problematic and in a key location because when you have van ness and van ness elevators are out the business is not good you block the hill to church or very, very difficult or you go to civic and frequently as we check on the 311 complaints it is frequently the major complaint we see the thread that wants through p them i don't know the elevators was out at here and there van ness is a problem one of the areas implications will have an opportunity to improve our collective messaging to the riders m many we share the point is simply over the years we've been pretty good but the trend is alters alarming at the current time we need to do things differently to reflect that why do we think the trend is moving in the wrong direction the mileage that the good it reflects a lot of the operation two hours a day 7 days a week third bullet is the one to highlight what you see with something as heavily traefd and well utilized a series of we'll like to see interruption minor interruptions but on the staff a motor or a handrail that could be corrected what we've seen over the last several month

stations starting that van ness their controlled by us and those elevators and escalators within our rules and responsibilities there are a couple within is a couple of exemptions an elevator for example that is maintained by dpw 30u8 but for general purposes in the first category the impacts of riders the 4 stations with shared responsibility and then did outer stations we control and the reference to the 18 facilities or the elevators that exist in places like woods or film or our operating facilities that are used primarily for the employees so within those there's to point out considerable confusion among a lot of people who is responsible for what when, in fact, there's a violent responsibility in many of the key stations we've been moving forward? a shot of the elevators and square roots escalators we do the elevators and escalators a little bit different than most of the other maintenance they're primarily overseeing we play a contract manager role 5 companies that bear the responsibility for maintaining our escalators we have made changes the last couple of years we highlight in th

priorities and sets of needs we want to see as outcomes for property that is owned pub i know that van ness and 16 mission and others locations on mission what's the best use to raise money for city offers buildings or consider affordable housing opts i looked to this i know that is complicated in a lot of different mechanisms that are involved but i think that is an important conversation i want to thank supervisor david campos for calling that meeting. >> thank you, supervisor kim i have a presentation from john updyke we're joined today by the director of planning planning director ram thank you to director ram and the head of the mayor's office of housing and thank you mr. lee with that i'd like i'm going to turn it over to mr. updyke. >> thank you, supervisors good afternoon john updyke director of real estate first, i want to thank you for the opportunity not only revenue the sale of van ness but how it fits as supervisor kim mentioned our overhead do space strategy so thirty van ness i'll briefly describe that a hundred and 80 foot square feet office building we have above a corner w

delivered. >> commissioner moore. >> i want to make one comment about the south van ness fald facades we're going talking the basic project and the approval process i'd like to make a comment i'd like to see the department work more on the south van ness facade it is too 0 remnant remnant of 1950 and the elements to the window wall is too itch remnant of 50s architecture the department has the skilled and make that part of moths. >> as maker the motion that's part of the motion to continue to with work the staff with referenced to the locates. >> south van ness. >> derivative facade. >> is if if the maker is okay with that. >> commissioners, if there's nothing further there's a there is a motion and a second to approve that project with conditions as amended to included the bmr units as well as continuing to work with staff open the south van ness arrest commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero. >> commissioners we

this committee thank you m call item 4. >> item 4 a hearing to review the dispopulation of van ness and requesting the department to report. >> supervisor kim is requesting this item just one minute. >> thank you very much madam chair and colleagues for thank you for the opportunity to have a hearing on this item this is something i called for simply to have a report and discussion about the proposal i think that it would be beneficiary for us to have a better understanding of what the plans are you know there are different reasons for the plan one thing i'd like to do is to have a conversation wherever it is appropriate to figure out how this fits is the one larger housing strategy that the city has i think that given the gravity of the housing crisis those kinds of questions you know what do we do when the city owns land are questions we're going to have to raise more frequently it is something that would be a positive thing because we have to figure out how to leverage the limited resources we have for the purpose of building more affordable housing in that spirit in which this h

