avenue have been important 15 years. formerly the editor and publisher of the examiner and chronicle. so i have appeared here a few times. however, transmittal i can't tell this immediate situation the underlying principle i feel the insult to the city is against what's right and proper. the birthing insult to our time is that the current settlement mr. woods has been unable to take the yes answer and it's project to access it's speculation home by the lovely situation you proved in 2006 and

subsequentially not able to take no. you game in 2013 when i rejected his permit. it's kind of like it's been decided repeatedly and wisely we don't give up private land for public use. and yet mr. wood persists and the answer once again is no. it's 12 hours of your time and this board of supervisors not to mention the time of those neighbors has been wasted with the repeated unable to hear no. please put an end to this once and for are all >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please.

>> i live on mountain spring we've been in our home for 52 years. now your property backyard butts into the subject property in other words, the subject i subject property dovetails into our backyard. we absolutely oppose this project. now common sense says that access to this property has to be given and it is closer to clare done and it is basically, it's closer to clare done and would be accessible to clare done and also the slope of that

area is very not as steep as from mountain spring. so consequentially by giving access to this you'll help to protect that property in the event of a fire or emergency. so the questionable area you'll give a staircase and are you charging rent so you've got a double edge sword me and my wife approve of this resolution >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm todd david. i'm here to speak a little bit about was it would be like to be a family living at this location. and the difficulty of getting 3 small children in and out of the

house and gov. into a i have a 12-year-old and 9-year-old you put the kids in the car and load up the baseball bats and going out 45 steps to make that happen it would make it difficult for a family to live in this residence. so i don't know the history of the neighborhood and all the disagreements but i certainly am a strong opponent of keeping folks in san francisco i think this would make a perfect house for a family.

thank you for your time >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. thank you for your time. i'm going to start by stating the obvious it's now been over 8 years since a major encroachment permit application was first heard and rejected by the proekdz and we're here implicit because the developer didn't like the stairs access from mountain spring access he requested was permitted for and agreed to with the neighbors. so the builder did what he wanted built the house and go

forward the permit of access and enforced the agreement with the neighbors and a walk he added never applied for. what did you do the legally permitted stair access and the would think garage with now glass demeanors is exercise slash account room we ask why are we here. and where is the driveway? and why is the driveway been asked for?. there's no garage. that that request he's wasting our precious time and ours. so we respectfully ask that the we are to this major encroachment be no. it up for your time.

i want to add one note. to the issue of negotiation for money. mr. wood came to our house and requested a meeting. and we employed and asked what would it take for you to say yes to it project and laughed and said $200,000 my asked him to leave that was the jest of that and if mr. woods wants to say to the contrary we'll see him in court >> thank you very much. supervisor jane kim and

supervisor wiener. i work with dpw and dwp and unit across the board and all those departments are particular when they rectify anything that comes before them they don't take things like this lighting. mime encroachment was issued but dpw didn't approve them whenever they feel like it i am not involved but listening to this i ask you to allow the major encroachment to go through >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> supervising good afternoon. i'm the structural engineer. every step that could have been taken to minimize the size of the driveway has been taken.

every per cushion u caution to preserve a maximum open space has been done. my client is suggesting a 10 foot curb cut a telephone foot derivative and a turn arena we're moving in the right direction the open space. including the fact we're proposing in the area that will be fully landscaped and assessable to the neighbors. every step that has been taken in regards to preserving the space has been done tastefully. he's been working on this for reinforces and made nightmares improvements in regards to preserving this green space. i urge you to look at the merits

of the design. dpw has approved the design. they went through the structural analysis and the architecture merits and approved that. we went through a hearing and have agencies that reviewed those things we went through all the steps. we specifically want to you analysis the merits of the case. the driveway has been done in a respectful way. and that's the small property owner which will be assessable to all. thank you, supervisors >> we have copies of the presentation by the architect. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, i'm teddy live on clare

done avenue i've lived there are 4 decades i'm not anti development much aware of the need for housing in the city. however, this proposal will not add any housing to the available housing stock it's only effect will be to enrich one private developer that's not even a resident of the city and i'm affirmatively against the idea of giving as a gift public open space to a private developer. we've surveyed has many of the houses as we could in the 3 hundred photo and a vast majority of them are opposed that is a matter of principle how we use public space in the city. i plead to reject this proposal.

