>commissioner dennis richards: i think the retractable roof is one. it's closed when there is music. that's the common sense one. that was the condition on the complaint for live music. >> i think for restoring the restaurant the commission had conditions limiting "the hours" that it could be open already. so we just want to make sure that any limits on the hours in addition to those already made. >> so you are recommending inclusion of this bullet but deleting the first and last sentence. >> i would propose that, yes. >> okay >> the next bullet the project sponsor shall close the doors and the noise shall be adequately controls and the operations should be conducted in a fashion where nearby residents are not affected from patrons and noise vibrations and odors emanating from the use. the phrase "nearby residents are not affected" it's a difficult standard for the city to ascertain. if a resident says i'm affected, the city doesn't have a gauge to figure out what's the violation or the remedy. again, the jeb -- general thought in that bullet is permi

commissioner richards? >commissioner dennis richards: i move to approve. >> second. city clerk: on that motion, commissioners, commissioner >commissioner michael j. antonini: >commissioner rich hillis: >commissioner christine johnson: >>commissioner kathrin moore: >president cindy wu: this passes 6-0. this places you on item 12 for case no. 2014.0417. for 531 castro street. this is for conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon, president of the commission and planning commission this is for an application for 531 castro street. project sponsor conditional use authorization pursuant to planning code section 703.3, 703.4 and 303c and i to convert the existing vacant patio restaurant into hamburger mareey for conditional use. hamburger will build out a restaurant space. has a total gross foot area of 844 square feet. patio restaurant cafe was established in 1960s. it was closed in 2005. after due to the interior renovation and has been closed since. hamburger mary's it was themed and lgbt people friendly restaurant and that opened on 1582 folsom street in 1972 bu

>> >commissioner dennis richards: we talk about the policy of eating and drinking on the shop on polk street. i don't know if it made it there. we were going to look at the policy whether the tipping point is 20, 40 or 60 on the economy. maybe we can add that to the list. >> i apology -- apologize for that. >> i want to talk about the shop in the castro district. to my understanding i haven't been around in the 70s. there was a margin, it encouraged everybody to go into the alcohol and coffee business and it raised the rents and everybody was afraid that we who lose the vibrancy. we learned it didn't happen. a lot of the families that had the buildings kept their stores vacant and we had a vacancy rate at 10 percent. i don't know if supervisor wiener or duffy changes it and said we are going to have this as a right and what happens is we have this proliferation of coffee shops and my friends joke that it's like boys town in chicago. an adult service store, the castro is becoming homogenous with moving that way. i don't know what the answer on this one is. we want the neighbor to becom

>commissioner dennis richards: one last word. fw they want it for their children, so be it. >> commissioners, if you are talking at a 1 month continuance you are looking at january 8th, however you are full, if you are talking 3 months, you are at march 5th. >commissioner michael j. antonini: i would move to continue to february 5th. if the project sponsor feels they can work something out in that amount of time. do you think it's doable and we can have some tree information. okay. february 5th. city clerk: on that motion, commissioners to continue this matter to february 5th. >commissioner michael j. antonini: >commissioner christine johnson: >commission vice-president rodney fong: >president cindy wu: >commission vice-president rodney fong:. that motion passes 6-0 and places you under general public comment which i have no public speaker cards. >president cindy wu: is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed.. meeting adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> hmm. [cell phone beeps] hey! [police w

commissioner richards? >> >commissioner dennis richards: it's a welcome presence. it's from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.. it's going to be great to have people going in and out of that building. i support it. >> second. city clerk: if there is nothing further commissioners there is a first and second. commissioner >commissioner michael j. antonini: >commissioner rich hillis: >commissioner christine johnson: >>commissioner kathrin moore: >commission vice-president rodney fong:, >president cindy wu:. that motion passes unanimously 7-0. >president cindy wu: i don't believe they are back yet. city clerk: we can take item 14. also conditional use authorization. 2014.1190. >> good afternoon again, the item before you is 549 castro street. the proposal is 1310 square feet tenant space occupied by coffee. the project sponsor intends to close the establishment depending upon the proposed establishment. the project includes minor tenant improvements and intends to employ 20 employees. the proposed hours of operation from 6:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. monday through friday. today the pro

>> richards >commissioner dennis richards: can you tell us what happened to 114 graph hill. >> the board held a position on that. >> president tim fry requested that i update you on the appropriateness for the mission theatre on mission street which was approved with conditions with the draft eir and will be coming to you next week but most importantly they held their cultural assets committee meeting before the regular historic heritage commission and an aid from supervisors campos regarding the legacy. if there is nothing further, we can move to general public comment. public comment:at this time, members of the public may address the board on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the board will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting with one exception. when the agenda item has already been reviewed in a public hearing at which members of the public were allowed to testify and the board has closed the public hearing, your opportunity to addr

>commissioner dennis richards: richards i find myself agreeing with ms. hester. i think it might be something to do. i may have been the one asking a lot of those questions. i have a question, how did us this tie into the affordable housing fees, when is that nexus up for review or fees? >> that's a great question. the mayor's housing on community development manages the affordable housing nexus study and as far as i understand they are looking at scoping a focus update to that to answer some of the questions about reaching the mayor's goals and serving a variety of income levels. so as soon as we have more information about that, i will be happy to report back to the commission. >> thank you. >> sure. >president cindy wu: commissioner johnson? >commissioner christine johnson: i will keep my comments to the nexus study here with affordable housing and transportation nexus study are different and will be done in the future by different teams and different groups and they will be here later. i just want to focus on this one for now. a couple of things. the first is

