vice this evening. i am since the adults dean, the executive director. scott sanchez is here, the zoning administrator representing the planning department. joseph duffey, senior building inspector, jon vaughfuong and cs short, representing the bureau of urban forestry. if you will go over meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. >> the board request you turn off phones and pagers so they do not disturb proceedings. please carry on conversations in the hallway. appellants, permit holders, and representatives each have seven minutes to present their cases

and three minutes for rebuttals. people must include comments within three to seven minutes. members of the public not affiliated with the parties have of to 3 minutes each to address the board and no new bottles. to assist the board in minutes, members of the public are asked but not required to submit a speaker cards or a business card when you come up to speak at the podium. the board also welcome comments and suggestions. there are forms to the left of the podium. if you have questions about scheduling a rehearing, please speak to board staff after the meeting or kava office in the morning. this meeting is broadcast live

on san francisco who government channel cable channel 78. dvd's are available for purchase directly from sfgtv. i will conduct the swearing in process. if you intend to testify and we still have the board hear you, please stand, raise your hand, and say i do. please note any member of the public may speak without taking this oath pursuant to the rights under the sun shine coordinates. do you solemnly and now affirm the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? >> we have two housekeeping

items, first item number nine on tonight calendar. the appellant has requested a matter be moved to next week's calendar. we need a motion. >> so mauves. >> is there any public comment now? >> on this motion to reschedule item nine to generate heat. -- item 9 to january 8. the vote is 4-0. that is rescheduled until january 8. >> the next one regards the property of 1337 grant ave. the parties have requested this be continued on january 9, and

we need a vote. >> so move. >> any public comment, ca 9, if you could call role. good >> on that motion to reschedule item 12 to february 29. [calling votes] thank you. the vote is 4-0. that is rescheduled to february 29. >> moving to item one on our calendar, which is public comment, is there any member of the public who would like to speak on an item that is not on our agenda? seeing none,-number two is the minutes. >> weight, commissioner comments. >> sorry, on item number two. >> i have an announcement, and

that is that i am needing to resign from this commission and next week will be my next hearing. i have to accept a job in beijing, a, and now plan to move there. i will probably have a speech, but not tonight. >> i think i just did not want to hear it. any other commissioner comments? >> i just learned i will be absent for the february 25 meeting to to work troubles. >> any other comments? my congratulations. now we will move on to the minutes.

>> i will move their adoption. >> any public comment on the minutes, seeing ninone. [calling votes] >> the vote is 4-0. those minutes are adopted. it strikes moving onto item #4, which is a special item. it is a presentation addressing human trafficking and the regulation of massages establishment permits. >> i just want to say i met her several months ago, and the subject of human trafficking and massage cases came up, and it occurred to me it would be

useful sooto understand more ofe evidence of human trafficking, so i asked her to carve out some time in her busy schedule and come up with a presentation to educates us. for us thank you very much. i am the executive director of the apartment. i am joined by nancy kirschner rodriguez and sgt vanderbilt of the new special unit. we did distribute a brochure of our department, a brochure about the collaboration on anti- gay human traffic in it -- on anti-human trafficking. this particular center is two

blocks away from here. they have a listing of the elements upon which masseuses are evaluated, which includes different parts of their bodies , age, height, weight, so if there is any question about what goes on in these massage parlors, there is also a four- page glossary with different acronyms, so your role is so important. today is human trafficking awareness today, and we want to make the public aware of this issue that happens not just overseas but in our neighborhoods here in san francisco. i am going to turn it over to commissioner rodriguez.

