tv Board of Appeals 92816 SFGTV September 30, 2016 4:00pm-8:01pm PDT
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a part of making today possible. it is a dream come true. thank you. [applause] ------------------------------- september 28, 2016, meeting of the san francisco board of appeals the presiding officer officer is commissioner president honda and he's joined by commissioner sanchez and commissioner rick swig and commissioner bobbie wilson our vice president sfrung will be
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absent to my left is so thomas owen for legal advice at the controls is gary the boards legal assistant simmons we're joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before this board. sitting at the table in the front row is sacramento the zoning administrator and representing the planning department and planning commission and sitting next to him is chris buck urban forestry with the san francisco public works bureau of urban forestry and next to chris is raul with san francisco public works and with the bureau of street use and mapping we're expecting this evening senior building inspector joe duffy representing the please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones and other electronic devices are prohibited. out in the hallway. permit holders and others have up to 7 minutes to present their
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case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. people affiliated with these parties must conclude their comments within 7 minutes, participants not affiliated have up to 3 minutes - no rebuttal. to assist the board in the accurate preparation of the minutes, members of the public are asked, not required to submit a speaker card or business card to the clerk. speaker cards and pens are available on the left side of the podium. the board welcomes your comments. there are customer satisfaction forms available. if you have a question about the schedule, speak to the staff after the meeting or call the board office tomorrow we are located at 1650 mission street, suite 304. this meeting is broadcast live on sfgovtv cable channel 78. dvds are available to purchase
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directly from sfgovtv. thank you for your attention. we'll conduct our swearing in process. now we're swear in or affirm please note that any member of the public may speak under the sunshine ordinance if you intend to do. please note: any of the members may speak without taking the oath pursuant to the sunshine ordinance, and thank you. please stand now do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> i do. >> that's for me. >> thank you so item one on the calendar it general public comment this is an opportunity for anyone here to speak to the board on a matter within the the subject property and jurisdiction not on tonight calendar any general
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public comment seeing none, item 2 is commissioners questions or comments anything commissioners okay item 3 the boards consideration thought and possible adoption of 2016 meeting. >> additions, deletions, or changes can i have a motion to accept those. >> so moved. >> any public comment on the minutes seeing none, we have a motion from commissioner lazarus to adopt the minutes commissioner president honda commissioner wilson commissioner swig okay. and the vice president is absent that that motion carries with a vote of 4 to zero. >> and then i've been told bit the parties there's been a settlement agreement for item 6 this is appeal of filed by curtis against san francisco
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urban forestry and protesting the issuance on january 2014 of a tree removal permit a tree predicament to remove them and a denial of one removal of one tree we'll hear that first, it had should be a fairly quick item and start with chris buck. >> good evening chris. >> thank you commissioners chris buck urban forestry with san francisco public works bureau of urban forests we've within working hard over the last several months to pin down the key sticking points probable the most appropriate thing to quickly read through any brief is owls the backward of the case and catches up and proposes as your role as commissioners to make a recommendation it will alter the public works decision that's why we couldn't
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have the appellant file in my opinion file withdrawal requests we still needed on vaurment to the order felt it best to come before you make our case and let you folks decide so 2009 the property owner applied removal of 40 trees repeating sidewalk damage caused by a tree on tucker boulevard with frontage along kit ridge the urban forestry approved the removal removal of the extent of the sidewalk damage and place on narrow sidewalks the public protested the removal and public works herald a hearing for 3 removals without replacement on 1 on tucker boulevard with
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replacement a lot of public protest about the lack of trees and public works detailed showing a decision awhile offers of assistance from the public were considered public works look at the feasibility of widening the sidewalks on both sides of kit ridge to accommodate and retain the trees the cost was approximately 20th century $1.2 million that was preventive and to install pavers upon review by the ada urban forestry the site was found to be two challenging for the use of paving material public works resulting order issued in january of 2014 the subject of this appeal approved the removal of 3 of the four trees that was appealed after future discussions public works staff
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recommended the removal of two trees and the retention of two trees the tristao remain the brisbane next to the turk boulevard it is the canopy to extend to turk boulevard but allow the pertaining to address the two trees that caused the greatest amount of sidewalk damage they're to be pruned that two will cause the trees to be unstable the tree on turk boulevard and the tree on kit ridge the further away from turk the tree on turk boulevard will be reformed what that a front yard instead of trying to reroute the tree broadening did sidewalk around the tree causes the pedestrian to away zone preventing the parking lot and creating a need to address a change in the slope
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of the property line this is not feasible nor sustainable the tree that will be removed 9 third tree in the corner and caused the severe damage to the sidewalks and radio the replacement will be shifted opposite the landscaping and a wider pedestrian through zone can be route around the tree this will allow the tree to be remembered and a request to match the brisbane box trees is a reasonable request which we'll rewrite i'll go through a few photos of some of the examples public works wished to submit this brief in preparation as a tentative resolution that is supported by the appellant and respondent the are removal of two trees with the reminded of two trees on kit ridge a
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brisbane box 24 inch and on turk within the front yard setback will be a smaller species appropriate for that the site a 24 inch 0 box tree can i have the overhead? a few photos of subject tree this is an image of the tree on turk boulevard it is a very narrow sidewalk and there's an extreme amount of sidewalk damage it is a 6 foot wide sidewalk as you can see the pattern for the block so have landscaping at the back the sidewalk expanding this sidewalk will force that pedestrian through zone into the up hills neighbors driveway a grade change the light colored concrete is here so a much wider area needs to be regraded to bring it level with the sidewalk area and public works didn't
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feel this is a reasonable approach there is no other street trees on the block the patterns of the sidewalk is really to have the pedestrians along the curve towards the curve and we can require that a tree it planted in the front yard setback let me see if i have an image of what that looks like i don't think i brought that with me tree one on kit ridge is seen here what we'll do is have the property owner pave an air of the front yard setback within the right away and with the landscaping permit prosecute have a raised edge to hold back the soil that tree will remain, tree two on kit ridge will remain and then tree 3 it is the other tree we believe should be removed and respected an extreme amount of sidewalk damage what
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we'll do when the tree is removed we'll require the replacement tree be formed in this area and the four foot sidewalk routed around this location the removal of two trees with the replacement of two trees is a reasonable approach and then i don't know from the appellant will attend but provided mr. spec has provided an e-mail to the bureau of urban forestry stating he's reviewed our brief and agrees with this proposed resolution as a reasonable way forward he's represented a lot of community in this fight over the years and so the key point we can retain 3 trees he at the end of kit ridge to book end the canopy on that street we think that is the reasonable way to go and in this particular case that wraps up my testimony.
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>> i got a question mr. buck did the appellant give an explanation not able to attend this evenings hearing. >> not exactly but about i think partly due to the how far we've come and we did try or come up with a resolution prior to the hearing if possible a lot of e-mails i. >> i mean seven years in the process i think he wanted to attend the hearing; right? >> sure i stated that - i don't know for sure if he'll be here but share his e-mail and i commend our department for all the hard work and effort looking at the pictures and gopher the brief the walk sidewalk that he is left for the pedestrians didn't seem very wide what's the
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standard for having a walkway that allows people with disabilities especially on an uneven pavement is that a pretty bad standard. >> we need a 4 foot wide travel that meets grade requirement without a doubt the existing tree base on the kit ridge there is a little bit smaller 3 feet our standard will be a 3 by 3 baseline with a 7 foot wide area with 3 foot for trees and 4 for pedestrians. >> how wide. >> should some of the baselines are 3 and a half feet deep but the pitch of travel a few of trees have a 36 path of travel at this time there was a
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opposition for removal without replacement so the idea we came up with to route and we have approval in the ada cooperated with public works to route the pedestrians around the baseline and expand the size of the baseline to accommodate the two trees the two trees this be approved for removal it is a visible planting site we firmly believe that two of the trees what remain within existing conditions one of them will be widened around the tree and one will remain as is. >> thank you, again for your departments hard work. >> thank you. >> just as is a for military is anyone representing the permit holder i'll submit the e-mail letter to your clerk on
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behalf of the appellant thank you. >> we'll hear from the permit holder now. >> please step forward. >> good evening. >> good evening welcome. >> hi there i'm george i'm the permit holder son i'm not handling this matter he thank you for your time it is years in the making to get to this point i think we've come to a viable solution we definitely commodity as property owners to address this matter and taken through the process i'm here to offer my support to the resolution and hope you'll agree to approve this we'll fix our sidewalks and make it safe again for everybody. >> congratulations on seven years worth of hard work. >> thank you to chris he's been helpful.
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>> thank you. >> any public comment on this item. >> seeing none, the matter should be submitted for your decision and care to make a motion. >> move to grant the appeal and uphold the permit on the basis the revised plans was submitted by the department of public works. >> on the basis. >> on the basis that all parties agree to this resolution. >> is that your motion. >> we have a motion from commissioner lazarus to grant the appeal and issue the appeal it be rise to reflect the plan as articulated in the public works brief on the basis it reflects the agreement of the parties on that motion commissioner president honda. >> commissioner wilson commissioner swig okay. that that motion carries with a vote of 4 to zero and we can move back to item 4 which is
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appeal versus the department of building inspection the property on 32 avenue protesting the immunization of a penalty in 2016 for construction done without a permits start with the appellant. >> good evening and welcome. >> hi good evening my name is chicago i'm the daughter of alice and i 4e7d my mother manage the property and working with dbi and closing the case so i have prepared a brief with all my receipts and records no additional comments except the case is closed and everything is legalized i'd like to request for a refund of the construction penalty they've
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added which i think, you know, the unit was not constructed by us i feel not fair to me so - >> are you done. >> yes. >> thank you i've got a question did you prepare this brief yourself. >> very comprehensive and very detailed. >> thank you. >> i think that's it. >> that's it? okay we'll hear from the department now. >> gang commissioners joe duffy dbi welcome. >> welcome back from our vacation. >> thank you commissioner president honda and the complete number 20 one 5 plus came in dbi on the 14 of december 2014 that
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was assigned to builder inspector duffey took off the investigation and the description was construction in the garage area off an illegal unit without permits as we do with all complaints we assess the property mr. duffy was successful in entry to the property and wrote a notice of violation that read it was orientated on december 4th days after we received the complaint the complainants filed regarding unpermitted construction with the location on ground floor reframing and adding existing space and ground floor no records of building permits to construct rooms on the grandchildren or ground floor and electrical work without permits the kreveng action to
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object a building permit to remove the work performed without a permit and have the permit for the existing rooms and object a required disconnections to close the complaint when we initialed a notice of violation there is a penalty of 9 times the fee on the value of work performed that was assessed to be 5 thousand dollars so following that in relation e notice of violation a building permit was objected by the property owner. >> and the building permit was to comply legalize one bath and two bedrooms and a family room on the first floor this was filed on the 17 of june 2016 that was approved
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over-the-counter of - it was tloultd intact planning department and the building department mechanical plan check and signed off on december 2016 u78s the appeal for the penalty of the 9 times on the 5 thousand dollars the amount of the penalty is 9 hundred plus which will will have - the total fees are 3 thousand plus dollars the rest of the fees made up from the planning department, plan check and building department and your time and inspection times the penalty fees i think their assessed on our time to investigate and issue those things with the work without a permit and stop people from doing work without a permit your supposed to get the permit
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beforehand i have files by the department can i have the overhead? put it up this one that will be better this photograph shows i believe the ground floor and it is shows the framing we have some more photographs of framing on the photograph other wall behind that i'm going to give you one more we're getting there this one is the two-by-four wall construction take place on the ground floor so from dbi point of view we'll be asking the board to uphold the go 9 times
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penalty fee that is nine hundred plus i'm available to answer any questions. >> i got a few inspector duffy do you go over the brief the permit holder put in. >> i assure you did. >> it was quite a process to clarify some of this i mean there were times and points people were not returning our call of the 8 and 9 attempts per each person. >> the two people she wrote about are experienced inspectors reardon is my boss i'm not sure. >> this of the returned promoting that was hutchison.
