may 23rd on 2014 not only did i graduate city college with high howsoever or honors i had the highest honors in the largest graduating class in san francisco history (clapping) as i continue to grow because of the foundation i have here at bayview gardens in august i will be transitioning to sfufrt as a junior in social work (clapping) thousands upon thousand dollars of individuals try to get into our social workshop and only 25 are selected i'm happy to say i'm one of the 25 (clapping) and in all honesty, at heart i'm already a social worker because

of my life experience and therefore at this point the honorable degree is a formality. as i earner this much like people here at bayview gardens i teach to trail blaze the path who walked the same journey and allow them to be helped because of the seeds i've planted so it's not secret one of the most anyone memory be issues in our society is homelessness it served too many individuals it turns people into not learning their full potential. under the umbrella of mercy housing bayview gardens has made to combine permanent housing with a vital thing that's hoping

people. mercy has helped to create stable and vibrant community by a financing operating program and rich housing for families and seniors and people who lack the economic resources to access quality, safe, housing opportunity but it's at people with special needs that particularly stand out for me, the reason is there are various factors that led to homelessness subsidies abuse or domestic violence but we doa know think this things dissipate i tip my hat for the supportive services around filling the avoid as we

have here. also coming from a population that is city government tied because off our individual situations and that led us to become homeless oftentimes we're noting not heard. part of the process here at bayview gardens is not only the advocacy for the resident but also allowed us to have a voice of what kind of services we would like to have whether internal it is huge it comburpz us to effectively go into situations and advocate for our homes. each one of us knows that homeless? is not only their problem but a society problem and we're yornt a greater problem that homeless innocence is normalized and society is

becoming descend intents so while it's important, important in the marginalized population so help hold this up it is important furriers to help fighting the good fight help to help many families out of the category of homelessness today, i lift up and encourage the staff the province foundation and bayview gardens and furnished and adorns and divorcing and anything else that places an integral part of supporting and maintaining bayview gardens for the chance you do as you do as individuals. please does not stop doing good its people like the residents that be repealing the reward of our well doing and, in fact, if

no one has told you your efforts do not go unnoticed i just did god blas bless you for your generosity (clapping) >> thank you very much ms. williams. just a couple more people to acknowledge then our closer here father paul and the mayor i want to acknowledge beven and christen from hope. responsible for a lot of homeless work around san francisco and one of the mercy board members mary in the front row here. i promise i don't think i'll everyone left i apologize if i miss you.

without further ado, you do want to bring up the mayor he's been an unbelievable force around homelessness around affordable housing, for us who have known him for any period he's working on any effort from the streets of legal aid no topic the mayor has not worked on so he's a huge friend of mercy you housing and the bayview gardens so without further ado, i bring you mayor ed lee (clapping) >> good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the bouf supervisor cohen thank you. i'm not going to speak a whole lot i'm in a mod of celebrating this community has earned our cities attention to make sure we go everything we can to make

sure that everyone is successful. i want to say this before i go and praise mercy let me spend a minute praising the people in the bayview because this site i know about this surviving. mohammed lives only a few blocks down he took me to the site and when you look at the history of what entities have tried to do something with this site it reflects sometimes the lives of money people that are homeless they're trying to get their lives better the community tried to do something and they get hit with the economic downturn in the economy. thank you first to the people who tried very hard and other entities tried to make something of this site i need to thank them they set the pace to mercy

can come in and use their talent and resources to help with the building of those 72 wonderful unit but also thank you to the community groups bayview the hunters point foundation the entities that started it because the economics weren't they they didn't couldn't get there but everyone tries to get their lives better and city government should be there to help. i'm proud to work with our had human services agency and health department agencies and your a our other partnerships with the nonprofit ultimately too i recognize always the mayor now this this rein osgood days we have perhaps precious days where

the economy is looking at good where we settle an $8.6 million budget not going past manipulated for the supervisors who are on board with me with the need of building omaha throughout this city that we also utilizes what those one of the strongest economies in the city i fulfill that over 25 years ago this is what we get a chance to do. there's more work to be done and mercy has a lot more work we get to do at the moment but let's celebrate another milestone at one hundred and 50 unit having of which are going to homeless families and transitional age

