management companies shur we've got zero displacement as this transition continues to unfold. please don't think you're able to solidify our own position there are other vulnerable folks we need to continue to be mindful we're talking about a continuum of housing not only renters and property owners us against them but figure out the balance so natives can leave here and grandparents and artists can live here. everything that makes san francisco so desirable so desirable can still remain here inside of san francisco. thank you >> supervisor campos. >> just wanted to add and thank hillary in our my office to make

this happen it's taken many months so greatly appreciate it. >> okay at any point we've amended the item as it needs to be continued for a week i'll make a motion for continuance for one week. >> take that motion without objection madam clerk, is there any other business before the committee. >> there's no further business. >> thank you,

when a resident of san francisco is looking for health care, you look in your neighborhood first. what is closest to you? if you come to a neighborhood health center or a clinic, you then have access it a system of care in the community health network. we are a system of care that was probably based on the family practice model, but it was really clear that there are special populations with special needs. the cole street clinic is a youth clinic in the heart of the haight ashbury and they target youth. tom woodell takes care of many of the central city residents and they have great expertise in providing services for many of the homeless. potrero hill and southeast health centers are health centers in those particular

communities that are family health centers, so they provide health care to patients across the age span. . >> many of our clients are working poor. they pay their taxes. they may run into a rough patch now and then and what we're able to provide is a bridge towards getting them back on their feet. the center averages about 14,000 visits a year in the health clinic alone. one of the areas that we specialize in is family medicine, but the additional focus of that is is to provide care to women and children. women find out they're pregnant, we talk to them about the importance of getting good prenatal care which takes many visits. we initially will see them for their full physical to determine their base line health, and then enroll them in prenatal care which occurs over the next 9 months. group prenatal care is designed

to give women the opportunity to bond during their pregnancy with other women that have similar due dates. our doctors here are family doctors. they are able to help these women deliver their babies at the hospital, at general hospital. we also have the wic program, which is a program that provides food vouchers for our families after they have their children, up to age 5 they are able to receive food vouchers to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they

are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able

to go out of boundaries, their lives have been so rigid to sort of expressing that makes tremendous changes. because we did what we did, it is now sort of a nationwide model. >> i think you would be surprised if you come to these clinics. many of them i think would be your neighbors if you knew that. often times we just don't discuss that. we treat husband and wife and they bring in their kids or we treat the grandparents and then the next generation. there are people who come in who need treatment for their heart disease or for their diabetes or their high blood pressure or their cholesterol or their hepatitis b. we actually provide group medical visits and group education classes and meeting people who have similar chronic illnesses as you do really helps you understand that you are not alone in dealing with

this. and it validates the experiences that you have and so you learn from each other. >> i think it's very important to try to be in tune with the needs of the community and a lot of our patients have -- a lot of our patients are actually immigrants who have a lot of competing priorities, family issues, child care issues, maybe not being able to find work or finding work and not being insured and health care sometimes isn't the top priority for them. we need to understand that so that we can help them take care of themselves physically and emotionally to deal with all these other things. they also have to be working through with people living longer and living with more chronic conditions i think we're going to see more patients coming through. >> starting next year, every day 10,000 people will hit the age of 60 until 2020. .

>> the needs of the patients that we see at kerr senior center often have to do with the consequences of long standing substance abuse and mental illness, linked to their chronic diseases. heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, stroke, those kinds of chronic illnesses. when you get them in your 30's and 40's and you have them into your aging process, you are not going to have a comfortable old age. you are also seeing in terms of epidemics, an increase in alzheimer's and it is going to increase as the population increases. there are quite a few seniors who have mental health problems but they are also, the majority of seniors, who are hard-working, who had minimum wage jobs their whole lives,

who paid social security. think about living on $889 a month in the city of san francisco needing to buy medication, one meal a day, hopefully, and health care. if we could provide health care early on we might prevent (inaudible) and people would be less likely to end up in the emergency room with a drastic outcome. we could actually provide prevention and health care to people who had no other way of getting health care, those without insurance, it might be more cost effective

