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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• October 6, 1999

ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW COMMITTEE
 

ROLL CALL: Committee Chair: Paul Finwall

Committee Ex-Officio: Daniel Reidy

Committee Members: Jeremy Kotas, Penney Magrane, Suheil Shatara
 

1. 1999. 496A (PAEZ)

333 DOLORES STREET, Saint Joseph School, east side between 16th and 17th Streets. Assessor's Block 3567, Lot 57, City Landmark No. 137. The Children's Day School is a three-story reinforced concrete building with stucco exterior and associated playground/open space located behind the Notre Dame Plaza Senior Housing Complex which fronts on Dolores Street. The subject property is zoned RM-1 (Mixed Residential, Low Density) District and is in a 40-X Height and Bulk District. Request for Architectural Review Committee review and comment on a proposal to demolish an accessory storage building, shed, incinerator and a children's playhouse, as well as construction of a new two-story (with basement) school building containing classrooms, a library, administrative office space and a multi-purpose room. The project also includes minor exterior alterations and the seismic upgrade to the Saint Joseph's Hall Building.
 

2. 1999.555A (LIGHT)

9-11 BLACKSTONE COURT, Assessor's Block 504, Lot 8, through-lot property in Blackstone Court Historic District with frontages on both Blackstone Court and Lombard Street. Property contains existing historic house fronting on Blackstone Court and non-historic storage shed and billboard sign structure near Lombard Street frontage. The subject property is zoned NC-3 (Moderate-Scale Neighborhood Commercial) District and is in a 40-X Height and Bulk District. Request for Architectural Review Committee review and comment on a proposal to remove shed (which has been condemned by the Department of Building Inspection) and billboard sign structure, and construct a 3-unit residential building fronting on Lombard Street.
 

Time: 1:45 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 JULY 21, AUGUST 4 AND AUGUST 18, 1999, DRAFT ACTION MINUTES
 

Informational Presentation
 

5. 1998.257ERX (KOMETANI)

UNION SQUARE, a City park bounded by Post, Geary, Stockton and Powell Streets, Assessor's Block 308, Lot. 1. The park is located atop a below garage, parking structure, an unrated building in the Kearny-Market-Mason-Sutter Conservation District. The subject property is zoned P (Public Use) District and is in an OS (Open Space) Height and Bulk District. Informational presentation on a proposal for improvements to the park, including new park structures and a new landscape plan.
 

Landmark Designation
 

6. 1998.857L (PAEZ)

MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR DRIVE, THE MILLWRIGHTS COTTAGE AND THE SOUTH WINDMILL, north side between John F. Kennedy Drive and the Great Highway at the west end of Golden Gate Park, a portion of Assessor's Block 1700, Lot 1. The subject property is zoned P (Public Use) District and is in an OS (Open Space) Height and Bulk District. Consideration to initiate landmark designation and adopt a resolution initiating and recommending landmark designation of the Millwrights Cottage and the South Windmill as Landmark No. 210.
 

Certificates of Appropriateness
 

7. 1999. 496A (PAEZ)

333 DOLORES STREET, Saint Joseph School, east side between 16th and 17th Streets. Assessor's Block 3567, Lot 57, City Landmark No. 137. The Children's Day School is a three-story reinforced concrete building with stucco exterior and associated playground/open space located behind the Notre Dame Plaza Senior Housing Complex which fronts on Dolores Street. The subject property is zoned RM-1 (Mixed Residential, Low Density) District and is in a 40-X Height and Bulk District. Request for a Certificate of Appropriateness to demolish an accessory storage building, shed, incinerator and a children's playhouse, as well as construction of a new two-story (with basement) school building containing classrooms, a library, administrative office space and a multi-purpose room. The project also includes minor exterior alterations and the seismic upgrade to the Saint Joseph's Hall Building.
 

8. 1999.555A (LIGHT)

9-11 BLACKSTONE COURT, Assessor's Block 504, Lot 8, through-lot property in Blackstone Court Historic District with frontages on both Blackstone Court and Lombard Street. Property contains existing historic house fronting on Blackstone Court and non-historic storage shed and billboard sign structure near Lombard Street frontage. The subject property is zoned NC-3 (Moderate-Scale Neighborhood Commercial) District and is in a 40-X Height and Bulk District. Request for a Certificate of Appropriateness to remove shed (which has been condemned by the Department of Building Inspection) and billboard sign structure, and construct a 3-unit residential building fronting on Lombard Street.
 

9. 1999.607A (LIGHT)

3640 BUCHANAN STREET, San Francisco Gas and Light Company, southeast corner of North Point Street. Assessor's Block 459, Lot 3. Landmark No. 58. A two-story masonry Romanesque Victorian office building. The subject property is zoned NC-2 (Neighborhood Commercial, Small-Scale) District and is in a 40-X Height and Bulk District. Request for a Certificate of Appropriateness to replace deteriorated windows on south side of building in kind, install gate at North point auto entrance, build 6'-8" wall to screen mechanical equipment and garbage, install gate in garden wall in front yard.
 

10. 1999.449A (ALVIN)

376 LEXINGTON STREET, between 20th and 21st Streets. Assessor's Block 3609, Lot 60. The two-story, Italianate, single-family house is in the Liberty Hill Historic District. The subject property is zoned RH-2 (House, Two-Family) District and is in a 50-X Height and Bulk District. Request for a Certificate of Appropriateness to construct an underground one-car (two tandem) garage in the front building wall.
 

Review and Comment
 

11. 1998.902E (KUGLER)

FIRST AND HOWARD STREETS, all four corners of the intersection of First and Howard Streets; Assessors Block 3720, Lots 5, 6 and 7; Block 3721, Lots 10, 11, 35 and 88; Block 3736, Lots 1, 2, 3A, 4 and 116; and Block 3737, Lots 1, 1A, 1B, 2, 3, 4, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26. The proposed project would demolish all but one of the existing structures on the four corners of the intersection of First and Howard (south of the Transbay Terminal) and construct four nine-story office buildings in the C-3-O (SD) (Downtown Office, Special Development) District in the South of Market area. The new space would be approximately 1,120,000 sq. ft. of office and about 56,000 sq. ft. of retail. About 1,233 underground valet parking spaces are proposed. The Category I historic structure at 231 First St. would be retained and converted to restaurant or retail and office use. Two other buildings, 401 Howard and 218 Fremont Streets which meet the CEQA definition of historic resources but are not on local surveys would be demolished. Request for Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board's comments on the adequacy of the Draft Environmental Impact Report, pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
 

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.
 

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