Unless otherwise announce by the president , each person has 3 minutes for Public Comment on each item. If there is an item of interest to you that is not on the agenda, and is under the subjectmatter jurisdiction you may speak on item 4. There will be a 15minute limit on item 4, but it will be continued to item 14. Last, please address all your comments to the commission during Public Comment on items. In order to allow equal time for all, neither the commission, nor staff will respond to questions during Public Comment. The commission may ask questions of staff after Public Comment is closed. With that were on item 2 the president s report. Thank you. Two items briefly. One, the general manager is appearing as we speak before the board of supervisors and when he arrives well have his report because he has an important presentation to make. Secondly, im going to ask commissioner harrison to update us on the issue of the peace plaza at the japanese center. Yes. Recently commissioner bonilla and i had an opportunity to tour the peace plaza in japan town and were pointed to difficulties and a lot of tiles were broken and so created a hazard. While we were there talking about all of this, a young woman tripped on some of the tiles. So i contacted the general manager, who in turn got the job order expedited and those tiles now have been repaired for safety reasons and the like of that. We took the tour in the garage with water intrusion and between the two departments im sure that this problem will be repaired in hopefully the nearfuture. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner. That concludes the report. Is there anyone who would like to make Public Comment on the president s report . Being none, Public Comment is closed. The general managers report were going to wait. So were on item 4, general Public Comment. I do have two cards. Eli ziegis and john stokes, if you could forward please. You have three minutes each. Good morning, commissioners. Good morning. My name is eli ziegis food and Agriculture Policy director at spur and im back again to talk about the urnan agriculture coordinator position. The position is still seeking someone, and i have talked with staff, and i know they are working on filling the position. But just here to make a plug that we keep this on the front burner, so there can be someone runing this program as soon as possible. My understanding from talking to dawn is that the aim is to have the Position Description up and open at at the end of this month, start of may. That would be fantastic to have someone filled and in the position hopefully by summer. That would be great. Im just here to give a boost for that timeline and really want to see that happen. Personally, and as a member of the San FranciscoAgricultural Alliance to spread the word to find someone good as the members of the urban ag alliance and to see the description recruit some good people and overall just looking forward to seeing that position filled. Thank you very much. Thank you john. Good morning, commissioners. Im john stokes, member of the volunteer group that manages and operates alemany farm to add my voice to the importance of the urban agricultural coordinator position. For those of you unfamiliar with the firm, our group over the last eight years has turn an abandoned and difficult site into the second most active volunteer site in the rpd system. Were onsite 200 days a year, facilitate activitis on another 50 days or so per year. Last year we grew and gave away about 11 tons of food. And made possible about 60 school group visits. Hannah has an excellent collaborator for us and an important helper. And we provided her with quite a few resources, also, mulch fertilizer and facilitating the agricultural days and it seems that the urban agricultural position has been vacant for months. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone who wishes to make general Public Comment, come on up. Hello, my name is adam and i apparently got here at the exact right moment. [laughter ] im one of the many San Francisco urban agriculture people, i work alt gardens across the city that benefits from the programs that hannah worked on during her time and i highly highly recommend that quick action is taken to fill the position and people say there were great Resource Centers and i checked the website and there is nothing written. What happened . A lot of people are unsure what is going on. Thank you for all the work put into that position and get it back ontrack as soon as possible. Thank you. Commissioner mcdonnell, do you have a question . Just a question of dawn, yes, please. If i understand it correctly, there is what is in process is posting and subsequent obviously recruitment. A, timing of posting . And then secondly, do you anticipate the recruitment process to be easy or difficulty in terms of potential candidates. Its a great question and eli and i have been in touch over the past few years since hannahs departure. We think we can get a job posting developed by first week of may and posted and sent out. The nice thing is i believe this position is an exempt position and the recruitment process doesnt have to go through the same Civil Service more timeintensive laborious process and we have been contacted by a number of candidates over the past few months and folks who are interested. So i do think that the recruitment, once we get it started should proceed pretty quickly. Excellent, thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else wishing to make general Public Comment . Being none this item is closed. Were on item 5, consent calendar. Is there anyone who would like to make Public Comment on the consent calendar . Being none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners. Entertain