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>> that's code enforcement so is that from our department. >> the builder inspector your side of story there is a discrepancy and pictures that that that apply to the property pictures from our inspection. >> they were in the file today and from our inspector. >> i'm not sure and in the property owners brief the pictures were not of the property. >> i don't think so i wouldn't say we'll put photographs in the file that is not of the property. >> that went to small claims court is indicated the prior tenant that broken the lease supplied photos i mean the
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permit holder will have a second chance. >> they should legalize the description of the work. >> i mean, i'm trying to - in san francisco of the brief spilled by the prvrld it indicated the inspectors came out there and said the work was from the 50s and 60s but the permit nov reflect new construction that's why your story and - >> i mean all i can it will result the builder inspector wrote 9 notice of violation of 20 years experience whether or not he got invited in i saw e-mails what patrick o reardon has backed up this wouldn't - i read the brief last time last night and saw some of the
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accusations but photographs showing to legalize the one bath and the family room a inspector, next item. >> signed that off. >> more clarification from the permit holder on rebuttal. >> it gets back to the fact we like people to get the permit before they start sthard work. >> that's the permit i'm seeing in the brief the work was done way prior and . >> i'm getting it from the file that work was done when we went throwing i mean, we don't know but assume the way the combrishgs wrote the notice of violation. >> what was inspector duffy out that. >> the 18 even if december, 72014 four days after and the complaint was filed with the construction at the above location new framing and
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delineated new spaces that's what we wrote. >> thank you mr. duffy do you know the source of complaint is. >> it was amaze but a tenant/landlord issue two complaints filed on the as a day you have at dbi and dispute between tenant/landlord we get a lot of back and forths sometimes their bogus and hopefully, we don't write a notice of violation. >> thank you plth seeing none, then i think the commission have questions for you and 3 minutes of rebuttal please come forward yes, please. >> so, yeah i like to clarify
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that on the nov there was two sections one is the dew construction that is what you saw the photos and not what was going on basically, we have a in-law unit in the back of the garage that was built probably 40 or 50 years ago before we purchased the house so number one i like to clarify the inspection duffey never entered the property i've verified that on the brief and wasn't sure i didn't dare to put that down so i believe those photos are from somewhere but definitely not from the property and i have invited inspectors different inspectors from dbi and city planning to the property they've verified they didn't see any of
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the situations on the photos that was submitted and put on file so on the plan that i submitted and also approved and recorded also didn't have new construction so the permit was pulled to legalize the old unit but the in-law unit in the back of the garage built by the previous owner before any family purchased the property so the inspectors come back to verify the religioustion process and those are all parts so what it gentleman pointed out is not 100 percent accurate not all the valid data the inspector duffy never entered the house i believe my x tenant persuade him
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to help her so i'm filing a lawsuit against any x tenant right now there is another civil lawsuit against her so that's what i like to clarify the photos are not valid and i think what i put down on the brief is verified multiple times to make sure it is accurate and present it to the board. >> are you done. >> yes. >> i have several questions so the pictures that the department has put on the overhead so those are not from your property. >> i actually talked to inspector duffy supervisor patrick. >> over and over reardon and not limited to those photos were not taken by inspector duffy so i do have people that do know those photos are not from him.
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>> so no my questions are those whether or not they're from him have they from your property. >> i've not seen those. >> your downstairs didn't look like that. >> no, no i have invited many inspectors to the property you know since february i have people from the city planning and people from dbi. >> okay. so sorry to interrupt have any inspections visibly seen the property to make sure those photos are not have your property. >> yes. no one of them. >> has anyone come to our property to inspect the property. >> yes. >> and not from our property. >> an online block of activities of dbi and according to the online log inspection
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committed doesn't seen the plug at the property when at the came by to inspect on february 10th he forget the exact date in february. >> thank you very much. >> inspector duffy anything further. >> only that to add i find is disturbing we're having photos on file that's my first time we would do such a thing there's a person in the photos we didn't do this type of things we are given photos but the integrity of some people called into question and most people inspector duffy knows the district attorney and i i don't
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think he's putting photos in files from someone else's property so are in the code enforcement this property owner was at the hearing those photos are in the file the file is not closed i retrieved it today for the meeting tonight i think that if that was me if someone was putting photos in my file i think i'll try to be speaking to the director are deputy director there is something wrong with the penalty appeal. >> that's what it says in the brief she's addressed that those were not fraudulent pictures it's in here brief. >> the inspection reardon was in contact about the photographs and the photographs of her
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property and dbi has not done anything wrong issued a proper notice of violation and ask it be upheld. >> excuse me - i want to say i'm troubled about the the issues that's the first time i've heard that charge. >> there's a lot of issues we're used with a tenant/landlord but inspector duffy will not feed into that is there work going on and no building permit let's work with the department and get a permit to legalize that i don't look at the plans that was for new construction or existing rooms i'm not sure i don't have the drawings but we could do that. >> thank you inspector duffy. >> commissioners, the matter is submitted. >> so as any fellow
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commissioners stated i've never heard that the brief is troubling in comparison to what the department has said i know this is just regarding the 9 times penalty but i personally feel i'm need further information to reduce the fee or not from the allegations are not true i'll uphold the penalty and if there is some difference that someone made a mistake i'll be willing to reduce the penalty. >> i think i'd like - there. >> i'd like to ask the appellant straightforward question if you stand up here. >> a question that's not been asked you're under oath was there any work done without a
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permit. >> actually, i had i called a permit to do the legalization so for the back unit. >> was there any work done in our home without a permit. >> no, i think all - i have said it a few times that all the inspectors that came by to inspect you know very specific parts of house. >> i think you've answered his question. >> can i add a comment. >> no that's it thank you. >> great we have black and white so under penalty of perjury. >> this is simple reduce or not reduce at the same time maybe go to have the department to hubt this down and do on
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inspection and get back with us. >> inspection now. >> yeah. i think that i mean it will show if there is new construction you can't put 50-year-old wood and sheetrock back into a prompt or uphold the penalty or reduce it is more work for the department my son drum i have two different stories and she got up and said under oath no other work other than the previous in-law unit that was there at that time. >> on the answer to your first question if he were to deny the appeal i wouldn't reduce the penalty at all to be very clear to make sure
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that everybody is think on the right page and satisfactory evidence there seems to be a question then we send an inspector out and ask specifically was there work done outside of the permit. >> and . >> that's - wraps up so we can move to continue it if you want to do that. >> want to chime in commissioner lazarus. >> not following i mean the work has been done. >> no so the question is there was an in-law unit that was non-permitted what permit holder is stating that unit as untouched for 50 years and what the department is saying additional work has been done if you look at those pictures that's a new in-law unit the
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question was there new work that was done recently or so she legalizing what was there when she purchased the property for a x number of years we continue the case allowing the department to do a visible inspection she's at this point the permit holder is claiming the inspection inspector has not entered the property i find that hard to believe but evidence that the picture that were in the file that the department has were official pictures of that property. >> i want to ask inspector duffy how he feels about that approach. >> going out without a further site inspection i have no problem with that but the problem i get sometimes that is
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this property owner happy enough to let us in i'd like bet they'll not let me in chances have been made i don't know that but i have no problem - and we'll address that as long as our fine. >> i'll say that the e-mail in january that intrishgs reardon the photos were present and it did say that was it clearly shows new construction in the ground floor garage area why then to this person got this e-mail disputing that in january may have saved us efforts if you got an e-mail in january - >> if you look at the brief she's been disputing. >> no, she never respond to inspecting reardons e-mail you
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have the e-mail from the file today, she got an e-mail from dbi chief intrishgs i think i can read it out so thank you for your visit to dbi yesterday, i have consulted inspector duffy and provided three and four with pictures that clearly show new construction in the ground floor area and inspector duffy said that was your construction worker that was invited it at&t's and inspector duffy has worked with the department for 20 years and exhibited professionalism and behavior and good judgment i've attached the pictures with the new construction at the ground floor at the time of inspection i'll cop deputy director open this e-mail and encourage you to comply with the notice of violation please let me know if i can otherwise assist but no
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e-mails coming back saying no, no, no this is not new construction that would have been the time to bring that up not 9 months later their appealing a penalty of $900 plus without a permit and january 2016 i can put it on the overhead can i have the overhead? so this is from patrick o reardon.org cc'd on it so friday january 8, 2016, okay. thank you i'll call the permit holder can you please come to the podium please. so the question here is what debate and this is my thought
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and not any other fellow commissioners we'll have the department come out so i'm asking you right now if we send the department and find new construction other than just legalizing our initial structure this board is really not going to be very happy. >> i have no problem i'm sorry. >> if we send on inspector they're not see any additional structures; is that correct yes or no. >> can i make a comment about what duffey said i don't know whether he's - >> please come forward. >> i think he mentioned the e-mail yes, the e-mail because i followed up and talked about with mr. patrick he stated what we wanted people to believe not what the reality i need to distinguish two with a inspector duffy actually do and should have done with 20 years of
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experience and stuff i'm trying to point out there is something that is not quite appropriate i'll be treated unfairly by inspector duffy and i brought this to mr. patrick. >> over and over reardon. >> was interest a response to that e-mail. >> yes. i have a stack and when we went to the small claims court i presented and also i'm filing a survival lawsuit - yeah. a follow-up that is what. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> sorry. >> we're done any commissioners have any other questions okay. thank you. >> inspector duffy has something else he wishes to - >> commissioners, i do so the response to the e-mail here again, this was a file i just got at the 4 o'clock this is
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from the committee to the chief intrishgs patrick o reardon on the same day i brought in a few helpers to lock up for security photos can be showed that no new bedrooms but only storage spaces to be locked in the upper garage that's still construction i mean your mid-market you did construction i don't have the plans but state one last time i don't mind getting out there and getting to the bottom of this is a lot of dbi work. >> i have one nor question to the permit holder permit holder please came forward please.
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yes. >> i just asked you is there any additional work you told me in our e-mail to patrick o reardon i divided the garage that's work is that true you did the work divided the garage. >> i wanted to but never did. >> you, you never put up the walls. >> i've mentioned many inspectors from dbi under the gentleman it came by and never saw what was on the photo and recently when i was legalizing they come in and out for different inspections and none of them - >> hold on one second hopefully not have this extend on but the question is according to the e-mail those pictures were taken when the department went to our property and your workers let them in and those photos with or
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taken at a time of this inspection. >> donate not correct inspector duffy never. >> we're talking about inspector duffy but the e-mail you responded to below-market rate they came in and you responded back that - you wanted to because i felt the tenants were going to the "x" tenant. >> so you were not doing any work. >> i was thinking about doing it but i did not do it. >> that's why there was no the inspectors none of the inspectors observed and didn't observe the new construction. >> thank you very much. >> i don't know i'm not per swatted it putting this off will solve anything my reading of that the fine is
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appropriate a lot of time consumed and the penalty is appropriate as i'm honestly not so sure we reduced penalties on a regular basis and i'll say since i was on the board 4 years i imagine we reduced 90 percent of the appeals that have come here he personally would like clarity but if if my fellow commissioners wish to go forward and end this tonight i'll abide by that as well. >> well, i'll try moving to deny the appeal and uphold the penalty on the basis that was appropriately imposed. >> okay. thank you on that motion to deny the appeal and uphold the penalty commissioner president honda. >> no commissioner wilson.
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>> no commissioner swig. >> i. >> okay. that is a vote of 2 to 2 that motion fails baring the motion. >> i'm not going to make a motion. >> okay. i made mine. >> okay. so no further motion should we move on to the next motion that penalty is upheld by default and item 5 chris versus the department of building inspection with the planning department approval on 36 avenue protesting the issuance on july 2016 to hung lee of a site permit on first floor to add a bedroom and at add a basket and
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remodel kitchen we'll start with the appellant. >> you have 7 minutes. >> i think we have a housekeeping issue sorry absolutely let me start with that commissioners pursuant to the board's rules article 4 section 2 the appellants requested the board go designate a court reporter's transcript they've agreed to provide a transcript and the permit holder has agreed to that process so in order to designate the court reporter's transcript as an official record. >> i'll make my reuben, julius & rose on a project as counsel. reuben, junius & rose representation as an entity before the board will not have an effect on my decision.
