have the overhead please. You will notice that day is the same issue. We are using the 5foot height as are you asking for item 7 . Im asking for 7 to be continued to the same as item 5. Should you take up that matter until it is called. We have not called that item. So i have to wait until midnight for that . Depends on the commission. Its equivalent now of 10 45 p. M. In terms of a meeting. I have been here since noon. So i am telling you right now, audience, that you cant do the 5footers except together because the ones one is issues, there are five more coming and you have one on south of market. Youve had a lot of that today. So i will wait until midnight. I would like to make the same request. The promises made we are going to stick to the continuance calendar. I know everyone is tired. I will call items 12345 at this time. Good evening, my name is john, the owner of the property at 3029baker street. I would like to respectfully request that we just stick to the agenda which is to continue to october 1st. This project has been discussed for 20 months. In other words our meeting with neighbors was 20 months ago and i dont think its fair to have anymore continueances. I have to disagree with mr. Tricks remark that there is any further accommodation thats going to be reached a further continuance would serve any purpose. Weve made huge accommodationed already to get to this point and we dont see any further changes coming and staff has made it pretty clear as to what the thoughts are on the approve ability of this. Im the cosponsor for 2928 baker street, no. 3 on your list. I would like to respectfully keep with the proposed continuance for october 1st. We had our first application submitted to the department back in february of 2014. We made a number of concessions to our neighborhood groups and to the discretionary review filer. We were originally scheduled to be on the calendar before but for reasons it was pulled out. I feel this is a prospect to come into agreement and based on the relation from the Planning Department it does not rise to the level of unusual or extraordinary. I would like to keep the proposed continuance dates of october 1st. Thank you. Okay. Is there additional comment on the continuance calendar . If there are additional comments please lineup on the side of the room. Im here with grow sf, i want to say every time you issue another continuance you back line this even further and give more opportunities for these projects to be scaled back when we are in the middle of the housing crisis. I hope that you take into accounts that your arguments are made here that why they should be moved forward and it is your position to say yes or no and if there is no more discussion to be had, its time a decision is made. Thank you very much. Can i ask the person who requested october 15th to come back up . It was requested for october 8th. I apologize. Weve been here 11 1 2 hours. Could you repeat why you want to continue to an additional week . Yes. I have an event. A school event where im hosting at my house that evening and we sent invitations out and we cant rescind them and originally when the dates were offered, she gave us the 24 and i agreed and a week later the planner rescinded that and gave us the first. Im only asking for a week. I move to continue item 1 to september 24th, item 2, september 24th, item 3 to october 8. Th. 4 to the first and 5 to the 15. Second. Very good. There is a motion to continue all items as proposed except item 3 to october 8th. On that motion, commissioner michael j. Antonini commissioner rich hillis councilman johnson commissioner Kathrin Moore commissioner Dennis Richards president cindy wu . So moved. Commissioners that motion passes unanimously 60. Commissioners, that will place us on your regular calendar item 6 a, b, 00 eight at 1042 jackson street. The conditional use authorization and the Zoning Administrator will question a variance. Good evening, kelly grove, Planning Department staff. The item before you is a conditional use authorization at 1042 jackson located at the district this item was scheduled on july 23rd but extended to this hearing to provide additional information. The current property is a 2 story over garage and covers the entire 41 square foot lot and 25 feet wide. The purpose of the construct a 2 story vertical addition involving three total unit. The proposed story would cover an entire lot and setback eight 8 feet from the Property Line and six 6 feet from the Property Line. This includes configuration of two additional residential units of the gauj and two additional Parking Spaces the project sponsor is seeking a setback of 15 feet. 1 phone call and 75 signatures and approximately 50 signatures in opposition to the project. Individuals who submitted visit letters also signed the joint letter of opposition which you have in your supplemental packet. The Department Recommends approval and believe the property is necessary and desirable for the following reasons. The project would have one unit to an existing two unit building consistent with the Zoning District and with the existing neighborhood character of multifamily residential buildings. Its consistent with the surrounding neighborhood context with threefour residential buildings and the building scope and lighting to the residents. The property is served well and the unit will not impact detrimental capacity and has two Parking Spaces and two off street Parking Spaces which will alleviate parking congestion. The parking meets all applicable requirement codes and compatible with the surrounding neighborhood. This concludes my presentation and im happy to answer any questions. Good evening commissioners. Im here on behalf of the project sponsor and who have in the project team. We are very excited to present this project. We are available to answer any questions that you have after this. As collean