the major concern and so based on those discussions, we came one a revised section which basically lowers the building in height of 3 feet again, the l o is with the planning code will allow and in salmon color is what really were at the last presentation, we dropped overall height too 3 feet and the height of the building now is 37 feet in terms of what the planning commission allows is 40 feet and we added a bay in the back and this bay is not here and it's not permitted and it's drafting a drafting error and it's we did a matching pop out and you can see because of the gray, most of the building beis below grade at the back end with three stories in the back and front and i'm going to show what you the revised elevation looks like

and this is the victorian style building and this is the windows to make it taller and give it a more vertical aspect and if i can show you the rather, that will conclude my presentation to you and if you have any questions, i'll be pleased to answer them, but let me show you the rather. and this is the rather of the building and the rendering kind off shows more accurately the top bay, no bay at the third level and little pop out which, is similar to the pop out with the neighbor to the north. thank you commissioners. >> thank you. we can here from mr. schneider next.. >> i do have individual plants plans for you to see and pass

out ... josh baker snider that you thank you for having us back to the continue ages and the initial agreeable solution and vice president phoning was worried about the bright light issue and so i made a good fate effort to cross that line and strive for compromise and prepare to radios a top story and improve building aesthetic and is unfortunately the i consistently found that the probability sponsor was not up front about and misrepresented the changes that were made and to look back at that, i'll point out some of those issues. there were 33 issues and i'll go through them in increasingly order of supports the first is rather of the building is improved and that is acceptable and i thank you for the good work on it the

second issue the appearance of the front of the building and there has been no substantive change to the front of the building and i have here side-by-side the only and new plans on the projector and you can see that they look the same we had asked some articulation and there are some minor moves and i see no substantive progress here and the most important issue is the building on the envelope and substantive aggression and the approval is that the height is lower and 3 feet lower if you took a good look at the plans and with the ruler and calculations it's 2-foot 3-inches lower and you can see it not to include the roof and so i don't know if you can see it in the details here but the original shows the measurement of 39 feet 11-inches and the new one, showses a measurement of they have feet

however the measurement of 37 feet is here. and so it's 37 feet 9-inch and is so it's only a 3 feet reduction and 9-inches matters and i'm frustrated that they told us 3 feet and their own plan shows that it's not and furthermore the top floor is increased in length and the superficial appearance of shrinkage and it looks like it got a little smaller and bring up -- let's see here we go i'll show the ordinary care first and then you new and so they pushed the building out further over the sidewalk and pushed it back ask so the top increased a little bit and the bottom increased by 6 feet really significant and they left it for me to discover and so after looking at this

proposals that their treating ancompromise that i brog good f to them. in which way did it increase towards the back or the personal property. >> the top story was increased towards the back. and then anything on the bottom? >> on the bottom it was also increased towards the back and the personal property a lot to the a little to the front and a lot total back the front is a foot or two it's really small. okay thank you. >> mr. stuart? madame chairman, members of the board before i begin my remarks about the project under discussion i want to formally object to commissioner honda participating in the deliberation and voting on the

project since his a part of the injury team he has a fiduciary interest in the case and with the plan to demolish the building and convert it into luxury condominium which presumably zephyr will sell and this will be a substantial sales commission and this imposes a conflict of interest for commissioner honda and i would like to know the matter that i have to appeal the decision and thank you again first responder the at some point to share with you my continued concerns with regard to the structure sponsor to erect at 530 central and i want to allow during the board's previous report of this issue to reconcile the difference so as to develop a solution and --

available that does not over throw the decisions in the agencies and the courts and with to engage the project sponsors and the last appearance and before this body to respond to our express willingness to modify the original proposal. you will recall please refer to my formal testimony in my previous hears which i believe every has had a chance too hear in the videos in which i kern proposes to one and the propose structure is the residential design guide in that it does not ensure that the building scale is compatible with the surrounding buildings. the proposed increase in elevation slightly reduced in the modified drawing drawings is not compatible with the adjacent buildings. in my previous

testimony i refer to 23 of the residential guidelines which define incompatibility as "unscaled with surrounding buildings "mbo anden i think you can see from the overhead which, is there, that this is clearly -- with the surrounding buildings. and i also provided photos of nearby buildings that achieved the same modernization that the current sponsor is seek with the compatible of scales. unfortunately the sponsor made no attempt to respond to this legitimate concern and i understand that some members of the board believe it's not within their authority to over cruel the planning admission on these rules and your standard vote on this issue would set for future project that may be plopsed the proposed structure do not enhance the

neighborhood's character the board has the reasonability and the authority to promote the architectural vitality of san francisco and failure do sonthis occasion will perpetuate immediate i don't care credittity of san francisco actech tour celebrated by speculator and is come placement city boards thank you for the opportunity to address this issue. thank you. >> mr. sanchez before mr. sanchez speaks i wanted to ask the board members if he wanted thissed to serve the companies the photographs that were submitted. plans are attached. >> to mr. commissioner commissioner lazarus can take them and mr. sanchez you have provided those to the other parties. >> instructor: i don't have many comments but the board