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so we would need a motion to accept the court reporters transcript as an official record for this proceeding. >> i'll make that. >> thank you commissioner president honda any public comment on that motion to accept this court reporters transcript commissioner lazarus commissioner wilson commissioner swig okay great that that motion carries and i appreciate your reminder so, please go ahead. >> welcome and good evening commissioner president honda and commissioners i'm ann with an the appellant in this matter along with any husband permit holder is proposing a 17 and a half estimation on 36 that avenue in the sunset district my husband and i live next door this remodel will convert a one
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one bedroom home into a 5 bedroom and study and the square feet will increase by 200 and 50 percent from 12 hundred to 3 thousand plus that will make it the biggest single-family home on the block permit holder states this figure 3 thousand feet is not accurate the accurate square footage is less than that we took that out of the permit holders own plan that page adds up the square footage of the remodel we're asking the board to grant our appeal and deny the permit and grant the appeal and impose restrictions and modification to remove the caters of an illegal unit that the dr saw for themselves and from the base why
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they took dr those are street assess from the handbagable areas of the first year limited visualized connection because of a staircase one and a half braths and a living room and according to page o two over 15 hundred square feet only the first floor the permit holder plan at a preapplication meeting had a kitchen added 0 second kitchen in addition to the kitchen on the second story in fact, the permit holder specifically told the neighbors he'll never had purchased the property if he couldn't rent out the first year this is the declarations of the neighborhood it made under the penalty of the
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prejudice remove the full bath on the first floor open up the visible connection between the first story and second story and shortly the rear addition by 6 plus feet the permit holder stated he needed the expansion because of a large family 7 individuals but we know that note true he is not tend to live at the property shortly after the dr hearing the permit holder put the property unremodel up for sale and purchased the home for 200 and $50,000 no reason for the expensive expansion no family based on obstacle to scaling back that property construction the cart indicators still exist need to think of
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other k in this case property on 36 avenue tend to sell at about one million dollars in fact, a home for sale for one $.1 million in this case realistically we're talking about evacuation and pouring foundations the re3408d will cost at least $400,000 maybe more in the current market no matter how you calculate a buyer with an investment of $1.6 million maybe $2 million that's the asking price for the sunset district home that's urban heard of what kind of buyer will be attracted with a strong incentive to recoup those costs and exist those and rent the first floor of the property are rent the entire home the downstairs loan with a 15
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hundred square feet could eefrlz have 6 people comfortably living there and the garage can be converted with construction moifthd the permit holder says that the notice of restrictions required to be reported at the dr hearing renders addresses our concerns let's looking this over 20 years the planning department published the developing ground floor accessory rooms and established a criteria for ground floor rooms for the express purpose of voiding lint a pro-active 80 approach to make sure the property owners comply with the law in terms of the city itself recognizes the illegal units to be created notwithstanding the city rules not speculation and
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here given the high asking prices of the property a buyer will have an incentive to exist those indicators of an illegal unit and rent out the bottom floor the permit holder should understand that we asking the board to impose the 3 conditions we've asked for, thank you. >> thank you. >> we'll hear from the appellant now. >> good evening commissioner president honda and members of the board david silverman ami on behalf of the permit holder. >> all the arguments were made to the planning commission at
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the time of the dr hearing and the planning commission approved the project unanimously so they didn't ascribe any legacy to those arguments let's packing take them in order the first item preapp meeting that happened two years ago in which the owner said he would like an extra unit in the building well, he probably did there's no crime for wanting to put an extra unit you have a prey app meeting with the neighborhood and submit a plan and over the 6 months to the year the planner tells us if they comply in this case the planner went back to the owner and said this district that is not allowed you can only have a
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single-family home at which point he revised to show the single-family home so that's a perfectly normal process plans are changed all the time during the parentheses review that's why it takes 6 to 12 months to get through planning sometimes longer the planners radio trained code checkers and experts in planning laws the afternoon layperson that is doing alterations is not so they often get it wrong and the planners job to get it right which they did here secondly, at the planning commission the project sponsor explained it's his plan to live in the house at the time of that hearing it was absolutely true subsequent to the planning
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commission hearing when we thought about the many thousand of dollars and many months of delay and all the time and energy heed wasted i decided not a good idea to live next door to the appellants and the property was i believe listed for a time for sale it is not listed currently although i don't think that is relevant at this point the owner may live there with his family may not he's said it is not decide but not currently for sale next on the notice of special restrictions that was something that i offered to the appellant before she filed the dr which was requested by her attorney he
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immediately agreed to it she filed the dr anyway and the noticed of special restrictions the building will be used as a single-family home in corners with the underlying zoning i'm not sure what you can do in compliance with the law as to the zoning bulletin i'll defer to the zoning administrator on that so to conclude i'd like to reemphasis amount approval by the planning commission the project is built as of right there no variances there's no cu nothing of that nature that is a tiny home it is 2 story home in
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a 40 foot district nor vertical addition proposed and the house directly next door is a full story taller not the usual type of dr or appeal that is mostly people complaining by vertical additions and shadows no vertical addition. >> i'd like to emphasize that the residential design team reviewed the design several times after the dr was filed and they approved it over and over again i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> mr. sanchez.
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>> thank you. good evening scott sanchez planning department. the the subject property located on 36 avenue within an rh1 sdooinz it proposes a horizon addition at the rear and the development of the rooms on the ground floor went through a neighborhood notification twice 2015 the second discretionary review was filled the planning commission read this on december 3rd of last year the item was continued in the hopes the party will resolve their differences on the project it went back to hearing on february 11th at the time the planning commission took discretionary review but only to impose as noted the notice of
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special restriction this is a single-family dwelling that complies with the magics that was noted on bulletin number one additionally the project has been reviewed by the residential design team and confirming with the residential design guidelines and extends 60 beyond the appellants property not a condition that is uncommon i can i have the overhead? so the the subject property is this one short of property the appellants property as you can see the appellants prop extends beyond it's adjacent property to the south so there is a little bit of a salty pattern not exaggerated by the residential design team found the proposal beyond the appellants property was appropriated and come applies with the residential design guidelines but again, it
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is a fully code compliant project and with the residential design guidelines and the commission took the extra step of having the notice to document on the title of the property this is intended for single-family dwelling this, of course, applies in perpetuity that the people know that is document as a single-family dwelling i'm available to answer any questions. >> so mr. sanchez it is fully code compliant no variances or exemption here and that's correct. >> then the second question having sold many homes in the sunset they have a notice of special restrictions how does that work with the new legislation adding a non-conforming unit. >> it's a bit exceptional opening statement the those evaluations are approved over-the-counter for the rooms down and most get approved
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without a notice of special restrictions this is in this case in terms of the ability to add a second unit in the future this is an rh1 a single-family dwelling district as of right one dwelling unit recent legislation that was adopted for adu accessary dwellings and the planning code that allows for essentially second unit this is in full compliance with state law that is quite some. requiring the municipalities to have rules allowing for secondary unit we have a housing crisis and pronunciations in the city so under the permission provision we have allowance for a second unit in rh1 there are multiple restrictions on that and has to be between the building envelope as it existed 3 years prior to the dated of adu application so what they're
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proposing an expansion of the building envelope don't believe they can add a second unit until 3 years after they have expanded the building under the current. >> i don't know if i understood what you said are the special restrictions politically. >> they - they can't add another accessary dwelling. >> the commission did not restrict it saying they couldn't comply at the time it was adapted no ability to add a second unit. >> no teeth with the legislation that just passed. >> certainly someone can come into inclines with the law but the limits they will not be able to come in for the application for the second unit until 3 years have laundry because it the law says you can have a
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second unit one the building envelope and it does speak to - >> after and build out they have to wait 3 years to basically, it has limited - >> power here. >> no under the current law that was adopted prior to the having that provision that allows the second unit. >> we've had those conversation before thank you for that clarity and. >> i have a question the permit carries with the building a new buyer basically has the right to do all that working. >> yes. if it is sold with the building permit assuming it was uphold a subsequent owner can have 89 ability to build under this prime time times to start of work under the building permit it does go on perpetuity
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but has a timeline to start and complete construction. >> thank you so tell me about indicators. >> i mean when you see a plan like this what maybe sympathetic to the appellant was the indicators piece and then further on the place was put up for sale i'll explain myself in the second half the question how do i look at those indicators where you know, i look at the plan a narrow staircase and it can allow the inhalant of a lot of people and a little staircase from the bottom to the top which
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you know if i was going to open up my house i would probable not a staircase that you know is like a service stair from the bottom to the top so i read that has an indicator telling me how you read indicators had you are evaluating potential monotony best. >> as the appellant noted we review those against the matrixes this is bulletin number one going back to 1993 a magical and have diagrams of what was intended by the description and it denies case whether new construction or an altercation in this case it is an altercation and the go sergeant to the street is it direct or
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desecra indirect you have to go into the ground floor or undeveloped says that the garage in order to assess the handbagable space at the rear it is indirect assess and looked at the visible connection between the floors whether it is open what you're describing the open staircase grand or modest but you can look down in the lower level allows you to have a greater breathe of items the items we look at here is full basket and west bar and laundry and sink not an open connection there are in the category of limited visible connections the for sure stairs that either have doors at the top or bottom and easily has doors at the top or bottom and allows someone in this case to center a half bath or either a full bath or wet bar in this case they have the full bath it
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complies with our design guidelines and when a total lack of connection between the floors it is further restricted on the ground floor but this complies with the our design matrix been in effect more than 20 years. >> okay and furthermore, i don't know if this is appropriate or not to bring up it is going to surface i was out i guess out in about periodically on rhode island street about a block above whole foods i saw across the street from a residence i was visiting a disimbuild out house taken down to one - for sale finish
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it yourself and then i was kind of stunned at that and then the person i visited said oh, yeah. there's another 1 up the street in the potrero neighborhood is this a possibility i'm not trying to cast doubt but i came across two homes when the hearing was held that they got their permits because they were going to be single-family homes and the same thing occupied by lovely young family to raise a family in san francisco and strip to the core and build a nice configuration walls and everything open and for sale
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finish it yourself the interior and exterior is this something going on in this city or i got lucky two in two blocks. >> maybe lucky is not the right word there is a substantial investment to get into properties and a lot of times go into permitting and providing personal reasons people go into construction and not complete construction that is that usually more on the rear given the economy it was much more commonly 10 years ago or 8 years ago but, yeah any subsequent work will have to be done in compliance with the plans in regards to the thiveng young couple that is speaking that is part of this board jobs the planning commission and my job when i review the plagues to
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look at the project so for it's merits not on the sthifkz how somebody o someone comes in i've been lied to and the board and the commission been lied to and so we have to look at based on the project as it is code compliant rather than the stories spun how people intend to use it for they're sick and aging family but this project does meet the rules. >> i see that that is compliant and they're not asking for a variance can you help me with one final thing put up that photo i saw that on a house two doors up an extension on the back and just for - so what would you estimate in that i don't know addresses but to houses up or two houses towards
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the top of the photo is that 6 or 9 foot. >> based on the plans that were submit it looks like the proposed addition will extend about one to two feet beyond this rear building wall so it is 6 feet beyond the building wall to the south and approximately - it's not mentioned quite will - add up the numbers one to two feet beyond this wall. >> so an extension given this extension already exists will not be out of character it has happened before. >> yes. >> when we look at the relationship to the adjacent property and as you can see even
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appellants property covered by the - >> so this is the appellants property and this is the adjacent property i don't know the exact dimension from the rear building wall of the the subject property to the rear wall is dimensioned as 12 feet and so this seems like half the distance the appellants property is 6 feet beyond their adjacent southern neighbor so, yeah. >> i'm just establishing it it has happened before i building. >> thanks. >> the other question mr. sanchez 1 hundred block of 36 that's the block that faces the greenbelt in houses adjacent to it; correct? >> yes. >> so behind that is that although most of those are rebuilt homes 19 isn't that the
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25 inch lots and built in rooms they were designed in 35 and 36 and 37. >> your acknowledge exceeds mine their showing us 25 by one hundred. >> maybe not the russo. >> there is actually mapped alley behind the properties on the aerial photos not really an alley but there's a sort time of fences but probably i'm not the of i'm sure the property owners have a better. >> the russo connected the joining properties there was a door between each fence and? on the personal map as you can see
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the properties on 35 is the same configuration but the alley that seems to be opted out by the bears of the neighbors on the block. >> mr. duffy nothing any public comment on this item? seeing none, no public comment move back to the appellants for rebuttal. >> thank you by the way, the 15 hundred block of the russo home the ting this strikes me we have it seems to me some confusion on the permit holders part first they're going to live there and not and might live there the permit holders briefs talked about the good neighbor
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vest turns on presidio this is talks about front sergeants and the permit holder tells neighbors one thing and says another thing later i must talk about the possibility of an extended building envelope the property owner whoever that is is able to convert a portion of property into a second units that is disconcerting a quality of life at the end of the day my husband and i and my fame have been living there since 1994 and until we die i don't know who will be living next to us but living with the quality of life issues one thick commissioner swig you are were saying can i have the overhead? it is true that building extends
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outs but a narrow portion a sunroom so not a big block of unoccupied buildings that extends out a narrower this so for a fair comparison to think about the length you need to think about the width i will share i think commissioner swig what you're expressing as some of your concerns about the slippery slope and encouraging people to buy property with the house no intent to live there and through the conversions and make a lot of money off of plans that's what i think we're seeing here going back to the quality of life and what it means to live in san francisco property ownership it it is what it is but at the end of the day we're the ones that live there for decades and living there for decades still thank you. >> i have a question ma'am, your house extends 12 feet past
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our neighbor's house. >> past. >> the permit holders house that's correct it's a small home i get it and i don't understand if you foondz the notice of special restrictions doesn't apply in the current envelope add a leg conforming and non-conforming unit but the skurnt configuration under the envelope now they can have a legal non-conforming unit at. >> understood. >> can you please tell me again, the conditions in which you would accept that you've discussed and presented to us in our first portion you'll accept the to allow them to go ahead
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with the building. >> 3 conditions to remove the full bathroom downstairs to a half basing bath and open up the visible assess between the first and second story and third for shorten the overall extension not keep the current building envelope it is a small home but just in light of all the considerations i've outlined to make that shorten the 17 and a half full feet and in terms of indirect is only takes a little bit of construction to assess the street. >> thank you thank you. >> mr. silverman rebuttal. >> okay the first one mentioned by the appellant in these last comments was again, the question about who is living in the house
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there is no confusion the original proposal was for the family to live there the appellants then dragged the prfrld the police a difficult process causing them time and money and energy and anguish none of the cases with an permit holder and appellant living next door to each other it is not upcoming common for those 20/20 not to get along after these things are acrimonious so after the planning commission hearing the permit holder decided maybe i don't want to live there at this point, i can't tell you one way or another but at the time of the planning commission he certainly intent to will there with pies family on the good neighbor gestures i want to read