thank you. >> is there any public comment on item 4? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues item is in the hands of the committee any comments questions for anyone >> i continue ate hard not being involved in the history to not moved with dpw's recommendation so i'll move the motion forward about recommendation. >> i'm sorry a motion. >> with recommendation. >> there's a motion to forward it to the board with positive recommendation. >> cohen. >> you won't be supporting that true i don't know the long history by you represent a part of the town with social

implicates are entered and agreements are made and understanding are made. i have been doing a little bit of reach and the testimony harassed been moved by the neighborhoods i came to support the neighbors i'm happy to move forward but not supportive of moving it out of committee with a positive recommendations >> so i'll change my proposal with motion to move forward without a recommendation. >> so okay. so i think that's the best way to proceed it's important to have the computing input from the district supervisor so we'll take that motion without objection. >> i'm concerned i didn't hear from the district supervisor and

we reached it out the office and just - >> yeah. >> that will impact our decision. >> madam clerk, any other business before this commission? >> no further business. then we're adjourned. at 62942

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>> i'm your host of "culturewire," and today, here at electric works in san francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous

retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the

current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. how to use some of what you look for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a really important thing. there is enough stuff in the world already. >> you also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interesting types of materials. let's go over and take a look at that. here we are in a smaller space.

project gallery. >> artists used the parameters of this space to find relationships between the work that is not out in the big gallery. >> i noticed a lot of artists doing really site-specific work. >> this is a pile of balloons, something that is so familiar, like a child's balloon. in this proportion, suddenly, it becomes something out of a dream. >> or a nightmare. >> may be a nightmare. >> this one over here is even harder to figure out what the initial material is. >> this is made out of puffy paint. often, kids use it to decorate their clothes. she has made all these lines of paint. >> for the pieces we are looking at, is there a core of foam or something in the middle of these pieces that she built on top of? >> i'm not telling. >> ah, a secret.

>> this silver is aluminum foil, crumbled of aluminum foil. her aesthetic is very much that quiet, japanese spatial thing that i really admire. their attention to the materiality of the things of the world. >> this is a nice juxtaposition you have going on right now. you have a more established artists alongside and emerging artists. is that something important to you as well? >> very important in this space, to have artists who really have not shown much. now let's look at other aspects of electric works operation. let's go to the bookstore. >> ok. >> in all seriousness, here we are in your store. this is the first space you encounter when you come in off the street.

it has evolved since you open here into the most amazingly curious selection of things. >> this was the project for the berkeley art museum. it was -- this is from william wiley's retrospective, when he got up onstage to sing a song, 270 people put on the cat. >> it is not just a bookstore. it is a store. can you talk us through some of your favorites? >> these are made in china, but they are made out of cattails. >> these pieces of here, you have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. >> we do fund raisers for nonprofits, so we are doing a project for the magic theater, so there are some pretty funny cartoons. they are probably not for prime time. >> you sort of have a kind of

holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the store that promotes their work and practice, and also, prince for them. maybe we should go back and look at the print operation now. >> let's go. >> before we go into the print shop, i noticed some incredible items you have talked back here. what are we standing in front of? >> this is william wiley, only one earth. this is a print edition. there are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. this is really an art object. there we go. >> besides the punball machine, what do you produce in limited

edition? >> there is the slot machine. if you win the super jackpot, you have saved the world. >> what about work? >> the right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. the cab of count dracula with 20 lithographs inside and lined with beaver fur. really special. >> let's move on to the print shop. >> ok. the core of what we do is making things. this is an example. this is a print project that will be a fund-raiser for the contemporary music players. we decided to put it in the portfolio so you could either frame at or have it on your bookshelf. >> so nonprofits can come to you, not just visual are nonprofits, but just nonprofits can come to you, and you will produce prints for them to sell,

and the profits, they can keep. >> the return on investment is usually four times to 10 times the amount of investment. this is for the bio reserve in mexico, and this is one of the artists we represent. >> you also make prints for the artists that you represent. over here are some large prints by a phenomenal artist. >> he writes these beautiful things. anyone who has told you paradise is a book of rules is -- has only appeared through the windows. this is from all over coffee. we are contract printers for all kinds of organizations all across the country. >> thank you very much for showing us around today. i really appreciate you taking the time to let me get better acquainted with the operation and also to share with our "culturewire" team.