a motion. So moved. Second. All in favor . Aye. So moved. Were on item 6, the San Francisco zoo. Good morning, tanya peterson, director of the San Francisco zoo. I wanted to give you an update on some of our programs here at the zoo. Our mission is the three cez, correct, care and conserve, and i just wanted to give an overview how we have been connecting, caring and conserving. Connect by the numbers and our attendance is at 672,000 visitors. We were projecting to be at this time 682,000. That is a deficit of 10,000 visitors. Unfortunately the rain has been coming on the weekends, and just to give you an example of how the rain impacts us. In january when the rain hits us on the weekends you can see our attendance was 42,000, which was a negative of 16,000 visitors. But in a shorter months february when the sun comes on a weekend, i grant you it was leap year. When it comes on a weekend, we were as high as 74,000. Which was 14,000 over projections. So were definitely weatherimpacted and as we look at our strategic plans to get people to the zoo even which its raining . There are other ways that we connect. We have a weekend, over a million visitors come to our website and we love to translate each website visit to an actual visit and well work on that. We send out electronic email every other week to 42,000 persons and on social media, if you want to take the bet which is the most popular . Facebook is trending first at 85,000 likes and instagram has surpassed twitter and my kids say this pass e and to do snap chat. Zoo camp is sold out this summer, bringing in two new trailers to accommodate the children who want to come to camp and actually started a teen camp called Animal Wellness 101. And gives them basic Animal Husbandry skills for those who want to pursue zookeeping or anything else. Its a great way for the teens to interact where our vets and so forth. That is a whole new camp for teens this summer. Right now we have 270 teens just volunteering on weekends alone. Great effort and outreach to our teens. The other c is care, and i wanted to show a picture of ulu. Thanks to a donor who gave us 5,000 for ten tons of snow for uulu. We did this for a few years ago and a few years ago, she would have nothing with the snow, but this time she seemed to enjoy it and with 6,000 visitors came to see uulu and she was like a young cub and it was a great thing do for our geriatric animals. The other c is conservation and i cant believe im so excited about vulture, but vultures are in crisis. She will permanently reside in the zoo zoo and well bring her a male and hopefully have baby vultures soon. We have a new exhibit coming thanks to the gifts of two of our emeritus Board Members and well have a wolf canyon. We have taken two of our old bear grottos and combined them into one. On one side there will be glass, to the visitor can get close to the wolves and on the other side, there actually will be space between the wolf and visitors, so the wolf has choice to connect with the visitor or not . In between were taking advantage of the old finger wall and creating an area where visitors can go in and get closer to the wolves. I wanted to show you a picture of wolfs that are coming. The mexican grey wolfs and they are reddish and gray. This is a great conservation story, only five of them left in the wild this. Is a program managed by the u. S. Fish and wildlife, who came to the zoo and said can you help us . Were going to take in three males and the hope is that we release them once again into the wild. This will be a temporary, flexible space in response to what u. S. Fish and wildlife needs. And another partnership in conservation, what is my next slide . I have to brag about our babies to the left there is our newborn giraffe, ingrid born at 6 high and weighs 150 pounds and she is not even 2weeksold. Poor mother. [laughter ]. And we thank the oshers for their generosity and ingrid is after mrs. Osher mother. That is an baby ant eater, he or she was recently born. The baby stays on the mothers back for a year. We try not to interfere with that process. So we actually dont know the sex of that ant eater yet. Ant eater is highly endangered and were thrilled that we can continue to breed them. Speaking of endangered, these are tadpoles. This is a project with yosemite. Were actually birthing these endangered frogs and well release them back into yosemite on may 25th. So i just thought i would show you a picture of the hatchlings at the zool they are offexhibit, but an exciting project to bring an extinct species. Were celebrating earth day this sunday. This is a number of activitis with a Farmers Market and walkers and others at our conservation corner. Again, all is free with admission and free for members. Upcoming last, but not least well have our annual gala on april 30th. Well be celebrating 40 years of nature trail this. Is one of our teen programs where teens are out in the childrens zoo during the summer, taking care of animals, but also interacting with our visitors. And well be honoring senator feinstein, who has been a long supporter of the zoo. Tickets are Still Available and i thank you for your support in the annual gala. With that, i finish my report. Thank you. Any Public Comment on this item . Being none, Public Comment is closed. This was discussiononly. So were now on item 7. Franklin square shadow from 24352445 16th street good morning, commissioners. Good morning. Im brian stokle with the capital and Planning Division of the department. Before you, we have the shadow analysis on Franklin Square from 2445 16th street. As we know there was in proposition k was passed, that made the regulation that any building over 40 must have a shadow analysis, if it has a possibility of shading a recreation and park property. And the 1989 memo outlined the details of what the impacts would be along with the Planning Department. So 2445 16th street is located at corner of 16th street and on the Southwest Corner as you see in the red square there. About a block away is Franklin Square. Its located in an urban mixeduse zone. And it has nearby other zoning of residential, and production distribution and repair zoning. And as you might see, just for reference, there is the Shopping Center to the north and muni yard to the south of the park. The project itself is proposed for 53 dwelling units with groundfloor retail. Its a mixeduse development in the eastern neighborhoods area and has 42 offstreet Parking Spaces. And it does have some onsite open space, roof garden, roof terrace and rear yard on the secondfloor. Its 68 tall about 7stories tall. Franklin square is 4. 