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into the record what the good neighbor gestures were the project sponsor reduced the honorable alibi 10 feet and preserved the frontage of the home and deleted a spiral staircase at the rear the building from the plans, and the horizon addition will bring the sponsor home to a rear depth greater than and 5 fiat greater than the building on the just a few minutes side the appellants building so i appreciate that correction that she made. >> as far as the prey app meeting we talked about public school before projects always
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change after the prey an meetap the - never any issue of him compliant with the requirements of planning department thank you. >> got a question mr. silverman. >> yep. >> those concessions our client made where they back and forth and heard before the planning. >> this was before the planning commission hearing. >> yes. i'll imagine not a code compliant but variances and exceptions in you went 10 more feet and touched the facade of the property. >> yes. >> all right. thank you. >> although not necessarily the facade usually and that's a question of historical
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significance. >> thank you mr. sanchez. >> okay commissions no other questions commissioners, the matter is submitted. >> so - we're not being asked to find for any variances zoning administrator told us this is a perfectly legal. >> code compliant. >> code compliant request the concern of and in it is not out of character with the rest of the - with we say that out of character with the rest of the neighborhood the fear of the appellants is very clear that is that it will turn into a two unit building
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with a separate family going downstairs and i asked her purposing you know what she proposed exceptions and it seems to me that one of the conditions that would you canned win them all i had the extension as far as the size of the envelope he wouldn't consider that a condition condition of the bathroom that one does not both me but further assurance that the house will be at least harder to build into a two unit residence i will suggest that they change the staircase to excuse me - zoning administrator can you give me the proper words on that what
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those staircases are called that will sit not as it sits there but rather in the middle. >> provide an open visible connection. >> a staircase that will present an open visible connection between the two floors if that's a condition then i guess i would - uphold the permit but grant the permit with that that's my suggestion and make two people unhappy but someone will get most of what we want. >> i'll personally no port that if you wish to make a motion. >> i'm conversing. >> if not i'll make a motion to deny the appeal on the grounds the project is code
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compliant and - >> okay. a motion from the president that 0 deny the appeal on the basis the project is code compliant commissioner lazarus. >> commissioner wilson commissioner swig. >> okay. that that motion carries with a vote of 4 to zero. >> the next item on the boards calendar we've heard item 6 item 7 - radio side doing business as country grill versus the public utilities commission of street use and mapping protesting the conditions imposed on july 2016 on a mobile foods permit sale of portfolio
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and reproached vegetation and beverages on the requested days with the housing authority reduced to 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and start with the appellant 7 minutes. >> good evening and welcome. >> good evening commissioner president honda and commissioners i'm mitch i'm the proud owner of roadside rotisserie we own and operate face to face food trucks and have two permits in the san francisco city limits a third, that was recently approved and this particular 1 on both street is in the conditional process i basically put together this -
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i did have a choice coming to this i have a great relationship with the public works and all the people that assist all of us mobile food operators in getting our permits through the numerous hurdles and i want to keep that relationship it burdens me to be here in having to defend a decision they made and trying to get my decision worked out in any favor with that said the conditional permit they've issued now suspended restricts us from actually operating we take great pride in our product and our food it takes one and a half hours for us to
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cook a spit of rotisserie chicken the two hour window to accept to the public that being said we differentiate ourselves by being a product that is fresh people see our food when they walk but we're not the guys that roll up and open our doors traveling from whatever commercial kitchen they own and operate and their food is sitting in a steamed table ready to be served once they park somewhere due to those time restrictions that's why the main reason i'm here and he did make a asked her effort to reach out to the director to see if we can have a
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compromise that is really what i'm looking for at the end of the day and unfortunately, that didn't happen the timeframe between that dialogue and having to file my appeal and be before you came about so would have been in any best interests and theirs to save the time with that said that's why we're here the post street corridor we're talking about has 23 yellow meters up and down the street between montgomery and karen 12 on one side and 11 on the other 4 hour meters he can park there for 4 hours in a commercial vehicle the public works had
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decided they'll offer me a conditional permit bans a previous appeal approximately came before you i believe back in february or march of this past year with a company called spice affairs those two cases are apples and oranges the spice affairs was a case where they this put 3 locates under one permit and each one had its own issues and champions that came but with city engineers mapping people can etc. that's what stopped their permit from going forward and mine is acquit different in that they didn't deny to the department of public works in deny any permit like they did with spice affairs offered me a permit under concern conditions that caused us a challenge in operating
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the department of public works repeatedly 125i9sdz they taking into consideration what you're decision was with spice affairs that was the premise of their offering me a conditional permit as opposed to the permits i asked for i asked for a large window 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. to be able to park in the location, set up, cook and serve i'm not opposed to if we're able to change this two hour window to a more optimal situation i'm completely open to that but the fact of the matter it creates a hard challenge to operate because they're using this half permit operator spice affairs as the basis and the
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consideration of you and the commissioners decision again is it an apples and oranges kind of situation dpw provided a list in their brief of 18 restaurants with an within a 4 block radius of this particular location he looked at those and sealed them one quarter of 18 close as 4 o'clock and another quarter is a fast food option we're not and the balance are mostly bakeries ours a fresh and healthy each time alternative there are no restaurants between montgomery and karen or mclaren park that a ground floor restaurants we'll love the opportunity to serve the public and hoping any
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conditional permits can be revised >> question. >> what would you consider a reasonable compromise or an open mall situation for you. >> short of 8 to 8. >> short absolutely i have a couple of options actually you know 8 to 8 was a requester inform 3 days and week 36 hours of operating time i have ideas for two to 8 where i optimize the four hour window of those yellow meters and then two hours authoritative no time limit on the meters so i would really like to do something like 2 to 8 gives us the opportunity to operate 3 days a week 6 hours if this is not possible i'm open to any
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kind of agreeable solution. >> what will a minimal number of hours that make sense to you. >> that rush 2 to 6 or 2 to 8 yes, that's the best that i would hope for honestly how about 5 days a week from 2 to 6 i'll, open i requested a permit that will give me 36 hours you follow - >> okay. >> thank you. >> ply pleasure. >> okay. >> we'll hear from the department now. >> good evening. i'm brooentd colorado with the department of public works i'll read through i guess this is a brief mobile
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permit number request and i guess the reasons the department conditionally approved the start time from 6:00 a.m. until 8 o'clock, 8:00 p.m. >> sorry 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. the appellant applied for the permit in 2015 reviewed the location at 1 post street in the yellow zip code parking space on the south side of post street approximately, one and 21 feet west of montgomery street operating tuesday and thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and the department determined it to be in general - the location to be in general conformation of
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the public works code and on january 30th, 2016, public works preceded to with the thirty day public notification per section of the public works code during the notification period public works received two objections for the location on post street public works skeleton a hearing in 2016 there was one testimony in opposition to the mobile food facility during the public hearings the comments written and the testimony included public works and the board of appeals denied for operating on post street the proposed location in a metered yellowstone from monday to friday not in an underserved
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area the air quality in the adjacent building it will be negatively impacts the ducks for the office building on the three story above polk street maybe maintenance costs for the trash clean up those are ideas the comments from the public following the hearing on june convicting 2016 the director the public works approved the application for 15 with the department of emergency order to operate at 1 post street on tuesday and thursday from 5 to six the director reduced the hours of operation to after 6:00 p.m. based on the boards decision to the appeal that was the spice affairs appeals that denied the appeal
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to operate in front of 99 post street and two other locations the board decisions to appeal quoted the departments decisions basically said denial of the permit application was the locates are in close proximity to restaurants and parking in the yellow zone for long durations will attribute to more traffic commemorating based on the information present the department believed to appropriate allow the permit i'm available to answer any questions. >> i can't find it at the moment someone site as half an hour meters and someone said in fact, 4 hour meter.
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>> the location in a joel for loading and unloading within a thirty minute limit to not operate for only thirty minutes. >> right that might have seen from the previous appeal. >> okay. >> thank you. >> their lawyer want to say something. >> thomas owen for legal advice he may be able to clarify absent the post restrictions commercial vehicles can only use yellow zones for thirty minutes but they can only use yellow zones regardless of 4 hours for the act of loading and unloading of the passengers you can't. >> loading zones are not meant for food facility.
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>> yes. unless that constitutes loading and unloading. >> i assume no public comment. so we'll have rebuttal mr. new beggar. >> thank you mr. owen i'd like to address our comment just now and the loading zones the dpw has the support authority to allow you to operate in the loading zones month of the m f f are operating including microfilm in some of my other locates are operating in yellow zones ambassador there's it's allowed or tolerated or both but this particular location in regards to that to minutes you're talking about commissioner lazarus that
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particular location has 4 hour meters he put in money for 4 hours it's there it is again, the whole street is yellow both sides no white or loading and unloading for passengers and not regular parking on that stretch of that street that with that said we currently operate our vehicles like i said in yellow zones this particular street kind of is makes the most sense for us to operate or any m f f to operate because of yellow spaces on that particular street the prior permiter that was
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denied here back in march the spice affairs of 1601 he actually had the engineering people involved in his process he received very strong letters of denial from the union square people can business owners in the area etc. my two complaints came from a competitor complaining about that he possibly parking in the yellow zones and a little several feet away on the third floor he thought my grease smells might interfere with it in takes of his building we don't have grease smells but wonderful smells. (laughter) again, i hope we can come to a form 6 compromise i'm very much
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like to keep a strong relationship with dpw and it's an apples and oranges denied with dpw and in front of your board >> you didn't happen to bring something with you. >> i thought that was inappropriate i thought you can smell it but then thought that is an unfair edge i invite you all to come to one of my trucks one day. >> thank you, mr. cohen any rebuttal. >> i was trying to read through the code on the yellow zone the codes simply states they're required to abide with all collector controls that is fill my question is that
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can you enlighten us after the city attorney mentions unless our loading and unloading m f f are not be in yellow zones explain if there is exist legislation are you allowing them to act outside of the law. >> i'd like have to read the code more thoroughly raul - >> so i can't answer and i'm sorry, i know this is your second time relax we don't bite. >> i can speak partially to that so upon spice taking over the process we've tried to follow the process that's one of the reasons we impose those conditions the conditions sorry their outside of yellow zone
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hours they stop at 6:00 p.m. and we're trying to move away from that, however, my understanding they have a commercial plate they're allowed to park in the commercial space and i can't speak entirely only it whether or not it is legal but my understanding they have a commercial plate they can but only for the hours allocated for that commercial time. >> so you're before us only a regular regiment my question knowing the next time i'd like to have an answer when the city attorney says is loading and unloading that's not eating an urban eating at which point in they're in violation of what the yellow zones are actually to serve; right? >> sure. >> i'd like your department to follow up and return back to the
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board if you're issuing yellow zones permit to 40 for them to break the law unless you guys change the legislation those permitted are no longer effective anymore anyone that is currently parking in yellow donates their services is not; right? >> some permits issued under an earlier version maybe grandfathered. >> i remember there was something about that that rule changed last year. >> it changed in 2013. >> okay. >> so do police department had authority on whole foods 2011 when the ordinance allowed the department of public works to take over authority of parking and 2013 there was an amendment to the ordinance the 3 - and i wanted to know if that makes it
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easier if they're not to be parking there they're not to be before us. >> i seem to remember as we were talking we were debating or being informed on the previous item that was on polk street that they were severe restrictions on the yellow zones and that the appellant said i'll move any truck and open up for that window we kind of - we kind of shut down that one. >> you know so i would really like you guys to come here prepared with the clear interpretation six the ordinance in the future it makes our job a lot easier. >> if i may or deputy city attorney suggested that mta
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might have something to say about this they govern. >> we how will we ask the mta to respond to that? >> we should. >> yeah. >> we can invite them to weigh in on this particular appeal or in general. >> in general we'll have to continue this; right? >> right. >> i believe that the encourage owen is correct but like to hear it and overbill hourss mouth it is wise and commissioner would you like me to ask mta to provide i something in writing if they're not able to come to the meekly and i vague remember the permit was issued and got a
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speaking walk like a timeframe how that applies. >> commissioners, the matter is submitted. >> well, i'm happy to start first of all, i chuckled that a previous decision was used we should reach a decision on this one i don't think necessarily we've set a think precedent and i completely understand that two hours didn't work strikes me 4 hours is better and maybe 6 is doable because at 6 o'clock if you buy into the theory the meters go off i'll entertainer a proposal to allow them to start at the 2 and go to 8 clearly missing most of lunch crowd your aiming for the diner
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crowd i'll argue you said in our brief by 6 o'clock a number of restaurants are closed you're not competing with the existing places so that's my thinking. >> my concern is the ventilation and, yes chicken ribs is a good smell for some people but not 0 others i don't know that coming to an office on is in duck to my office is entertaining on a day to day basis personally he personally feel the department ruled okay. >> anything. >> nothing to add. >> the big deals in our conversation at this site last time was the traffic issue this is a bad block. >> it is particularly bad in
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the afternoon hours between 2 and 6 or 7 because it is like montgomery feeds into new montgomery and they're all trying to get on the bay bridge it don't matter what street it is disaster and trucks need access to yellow zones to do their jobs and that's what joel zones are for which is to allow picks up and deliveries and i - i think a heavy part of our decision last time was related to that traffic the secondary issue there was plenty of food alternatives in the ear
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he was not particularly stuck that on that but i remember and i'm familiar with that block is a bad traffic block and from the yellow zones are filed guess what the trucks do they stop anyway and unload by placing an impede i'm sympathetic to the small business owner but there's real life that's why the yellow zones are there we contribute to the traffic problem by allowing open a aboard block like that especially in the afternoon hours by allowing somebody to occupy one of the yellow zones that potentially creates some other trucker not a food trucker from double parking to get their job done so the traffic is a big
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issue and that's what drove our decision last time i'll move to the same decision not allow the trucks no matter what the truck offenders on that block and you think the traffic is not as bad at 6 as 4. >> i know that from 2 to at least 6 and probably 7 like every egress from downtown a disaster right now it is you know nobody's - we have too much traffic and into holiday season. >> whatever but ever a time an okay. time it would be after 6 o'clock before 6 oh, my god so i like to remind the commission
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that was why we - >> spies correct ances correc. >> i'm learning towards commissioner swig i'll move to deny the appeal on the basis that it will be a contributed further contributor to traffic and also pending a clarification of from mta and dpw that it also breaches the intent of the yellow zones is that appropriate? >> madam director. >> what i'm going to paraphrase our comments. >> you do a better job than i do
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let me know if this work for you the motion to deny the appeal and i would issue the permit with the stated conditions on the basis that additional hours would further impede traffic and breach the intent of the traffic zones on that motion commissioner honda's. >> no commissioner president honda and commissioner wilson with that a vote of 3 to one and that motion carries okay the last item commissioners on your calendar the boards consideration of annual report for fiscal year. >> can we takabsolutely. >> so we're resuming the wednesday, september 28, 2016, of the san francisco board of appeals and item 8 the boards
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consideration of annual report for the last fiscal year between july one 2011 and june 30th, 2016, and commissioners as you probably all recall this is a charter requirement that all boards and commissions adapt a report of their work every year this is to satisfactory and give the public changes i changed it up and tried to streamline it more visible and less text based you can let me know if you think that is okay. >> i like pictures. >> i'll walk you through some of the highlights and ask you to consider a motion to adopt the report you held 29 mergers forgive over one hundred hours this was actually, one merging and 6 less than the prior year you decided 31 additional items.
