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session action item from the regular meeting of the march 14 2017 and special meeting of march 14 in the matter of versus the sfusd by a vote of 7 i's for the district to settle for the stipulated amount in the matter of h j versus sfusd a board vote gives for a stipulated amount and versus san francisco unified school district a vote by 7 i's gives the board the authority to for a stipend enemy u amount and the authority to settle for the stipulated amount and the board by a vote of 7 i's absent commissioner murase one not new principal and action from tonight's closed session in the matter of two cases of anticipated litigation the board by a vote of 7 ids given the
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direction to general council this meeting adjourned >> good evening and welcome to the
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the san francisco board of appeals. the presiding officer is commissioner honda and we are joined by by our vice president commissioner fung and commissioner wilson and commissioner swig commissioner lazarus that be a little bit to my left the deputy city attorney to provide the board with legal advice at the controls so gary the legal assistant director. we're joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before this board. sitting at the table in the front is so scott sanchez planning department. and her representing the planning department and planning commission and next is inspector, next line item. >> phones and other electronic devices are prohibited. please carry on conversations out in the hallway. permit holders and others have up to 7 minutes to present their case and 3 minutes for rebuttal.
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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 directly from sfgovtv. thank you for your attention. we'll conduct our swearing in process.
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if you intend to testify and wish to have the board give your testimony evidentiary weight, please stand and say i raise your hand and say i do after out of been scorn in or affirmed 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. >> okay. thank you very much commissioner vice-president hyland and commissioners two housekeeping items two items that have been been withdrawn item 5, and 1698 haight street number 7 1885 mission street is also been withdrawn neither of the items
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will be heard tonight number one, is general public comment this is the opportunity for anyone that address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. any general public comment? seeing none, then monarch to item two commissioner comments and questions. nothing commissioners? no okay item 3 commissioners our adoption of commission minutes. discussion and possible adoption of the march 08, 2017, minutes. >> >> additions, deletions, or changes an adoption to have a motion to move that. >> move to adopt. >> thank you thank you any public comment on the minutes? okay. seeing none then we have a motion by the vice president to adopt the minutes commissioner president honda commissioner swig that carries with a vote of 4 to zero
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item 4 a rehearing request. scott & patricia quinn vs. the department of building inspection at 2328-2330 north point street. is rehearing request. of the appeal that was decided february 22, 2017, at a time the vote voted two to two to one and commissioner hyde to grant the appeal and overturn the zoning administrator and grant the variance lacking the four votes the motion failed upon a second motion with commissioner vice president fung and commissioner wilson dissenting to uphold the zoning administrator on the basis the finding articulated by the zoning administrator are correct lacking the 30 votes it failed with no motion to - the proved or disproved of variance
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requester is alexander to convert the storage space of 3 story dwelling unit on a non-compliant rear yard and commissioner president honda did you miss the fun two outdoors of votes welcome. >> so have the requester start 3 minutes to present our case. >> good evening. i'm the architect for the studio units at the 523 guerrero street at the february 3, '22 meeting we talked about the urban justice of denial but not the justification the zoning administrator to use in his determination and how it relates to the depended policies that were in place at the time of application for the variance i wish to do that we believe the justification is invalid the zoning administrator denied the variance the 80 route to
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creating a unit exists i would told by a senior planner two ways to get the project as an adu the new unit with a variance i owed to my client and it had a chance of getting approval i did no research so thank you - it shows the e-mails that i challenged with the planner i did more reason for the policy information from the planning department i reached out to the zoning administrator but my e-mail was answered by the same planner and again recommended the variance route i think on analogy will help here we were shown on apples and oranges both are fruit but have significant difference between them we were
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told that we could have either one so we choose the apple suddenly we can't have the apple bus the orange exists this effectively means we didn't say a choice been the apples and oranges singular all information we made the submit thousand dollars to apply for a variance or a new unit or utilize the adu program and accept a waiver in on reduce form of roll call. either way have to unit but like the apples and oranges they are different if they're not we wouldn't be discussing this my client created a shout out for the 3 snares the non- readings and the castro street and not had he been told that was his
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only option he wants to share the shout out by the adu program for the justification of denying the variance the zoning administrator said we have in case we were mislead by the planner the zoning administrator didn't work in a vacuum but part of the planning department to such basic things our your time is up. >> there are two ways to push a permit or one shared in the department it citywide now but at the time, we made our submittal it was not as shown here so. >> thank you love to have you look at thank you. >> if i may correct you this is not a second appeal. >> i do understand. >> this is whether we will
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grant you based new information or mandatory discretionary review. >> i see an injustice may i answer you the manifest injustice it the fact if that we were shown given two options and then told that actually, the other option is off the table because a okay. >> we feel this is manifest injustice and the new information is tell you spreadsheet. >> mr. sanchez. >> thank you scott sanchez planning department. this is a rehearing request. that i think the materials i've seen not in my opinion not satisfy the requirements necessary for a rehearing
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request. i'd like to address a couple of points raised by the appellant the laws the application was filed ear heard this was eligible for an adu it was stated not eligible because of adu's were not citywide the building was undergoing a schematic upgrade through the code eligible to pursue the adu because they have volunteer seismic upgrade no new materials they alleged to present now that couldn't have been presented either at the original variance hearing arrest the last hearing on the item and in regards to the duties and responsibility of staff i think staff acted appropriately in providing the other peoples money possible and safe is staff is not kwnld i'll be upset in the
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staff told someone they have the ability to apply for a variance the variance is justified and have that variance granted there was a hearing on this and had the opportunity and the decision was made to deny the variance if the appellants continuing that because an option exists they should be grant that i completely disagree with that in my position i'm advising staff they can file for a dr or board of appeals not have the commission i cannot the dr and make the changes or this board will grant the appeal and overturn the appeal and staff in the capacity in discussing with the sponsor and the sponsor said they want to have unit not subject to roll call. this is what staff understands and this is the process you need
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to go through so we do have the ability we're hearing this items and acting for this item we have full consideration in who to grant or deny the variance because the staff suggested someone file an application didn't mean the applications will be granted in the adu's we have the total exact total but seven hundred plus 7 or 8 unit that have been approved financially good unit their that the building itself is subject to rent control requirements and this is one of the reasons the board of supervisors has adopted in legislation we also i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> i have a few. >> unfortunately, one the foe hearings i missed was this one in the room was a stand alone
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room can it be a legal room? it or. >> it wouldn't be subject to the exposure if was an accessory bedroom not subject to the exposure requirements. >> okay. then regarding the exposure departments i mean exposure requirements is i - i know we have local laws the state law is admonish lenient it trumps the law. >> the building code requirements relatives to light and air this is 90 more reflective than in the building code but that's the law we applied for all dwelling units it is separate from state law and more riefbtd and allowed to
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be. >> the last question i have requiring the enclosure that the outdoor space what the board it. >> under the section one 040 the between must face an area a few ways for the compliant rear yard or a street as well so didn't front the property so not on the street and able to obtain the endorse not nooifrm. >> and then the last bit to that i believe we had a case before that and adding the third unit the space as long as they provide a private 10 by temple with direct assess that alleviates that is that true or not true. >> this is able to step under the adu provision so that is our
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argument a path that is code compliant with the exposure they're able to provide under section 207 with the adu process so that would be code compliant exposure to grant a waiver to add this unit under the adu prom i meant an adu person from planning to avoid this avoid the adu if they can provide antenna by 10 area for each unit did i get this wrong. >> you're referring to open space rather than. >> i'm getting it thank you mr. sanchez. >> so if we deny this hearing they are what i'm trying to recall if my context if we denied a rehearing request.