van ness and 20th looking at the northeast corner van ness is on the left 20th is on the right newly constructed 5 store approximately 41 thousand mixed use building our design respond is on the ground floor there are 40 levels of residential above a greater commercial space over one level of below grade parking to keep outline active use on the street frontages against the glazing and preserve 60 percent minimum of the transparency of that glazing and integrate public artwork as well as retail feature that jonathan mentions facing van ness this is the van ness from right to left on the far right the entrance of the corner of the intersection and the retail element is immediately adjacent to the left we've utilizing embroider wails for artwork public artwork visible to the street on both frontages and have staff work areas to the left we've preserved with the inclusion of a mural 70 percent restraint or transparency of this facade mural property by the business owner this is a make up of a local artist eureka and the design concept is a historic prospective of the mission to th

ous logical ghetto desk you'll active spaces on the perimeter the retail on van ness so the left and have staff work areas along the transparent window areas and patient friendly design based on a team care delivery of medical survivors services this will think assessable to current regulations with that i'd like to introduce dr. barrierer. >> handicap everyone we're really excited for before you and talk with you about the opportunity to bring health care into this area and i'd like to start by telling you a little bit about sutter pacific medical foundation that can be it there you go. >> and what we would like to achieve with having a clinic in this area sutter pacific medical foundations is part of the sutter health network and our function consists of doctors and clinicians that provide direct career neutron an ambulancey are office space south setting we have clinics and decreases in san francisco and mri county we use electronic records to patient can move seam thely to spreadsheet care in the event they need to be in a hospital the hospital is on the electronic medical re

ness is near the doughnut shop we've had a lot of issues related to water and that's a huge problem area there is consistently people conjugate there and it is if they're unable to find restrooms then you know they'll use what's convenient that becomes an enforcement issue for us we can i think and there's other places where we can much better focus our resources to preventive that the issues related to this and you can public health and perhaps criminal issues were well documented and their issues and struggles dealing with elevator and escalators i think frankly, we're a micro came over of that if we're dealing with the same environment those are all certainly good suggestions we necessarily and part of public education caption- campaign looking at those reports online and escalators in particular are stopped and you know watching you if you watch is van ness you'll see people with wholes the size of new jersey it has an impact on the unite and the united are, you know, safety sensitive and shoutd shut down those kinds of things are part of effort that helps to keep them in servic

issues the reliability of the condition in terms of of clean ness and lighting and the agencies ability to talk about the reliability to the public of the the elevators i'll appreciate a report open how we address those issues and how to improve all 3 . >> getting to those meetings is difficult it is a serious issue so can we get a report back on it two weeks ? especially an action plan . >> and to ju on that vifrnt without thinking about it contractors can park their vehicles in such a way to close off blocks from - businesses being available sometimes, the sidewalks are not there sometimes did trucks are blocking you can't see if it's opened one business barely survived the tracking of the boulevard in front of his block and building a favorable place to park and no one told him where to park during construction that requires small business small business that the agency tasked with this job to work with the contractors and make sure that all the businesses have their needs met and finally the economically review part to see how it's impacted the street positively or in the ca

management and equipment out on van ness for the safety of the san francisco residence traveling up and down van ness. [inaudible] allowed me to reach out to to the community of san francisco and build a diverse team to represent several communities in san francisco including residence in transition. the main priority of cpmc and [inaudible] is safety and to hireb local. as a [inaudible] hunters point resident and business owner i have never seen this done before but they brought on so many local residence even as much as from local labor to [inaudible] it is unbelievable that people don't see the change out on van ness as far as local home grown people working out on the site identifiable that they are from all districts. people on my team spoke cant niece, mandarin, spanish and vietnamese and english. that says a lot about a small company to bring that diverse team in to monitor the traffic and safety of the pedestrians on van ness. they are to be commended and you are commended to alow lowing them to reach out to small companies and employ them. thank you >> thank you very much,

there an intent to do the same on the green goodwill and van ness property? >> supervisor with respect to the goodwill property it was a transaction negotiated a lot of a year and a half going went to the board in 2015 it was a complex two acre site joint development at the time of the discussion some uncertainty with the acquisition is from a third party i'll give you a flavor of the negotiation that informed the final financial performer on the sides with the project i think having said that that got us to the point an agreement was brought forward to the board and approved by sideboard a reopener is troubling from any prospective in that we reopened that issue allows other issues to be comploementd on the other side to make it difficult i'm not sure that's a viable path forward we are happy to have a discussion with our development partner but at the end of the day with respect to thirty van ness we are out in the marketplace i don't know the offers we'll see and how we'll be able to balance the tension between those needs between a high financial return and robust be afford