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>> so we're efficient this board efficient. >> are we in closed session. >> when you hear the microphones on television. >> there were one and 93 matters you heard one and 68 appeals and 12 jurisdictions requests your victim was up 23 percent from the prior year and 16 from the 10 year average as you can see on page 3 i think some of the reason why the appeal volume was up due to the clusters of appeals we've heard 35 of them from the content promotion appeals of the sign permit denials and the 22 notice of violations and penalty appeals that were filed by the academy of art university those 57 appeals represent about a third of boards dockets last year. >> what portion do you think
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that is related to telecom to all the. >> that was the year before we went down on telecom. >> the public works i'll thrill about that but the public works cases represented about 23 percent of sideboards cases and about a third of those were wireless site cases a little bit less than prior years but a significant portion of the boards docket you'll hear me talk about the 57 appeals a few times they have an impact on the statistics in the year for a moment i want to give you an update on the first quarter of current year 38 appeals as of today that is pretty much on par with this time last year with 33 if we don't have those clusters we might go back to an appeal for typical angle page 4 a map
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where the properties are located of the appeals we heard it is fairly spread out throughout the city but common concentration of appeals in the northeast quarantined of the city and less in the southeast part of the city on the next page information about where the appeals ordinary which department had matter and as typical the majority of case 76 related to dbi and zoning administrator matters and as also was true last year but not typical for the board we saw a higher than normal number of landlord/tenant disputes 10 percent of the. >> what was the situation but now the new legislation we'll for the see those going forward. >> and the fact thatulnar
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permitted units a notice requirement that will reduce the number of appeals we see. >> ca which this board was responsible for making that happen. >> that's right. >> so as i mentioned 23 percent of docket was related to public works about half of those were tree removal 52. >> we are the tree stewards and the next was sidewalk and table permits a few of those last year and in appendix a nor detail of the breakdown of the appeals where necessary came from you'll see that in the first amounts on page 5 a chart of appeal over 5 years i'd like to see that i think that shows the way that the kinds fluctuate from year to year always an emphasis on the da cases for instance, with
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public works it keeps seems to go up and down and those trends are related to when there's a new legislation initiative that requires a business trend that will also involve permitting like the food facilities or. >> this board really brings in the business, huh? >> we have a lot to do with that, yes and when there's an enforcement again with the 57 cases those were coming from the planning department enforcement on the signed permit and the academy of art university so when there is a big issue with tobacco sales massage establishment there the site appeals are as well the next page talks about the outcome this year there was 80 percent of the cases were denied 74 were denied by a vote of the
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board and 5 percent by default when the board was unable to pass a vote either way and that is a bit higher than usual. >> seeing the spike in our chart. >> yes. own the chart again related to those 57 appeals all of which were denied. >> denied right. >> a indictment and 16 percent of the cases were grand and 10 percent were placed conditions on the permit and 68 percent were overturned the departments decision out right half as many in the prior years in terms of percentage that is because of the those two clusters that have skewed the specification you've heard 15 rehearing requests you
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oral open iris a question about the boards decision whether a firewall was needed and that was the only one you grant as far as the 17 jurisdiction requests none of those. >> we competent give the 45 degree turn think outside the box 0. >> the fact most were denied it typical for the board and looking at the budget experience we have a good budget year last year, we ended up with surplus over $20,000 our filing fee revenue was up 86 over projections not a big part of our budget but significant surplus for that particular line item and part of it again toibl to those 57 cases each came with a $600 price tag they brought in
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$34,000 in filing fees without those our revenue will be typical our surcharge was 20 percent over projects that's a hard number for all the city to project every year bantsz the volume and the controller's office does a job trying to predict but that is interindependent with the economy not something we can always do to the penny on the expenditure side we came in under projections 8.6 percent saving ti thousand dollars in spending our city attorney billing was lower we've kept the work order high. >> it is hard to anticipate a complex issue that will inspire nor attorney hours with litigation hours more hours on
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occasion question get a new city attorney it needs additional time to ramp up we keep a cushion but we over spent about 0 so we saved money. >> i'm not - giving us a discount. >> we also saved some money in the line item for sfgovtv they don't a grand kid broadcasting united states but that budget is hard to predict based on the number of hours we meet and hard to know what that is a little bit find a cushion is built in on page 9 a chart that gives us a visual of where we save money and spent extra overall there was savings of a little bit over ti thousand dollars we ended the year with nearly 200 and $88,000 on the books and that money will
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has gone into the deferred credit accounted our rainy-day fund if we find ourselves in a position our revenue is under budget are perhaps an expenditure that we need to make that was unify expected i'd like to ask you to overwhelmed that to incorporate a few references to the expenditure savings i didn't put that in the draft and like to add that information into it becomes month complete. >> can we do a motion. >> at the end with the motion for the whole document other than that document covers the performance those are things each of department has to do each of every year ours look at how quickly we decide cases and the staff gets out the written decision we set kwoelz and this year we exceeded boss of goals
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i'm happy about other than that the report covers the the appendixs the detail on the appeals i mentioned and an overview the appeal process and the board's jurisdiction i like to include in the report something not familiar to better put those statistics into context and there's also information on the litigation the board has faced during the year like to update you on the lawsuits we're defending against a decent year 5 new cases but 7 cases we are resolved 5 in favor of the city and two of them were settled you know, we continue it have changes challenged to some of the boards decision but make good decisions that hold up in court. >> were the 5 was that low or high or kind of instant
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inconsideration of the appeals that were considered. >> i say that's average 5 is not high and not low yeah. >> so that's my summon of the report i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> otherwise i don't see anyone to ask for public comment and would very much appreciate a motion with the amendments. >> i'd like to thank you and your staff tort hard work a pleasure to work with you so other than that i'll make a motion to include the amendments your director as recommend. >> call for the vote we want to add any accommodation for a new format i think that has informative as also but more so to thank you for the additional time for that and that would be
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helpful to us as well as the public. >> i like the format if we could figure out how to give a rays. >> and thank you for your efforts and also for the time you're willing to spend with us when we have individual questions we perform the best we can on those wednesday for the hearings. >> my comments she rearly let's the phone ring twice second question i know what our welcome back stipend what is that changed are you aware of that date. >> the same amount since i've been here. >> we're on record it it might be time to amend that amount
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looking at whether the boards contribute in the city and knowing what their stipend is as well you know do we do it we love doing what we're doing but you know there's got to be something that is equally just compensating for parking and the time. >> parking. >> yeah. >> i'll be happy to get back with you how we can bring that about. >> all right. so a motion from the president to adopt the report as amended on that motion commissioner lazarus commissioner wilson and commissioner swig thank you very much commissioners. >> there's no further business. >> >
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commission of san francisco. my name is john avalos, chair of lafco. joined by cynthia pollock, welcome, and joined by the commissioner david campos and commissioner march and i would like to congratulate ms. pollock for her wedding. and our clerk. please share your announcements. >>clerk: please silence all electronic phones and devices. speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. >>supervisor john avalos: okay, today's meeting is broadcast by sf govtv staff. thank you for your service. we've done no. 1.
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roll call. item no. 2. >>clerk: approval of lafco minutes from july 29, 2016, regular meeting. any comments. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we have a motion to approve? okay, motion from commissioner pollock and second from commissioner campos. next item, please. >>clerk: item no. 3. community choice aggregation cca activities report, a. status update on the cleanpowersf program and timeline for program launch. and b status update on proceedings at california public utilities commission. >> thank you. i'm barbara hale. i'm going to talk about five topics. enrollment in our program and
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some facts that we have solidified and we have new staff and materials from our outreach efforts. first offer enrollment, i'm very happy to report that the program continues to successfully operate. we are serving 7300 active locations. we have no additional customer opt outs for about a week now. we are at a steady 1.9% opt out. very low. our fall enrollments are under way a continue. we have sent 64700 enrollment notices. what we are talking about doing here is going from 7300 to 67400. so quite a big jump.
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>> and if we continue to have that 1.9% opt out rate, that's a huge jump. >> that's a big jump, yes. and so far we've only had 0.4% of the customers we sent notices to opt out. that's how we started with our may enrollment. we started with two notices so far. we are going to send out two more as required by state law. for main enrollment we had a low number at the start and it grew to 1.9. we expect a similar kind of increase as the notifications get out and we do more outreach. but so far, so good. we received 151 upgrades to super green from that cohort, from that customer
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group. and that's continuing to increase.. that doesn't count additions that we know we got this past weekend with different activities that we had between puc staff and the department of environment staff at various fairs and festivals. we know that number is going to go up more. the uptake with green is really encouraging. we are continuing to have a queue, a sign up opportunity for customers who want to participate in our next enrollment. now i'm talking about three different enrollment tranches. we are talking about after fall for the first quarter of 2017. we have 153 customers queued up on that list and 75% want for that service as a green customer.