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what can occur that they can go back he and file for another permit with the adu route and then there's no variance no. nothing it is very a clear path; right? >> yes. >> it can get done through the adu. >> right. >> no notification a public hearing under the adu provision. >> that's what i thought my recollection was mr. sanchez we haven't seen this public literature that was provided on the adu what does that last - >> this is i think an updated one if you're adding an adu everywhere in the city for
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regular calendar and the k5069 waivers will not apply i will want to discuss with staff. >> is this document prelegislation. >> this is before the current legislation because should be an older document it is citywide at one point only for available within the castro and under the seismic retrofit. >> this is started there this references something different i think. >> it i mean issues with under state law adding adu to a single-family under state law would not be subject to
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generally subject to the rent control that maybe referencing the incorporation. >> it is establishment earlier. >> yeah. >> but looking at the last 3 lines. >> it seems to be outdated materials i think that dated july 2015. >> can you come to the podium and keep it short please. hold on a minute. >> directly to that question; right? >> this is just an excerpt from talking about the other requirements and miscellaneous code at the time, we made our application and all through our process we had our hearing in august of 2016 it was not until september 4th of 2016 that the whole thing became citywide.
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>> thank you. >> the zoning administrator couldn't rip. >> to clarify the adu provisions were eligible for this property at the time of the application four volunteer has been for sometime. >> okay. >> thank you any public comment on this item? seeing none, then commissioners, the matter is submitted. >> i think i've made my position known it has not changed. >> after watching the tapes and asking the questions the rehearing bar is pretty strong i don't believe that there has
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been you know now what is that. >> manifest injustice here and the information as the department present comic presented at the time of original hearing although i personally would have sided with my vice president in this case not strong enough to have a rehearing. >> i'll make a motion. >> i'm not - >> a motion denied. >> motion to deny the rehearing request. based on no manifest injustice and not enough new information presented to. >> a motion making machine. >> from commissioner swig a request to deny the request
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commissioner vice president fung commissioner president honda commissioner wilson okay. that motion carries with a vote of 4 to zero. >> item 5 is withdrawn and move on to patricia quinn vs. the department of building inspection at 2328-2330 north point street. with the planning department approval and have section 14 diane to 2328-2330 north point street issuance on to north point and barker partners to add 13 feet by 25 feet times one story at rare and endangered alter shape of western lightwell in the lightwell earn and roof deck over setback over 13 stories and internal reconfiguration and jurisdiction was granted on 2017 and an important hearing start with the
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appellant. >> come on up and prior to starting 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. this evening. >> good evening and welcome. >> so you have 7 minutes to present your case. >> thank you overhead please thank you my name is a scott here with my wife 20 years residents of marina we occupy one the property with our daughter and one of the 15 resident spoken out in opposition for the offerly ambitious project it is simple to remove the fourth floor and
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number two, reduces the depth of the rear extension as well as the size of the terrace and 3 the raise the fence from three to four feet we have suggestions we've included as part of our appeal and we're hoping this will say the basis of a resolution around the conflict so the new data not available at the dr the project plans don't apply the second one on our part to allow the project sponsor to build in the western lightwell on the first floor and the second item concerned in terms of an offer is our willingness to the other party to allow a full width cypress in the rear to allow reduction in depth the next major item not available
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the recognition that reduces the rear addition we didn't have the final plans we have photos of illustrating with regard to elimination of the fourth floor the terrace is simple i don't know if you can't read this i'll summarize this is an e-mail visible to cynthia goldstein from the secretary the planning commission for the reduction of fourth floor by 10 feet in the terrace this shouldn't have been approved and working with the sponsor and dbi to correct this oversight that was a mistake and further corrected the dra eliminate the fourth floor terrace with respect to the rear those are now photos they're not
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available but two manikins on the roof terrace with the new plants as you can see the directly site to my bed that's where i need to sleep and my wife needs to sleep the manikins move out a much bigger expansion and assess and availability to the our bedrooms so we're looking to correct this privacy issue here and point out that privacy is not just a visual but acoustic light from the open windows they're open in the night time the next piece of new data is the resulting site from the upper level 3 bedrooms and 5 levels the only place to reside in the hallways is this second floor the only outside spates
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they have this rear terrace so of all the people that live in the large property they'll be here and immediately adjacent to the bedrooms a direct line of sight not just mine but this is a privacy issue not available as part of dr and give you further context in the rear everyone of the yellow boxes is a bedroom people need to sleep what are there 15 of them and the new project with the new plan will have all the bedrooms directly line the site from the proposed terrace upon many occupant will be residing and i also like to know the lighting not the amplifiers by the speakers are immediately adjacent to the all the neighbors so again that is 11 bedrooms and 23 windows and 22 people but they'll be
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impacted no other properties on the block that has this kind of configuration and provides this privacy to the adjacent neighbors next up this is what the inside will look like a picture from this project sponsor similar property this is the kitchen that is over to the right that is currently replaced by a testify teaspoonful room with other media this is all adjoined by those large full height and neither here nor there full width opening that is 3 and a half feet worried weirder than the garage door this is the exterior spaces will have seating and cooking this picture is wider because pinched in by the effectiveness people will be residing here
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next up this is a outside as you can see looking being so the the subject property all the fences are 4 feet a very, very open space this is the existing character of the backyard you look at the rear of what would be a resulting at this property if it has this fence will be blocked off we'll have adjustments to the information to the folks today in summary the cladding residential design guidelines calls for the mid block open space and with the neighboring building and the light in your opinion will not affect only us but the other 15 neighbors you have letters in the back of our packet recent and other previous letters and now data that motivates the adjustment we have two offers there are part of
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exhibit we think they're excellent basis for revolving those and this is an offer and ask the project sponsor what his goals for the building he listed them we read them back but building to check all of the boxes that's the right one thank you for your time. >> did you provide those offers to the project sponsor. >> yes. indeed there is an e-mail. >> were there any discussion. >> there was absolutely discussions shall i try to summarize them. >> i'll try to summarize them as a result of first off to the project sponsor returned with a proposal that asked it be eliminated for the fourth floor deck and terrace added in and the kitchen added to the top he took both of the offenders it will offer extension in the lightwell and that the terrace
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on the back be extended closer to the property lines that's the preponderance and we ultimately tried to negotiator with the project sponsor he summarized his reaction to saying he felt that he wasn't getting in terms of process for public love versus adjustments in the back i'll let, of course, the corresponding party will talk about that thank you. >> okay. >> thank you from ms. wisconsin strengthen now. >> good evening and welcome. >> thank you. >> can i have the overhead, please? >> thank you all for being worked out here and accepting our appeal my appeal it bans
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several items number one, this plan is increase the housing density and the current plan is not appropriate for the neighborhood and didn't address the privacy concerns as stated in any brief the primary concern the unsuitability with the rear extension for the 23 hundred block what is being worked out proposed a single-family home the lower unit is moved to the lower floor and the minimum allowed for a single unit babsz my understanding the planning code the anytime square footage rule was created to accommodate those current homes where they have an in-law unit and to - permitting a new structure to abide by the unit seems in keeping with the intention of the planning code not only is
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the proposed unit adjoining the garage at the current planning stage has no bedroom for the new plan it is a unit that be e is unusual and 8 people live in this two unit and the proposed the plan is in effect a single-family home in addition the back extension that is put in to accommodate thirty this roll is no in keeping up with the sunlight and boxes in the southeast corner so take into account here as you can see a drawing of where that will be and he key lots in the back with the mid block and the second picture coming from the other way and it shows where the deck will be and blocks that place and a person standing on
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here which basically cuts off half of this generated a more effective solution to in their opinion will be to allow the builder to convert the two fascinate that will diminish the issues of sunlight and there's a precedent as presented in my brief you have that and another concern the discretionary review decision that scott brought up the fourth floor terrace is not brought up but now a new terrace and the builder shows revisions of the terrace for 6 inches by extending the length of the building not allowed for the juliette balcony in the dr. >> the east facing window on the ground floor extension is phenomenon on the plan the gentleman states i want to.