>> good evening. welcome to the march 19, meeting of the board of appeals. to my left is deputy city attorney and at the controls is the board's legal assistant, he's assisted by aleck long away, who is the board's legal process clerk. i'm the board's executive director. we're joined by representatives that have matters before the board. scot sanchez the here, he's the zoning administrator. joseph duff ey is here representing department building inspection and we are carla short and chris buck here for the department of public

works. at this time if you'd go over the board's meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing and process. >> appellants, permit holders each have seven minutes to report their cases and 3 minutes for their rebuttals. member of the public who are not affiliated with the parties have up to three minutes each to address the board but no rebuttals. to assist the board with accurate representation of minutes, members are asked to submit a speaker card to board staff when you come up to the podium. the board also welcomes your comments and suggestions. there are customer satisfaction survey forms on the left side

of the podium. if you have questions about requesting a board hearing, please speak to staff during a break or after the meeting or call the board office tomorrow morning. we're located at 1650 mission street, room 304. this meeting is broadcast live of san francisco government television, sf govtv and dvd's are available for purchase. thank you for your attention. at this point in time we'll conduct our swearing in process. if you intend to testify in any hearing tonight and ask to give your testimony, please stand, raise your right hand and say i do after you've been sworn in or affirmed. please note any member of the public may speak pursuant to the rights of the sunshine ordinance.

>> do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth? thank you. >> thank you. president lazarus, commissioners, we have two housekeeping items. the first has to do with item number 5, protesting a wireless site permit at 1460 larkin street. that appeal was administratively dismissed after the permit was cancelled by the permit holder and will not be heard.

item number two, which is commissioner comments and questions. >> i'd like to wish joseph duffey a happy birthday. >> i'm 21 again. any other commissioner comments? any public comment? item 3 is the consideration and adoption of the minutes for march 12, 2014. changes or corrections. is there a motion to approve the minutes? >> so moved. >> any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, mr. pacheco if you could call the roll. on the the motion to adopt the march

commissioner honda. a: i. >> thank you. the vote is four to zero, those minutes are adopted. >> item number for is a jurisdiction request. the board received a letter from christopher delainy asking that the board take jurisdiction over a tree removal permit which was issued on january 14, 2014. the appeal period ended on january 29, 2014 and the jurisdiction request was filed at the board office on march 3, 2014. the permit holder is richard price and the project is approval to remove six existing trees and plant nine new trees. we will start with the requestors. who would like to speak on behalf of the requesters, you have three minutes. >> i need to make a disclosure,

commissioners, that quite a few years ago miss delaney was hired by /phao*eugs for a project in emeryville. >> and i thank you. >> i'm here, christopher delaney -- i own the building at 600 illinois. the reason that we are here is we are asking for the board to take jurisdiction of the permits. we did miss the deadline due to improper posting and failure to comply with section 806b3b, specifically stating that notice will be provided to the surrounding neighbors and the department shall post the notice on the affected tree. the two trees we are here to discuss and wish for a

jurisdictional of this permit is the trees are in illinois. we have no trouble with the trees on third. that's correct. the trees were posted and the affected trees were posted correctly on third. the trees on illinois, which are historic value, we believe, due to their size, due to the girth of the tree and due to the ecological quality of these trees, were not posted on the trees, nor were they posted on the fence. and all of us walk this area everyday, we never saw this. these are the trees in question. that is the fence. what you see on the fence is a posting for the planning review. there was never any posting on this. all of us walk this area

everyday. we never saw a single posting. there were postings that faced the south. this is the residence here, which you see in the circle on the right posting face south. you would have had to be walking south to see them. all of us live to the north. we are all property owners to the north, all the residents to the south are renters. postings were also across the street on illinois on a post that no one goes to and no one walks. and i guess that's it. >> thirty seconds. >> okay. and then posting here on the corner of mariposa and

illinois, with many other postings for rock concerts, ball games, but the actual trees were never posted, as is required by the city. thank you. >> okay, we can hear from the permit holder now. >> my name is rick price, i'm with rain tree partners, the owner of the site and the permit hold erer. the premise of the requesters is there arest there was an inaid adequate be intentionally or inadvertently cause the requestors in being late in filing their appeals.

the permit holder request denial of this jurisdiction request. improper notice was given and adequate time was given to apply for such appeal. the department of public works has a prosee cedure, and a standard protocol they follow, which includes posting directly on trees, but in a case where it is reasonably impractical or ineffective, the notices are hung in close proximity to the trees. i direct you to an exhibit, exhibit b, stating -- so here's the permit holder's property, the trees in question are here in this location. another close up view of our property in those trees that are called into question, the two trees here.

