Remarks by Lydia So
112 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 5
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“OK. And what about the one that is slated for a single family home in the corner?”
Planning Commission · Sep 17, 2026
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“OK. All right. Thank you. So let me see if I have all my questions to you. Do you have any plan to take care of that 100-year-old tree?”
Planning Commission · Sep 17, 2026
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“Okay. So it's fair to say that you do have your intent to properly take care of this potentially falling tree, but right now you're in a bit of a pickle, right? In order to properly take it out and not causing more undue erosion, you need to have actually a soil foundation plan in place to work with it. And basically all these life safety requirement that your project required to do will be a very serious like soil report and geotechnical engineering and seismic engineering, all that stuff is going to be going through when you submit for site permit. That's correct. Hopefully you go to do…”
Planning Commission · Sep 17, 2026
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“Okay, I really wanted to make sure that people, our public, understand the sequences here. The Planning Commission has jurisdictions on land use and the massing and based on our family zoning code, but the actual technicality of the soil condition and safety, and even down to construction abatement and mitigations are all going to be continued to be fully looking at under the eyes of DBI for health and safety and welfare for everybody. Just want to say it like that just to make sure really clear I know a lot of people are frustrated and it's been frustrated for many many years I think it is…”
Planning Commission · Sep 17, 2026
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“While I have you here, would I have to say, are you going to be committed to actually building these homes?”
Planning Commission · Sep 17, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you for all your extra comments. I have a question to our planning staff.”
Planning Commission · Sep 17, 2026
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“Hi. Is this area has any constraint on large homes?”
Planning Commission · Sep 17, 2026
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“Okay, thanks for the clarification. I will conclude with my own thought process here is that this project really do comply with our new family zoning plan and our new design guideline, the design standards, and it does comply with the setback that is required, and I've seen it's pretty clear. Actually, 27 feet. I think, however, there's history to the evolutions of this whole block and the neighborhood that spans almost now nearly 10 years, right? So It is a challenging situation within neighborhoods and communities. But however, we want more housing to actually build in San Francisco. And I…”
Planning Commission · Sep 17, 2026
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“So Commissioner So. OK. I'm going to give this a try, but I'm open to editing or refining. So we motion to approve moving this project forward, but insist to have that community liaison program fully enforced. Would it be appropriate?”
Planning Commission · Sep 17, 2026
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“I really think that this one really needs a lot of community hands-on, even though technically in the tracking of the computer system, you get to go look, but we should be proactively helping the community, right? Okay, so would this be an appropriate...”
Planning Commission · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right. I like that. So it be very clear communication and access for transparency of accountability. So I'm going to repeat it one more time. I'm A motion to approve with the recommendation of enforcing the community liaison program specifically also in facilitating making sure through the building permitting process site permit and building permitting process and also the community liaison shall post notifications on site with clear contact information to the staff Second. Oh, Joe, you want to say something?”
Planning Commission · Sep 17, 2026
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“Yeah, because we typically don't do that. Yeah. Thank you for that clarification.”
Planning Commission · Sep 17, 2026
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“I motion to approve to not take the DR and approve this. Second.”
Planning Commission · Sep 17, 2026
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“Welcome, Tate. Really happy to see how we actually work together in proactively than reactively. So welcome. My question is relating to working with making sure that there are areas that are inconsistent between a planning code and building code. Now, with this proposal from Supervisor Mahmoud, you have been skillfully using some of the exemptions in the building code that can actually make this more aligned just for particular use, in this case is retail.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“So would you say it benefit a lot of the commercial corridors?”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“OK. I'm in support of this, and I think it's a really good step forward. And I would like to ask, what about the PDR districts with a lot of lift work loft?”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“So I would like to add just a recommendation to look into the PDR districts and the uses of work. So I think that will be benefiting a lot of residents and also live and work in their space. That might be helpful, just as a consideration. I'm supportive of this.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you. I second and echo all my fellow commissioners' great positive remarks. I'm not going to repeat them, but I just say they're great. Thanks for making those statements. I wanted to have basically two other questions that I have. One, maybe the easiest one is relating to Popo's, or maybe perhaps the architect can answer that. Hi, Mark. Hi. And so just my understanding is that you're requesting to use the entire plaza area, not the entire one, but like all the Popo's access is on the ground floor, and none of it is happening in any of the sky lounges or rooftops.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“And so in your current proposed schemes, the alleyway is vehicle access, right?”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Oh, okay, so that kind of probably, I really appreciate your answer to that, because I'm looking at your vehicle diagram, so circulation and site access diagram. That's what I was not sure what the orange-ish dash arrow line is along the alleyway.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“And then the dash one that is in the alleyway with the two rows of trees. Yeah.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“And also notice that that's actually outside your property line.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“So what is the extent of your proposals that you propose that actually meet the requirement of our proposed square footage requirement for the size of your building?”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“So is it, I'm just trying to get my self understanding, so you're counting your POPOs, part of it is actually outside of your property line?”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“But that's actually not yours, so how could you count that?”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026