will understand their powered and they have the ability to turn the planning commission and you understand that you have the ability to over turn the zoning administrator and i learned that on several occasions and i did review the revised plans and i shared some of the surprise that the neighbors had as well because there was a summary that i received that outlined the change and it was not clear from there that there was an expansion from the rather and there was a rather yard calculation and they were doing a straight 34% and now averaging the adjacent properties under the code and so that is something that is still allowable and also, there was that chink in the height which i didn't notice until today. there were two points in regards to the plans and we will go ahead and accept these plans, but as noted by the permanent holler, they can have that balcony on the third level that

is not permitted obstruction over the pop out at the back ask so the third floor bay widow that they have in the back can be removed in the feel did feel accepting these plans i would suck sog that the plans must be code myings and we can review that with the board's office so that these do not immediate any vawrns exprairns so the other point is that i have a little concern with is that it's good that they reduced the height and the four to four height as a good way of doing this but burying this further into the ground and putting this deeper into the ground and it was not clear that the previous project required a minor encroachment permit and in work grading right away the public would have concerns with that and i'm not sure to what extent but that could be have negative impact on the street escape and so generally, the least amount of

manipulation to the sidewalks the better in order to accommodate the scope of the driveway. and we do have a latter rally slipping rods and other rods and it would are so meet b. k. w requirement and is it's a miernlg minor concern that we have to raise but urine there is no other way to satisfy the requirement and is so if heavy the alternative that would be preferred. so those are the two points that i am i wanted today raise and i'm available for any questions that the board may have. >> did you receive these documents before tonight. >> yes december 6th. and in your review or your staff's review, what happened to the changes? there seems to be a little bit of a disagreement between the prompt sponsor and the appellates in

terms of where the hybrid reductionheight reduction occurred where is the profile of the front vs. back changed? >> i was not aware of the concern about the change at the front the e-mail i that received the dated december 6th and to the appellate and it's passed up and i can put it on the overhead and go through it. could you just speak --. >> overhead that would be nice. and so it's represented and overall it doesn't have reduction three-4 feet to 17 inform and is this was achieved by floor to ceiling heights and pressing the building further into the ground. i don't know if that was previously required or not but sounds like it's new. b increase front set back at the top fourth floor, set back from face to front base is now 16 feet and it was 12 feet

6-inch and is is to 3-foot increase more than what is required for front floor set backs achieved by eliminating a personal property office study in the front floor and c redesign has been revised to be more compatible with prevailing neighborhood code and this was achieved by increasing the height of the bay windows and giving the building more vertical emphasize and finally d. facade appearance has significantly improved and achieved by back stair configuration with lower level pop out and greatest depressioning the expire entire building into the ground and restoring the building and the entire building will be spring lettered and so there was not a mention of the building

extending to the yard and that was a notice of the hearing and i discussed that with the project sponsor to make sure that was addressed. >> and you said that the bay widow is not acceptable. that is correct the bay widow at the third floor and you are allowed to 12 feet and 5 feet back from the sides and you can put a bay widow in the same you know as a projection into the rather yard with you in order to qualify the bay widow you have to have a 7-foot head clearance and so they can have a pais bay widow on the third floored but not the second widow because it's expanding the widow on to the deck there and it appeared from the rendering that the rendering didn't have that and so may be it was a drafting error that the bay widow was not on the third plan and so certainly that would need to be addressed of the.

do you have any revision on the blueprint. >> they are using the bay yard averaging, i don't have clear photos on the adjacent property to the -- i don't know what direction it would be to the left, i don't have the north arrow on the plans unfortunately yes, unfortunately there is no but the property that does have to pop out we want make sure that,that is at least two stories in height it appears that it is and in order to qualify you have to be at least two stories high and so we want to conform and i look on some aerial photoing's on the ipad and it confirmed that and that is why i suggest if you go adopt revised plans that they are complying. >> okay.

thank you. thank you. mr. did you havey anything? okay? we can take public comment then is there any member of the public that would like to speak on this item okay seeing none, then commissioners matter is submitted. i'll start. i believe that at the conclusion of the last hearing i made a number of statements related to the body and design of this building. my concerns centered around the rather and how it is related to the adjacent buildings and the

rather yard. the question of overall volume of floors was not a mainly concern to me given the fact that there are a variety of different types of buildings in that neighborhood. it's the two adjacent buildings that are considerably shorter however, this the overall neighborhood area, there are a number of buildings of equal height to dispro pose project. it looks like there was a trade-off done by of the permit holder by reducing the stair and the top portion of it they chose then to capture some of that reduction back with the pop-out into the rather at the bottom. that is of less concern to me in the

