Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board (LPAB) Calendars (Agendas)

Presented below are Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board (LPAB) Calendars (Agendas). The top of the this page lists LPAB meeting dates, click on the date and you will reach the calendar for that that week. You may also go directly to the minutes page of the LPAB if you wish. This page presents a summary of actions taken at the LPAB hearings and provides a Motion, Resolution or other decision document for that action.

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• May 5, 1999
• May 19, 1999

FOR FULL BOARD CONSIDERATION
 

ROLL CALL: Board President: Daniel Reidy

Board Vice President: Penney Magrane

Board Members: Ina Dearman, Paul Finwall, Nancy Ho-Belli, Tim Kelley, Jeremy Kotas, Donna Levitt, Suheil Shatara
 

ITEM TO BE CONTINUED
 

1. (MONTANA)

NEIMAN MARCUS EXPANSION PROJECT, informational presentation on the proposed Neiman Marcus Expansion Project within the Kearny-Market-Mason-Sutter Conservation District. The Neiman Marcus company would like to expand its 199 Geary Street store by about 61,400 square feet to make it the company's second largest store and the West Coast Flagship Store. The project would include the demolition of a Category IV (Contributory) building on an adjacent lot at 125 Geary Street; the construction of a horizontal and vertical expansion of the existing building to include the 125 Geary Street lot; and the alteration of windows, doors and siding of the existing 199 Geary Street facade to complement the architectural character of the Conservation District and to improve pedestrian interest. (Continued from April 21, 1999 Hearing - Request for Continuance to June 2, 1999)
 

PUBLIC COMMENT
 

At this time, members of the public may address the Landmarks Board on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Landmarks Board except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the Landmarks Board will be afforded when the item has already been reviewed in a public hearing at which members of the public were allowed to testify and the Landmarks Board has closed the public hearing. Your opportunity to address the Landmarks Board must be exercised during the Public Comment portion of the calendar. Each member of the public may address the Landmarks Board for up to three minutes. If it is demonstrated that comments by the public will exceed 15 minutes, the President or chairperson may continue Public Comment to another time during the meeting.
 

The Brown Act forbids a commission or board from taking action or discussing any item not appearing on the posted agenda, including those items raised at public comment. In response to public comment, the Board is limited to: (1) briefly responding to statements made or questions posed by members of the public, or (2) requesting staff to report back on a matter at a subsequent meeting, or (3) directing staff to place the item on a future agenda. (Government Code Section 54954.2(a).)
 

REPORTS
 

2. STAFF REPORT AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

3. PRESIDENT'S REPORT AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

4. MATTERS OF THE BOARD
 

REGULAR CALENDAR ITEMS
 

5. APPROVAL OF THE NOVEMBER 18, 1998 AND APRIL 7, 1999 DRAFT ACTION MINUTES
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Informational Presentations
 

6. 1998.369E (GITELMAN)

435 PACIFIC AVENUE. Construction of a five-story office building following demolition of a "Potentially Compatible" building in the Jackson Square Historic District. Status of environmental review process.
 

7. (MONTAÑA)

THE WILLIAMS BUILDING, THIRD AND MISSION STREETS, southeast corner of Third and Mission Streets. Assessor's Block 3727, Lot 63, in the Yerba Buena Center Redevelopment Project Area Development, site "EB2A". Proposal to reuse the Williams Building, an architectural significant building, with a new mixed use development.
 

Time: 2:00 P.M.
 

Certificates of Appropriateness
 

8. 1999.230A (LIGHT)

855 BATTERY STREET, west side between Broadway and Vallejo Street in Assessor's Block 142, Lot 1. A five and one-half story, reenforced concrete building in the Northeast Waterfront Historic District. The subject building houses KPIX television station, is zoned C-2 (Community Business) District and is in an 84-E Height and Bulk District. Request for Certificate of Appropriateness to install roof-top satellite dish.
 

