survey, his niece was there and so this is all been out in the open and there is nothing hidden it was all clear and again, while he claims that there is a flurry of communication from the surveyer and there is only two letters in the record, and the bottom line is that we have given you a survey and the plans document the height and mr. sanchez himself has gone out and measure ited and we need to put this behind us and so please, please, deny the dr and approve this project as proposed so this can move forward and i thank you very much. >> thank you. >> the public hearing is closed. commissioner richards? >> question for the city attorney, is there any jurisdiction issue in your opinion? >> deputy, city attorney, susan, i have taken a look at the information provided mr. zeretky and i have confered with the zoning administrator, there is a new permit and a new

categorical exemption and there is nothing that put it outside of the normal review process and the normal approval process under ceqa, there is definitely a lot of history to this case, and just to address the claims about the board of appeals, proceedings, those proceedings are final and the time to challenge that decision, has well passed. there is also nothing that was provided to us today, that indicates that there was anything irregular about that and has been noted and stated by several people, there was a private agreement between the parties in this instance and that is a private agreement and any of the enforcement of that agreement, would be between the two parties. and i will leave any of the discussion about whether the 311 notification in this case was adequate to the zoning administrator and in terms of the continuance, the city does not plan to issue a written determination on this matter

and i do not know of any jurisdiction that the board of supervisors would have to do so. >> thank you. >> i think that the only thing in this dr, that resonate to me, that actually would work, and would actually want to take dr, would the combining of the two units and i started this hearing, talking about family housing a lot of luxury family housing and what we have a four bedroom, being combined with a two unit, at 800 feet, at 4 to 500 square feet and thes 6 bedroom thises is bigger than 115 tell graph hill and it is huge and it qualifies for, in the getting tired, the first luxury, more than three bedrooms and three and a half million in the back and the value of this and to me, one family gets to move in and the tenant occupied before the fire and one family does not get to live here, but that will compel me to recommend taking dr.

>> commissioner antonini? >> well n regard to that staff, has already made it very clear that it is not before us, because it each unit has been appraised to be above the amount and i think that it is $1.5 million and they are clearly above the amount and so that part tf is not really part of this dr and in fact i am not really sure and i guess that the reason that we have the dr and i seem to remember this case from a couple of years ago and then it went on to the board of supervisors and permit appeals but i don't believe that there was another dr in the past or am i wrong about that? i think that it was a conditional use? >> no ij that there was just the one discretionary review that was filed by one of the dr requesters here today. >> yeah, there might have been one before and then my question is, why is it before, because we have combined plans now, and therefore, they are allowed to file another dr. >> it is before you, today,

because it is a revision that documents changes but discrepancies from the plans and they are also making the minor changes to what you have previously are saying the last time that you did take the discretionary review and you did not have any changes to the project but you took the discretionary review and stated that you did not want them to build or raise it any more than 36 inches which is what they were proposing to do in the first place and so we felt that it should not and it should come back to you and in terms of the dwelling unit merger and it is in the discretionary because it does exceed more than $1.506 million however it is on the permit and on the plans that is before you. and so, you know, certainly that is within your discretion, that i think that that would, and i it raise other policy issues, that i think that we would want to discuss and if the commission would like to have us bring all of those

projects before you, because right now, you know, we will not typically do that and so i think that we will have some other policy considerations in how we will treat the other projects that are similar and i think that we want to discuss further with you. >> i would say no, because that has been decided. and even at the board of supervisors, level, that this is above that amount, and we are not going to bring the projects in and i think that this sounds like basically the same project, as before. but there are some addition and what mr. cabreros had said is it sounds that like of the changes are interior but they are adding the dormers and the impact of these is not significant and then the staff is in agreement that it has been raised to a height that was allowed to be raised and it is under 40 feet,; is that correct?? >> that is correct. and i would, there has been and i think that it has been said exhaustive amount of staff time

spent on this project over the years going back to the discretionary review and the appeal hearings, and subsequently, the addendum and the enforcement of the project and i have been to the site to measure it and dbi has been out to measure and other appeals to the addition of the curb cut, and yes, the staff has worked extensively and he is now as you have other duties in the department, but he has been spent, a significant amount of time insuring that these plans, are in fact, accurate. >> so, based upon that, i am going to move to not take the dr and approve the project because this is a project that basically complies, and the additions are felt to be non-significant. >> commissioner moore? >> for me, it remains a policy issue, just using the discreption of about 1 million or something, to give out to

the dividing line about having previously supported a project which restored two units which is now a project that comes back as a unit merger. and so the next study was never really clearly presented to us, as a number, and the number is being created in a heated economy where even middle class people would have to disagree with that number being kind of for the needle tips the scale. i personally a policy issues with it, for me, the mayor's discussion is a far larger over arcking recommendation that we are looking at the identified city, and the identified cities that take, and it requires me to take a look at every property. and in an rh two, we are encouraged to up hold the zoning that is in place, and the request for the unit merger under this newly revised plan

is something like something that i can support. >> i will support not taking the dr but i would echo the comments from commissioner richards and moore. that if we want to take up the policy, issues around what is the dividing line, if any, that we can draw for the line about what constitutes above the market rate or the luxury housing and how we should do that and be consistent and i would support that i don't support applying that sort of subjective at this point, because it is not our policy to just one project. >> commissioner moore? >> i was on the commission when we reviewed and spent a bit of time working on this project in 2011 and at that time i supported a 2 unit building,

and i will do the same today. >> commissioners mr. is a motion and a second to not take the dr and approve the project as aproposed. >> antonini. >> aye. >> hillis. >> aye. >> moore. >> no. >> richards. >> no. >> fong. >> aye. >> wu. >> aye >> moore and richards are voting against, 5-2. that places you on public comment, i have no speaker cards. >> is there any general public comment? >> push seeing none, general public comment is closed meeting is adjourned.