entrance to the van ness station to install new escalators. our stephen tschida is covering metro for us tonight and is live at the station with why passengers feel they are being put in harm's relationship -- reporter: more than 6,000 passengers use the metro station on a work day. many of them go and come through the west entrance but it's about to close for several years. they are not just unhappy, these passengers about the inconvenience, but about the timing as well. stephen: the escalators at the west entrance to the van ness station are more than 30 years old. metro says now is the time to replace them. >> if it keeps the estra laters from breaking down, that would be great. stephen: in the project, the west entrance will close to passengers. the estimated time for the job is three years. >> it's difficult for me to understand why this is going to be closed for three years. stephen: during construction commuters will have to enter and exit from the east side of connecticut avenue. but get this. the sidewalk on the east side of connecticut is closed for construction. and it's no

van ness street within the haven commercial transit zoning district the san francisco anyone else and bodywork by the accrediting of the schools has been in existence in 2011 approximately 20 to 40 students are on site and hundred students graduate each year they employ 20 folks and between 9 and 6:00 p.m. with occasional classes on the weekend no expansion proposed mr. larkin staff has received letters of support and i'll pass those out to you now the department recommendations approval the project that promoted the operation of a lovingly owned business and contributed to the viability of the neighborhood and meets all the planning code and supports the general plan given the finding staff recommends approval the conditional use authorization that concludes my presentation. >> project sponsor please. good evening, commissioners it is on the i'm the project sponsor s i'm the president of the associations and the item before you is the massage it's call massage this is place was vacant and when the gentleman rented it he had no idea the third floor was occupied so we went to superviso

happen on thirty van ness the biz process we'll be looking at additional affordable housing and that will occur after you know sort of meeting the financial goals the building replacement this is not to say the mayor's office of housing is not interested in acquiring homes for affordable housing we have to be strategic in the neighborhood that are impacted the most where we can build cost effectively where we have you know access to services and things along those lines and there is is a issue related to the question of scale etch individual unit that we support has to be subsidize and as we get to a certain point nevertheless of the total units we'll reach our limits as one individual project of taking the bulk of the affordable housing funds that the office has in a particular year this is typically not the type of sited we'll acquire it was a transbay site with a little bit more flexibility we'll landmarking look for the officials but we have other competing goals as it relates to the city offers building and trying to make sure we get the most affordable housing out of the t

tracking between van ness and medical center. that they say is because of some late clearing track work here this morning. right now, first 4 traffic tracker on the outer loop of the beltway here. kind of going past braddock road. we'll go down to 95 and look at the delays there in the dale city area. 66 overall looking pretty good. tiny bit of a slow down here. the gadget is not reading right there, but that's manassas going about 40 miles an hour. 95 northbound before lorton road we do have that accident off to the right side of the roadway and volume approaching the crash. back in ten minutes with travel times. >>> folks got to be ready for it. it's getting big, trees are coming down on me. we have to back out of here. >> take a look at this dramatic video taken as a tornado crosses a kansas highway. you can see the swirls of debris right in front of this car. this morning, we're getting a look at the damage left behind. news4's kristin wright has a look at new video from the live desk. >> severe weather, 20 twisters -- up to 20 tornadoes spotted across the states of nebraska, kansas

pedestrian extension along van ness i strongly ask the commission to hold for hearings and displaced great transparent and the quantify reasoning and the data around the project which is in short coming of this thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i'll call some more names i apologize if you've spoken ignore the call (calling names). >> good afternoon. i'm meg walker i work for sutter medical foundation in communications capacity i'm here to read a letter to you and put read into the record the clinic for the uninsured on the 408 hundred block of van ness the medical director couldn't be here he addresses the planning department i'm writing no support of sutter foundation proposed primary care center on van ness street camtc proposed e proposing a new clinic center in the heart of san francisco's district i'm advising gi cotton and others be provided depends upon the patients needs it will expand primary and specialist care i understand the medical care center will be open including the walk in these and they've accept more private and public providers we currently care for peop

