come back. would you like to hear this case? >> then we can bring it back and talk about maybe having deliberations and voting on the case. >> we will continue this item and call item no. 9 carrie. it is protesting the issue on august 18, of a permit to alter the building, and remodel, and i addition, a three-story addition commo, basement additi,

reconfigure basement and sparta. i see both parties. who would like to speak first? >> i will speak first. >> did you work that out? >> he gave me the green light. if i have helped him with this, and we reached a settlement agreement in the hallway, and on that basis, we have requested the appellant withdraw, and i am now going to let the appellants representatives confirmed he represents the appellant and we have reached an agreement. >> i am representing the appellant in this case, and we

came to an agreement, and we would like to withdraw, and thank you for your patience. >> would you like your agreement on a record? >> yes. goohere it is. basically, our our will paraphrase it. it is that now our project sponsors will conduct the boundary survey. the boundary line will be marked in plain view of thosboth parti. the project sponsor will use of us engineering practices.

also naming the appellant as additional ensured. the private sponsor will pay 50% of the cost. there will be flash to fill any gaps between the buildings. the prostate sponsor will pay for creating a boundary fence on the western property line. they will allow reasonable access to the property to make

needed repairs and maintenance. there are other terms that are not performing, but we reach. the agreement is on a computer screen. these are most of them, but there are more of them during good -- more of them. >> we have dealt with that. >> in other words, we have made physical changes to the properties. >> since we have heard from the

parties, i think we should see if there is any public comment. i see no public comment. the matter has been withdrawn, so there is no need for action on your part. >> congratulations to the project sponsor. i hope you raise a lovely family. >> we moved back to item 10. maybe you can go and see if the parties can come back in the room. >> why don't we take a five minute >> we are returning to i contend. -- item 10. an fis the board.

-- advise the board. >> our clients would be willing, if it is a six month limit, to agree to slightly less, but i do not know. we would even be willing to -- they could move into any of the three units available after six months, and then move into their own unit, if they do not get anything done. they only have to get three units done, but i think they have a problem with the time limit. >> we spoke briefly in the hallway. we definitely could agree to more money to alleviate the problems, the financial concerns. it is difficult, especially in this short a time, to commit to a six-month time to get the work done. i am not a contractor, but i am

sure the contractors here would agree that is too short a time. there are too many variables to commit to a time like that. but we are certainly willing to negotiate and work with addressing financial problems with temporary relocation. we would prefer to start right away. we will continue to negotiate with the tenant. before we can even serve a notice, we have to file for our petition. we anticipate the work will take longer than three months. then we have to give a 60-day notice. depending on what mr. collier and his clients want to do, which could end up with three jury trials. negotiation is important to us. i am sorry that got misunderstood early on. we are perfectly willing to negotiate. vice president garcia: as our director explained, if we were

to continue this, at any time between now and the date we continued it to, you could simply call and withdraw the appeal. if that would accommodate both sides, that might be the best tack to take. >> i understand that. we would prefer not to have the appeal upheld. we would like to go forward with the project. but like i said, mr. collier and these clients -- there are a lot of steps before we can even start the project. some property owners would like to speak as well. but there are lots of steps to negotiate before moving forward. we would like to get onto the next step. we would welcome any opportunity to negotiate. >> the concerns, as i see it,

are relocating aspects. i am meeting the tenants with a reimbursement for their relocating. i feel like i am meeting their needs. i want to meet their needs. i need to get my needs met as well. i do not have time. we cannot get this job prolonged any longer. i would like the tenants to take over negotiating in good faith, and i would like some back. i would like to move forward and not continue. commissioner peterson: you cannot figure out a way to get these tenants back in a within six months? >> i can figure a way. it is simply move fast. but like david said, and anybody who has been through construction, things happen. it is our interest to get them back. they are tenants. we want to get them back. i just cannot say that i can