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>> you can move the mike over when you're looking at the screen. >> this was the window that showing on this east side he said this is a mistake that will be eliminated i want to make sure that is in the plans essentially let's see if 3 foot from the property line is suggested by the dr is reduced to 28 inches and the deck in the basing back has sightlines at the ground floor and the first floor the pictures and the deck here and the two bedrooms as well a couple of examples are brought to light concerning the decks in the mid block open space and in this presentation all those
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pictures sorry - this is from the builders presentation or his response to the grade and as you can see all the decks they have you'll decks there so our issue not with the deck but the issue of privacy if you look at the decks those on the third floor and not on top of a ground floor extension in the back and none on the
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- lastly a proposed 6 foot fence the character of the mid block is in question their skwirnd with the persists we're the ones planning on moving
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there we want to keep to a maximum of 4 feet a more natural effectiveness such as part of mid block and a 6 not fence didn't help with privacy but a deck that overlooks the properties 9 feet this is out into that we hope the board will consider our concerns one point he would be amenable and made efforts and keeping the facade of building you know good for the neighborhood in moving the fourth floor back based on the dr and merger those into a single-family home most of issues will be reconciled thank you very much
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thank y thank you we'll hear from the permit holder now. >> >> good evening and welcome. >> good evening thank you good evening commissioner president honda and members of the board i'm tom of reuben, junius & rose on behalf of the permit holder excuse me - the appellants have raised a number of issues i'd like to get the specification but i'd like to start with give you a little bit of background here and context our applications for this project were first submitted in march of 2015 we're here now two years later two years of progress and review that really is extraordinary amount of time for a modest project and modest
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expansion it borders on unfair for the permit holder to go though the process you mean a discretionary review largely the project proposed to the placing at the time was one story rear extension to the 45 rear yard penicillin under the code 4 stories are allowed to the rear line and in addition 12 feet more of an extension into the rear yard which the permit holder didn't take advantage of we also proposed a new for you that was setback 15 feet from the building front which is itself 6 feet from the street for a large project authorization setback and 21 setback on the for you with a roof deck with no stair or
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elevators penthouse the planning commission conducted a one hour discretionary review hearing and considered the two dr requesters and their concerns and concerns of neighbors and they modified the project considerably they pushed in the each side of rear expansion 3 feet and pushed in the sides of terrace above the first floor by 5 feet and on the fourth floor they removed the territories we'll get to that and pushed back the front floor and the fourth floor is 31 feet from the street and they removed the roof deck entirely we think those are considerable changes and absolutely address the appellants and the dr requesters concerned so, now we're appealing and asking for more is
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unremarkable not what the process is designed for no error in the planning department and dbis review of the permit and the plans and the dr requesters have age opportunity for process in the planning commission through the dr process like to talk about a couple of the specification the fence in the rear yard as you may know was proposed for 6 feet as 10 feet are allowed this is reasonable we or willfully to do some sort of privacy screens on the rear terrace and that will help with privacy but any further reductions makes that unusable to the fourth floor terrace as a discretionary review hearing commissioner moore brought the approval motion and saw in our papers we provided a
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transcript when they described her motion she described allowing the property owner for a three or four juliette balcony on the fourth floor pulled from the side when the commission secretary described the motion he omitted that terrace by meek we submitted the plans for review a 10 foot terrace that two was in error and unclear how much of a terrace was allowed by 0 staff approved the terrace they had the same understanding that commissioner moore allowed for a front terrace so we would like the board to deny the appeal as to the changes requested but to correct the mistake and allow us to have that small juliette balcony on the front terrace i'd like to show a floor plan to get a sense of what we're requesting
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as you can see the terrace this actually depose to the property line but what we'll propose and katherine anymore proposed having it pulled in from the sides it shown as 3 feet and 6 inches really more of a visual amenity it is almost you can fit and few people out there but has no impacts on the visibility from the street front or any of the neighbors i'm available to answer any questions and our go architects are here and we ask
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you deny the appeal but allow for the juliette balcony. >> will you leave that up there counselor one question you have that up there so this hearing is didn't matters but is that 3 feet setback on each side is that what you explained. >> yes. i think that has to be at least 3 feet. >> okay. thank you mr. sanchez. >> thank you scott sanchez planning department. so the the subject property was submitted in 2015 under the neighborhood at the beginning of last year again for a horizontal and the discretionary review hearing last year
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recommendations for the project not take dr and approve as proposed and the planning commission took dr and the changes one that is not representative of representative of plan but the removal of the fourth floor balcony and as commissioner president honda so the board can provide clarification it completely within our purview how you'll have to see that balcony be motions as we're interpreting it as corrected that the entire balcony will be removed but from the board felt it is appropriate for some element of that to remain that is within our purview to have clear direction that would be helpful otherwise we'll enforce regardless of outcome here enforce well regardless the outcome if no
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action the fourth floor removed from the board directs it otherwise with the fourth floor balcony so in terms of some of the facility issues and possible compromises the merger is not a possibility under the planning code at least under the building code application that requires a conditional use authorizations from the planning commission the ability as present one the parties brief to do a comping out xaishl affordability and acceptable unit no longer an option for the merger so not a count without an conditional use authorization i want to make you aware of that provision be nevertheless of the compromises and i think the compromises that are may or may not address that will be maintaining the usable open space for the upper market units at least 8 hundred square
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feet requirement for the dimensions 6 by 6 for all that said we believe that was approved other than the correction we've noted to comply with the dr decision the project is code compliant it is with the residential design guidelines we felt before the planning commission reduced the scope of the project so hopefully that complies with the residential design guidelines and not an inappropriate addition to the block so i'm available for questions one other point a question about the setback of the ground floor structure it is less than 3 feet the clause was that it be approximately 3 feet in a way in the resulting the lower unit
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reduced in square footage more than 25 percent of reduced by more than 25 percent because of that case that will be considered a merger under the plan that's why the commission has that in there and found that spa, to be code compliant not but to provide as much setback there as possible without decreasing the size of the unit such that will be a merger under the planning code does that make sense? i'm available to answer any questions. >> more information purposes for clarification so commissioner moore made a motion and jonas read the wrong motion ? >> well, i mean the planning secretary. >> the secretary repeats back the motion so that's the time if that motion was not properly
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reflecting their motion that would be the opportunity to. >> none clarified it. >> right and then to compound things that was left out of the decision letter and this project was approved. >> not jonas fault the staff drafts the dr action. >> oh, okay. >> but it was yeah unfortunate oversight it happens but an unfortunate oversight. >> we granted the jurisdiction to correct that. >> yeah. that will be resolved on our end it - so i don't know how you'll vote want to but we will insure that that condition is satisfied you know that's why we're asking you to take an action to grant the appeal and
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to make that change 0 i don't know if you feel otherwise but vote to do that it/. >> clarify the direction. >> yeah. no outcome that results in a change we would have them foil a revision permit to have them strike that unless the board gives other direction. >> thank you go ahead. >> no, go ahead please. in terms of the residential design guidelines if this was rh-1 wouldn't that require a setback on the fourth floor rear too. >> no so the setbacks to the rear will be if in the rh-2 and rh-3 zoning district averages are being worked out used the last 10 feet that is there armenian to a health off thirty feet in the rh-1 the heights are
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reduced to 35 feet across the board depending on the lot configuration and typography but not an additional setback at the rh-1. >> only the front. >> exactly. >> the additional height limit at the front of the property. >> thank you. >> so i am confused and would like a clarification on the claim from the appellant that the project sponsor got around that which is the merger by simply restricting a thousand square feet area on the second unit i heard was yeah there is one thousand square feet that is the second unit but in the plans no plan for a bedroom or any residential characteristic. >> state penitentiary that
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kind of jerry rigging or playing with the law i mean what's your comment. >> i simply had discussion on another case a concern more merger in the last year and the concerns raised at the planning commission about this and what is to be - short circuitably the unit requirement the planning code states that you can reduce the unit and no more will be considered a merger even if the number of units are the same in this case they're coming applying and reducing the square footage and it is under the planning code not to be a merger there is a mucky in the plans an
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area on the plans yet mo' magic that is raised repeatedly they planning commission we're looking at amendments to the planning code 317 more broader focusing on the definition that is problematic but this is become more of a concern in the planning commission and may choose to deal with that in the future and relocating with an you aren't unit to the ground level and it is code compliant with an closer to the rear yard and has all the requirement necessary for the tuesday, march 21, 2017, but a policy to be discussed with the planning commission when units are relocated and 2ukd hunted the garage not a merger under the code but something when you know we've seen market materials listed as a single-family home
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and more closely and have two units this is a valid policy concern to see if there are other standards that needed to be applied to stop this from happening to have a real unit but this is no change to the code as of yet. >> so we had quite a few of the of those and reduced two regular sized unit but at which want someone can have a larger family size but a legal rental unit as mr. sanchez pointed out when the marketing unit comes ousted and that is some action taken as a two unit building is marked for identification as a single-family home we should have a violations. >> we contacted the folks that listed and made aware of those