4 acres in size. The features include the most prominent being the regulationsize soccer pitch. Which is Synthetic Turf. There is a playground in the lower left corner, the southwest. And there is a path surrounding the soccer field. So the shadow that would be cast by this project would only be arriving at in Late Afternoon and evenings, no earlier than 5 45 p. M. , and it would be sometime between march and lateseptember to be specific, march 1st, and september 27th. The shadow does not reach the playground whatsoever. Nor does it affect the soccer pitch. The largest shadow would be on june 23rd, and that would be around 7 36 p. M. And the longest shadow would be for 44 minutes on august 23rd. And the location of it would be well get to the map in a moment would be on the western edge, where there is a grove of small group of trees. Most of the shade would be in Late Afternoon, no earlier than 5 45 p. M. Excuse me and the shadow cast by it would be an increase of. 004 . Currently the park has a shadow of just over 5 , and this would increase it by. 004 . To a total of 5. 558 . So you see here this is where the greatest impact of the shade. Its on the western edge of the park, beyond the soccer pitch. There is a path there, and some grass, and some trees. And this would be at 7 36 p. M. In the area there are several other projects. One to the east, the yellow box is under construction currently. The other projects that are called out to the west, and the southwest have not had shadow studies performed on them yet, because they are much earlier phases of their development. We have received several letters of recommendation of the project supporting it, and the project is paying its impact fees, and it will for housing, it will be doing in lieu fees for belowmarketrate housing. I will be available for questions, and planning staff is here also for questions. Thank you. I do have Public Comment. Would you like to go there . Please. Andrew greg. Good morning, commissioners. Mr. Ginsburg. Andrew greg, on behalf of the project sponsor. Thank you for looking at this project. We had a nice meeting with the capital committee. You have heard from rec and park staff and planning staff has also done very nice work on this project. So we want to thank them. Our project team has been working hard on this development for two years. It will provide, as was just stated, 53 new homes at this location, the northeast mission. We do care about Franklin Square. Its going to be an asset for our future residents and were indeed forecasting 4 1,000 percent new shadow, but we see it as minimal and hope you agree with us on that. Please know that i have letters of support that are coming in in advance of hopefully our Planning Commission meeting in june. I have 15 letters of support. You can go ahead and leave it there. Okay. For the project, i have the project architect today, if you have questions about the architecture and i have our shadow consultant adam noble. With that, we stand ready to answer any questions you have and i respectfully request that you approve this project and let us go forward. Thank you very much. Thank you. Is there anyone else who would like to make Public Comment on this item . Being none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner low. The 3. 832 Million Dollar inlieu fee, what percentage of affordability does that equate to . Roughly . I dont have that maybe the project sponsor might know . Excuse me, commissioner low. In terms of our below marketrate housing as you know there is an ordinance going through right now that could impact what we have to do. So the inlieu versus onsite is very much in fluc. If the current trailing measure goes forward, our minimum will be 18. 5 onsite. The inlieu fee will jump to 33 . So the project sponsor is kind of looking at which option, and that should be we should have an ordinance from the board in the next two weeks. So the staff report of 3. 823 is base ed on what percentage. The inlieu percentage i want to say was 23 or 25 perhaps. That could jump up to 33 . If we do inlieu. That is the discussion the board at the Land Use Committee this past monday was very clear that with this new legislation, what they are trying to do is really push onsite. Right. So they are making the inlieu fee much higher. Okay. Okay. So the project sponsor still those make that decision and in the intervening two months before we go to planning. Our colleagues on the Planning Commission, im sure will sort that out. Yes, they will, as will the District Supervisor and some other folks. We will work through that. Okay. Thank you sir. See nothing other comment to entertain a motion. To adopt the resolution that is in our packet. Thank you, margaret, i was just about to say that. I would like to move this for approval with the resolution in the packet. Is there a second . Second. Its been moved and seconded. All those in favor . Aye. Opposed .