youth we have a presentation of 72 buffalo unit a courtyard and a community being part of the community not isolated because of our economics not thrust in places people don't care about alive is an incredible part of the our cities xhig economic and we only need supervisor malia cohen is to return the economics back to the community as they are raising themselves up we get to do that. i will be very happy every time i'm happy opening up another housing site making sure that people get it i have an aggressive thirty units of housing with your help we'll get there by 2024 and maybe exceed

that number because for me it's about everyone who wants to live in the city violating a chance i know it's expensive we're radio trying to make sure that people don't get evicted from their homes we're going to build and hope sf gets all the developments done. and we need to make sure that every time we focus on a site just like redevelopment accident on this site and the ocii has done it we do our best to develop the site i bring opportunity there's more sites in the bayview there's more partnerships we can have so thank you to mercy and a an incredible level of i think not only style for this but really an ongoing commitment to people

who are in need of help you're a great partner but there's no work to be done i hope you celebrate this and get on to the next project more unit is to be built and more lives to hope thank you very much and congratulations (clapping) >> i think i need a bag. this bag is worth several millions of dollars of investment >> past payments. all right. we're almost done i want to thank as the mayor remit me mercy is happy to work with province on this and unbelievable partnerships we've been lucky to do a lot of this work this represents we have 6 hundred and 57 units of

affordable housing we're part of part of 13 hundred units again a testament of the real work there are a couple more folks i didn't congratulate i didn't see dr. espanola jackson four her hard work and dr. espanola jackson i came so close to getting it right. i was this close. all right. this is a harder job than it looks. the bayview hill association has played an neermgs help and the people in the shelter program and shawn and others and last but not least we're going to bring up father paul by as you take our tour you'll see art

this is a fabulous nonprofit in the bayview they work with the disabled adults and as you walk through the building you'll see the him capacity we all have. with that, i promise it the it bring us home (clapping) >> all right. i will be short. but just a quick testimony i've heard the words amazing teamwork i believe this project is a miracle this vision going back 15 years ago when running the food pan try across the street families would come over with vouchers and want to know if they could stay longer and they said this place is to dangerous there's so much crime we're

going to stop sending families rent out the whole property and get rid of the crime so sf was working with with neighbors like beulah and others that talked about the violence let's take over the molt so we matthew intrude ourselves to the owner and many 15 or 14 years of miracles and la ton negligence was a gift from god for 72 families to live here that's a gift from god it was not only given but built $33 million gift that's nothing for god. amen. and all of gods workers the city of san francisco and the neighborhood people are trerms loving and good and caring about

one another. let's bless it home for 72 families like in the military when a commission of a destroyer or champagne gets busted against the haul i brought holy water (clapping) so let's commission for putting in the service of god blessing this home for 72 families. letting pray off mighty god thanks for the migraine that build this homing home and asked it be commissions for its service i protect and guide the families that the children may know love and ask you bless this home and keep it safe in the nature of the father and the son

and of the holy spirit make f this holy ground amen >> good evening welcome to the wednesday, july 23, 2014, san francisco board of appeals. the presiding officer is commissioner president lazarus and joined by commissioner fung and commissioner honda and our vice chair will be absent tonight to my left is deputy city attorney and at the controls is the person victor

i'm sdooej we'll be joined by the representatives from the city scott sanchez will be representing the planning department and planning commission and the senior engineer will be here and deputy city attorney will be here on behalf of the department of public health will you go over the rules >> ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices. please carry on conversation in the halfway appellants and permit holders and department representatives have 7 minutes to present their cases and 3 minutes for rebuttals all pa

parcels parties who are not affiliated with the parties have up to 3 minutes to address the board with no rebuttals to assist the board members of the public who wish to speak are ask but not required to submit a business card to the staff. pencils are available on the lndz of the podium and consumer survey forms on the left-hand side of the podium. the board office is on mission street room 304 between van ness boulevarding it's broadcast live sfgovtv channel 78 and dvds of

this meeting are available for purchase from sfgov and thank you at this point we'll conduct our swearing in process if you intend to testify and wish to have the board give our testimony wealthy please stand and raise your right hand arrest incomplete note that any member of the public may speak pursuant to the sunset ordinance under the administrative code thank you. do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> (inaudible). >> thank you. mr. mr. pacheco commissioners we have three 0 housekeeping items all to do with at&t >> i'll recuse myself due to a

