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Or the two general Public Comment but not on todays calendar and suggest necessary agendas for the commissions future consideration. Commissions future consideration. discussion item. and members of the public that would like to comment on nothing not on todays agenda seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Item 3 discussion and possible action to make remedies on the board of supervisors file no. Reorganization technical and other amendments other amendments. Ordinance amending other planning code sections reorganize article 7 and to update, correct, clarify, and simplify code language in other planning code sections requiring taraval, and judah neighborhood commercial districts ncds enacting permanent controls at this time large scale urban agriculture Business Hours fro 2 00 a. M. To 6 00 a. M. , and the demolition or merge of units on the the north beach ncd; preserve the small storefronts, street frontage and prohibit vehicular access on certain streets with the vehicular access on certain streets with the manufacturing and amending the eating and drinking controls our presenter is aaron starr manager, legislative affairs, Planning Department. And this is a discussion item item. Hi welcome. Again my name is starr manager, legislative affairs, Planning Department. Good afternoon, commissioners the item before you is phase two and phase three of planning Code Organization that that focuses an article 7 like to begin by explaining why the department started the process that is a large and complicated document some of the complexities we having a daytime city and reflects the aspirations and the citys neighborhood and have the identity for the land use controls, however, there is a level of complexity in the code that is urban necessary the code is added to over the years without thought for reorganization or over lapsing controls so it is not 0 easy to find the controls and some of the controls are lost because of complaekt that makes that difficult for planners to do their job and for the members of the public individuals this will illustrate the citys 1948 planning code 27 pages 4 of the text of the planning code and the other 23 include the land use maps you can look at it as a historical document next, we have the planning code from 1978 this cod is quite a bit longrange and complicated 200 and 17 pages and then have todays planning code with the 3 volumes over 13 hundred pages the code has grown significantly not only in size but complexity in recent years normally i bring the code but not going back to the office this is a picture prior to the project 4 places in the code you can find 4 definitions in article 2 and 83 was to promulgate the chariots in article 2 and article 7 and similar but difficult tables in article 8 after is process will be one set of definitions given the number of definitions from 15 to one and 16 there will be standardized ways of Informational Organization and all will be gone awhile maintaining the legislative aide recollections for i like to say preserving the necessary code how do does the code maintain the basic structure until second year 86 and article 7 is prior to many the standards were in article 1 and two is the control for organizing tabs tables that have the definition we had one dozen district and fewer regulations, however, the code has a complaekt with suspending added to the code for used in the commercial districts trying to bring the order to the code the city has article 7 this created general as well as individual commercial districts and deleted some of the special use districts added a new set of articles a new way of organizing the information known as is zoning control and article 8 adam definition and also similar but different tables article 2 is the same 3 definitions in way ways of conveying the controls from the planning code initiated in 2013 to restructure the planning code to be easier to understand and use the accomplished by the standard disz and he zoning format to help to achieve that is divided two phase three. Fetish one article 2 is the mixed use and pdr and zoning map as far the consolidated definitions have been successful 3 streets it is overall helping this helps phase two and focuses an article 7 of the planning code that governs the eastern neighborhoods commercial strict that phase three will focus an article 8 that covers chinatown and south of market since is definition have been consolidated in section 1012 under the main component to reenforcement the tables to mimic in article 2 and consolidated the definitions in article two as part of definition in 790 will be deleted in section one one 02 are providing contribution for this phase even though next one of the Biggest Challenges will be regulated certain challenges to how to say regulated is removal of groupings in section 790 made up of individual uses ill go into this later in the definition the ordinance eliminates 415 that cover the mixed use except one diverse those controls are the same in section 306 that covers the cu and others entitlements for the rest of the city a lot of envocation between the sections the one is a 20 day 90s for the commercial and mixed use district and other Zoning District are only 10 days this ordinance makes the 20 day notice standard throughout the nose it takes out the food existence with the redundancycy and the definition to better describe how their regulate in the planning code these will have been requested and commissioner tang and supervisor peskin with the outer sunset with the conditional use for the personal services on the second floor and reconstitutes the cu for the mcds in the outer part supervisor peskin has requested to the north beach mcd for land and storefronts consolidation and prohibits the access in green street and prohibit a loss of twmz on the uttering floors about the agricultural for twentyfour hour businesses and restable for restaurants and removes the section from movie theatres add specialist im sorry food definitions for the north beach sud and requires the cu and requires the eating and drinking for the 2011 ordinance and finally supervisor peskin asked the mcd momentum to allow the restaurants and require conditional use authorization for the bars the next few shades will show how it works under phase with the 8 categories agricultural and automotive and entertainment and be parts and recreation owe institutional and residential, sales and service and utilities and infrastructure each of the using includes a list under that category example agricultural is defined as a category that includes the neighborhood argue and identified the uses in the use definition for example, the Jewelry Store is Retail StoresAdvisory Board injury 124e identify the category in the first part and this is how that will work in the chart as you can see rather than listing all the two industry uses we have the use category and this is not permitted saying that for the institutional we list 8 individual use but the use for the controls for the other of this helps to cut down on the length of the chart and also allows for every use to be accounted for in the control table 0 from the supervisor supports that and is willing to take on the Public Outreach for the backing of the supervisor im not willing to but that in there it depends on the supervisor wanting to make changes i reject but they complicate the issue just to really restructure the planning code so it is consistent but i made the offer and holding to it okay im good with that thank you so the supervisors you support was the proxy for the district. Yeah. In the supervisors supported it when we introduced an ordinance we assumed theyve done the Public Outreach for the changes. Commissioner yeeriley