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>> i'm sorry, this fall 150,000? >> no. 153 customers said they want it and of those 75% said they want super green. that's my report on enrollment. i'm going to move on to procurement. any questions on enrollment? >>supervisor john avalos: yes, they will be enrolled by when? >> november is when we expect to provide service to them. they are technically enrolled today, right? they are not going to receive service until november. >> of that number, 151 are going to be, how many of that are we expecting super green? >> so far 151 have said they want to be super green. and at the end of this presentation,
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i'm going to show you what we are doing to try to bring that number up with some of our marketing materials. okay. >> great. >> so, procurement. we have two outstanding regulatory requirements from the state that affect our procurement efforts. one is we have to meet resource adequacy requirements and the other is we have to meet a long term contracting requirement. we have negotiated and are finalizing arrangements for the resource adequacy requirements. we actually finalized one of of four. we have more work to do there and on our second requirement our long-term contracting requirement. we are making progress but i don't have a report yet. i want to make sure that stays on your radar screen . >> what about those resource
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adequacy? >> the resource adequacy that the state has that owner investor agency, community choice, aggregator providing service directly to retail customers have to meet to make sure the overall system, the inter connective electric grid stays reliable. we have to do our share to ensure adequate services are ready to operate if the demand goes up. it's just meeting our share of that obligation. >> great. >> and then the long-term contracting requirement is that we have to have a renewable portfolio of compliant resource. we are not there yet. next collaboration with partnerships. we mentioned it's in our interest to
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collaborate with other services in california. we have done that. operating and communication strategies really have been improved by the dialogue and in p put we received especially from sonoma and clean power and from sacramento and regulatory form have been strengthened through those partnerships and we have now formalized that collaboration through a non-profit ocean. it's incorporated as the california community choice communication. or cal cca. it's going to be convening local agencies in october to share information and our experiences around planning and operating a cca program. just as we benefited from the work of sonoma and marin like they started.
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we are getting calls from other places in california asking how we got started. and interest in being a cca and operating as a cca. we are going to get together in october to talk about those issues. it's a local agency sort of supportive effort there. >> great, do you have a sense of how we will expand to the market share in years to come. since the cca is around the the state. >> there is a lot of interest around the cca in the state, peninsula, clean energy has already started notifying customers. they are getting ready to service customers soon. sonoma valley, they haven't started their notification process yet, but they are getting ready to.
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los angeles county is getting ready to launch. they are planning to launch next year but they haven't got a plan before the puc yet so that might be a little aggressive. but it's taking off. mendocino is getting evaluated joining sonoma power. so it's taking off. >> great, at the california public utilities commission we are going to go through in december and do the same kind of termination they did last year how cca is going to engage in the market and what the rates are going to be for opting out? >> yeah. that all is going to happen again. that happens in a filing that pg & e makes every year that's decided on in december. we have submitted comments and briefs i this. >> so based on calcca will we
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have a better impact? >> absolutely. we'll speak as one voice and with that we'll be a stronger voice at c puc and sacramento. there is something always going on to try to shift cost away from investor on utilities to community choice aggregate. we are keeping an eye on that quite diligently. moving on to staff. we had positions in the budget and now we have them filled and we have staff at the puc both in communications and in operations. so we've just added additional staff bringing our operations staff number up to eight for the power program and
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on the education staff 8 and 4 consultants. that's a team of 12. those are actually day-to-day in the budget part of the cleanpowersf part of the puc power budget. there is additional power communications and finance staff at the puc who perform other critical functions that supports cleanpowersf that charge across from the hetch hetchy part of the subject. that's not everybody, but that's the dedicated team. so now i'm really happy to say we have enough folks to take on the program and take on some additional responsibilities. i want to give you a highlight of what those are. first we are putting on a growth and phasing plan. this was a plan we implemented in september. now we have more experience
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working with our customers, more experience in the market and those facts are going to improve our program. we have moderate and financials and what the demand and market conditions are. our finance needs and our options for addressing our financing needs and our operational readiness. we plan to engage with stakeholders and other operating cca colleagues, and our commission in developing this plan. and our target is to bring a plan to our commission in the final form of the spring. the second activity is in grated resource plan. this is going to talk about how we'll meet our customers for electricity and renewable content. effective use of electricity, affordability and
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financial stability. it's going to meet our resources to meet our customers demand. this is required by state law but it's also good utility practice. we are going to be bringing that plan to our commission in the spring. in the final area our group staff is working on overall program and planning implementation in the rate and materials for that and feed and tariff program and the feed from go solar sf to integrate. i talked about that last time we met here at lafco and the solar programming and on the demand side it's really locally response to efficiency programming, storage programming and what we can do to promote electric vehicle participation. and also some important program tools to help us facilitate
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participation in those programs that i just mentioned particularly on bill repayment. we have a lot of interest among customer groups in using the bill as a way to repay the cost associated with making distributed energy resource investments be they efficiency or on the supply side. then we'll engage with the stakeholders community and colleagues and environment staff to make sure we put together some programs to work with our unique base here in san francisco. i'm going to move on to the final topic which is outreach materials unless there are any questions of what i just talked about. >> can you as to what you discussed can you send a memo to us summarizing
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to us. there is a lot of meat in there? >> sure. i will be happy to send what i just described so you have it handy. >> so, outreach materials. you know we have an incredible communications team at sf puc. and then taken the time to put together some materials and taken the necessary arrangements for advertising in districts 5 and 8. we are going to have small billboards in district's 5 and 8. we are going to have the castro street muni station dominated. station domination is the communication's term. whereas you come through that station, all advertising will be associated with cleanpowersf. you are going to see advertising for cleanpowersf on the city bus
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shelters. what's that advertising going to look like. i have five examples here to promote super green particularly and three promote the general concept of cleanpowersf. you will see that these are very consistent with the look and feel of the enrollment notices we have been sending out to your constituents. the first one is -- "it's wind, it's clean, it's super green". this is going to give people an option. most of it is wind so it's great to advertise what we are up to. the next one, green one. it says "are you the next super green hero?" . it encourages again upgrade
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today. a more general, excuse me, our next super green is "go zero. be our super green hero". it says "zero greenhouse gas emissions. upgrade today". "clean energy is a breeze" and "only you can save the planet" "clean energy is on its way to you". those are what you will see soon. >> great, is that what we are going to focus on? >> yes, that's where the 64700 notifications are already out and we expect more upgrades to super green. >> okay, great, thank you.
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>> jason fried for lafco. the staff at sf puc has been doing tremendous work and it's great to see the new staff come on board and continue to do the work. one thing beyond the sale update is i wanted to update you on ab 710. there was a lot of work done thanks to our c puc partners and other advocates. instead of what they have for staff for electricity, they sent to the commission to put together experts, come up with a good formula that will work. ab 110 did pass by the governor. but the answer hasn't been addressed it. it will be addressed in the who, group the way the ce does the process. so that was the one thing i wanted to
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add. the rest was covered as far as the cca update at this point. >>supervisor john avalos: great. thank you for your work. it's great to see how things are aligning. it's been a great year finally. i know it's a lot of work from your staff. thank you for leading that way. we are going to public comment. anyone who would like to comment, please come forward. public speaker: good afternoon, commissioners. eric brooks san francisco green party, and san francisco clean energy advocates and energy choice. it's good to hear we are making process, but since i have a short amount of time i'm going to talk about stuff we need work on and that is that the mayor's office, sf puc staff and lafco staff and the environment staff have been
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meeting about getting the local component and getting an actual plan together. and the last meeting in september was that by november we are going to have a build-out plan, a basic outline for a build-out plan. a lot of that depends on many of the bigger picture plans and financials that ms. hale was speaking of but we can't wait until spring to get started on that. it's important that sf puc staff get something by november to give us something to work on for the local build-out. on the state level especially with a new association, that's a really profoundly important development. there are scores of cca's getting ready to start in california. i was one of the folks that lobbied in sacramento against ab 1110 this year and last year, and one of the
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problems we are running into is that a lot of the legislators feel like once they have talked to the cca themselves they are done and they don't have to talk to anybody. it's hard to get them to listen to the thousands of advocates statewide. so it's important that this new association try to form as close a relationship as possible with the statewide coalition and other groups that are working on this. so i would encourage that. one quick note on marketing is there are a lot of credit marketing that are bogus marketing wind. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you. any other member of the public would like to comment? seeing no one come forward, we'll close public comment and go on to our next item.
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>> item no. 4. executive officers report. >> i don't have a lot to report today but to congratulate ms. pollock on her nuptuals and congratulate mr. campos for his birthday and talk about the next meeting. that's all i have. >>supervisor john avalos: okay. public comment. public speaker: good afternoon, rumors have been going around and i think they are more than rumors that that some folks in our
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legislative body of board of supervisors is not interested in keeping lafco going. i in both energy and communications as you have in future agenda items how we land in forest and trees. it would be a really bad thing if we did not have lafco. >> i want to remind staff that without lafco, we wouldn't have this build-out. i don't fault for c puc staff to be conservative. it's their job. their job is to take care of this. it's important to get outside of the box and think about what's needed in our local and regional level
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especially because with community church we'll be building relationship with other communities. there are areas that can be used for solar panel. it's crucial we keep lafco for that and energy technology because we have reached lawsuits on the east coast that have made it extremely difficult for one state to have local community broadband internet to make it illegal. if we don't get on that and really good time and aggressively, we are going to lose our shot at having broadband. i'm sorry, i have to be frank. but the department of technology has had this ball in their court for 4 years and have done nothing. it's important that we have public internet and make sure we have our own
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energy and not just buying energy on the market. this has to be done independent of the board of supervisors. i encourage you to have this strong and keep lafco going. it's really important that we do that. thanks. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you very much. next speaker? public speaker: thank you, i wasn't planning on speaking but in the event that my comments mean anything in the future. i would like to echo the support for the continuation of lafco. the idea that because cleanpowersf has been implemented that now there is no need for lafco anymore is definitely you know somewhat misguided. cleanpowersf will be around for a really long time until it's up to full speed and ultimately the sf
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puc is an agency that really functions to complete some important infrastructural task and not meant to be as responsive to the public as either the board or lafco and certainly has a 100 plus year institutional culture that might not always be the most nimble. compared to the other cca's which have started up primarily as a stand-alone agency and are in a very kind of nimble and forward thinking, it's especially critical since our department that we have a group like lafco that is more responsive to a public at a ground level and we have the mayor that a points c puc commissioners, but that only happens every 4 years. and at a citywide level, certainly members of the board of supervisors and
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lafco commissioners tend to have a more grass roots connection with the community and that's kind of the reason why lafco has been so critical of this time. so, to the extent that these comments mean anything at some point in the future, 350 san francisco and 350 bay area definitely support the continuation of lafco as a critical agent and moving this initiative forward to 100% clean energy. we can't have people only being heroes supporting 100% clean energy. that's what the city has to move to by it's own policies and what we all really need to survive on this planet. thank you very much. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. we'll go on to our next item which is general public
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comment. >> item no. 5. public comment. public speaker: good morning. the officer of realistic aspects. one must apply talent and good virtues for speech and actions and good discipline and the combination of science for philosophy and usages. a working agenda of right and wrong to determine the case would have support. the gathering of facts for the working
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case. one can visualize with perfect consumption. so one must have working without for colorings in order to show capabilities. one system for having close net to the people in a higher principle that requires that mercy and love into a principle bypath way onto society with destiny and true wisdom for missionary career. of loyalty of destiny of wisdom of rescue god's holy mission. thank you. is there any additional
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public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. and go on to our next item. >>clerk: item no. 6. future agenda items. a how to connect fiber to every home and business in the city and county of san francisco. b. how tree maintenance and general landscaping is coordinated and operated in the city and county of san francisco. >> jason fried . we have two items. the two items, first off the fiber connect in the city and we had a robust discussion about how to connect every home to high speed internet. we did a report back on underground utility wires and how to expand it and how to do the expansion itself with the theme of this subject matter. since that last meeting i did more research and found out the
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department of technology issued an rfp. they got bids back submitted september 12th. i don't have the number of bids they received. they are in the review process of those bids. to my knowledge they haven't at least issued any sort of awarding of the bids. but that's quick in the process. that's where the department of technology is at in this subject matter. i will leave it up to this body if they want to continue down this path. we can continue down this path to do it ourselves. we were going to issue and rfp to do similar work to what was described in the rfp. we can do that or see what comes out of their process first. that will be up to the commission. the next item we have is tree maintenance in the city. i will give a brief description of what happens right now.