>> good afternoon, everybody. thank you, everyone for being here and i want to thank you for joining me and the board of supervisors for this special occasion to sign our next two year budget 8.6 he million dollars this city is worth it. it is as i may say an historic time and budget navigate as i signed this budget i'm reminded and i think the supervisors know this as well it is really the first time in 6 years we've had

a budget deficit under $100 million the supervisors feel it as we've gone to every district and 4ri7bd to the needs of the district and make sure the budget reflected not only citywide values but our neighborhood as well i want to thank you president chiu and supervisor farrell all the members of this year's budget committee who are standing here and the entire members of the board of supervisors. i want to thank and department heads many who joined us in our neighborhood and thank the commissioners for your hard work with checking in with our department heads to make sure we're producing this budget this year's budget reflected a lot of good hard work between the city

government and the people we serve we've should with our city family and left-handed to hundreds of community leaders and the people that get the work down you our labor force they were a great part of this year's budget we should to get the contracts with literally all our city employees thanks to our labor leaders this is a strong reflection of carried out services i want to thank all the elected officials not only do we represent the department argue as elected officials they give us a lot of good advice well beyond their divisions. twoeth together with the board we've made smart investments and

the budget is fiscal pursuant that is a keystone to our city we've increased the services to our recipe are the input they've been critical in transportation and education and our social net and infrastructure that is recorded in the cost of living increases we make sure we did for our nonprofits and their an incredible part of our delivery we've made fair wage increases to our city employees an, an historic investment in our housing. i would say i think we all truly building that the big challenges of our economic challenges are behind us but we don't want to deviate what is has gotten us here to be the fiscal success

the continued commitment to our fiscal responsibilities to make sure our budget balances all the needs of diverse communities and we'll continue to invest in our infrastructure and most importantly in the people one hundred percent of all the people in san francisco. again thanks to the board for working together with us for creating the budget. in his second year supervisor farrell thank you for your steadfastly leadership and commitments to building this collaborative process (clapping) i want to say thanks to dan roman field to make sure not only his capacity as controller he keeps us on a due course (clapping) and the people that helped me to make sure i've got all the

issues in hand and that's my chief of staff and kate howard both from the controller's office and the mayor's office for their excellent work thank you very much (clapping) budget whiz wards i call them. but i'd like to an opportunity to specially niefrt david for a few words he's been watching this in his district and the whole board of supervisors. supervisor david chiu >> thank you mr. mayor just a couple of words first of all, those of us who were here when i came into office we had half a billions of we were debating

whether to close down first stations and trying to figure out where to cut hubt i publicity and services i want to thank dan roman field in 149 we passed two year bushlt. >> hydrahave a healthy budget due to our budget wizards i want to congratulate us was likely the easily budget to move forward because our economy is healthier but we're working together to fourth our top priorities and what we're going to invest in i want this thank obviously there's a tremendous amount of work that happens at the board of supervisors i want to thank the staff and the budget committee their hard work led lbe their fear also leaders

supervisor farrell and he can go home earlier to spend time with his kids in the evening supervisor farrell. >> (clapping) >> thank you president chiu and mayor ed lee it's maiming two years in a row we've passed this out of the committee and the board of supervisors. when we started this process i think mayor ed lee and i had a commitment to have an open and transparent process that did as is mayor ed lee respect to every be district to meet with the committee heads and we had a town hall online meeting so people could weigh in we want to make sure our budget protects us for the future it's not talked about we're the only city in the united states that passed pension reform and things at the

battle we're setting ourselves up in terms of our physical headquartered we wanted to make sure we worked with the board of supervisors and my colleagues, i want to shout out to all my committee members supervisor avalos and supervisor mar and supervisor london breed and conserving who pickup truck in the countless hours and lastly we wanted to make sure that the budget we passed was also rehabilitate of the things in our entire city the mayor prioritized things in his budgeted a lot of money towards affordable housing or continue the road repaving making sure we invest in our infrastructure critical things we've done and the board of supervisors coming on top of that food security so

our seniors and protecting residents don't sit home hunger i think we can be proud of you want to say a special thanks first from 0 my staff katherine to the mayors team kate howard she is indescribable to our team and the whole city of san francisco for her entire team thank you kate for all you do (clapping) and as was mentioned to the inspire controller's office dan rosen field and late nights they're here past maintained this doesn't happen so thank you ben and your entire staff for

all you've done (clapping) and from the boards prospective obviously hearing rose thank you for your hard work this was haurz 40th budget inside city hall thank you favoring and to our own city attorney's office john gibner, deputy city attorney and all their hard work and certainly to the mayors other team and staple jason and the entire team that works closely with the board of supervisors. thank you all we're all proud of the budget two years running we passed it this year earlier and on time and passed consensus on time thank you and thank you to all for being here (clapping) >> and let me add my personal thanks to harvey i asked for the

county of los angeles we question got it. this is just a budget document i know it reflects a lot of what we worked hard at planning for. what we do do outside this budget document can challenge the dedicate balance but i have faith the people that carry out the budget most of who is standing here are going to do us proud i ask not only celebrate the budget but the people who are going to carry out the budget to the city departments you're going to make sure we carry this out. are we ready to sign. all right. let's do it

(clapping) want up close? (laughter) all right. and today is july 23rd >> 23rd. there you go done

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