guarantee it. commissioner hwang: depending on how the vote goes, aren't you better off having a vacant building for six months? >> i am better off having in vacant for as little as possible. commissioner peterson: nobody addressed this from your side, which is the proposal of shifting people into the spaces that are available when, for example, as mr. collier just stay put -- if after six months, work is not done, but you could have a timelines of the units that are available can be moved back into -- you could prioritize, right? your contractor will do whatever you want, in the fashion you want it. if there is a way to do it, i have not heard anyone address that. >> it is my understanding that the work cannot be done well,

unit by unit. much of the work is systematic. our engineer is here. he could speak on behalf of that. commissioner peterson: i would like to hear that, because it is unclear to me. >> i am the project engineer. i am a licensed professional engineer. it is my opinion that this work is too cumbersome to be done unit by unit. in everyone's interest, the best way to do it quickly is to vacate the building. the issue, the code issues alone -- is building needs to be upgraded. all this needs to be upgraded. it is a fire hazard. remember the case at the fillmore. we do not want that to happen here. we need to write down all the ceiling and dishes in the building. -- rip down all the ceiling finishes in the building and

install the surfaces. this needs to be done in one go, not unit by unit. commissioner hwang: don't you do one piece at a time anyway? >> that is the quickest procedure. commissioner hwang: you could take down three units and then the next three units. >> to get rid of all the house of this materials as quickly as possible, there are no -- to get rid of the hazardous materials as quickly as possible, we need all of the residents out of the building. there is a common entrance. it is hard to move the hazardous material through the building. commissioner hwang: what is the time lag for spreading out the work in a more piecemeal fashion? >> it could double the construction time easily. that is setting aside all the announced that are already there.

in an existing building like that, you might open a section of wall and find brought everywhere. that adds delays. -- and find dry rot everywhere. commissioner hwang: i understand the project sponsor wants to start the work immediately. at the same time, i have heard different people say everything is speculative and untested. what sort of research has been done? you have a hard deadline somewhere, right? i have not heard them. >> a standard building of that age, you expect lead paint. you expect it in the cluster. you expect it in the plumbing. one person can have a shower at any one time. commissioner hwang: you expect asbestos. >> no samples have been taken,

but it is assumed. commissioner hwang: 1 not? >> because of the time frame. commissioner hwang: there are vacant units, right? president goh: i am afraid maybe you did not here when mr. -- hear when mr. duffy said you do not use-- lose the occupancy of the building, from a building department point of view. i know you are saying it is more efficient to do it all, but what about doing that just the basement forced sex -- first? >> you will be disconnecting the services. the building will be literally lifted off its foundation. they are connected, unfortunately. president goh: ok. thank you. you can come and answer my

question. just come up to the microphone. >> earlier, the house movers said we needed to construct interior walls in the apartment in order to construct them -- to support them possibly. commissioner peterson: are we in deliberations? >> you could move into those. president goh: mr. collier would like to answer my question. >> i have done demolition and the tenants are in place. they did it in the vacant units. they did not do lead and asbestos testing. they did the demolition without asbestos testing, without knowing if it was hazardous. i think that tells you a lot about whether there really are concerned. -- they really are concerned. president goh: we did see those

pictures. vice president garcia: we cut it off. president goh: i think we have heard enough, thank you. the vice president, i did you like -- i did like your idea about a continuance, giving them a chance. vice president garcia: i agree. here is what i would offer. the incentive for the project sponsor -- we have to accept that mr. collier probably knows a great deal. he has suggested that if this project were to take longer than three months, of which everyone agrees it will take, you would have to apply for some sort of extension to the rent board. that might involve up in the $8,500 anyway. what complicates this particular case is the fact that we're talking about the permit itself, because half of this house to do with plumbing and electrical.

