>> aye. >> commission president fong? >> aye. >> that motion passes 5 to 1 with commissioner sugaya voting against. >> i personally don't think it's a conflict. so, that's why i voted that way. >> commissioners, again, i'm kevin guy with planning staff. the request before you is to amend a previously approved project at 350 mission street in order to add additional office space. in 2011 the commission approved a project to demolish an existing four-story building and construct a new 24-story 350-foot office building containing approximately 340 square feet of office uses, 1,000 square feet of ground floor retail space, or 23,500 square feet of subterranean parking. this project is currently under construction. so, today's request is to amend the previous conditional use -- i'm sorry, office allocation and downtown project allocation approvals, to add up to six additional floors of office space. the project as amended would reach up to 30 stories with a height of 455 feet to the top of the mechanical parapet. the amended p

>> 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 consent calendar per se, but it will be voted on separately. so, commissioners, for the first matter under your consent calendar, item 5, case no. 2013.0282c for 2701 - 2703 folsom street, request for conditional use authorization. and items 7a and b for case no. 2011.0053cv for 25 elgin park, request for conditional us

fong for making that as painless as possible and for all the people presenting. so ms. chang call the next item >> 8 recom

request for conditional use authorization >> good afternoon president fong planning department. at&t seeks to build a maximum 3 story building within the union street neighborhood commercial district. the proposal allows for 3 antennas and one antenna would be to mimic the remaining two antennas would face the northeast facade. there are health concerns and the need for the site, historic attributes of the building and there would be electric cabinets and would reflect the cabinet within the guidelines and we recommended use of approval of authorization >> thank you. >> project sponsor please. >> good afternoon president fong and members of the commission arrest i'm a director for at at california. i'm joined today with the firm of edison whose a professional engineer and engineering firm that conducted the radio frequents at the site and his analysis is part of our packet payroll i'm joined with other folks. we're seeking an approval to place 3 antennas a small site one mount on the roof on union street. the necessary equipment will be located on the ground floor in the buildin

good afternoon president fong and commissioners i'm anthony. i'm one of the addition. what we have a new urban project it's a 10 story complex situated under 20 feet between van ness and polk street on bush. we have a project combination of 33 of market rat and a affordable units one and two bedrooms and the bedrooms are coordinated around the landscape. it is coherent and we believe our floor plans are are fairly efficient and they make liveable spaces to a relatively dense community examiner the designs allow the availability of natural light. the building mass is reduced by open court yard design by 20 feet on both sides of the building. we're about 15 feet above the maximum allowable so we definitely made an effort to make sure that the building is notice massive. it would feature high ceilings with the comparisons on bush street. and located on the ground floor also on the ground floor we have a commercial slash retail area that the existing business will continue at that location. within the building we have at least 16 bike lockers for the residents and two leve

good afternoon commissioners and wanting fong representing the lower polk neighbors. we met with the sponsor and since then we've not been contacted by e the developer. we were notified by the posting of today's hearing by the posting on the building and we requested a continuous to on october meeting. since then we've had back and forth e-mails. leadership of the lp n is not opposed to the project but we've been unable to meet with our membership. we do support the auto as a local business but we are not supportive of the new use but thought retention. we strongly request the ride share. we do want to mention we're concerned with thirty now comedies in the vicinity and it's to require some form of disclosure to the neighborhood for night life >> any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. opening up to commissioners. commissioner moore >> i just time to jump to the chase and support my continuous and the reasons are: while i think the project meets the planning code except for the vanes it more me presents a bad design seclusion and i'd like

president fong and commissioners, director ram good afternoon. i'm bob. member of the japan town organizing committee i'm here to ask you to pass this strategy document. it couldn't have long been possible without the commented and generous support of this commission and the patience and diligence of director ram and his planning staff. we're grateful and appreciate the hard work of the several senior planners (calling names) and special thanks to steve. i'm here to a give you a brief run down of the community outreach efforts of the organizing committee. we've been planning in japan town over 13 years. this is the third plan to save the neighborhood still we don't have a document endorsed by the city. the b m public works started in 2007 and in 2345089 it was sent back to work for further refinement. since then we've completed the dhs. over the years we've conducted way too many meetings and two property meetings with focus groups and outreach to stakeholders. since february alone we've conducted one community meeting, community property owner meetings a

good afternoon president fong and commissioners i'm anthony. i'm one of the addition. what we have a new urban project it's a 10 story complex situated under 20 feetwe

fong >> and this lady has a case in sacramento so she sent her apologizes but

fong >> and this lady has a case in sacramento so she sent her apologizes but expressed an interest to continue to serve. colleagues. >> colleagues, i want to speak in support of mr. goldberg he represents a demographic somebody brought that needs a voice and he's done a good job. my office has been looking at the c ac members and looking at the boarder transportation authority c ac and with the transit riders union and it's been a wonderful process by i'd like to thank him for praert in that process and i'd urge his support as an incumbent. any other questions about those seats and a supervisor kim >> i want to make sure we have a good balance of a lot of different factors we want to see. so far we've appointed 5 men and one woman. so i certainly would hope that with the at large seats we consider trying to do some balancing out. of the gender and looking at the city as well. i know how challenging it is our office did a lot of diverse background. but i certainly would like to see that >> excellent point commissioner campos. >> thank you, mr. chairman i want to echo our comments with

