johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong that he commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero san francisco ethics commission you are here by recused on item one should we take up that matter now and will be considered separately. >> yes. >> okay. so any public comment on item 1? seeing none, public comment is closed commissioner antonini >> move to approve item one. >> second. >> on that motion to approve commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner fong commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and we can continue with our consent calendar item 2 case at 332216th street condominium conversion subdivision and the next at pine street request for conditional use authorization i have no speaker cards. >> any public comment for items two and three okay seeing none, public comment is closed. >> second on that motion to approve items 23e under consent. >> commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson c

commissioner antonini commissioner johnck commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes amazing 7 to zero and places you under commission matters the definite minutes for october 16th. >> any public comment on draft minutes. >> i presented a statistic two weeks ago that over 70 percent of our public space was for single occupancy traffic and this is on the draft minutes. >> on the draft minutes two weeks ago we didn't mislead anyone but thought this was of interest the infrastructure senior citizen vs. our green open space thank you. >> any additional public comment? okay public comment is closed >> is there a motion? >> move to approve the minutes. >> second on that motion to adapt the minutes of october 16th commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong and president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you on item 11 commissioner questions or comments. >> commi

antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner richards president fong and commissioner president wu snoemdz unanimously 6 to zero and places you on item 5 commissioner questions or comments. >> i seven hundred to update the commissioners commissioner richards and i attend the mayor's office task force meeting we'll get a brooefr commissioner antonini and i have a couple of items a quote from a book i'm reading called supreme city how manhattan of the 20s changed america you know for good in so many ways and the quote from this particular chapter says talented people want to be near other talented 0 people and new york has the physical impactedness to make other people we can use that quote it is leading to the growth both commercially and spiritually there's a desire on the part of lots of people to be close to each other they fellowship want to be around other people to work together so, anyway a couple of other items without commenting on the case itself under appeal the decision by i see district just charles brewer regarding the fee that is compared on cases where a

commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you on items 11 ab for x and v at 690 market street you'll consider a request for conditional use >> good afternoon commissioner president wu and members of the commission commissioner burns of any person(s) responsible for the ringing or use of a for a request for downtown project authorization at a rear yard at 690 market street the project sponsor wants to convert 29 time-share with the existing 24 story residential hotel arrest as part of the downtown authorization the commission may grant 30 years the outstanding overlay design the exemption for the planning code section 34 it requests variances from the planning code one hundred for 40 for one denial he did not recommends approval it's located in a historic building for a compliant wrashd or radishes anothers project sponsor has purchased light and your facilities project is consistent with the objectives and

commissioner johnson commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you on item 14 at 590 page street a request for discretionary review. >> good evening of any person(s) responsible for the ringing or use of a arrest the item before you is a request for discretionary review the proposed project includes the don't guess of 2 thousand square feet started in 1992 and the construction of two residential buildings totally 12 units the four buildings will be 4 stories in height with off-street spaces and bicycle spaces the project clouds one on site affordable housing in the planning code section the four buildings will include the foreman from 54 hundred to 59 hundred square feet with a maximum height of - 13 to 15 hundred square feet and all will have 3 bedrooms. >> the proposal includes the subdivision of 4 lots and in the rh1 zoning per lot are permit it is locked on the northwest corner contains a third-story over garage space and giant property

antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson no commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 4 to 2 with commissioner johnson and commissioner fong voting take a 15 minute break. >> good morning welcome to the for planning commission regular hearing october 23, 2014, i'd like to remembered members that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind devices. and and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i'll have to ask those of you standing please find a seat please thank you very much commissioners we left off on item 11 for 436 central after a conditional use authorization. >> commissioner hillis i need to ask for a are you custodial i live on the same block. >> move to recuse commissioner hillis. >> on that motion commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu thank you, commissioners you are here by recused. >> good afternoon mary radius woods of departmental staff this is

antonini no commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards no commissioner fong commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 5 to 2 about commissioner antonini and commissioner richards voting against arrest commissioner wil5 minute break. >> welcome back to the san francisco regular meeting for november 6, 2014, conversions we left off under your conditional use calendar for case d at 520 this is a request for quality of life. >> members of the planning commission the project before you locked on the boulevard proposes to lift the building to insert a second level to provide a garbage at the rear yard area it includes the edition the zoning administrator requester would like the rear edition to be pulled back to the existing deck at the second floor the dr requesters concerns the department if find it to be extraordinarily and asked that you approve that project and do not take discretionary review thank you. >> thank you. the dr requester our team has five minutes. >> good evening commissioner president wu and commissioners tracey

antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 7 to zero commissioners, i have places you open general public comment i i have no speaker cards. >> any general public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed . >> good morning, everyone much better i'm edward reiskin the transportation director in san francisco great to see so many people out here for an important reason thank you, mayor ed lee and supervisor kim on their steadfast and consistent leadership in working with all of us to make our city safer the reason its important we're proud of our city we have a problem here the problem too many people getting seriously injured or killed trying to make

antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 7 to zero commissioners, i have places you open general public comment i i have no speaker cards. >> any general public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed >> call the meeting to order. >> roll call. commissioner leslie katz? >> here. >> commissioner kimberly [speaker not understood]? >> here. >> he commissioner doreen [speaker not understood]? >> here. >> item 2, approval of the minutes for the october 14, 2014 meeting. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? minutes are approved. >> item 3, public comment and executive session. >> any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> executive session. >> is there a motion to move into -- >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> i move to reconvene in open session. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> so moved to

antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson no commissioner richards no commissioner fong no arrest commissioner president wu. >> that fails there is, however, a motion to take dr and disapprove the building permit application on that motion because there wasn't an action memo with finding for disapproval the city attorney strongly recommends we reiterate those findings so if commissioner johnson could you reiterate the reason why you want to take dr that will assist me in creating finding. >> sure i am supporting taking dr and disapproving the building permit because the illegal dwelling has no what do you call actions items gentiles it notice of violation against it it does constitute a third dwelling illegal to it might be i see no reason to discontinue it i don't believe it impacts the ability of the trustee to sell the property or make any other land use decisions at this time. >> yes. i believe i was able to grasp what commissioner richards in the case of preserving affordable housing and if any other commissioners want to add a findings of their own. >> i believe it is the ma

hillis sxhobs commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that passes 7 to zero and place ion general public comment i have no speaker cards. >> any general public comment seeing none, general public comment is closed. - >> i just want to say thank you all of you good evening. >> any additional general public comment seeing none, general public comment is closed. meeting >> we came to seven straight about 10 years ago. -- 7th street about 10 years ago. the environment is huge. it is stronger than willpower. surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. >> you are making it safer. push, push. that is better. when i start thinking, i see it actually -- sometimes, i do not see it, but when i do, it is usually from the inside out. it is like watching something being spawned. you go in, and you begin to work, excavate, play with the dancers, and then things began to emerge. you may have a plan that this is what i want to create. here

antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero commissioners that place you on item 16 for case at 36 hundred graer boulevard a request for conditional use authorization. >> good evening commissioner president wu laura the project before you is a confusion to establish a formula retail cbs moderate scale planning code requires a conditional use for a formula retail uses in my entity district their linear district that serve as major transit routes the project site is located along geary boulevard it stenches from the western edition to the outer richmond there are approximately 25 uses along geary boulevard in the immediate area from presidio boulevard to park presidio boulevard to that boulevard 25 formula retail use one of which is a formula retail use paramedic at mosaic it's a two-story commercial building on geary and page avenue it is vacant and the previous use was an alzheimer's deafer institute on aging located directly across

hillis sxhobs commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that passes 7 to zero and place ion general public comment i have no speaker cards. >> any general public comment seeing none, general public comment is closed. - >> i just want to say thank you all of you good evening. >> any additional general public comment seeing none, general public comment is closed. meeting food in san francisco just about expensive eat but food for everyone and there's organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. more and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from we'll look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultural and garden to new heights. so what exactly it, your honor agricultural >> it the growing food or flowers within city limits traditionally we've been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed over and over upper argument has a more a farming way of fa

commissioner richards commissioner fong commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you on item 18 for case no. 2014 at 53 state street a may or may not discretionary review. >> of a occasion of a one story over basement with a four story two detrimentally dwelling units on castro and douglas street in the castro upper market with the rh2 zoning proposed replacements structure as mentioned is 4 stories with two units with the 4 floor set back with a facade each units has 2 1/2 bathrooms with 27 hundred square feet and the popular has 27 hundred square feet the surrounding neighborhood has 1, 2, 3 single-family dwellings - single-family buildings the rdt found accident materials to be capable with the block and complimenty to the block we've received two phone calls and 3 letters concerns about the loss of light and the impact of the foundation and the height and structure one of the concerns was the loss of older affordable housing stock the letters are here for anyone to review a summary of the outreach meeting has been priori

moore commissioner richards commissioner fong commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 78 to zero and places you on item 13 for case the urban forest master plan on november 6, 2014, after hearing and close the public comment it is continued and commissioner hillis and commissioner fong against. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm john sawyer with the department staff at our hearing on the uttering plan street trees the commission directed the staff to return the first was a glossary of key terms in the urban forest plan and the second a motivation of property and non-property based mechanisms to fund a citywide street tree program both were included in the memo in our packet this included did glossary for trees street trees and uttering and under story and vegetation and are greg greening and economical funding those suggestions were made from the uttering definition and others defines from the public works code and the better street plan the funding sections we included the property and non-property mechanisms we've identified on the propert