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the most important thick the 3-r report it is legally a two unit building. >> so if so made to look like a duck and represent as a duck wellness wellness it must be a duck. >> no policy issues of the city beyond what the - it is ironic californ ironic cases illegal units opted out as illegal units and than ever end up trying to be legalized which we get into the bathroom, discussions and all of
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that and the whole thing is around well, you know the city needs bedrooms you know that's clearly stated by the mayor and the board of sups and everything else and then a situation like this where accordingly to carving out this space it is in compliance with a statute but really not occupiable and no intention because not on the plan to put in a kitchen and put. >> is there a question there. >> as hone on the plans a kitchen and bedrooms and a living area we'll not approve it as shown that as being worked out a dwelling unit. >> it is safe that is it passes the smell test as a unit that can be occupiable and
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occupied space. >> this is a between book. >> (laughter). thank you >>introoushgs has no comment any public comment on item this, please step forward >> good evening and welcome. >> hi my name is a marion north point street i one of the 15 neighbors that wrote a letter last year we lived on the block in the same home for 10 years my son is not the only home he's lived in a native san franciscan my concerns this current plan essentially takes a two
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family-friendly unit off the block and places those are one essentially single-family home plus a small in-law unit and, secondly, the developer is not a resident with the type of commitment to the block and the quality of life that those of us that live on the block and hope to live there a long time have this is where it gets personal i sunshine should note that move two years ago resulted in my sons best friend moving to marin they sent their children to public schools our block was teaming are with children a place to raise our children and had an informal agreement we'll stay on the block and see our kids graduate from high school our hope was that with that plan
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we might have the option of two families owner move-in so one of our disappointments and concerns at this point we can agree that will be difficult for a family of 3 to live in the in-law unit that we have seen in the plan so again, we're committed san franciscans we are trying to raise a family, our bedrooms our sons bedroom faces the backyard we have concerns of noise i support all the neighborhoods and other concerns regarding privacy but essentially this is personal matter in some ways it is a hard thing with you lose 5 kids off our block thank you for your time. >> thank you any other public comment. seeing none, have the rebuttal starting with the appellant.
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>> last year thank you, commissioners on the topic of modest thank you. i want to quote a couple of stiefks it had 33 percent there of height with 21 if you add 33 percent i'll be a freak of nature turn around any basketball player if they took an hour and this much time and people are involved in wrestling that is because that is so far out of compliance we're trying to bring it back into motion and thank you for the projector please so can you zoom out? in some way please.
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thank you so this is the approved motion this is. simple the commission secretary called the motion and by setback that is said the word with the 10 foot reduction and went on to make another point but clearly said that will eliminate the fourth floor terrace those commissioners are serious have significant investment and did a nice job no mistake that's what the motion was on the removal of fourth floor terrace now with respect to the statement what went on and what discussions on this terrace there were a lot of them and commissioners deck that one i'm getting god bless mr. tony we'll be comfortable get rid of of that for you and exposure
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have an additional balcony by reducing the pop out she was making a proposal to the project sponsor that if you further reduce the mass in front of this building by 3 feet have a juliette terrace not suggesting you can add a terrace but if you reduce the mass by three or four feet push it back that's the proposal and a lot of discussion that was difficult to where else this to the ground an important discussion we hold that as an extension of the impacts of other buildings 5 feet to the property line with commissioner moore and commissioner antonini i'll supportive and they run into the strategy in a conditional use problem in other words, to stay with and not to hit that make that a single unit reduced it to 3 in order they're saying they tried to come a better job of reducing the mass
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we're asking that the 15 resident tdr and commissioners eliminate the terrace and the commissioners didn't say access to the mid block open space and could - we think >> your time is up. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> okay mr. lee. >> yeah. one question. >> yes. please project sponsor has indicated they're willing to screen the sides of the extension in the current shape or reduced as per your desires does that work for you folks. >> did that work for us. >> in terms of at the second floor deck. >> yeah. >> screening at the - >> so the dilemma the screen is a barrier a wall; right? and while they provide some
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enhancement of privacy it dividends up the space i appreciate the thought and the willingness to try to find 0 something i hope we can continue. >> more please. >> you get our 3 minutes. >> i'll reiterate some of the facility issues the two hours or so two years it's taken took to bring this is to the board of appeals and wasn't something we did so they after the dr they made modifications not based on the dr that's taken extra time i'm sorry it took two years we'll actually live there so that is very important to us and in the privacy screen i agree with scott another blockage i'll look at a wall that will be the
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feet and blocking our sunlight and effecting our privacy even if they have the deck at 5 feet they'll see our bedrooms and we will be blocked more from the mid block let's see also want to talk about the motion on the terrace i think that scott pointed out not a motion but a number of suggestions when the motion was made it didn't include that fourth floor terrace and the setbacks were some mention the setbacks were made you know we didn't have setback from the back but when we were in the dr they asks us the appellant would we rather have the setback from the front of the house or the back we occupyed for the back we'll have been amenable to have him move the deck back 5 feet to have his
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deck if that is amenable and maintaining that separation on the front that is my comments i appreciate also the talk about the smell test from 317 i know you can't make decisions but i think that is something the city should consider that yeah you know it is nice to allow more density by people in their current properties to create a front property and continually because of city rules i think he'll be amenable give him a conditional use and not have a deck in the back and no issues of sunlight i don't know if that is in our purview but bring that up. >> as a side note the department mentioned reducing and removing rent-controlled units will be a large problem
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and we hear that quite a bit. >> uh-huh. >> we don't want to see rent-controlled units evaporate this is a legislative thing but this is why we're here. >> basically used as a storage room; right? and airbnb that will work but not they don't show up as a bedroom but a murphy bed and one thing i'll ask. >> that's okay that's the comments. >> did i get my 3 minutes. >> yes. you did. >> okay. >> i'd like to penned a minute talking about the lower unit that is 11 hundred square feet
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that's a real dwelling unit that we know there are concerns about making those units too small but a place in the city and a place in the city policy for smaller units you have a family-sized unit above and below can i have the overhead, please? this is the unit it is originally proposed separate bedroom here a living and dining and bath and kitchen with access to the rear yard it is a nice unit and liveable we made changes because of the planning commission pulling in the sides of the rear extension by 3 feet so what you see with the murphy bed a studio
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configuration to comply with the planning commission changes this - we know concerns about those projects marked as single unit not the case here two unit and finally to the balcony that really is an important amenity to the permit holder and came up because the planning commission was considering taking the terrace away completely and the roof deck and so as a compromise to provide a little bit more outdoor spates on the fourth floor they proposed to the balcony. >> thank you so mr. tony you brought of marketing and so this property will not be marketed as a two unit. >> mr. sanchez nothing further
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are commissioners unless other questions commissioners, the matter is submitted. >> i have a question for the zoning administrator. >> whatever's if we reduce the setbacks or on the little pop out. >> they will be required to maintain at least 75 percent of size of smartest unit in the existing building they're at the minimum now i don't see space that would be easily recaptured from within the building in terms of they're using month of that ground floor for the unit they are right at 75 percent now. >> if we do it did that create and the fact 0 meeting. >> it will require conditional
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use authorization so this plan would have an issue with those if it is i'm sorry we're a we're in closed session so no more public comment. >> a lightwell and there's marginal area that can be recaptured in the lightwell is reduced in size the garage is minimal as it is but, yeah i mean not able to keep it at one thousand 10 square feet they were to go smaller there will be a conditional use. >> thank you thanks. >> i guess we - planning will be very unhappy if we gave a conditional use. >> not quite sure how the code
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will. >> i don't care. >> with it it, be increased. >> i don't know so i'll start been a member of this please state your name and address over 4 years and every week, we deal with what those encroachment and privacy issues a large part is that we have a lot of people that all of a sudden are findings san francisco desirable that have a ton ever money and ininfringe only old san franciscans neighborhood the marina has been for the most part left unscathed just recently cyclist of those in the marina noah valley deals with
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over the last 15 years and other districts in san francisco had to deal with with quote/unquote monster homes not that that matters a fully notable hearing the planning departments you can wishes not to take dr and the planning commission still took dr and did a sizeable reduction i think that when we're talking about as my commissioners said will this be a two unit in the eyes of the planning department it is legal too unit this is a large project authorization situation and this board is not ready i'm not ready to tackle that particular deal the only question i have actually is from the zoning administrator can come up as well because i asked the question in regards to the juliette deck i
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thought that was what can you explain what happened i heard two stories upon - >> i mean as you may know these hearings and planning commission heartens xeechs ideas how to tackle the adversaries that are raised but we look at it and rely on the final motion so we go with the final motion i'm not going to get into the position of reinterpreting what was said but look at the final notion and the deliberation can be important. >> in particular case sorry to interrupt you but commissioner moore made the motion was there a motion misinterpreted entered sweet spot log. >> in our department we enforce the motion that was recited by the commission secretary and voted on about i did commission. >> so what's in the blocks as voted on.
