and thank you for joining us >> commissioner antonini? >> move to continue items 1 through 4 to the data signed. >> second. >> on that motion to continue, commissioner antonini? >> aye. >> commissioner borden? >> aye. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> commissioner moore? >> aye. >> commissioner sugaya? >> aye. >> commissioner wu? >> aye. >> and commission president fong? tea aye. >> so moved, commissioners. that passiones 7 to 0 and places you under your consent calendar. all matters listed here under constitute a consent calendar are considered to be routine by the planning commission and will be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public or staff so requests, in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. we do have a request from the commission to take item 6 separately, so, we won't be considering that and it's not being pulled off of the c

antonini, aye. >> borden >> aye. >> hillis? >> aye. >> sugaya. >> aye. >> and places you under the consent calendar, all items considered to be routine by the planning commission and will be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission and no separate discussion of these it e78s unless the member of the commission or the public requests and the matter will be removed from considered as a separate item in this or a future hearing. and item 4, case number 2012.1400 c. >> move to approve. >> second. >> on that motion to approve all items listed under your consent calendar. >> antonini. >> aye. >> hillis. >> aye. >> moore. >> aye. >> sugaya. >> aye. >> wu. >> aye. >> fong. >> aye. that motion passes, 7-0. >> adoptions on the draft minutes. >> is there any comment on the draft minutes? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner borden? >> approve the minutes. >> second. >> on that motion, to adopt draft minutes, for july 25th, 2013, commissioner antonini? >> aye. >> borden. >> aye. >> hillis. >> aye. >> moore.

thank you. >> commissioner antonini? >> yeah, some questions on some of the findings that is right interest statements, but i'm not quite sure how they tie into whole document. there was mention that there are 117 thousand elderly san franciscans uninsured. the obama administration, i'm not sure how he is the going to be covered. >> certainly more of those people will have insurance after january 1, 2013. we estimate that about two-thirds of the people who are currently uninsured will be eligible for some kind of health insurance. not everyone will be mandated and not everyone will need health care services. about 1/3 will be uninsured. >> finally we find that families are living san francisco. more families moving out than moving in. i expect that lack of access to health care may be for that. >> not necessarily. if there were fewer families with children perhaps that reflects the need for less of a need for pediatric care as an example or maybe not, i don't know. it's demographic information that's helpful for the task

>> second. >> commissioner antonini? >> and also i would also like to not a condition but certainly i did make mention of some things that were mentioned in the letter from environmental department, which is you know making sure that these things are in fact carried out. by the project sponsor. as they go forward, which i assume the standard operating procedure in it should be. >> commissioner moore? >> i also like to see and i am not sure how to phrase that. that construction equipment and accessive impact on the verde side sidewalk to be minimized so that the club despite the interruptions will have to use it when they do. >> commissioner sugaya >> just one, and i would like to amend my last one. i think that the base line be submitted to the historic preservation staff for approval otherwise we have no way of knowing. seconder okay with that? >> yeah. >> sxh commissioner antonini? i appreciate the changes that were made to try to soften the impact and set back and eliminate some of the upper floors, adjacent to the ve

. >> commissioner antonini. >> well, i have some thoughts on this. i don't really care what the relative size is if the deck is relative to the other decks in the area. it's whatever is suiting the project sponsor. it looks like -- i'm not sure if this is 25 by 10. it looks like it probably runs the width of the house almost, and then i would assume it's about -- our project architect, is it 10 foot -- >> yeah, 25 by 12. >> please come to the podium. >> yeah, just tell me what the dimensions are. >>> the setback from both -- the setback from one side property line approximately 4-1/2 to 5 feet. and the adjacent space happens to be above the street which is the series of steps, which is also one of the reasons why we can have the deck up against that property line and it's open to the public. >> right. what are the dimensions? it's probably in our paperwork. >>> i believe it's 20 by -- >> [speaker not understood]. >> okay, thank you. the point is the 12 because i was thinking 25 by 10, but now, you know, because as you start to pull the thing back, pa

commissioner antonini? >> thank you. >> interesting discussion and a couple of things that i think are pretty clear. never really concerned about the number of floors, we are looking at the total height or the relationship of one building to the other and you could have a situation where one building is 6 floors and the other was 4 and they are virtually on the same level. and i think so, it is just symantics how many floors you are going to say this new project has. and a couple of things, i am a little concerned about the presentation of the project just because while the dr requestor's home has been keeping with the rest of the neighborhood, sort of differentiated between the concrete look on the lower floors, and more of a wood, and metal features on the uppers, the project sponsor's building seems to be a little bit boxy and stark, so i would like to see, if not, a change in the design, at least maybe, a little bit of a change in the materials on the upper floor. and but, i don't really see any kind of