9. 1999.231A (LIGHT)

1265 BATTERY STREET, west side between Union and Greenwich Streets in Assessor's Block 84, Lot 8. A three-story brick and terra cotta steel-frame building. The subject property is zoned C-2 (Community Business) District and is in a 65-X Height and Bulk District. Request for Certificate of Appropriateness to remove an existing outside bar and solarium addition with canvas awning, to be replaced with new solarium and awning to provide additional dining space.
 

10. 1997.443A (KOMETANI)

22 ALTA STREET, north side between Montgomery and Sansome Streets in Assessor's Block 106, Lot 34A. Former site of a contributory building in the Telegraph Hill Historic District, now demolished. The subject property is zoned RH-3 (House, Three-Family) District and is in a 40-X Height and Bulk District. Request for Certificate of Appropriateness authorization to construct a new three-unit residential building in the Telegraph Hill Historic District.
 
 
 

ADJOURNMENT
 

NOTE: For information on the next Landmarks Board Calendar, please call 558-6320 on Fridays (before the scheduled hearing) after 5:00 p.m. for a recorded message.
 

NOTE: Items listed on this calendar will not be heard before the stated time.
 

NOTE: Speaker Cards will be available at all hearings. For your convenience, they may be picked up in advance of the hearing from the Planning Department Reception Counter, 1660 Mission Street, 5th Floor.
 

NOTE: The Landmarks Board meets on the first and third Wednesday of each month. For information on the next Landmarks Board Calendar, please call Andrea Green at 558-6320 after 3:00 p.m. on Fridays preceding the regularly scheduled meetings. Items listed on this Notice of the Meeting and Agenda will not be heard before the stated time.
 

NOTE: For information related to Landmarks Board matters, please call Andrea Green, Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board Recording Secretary, Planning Department, at (415) 558-6266.
 

NOTE: Pursuant to Government Code § 65009, if you challenge, in court, the approval of a Certificate of Appropriateness, Permit to Alter, Landmark or Historic District designation, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board at, or prior to, the public hearing.
 

NOTE: Material submitted by the public for Landmarks Board review prior to a scheduled hearing, should be received at the Planning Department Reception Counter, 1660 Mission Street, 5th Floor, no later than 5:00 p.m. the Tuesday (eight (8) days) prior to the scheduled public hearing. Persons unable to attend a hearing may submit written comments regarding a calendared item to the Board at the above listed address. Comments received by 11:00 a.m. on the day of the hearing will be made part of the official record and will be brought to the attention of the Landmarks Board at the public hearing. Otherwise, submit material related to a calendared item at the scheduled hearing for distribution. For complete distribution to all Commissioners, necessary staff and case/docket/ correspondence files, submit an original and 18 copies.
 

Hearings are held at City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 400, Fourth Floor, San Francisco, CA. The closest accessible BART Station is the Civic Center Station located at the intersection of Market, Hyde and Grove Streets. Accessible curb side parking has been designated at points along McAllister Street. Accessible MUNI Lines serving City Hall are the 42 Downtown Loop, 9 San Bruno and 71 Haight/Noriega and the F Line. Accessible MUNI Metro Lines are the J, K, L, M, and N which stop at the Civic Center and Van Ness Avenue Stations. For more information regarding MUNI accessible services, call (415) 923-6142. American sign language interpreters and/or a sound enhancement system will be available upon request by contacting Dorothy Jaymes at (415) 558-6403, at least 72 hours prior to a hearing. Individuals with severe allergies, environmental illnesses, multiple chemical sensitivity or related disabilities should call our accessibility hotline at (415) 554-8925 to discuss meeting accessibility. In order to assist the City's efforts to accommodate such people, attendees at public meetings are reminded that other attendees may be sensitive to various chemical based products. Please help the City to accommodate these individuals.
 

Government's duty is to serve the public, reaching its decisions in full view of the public. Commissions, boards, councils and other agencies of the City and County exist to conduct the people's business. This ordinance assures that deliberations are conducted before the people and that City operations are open to the people's review.
 