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>> it was approved or not approved. >> so the fourth floor terrace shall be removed. >> and compounding things. >> so we'll ask if you agree with that that you grant the appeal and at minimum for the project and remove the fourth floor to comply with the commission decision. >> thank you i'm going to ask you a question. >> let me finish one second i'm very emphatic with the neighbors i went to middle school and grew up in the hood wasn't we're getting this everywhere i don't see any huge, huge monster home going up we see monster homes that are 6 and 7 and 8 thousand square feet
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these are very, very large homes just that none on the block made an improvement if you get f this deck you'll have more decks in the future so i'm kind of tossed but leaning towards a recommendation of the department at this time. >> commissioner swig. >> so in the black deck is that size into the need of new open space or just so that deck can't be reduced in size or scope or - >> excellent question there are two issues one is compliance of the size of that lower unit and this is a small as that can that deck above splts planning code required to have one hundred square feet of open
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space for that unit they're at one and i think 200 square feet so the size of the deck can be reduced. >> but 200 square feet. >> under the code the detachments have to be clear in every direction but certainly room to reduce the size. >> it can be narrowed to protect the privacy issue somewhat brought by the thought neighbors. >> yeah. >> so is it my turn that's really good thank you. >> so. >> mr. sanchez thank you. >> oh, no, don't leave. >> everybody wants the z a. >> i want to make a comment i think that the privacy issue is important one i live in the marina i love the marina and i understand the citizens and the
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backyard and understand the open space in the backyard i share the opinion of the president we've seen this and appealed in the marina this behavior you know by the developers that want to let's face it folks make money and go against the history of the neighborhood that is their discretions they have to look at in the mirror but supported by the law their supported by the law but with regards to that back deck and privacy i know putting in privacy all that does is screw up the open space or the light and air of entire mid block area and i honestly think and the
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only solution and best compromise of the reduction of back deck to the lowest possible condition in defying republicans the key lot that the neighbors protects everyone and the lowering of the fence from 6 to 4 feet and behind my house a 6 foot fenced the way it is you look at keeping some of the open space by not making it to improve the suggestion by a different type of fence that's up to the developer i think to look at into the conscious. >> and with regards to the deck on the top my interpretation that deck was balanced so i don't think we
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follow our direction whatever the motion that might be if we that we address that and balance that that's all. >> the open space requirement with those two units satisfied by the rear yard and except the design didn't provide access to the rear yard for the upper market unit it is interesting given the upper market unit is 3000 square feet but anticipated having i mean supports the fact that lower unit will be used and . >> more independent. >> not illegal to have two unit to occupy as one. >> that's correct. >> thank you mr. sanchez. >> thank you batter up.
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>> i'll make a motion to up to date uphold the appeal that the top floor deck be babtd abandoned and the back deck reduced to the lowest possible size to comply with the city statutes. >> i believe you said one hundred square feet. >> that deck is 200. >> 95 secret. >> i'm advocating that it be reduced to one hundred square feet. >> let me clarify the plan is 200 square feet but then i think that is the entire roof area because the railings are enforced the existing is 200 square feet but not want it to go further out but keep it at
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the width and reduce the depth to one hundred square feet and that's it. >> what will you recommend as the planning expert reduce the width or reduce the depth for a privacy stand point. >> i mean certainly bringing it back in as closed to the building a positive but the amount i think that is set off 5 feet. >> i'm sorry your hand did work we're in closed session at this point. >> i'll say to keep the width as is but reduce the depth to one hundred square feet the neighborhoods may have a preference how that is but okay with making that weirder as long as you get the minimum do we want possible but from the plans as they are now to bring into the developed to square feet.