commissioner antonini. >> aye. >> borden. >> alicia winterstein. >> moore. aye. >> wu. >> no. >> that passes five to one with commissioner wu voting against. >> zoning administrator, what say you? >> close the public hearing grant the variance and if you would like a copy of that letter contact the staff planner. commissioners, if there is nothing further on this item, we can move on to public comment and i do have

commissioner antonini. >> thank you for all testifying. i will reveal at the beginning of my comments that i know dr. darren rishwain. he's an endodontist in marin county. i'm aden at this timev in san francisco. we know of each other, but we do not do business together very often. most of his referrals come from marin and my referrals go to endodontists in san francisco. but there is no economic connection between us. ~ a dentist and his wife pam is a friend of my daughter-in-law, angie antonini. i will tell you i can be objective in this and i will tell you why as i give my reasons for being supportive of many parts of their d-r request. i had occasion to visit their house in the past and i often -- i will always go to visits whenever i'm requested by d-r requestors or project sponsors and i've done it for the 11 years i've been on the planning commission to try to see for myself what the situation is. and when i was there, it happened to be a month when the sun was towards the north, probably may, maybe june, and it was a time of the da

. >> commissioner antonini. >> i'm fine with the motion.ust the clarification that we would get an informational presentation with the architectural renderings once they're agreed upon between project sponsor and hpc architectural and planning staff, i think, in conjunction. >> i'm told i think that because the hpc is a separate charter body, you can't require them to do something. you can request that the project sponsor go to their committee. >> [speaker not understood]. [laughter] >> we're sitting here squibling asking what we're being asked to do. [multiple voices] >> you work with the staff, you come back -- >> we urge you to -- [multiple voices] >> come back in four months. >> so, commissioners, i do have a motion and second on the floor. to condition that the project be extended for a two-year period only and ultimately at the end of that two-year period if there needs to be another extension that they have to come back to the planning commission to request that. and the design return as an informational item to the planning commissi

commissioner antonini. >> yeah, a question for staff first on the noticing issue. i mean, i'm down there almost every night exercising, going by there and i saw the signs. but i was looking for them because i knew it was coming up. but how about noticing or has notice been sent to the neighborses? >> thank you, commissioner. as with many types of projects we have, there is basically a three-prong noticing approach. there is the published ad that goes in the newspaper 20 days prior to the hearing. the posters that you saw inside and there were two posters for this particular project, one for each frontage at mission and fremont. finally there is the mail notification which was sent out also 20 days prior to the hearing. all property owners within 300 feet and we were able to verify [speaker not understood] of this issue that mail was sent to 45 fremont street associates specifically. so, all three of those notification methodologies were satisfied in this case. >> okay, thank you. then i have a question for project sponsor in regards to the fee issue. now, correct m

. >> commissioner antonini. >> thank you. i have a few comments. first, i understand this property does largely lay within the transit center development plan, and i would like to kind of if there is any history about this site or the height consideration, certainly it would be interesting to know. i sat through the approvals during that time, but, you know, it would be interesting to know if there was any consideration of this as we move forward with the plan, although that's not before us today. what's before us is the draft e-i-r. and i do agree with -- though it's not before us today, i agree with commissioner moore some kind of sculpting might be advantageous. we see he that in the ymca and the gap and some of the other buildings that have been built there. but are there a few things with reference to the plan itself? i think there is mention in the draft e-i-r of the shadow impacts of the building, and then the effects that the buildings now or soon to be under construction in the transit district will have on mitigating these shadows because

. >> commissioner antonini. >> yes, sarah, thank you very much. following up on the questions about community plan exemption or area plan exemption, you're saying that the notification is going to occur if a building, proposed building was not part of an area plan exemption. then, of course, it would be notified in a certain way there would be certain environmental hearings that would be needed, often an e-i-r. and if it satisfies the requirements and it does president have to go through that same process because it's conforming to the exemptions within an area, there would still be the same notification if a building was conforming to the air exemption? >> yes. there are sort of a number of types of notification that are all being talked about at once. the neighborhood notification that we send out at the beginning of an environmental review process is something that is done for negative declarations and certain types of exemptions. and what this legislation did was it added community plan exemptions to the types of projects or the types of envir

