The monday, january 14, 2013 meeting of the land use committee. Our clerk is mr. Derek evans. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. All documents included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will be acted upon in the january 29, 2013 board of supervisors meeting unless otherwise stated. We only have two items on this agenda. Item 1 is an ordinance amending the San Francisco Business Code to permit permit expirations and extensions and to modify various fees. We have from the department of building inspection Pamela Levitt good afternoon, pamela levin, Deputy Director administrative services, department of building inspection. The legislation before you is designed it achieve the following objectives. The first is to continue to encourage the growth in the economy by extending the life for review and approval for permit applications for large projects from 360 to 720 days, clarifying the time limitations for permit p
This agenda. Item 1 is an ordinance amending the San Francisco Business Code to permit permit expirations and extensions and to modify various fees. We have from the department of building inspection Pamela Levitt good afternoon, pamela levin, Deputy Director administrative services, department of building inspection. The legislation before you is designed it achieve the following objectives. The first is to continue to encourage the growth in the economy by extending the life for review and approval for permit applications for large projects from 360 to 720 days, clarifying the time limitations for permit processing so that it begins when the permit is provided to dbi for review and the clock stops when it is returned to planning for a Design Change that is required by the building department. Extending the period of time for dbi to notify a project sponsor before a permit is canceled, and extending the time for completing all the work authorized by a building permit. The second objec
Beneficiaries and now we have the need for hotels and especially the needs for hotels in all speekts e sectors. Lets talk about time. We asked for 3 years. Presumably because of the age of the entitlement the staff is rome one year. There are a number of things that have to take place and in San Francisco everything takes longer it might expect. Were going to work as rapidly as possible but we dont want our hands tied. We want to split that maybe two years with an additional year if we can demonstrate diligence in getting the hotel built. Thats our presentation. Dan is here and would like to address you, we have 89 minutes left which we dont need. Thank you president fong and commissioners and director ram. Dan with the group. I will be very brief but im pleased to be here in front of i and to let you know were thufly excited about this project. We finished the joint venture with some capable folks weve got a gravity Team Including seasoned local expertise and backing for this project.
And id like to think that that is certainly not the case. And im hoping that you will reconsider and keep your approval of course to the original project okay, thank you, maam. Your time is up. And thank you. Thank you. Next speakers, if i called your name in addition, robert her and tom harte. President fong, commissioners, director ram, im here representing 45 fremont associates as they are the building directly to the north on fremont street, 350 mission. And our very acute problem is that we did not receive notice of this proceeding or that there was a contemplation an increase of 100 feet in height, six stories, 25 increase in the building adjacent to our building, and in particular, adjacent to our public plaza area. We respectfully request a postponement of a month so that we can review the voluminous staff report and its attachments and determine the impact of an increase in height of that magnitude on our public plazas, on the adjacent streets, wind effect, wind impact, all of
Years. It would construct a hotel a ground floor lobby and restaurants and excessive meeting rooms. The project was originally approved in 2001 and given extensions in 20034 and 10. It has not been gone forward because of the economy. Those down turns were precipitated by the terrorist attacks and the Global Economic recession. However, the sponsor wants a 3 years extension. The staff believes that an extension is appropriate since it was beyond the control of the sponsor. Its ideally located for an hotel and the attractions around union square. And its contemporary but is reasonably designed for the skefrment you districts. However, because of the current economic climate the staff asked for 1 year extension. This includes my presentation im available for questions. Thank you project sponsor. Good afternoon president s fong and members of the commission, director ram im jim rubin this time representing the hotels and partnership of Brand New Partnership that the proposed developer of