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>> the motion. >> one hundred, 200 square feet for the reducing the depth of the roof deck. >> and so just - and the basis of that motion? >> i think the basis is for the deck and keeping with the open space character. >> the mid block. >> the mid block open space? and with regards to the upper deck with the intention of planning commission resolution. >> okay. and then commissioner swig to clarify is your motion to reduce the the
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depth of second floor roof deck to the lowest possible size are you taking - >> the square footage to the lowest possible size where the recommendation of reducing the depth of the deck. >> and this is the second floor roof deck. >> yes. >> so the motion by the commissioner swig to grant the appeal and condition the permit to remove the top floor roof deck and reduce the second floor to the lowest possible size one square feet removing the top floor roof deck executes the resolution and reducing the second floor roof deck support of character of the mid block open space. >> on that motion commissioner vice president fung
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commissioner president honda no and commissioner wilson oh, i. >> okay. is there a motion with a vote of 3 to one with one absent needs four votes to be upheld that motion fails and the board can continue this to allow the missing commissioner to participated with another action or if you do nothing that will remain as is. >> i'll move to continue this case so the missing commissioner can participate. >> my thoughts were i'm supportive of top floor deck disappearing not supportive of mraundz stated the deck not quite 2 hundred feet at this point and side rails in my
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opinion you know not we're - a lot of this has been taken off that project already i'm sorry the rest of the neighborhood has not had improvements to the back of the property as per - >> there's a motion. >> sorry. >> versus a rehearing at this point. >> so commissioner vice president fung do you want to pick a date for the continuance you want to she's also out on the 29 commissioner president honda are you here on april 5th is that the question. >> we moved to another date to accommodate another commissioner; is that correct? >> yes. i'm not sure my daughters is off but. >> the large number of cases on the 19 is that all related to. >> those are all at&t sidewalk
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cases. >> are they held. >> they're not all but 7 that may move. >> let's move this my motion to continue this to april 19th. >> okay so the vice president has a motion to continue to the 19 of april to allow commissioner lazarus to participate on that motion commissioner president honda no. >> commissioner wilson no commissioner swig. >> no okay. that motions fails. >> go ahead commissioner swig. >> i'll make a motion the same motion with regards to the top floor deck and remove my comment on the - >> second floor deck. >> so the motion to grant the appeal and condition the permit
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to remove the top floor deck it executes the planning commission resolution. >> okay on that motion commissioner vice president fung no commissioner president honda and commissioner wilson the bo
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together. vs. the department of building inspection at 819 ellis street. and item 8b - philip achilles vs. the zoning administrator at 819 ellis street. 819 ellis street protesting the denial on 2017 of an alteration permit with the notice of violation and building inspection complaint and the second appeal is of issuance on january 11th of a notice of violation amending violations of the planning code with a group housing without a building permit application and
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for a tourist without conditional use authorization. >> good evening and welcome. >> thank you very much two appeals and 14 minutes if you need to present your case i'm ray the immediate past president of the location school and the in the mission district and a friend for the past 40 years if not long run the american cap and a great contributor to the community and during that time in 2003 was recent to purchase the building at 819 ellis street where w he ran the shuttle business very successful as you may know in the past few years the cab business and the shuttle business has taken a number of hits starting with
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9/11 for people getting out of the airport with the 2008 recession but more importantly the arrive of uber changed the business altogether and the cab business and shuttle businesses have grown because of that he wants to move to the third story a hostile that will deal with you know youth traveling from europe or whatever and others and he payroll applied for the permit to do this and hired an architect to make plans those plans railroad submitted and told not adequate this sort of died for quite a period of time
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he is interested in picking up this and you know meeting all the compliance that are needed in doing that asked me to help him i've asked him to hire mr. sanchez a friend of the vocational school and will develop a plan to gather the plans to do the necessary drawings of architectural work and engineering and what we'll request for given 60 days to come up with a plan to present to the planning commission, planning department. >> thank you, sir for note taking owl 14 minutes. >> sir a question your friend has filed for a
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conditional use? >> yes. meaning. >> what's the status of that. >> what's the status. >> of that placates. >> i think from what was i'm hearing today, the department of building inspection has said to they don't want to continue with it because the time leverage that is going through that i think that is what. >> i think they because there were no response from your friend. >> well the gentleman has not been well and surgery i would building that i've had terminal issues he to run something out of airport and so i think there is just some sort of misunderstanding we asked me to
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help we would like to make that mean that will be a significant improvement to the building and to the area actually as well the building is other 819 ellis street between polk street and a van ness so an vantage advantageous position with buses and such. >> thank you. >> mr. sanchez. >> thank you scott sanchez planning department. the city first became aware of that enforcement in 2014 the city attorney's office reviewed the public complaint about the the subject property that is legally a bargaining at the upper level is used for a tourist total e hotel the city did a joint task force inspection in 2014 with representative from city attorney's office the building department and fire department
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and the health department a violation it was used instead of a legal use as a hostile we substantially created the enforcement case, the sponsor the property owner submitted a property owner application to have a legal use as a hotel and in that year they substantially filed the conditional use authorization that is required for the use in july they were didn't have complete applications not diligently pursuing we issued a notice of violation and that was appealed to the board, however, withdrawn prior to the hearing because our understanding they were going to come into compliance and remove the illegal use and submitted the building permit application
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to update the application by removing the illegal work and restore that as parking that permit was approved by our department we had response from the property owner they didn't intend to seek the conditional use authorization we closed that case due to inactivity earlier this year the same time we sent this for cancelation they filed in 2014 they've not made progress on the application appear no intent to legalize the use and dbi has an ongoing enforcement situation with a parking garage life safety considerations by using the parking space for hostile or any other residential use and late labor the building department confirmed they're using it and friends in there being worked
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out opted out so we issued a notice of violation that is on appeal to you today and with the city attorney's office there is no apparent effort to move forward they can abate this live safety issue by not occupying the spaces we're happy to work with them 60 or 90 days for the proper process to have a legal use there but there are life safety considerations we on the violation this be abated and the proper process should be undertaken to legalize the use we work with the property owners to go through province we're not seeing good faith efforts to legalize this they've filed and not respond to our requirements and then substantially said a
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they'll not pursue that they'll pursue a permit for the removal of illegal work and still not issued by the department of building inspection but the property owner has not sought to comply we've been in communication with their representatives they've generally not think responsive to us to give a site visit and confirm the notice of violation has been ability our staff was communicating with the representative someone named nicole i think a designer they said they wanted temporary occupancy to have this a tourist hotel use this is not possible in the last communication if january 2017 it was already we'll discuss it and get a back to you we've not had
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communication since that time we've happy to work with them and respectfully ask you uphold this and refer to the city attorney's office and get compliance. >> thank you are you done. >> so the violation would that be like our old friend the department will be airbnb or a different - >> so there are two issues one. >> i'm sorry you're telling me i'm thinking. >> back in 2014 it was initially handled as a airbnb violation but two things the historic violation using a dwelling unit to rent it out. >> it's an illegal space. >> and an illegal hotel so the other question your enforcement are they currently listing or
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have active listing. >> i received communication that from the city attorney's office which said they believe that we're still being worked out rented or listed so it is - >> do you guys have our own department with enforcement have you checked with that department. >> yes. it has not think evidenced where they look at. >> i know the site it is difficult i've seen it. >> not that i'm aware of that. >> from the last sited dbi gained entry and will be a violation and happy to get out there tomorrow. >> the other question i've been in violation evil for two years plus what are the
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penalties and involved in that eventually for business making money and they've profited and should not be there according to the city and county of san francisco in oakland people should not have perished. >> this is where we did the notice of violation in 2014 and had legal counsel representing them you know they were went through the appeal appeared to abate the violation and no listing so the penalty were assessed and last year became aware it was still in use so. >> okay. thank you. >> so the win-win situation here that's what we try to do; right? win-win situation win-win being worked out city gets a legal building, the owner the building gets to do what they want to do
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with that so in the path to that is seize and deceptive with a recommended - to illustrate how they couldn't get into compliance and providing a timeline to get there and then if they get there by the end of the timeline they win and you win too or the z a wins is that where we're going important a win-win >> could be a win-win we want them to abate the violation to so the property is in compliance they have as much time to pursue
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the permit and no one is renting a bed in an illegal hotel, etc. >> thank you so the undermining entitlements for the building is only parking. >> yes. i mean, that's my understanding of the space in question. >> no other uses that are allowed at the site previously. >> my understanding that is legally a parking garage. >> only yeah. >> and there is actually a permitting process trots police department for getting a parking ability to do parking seeking that again with the change of ownership but holding that permit pending a resolution of this complaint as well. >> and would it be safe to say
