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Can i have a motion and a second, please . Second. Aye. [laughter] Planning Commission regular hearing for thursday, december 19, 2019. I will remind members of the public that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. Please silence cell phones. I would like to take roll at this time. [roll call] we expect commissioner richards to be absent today. First on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance. Items 1a and b at 2028 through 2030 leavenworth street, discretionary review proposed to continuance for january 16. Case 201700515, 1300 columbus avenue is pro...

Yards of the Caesar Chavez homes. We also had to solve for runoff issues leading down to the north. Under current conditions, the winter rains have saturated overlaying soft soils and surface water runs down the rear yard and into the homes below. Our approach was to integrate site drainage and storm Water Management solutions and gather water from the roof and put them into a central cistern. It presented significant fire and life saving challenges. We worked with several areas for the following provisions. Red, no parking zone in front is thats it. You can finish. No parking zone in the fron...

Little bit on the Carriage House. This is a little odd, but i want to talk about our variance request. About a month ago, after more than a year of processing, staff told us it may not or that it is disinclined to grant our rear yard variance request for the Carriage House on the grounds that it can be approved as an a. D. U. With a waiver from the Zoning Administrator. And respectfully, this is not something the project sponsor supports for a few different reasons. First, it would prohibit this unit from being available for someone to buy. While that may not sound like much, the Carriage Hous...

The last project that was up, because thats also a flag lot. This is the full access for this project. Life safety is a major concern for the neighbors of this group. Im actually a developer as well. I build power plants, and life safety is something we take seriously. Having a single egress in event of an emergency, frankly, is something we are having a really hard time understanding, especially when a conditional use has to be granted by this body, saying that that is the right decision to make. So if there was a fire at this restaurant thats here, the building next door, residents would hav...

Retailers, local and big box and just about everybody and nobody could make it work. Even using the global reach of our company, we couldnt make it happen. Nowhere in this country is there a shopping sent we are as many floors as westfield San Francisco center. Not in chicago, not in new york. The retail is why they succeed which is why the body amended the planning code to eliminate the need for a cup for the seventh and eighth floors and above. So we believe this investment is good for San Francisco center and mixed use buildings are inherently complementary with the office use supporting th...