financial investment. >> commissioners because there are an insufficient number of board members to act on the cases they are going to be need to be rescheduled so so item 4 is the protest of the an excavation permit on caesar chavez after the first meeting date is october 8, 2014, the appellant is traveling during our september meeting date so that's the first valuable time and at&t has requested the opportunity to commissioner white additional drawings to address the board request in this case so in addition to rescheduling please consider whether or not you'll accept the drawings. >> i think i noted the drawings

are extremely large are they going to put it into one drawing. >> the drawing is one large piece of paper and the drawings are straight in your packet you'll have one piece of paper. >> thank you. commissioners we need our consideration to move this case to october 8th and whether or not you wish to accept additional information >> so moved. >> any public comment on that item? seeing none, mr. pacheco call the roll please. we have a motion from commissioner fung to continue item 4 appeal to october 8th and additional inhabits not briefing allowed additional inhabits are allowed on that motions.

>> commissioner hwang. the vice president is absent the president is recused commissioner honda >> thank you the vote is 3 to zero this matter is continued until october 8th. >> the other two items are a jurisdiction request and an appeal on 26 avenue protesting the excavation permit issued to scc the first available meeting is september 17th. there is yeah, that's the first valuable time the dph is unavailable during the september 10th meeting and an insufficient number of board members available for the august meeting so we need a motion to move to september >> so moved and any public

comment on that item? seeing none, mr. pacheco. >> we have a motion then from commissioner honda to rescheduled items 5 and 6 and appeal to september 17th. on that motion to reschedule both matters. commissioner fung. commissioner hwang and vice president is absent president is recused. the vote is 3 to zero both matters are rescheduled to september 17th >> we can ask the president to

return. okay. that takes us to item one general public comment is there anyone that wants to speak on an item not on tonight's matter then item 2 it questions or comments >> this is my fellow commissioners last meeting what an honor and pleasure to serve on this board with you, chris and wish you luck. >> thank you. i also for the record wanted to state it's been an incredible honor and privilege to serve on the board and surprisingly a pleasure i've learned a lot and enjoyed working with an esteemed group

of people and especially the work of sdooenl and has kept us together as more goes on behind the scenes and victor i appreciate you and want to thank that board for having made that a great experience i hope it's been good for the community as well. >> we would love to see you again. >> thank you. and i'd like to say that's been a pleasure to me i've not met you before and i admire the way you handle the questions and insight and you're going to be missed and wish you all the best and whatever you spend your time they're lucky to have you >> it's been a pleasure to work with you and appreciate the work

you did for the board and to have i here such a strong voice so far thoroughness and the way you treat the public is excellent i appreciate it and any public comment on that item? >> okay. then we'll move on the next item is item 3 the boards consideration of the minutes of july 16, 2014. changes, additions if not do i hear a motion to approve the minutes >> so moved. >> any public comment on that item? seeing none, mr. pacheco call the roll please. we have a motion from commissioner honda to adapt the july 16, 2014, minutes on that motion. >> commissioner fung. commissioner hwang. president is absent.

commissioner president lazarus thank you. the vote it 4 to zero those minutes are adopted >> okay. then we have rescheduled items 4 example 5 and 6 next is the property inspection protesting to gary young to remove and cap off the gas pipe start with the appellant you have 7 minutes. >> good evening, commissioners before i make my remarks i want to request i can submit to you a rely i've prepared for this case and that i will also be summarizing in my statement tonight. >> a good thing for you to have there's an exhibit in it it

includes new evidence regarding the status of the unit we've only found on july 21st of this last monday of the housing inspector they commented. >> has this information been shared with the other parties. >> i'll be happy to share that with the other parties. >> i be if you would include it with reference in our comments we'll decide whether or not tests important to see it. >> certainly i'll be referring to it in my comments and will be putting that on the overhead projector. the sole question for the board can a plunging permit be the

basis for removing a housing permit from the market they seek to remove the stove remove the unit in other words, convert the unite to non-residence use and e vehicle the tenant the removal removal is not a demolition and not required a building permit to remove the concepts the planning code states removal shall mean with the conversion demolition or merger in other words, removing the unit can only be accomplished by one of the methods for each the methods the planning commission requires a building permit not a plumbing permit section 23-d 1 demolition