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that if to they're going to continue with the conditional use application 60 days will not be aries. >> 60 days i mean, we want compliance and . >> i understand that but the reality of cu process in their application not going to be done in 60 days. >> we - the application was filed in july of 2014 it would have been completed had they intended to pursue that. >> but asking for the continuance of the 60 days for a period. >> the building is currently for sale and for sometime. >> you mentioned you're holding into the parking i thought that that is a permit issued after 3 years if you are not doing business you abandon that and requires a cu; right? >> the permit is the
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authorization in the police department for licensing the operators so in our books the use is legally parking but this authorization in the police department. >> but by using it as a legal hotel shouldn't they have that usage they're no longer users it for over two years. >> the majority of the building is in use arrest for parking. >> the third floor. >> there could be a argument the laugh use. >> it is ended. >> correct. >> all right. thank you. >> wow. what a privilege we've not heard 2, 3, 4 from joe duffy. >> joe duffy dbi i want to
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agree with mr. sanchez not repeat but dbi has actions on many building most notably a couple of notices of violation i can read them out probably the best one this is the thirty of june 2014 site inspection a change of occupancy from the residential with required permits construction i e bedrooms on the third floor and shower and restroom on the second floor part of structure lacks the structure dignity stop the illegal use of building and have an engineering do a study and obtain the permits for all required inspection for the
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complaint that's an open complaint obviously nothing is done on that and the next notice of violation from a housing inspector and this is a 3 story building on the illegal is commercial presently two parking garage auto repair and came back services and office on the third story and the creation of bunk beds in the third floor and a water heater has been installed along with bathrooms on the third floor and there's a list of code violations that will take me 10 minutes to read i'll spare you that you're getting the picture we have a building permit that looks like it should have been picked up by now to remove the illegal construction on the
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third floor and a separate permit for the changes of use that permit has not been issued but getting the permit will be key at least to eliminate the illegal residential use and then go move forward with a change of use permit will have to go through the planning department and then the building department for structural life safety, go accessibility if you want to convert any building to another use that is part of the progress particularly when you put people in there to life it is important it meets strict codes we've not had that yet that's it i'm available to answer any questions. >> questions inspector duffy. >> you issued notice of violation over 2 to 3 years and
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evolving not ceased and desisted bad things happen like in oakland at which point did the city stop sending notices do you red tag the building. >> that's a that's a good question i mingle the city attorney's office will try to get an order issued to get the people out of there i mean. >> i mean what happens if there is a fire and the city has been giving them citations and the life safety threats have not been met. >> i agree with you that's a question for the planning department. >> this is one the worst types of violations people in the building that are mother their asleep and no life safety that
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is what happens it happened recently in oakland that is a serious violation it is disturbing to here people are living in there. >> how terrible to have all the people visiting in japan and greece and have a bad situation that's why we have hotels the gentleman is a representative of the owner you should hear more. >> thank you inspector duffy. >> it is frustrating when those things happen a task force team since the oakland event a few of them they had to get the people out of there and put a paddle lock on the donor. >> that's where we should be heading over 2 and a half years. >> any public comment on this item? seeing none, we have rebuttal
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starting for of minutes. >> it our intention to bring this up to code and do what is necessary to do and make that an appropriate unit to my knowledge none on the third floor i toured it last week and certainly that was empty and i've asked that so i don't know about the past but it is a really fine location for what he's proposing to do and commissioner swig said perhaps a win-win go situation i'd like to pursue that. >> i appreciate that. >> mr. sloan. >> i'm probably going to ask questions you may not have the questions eventually but notice of violations were issued in 2014 and as of last year that was still currently occupied and used for a non-valid usage so do
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you have any information. >> i don't i only saw the third floor in the last couple of weeks. >> don't want to kill the messenger. >> mr. sanchez. >> scott sanchez planning department. briefly to address commissioner president honda concerns rightful concerns about this matter so we did pursue enforcement in 2014 they were diligently pursuing the legalization issued a notice of violation we had processes and pled that process they appealed the notice of violation and requested a lengthy continuous and we said no given the life safety matters involved they withdraw the appeal demonstrated the compliance the
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reoffending we're made aware of that late last year and went through the process to get this to the city attorney's office so we're asking the board uphold to refer to the city attorney's office so we don't have to go through the process every time they want to they can go to the it don't make any difference and enforce yeah, and bring this as necessary for compliance. >> i know this has hit the spotlight how many other cases the city is dealing with. >> there are not that many i mean, i don't know the numbers i think that is less than a dozen properties like the task force is involved in doing the property. >> thank you mr. sanchez. >> inspector duffy nothing further no commissioners, the matter is submitted. >> the matters plural are
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submitted. >> well, my permanent lot to uphold the appeal on the i mean to deny the appeal excuse me - and to affirm the departments decision no basis for this. >> they are different so the first is the permit and that's the and the other is error in the discretion of penalties. >> deny the appeal on the grounds no error or abuse on the part of the department mr. sanchez are you making a motion. >> yes. >> okay so there are two. >> i don't make that often. >> so there are two different matters so the you're denying the appeal of both matters on one the we will need a different
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sentence. >> that the permit was properly issued. >> properly denied now he backs me up (laughter). >> so my understanding a motion from the president to deny the appeal for the permit was properly denied and the next appeal excuse me - the notice of violation no error or abuse of discretion by the zoning administrator with respect to the notice of violation. >> yes. >> okay. i do such a good job. >> for those motion for the two appeals commissioner president honda and commissioner wilson commissioner swig that motion carries and the appeals are denied thank you the last item on the calendar a. >> and we're back
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welcome back to the wednesday, march 22, 2017, meeting the board of appeals we're on item 9 item no. 9 - michael davenport & stephen hamilton vs. the department of building inspection at 595 noe street.. 595 noe street protesting the issuance on february 8th to mark oden and timothy tieu of an alteration permit and remodeling of one one bedroom and addition of two new bedrooms and bathrooms for the ab dash 009 start with the appellants all appellants come on up. >> thank you. being worked out patient you're lucky the cases would be at 9 o'clock and 10 act mime making
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davenport on 819 ellis street stephen hamilton may consider the sale of 595 noe street and 599 the sale of the property to mark oden the realtor melinda said that was a pleasure working with us and gave his gift cards in 2016 we are mother here to protest improvements of properties not why we're here we're here we're concerned we're concerned for your health asbestos and led paint when we opened up the walls we know
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there is mold in the building we have proof of that we are to have a happy relationship with the owners timothy tieu and mark oden going forward steve hamilton is a disability senior with serious medical conditions the led to his surgery in november of 2016 and is trying to recovery i'm 71 years old disabled senior under continued care of my doctor for respiratory and allergies i suffer from allergies public policy less than and car fumes on a daily basis and must take 5 prescriptions of medicine to help me come up with my breathing in the day and night air quality is poor i stay inside and i have high blood
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pressure and hypertension forcing me to have chest spasms and breathing that can be difficult at times i've been operated on twice on my nose forfeiture bent reduction to open my nasal he will i have allergies i'm - i've suffered from paint fumes and wood ceiling compounds that can you see me vomiting and i can't be around construction because of health conditions mime here today requesting that the new landlords mark oden and timothy tieu give stephen
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hamilton and hierarchy reasonable xhumgdz temporarily relocating us to an apartment to think within a one mile radius away if construction and renovation and definition for 3 month period and then to move us into our home at the 595 noe street louis us peace and quiet and enjoyment of life the construction and renovation to 595 noe street will make the building uninhabitable for all remaining tenants there is no plan in place for relocation of tenants so as i stated we don't have objections to improvement we believe homes should be improved i have an e-mail if timothy tieu that was sent to us after steve's operation and it gave us
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great southern may >> place it as although our looking at it, sir can i have the overhead, please? >> okay i also bought with me an e-mail from the third floor tenant when they had their inspection the hired air quality testing i
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believe. i'm sorry. >> american air testing they have bad reviews i checked them online they people complain that they ignore mold inside the house and so rebecca from the third floor no longer lives there sent me an e-mail i said did you ever have mold problems this is her reaction we also have >> face it as though our looking at it, sir. >> i apologize i'm new to this. >> me, too that's fine. >> so i want you to see that we also have pictures of mold that grew in our bathroom
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and just a couple of weeks ago from the second floor i smelled bleaching in the hallway from the second floor. >> i'm sorry, sir move the mike over. >> my neighbor on the second floor told me this is john that he had mold problems in the bathroom and a hard time get rid of this is happening spotted with mold and grows on the doors and everywhere we're you trying to keep on top of it thank you. >> are you done, sir. >> you have 30 seconds i believe. >> okay question regarding the bombards are there vent or windows open ventilation into those bathrooms. >> that's a window in any bathroom i believe. >> pardon me.