mentioned the project involves a seismic upgrade, renovation and configuration of the two existing units which have been vacant since 2014. The building is the shortest building along jackson. The project will construct a two story addition and a total of four story and maximum of 49 feet consistent with the 3 4 story residential buildings throughout the neighborhood. This is also going to create a four bedroom dwelling unit to approximately 1900 square feet in size and suitable for family occupancy. Its going to be setback six feet from jackson street and additional eight feet from the Property Line minimizing its appearance and finally to off street Parking Spaces. This building is located in the bulk district which allows development up to 65 feet. The project is only 49. However planning code section requires conditional use for any structure above 45 in rh district and requests a variance from the third floor which already includes rear and front set backs and its justified by the substandard lot which is only 3 feet which others nearby are 70 feet or more along those lines. The sponsors have engaged in proactive outreach and they have received a good deal support. Throughout that process they have received comments from neighbors and concerns regarding building massing. In the interest of responsibilitying to those comments and concerns they have proposed some additional top floor level set backs which well be describing to you today in a little bit more detail. At this time i would like to ask the architect to come up and discuss the design and massing. We are available for questions afterwards. Thank you commissioners. We had a meeting with some concerned neighbors and they did express to me im coming on board with the project. Some concerns primarily about height. Its understanding that it was 40 feet and its 55 feet as previously stated. We have taken some time to look at how the project fits in the neighborhood and i have something for the overhead if we can turn this on. The orange lots indicate properties that have nonconforming coverage. Site coverage. There is a predominance of properties that are 100 or yards with less than ten feet of depth. The others indicate properties that are higher than four stories. The yellow and orange hatched areas are properties that are both exceeding the lot coverage as well as have buildings that are taller than four stories. Some noted at 5 stories and you can see a pattern on jackson street. Our sight site is right here and the properties are all four stories or more. There is a larger building at 1060 jackson street on a wide lot has the power stories and is higher than everyone seems concerned about in the neighborhood. The other one is the project on the top fourth floor we have scaled back some of the massing along the small alleyway connected to jackson street. We have supplemental rendering not in your packet. This is a view looking up jackson street which doesnt really reflect the changes that we are talking about on auburn street but the pattern that is consistent with the rest of jackson street of buildings becoming higher as you you you you move up the street. This is a view from the opposite of jackson street to the east and the subject property is at the corner of auburn and jackson. You are starting to see the fourth floor that has been pulled back approximately 3 feet from auburn facade for a portion of the frontage on auburn street. There is a portion that we pulled back only two 2 feet in the area. This is a view a little bit better looking at auburn street and you can see the fourth floor recede nicely and we try to make it horizontal and not make it the massing and try to soften the massing and helps considerably. This is a view up auburn street with massing holding back three 3 feet at the front and rear portions. There is a middle portion that accommodates kitchen area that we needed a little bit more width. It only sets back 2 feet. We have also supplemented the design with some over hangs to get some shadow and interest and try again to express the project. The original project had a long bulk and we have tried to make some efforts to scale that back so its a little bit more in keeping with the neighborhood. Again, this is a shot that is in your packet that shows the rhythm of the even side of jackson street and you can see our side right here, it is one of the lower buildings on that side of the street. So by adding the two floors we are only coming to a height of 49 feet stairwell with under the 65foot height limit by 15 feet. On the plan view that we are proposing with some other set backs we have altered and cut about 60 of square foot acknowledge of the floor area. This is auburn street setting back the first portion of the building on the fourth floor and there is a middle section approximately 16 feet. We are rather tight because on the east side we have been setting back the building from the downhill property by 3 feet so we are rather narrow at this portion. We have outdoor deck areas at the portion at the 8foot setback and the 6foot setback on the front. Finally the issue regarding the variance for the rear yard setback, we are talking about a very small portion of the that is visible here in this diagram. So the yellow shaded area does indicate the area that would be in the required setback, the dash line shows where the 15foot setback would be. This is the 65foot height limit allowable and we are well under that. The yellow indicates the area that is nonconforming and the other is there and legal nonconforming use right now. Thank you. Im happy to answer any questions that the commission may have. Okay, thank you. We are going to open up to Public Comment. Peterberg, christina sanders. Gabriela navarro. Campos, james language good evening. My name is john wilcox black. My neighborhood and i are here today to stand in opposition of the proposed project at 