For more information on your rights under the Sunshine Ordinance (Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code) or to report a violation of the ordinance, contact the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force at 554-6083.
 

Attention: Individuals and entities that influence or attempt to influence local legislative or administrative action may be required by the San Francisco Lobbyist Ordinance [SF Admin Code §16,520 - 16.534] to register and report lobbying activity. For more information about the Lobbyist Ordinance, please contact the Ethics Commission at 1390 Market Street, Suite 701, San Francisco, CA 94102, telephone (415) 554-9510, fax (415) 703-0121 and web site http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/ethics/.
 

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ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW COMMITTEE
 

ROLL CALL: Committee Chair: Paul Finwall

Committee Ex-Officio: Daniel Reidy

Committee Members: Jeremy Kotas, Penney Magrane, Suheil Shatara
 

1. 1999.167A (ALVIN)

700 7th STREET, THE BAKER & HAMILTON BUILDING, southwest corner of 7th and Townsend Streets, between Harrison and Bryant Streets. Assessor's Block 3799, Lot 1. The three-story, unreinforced masonry building is individually designated Landmark No. 193, is zoned M-1 (Light Industrial) District and is in a 40-X Height and Bulk District. Request for Architectural Review Committee comments on a proposal for exterior facade changes and new signage.
 

ADJOURNMENT
 

Time: 1:00 P.M.
 

FOR FULL BOARD CONSIDERATION
 

ROLL CALL: Board President: Daniel Reidy

Board Vice President: Penney Magrane

Board Members: Ina Dearman, Paul Finwall, Nancy Ho-Belli, Tim Kelley, Jeremy Kotas, Donna Levitt, Suheil Shatara
 

PUBLIC COMMENT
 

At this time, members of the public may address the Landmarks Board on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Landmarks Board except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the Landmarks Board will be afforded when the item has already been reviewed in a public hearing at which members of the public were allowed to testify and the Landmarks Board has closed the public hearing. Your opportunity to address the Landmarks Board must be exercised during the Public Comment portion of the calendar. Each member of the public may address the Landmarks Board for up to three minutes. If it is demonstrated that comments by the public will exceed 15 minutes, the President or chairperson may continue Public Comment to another time during the meeting.
 

The Brown Act forbids a commission or board from taking action or discussing any item not appearing on the posted agenda, including those items raised at public comment. In response to public comment, the Board is limited to:

(1) briefly responding to statements made or questions posed by members of the public, or

(2) requesting staff to report back on a matter at a subsequent meeting, or

(3) directing staff to place the item on a future agenda. (Government Code Section 54954.2(a).).
 

REPORTS
 

1. STAFF REPORT AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

2. PRESIDENT'S REPORT AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

3. MATTERS OF THE BOARD
 

REGULAR CALENDAR ITEMS
 

4. APPROVAL OF THE NOVEMBER 18, 1998, FEBRUARY 17, MARCH 3, AND APRIL 7, 1999 DRAFT ACTION MINUTES
 
 
 

Review and Comment
 

5. 1998.833E (KUGLER)

115-124 MAIDEN LANE, north side of Maiden Lance between Stockton Street to the west and Grant Avenue to the east. Assessor's Block 309, Lot 61. A Category IV, Contributory building within the Kearny-Market-Mason-Sutter Conservation District. The proposed project would demolish the existing, partially occupied, four-story, 53-foot-tall, 7,700 sq. ft. retail/office building and construct a new two-story, 40-foot-tall building with approximately 4,990 sq. ft. of retail space. The subject property is zoned C-3-R (Downtown Retail) District and is in an 80-130 F Height and Bulk District. The existing building is an unreinforced masonry building (UMB) and is subject to the City's UMB Ordinance. Landmark Preservation Advisory Board review and comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR), pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
 

6. SECTION 106 (PAEZ)

HUNTERS POINT SHIPYARD, Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board review and comment on a Draft Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Navy, the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, the State Historic Preservation Officer and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. The draft MOA was prepared to resolve the effects of the base disposal and reuse, a federal undertaking, on historic properties pursuant to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. The views of the Landmarks Board and the public are to be considered by the Certified Local Government (CLG) and transmitted with its official comment letter to the lead agency.
 

