>> thank youladies and gentlemen and gentlemen of the commission. my name is bill lowe, property owner adjacent to the east. this has been a 20 something year odyssey. they bought this property quite a while ago. at that time i was told that within six 6 six 6 months they would be rebuilding and developing. i have gone to community meetings and talked to doug vu, rick crawford who came down and representing the city before doug vu. i have had primarily two issues with the developers and they have never been met. basically when i bring them up i get stoned with silence, i'm ignored. one is under cutting my foundation. i'm on one level

above the sidewalk. they want to excavate immediately on my foundation. the other major problem i have with the project is water flow. we live on a steep hill. there is a lot of clay and it basically i call it an intermittent urban stream. if you look at the property up and down the street, you will see the rain coming out for a significant amount of time. sometimes a week or two later if there is heavy rain. they did a report in 07, and i would like to quote from their report, their report says that this technical report is only valid for 3 years. it's now been significantly longer than that. it's now out of date. the drainage, it's extremely important that strong

measures be taken to control all surface waters way from the site so they do not adverse drains and structures of the site. this is not just my sense of the problems. they have not been good neighbors. in a way of illustrating this. they had a very at all tree that was angled at 45 degrees right from my tennants bedroom window. i contacted the owners. it ended up having to assign a building inspector to come out. they have had an eviction. peter isis was vibtd -- evicted from this property. i ended up having to call police and get squatters removed from inside the area.

they were living inside the building. i'm against this because they have not been cooperative. >> thank you for your comments. >vice-president cindy wu: is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner antonini? >>commissioner michael j. antonini: i think this is a very good project. a couple reasons why i like it. the specific reference to minimal glazing is really refreshing after every building we approve is all windows. it helps it to blend in with the neighborhood if it's more historic even though it has a more contemporary design with more glazing when the building an appears to fit in with the building because of that fact. also the fact that it's providing 4, three bedroom units. decent amount where you can have a family with

children. you have a little bit of space here. i think it's a good idea. on the issue of one speaker, i think those in the province of dbi. it would be necessary that as approvals are made that dbi would have to ensure that any kind of rainfall is diverted away from danieling -- damaging any of the properties. it's a pretty steep hill. neighborhood support from the castro eureka valley and makes total sense to me. i'm very much in support. i would move to approve at this point. >> was that a motion? >> that was a motion. yeah. >> i will second it.

>vice-president cindy wu: commissioner sugaya? >>commissioner hisashi sugaya: your concerns are a little bit out of the planning commission and within the purview of the department of building inspection. so if you continue to have concerns, you will have to try to follow it through dbi process. these guys have to file a building permit and all that stuff. that is all public record. so if you want to do that, you should talk down there and track it at that department. >vice-president cindy wu: can i ask project sponsor to address the question of eviction? >> quite frankly i have no knowledge of the eviction of which he speaks. >vice-president cindy wu: but the record shows no eviction? >> that's what i have.

>vice-president cindy wu: commissioner moore? >> i think with the width and depths of the property. i would prefer to have 5 buildings. i think 47 or so yard between the two still assures a lot of privacy out of the buildings into each other. i think that's just about border line and to keep that in this type of condition and emphasis here would be worth pursuing because we have other situations where something like this is being attempted but does not really resolve something as something as simple on this and how the buildings work together which this is a great prototype.

city clerk: commissioners if there is nothing further i will call the question to approve on the condition: [roll call vote taken] so moved. commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7-0. zoning administrator what say you? >> i will close based on the variance. >> next item on your agenda is general public comment. i don't have any speaker card. >vice-president cindy wu: is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. meeting is adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >>for the system.

similar to the last presentations on this, we are doing each commission meeting for the commission our total reservoir storage is about a million acre feet which is 69 percent maximum which is good but not a panacea. precipitation is good this weekend. the outlook is mixed. there is definitely more needed and we'll continue to evaluate this and bring it forward to you. this slide shows a reservoir storage as

of february 9th. there is a million acre feet in storage and there is only about a half million acre feet. sounds like a lot of water but much of that is in cherry reservoir. there is a limitation in how we manage the water in storage and we'll talk about how to manage that depending on conditions going forward. precipitation chart here is orange line is 76-77 and the red line finally passed the red line and we got a precipitation in hetch hetchy. that mates -- makes it the third driest year. we are a long way but certainly it was a big help this last storm. it also mentions the snowpack where there is an uptake in the snowpack up at the higher elevation where we got up to 8 feet of snowfall. that is up