>> >commissioner dennis richards: i would like to thank chang for all the work. they worked together and i went with ms. chang. the table is really helpful especially when we have this kind of a cu and ncd to understand the level. just a few things. i have received communication from folks asking whether or not if mr. natalie decides to go to palm springs tomorrow and mcdonald's wants to come in, to kind of rest assured for the public, can another formula retail come in and can it be mcdonald's? >> the city attorney's office, there would be an in indemnification of use. it could be considered new formula retail. but it would really depend on who was applying and what the differences were from the old formula, not who was applying but what components of the application might be different. >> this is a 12-unit chain and something bigger than 12. >> i don't have all of those provision of the new formula provision to memory but there is those that see that as use. >> okay. former comments, even though i feel very old, the vibrant businesses and we have had this vacan

richards: >commission vice-president rodney fong: >president cindy wu: that passes 7-0 and puts you on item 9 the san francisco bicycle plan and improvement on, eir. this is informational only. >> good afternoon, president wu and commissioners. i'm debra dwyer, planning commission staff. i'm for the improvement project at san francisco public works as well as mike rigor and allen robinson from the san francisco municipal transportation agency in addition senior and environmental planner is also here. i'm here to provide the background and and update on the status for the environmental review for this project. it's case 2007-0347. it's an update to the project and turn it over to public works for an overview in the project outreach effort. the second street improvement project is one that was finalize in the bicycle plan eir by the planning commission in june of 2009. the environmental scope addressed an update to the bicycle plan as well as minor long-term and near term improvement projects to the city's bicycle network including project 2-1 options for bicycle facilities along seco

commissioner richards. ? >> >commissioner dennis richards: skew me, -- excuse me, sorry about that. what a marathon. i absolute support house, but i don't want to confuse with monster fiction. we saw this on sloping, that's not the same project sponsor. >> thank you for the question, commissioner. it's not the same project sponsor. the architect that is providing the services to the two developers. >> i just want to make sure because it could be confusing. >> what projects were considered without the variance project sponsor? >> there was some difficulty with this side. where the project sponsor started was that 24 ord court hassledly tennants that have been there for over 30 years and they have a great relationship with those tennants and they did not want to touch that building and have a negative impact on the tennants. that leaves you with 22 ord and the two lots. it was explored looking at adding the second unit to the building at 22 ord court, but again considering the narrowness of that street and the mass that would have been necessary to create another dwelling unit on that

fairbanks, dick murphy, dennis ross, tony zinni, john wolf, george mitchell, martin indyk, and now frank lowenstein. you would expect with this kind of a lineup if we're using our baseball analogy, that the scoreboard would look pretty good. but the scoreboard actually shows no hits, no runs, and lots of errors, which suggests that this is one of the case studies which needs to be undertaken to find out whether or not it's the idea of an envoy in this situation, or the individual selected as the envoy, the conflict itself, or the criteria that the report has suggested. was it an absence of empowerment by a president? was it an absence of authority? were there turf battles in washington? and i think you'd find if we did this case study and we haven't done it yet, but certainly this report should simulate it and i may grab the opportunity and do it myself, i think you'd find that there are a combination of factors at play here that suggest that even some of the smartest and most senior people selected for this job, were not necessarily the right choice, and not necessarily the right choice

fairbanks, dennis ross, tony, john wolf, george mitchell. you would expect if we were using our baseball and now the now achieved at the scoreboard with a would look pretty good but the scoreboard shows no hits or runs or errors which suggests that this is one of the case studies which needs to be undertaken to find out whether or not it is the idea of an envoy in the situation or the individual selected as the envoy, the conflict itself for the criteria that the report has suggested. was it an absence of empowerment by the president or absence of authority. i think you'll find if we did a case study and we have not done it yet but it's certainly certainly not report it should stimulate it and i am a granted the opportunity to do it myself, there are a combination of factors that suggest even some of the smartest and most senior people selected for this job were not necessarily the right choice and not necessarily the right choice for this conflict. if you look back at the last 35 years and conflict resolution process for there have been thr

fairbanks, dick murphy, dennis ross, tony zinni, john wolf, george mitchell, martin endick, and now frank leon steen. you would expect with this kind of a lineup if we're using our baseball anal joy, that the scoreboard would look pretty good. but the scoreboard actually shows no hits, no runs, and lots of errors, which suggests that this is one of the case studies which needs to be undertaken to find out whether or not it's the idea of an envoy in this situation, or the individual selected as the envoy, the conflict itself, or the criteria that the report has suggested. was it an absence of empowerment by a president? was it an absence of authority? were there turf battles in washington? and i think you'd find if we did this case study and we haven't done it yet, but certainly this report should simulate it and i may grab the opportunity and do it myself, i think you'd find that there are a combination of factors at play here that suggest that even some of the smartest and most senior people selected for this job, were not necessarily the right choice, and not necessarily the right

denny heck. mr. heck: i thank the gentlelady from washington state. i rise to acknowledge, thank, and pay tribute to the service of richard "doc" hastings on behalf of the people of this country and washington state. i've had the privilege of knowing him 35 years. ith perverse reference to mr. i served in the washington state house of representatives and we overlapped and someone who wears ifferent color jers eyes, -- jersies, materially different world views. with doc, it was never ever, ever, ever personal. he has a kind word and a ready smile for people. doc's finishing up 10 terms, 20 years in this chamber and i don't know that i ever adequately thanked him for being the very first person to come to my office and stepped his hand in friendship and offered to help me in any way he could two years ago, something that he probably doesn't remember. so natural an act it was for him but so meaningful for me. les tmp i leave the wropping impression of the differences doc and i have, i want to assert, he can be as good an ally as he can be, an honorable a