>> i sink all the commissioners to have -- i think all the commissioners to have it. i think we would like to talk about human trafficking and the definitions. the recruitment, harboring transportation provisions or obtaining a fourth person for labor, services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of in voluntary bondage or slavery, and i think the director said and it is important for us to stress that san francisco as an international city is surely on haugen -- truely a hub of human

trafficing, so 7 cisco's effort, which i would say has been ongoing, but which was born out of some significant and very negative circumstances, which we will talk about. we try to be comprehensive, and it is very positive and we are here tonight on international human trafficking awareness today. and we have created the san francisco collaborative against human trafficking, which is a cross-section of nonprofit organizations and law enforcement and city government agencies that work to partner, to support victims, to provide awareness, and we are really pleased to be here, and one particular thing i think you are

probably aware of is several years ago we did pass a massage parlor ordinance, which gave a broader and now abilities through land use to really take a look at what is going on with proliferation of massage parlors and activities that should or should not be going on there. we have a regular effort of inspections we will talk more about, but i just want to give you basic statistics and turn it over. there are many different -- one of the challenges we found in taking a look at the problem and how to address it is the nature of statistics. they are all different, but we here generally through the department of justice and often the united nations that there are more than 2.5 million victims traffic across the world annually and 1.2 million

children trafficked annually are around the world, and i think we were recently in washington and met of the state department, and heard a very positive thing, that in the international examination of what is going on, the united states is now being looked at, and we are not at the top of solis in how we are handling that issue, so we did the top of the list in how we are handling that issue, so i will turn it over. good >> as you may know, san francisco is a top destination for traffickers. all forms of trafficking exits here, labor trafficing, sex trafficking, involves nannies, restaurant workers, and the entire community is affected. it is really big business. if anyone would hazard to guess

how much a single payment can make in a street operation and -- a single pimp can make. now $730,000, tax-free. this is one person. there are four women. they have a quota of two trips a night, so $50 a trick, 365 days a year, because they do not get holidays or paid time off. that gives you $730,000 for one pimp controlling four women. there are some expenses. still, it is $600,000. and we hear that drug traffickers are getting out of those crimes and into human

trafficking because you can only sell a gun or drugs once. you can sell ohlman 10 times in a night region -- you can sell a woman ten times in the night. 10 suspected brothels in the east bay. there was an fbi raid, and they were able to apprehend a 2700 suspects. many of the women were reported. some were released. they were able to confiscate $2 million in cash. the question becomes what can you do. why are we here before the board of appeals? we are asking the people move from being bystanders on this

issue to becoming upstanders. we are asking the public to call the p let people know when something does not feel right. when they see as a rental property become busy at night, lots of cars, people going in and out, mostly men, to alert police of something that is suspicious. we are asking the board to be critical of high risk properties like massage parlors, and to ask a lot of questions about why people are needing these changes. women and minors are depending on this board to ask these questions, and to wrap up my presentation before sgt vanderbilt will talk from the police perspective, there are

resources, and we did give you a brochure. there are a number of stakeholders and city agencies working on this. we hope you will join us in addressing this critical problem, so i would like to introduce certain vendor built from the special victims unit. -- sergeant vanderbilt from the special victims unit. >> good evening. cumin trafficking does occur. it occurs in the streets. new -- nonhuman trafficking does occur. it occurs in the streets and -- human trafficking does occur. it occurs in the streets. we have done a lot to be proud of. the investigation in 2005 did a lot to set the tone for traffickers thinking about

doing work in san francisco. the mayor's office of a lot of leadership. i think one of the best things we have done, and where we do monthly inspections, is a joint new operation atwain -- between the fire department and planning, and what we do is we go to the scenes, and the dph they looks for codes, but they look for safety violations. the fire department looks at different violations with a focus on safety. this is a great opportunity for us, because we are not there as an enforcing agency. we are there as investigators looking to see if there are victims willing to talk with us about what happens to them.

the reality is is not common for women to come up to us and say, yes, i am a human trafficking victim. we have done a lot through ongoing pressure to really make it clear these are not good venues to have people engage in for flavor. that is not to say commercial sex does not occur there -- engaged in forced labor. that is not to say commercial sex does not occur there. certainly in thing -- pimping occurs. these establishments know the people in their promises are engaged in sex for money and profiting from it. it is a little bit on known how much occurs through overt coercion as opposed to the different reality is of life for the people in these places. we expect many are former

victims of trafficking. again, we value the inspections program that has occurred under the leadership of the mayor's office because it allows us to get in there every month and see what is going on, and we are very sensitive to the way businesses operate. it might change the layout of the facility. some of the indicators we look at i think are of interest to this board. it is really a structural in nature. we are looking for things that suggest control is beeing applid to people working there, that different coercive measures