to 5 feet of precipitation. it was a good storm but again looking that the slide we are still below the levels of 2007 and 2013 with a black line of the average. we are below the average so far. there is a couple slides here that try to show what happens if going forward? this slide shows the green bar is the amount of precipitation that we have had so far which is about 9 inches precipitation in hetch hetchy. for every couple of inches of additional precipitation of shows an increase in the amount of water that we expect in storage at hetch hetchy reservoir. as of september 11th, we expect to have 30,000 feet in water in hetch hetchy after the snow is melted. once we get to about 6 inches more of precipitation or at least

two storms or maybe three, between 250 acre feet and 285 acre feet by july 1st, that's where i will have a complete nights sleep, up until that point i will not have a complete nights sleep. if we have about 12 inches precipitation which is about a storm, that will fill hetch hetchy. that would be a great place to be. we still need a fair amount of precipitation out there, 2-3 maybe 4 good storm systems to get a comfortable level of storage in our system. the next picture is a slightly different one. this shows storage in hetch hetchy from october 1st given the levels of precipitation we might expect over time. the point is to show you that blue bar which is the increment of the storage that we get to keep

in the system assuming the 10 percent stays. that's a good number to have there. what it shows also is that the effect of conservation starts to taper off as you get to a full reservoir. it doesn't add any water to the reservoir. that doesn't mean we do not need to continue the call for precipitation, because if we don't get snowfall past september 1st, the green bar going the other way the benefit will still be there. i believe next to next water year. that will be the projection at this point. will we need to go more than 10 percent? it depends on the precipitation that we get from here on out. here is the official notification requirement to our customers . march 1st we need to give a

notification. april 15th, a final estimation of our water and around that time if we need to declare an emergency. we are not sure if we need to go that far. we called for a demand reduction system wide. the mayor did issue yesterday directive to city departments that it requires to further reduce their consumption by 10 percent. they have reduced in the department but it's calling for more. the department water conservation plan and educate staff and visitors and non-portable water and water supply. mr. carlin made reference to this in his presentation about the rim fire. the cherry lake, the

lower cherry aqueduct that can take water from cherry at early intake. that system was damaged by the rim fire. we have a project going forward to repair that damage and fix some preexisting problems better to convey water from cherry into our systems. we are working now with contracting staff and environmental reviewers to see if we can put that project in place by fall. in effect, october 1st is the date i have asked people to put that project in place. even if we get a couple more storms, this asset will be necessary as guarding from a problem next year. we need to move on this. we are also breaking ground on our local water ground project this year and drainage where we pump a lot of ground water to keep basements dry and try

to find ways to use that water in the system. any water we can take advantage of we are pushing for out there. last but not least we are fully supportive of constructive drought legislation. there is a house pass relative to the drought that is not helpful. senator steinberg has introduced and measure and senator feinstein has introduced a measure and we'll see if we can get some benefits that will help us deal with our drought situation here. i will be happy to answer any questions. >> commissioner vietor? >> i have a question about the city department directives. do the city departments buy water from us, the enterprise departments? >> yes they do. >> is that market rate? >> it's not subsidized. that is the rate. there is the exception we have the

interruptible rate for certain city departments for irrigation usage. those can also be cutoff in effect. >> how much water do our city departments use relative to our system? >> i dug up that number the other day. i don't have those numbers. >> by percentage i'm curious if it's going to make a difference. >> certainly parks and recreation and hotels and energy and steam loop system. so collectively, the city departments do use a fair amount. the director has the right number, about 5 percent of water is used by the city departments. >> 5 percent? >> yeah. one of the things we are working and plan to work with is the large water users of city departments. so one of the things that we are planning to ask for as part

of this legislation relief is that is that they are ready to fund ready projects. one of the things that we are moving forward is the direct install program. when you actually rebate someone for their toilets, it doesn't cover the cost of in stalling them and this will subsidize that cost because we know that parks and recreation have a lot of facilities that have the old urinals or toilets that are 6 gallons per flush where the new ones are 1.28. this is a way to really reduce their water use and also reduce the city's water use over all so we have more water available for times like this. >> thank you, mr. richie. >> the next item is i would like to have dan wade to give an update on the water system

improvement program. >> good afternoon commissioners. dan wade. i'm the new decorator -- director of the water system program. i just want to let you know it a privilege to be entrusted with leadership of this program going forward and i look forward to working hard to provide leadership and to its successful completion over the next few years. if we can get the slides. this slide shows the overall program status and the water system improvement program both regional and local combined are about 84 percent complete, 93 1/2