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SAN FRANCISCO
PLANNING COMMISSION
Special Meeting
Minutes
Thursday,
December 9, 2010
6:00 PM
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue (Near 19th Avenue)
McKenna Hall (Theatre) – Creative Arts Building
COMMISSIONERS
PRESENT: Miguel, Olague, Antonini, Borden, Fong, Moore, and Sugaya
THE MEETING WAS
CALLED TO ORDER BY PRESIDENT MIGUEL AT 6:08 P.M.
STAFF IN
ATTENDANCE: John Rahaim – Director of Planning, Joshua Switzky, Elizabeth
Watty, and Linda Avery – Commission Secretary.
A.
SPECIAL CALENDAR
1.
(J. SWITZKY: (415) 575-6815)
PARK MERCED MIXED-USE PROJECT OVERVIEW AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT – INFORMATIONAL
ONLY
- Parkmerced is generally bounded by 19th Avenue to the east, Lake
Merced Boulevard to the west, Holloway Avenue to the north, and Stanley
Boulevard to the south. The proposed project includes those lots owned by
Parkmerced Investors, LLC, and includes Assessor’s Blocks 7303, 7303A, 7308-311,
7314, 7316, 7319-26, 7330-45, 7333 A-B, 7333E & 7353-7373. Parkmerced is a
rental housing complex constructed between 1941-1951 consisting of approximately
3,200 existing residential units and owned by Parkmerced Investors, LLC.
This is an Informational Hearing to provide an overview of the proposed project
components and draft Development Agreement. Specific topics to be discussed at
this session include transportation and housing (including rent and tenant
relocation considerations). The project, which would be implemented over
20-30 years in multiple phases, includes the addition of approximately 5,700 net
new residential units, the demolition and replacement of approximately 1,800
existing units which would remain subject to the San Francisco Rent
Stabilization Ordinance, rent-protections and relocation rights for existing
tenants, re-alignment and re-design of streets and blocks, re-alignment and
improvement of the M Ocean View light rail line, the addition of new
neighborhood serving retail and office space, new and re-configured public open
spaces including neighborhood parks, pedestrian and bike paths, athletic fields,
a new organic farm, and community gardens, overall transportation improvements,
ecological hydrology improvements, and provision of renewable energy and water
infrastructure. The draft Development Agreement would become the binding legal
contract between the City and the Developer and would memorialize all of the
public benefits and obligations of the Developer and associated agreements
between both parties toward implementation of the Project.
Preliminary Recommendation: No Action Requested. Informational Discussion
Only.
SPEAKERS: In opposition to the project: John Jweinint, Mark
Christensen, Robert Pender, William Toth, John Brerzi, Monty Jacobson, Mike
Vezzali, ronaldo Vezzali, Julian Lagos, Fiona Zhong, Dianne Tomlinson, Aaron
Goodman, Healani Ting, Lora Traveler, Howard Strassner, Linh Lee, Steve Heide,
Michele Diamond, Andrci Zclentsovsky, Garfield Powell, Paula Claudine, Dean
Preston, William Faust, Gil Zilberstein, John Scott, Maria Elena Esgles, Polly
Marshall, Mitchelle Omerberg, Michell Barrionuero-Mazzini, Julie Brook, Norman
Hendy, Cathy Lentz, Dr. Terence Faulkner, Denis Norrington, Michael Russon,
Nelly Delgado, Mark Hammon Lee Parmelee, Kevin Murphy, German McNeal, Robin
Horner, Monty Graves, Robley Passalacour, Eric Brooks, Lynn Velman, Hiroshi
Fukuda, Rose Hillson, Jamal Ahmed, M. K. Venkatachar, and Nikki Crump-Hanskel;
In support of the project: Mohammad Said, Joe Grubb, Arne Larson, Mike
Smith, Jeannie Scott, Brett Martin, Jeff Bronca, Annette Larkin, Grace Shananan,
Tim Colen, Gina Teichert, Elizabeth Keith, Anne Marie Brattan, and Scott
Killpack
ACTION:
Informational only – no action
Adjournment:
10:07 p.m.