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right now you have several departments that do tree maintenance, landscaping, the type of work that is done in the city. that is done in silos. you have the department that does the work, and dpg does it. they have it in silos. you can have a work go up to a park and another truck at another park. you can have at the very same time have another truck pull up and do street landscape. it seems there is a lot of overlap with what the department has things done. instead of sending two teams out to one location, we send one team out and they do stuff and recreation and parks and then dwp for street landscaping. i think there is a better way to come
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up with a more comprehensive have way instead of having these emergency silos. it's not how much it cost but how cost-effective and about raising more money for those items. this is a way to really dig deep into how do these departments do it. is there a more cost-effective and better way to do it and looking into the streetscapes and making sure there is not increased cost and looking at those items. >> thank you, i appreciate you bringing up these two issues forward and also as people in public comment address the elephant in the room. the elephant in the room is very significant. lafco is in a very existential moment right now whether we are going to continue or not. it's not
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that we can actually come to cca launch and that seems to be a puc function and the work that lafco has done to help to align the city department's resources for that launch. that has now happened and cca and cleanpowersf can go on without lafco. there are a number of us at lafco that has been going on for 8 years we are going to be termed out. if there is no one else to replace us, then we'll see that lafco could die in the vine. what led each of us to want to take part in lafco was that we had a big project that we wanted to see happen, cleanpowersf. so i think it's important that if we are going to make sure that it's not just the, you know, the
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existence of the organization, but what the organization can do. i think having these two projects are really great ideas to explore. fiber has been one that lafco has looked at and addressed 10 years back if not more. i think there is a possibility of fiber being a really program and project that can grow. and i think it's important if we are going to have, it seems like the department of technology is doing their own rfp that looks for fiber, i think that's a project that we can monitor. lafco should have that report heard here when it's ready. i think we should also you know, talk about if fiber is going to be a reality in san francisco, what are the different ways that it could work. i think having not just the department of technology doing it
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perhaps from the technology perspective, but lafco being involved actually broadened the perspective of what it could be . one member mentioned the grass roots and that will be key to say to have a private person to have for fiber or is it a public or private partnership. that will be an important discussion for lafco to weigh in on and the next membership to look into that. there will have to be new blood for this to continue. as far as the tree maintenance work, yes we have issues in san francisco where various departments have their own tree functions and where we lose out is we don't have a robust urban forest. now we are going to see with the
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ballot whether or not we have the right investment and especially the alignment of our department to look at how we can keep our urban forest strong and under a single entity, that is a really important project to look at. on the one hand, fiber is a broad citywide function that has a real direct impact on local consumers, kind of like cleanpowersf and it's a really great project for basis and work for board of supervisors and lafco and the other is how our city can be better as a city to take care of a primary function like maintaining our forest. i think those are both really great projects. to me, these are worthy of supporting. i do appreciate you bringing these up, jason fried. with that, i will let my colleagues
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comment as well. commissioner mar? >>supervisor eric mar: thank you, mr. fried and your suggestions in terms of holding on and what we would do with a study but connecting the rfp from the department of technology and miguel gammanos staff moving forward. i want to say that tom yamano's study and the municipal work done by the columbia telecommunications corporation, i'm hoping that they are drawing from that report as they issue that rfp and whatever study is done and not just reinventing the wheel but the process and i know wolf and aaron talked about the chattanooga
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and other models. but i know that what's missing is community involvement in this process. i know we have coit which is more of an inter departmental department and we have a senior tech council that is active, but i'm hoping that for our future there is some kind of digital inclusion task force like other cities have as we move forward different big ideas so that low income seniors and people with disabilities and children and families are not left behind. i'm hoping that as this rfp is moved forward and data looked at that we don't reinvent the wheel and we have different community members involved to think about what the future of san francisco's hopefully fiber to the
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home efforts as they move forward. that's my $0.02. thank you, mr. fried. >>supervisor john avalos: commissioner pollock? >> thank you, that is great to see two great items to move forward with lafco. i just want to echo the support for the digital inclusion task force that commissioner mar was speaking about. i think there is a sense that in these walls that a lot of people and advocates have this sort of feeling of you are talking about us without us. so i just want to make sure that advocates are brought in on that front as well. i think that lafco along with other organizations within or inclusions within the city have a fiduciary responsibility not to squander resources. i think it makes sense for us not to
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do the exact same thing the department of technology is doing with an rfp but similar as we worked with cleanpowersf, we partnered with them to make sure everyone is included in the discussion. as commissioner avalos suggestion to have the results of the rfp discussed here at lafco and invite them in so we can be a part of the discussion. lastly, i can't miss this opportunity to make a pun which is i'm excited to get in the weeds or in the trees for learning more about what the city can do to consolidate services with the landscaping and tree maintenance, and just in the same way that i was talking for department and technology and including advocates to bring in
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those groups. like the organizations that are supporting parks and also friends of the urban forest and those groups that are really interested in maintaining our urban forest and keeping this city invested in just the environmental and health benefits of having trees in our city. so, excited to move forward with both of those items. thank you. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you. commissioner campos? >> >>supervisor david campos: thank you, mr. chair. i will be very brief. i do hope that lafco continues to function to serve this city. i think it's an important function. i think a lot of it though, depends on who the members of the board of supervisors are because unless you have an interest on the newly elected on the part of the newly elected supervisors, you are not going to have a quorum and not have
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the kind of backing needed for lafco to be effective. so one suggestion that i have is once we know what the election results will be to begin outreach to whoever gets elected. because i think the best way to get people interested in lafco is if they are working on issues that they care about and as much as we have these two great ideas, i'm certainly willing to support that, but i don't know what's out there and depending on the individuals that get elected, there could be ideas that are really important to them that to create incentives for them to be more involved. for me one issue that has so many different components that i think it's something that should be out there is the whole issue of the sharing economy because it's impacting so many different aspects of
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how society functions, how the city functions, and so, but i know there will be other things. i will say, let's reach out once we have a better sense of who is going to be here. thank you. >>supervisor john avalos: great. thank you. anything else to add, mr. fried? any reactions to what we had to say here? >> yeah, i think i made notes of all your comments and they are good comments to be making. the question at this point would be if you want me to work on this, give me the say so and the staff will start working on both of these items. my first thought on 6a that perhaps at the next meeting we invite the department of technology to come and discuss what are the fees and
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-- 1996. i left perg in 1997 and those regulations started not because i left, but the city started weakening on these recognizes as soon as we left. we need lafco to be just looking as forward as when we started cleanpowersf and talk about how we are going to manage other areas. another example in recreation and parks and pacifica, they are looking into chopping down trees and it will release the huge carbon stores is not good for global warming. i would encourage you to get into this
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structure and policy issues. the one on pesticide should not be contentious. we got involved with the department of environment to get away with that. we are not going to use tier one herbicide in our natural areas. thanks. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you very much. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. and move on to our next item. >>clerk: item no. 7. adjournment. >>supervisor john avalos: colleagues, we are adjourned. everyone have a great day. thank you. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >>
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support. >> i'm going to get starting this is a great opportunity a great momentum i'm using the your host with many other hosts including the residents this is grouching foreclosure transbay 78 and grand opening of gained 6 this is at first mixed income in transbay if this was a vision that our redevelopments agency ocii and the city has had of creating communities that are truly mick all the amenities you need to live a wonderful life in a transit rich location without driving a car all the time he
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know that we have the chief promoter of number one driving cars your mayor, we have a pot and get you to transit 7 right now the salary didn't work we're lucky to have a couple of residents that offered to speak and give me tare perspective on what it is like tobacco live in the did you development first, i want to start by welcoming up your mayor we're particularly lucky in san francisco i think we have a cast of elected officials that support affordable housing like not other thank you and 23w7b jane kim and your mayor go comments we've here but open up to mayor ed lee. >> thank you doug for the
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introduction good morning, everyone today's lucky numbers 6 and 7 (laughter) 6 because we are in district 6 i know that supervisor kim know that for sure they represented this district and a partner to make sure that every opportunity we have whether that you are ocii tiffany and the the commissioners are here i see all the commissioners very proud of their role in infrastructure and investment for your communities and they have not failed on the steps of going from a redevelopment that was kind of extinguished to make sure what happens in the city and county so i want to thank you to ocii and thank doubling and mercy housing for o for being a great partner many projects that olsen and the mayor's office of housing working together in collaboration on
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and particularly i've been asking recently years my ocii list i need to really be on top of what tiffany and the commissioners are doing i want to be there when they're making announcements about another 69, 100 percent unit our city this is what we're doing today with the lucky numbers of 6 and 7 as doug said we're block 6 and block 67 that is groundbreaking with another one and 11 units all 100 percent affordable to low income and middle-income families this is fulfilling promises of our city that we will build affordable housing along with the market-rate housing we're doing and we've make sure that 50 percent of all relevant units we put an there are middle-income and low income this is what 50 percent of ami is important to understand those
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are deep, deep substances for those teaches projects just a year ago reiskin ca a apartments for that formally homeless was built and opted out the residents reinterviewed them i'll see a lot of smiles in their oath the streets into supportive housing we need to do more to articulate our goals for thousands of holes it on the street in between that we'll build as many affordable housing we can i know that recently you read in the newspapers i have courageous the developers to go as high as 25 percent of their market-rate housing to be affordable we have to, of course, pay attention what is economic and feasible so that number will
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adjust but it is still a something that the cities have to the figured out we have taught figured with our serious investments in fights last week there blocks 6 and 7 again are examples of what we cocktail to mc as a affordable in those cases 100 percent you can't change that is not to be were interpreted any on the way than a strong commitment by the city as we gain control on the sites we'll make it as affordable as we can the people we're representing and others people that does have a vows unless what we are doing with the sites take a look at the squander for ocii over two years and see an active organization working with the mayor's office of housing and the former housing authority
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that are a hope sf for all the public housing and making sure we encourage anyone that owns vacant lots in the city? if so it vacant arrest empty gas station give it up we have a need we can build and do better things are and encourage public transportation because one of the reasons we're able to gain much such a site is because of electrician transit center for the entire area it will be i look forward to being here because i want to ride the high speed rail from the basement to la marble we'll beat the dodgers as a result of that all of you in the housing development the private and nonprofit eastern working with our city agencies thank you to you all of you that's not easy to accomplish and takes a lot of different
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skill sets to put it altogether but now it is 69 in a few moms another one and 11 units you put those kinds of things together with the other projects we're under construction under permit and you emigrate potentially 10 thousand more affordable housing units by 2020 and this is what we're committed to and making this another example questions are on the way to accomplishing this thing together with all of you have go solar conversations with the board to do more thank you very much . >> (clapping.) >> we're blessed in san francisco to have elected officials that are supportive and many of you know the supervisors track record on
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there for mercy housing on many, many occasions and building more affordable housing in her district marathon any of the districts i want to thank the supervisor and bring her up for a few minutes supervisor kim. >> thank you doug and actually over the past year the mayor and i have been mercy housing ribbon cutting with 24th street i housing for the former homeless families in mbe the reefrment halls been an amazing promise we've eye to build high levels of affordability all the way into families to the formally homeless and lives on the street to mifrment families that can't afford to buy a home in san francisco and transbay neighborhood is within of the neighborhoods way before the mayor and i negotiated 33
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percent trev o transbay had a loft i didn't gel of affordable housing >> (clapping.) >> i want to recognize he's not here but our former state senator john burdening what is from it is in the midst of the housing crisis we're seeing units for low income and mifrment families through the work that happened many years ago and part of the solution of some of the households today block 6 and 7 were the first development up in bid i want to recognize ocii, tiffany the director and commissioners commissioner myrna melgar and commissioner singh to make sure we are building affordable housing mifrment on time and
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schedule thank you for all your hard work thank you for all you do and mercy an amazing participate one thing to get the funding and one thing to find the site but to have the capability and know how and knowledge is incredibly inmental and having nonprofit that help the communities they work here already and provide services onsite to the residents so to critically important we want to make sure we're serving your families and households they can stay in the housing we're building today so i'm very excited for the opening of blocks and congratulations and thank you for choosing san francisco to build in and really xiefrtd about building blocks 7 next we'll be heading over to the groundbreaking and thank you to everyone that is involved in
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making it happen today. >> (clapping.) >> all right. as usual the supervisor cadet me to the punch thank you tiffany and her staff they're a lot of people from the city does that really, really couldn't have done this project it relied on the mayor's office partner and thank you to others ben and gretchen and jean i'm sure one more name sarah price all of whom are miscellaneous those are truly partnerships this had three or four stages thank you to the commissions for your support and the ongoing support we're excited to be about to begin to mark soon with the ocii and candle stick point he can't agree with the mayor more we'll make progress i'm
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personally happy if the perspective that those are truly mixed income communities trying to build together to make sure we have the right amenities as an example when the one and 20 apartments requester up in the middle a very affordable childcare center another part we need to take into account a lot of people to thank i'll entering first this if you have comments wait a minute. >> this was a very i'm not going into the gory details but a scomplashthd building more complicated than most you're sitting or standing on top of a garage a garage that is actually, the foundation for both it high-rise tower and ours so i would not say i should would build two buildings but in