11 for the case at south van ness this is a large project authorization the benefit of the audience we have taken items 10 and 11 out of order because due to a conflict with staff as well as the project sponsor alter at a board committee hearing we expect that hopefully after this item we'll call item 9. >> good evening, commissioners brittany of the blavpt you have a request for the larger project authorization on south van ness in an urban district proposal will demolish existing one thousand 7 hundred plus auto repair buildings and mixed use building will be constructed at a height of 58 percent square feet and consisting of 122 bedroom unit on the empowering the project provides 3 retail spaces 3 thousand 60 square feet and 7 by 7 off-street parking and bicycle parking spaces as parts part of the project it is making exemption for rear yard open space exposure street frontage the department is support of the overall quality of design since the publication of the case report the department got one e-mail in opposition and one letter of support and one e-mail of support i'm distri

project at van ness is not datdz displaced any folks it was a vacant site we have conducted excessive neighborhood outreach and have the support of the neighbors we held a preapplication meager and had positive feedback my son and i canvassed the neighborhood we set up a table and showed every passengers by the plans and provided you with almost 2 hundred letters of support and alternating we held the second community meeting on 19th and if if because our planners asked for more exposure there were 2 people and we provided over an hour of discussion on the plans all of that exposure was in addition to the required notifications i humbling ask for your support it is a relatively small project consistent with the area plan thank you and my architect michael las vegas have an is here. >> good afternoon if i could get the overhead please previously an automobile repair site this is has been vacant for over two years those are examples adjacent to talking about the eclectic nature the neighborhood it is bound on both sides by relating large blind walls building if you been look at the site

funds to improve the escalators at stations at castro, church and civic center and van ness and powell and this is a larger face of a project and the first phase improved at church and powell and van ness and so this will set up additional ability to reduce maintenance cost and bring them up to the code and incorporate the modern safety features, finally i would like to congratulate lee and his team and the parkway team for receiving the first green roads sustainability award, and the project received a bronze rating for the first phase and with the green roads is a non-profit that manages environmental projects and in doing so the parkway is the first certificated sustain able highway project in the country and so congratulations to the team. >> thank you, thank you, miss chang and commissioner cohen. >> i just have a follow up question for the, for miss change and thank you for your presentation this morning and i want to go back to your report about the plan up date, could you give me a sense of what i can expect and i am thinking about attending this, this open house and i am wonde

. we were pleased in the senate finance committee we did see funding support for van ness brt [inaudible] 150 million for central subway project. geary is right on the heels of van ness and following the environmental work and in anticipation mta plans to bring in prop k sales tax request fwra the near [inaudible] improvements and full [inaudible] in just a couple months. in terms of neighborhood planning in china town, outreach was held last month. we were pleased working with commissioner christensens office to incorporate stack holdser out reach to china town community low the china town trip project and neighborhood association. we'll provide more final report information on that study in the next month in coordination with the other agencies sfmta and planning department. there is a host of opportunities to improve broadway and kearny and the raisk of north south and east west streets that will provide better access. the west side transit access makes progress and make opportunity to organize community input through focus group jz also work on the rest nof neighborhood tr

came before the planning and health and board of sproovigezer, bh you drive by van ness and geary you see concrete down and steel going up and san francisco will have a new hospital there as well as a new hospital on cesar chav esstreet in the mission. i'm deloited that in 2019 san francisco will be able to receive care at 2 new seismicly safe hospitals at van ness and geary and at the saint lukes campus and you can see pictures there. thank you for your attention and we'll be in atenedference the hearing to take questions >> thank you i appreciate that. let's turn it over to the city presentations. i know we have folks from planning department, the department orphpublic health, mayors office perhaps >> great, thank you. good afternoon supervisorx i'm elizabeth watty with the planning department. john [inaudible] is unable to join. i am joined with greg [inaudible] economic and work force development and [inaudible] with department of public health. we prepared a presentation with focus on 4 key issues. first as a quick reminder, cpmc development agreement was aproveed by the boar