1042 and 44 jackson street. While we are supportive of adding much needed Housing Stock to the neighborhood, we have numerous concerns with the development as it is being proposed. The bulk of our concerns have been outlined and today its been signed by 52 neighbors who live in the immediate area. The developers propose to add a 2 story mega mansion penitentiary penthouse that is in conflict and will diminish access to the light to many neighbors in the immediate vicinity. We believe this is over reach and sought to compromise only to have been repeatedly met with resistance. We have outlined six areas of concern with the proposed project. First we object to the building exceeding 40 feet. The portion of jackson which the subject property resides is rh 3. Maintaining development within these parameters is particularly important as the height is in excess of 40 feet and will cast auburn alley and shadow greatly diminishing access to light and air. Further, it will erode the neighborhoods well crated. This is entirely inconsistent with the structures on the street which are generally 23 stories over a garage. Third and fourth the owners are requesting a variance with a setback with new additions to the rear yard setback. Not only will the additional street will cut the environment. The pour intrusion will conflict above ground equipment and preserve the light to existing windows in the neighboring buildings. As property residents we understand the need for development but we oppose renovation at the expense of neighboring properties. Thank you. Public speaker good evening. I want to express my appreciation for working on this issue. I attended the meeting and her new architect. Like my neighbors thought you are going to hear in a moment. Im for development and would like to see the building cared for but i strongly believe it needs to meet the planning code requirements for the street. Its unlikely that any of us would be standing before you today though want a four star unit to make a mansion with the top of the existing building thats what we have been told. When we have had conversations and i spoke with her, i asked why she can build within 40 feet and her response was that it wouldnt be profitable and economically viable. She said cost are very high and there are significant suspensions and we need the cost to amortize. I dont know why we are responsible for her to return a profit. Im not an architect but i have difficulty understanding why they cant at this unit that keeps them within the limit and still be profitable. It not probably your area of concern or ours either. Since they bought it its seen about 100,000 increase. Their concerns about profit are really curious in this environment. Their desires to use these massive profits to benefit at the expense of the neighborhood. Shes going to portray us as antidevelopment. Thats not the case. We are very much for development. Our concerns are really comprehensive. We are very much concerned with light and air. Impacts that could have to the neighborhood along auburn and jackson streets and with respect to low and middle income tennants and some we believe who have been wrongfully convicted and keeping to the beauty of our neighborhood. This project benefits herself and her husband. Thank you, mam, your time is up. Thank you. Thank you, commissioners for allowing me to speak about this project. Im opposed to this request for conditional use and vaerng. I would like to thank those in the bay area who in supporting those projects. My neighbors and i agree. The project is listed in a town that is to lower income chinese families and immigrants. Up until this recent sale this project was offered by the demographics. We are curious as to how this story luxury penthouse wrapped in floor to ceiling windows can be desirable. This is completely out of context with the surroundings. Casting a permanent shadow that leaves many homes. Perhaps this is why the sponsor has not showed the rendering. Instead the sponsor has provided a series of maps highlighting other properties. Over half of these examples are completely different than the subject property and higher limits. The sponsors own exhibits for conditional use. Commissioners, you have over 50 neighbors who have gone on record as stating that no opposition to the sponsor adding a unit otherwise increasing the height and bulk of this property this can hardly be considered antidevelopment. This compromises holy compatible with the citys desire and the project. This project as currently proposed is an increase that is not desired. At our neighborhood meeting this is to mainly ensure the project is profitable and one that has no compelling interest. Based on these facts i urge you to deny this. In the current responding and testimony would lead you to believe they are sophisticated people. Who are simply looking to build a home. Do not be deceived. These are intelligent operators who have purchased and developed multiple properties. They have misrepresented themselves and to the city and Law Enforcement officials. These developers have an established pattern of purchasing properties and removing them through harassment and bullying. Even in the title to the building before it was sold. Intimidated and threatened my neighbors. Sadly they have been affected and including a young single mother has decided to leave rather than face fear. There is no doubt San Francisco needs housing. That said there is plenty of develop ers who are willing to take the profit. I will admit this project will have very little impact on my life. But it will impact the lives of others. I urge you to approve this conditional use. This project is not necessary and as history to any indicator it may have been developed in the displacement of a protected family listed living on this property prior to the sale but who can no longer be found. This is not the kind of prof