fong we have let me look at my cheat sheet we have 11 brt c ac seats and there's 6 incumbents or 5 that point to be reappointed and bruce does not seek reappointment is that right . can you make it easy >> this has this large table to break the c mc into a structure so on the first page is told them one the richmond set of seats there are 3 all the members seats are expired and the first two members listed are seeking reappointment. so i know that john an contacted our office but did jeff send any message >> she communicated she wanted to seek reappointment and we suggested they print herself today. >> so do you have any sense why she's not here today. >> i did not. so there's the 3 richmond seats and fillmore and western addition >> yes. i'm sorry the second package of your attachment that shows you the japan side of fillmore and there's two seats there and both seats the members are seeking reappointment james and the other gentleman. then if we want to move on to the tenderloin downtown there are two seats there and one is expired and that's the lady who's listed but she has not gott

-you remember the fongs, don't you, and their daughter karen ? - is she good-looking ? - i think she might be a little old for you, edward. that's okay. i like older women. you two used to play together when you were young. here's a picture. - very pretty. - isn't she ? and very bright. she's going to m.i.t. next year. - whoa, she's a babe ! - that's enough, edward. sit down. remember how we used to joke about the two of them getting married someday ? if henry doesn't want to marry her, i will. - she's all yours. i already got a girlfriend. - outstanding ! -besides, i don't even know her. -you'll get your chance thursday night. - i've invited the fongs for dinner. - sorry, i won't be here. i'm having dinner at sara's on thursday. oh, i'm sure you can get out of it. just tell them that this is very important. well, so is this. sara set this whole thing up so that we can tell her parents she and i are going together. oh ? this sounds serious. i assume that you've given this considerable thought ? - oh, sure. - and the fact that she's not chinese ? what's that got to do wi

>> aye. >> and commission president fong? >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously to 7 to 0 and places you on item 15, case no. 2013.0535cer for 3301 - 3601 lyon street. request for conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon, commissioners. mary woods of department staff. the cu before you is a request by the town group of boys to occupy the talented fine arts for a one-year term while its permanent main campus at 27.50 jackson street is being renovated. ~ the school has an enrollment cap on students. this will not change. the school will relocate about 200 kids from k through 4 to the towers of fine arts site. the cu is required because for the elementary school in a public zone, the department's recommendation is approve with conditions. this concludes my summary of the project. if you have any questions, i'm happy to answer. thank you. >> thank you. project sponsor, please. >>> thank you. i'm mark miller. i'm on the board of [speaker not understood]. i'm a san francisco resident and i've me

. >> why don't we now hear from the san francisco police department, either inspector fong or gordon. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i'm inspector fong, abc liaison region, he filed an application seeking a type 21 off-sale general license for 810 mission street. this permit is currently operating with an existing type 21 license and is seeking approval from the committee to extend the license to conduct the newly constructed entrance of the floor, police called for service from april, 2012 to april, 2013 is 0, there's no residents within 500 feet of this premises and a notice of the public was posted on may 22, 2013. this premises is located on plot number 222, it has 210 police reports reported for 2012, so the applicant's premises is located in a high criminal area. this is 176.01, the off-sale license authorizes by this tract is 7 and the active off-sale license is 9, so the applicant premises is located in an undue concentration area. there are no protests is recorded with the california department of alcoholic beverage control and letter of support is located with

. >> fong. >> so moved. that motion passes 6 to 1, can commissioner sugaya voting against. >> there is the matter of the project authorization. >> right. >> commissioner borden. i am going to make a motion to approve and add and have commissioner sugaya add in the three conditions to be part of that. >> all right. let me remember what they were. i did not include this one but i would like to include one that says that the project sfons soar will erect the temporary protective barriers against the club wall that faces their property. and i would like to include the creation of a training program for construction workers, and local 22, as well is going to be working on it. and to make the construction workers be made aware of the importance of the verde club which is the adjacent building. and that, they be ininstructed to be careful when they are working adjacent to that building, especially if you are using excavation and backhoes or whatever you are going to be doing for that work and that those drivers are

. >> fong? >> wu. >> here. >> antonini. >> here. >> and moore. >> sugaya. >> here. >> the consideration of items proposed for continuance, item one. , two, and three, proposed for continuance to september, 19th, 2013, i have no other items proposed to continuance and i have no speaker cards. >> is there any public comment on the three items proposed for continuance? >> seeing none, the public comment is closed, commissioner antonini. >> i move to continue the items, items 4, 5, and 6 to the... i am sorry, i am on the wrong side. 1, 2, 3, to the dates proposed. >> second. >> on that motion, to continue one, two, three. 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 fro