as you can see there's a notice posted on this pole directly in front of the trees and another notice posted on this pole and department of public works notified us they posted this notice on the trees. this fence is over 6 feet tall and if you were to post on the actual trees you can see, as far as the line of sight goes, it would be behind the tree and out of view. that fence also does have some barbed wire across the top, making it difficult for public works to post there. exhibit a shows, again, this posting at the -- this is the northeast corner of the block so as you can see in this image here to the right, that's how that posting looks and that's still there today, so three months later. this is coming from the west and this would be coming from

the north. exhibit c shows another posting, this time here at the bottom right hand corner of the page so all corners of this side of the block were posted until there were six postings along illinois street. the requestors mentioned in their brief that they walk this block twice a day so during the 30 day posting period and the 15 day appeal period, that would be 45 days, how many times they would have walked this block without having acknowledged any of the six postings along illinois. i >> i'm sorry, your time is up. >> can i wrap /-p? up. >> yes, you may. >> in conclusion we ask that the board recognize that these trees were properly noticed and the appeal timelines were

reached and expired by more than a month so we ask that this jurisdiction request be denied. >> we can hear from the department now. >> chris buck with department of public works, urban forestry, received a permit for the six trees permitted for removal. the fence is not accessible, invisible, blocks view to the street -- the trunks of the trees themselves, so we posted four notices on the block and a notice on the fence, so typically that's how we'd post in this particular case to be consistent with how we handle

-- so the department feels we did provide adequate and sufficient posting in this matter. >> the -- a lot of budget sponsors will take photos of the posting. did you -- the photo that was shown of the fence had the city planning notice, but it -- i don't think it showed your notice. do you have any photos of the fence that indicated the posting? >> we typically do not take photos of the postings, however, when we received several emails from the public about their concern about this matter, i returned to the site on the 3rd to get a sense of what still remained so a month-and-a-half after posting i found that four notices were still on telephone poles on the block. there's a fifth notice that's on a very skinny no parking

pole. i wouldn't really call that a posting, but just something to call the attention to that site. when i went on march 3, i did not see the posting on the fence so i have photos of all the other postings on the poles month-and-a-half after the 30 day posting period expired. i don't have photos of the notice placed on the fence. >> okay, thank you. we can take public comment. can i see a show of hands how many people plan to speak under public comment for this item? >> okay, first person step forward. if you haven't taken the time to fill out a speaker card, we'd appreciate you doing that before or after you come to speak. anyone who wants to speak can't

be part of the requesting panel, people who have filed the actual request, so none of the people i named. >> i'm steve parhim. i'm a homeowner. i'm going to speak on behalf of rodney bogar who's -- >> no, he's part of the request so his time to speak was the three minutes that have already been used. you can speak for yourself if you'd like. >> here's an actual picture of -- >> refer to the overhead. >> actually here's a picture we took of one of the postings that is facing south away from 610 illinois street, as you can see. it's wrapped in cellophane, it's very hard to read the sign and that's actually indicative

of some of the other signage that was on there and the condition of the signs in the last sort of three or four weeks. >> i'm the urban forester for more of the landscape projects. i examined the subject trees. i was unable to measure them, but they're in the 24 inch size class at dbh, which is diameter

breadth type. >> were you hired by the requester to do this work? >> yes. >> your time to speak was also part of that initial three minutes so unless the board has a question for you, i think that time has already been allotted. sorry. next speaker. >> my name is john ren frank. i'm a recent purchaser of an apartment in 610 illinois and i actually look over the canopy where these two trees. i'm the southeastern corner of the building and because i purchased the house, i actually

signed on january 18, i have been looking at the building for the entire -- since middle of november so i would have noticed if there was a posting on the fence. all i saw was the notice for the planning department. i didn't notice any tree postings. i actually work at mariposa and arkansas and there were a line of trees removed by the forestry department and they properly posted those on the trees with about 4 feet of cellophane wrapped completely around each individual tree. there was no such wrapping on these two trees. the per met actually does not state two trees on illinois, it only states one tree. so they didn't actually post on -- for both trees, only for one. and that was only after i was told about the posting after i had purchased the unit and the

removal of these trees will greatly affect my property value because they add to the look of my apartment and that's it. thank you. >> next speaker please. >> my home is right in front of illinois street and my garage is beside these trees so i see that wall where they have the posting everyday and there was no posting on the trees. there was a permit on the -- there was a white notice, but nothing about the trees, everyday. and we -- i have two dogs and i use that sidewalk every night. and the posting that's on the posts are