sense that it does create a difference in the scale of the rather which, is one of my main hawaiian main concerns during our last discussion. and in the range of 3 feet, i don't have the specific calculation and is so i can't say which one it was in the range of that, i think will help a little bit it's probably not discernible in terms of the overall feeling of what this building does. i don't have much to say about the designs of the facades and even when i was planning it a chose to avoid that and to look at the broader aspects of the overall scale. how set back and how it relates to the street and to the rather yard. i find that they have done some progresses to

this and i'm prepared now to support the project. >> i guess the only question i have now is i believe the permit holder had made some effort to have the survey port blend in a little bit more and i just wonder if some further tweaking of that could make even more of a difference. i don't know elements well enough to be able to say that but -- at the whereas meeting this matter was before us, i found that the body and

everything was out of place. it was not an attractive building or anything like that but it seemed out of place and out of scale and i do prevent appreciate the work and effort put into trying to address the concerns raised by the appellate and and to an extension it's somewhat of a modification and some effort, i think. it's certainly more acceptable than it was the last time we were here. i think the scale still i would have opted the top four being taken off but the reduction is some movement but, i think the back of the building looks dramatically much better. and i think more palatable to

those who reside behind it and i'm willing to uphold it priding that it's code client and all of the issues held by the zoning and administrator are dealt with in this process. >> i have a question about this and if you were to grand this appeal and revise it's permit, i'm not sure how best we would implement the revisions if there were additional changes that were need does to make the project code compliant and may be you could speak more clearly to that but my concern is that when the board does do take that action, the project sponsors is required to provide sets of plaps to my office to have we review them to make sure they are in confirmance with the court order and if there is in any discretion in what the plans look like to make them code compliant that does not lie with

me, that lies with you. i can say that to the point that i noticed another discrepancy in the plan it shows a much wider 44 deck in the in the front with only a 3-foot set back to the property and whereas, on the individual floor plans it's an appropriate sized deck ask and so the building is much narrower there and so if we come across discrepancies of that type, i would assume that the board would instruct the department and to go with the smaller of the i mean this is unfortunate. i noticed this thousand and the board can continue this item until we have full items that the department did review and in compliance and consistency as well. >> sure headache that motion i would move too continue the item until there is time to the department is able to review the plans and certify that they are

code client. >> the other way to approach it what we would would do is take a marked upset right now and provide that to then and that becomes a basis for them. my preference is to continue so we do have do it on the spot. >> yeah, i'll like time to review and mr. sanchez continues to find discrepancies so ... and to the extent that anything comes up in the process and in the board it should be raised at the time in the next hearing and so should it be continued to the next meeting may be mr. san dhez can propose a time. i think he has got until the next available hearing would be initiate and assume that the designer and architect can prepare drawings and make a review and i'll be here for the

holidays so you can do it then. thraws you are here working. let's here from the permit holder. >> the light well on the outside is no longer there. but the not our light well but the a joining property on 538, sanchez, they do have a glass block wall and i did talk to those owner and is we will provide a light well not necessarily the size but we want to give lights to this wall and so i want to put that on the record. >> can you resolve that then. yeah, and talk about revised sets. >> yeah and i want to alert to you that and i would also request respect fully that you could delegate this to the administrator, you know, we set back the front 3 feet 6-inch and is gave the dimension to this

appointment here that mr. sanchez found a discrepancy and we set the feet 3 feet lower and set back from the front of the bay would be 16 feet which, is an additional 3 feet 6-inches in what you saw originally and the time and sponsor is under pressure from his lender and is so if you would not mind delegating it to the administrator and objective it back to us as an informational item. >> we could condition it upon z a's final review and approval. i would appreciate that again bring it back as an informationle -- and i want to have an order that i can implement and at this point in time i do not -- and i understand the time contraits but i don't know how to implement that order. behave on the plans submit and the

concerns raised. i think we need to be --. >> okay next available is january 9th it's a pretty heavy night but if this doesn't -- i think there may be a few items on the calendar that possibly may come off i'm not sure do you know if mr. donee's two' appeals may come off? >> i'll assume so, okay. so january 9th yeah, the next available date. and -- okay so commissioner has moved to continue this to january 9th and i want to clarify this commissioner would you want to allout permit holder to submit to the board advance advance that, that hearing needs advancement? >> sure and so the thursday prior to that hearing would be the date when the revised plan should be submitted to the board

and the thursday prior to the hearing and so on that motion then by commissioner whereas rust, vice president honk. and when okay so that motion to continue pass and is president there is no further business before the board for this year ... happy holidays. meeting adjourned.

welcome to the tjpa board of directors meeting for thursday, january 10 2013. happy new year's to everyone. and clerk can you please talk roll call. >> for the record director lloyd has a scheduling conflict and will not be present and director mett calf. >> present. >> director reiskin. >> present. >> director sartipi. >> present. >> director ortiz >> present. >> supervisor kim? >> present >> any communications today? any new or old business from the board of directors? seeing none we'll move on to the executive director's report. >> good morning everyone and happy new year. we begin our january board meeting like we do every year with an update of what we did the previous year and what the plan is for thrr