ADJOURNMENT
 

NOTE: For information on the next Landmarks Board Calendar, please call 558-6320 on Fridays (before the scheduled hearing) after 5:00 p.m. for a recorded message.
 

NOTE: Items listed on this calendar will not be heard before the stated time.
 

NOTE: Speaker Cards will be available at all hearings. For your convenience, they may be picked up in advance of the hearing from the Planning Department Reception Counter, 1660 Mission Street, 5th Floor.
 

NOTE: The Landmarks Board meets on the first and third Wednesday of each month. For information on the next Landmarks Board Calendar, please call Andrea Green at 558-6320 after 3:00 p.m. on Fridays preceding the regularly scheduled meetings. Items listed on this Notice of the Meeting and Agenda will not be heard before the stated time.
 

NOTE: For information related to Landmarks Board matters, please call Andrea Green, Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board Recording Secretary, Planning Department, at (415) 558-6266.
 

NOTE: Pursuant to Government Code § 65009, if you challenge, in court, the approval of a Certificate of Appropriateness, Permit to Alter, Landmark or Historic District designation, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board at, or prior to, the public hearing.
 

NOTE: Material submitted by the public for Landmarks Board review prior to a scheduled hearing, should be received at the Planning Department Reception Counter, 1660 Mission Street, 5th Floor, no later than 5:00 p.m. the Tuesday (eight (8) days) prior to the scheduled public hearing. Persons unable to attend a hearing may submit written comments regarding a calendared item to the Board at the above listed address. Comments received by 11:00 a.m. on the day of the hearing will be made part of the official record and will be brought to the attention of the Landmarks Board at the public hearing. Otherwise, submit material related to a calendared item at the scheduled hearing for distribution. For complete distribution to all Commissioners, necessary staff and case/docket/ correspondence files, submit an original and 18 copies.
 

Hearings are held at City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 400, Fourth Floor, San Francisco, CA. The closest accessible BART Station is the Civic Center Station located at the intersection of Market, Hyde and Grove Streets. Accessible curb side parking has been designated at points along McAllister Street. Accessible MUNI Lines serving City Hall are the 42 Downtown Loop, 9 San Bruno and 71 Haight/Noriega and the F Line. Accessible MUNI Metro Lines are the J, K, L, M, and N which stop at the Civic Center and Van Ness Avenue Stations. For more information regarding MUNI accessible services, call (415) 923-6142. American sign language interpreters and/or a sound enhancement system will be available upon request by contacting Dorothy Jaymes at (415) 558-6403, at least 72 hours prior to a hearing. Individuals with severe allergies, environmental illnesses, multiple chemical sensitivity or related disabilities should call our accessibility hotline at (415) 554-8925 to discuss meeting accessibility. In order to assist the City's efforts to accommodate such people, attendees at public meetings are reminded that other attendees may be sensitive to various chemical based products. Please help the City to accommodate these individuals.
 

Government's duty is to serve the public, reaching its decisions in full view of the public. Commissions, boards, councils and other agencies of the City and County exist to conduct the people's business. This ordinance assures that deliberations are conducted before the people and that City operations are open to the people's review.
 

For more information on your rights under the Sunshine Ordinance (Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code) or to report a violation of the ordinance, contact the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force at 554-6083.
 

Attention: Individuals and entities that influence or attempt to influence local legislative or administrative action may be required by the San Francisco Lobbyist Ordinance [SF Admin Code §16,520 - 16.534] to register and report lobbying activity. For more information about the Lobbyist Ordinance, please contact the Ethics Commission at 1390 Market Street, Suite 701, San Francisco, CA 94102, telephone (415) 554-9510, fax (415) 703-0121 and web site http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/ethics/.
 

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