Okay, good afternoon, everyone.

This meeting will come to order.

Uh welcome to the May 6, 2024 regular meeting of the Land Use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

I am Supervisor Mirna Melgar, Chair of the Committee, joined by Board of Supervisors President Aaron Paskin, and Vice Chair Dean Preston.

The committee clerk today is Mr.

John Carroll, and I would also like to acknowledge Jaime Echevery at uh SFGup TV for staffing this meeting.

Mr.

Clerk, do you have any announcements?

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair.

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And finally, Madam Chair, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda of May 14th, 2024, unless otherwise stated.

Thank you very much, Mr.

Clerk.

Please call item number one.

Agenda item number one is an ordinance amending the planning code to modify the 900 Kearney Special Use District to allow an enclosed rooftop building edition with a restricted arts activities use.

Amending the planning code to clarify the use size maximums applicable in the Chinatown Community Benefit District.

Oh, excuse me, community business district.

Affirming the planning department's secret determination, making findings of consistency with the general plan and the eight priority policies of planning code section 101.1 and findings of public convenience necessity and welfare pursuant to planning code section 302.

And one more thing, Madam Chair.

I have a memo from your desk requesting this matter be agendized as a committee report for potential consideration by the Board of Supervisors tomorrow, May 7th.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Clerk.

Uh President Peskin, thank you for introducing this item.

The floor is yours.

Thank you, Chair Melgar and Supervisor Preston.

You will recall we uh pass an earlier iteration of this special use district.

This is a slight adjustment uh requested by the project sponsor.

Uh and I do have some amendments today that were suggested by planning department staff uh and incorporated into the recommendation by the planning commission who heard this on their consent calendar uh to clarify use sizes in the Chinatown Community Business District, which is set forth on page five of the ordinance that makes it clear that uh as to use size, and this was not part of the legislation.

This was recommended by the planning department, but I agree, and this would be a convenient place to uh put this clarification into the code that the use size is permitted up to 2500 square feet and requires conditional use uh between 2501 and 5,000 square feet.

Uh the revisions to the early ordinance uh have to do with very specific um specifications for uh the rooftop appurtenance that uh as you will see on page four of the ordinance and as recommended by planning uh limits its size uh and uh its height and its use to arts activities.

I want to thank the project sponsor for uh not only working with the community but for working with a renowned uh district three artist who is present here today, the one and only Jeremy Fish.

Um, and with that, I madam chair would turn it over to the Department of Planning if they have any comments or uh want to further explain the position of the commission.

Hi, welcome.

Thank you, uh President Melgar and uh Supervisor Peskin.

Audrey Merlone with the planning department staff.

I won't uh reiterate what Supervisor Paskin already stated, just to say that the planning commission uh is supportive of the ordinance with the proposed recommended modifications that Supervisor Peskin just stated.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Any other speakers, uh, President Peskin.

I believe that a representative of the project sponsor, Mr.

Alan Lowe, is also present.

Welcome, Mr.

Lowe.

Good afternoon, good afternoon, Supervisors Alan Lowe of Perkins CUE attorneys for Jackson Kearney LLC.

Supervisors, I first want to say thank you for the original legislation, which establish office at the corner of Jackson and Kearney Street.

This is an important step to the economic viability of this building and to this corner of District 3.

This trailing legislation is, I think the creative piece to the uh original SUD legislation and to the building.