yes, thank you for the presentation and also you mentioned you sent out thousands of invitations and had 3 meetings people showed up unfortunately in the very many thats i put the sign up on the plus not a very engaging topic nobody wants to take the planning Code Organization but we did we are continuing the outreach and trying to reach out to bay area and looking at organizations to make sure they teach them and if they have concerns were also meeting with the council the thought merchant our each continues not a sexy topic frankly. The ones you met with what are the reactions. I think that some of of them were fine when they were mr. Pacheco the proposal they were comfort with that and liked the idea that consolidating easier to use some groups are very weary of changes reacted negatively and spent a lot of time responding to letters and emails when they bring up an issue ill counter that with how it is working thats why that southern is negated i would able to win over a lot of people but i im willing to meet and talk with people about them. Do you think that all of the changes may not have a lot of impact for the existing businesses. I certainly hope not were keeping controls the same for example, were pulling out uses from the other rare sales and Services Category theyll be permitted before the way they were previously a neighbor can come in and go to the supervisor and change that that allows that to heap for more finegrain controllers from the commercial districts but as it effects the existing businesses it may help future businesses i hope the code will be clear and easier to understand so a Small Business owner what get information from planning staff. So mostly impacts the new businesses coming in. Yes. Thank you commissioner dooley. Ive spent a lot of time with you aaron starr and got things done in north beach my question do you feel that consistency should take precedence over the needs of mcd. So i think that we are preserving a lot of the uniqueness so like i said the definitions were really predator indicated an article 7 and it preserves the controls in the neighborhood district so the specific controls were decides on by the community and makes each neighborhood unique are being preserved i dont think that is a trade off between consistency and between specializetion or zoning controls i guess youre not squaring won over the other. They use well, i found that inaudible . Not necessarily positive changes and each will district i mean, i reality appreciate that aaron took the time with us to acid for many, many hours to make sure that to continue to preserve what is a special district but you know, i was surprised that even though districts did not spend the time for example, we got put in our part of code a new definition about commercial manufacturing so we can allow for example, a regional aspect to come in as a different category and thought that the districts would have would have been interested so. Right. It depends on the district. But as aaron pointed out the objectives i i remember he opened pandoras box but put pandora is back in the box but to simply reorganize things you were asking for a new definition than that was sort of beyond the scope of this project the call not to have everybody rush to the go table had can i jam but rather ill reorganize things and under the new reorganization if you want to plug thing into the mcd great we have a cleaner framework. Yes. And no, because some of the things that have been perhaps inadvertently deleted are not positively things and once appreciate that aaron recognizes these and these are things that are include for everyone so that, you know, that was a very interesting exercise for us and im not faulting aaron im surprised that the sdpikts didnt spend the time reviewing it is not boring it was fruitful i will urge other districts to have i wish theyd done the same. So aaron during our organizing and sorting things out the implication some mistakes or oversights and this effort this particular group underwent basically said hey go things fell through the cracks a lets fix that. Thats why we have the introduction period and then the adoption of the planning code we pistol the information and receive effecting so countless hours of the north beach but were spent a lot of time responding for the coalition for the neighborhood concerns and they will say have issues with certain is changes made that i changed based on that so part of the progress and i found though i was surprised the translation of the charts ive not had a lot of comment on that the system to accurately translate the current definitions and i havent received much criticism or feedback on that i think i maintain the existing controls with commissioner dooley is referring to has to do with with the sections of the code that are amend and having because we changed the grouping we had to change and list those so learning curb i think i have you know internally been looking at this as well ill say that north beach is a unique district in San Francisco a very complex controls and theyre there to preserve the north beach unique character and it has an sud that is with the commercial district theyre basically two Zoning Districts for the planning corrode k34r5ib8g9d district thats one reason i didnt reach out to them in the proper like over a year ago. As normally the case far more interest in what youve done than what youre going to do once you have done what youre going to do what kind of process some other district came forward and says oh, i see what you do and there are things missed. We im sorry we did article 2 we knew there will be errors i set up a expedite we had another ordinance to adopt to correct the errors sow the exception their licking be a secondary action. Yeah. Ill even file with yes, a clean up after this i think that is just you know as theres the causeandeffect you will probably is this will cause people to wake up and say wait. Yeah. Is also hospitals people what is kind of controls the neighborhood in the commercial districts including in the chart are included and a lot of things are spelled out more clearly and people didnt know things were spelled ousted clearly but can go back and change things. Commissioner zouzounis. Thank you for your presentation i hoping you can walk me through the language im not familiar with that. Ill be happy to. Just to follow up on the question so formula retail i dont understand that referred to Ownership Structure than new. Correct. So we consider formula retail a huge characteristic you have a bank that is formula retail or a restaurant that is formula retail or have a Clothing Store formula retail we have a code that independence what groups of retail uses formula retail and not all are formula retail but pretty much all of them now are we included the banks and some other ones recently. And so secondly im trying to look at the names of the file number included in the packet that is referencing something in the code has to do with with the grocery specialist designation and im just trying to understand everything that is pertaining to that sector the liquor store and i wanted to know if something that for a grocery speciality is inside or outside what that use. Speciality grocery will no longer allow the seating to help to distinguish between limited restaurants. Thats new. Inside and outside we dont dictate seating outside but i mean on the sidewalk so the dpw handles that. Probably not we get a referral but, yeah im sorry we specialities grocery will no longer be available to have. Nancy and others have concerns there was no significant differentiation between a limited and grocery so out of conversations with the Zoning Administrator the way we made more depiction is seating at the speciality grocery that will not be l