the permit that is before us has to do with the excavation down below. we do not know the whole scope of the work. i would say here is where the project sponsor benefits from a continuance. it is a way of all the other delays you might have, if you are not able to reach agreement with the tenants, and decide what ever you can reach to satisfy them -- that might save you a lot more time and money. as to this side, i will show my hand right now. i think it is going to be highly impractical, even a life safety issue, and in feasible for this project to go forward with tenants in the building. i am not saying that were we to vote right now i would vote for that. i do not think enough negotiation has taken place or another consideration has been

given to the fact that there will be further delays for the tenants on some of these guidelines. that had nothing to do with the fact that i thought it could take six months. i was giving nine months. in concession, i was asking the project sponsor double the amount you would do, even though it might not cover the entire time. that is now. i do not know where this is going to land. as has been mentioned, both sides, as quickly as you can get together and negotiate -- someone could pick up the phone and withdraw the appeal. the permits issued, and you are ready to go, assuming the other people of here are in favor of the continuance. does anyone else have a comment?

otherwise, i move we continue this to november 6. commissioner hwang: i will show my hand as well. i think the briefing was pretty compelling on the part of the tenants. i think, frankly, that the request is very reasonable. i have not heard otherwise from the department. if the work can be done and the tenants assume the risk of having inconvenience and loud noises, and that is what they want in order to stand their ground and hold on to their apartments, they should be able to do so. i also agree from a pragmatic perspective that to avoid further cost of time and litigation, a continuance would be appropriate. president goh: i agree.

is there emotion on the table? unless commissioner peterson has some comment, i am ready to vote. >> we should call the vote. the motion would be to continue to october 26 to allow the parties further time to discuss a settlement. commissioner hwang: i will not be here. i have a memorial service out of the country. >> on that motion from the vice president to continue the matter to october 26 to allow settlement negotiations to go forward, commissioner fung is absent. the vote is 4-0. the matter is continued. >> there is no further business. president goh: we are adjourned.

>> the san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park is now showing a new exhibit that changes the way we see the plants around us. amy stewart's best-selling book, "wicked plants" is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world.

>> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or maybe illegal or offensive or awful in some way. i am in the profession of going around and interviewing botanists, horticulturalists and plant scientists. they all seem to have some little plant tucked away in the corner of a greenhouse that maybe they weren't supposed to have. i got interested in this idea that maybe there was a dark side to plants.

>> the white snake root. people who consumed milk or meat from a cow that fed on white snake root faced severe pain. milk sickness, as it was culled, resulted in vomiting, tremors, delirium and death. one of the most famous victims of milk sickness was nancy hangs lincoln. she died at the age of 34, leaving behind 9-year-old abraham lincoln. he helped build his mother's casket by carving the woodallen petition douche the wooden petition himself. >> we transformed the gallery to and eerie victorian garden.

my name is lowe hodges, and i am the director of operations and exhibitions at the conls tore of -- cons tore of flowers. we decided it needed context. so we needed a house or a building. the story behind the couple in the window, you can see his wife has just served him a glass of wine, and he is slumped over the table as the poison takes affect. a neat little factold dominion about that house is actually built out of three panels from old james bond movie. we wanted people to feel like i am not supposed to be in this room. this is the one that is supposed to be barred off and locked up. >> the ole andersonner -- oleander. this popular shrub is popular in warm climates. it has been implicated in a

surprising number of murders and accidental deaths. children are at risk because it takes only a few leaves to kill them. a southern california woman tried to collect on her husband's life insurance by putting the leaves in his food. she is now one of 15 women on california's death rowan the only one who attempted to murder with a plant. >> people who may haven't been to their cons tore or been to -- do serve tore or their botanical garden, it gives them a reason to come back. you think let's go and look at the pretty flowers. these are pretty flowers, but they are flowers with weird and fascinating stories behind them. that is really fun and really not what people normally think of when they come to a horticultural institution.

>> "wicked plants" is now showing at the san francisco conserve tore of flowers. unless next time, get out and play. >> we have much to discuss. i am looking forward to getting started. we are honored that the mayor of san francisco has stopped by. i am very pleased to introduce him and give him a few minutes.

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