might be taken by the operators against the people working there. for instance, certainly locked rooms are a concern in places like massage parlors or salons. private rooms should still have a curtain or a window in adore -- in the door that allows inspectors to see what is going on in there, so if we see rooms that are curtained oftef to inspection, if nbwe see hidings basis, they fully, we do not see many of them now, i thing to to the scrutiny we apply to these places the certainly the was a very common thing. now we are special victims, but

before it was vice. one thing you need to know is where the hiding spots are, and every place had them. we have done a lot to remove them, but if we let up, i think it might reappear. things that we do see that are suggestive of coercion and that could ordinarily be innocent, bob but help with the reality that commercial sex is occurring. some things that concern us are places where then law- enforcement officer will have to be botbuzzed into one door, investigated, and let into another door. some of these places are hard to get out of. that could be by design.

interior camera systems. obviously, there are legitimate reasons to have camera systems, but we see many of them are connected to the internet so the proprietor can remotely view what is going on. if it is beneficial to the proprietor because they have about separation between enterprises possibly going on. those are just a few. living spaces. no one thing but really concerns us is indications the businesses are also being used for living herriot's -- and living areas. we see that one room will be set up with costs. region -- with cots and small

coking units. where you should see one bed, you will see a row of tenbeds, d again, places it should not necessarily have small rooms, all of a sudden if you have all hallway with five rooms in a place that is a nail salon or something like that, that is suggestive of that kind of activity. >> thank you. >> can you tell us how many massage parlors are our in our city? but i do not think i am qualified to say. there are quite a few. i cannot say all of them are engaged in prostitution, but it is widespread.

>> you have of ball park as cement, and -- new ballpark estimate? >> over 100. how many of them are fronts for commercial sex, it is hard to say, but i could guess perhaps half. there are going to be different levels of prevalence. in one place it could be some employees but not others. some places are focused primarily on commercial sex. other places in -- but do not require it. other places to turn a blind eye, and so there is a lot of variety. it is hard to save. we can make inferences days on what we know about the places.

-- based on what we know about the places. >> 20 years ago, this commission would your massage parlor of appeals in weekly. over the last year and we have had one or two. >> there were 172 licensed massage parlors. i think one thing we are seeing is they are they regulated, so we are seeing a proliferation of entities that call themselves spas, and that is one of our state challenges, but we do not have the regulatory capacity to address things there, and nail salons are often the front for places like that. >> thank you very much.

is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, thank you very much for your time. i am going to move on and call item no. 5a. we received a letter asking that the board take jurisdiction over a building permit application 2011, which was issued on november 10, 2011. the jurisdiction request was received on december 6, 2011. the project is to remodel and reconfigure the kitchen, bath, laundry, removed part of galway, and reconfigure bedroom closets, new furnace, and new exterior

stairs, and replace skylights. we will start with the requester or their agent. you have three minutes. >> thank you very much. i am the attorney for the jurisdiction of requester. we are asking for jurisdiction 40 w 0 -- 42 reasons. -- for 2 reasons. the permit was originally approved by the city in march of 2011. there were eight months during which the two condo owners negotiated over the scope of the

work but was going to be approved and the work of was going to be done, and they negotiated over efforts to mitigate the impact of the work. this work is a complete remodeling of the unit, totaling almost $200,000 worth of work. i am sure you had time to review the papers. while this with john, the parties were unable to reach an agreement on the accommodation. my client went out of the country. now the upper unit permit holder was aware that my client was leaving the country. he then pulled. this board's powers and ability to exercise of authorities would be deprived of such maneuvering

is accomplished and people were deprived of their right to have their grievances heard. there has been a short delay in the filing of the requests. there was a lot happening over thanksgiving. my client, when she got back to the day before thanksgiving realized she had limited time. she came to my office the following week, immediately contacted the board of appeals. my office set up an appointment, and we moved quite promptly to seek late jurisdiction. we believe under the circumstances of this particular case, that allowing my client to have this appeal heard would be a simple and easy request to be granted, and we asked late jurisdiction be granted. as to the substance of