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project sponsor couldn't have done it without the work of the team innovate because the most important but they did an amazing job i don't see the folks but chuck sorry chuck of k l gordon and buck and others this was a labor of love sometimes a very peaceful a lot but you guys made that happen we appreciate that and our architect an amazing joint effort between solt solomon. >> prescott sanchez and societies they worked together well bruce we want to thank naomi and peter noon and i think that's our crew from the architects they did an amazing
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job not an easy project to coordinated but one of the things that the city and county takes an amount of prides and he certainly merry 1:00 when we opposite side one of the buildings in a neighborhood the goal no idea which one is the favorable i can tell you from the fact every time we open your building with the ocii we have lots of people want to know how to rent our affordable housing units and people are shocked they can't sdwisht difference our partnering not only with the agencies decide this is the hallmark of work in california to make sure we make sure we're building the heist quality building for everyone involved so that leads me to a key if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer them for block 7 umgs the ins and outs of cap &
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trade with the climatic change within of the features of the climate plan is trying to invest in various different teaches initiative a key program the affordable housing sustainability community an hidden gem as jan explains to tie in detail that will not be hidden by block 7 we are lucky enough to have 6 nature million dollars the first insulate of director rubke but not the last they'll have an award announcement and i'm sure san francisco will make more wonderful things happen correct me if i am wrong we believe this is the most at the time of trial rich project in all the projects in the stating base 6 commitment to the transit and caltrain and muni and with all the great bus
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services to that's why the state is investing in will the system and why 9 pocketbook is open and everyone project will continue to get more money so from the mooechlz. >> i can't get more excited than that. >> happen /* happy birthday to all and everyone loves a birthday so heads up to everyone as we celebrate birthdays together you know this goes without assessing this was an election year how many of you really realize that today is an election day yes it is because in my world he hope it will be in yours everyday is an
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election day not the noise we hear an tv and social media by god but everyday is an elect day of making decisions it's a an election between self or others every day we make a decision about our lives are we thinking of ourselves or others and amy doing something that is good for society or am i being passive or creating walls you know i'd like to introduce go preserves as we celebrate this day the perspective of a planner a funder act and then a resident unfortunately, he wouldn't have the privilege of being a resident like to do my best and talk about that you know because what we're experiencing today is
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a wonderful example of how transit development; right? is smart planning and best smart and they're not inclusive we realize we wrooks that planning and design must be sustainable for a future we roles that affordable housing for families and seniors is smart housing and having san martin transportation refresh infrastructure is important because infrastructure binds us together doesn't it we walk the same paths we drink the same water and were there few diverse communities last week san francisco and people are riding at the time of trial; right? and living in transit developing together tied into density housing and active translation
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and getting at the time of trial passes you know murphy housing was one of 28 westerns in the first launch of this affordable housing and sustainable community program it was the pilot year we're now in the thrills of funding our second round in october you'll hear the news about that in a few weeks i'm here to talk about planning and clefks i you know have a deft opinion he recognize that has we know the governor is forceful that climatic change is a big issue you can choose to ignore it just if i choose to ignore people in the so forth but and a change the existence you see a little description of the program the agency program it's not a program about
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projects we use projects a lot but actually a program about project areas translated communities because we believe in building homes and not walls amen and lightwells talk about community from the perspective of a resident at the core of words community is unity; right? we realize today that all people deserve affordable housing are regardless of where they are in the economic scale so on this election daywear taking responsibility artists we to care and invest in our community in the residents of san francisco we vote for the
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associate quality to pull together they can work together as we're seeing it in front of us and will see it in just a few years. >> nearly 50 years ago a approximately candidate it was 1968 and he was on the commissioner antonini trail and that candidate was robert f kennedy junior and he had to give the hardest campaign speaking speech of his career on that day in pretty well of 1968 he had to announce to the crowd that martin luther king was assassinated there was no twitter and it was talking in front of a substantially black audience and know it was sparked
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into a firestorm that would further send the nation into certain racial populartion and those are his words that resounds like today what we need to the itself not division what we need in the united states is not hatred what we need to the united states is not violence or lawlessness but wisdom and compassionate to one another and a feeling of justice towards those who suffer when they're in your country he knew the temptation of base violence was going to occur and i knew he was thinking whatever was in the minds of peep what is quality one the
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same law in the nation i'm sure that's where we are today you feel the recess alsoness the vast majority of whites blakz want to live together and insure the quality of life and want justice for all human beings we declared and call on that day he would let us decade ourselves to what the greeks wrote to some years ago to tame the sageness of man and make gentle of the life of the world if we can only live that and make gentle the life of this world i think you all participating today you get that message you see the savageness and see the injustice and want to make
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gentle the lives of this world unfortunately about 60 days later that have speech he helping was taken down and it was o he was in la and there was an iconic picture of him lying on the ground in the kitchen and the busboy cradling his head and told her monk his last words were is everybody okay? >> 3 simple words on election day is everybody okay. on any given day i'm not okay. he need smoking someone to say eugene are you okay please, please ask the question and do something
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about it last week doug and his team and this at the and your elected officials are doing something everyday thank you . >> (clapping.) >> i feel very fortunate to work with someone like eugene people don't recognize the department of passion not feeling it agency a recovering public agency official myself i just want to acknowledge the great work that people in government do and not get enough crediting credit u dispense e general we appreciate that a lot of people at about adc i want to thank and objective the director
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(calling names) ellis and kim thank you for you guys making the trip appreciate our support we're also blessed to have private partners one standing relationship with silicon valley valley bank and want to bring up fiona if i would. >> (clapping.) >> good afternoon, everyone on behalf of the silicon valley thanks an honor to be here and celebrate the grand opening our san francisco office is just a few blocks away this is a gleaming ray of light in our backyard we are proud to play a small roll in bringing this project to life and 69 new homes very worthy families that are well-designed and high quality and hopefully brings a wonderful opportunity let me share a quick joke so as a new mom he live by
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the words it takes a village some days my moerpgz are helped by the many helping hands this particular morning he was navigating around the world i was trying to practice gratitude and my drive took me past our building and the engine kicked in, yes it takes a village to raise a child additional a takes a village to build an urban village and this village comprised of a qualified visionary team that led by the murphy housing and all the partners that are here today you know from the outset we knew the project will be inform testify as a first affordable housing project in is this
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transbay district and knew that had some unique features that at times to - moments as doug mentions the shared space with the market-rate project and underwrite a project like we've never done and moments we called kwirm to ask his impression but keep our eye on the price pricing whether in the empire life sciences are community development we want to help our clients have you ever seen into uncharged territories and designer approaches that led to leave sxans results and today is complex problems we need mercy housing like the city of san francisco lied by the mayor and the supervisors and ocii and for
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your dedication to help the and make the impossible possible my team tuchd that project over the last few years and got the successful results (calling names) and thanks also to dbi banks. >> in the presence of such commitment i'm truly grateful thank you so much everyone. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, fiona the widens is kicking up we'll get through 24 reach out and hug anybody to that will keep you warm and none will sue in this setting so we do want to thank a couple of other people katherine and the
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jshths they've been critically generous donors i want you thank you for your support and federal home loan bank a grant from the affordable housing program and silicon valley bank is an important program and a peas to make the developments work and hopefully for transbay 7 as well if this is your fit on the grand opening not heard the work tax credit an ovsh secure part of irs tax code that is responsible to make those knowledge areas roobl if you don't know where their tax dollars go but this is the building plain clothes for all the affordable housing in the city and what comes with the tax credit the opportunity to work with an investor we have a long another long term fund that
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worked about mercy to make this work the more complicated we turn to tattooed they'll make sure it works i wanted to bring up todd and thank him. >> thank you doug it is a obscure the tax credit a my family didn't know what i do everyone we're principles to actually be the tax credit investor mercy housing is one the long even though partners in our history 25 years doug i counted on the database and thirty odd projects across the country and is tax credits the national primary resemble to raise capital and invest into community that's right what we do on a daily basis for thirty
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years and $12 billion later i'd like to see is we can't do it without partners we have silicon valley bank not only provided the financing they were trusted us with $28 million of equity thank you, fiona and thank the mercy team william i don't know where sheila with that i'll i'll leave it at that. >> so in my effort inform work it in while we're going there are projects recycle this mercy and your consultants do a lot of work together we are lucky enough to have a long term
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partner (calling names) all right. i can't find page 3 but someone on page 3 okay. he found it thank you very much for all that work. >> (clapping.) >> i also want to thank this was a project that required a fair amount of trust our biggest partner the company out of chicago we took a chance we didn't know how big a chance but had we known who knows what we would have done we and the rest of the folks are fantastic people to work with and driven people it was a hard project we worked on that together and no moment did we separate from each other thank you to the company and obviously they're doing more work in san francisco and
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obviously b be a great interest rate to the san francisco skyline he wanted to take a moment sense it was raised earlier by the todd to thank the mercy staff this was a really recreate it started with julia and handed to william we've had people touch this project at mercy tells us how hard it was we want to thank all the mercy staff (calling names) if you have not met the guys he's wonderful in you're from mercy if you wouldn't mind raising your hand to be acknowledged. >> also want to thank our chair the reality committee i don't see oh, and kres from the board members advisors and chris
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and obviously a nonprofit are driven by the volunteers that give me your time and expertise we're deeply appreciative of they are help there are two projects we mixed up some stuff quarry crazy like this so we heard from todd that led the development investment on block 6 and block 7 we're happy to have a partner in wells fargo bank this is a tough couple of weeks this is truly a fantastic project and for us in the affordable housing there is wells fargo is a tremendous partner their construction lending and the investment that is similar to the projects and again, it takes someone with an understanding of our world and to me is excellent partner i'll bring up tim and i throughout
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the groundbreaking was simple lucky i don't dress last week this but confused i think we close construction in june and here it is built already that's a joke i'm from wells fargo the equity manager and i think a number of people from wells fargo here terrance on my team and laura is here and maybe john he want to thank them and everybody and also to echo doug shoemaker i didn't have time to write everyone's name down (calling names) everybody at the mercy i appreciate your help thank you very much and thank our partners olsen lee and everyone at ocii and in the city and county of san francisco thank you so much
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for partnering with us along with h cd and silicon valley bank i appreciate all the financial parnsz and thank you to you all the members of the audience as fiona said it takes a village and everyone worked hard in affordable housing and i know i think this project and to project across the street is the good work of all of us i didn't prepare a speech but thank you very much. >> (clapping.) >> and especially doug all right. we're in the homestretch i think as a said to a person none wanted to hear from us but other residents we're lucky we have two residents that have offered to share their story i don't think i bunched your
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last name she's with an of the newest resident and her boyfriend; right? and baby. >> hi, everyone and good afternoon. i'm a current resident all the way up to the 8 floor he heard about mercy housing through the friends when we wereplegic for long term and couldn't get in i decided to give a shot and i applied i remember you were somewhere - sorry. >> it was my application that i turned in for housing i remember that was someplace in march he turned in any application in one today, i received a letter assessing he won and my lottery number was 54 i never won the lottery in any
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life i was pregnant at that time, and turned in any that application and life was hard before moving into this amazing place within living with a parent in a one-room apartment and really couldn't afford for $2,000 to rent for every month he moved into this home right before giving birth and my baby was barron in my home we want to appreciate it and say thank you to mercy housing and they have a program that gives me opportunities to a young formally person - and helps us thank you very much >> (clapping.) >> all right. i forgot a couple
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of shout outs i have two more shout outs mercy one of the things to enable us to have success in san francisco this may be different we take a lot of pride in the work we do around making sure the ground zero of uh our building contribute to the neighborhoods we have someone nancy who is in the back one of a kind person from mercy housing that does our leading thing if i like filled scoff nancy was on early adopter thank you for being on the ground floor and providing coffee and the south of market childcare that is moving in and thank you so much we're looking forward to having you in that
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space without further ado, a stylish guy i met him yesterday. >> (clapping.) >> it is windy. >> good afternoon welcome everyone to my neighborhood and my name is leonard i won the lottery which is a program and he was displaced in the san jose from the western edition and me and my family had an opportunity to live here based on the cop and i reilly enjoy 24 place and
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people here i mean, the amenities the bus services and stuff like that but some things i'm disappointed with but this is a great place to live and he looks forward to living here many, many years and my wife and daughter live here right there >> (clapping.) >> and they were inmental in - that my wife pushed me in putting in certificate of preference is a great place and clean and xhofsht he enjoy being here i think i have a great
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opportunity to enjoy this place thank you >> (clapping.) >> >> okay. not to put pressure on leonard it is amazing you think about the certificate of preference many of you are familiar in an earlier area of redevelopment less gentle force people are displaced from the western edition and for 2, 3, or 4 is decades people had many disappoints we were critically happy to work with the staff of ocii that worked to track individuals over the year and 5 cop hollers from the commissioners to the staff thank you and letting us play a part with that, we're done with the official ceremony we have tours and a little bit of food for folks that are in the front
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