. >> commissioner antonini? >> yeah. a suggestion on that subject, i know that mcclarin park has a lot of acres and only a small part of it is due to active usage and most of it is uninproved and that might be the site where more fields could be put in and the city already owns it and it might be a benefit and make the park more welcoming. >> it is one of the major goals is to activate that space. >> thank you. >> and then, on the dogs issue, i know that we have spent a lot on creating these dog runs and unrelist tick to expect someone who goes to the park not to bring their dog with them and allow them to rom p around. but for parks, that are areas that are planted areas that are not recreational areas, it would be good to keep the dogs off of there for a possibility if that can be possible if it just makes the maintenance even harder, if there are no areas, where the people are allowed to go on them any way, it would be good that they don't let their dogs on there too. and finally, we have heard for years, that i forge

>> yes, i think that one thing that commissioner antonini mentioned was materials. and part of, and i understand that the architecture, and the way that it is expressed, is probably best expressed in stucco which i think is the exterior and it is not concrete. and the use of wood may not be quite appropriate in this case in terms of the architectural design and i am trying to, and i am trying to think of a way to perhaps, lessen, maybe it is the rendering that makes the stucco in which you have the stucco painted white and maybe, with the staff you could work on that in terms of a color pallet that is not quite so, contracted with the neighborhood which i think is mainly wood framed buildings and smaller scale, perhaps. and woodsiding and singles and i don't know, and i don't know that neighborhood intimately. and your neighbor that the dr requestor's building, has wood elements on it. but, i am not trying to get you to do with it or perhaps through some kind of a color pallet, you know, if it softened the effects so to speak. also in terms of what is before us, and

. >> commissioner antonini. >> i'm very supportive. it seems like a very good solution to a need the town school has, and it doesn't hurt the city any. rec/park gets some rental for a space that is presently vacant and they're losing some major sources of revenue in the next year or so. so, i mean, it doesn't hurt to have that rental income, too. and i'm assured it sounds like the parking solution is a good one and it's particularly a good choice in my mind a k through 4. the lower school, because those little guys probably need to be dropped off as close to their destination as even more so than the ones in the upper part of the school. so, and it doesn't interfere with the theater which is still an active part of the palace. so, i'm in favor and i would move to approve. >> i'm sorry. >> there is a motion and second on the floor, commissioner. >> sorry. >> would you call the question, please? >> sure. on that motion to approve with conditions commissioner antonini? >> aye. >> commissioner borden? >> aye. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye

. >> commissioner antonini? >> yeah, so i would like to make a motion and to take the dr and at a notice of special restriction to not allow cooking facilities on the ground floor. but otherwise approve the project. >> second. >> and on that motion and commissioners to take dr adding or requiring that an nsr be recorded, and the cooking facilities of the lower portion of this project. commissioner antonini. >> aye. >> borden. >> alicia winterstein. >> moore. aye. >> wu. >> no. >> that passes five to one with commissioner wu voting against. >> zoning administrator, what say you? >> close the public hearing grant the variance and if you would like a copy of that letter contact the staff planner. commissioners, if there is nothing further on this item, we can move on to public comment and i do have one speaker card. >> great. >> thank you. >> there is no name, but the resident of 195 west portal avenue. sorry. >> thank you. commissioners. appreciate the opportunity to talk to the item four, which is previously come

commissioner antonini. >> there have been allegations that the notification was inadequate i will assume that this has been notified according to our rules? >> it has been sent, first hearing on july 11 it was announced for a continuance to september 26th. and i would just say, that the dr requestor was kind of complaining why we did not send out a second notice for that continuance and as the rule says, we do not. as long as the commissioner announced the continuance. >> thank you. so i think that deals with that particular thing. and i have a question, i guess maybe for staff, also, sorry. and i am looking at the plans, and i am looking for the plans for the addition. and it looks like they have on the first floor a living room and a bedroom and a den and garage and two bedrooms and a couple of bathrooms which is extensive and i am not sure why you would have a second living room in a single family home when you already have a living room upstairs. >> responding to the commissioner antonini. we have this morning we contacted the project sponsor and asked him the same question and basic

commissioner wu, fong, moore, sugaya, hill it's, antonini, >> good morning commissioners. i will call roll for you, sugaya, mcgee, singer, commissioner. present. >> thank you. commissioners that will place you under your special calendar. each secretary will call the matter for the record and you will be hearing public comment and presentations shortly but acting on them shortly. item 1: item 1: care services master plan - on november 23, 2010, the board of supervisors adopted ordinance no. 300-10, requiring the department of public health and the planning department to prepare a health care services master plan "hcsmp"), to "provide the health commission, the planning commission and board of supervisors with information and public policy recommendations to guide their decisions to promote the city's land use and policy goals developed in such plan, such as distribution and access to health care services". the ordinance created planning code sections 342 and 342.10 to create and implement the hcsmp. an informational hearing on the draft hcsmp was held at the health commiss