. >> good afternoon president's fong and members of the commission i'm jim rubin representing a couple of matters. i ask if i could confer this was pulled off the consent calendar and i'd like to address that and the staff has talked about what the request is >> would you - >> yeah, that's fine. thank you. are you asking to have a private meeting with her >> i was asking her to talk before me so i could respond to the concerns i don't know what the concerns are. >> we'll open up for public comment first and a okay opening it up to public comment. ms. tester, i presume. >> i went through my requests but i'll speak about the letter you got. there is a problem with case reports come at the last minute and you have no opportunity for the members of the public to respond to them. i sent the letter that was offered by to staff about too weeks ago saying i don't understand how an office allocation can be a one week item because your rules are rules for the public such as a they are rules for the planning commission. a two week report enables the public to understand what the staff report says

thank you very much >> good afternoon president fong and commissioners and director ram. i'm steve i'm the executive director of the senior center located in the heart of japan town. i'm here as the executive director from the expansion in terms of all of the 13 years invested in this resolution to write an endorsement. i've sent an endorsement but also want to make it very, very clear that the center does support and asks for your endorsement as well as the dhs. yesterday when we were here i talked about the japanese-american customarily to senior seminar so most of the constituents came from japan and particularly produced a good environment until we all they were evacuated in 1942 to those different contraction camps. this meant life stopped for us. in terms of that when they concluded and came back to san francisco our community came back to san francisco and had to rebuild their lives. this resolution commissioners is the first time historically through a community process of 13 years plus a one hundred years before that has any kind of direction to go forward for th

. >> good afternoon president and fong and members of the commission. greg. first of all, i want to thank the staff (calling names) from the department for all they're hard work and also the staff from the mayor's office. my appreciate the attention to the project. commissioners today, i ask you grant the request use authorization for the expansion emergency use back up generator on paul. if i could have the overhead briefly. just to give you a little bit of context the location of the project is right here almost dead center in the site. this is paul avenue up here and this is the north end of the project up here. we're about 4 hundred feet from the paul avenue here and over 4 hundred feet from the north end of the property here. the cal train runs around here and it dips down 50 feet or more below grade. briefly commissioner the project involves the remove of the portion of the building to accommodate the generator generated. it's located morning in the middle of the project and would effect 21 thousand square feet which is a small piece of the site over 7

good afternoon president fong and members of the commission. i'm jim rubin and we're working with the project sponsor. before addressing the project itself i believe this is the first occasion that kilroy has had to come before your commission. they've been active in the city and have done a lot of projects. there's another one after the alice and there's another kilroy project. if you look at the overhead i've put on that overhead a graphic that shows you the building that kilroy has acquired in the last two, 2 1/2 buildings. they've have not had to come here but they've done a lot of work. by the way, example that's where pact 12 as ronald and it's something of a media building. 333 brandon is before you and thirty 1 is next door and the lieutenant is in that believe. 100 first street is not an attractive building but it's been completely repositioned and the lobby is redone and it's better today. 350 mission is a high-rise building that's been 1 hundred percent lease to ses

ah fong was transferred here from the largest hospital in malaysia. last year, nearly 200 elderly people were left here in the a and e unit. their relatives give false contact details, so it's impossible for staff at the hospital to locate them. >> these patients are traumatized. even though many of them are suffering from dementia, they sense that they're not wanted. they accept their fate. in many cases, it's likely that they were subjected to physical and psychological abuse and neglect. >> their families have rejected them and the hospitals can't look after them either. that's why so many of them end up in desolate, makeshift homes. they can't rely on the state for any kind of care or financial support. they have no choice but to look after themselves. 66-year-old ngin kai ju is the only resident who's here voluntarily. he makes sure everyone at least gets one hot meal. >> many of them are ashamed. they don't want to talk about what's happened to them or to admit that they were abandoned by their own children. >> the man who gives them a roof over

fong for making that as painless as possible and for all the people presenting. so ms. chang call the next item >> 8 recommend 8 members to the advisory committee this is an action item. >> so my understanding is that oh, wow. we have a lady here - commissioner yee. >> i think this discussion in wanting to appoint more females on here i was a little lost in our discussion. i heard john a female and wants to be reappointed why did we skip over her. i will make a motion for her >> she's a south asian rep and i can't remember did they communicate an interest. >> she sent on e-mail saying she was an attorney and her work required her to be in sacramento today. >> i recall that supervisor kim discussion to hold-off but do you want a motion. >> i want to have a female and here's one who's been on the committee and expressed that she wants to continue. i don't know her personally and john i don't have any objection so i would feel comfortable to nominate her. so i guess to reopen >> let me just think about procedurally so we'll resend the vote on the at large seat. yeah, and c

. >> this week on queuing day, phyllis fong. ofir of the council inspectors general on integrity and efficiency. >> phyllis fong, what is inspector general? >> inspector general is a public official who is responsible to review the operations of that agency to make sure that programs are delivered effectively and with integrity. >> what does your background have to do? that igs havesays to have expertise in a number of perfections. auditing and public management. above all, being people of integrity. >> how long have you been in inspector general? of 2002.december >> how would you describe the job it agriculture? my job is to oversee the operations of all of the usda programs to make sure that they are being delivered as effectively as possible. dayt that means, on a day-to- basis, is that we, in the ig office, need to conduct audits to make sure the programs are running affectively. that improper payments are not going out the door. and, we conduct investigations when there are allegations of wrongdoing in a program, either by