johnson commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu snoemdz unanimously 6 to zero and places you on. >> close the public comment grant the variance with the reasons previous stated. >> thank you zoning administrator and that will place us on item 14 at 2809 on polk this is is a kwe6 an abbreviated one. >> i'm carli planning staff the item before you is a request for discretionary review for building permit at 2809 through 11 possible street in a 40 x heightened district it includes a one story height and deck and 4 foot decrease on an existing 4 story this and has a configuration including an additional of an elevator the person who royals subject adjacent to the public filed a discretionary review mr. the gentleman states he is concerned that increasing the building area will be out of character and the 3 story will block whatever light that is enjoyed by the residents the project sponsor says the dr requesters property is blocking its own air and it is respectful the neighbors to date the department has one letter of support and one of opposition both fro

commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you on

commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero expirations that place you on item 14 earth heritage asset report an informational presentation. >> sorry. >> okay i think we're ready sorry about that the delay i'm mike the executive director of san francisco heritage i'll i'd like to thank commissioner president wu and the members of the commission and commissioner richards to present this report to you today report sustaining san francisco living history is our response as a historic preservation organization to increase the displacement of long-standing local businesses and nonprofit and arts organizations in san francisco which, of course, is a very timely issue this past weekend the san francisco chronicle had a lead editorial engrossed the city to do more to help the assets in facing displacement in san francisco for those of you not familiar with san francisco heritage we're 4 that-year-old historic preservation organization our initial focus in our early decades was primary an architecture

hillis sxhobs commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that passes 7 to zero and place ion general public comment i have no speaker cards. >> any general public comment seeing none, general public comment is closed. - >> i just want to say thank you all of you good evening. >> any additional general public comment seeing none, general public comment is closed. meeting >> good morning, today is november 25, 2014, welcome to the san francisco transportation authority. my name is john avalos, the chair of the authority, and today, this meeting is being clerked by our clerk, steve, if i can get the last name. steve, stamos, thank you and, cell women to your first leading, clerking the transportation authority, the meeting is brought to us by the staff, and hegan and thank you for your service, steve, would you please, call the roll. >> roll call? >> avalos? >> present. >> breed. >> here. >> campos? >> absent. >> chiu. >> here. >> cohen? >> absent. >> farrell. >> absent. >> kim. >> here. mar. >> absent. tang? >> present.

antonini. >> commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu snoemdz unanimously 6 to zero and places you on item 10 planning code related to the consolidations reorganize article two and make changes to simplify code changes that is a planning code amendment. >> good afternoon aaron starr acting manager this is an ordnance that easements the planning code to reorganize article two for rezoning tables to update and clarify and simplify it's code language i presented this effort to the commission on june 30th, 2013, at a public hearing in an effort to introduce the concept to the planning commission as well as the public to get feedback on the process on july 24th of this year the commission voted inform uphold it they have two outreach meetings and internally by two planner and since staff initiation staff has made modifications from the feedback it is in our packet an exhibit g we are asking you recommend approval with the modifications to the board of supervisors idea to reorganize article 2 has been around since 1980s when seven

johnson commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and places you on item 15 at 3826 to 28 caesar chavez discretionary review. >> good evening planning commission david washington the south west team leader the subject proposals an sharlz street to reduce two illegal units on he caesar chavez street between delores and church property is 25 street flowage and one hundred and 14 feet deep with a two-story victorian that contains two stories in 1990 with one thousand 4 hundred and 37 square feet the detached cottage is between three and four hundred square feet the property owner died and the two legal flats are vacant and it is - the tenant is residing on the property since 2345067 paying over $1,400 per month it appears it is in existence for a few decades that is confirmed by a planning department the tenant called dbi and the planning department approved the permit and ms. miller appealed the permit and it was substantially suspended the board permit hearing it was currently pending the boar

commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero expirations that place you on item 14 earth heritage asset report an informational presentation. >> sorry. >> okay i think we're ready sorry about that the delay i'm mike the executive director of san francisco heritage i'll i'd like to thank commissioner president a

commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero expirations that place you on item 14 earth heritage asset report an informational presentation. >>

antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson no commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 4 to 2 with commissioner johnson and commissioner fg

antonini commissioner hillis no commissioner johnson no commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong no and commissioner president wu no that motion fails three to four with commissioner hillis and commissioner johnson and commissioner fong and commissioner president wu voting against and i want to bring up the commissioners brought up letters and requests for further clarification this is not the end the process it needs to go to the board of supervisors i think there is time for further outreach i'm not saying let's not get answers he agree with commissioner johnck we should be focused on the fund that is the heart of what gets us more trees commissioner antonini and yeah. i'd like to with agreement with the maker of the motion i think it w it was commissioner hillis and commissioner fong but the street trees are, in fact, to be trees and eliminate the verbiage of the other fondle it didn't mean we couldn't be landscaping on the medium but talking about pitting trees as part of the street tree program so if that's all right. with the secretary that's the classification i'd lik