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>> an exhaust fan in your bathroom. >> nothing like that i don't see how we're in this part time demolition knocking down walls and sheet rocking. >> you'll have time in unreasonable we'll hear from the permit holder now. >> we'll hear from the permit holder now. >> you'll more time in rebuttal. >> come on up don't be shy >> good evening and welcome. >> commissioner president honda and members of the board good evening and thank you for your time and consideration my name is mark oden and my co-sponsor owner timothy tieu and working in san francisco for many years and have recently be able to buy a building we wish
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to call home the building has 3 units two are rented and the third is racket the vacant unit is under gotten not under gotten repairs and hopefully, we can make that comfort for tim we've presented a written brief and available for questions and point out the following details to the benefit the public and the board we're working with the appropriate and agency guidelines for the air quality those agrees are thoroughly reviews similar cases for the protection of the public we've showed we would like to offer the board assess to the property to see how the lower property are separated we also offer this image from google street to the board
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here as you can see the sideline 595 noe street that is the bottom unit and 599 here are the entrances the entrance to 595 noe street and not shown the entrance to 595. >> we're not performing the definition one note the picture the indigents of 595 noe street there is an address second floor staircase and not performing demolition work for the record stephen is an original occupant awhile michael is a sub or subsequent occupant testing by an authorized agency is not showing demolition with a process
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neither stephen more michael is proving a - and test results prior to the filing the appeal areas having worked on to are lead and the air quality management we'll be making sure that is safe of lead allegations we feel this is important to point out the housing inspection farther of stephen and michaels exhibit have no assess inform 595 noe street nor the basement and therefore can't perform an adequate inspection we'd like to reiterate we want to not cause inconvenience to the neighborhood and to limit the hours of construction beyond the state allows and the radios onsite inspection not heard we've collected letters 2, 3, 4595 noe street and our tenant
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john is here as a member of the audience we've also received a letter of support kitty-corner from 9th street and the bay area management district in addition to all the previous argument we're referring to the golden gate rent board which states the construction noise is not grounds for a rent reduction and the maintenance work during normal working hours and didn't interfere with the premises please forgive use it must be shown the city is in error by not following the planning code by lack of procedure the items
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on the appraisal are not appropriate for this board we tried to reach out to stephen and michael to have reasonable discussions and yet are lowfat the appellant know we want to build a strong and positive relationship this appeal has detailed the construction by 6 weeks and we've paid double rent and mortgage and legal fees any further delays will cost us more money we ask the board of appeals uphold the permit with no new conditions and recognize this appeal is frivolous in nature thank you for your time. >> are you finished, sir a question i pass that building all the time you've hired a also architect and go contractor as well. >> - i'm sorry if you speak dgo come to the mike. >> we're here with our
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architects. >> you guys are lead abatement folks as well. >> yes. >> thank you and my mom is here a lead certified person. >> a question if commissioner swig. >> is there any common hallway or passage any common beds that shares air with the 0 other two apartments. >> the architect can speak to that. >> that's okay. >> state your name you're the licensed architectural i am the project manager. >> there are not any shared other than the front person a shared stairs out back and a
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shared set of stairs to a common area but nothing combrsdz they have individual unit not shared. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you we'll hear from the department now. >> inspector duffy. >> inspector duffy wow. >> two cases in a row. >> oh, yeah and joe duffy dbi the building permit on appeal is over the approval for the renovation of a 3 unit building with 3 locations one bedrooms and laundry and kitchen and the bathroom two new bedrooms and bodily harm and property line windows the permit was issued on the 8 of february and suspend in
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february 2017 and went through planning and mechanical plan check and the fire department plan check and our housing inspection services as well there are currently no open complaints? >> on the property we expect the work from the permit is upheld to be down to planning code that is the notification for the lead paint take care of the asbestos we've heard that there the bay area air quality and we ask the work for the neighbors and the tenants keep the place clean do your project properly and be respectful other than that i'm available for questions if there are any >> can you explain to me inspector duffy what are the hours of operation that a contractor can work.
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>> yeah. so the allowable construction hours are liberal there 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. 7 days a week that's time to do work we don't encourage people to use that time do. >> with the amount of minutes available. >> correct but it is pretty the weekend work is apparently for homeowners to do their own work it is more liberal than other areas. >> if approved the permit holders can work 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. >> if they wish. >> okay. thank you mr. duffy who inspects for the lead abatements. >> the housing inspection services have a lead abatement program if we have a concern
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this is not following the housing inspections the lead abatement goes to the site for improper measures i think we spoken about this in apartment building that respects renovated a notification and a containment process if we got a complaint we don't go out unless we're notified and the building inspector will take into consideration as well but it is usually
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please step forward. >> good evening and welcome. >> good evening. i'm john, i
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live at 595 noe street directly underneath the unit under construction i want to voice my support for the project they've been excellent in communication up to this stand point. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you any other public comment. seeing none, we'll have rebuttal starting with the appellant. >> are you allowing him to use your time, sir welcome again. >> so we have a valid permit on the very first page the floor plans talks about contacting the neighbors this is not a regular maintenance case we do have extensive demolition but partition walls the lead
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abatement that be containment and noise also will travel through the structure that will reach all the way to the occupant on the ground floor also, they the project will be about a year in their own writing of the permit applicant to i want to stress the impacts on the occupant of the same building they don't live there i understand this is a home business occupation the two tenants are elderly and disabled so that's why i think yes. the permit has to be exhausted but
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take into consideration the downstairs neighbors their disabilities their age. >> and their business. >> that's all i have to say i'm going to be short. >> they're running a business out of a residential home. >> a home occupation work. >> okay. >> okay. >> so a translation business out of their home. >> that's what was explained to me. >> okay. thank you. >> did they have extra time if you like to add you have a little bit of time left. >> glen eagle and thank you for hearing the case before the p.m. i'm a freelance translator
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i work out of my home how much time. >> there's a clock in front of you. >> 55 okay so i live at 595 noe street and under the continued care of my doctor on several prescriptions medications and as i said a translate i work at home and any certain amount of peace and quiet awhile mime translating the services this is how i make my living so the peace and quiet of my home is important for that and had an operation in november and still recovering from that and that will be a setback and in my opinion to my health with all the construction that is my
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time thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> okay rebuttal from the permit holders. >> so hello, again so the first one i want to point out is that we're sensitive and deeply sad to hear about the issues of our tenants and mentions we're willing to work with them for reasonable accommodations on the e-mails they showed from us things that haven't been testified we'll be can offer like flirting machines i'll help them with that and the inspection housing report there was not assess to the unit that is being done the construction is being worked out
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done to the unit it is not valid we found our testing we provided in our brief around the testing we've done and the work we've been communicating closely with the air quality management district to make sure we're doing everything up to code and ton to do so as we move forward yeah, that's pretty much it. >> thank you nothing further from the department no commissioners, the matter is submitted. >> i'll start so hunter's view we hear a lot of the cases and in my opinion i feel that the permit holders are trying to work with the tenants and appear to be very sincere a lot of times that those cases come before this particular
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board we get involved unfortunately through the permit process of construction evictions and we hear all the time that the contractor are going from sunup to sundown their legitimate and instead of a project that can take months this takes 9 months it is refreshing to hear landlords public school taking on tenants and being worked out responsible landlords i did i'm sorry that the tenants have some health issues and will be enconvenience but in my opinion they are going 0 above and beyond and this board would have heard this case in a different light i'm more than that strongly leaning an
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denying the appeal for you know that's where i'm coming from. >> any thoughts i'm not quite in agreement whether they've done everything they could have they're done he everything to respond legally to protect their permit it would have been perhaps a little bit more effective if they've talked about how they're going to contain how they'll do the taping of doorways and openings to provide some level of confidence this particular impact will be handled no way they'll be able to handle the noise the construction will not happen by the way, i would correct the permit holder this is the
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notable not based on error in terms of the principles but the end result i'm with you because unfortunately it is more of a civil issue than a permit issue and both parties are rights that includes the permit holder. >> i agree that is nice to see people that are somewhat responsible in their opinion. >> motion. >> like to make a motion. >> no. >> i'm sorry what is the basis. >> a nobel hearing. >> my motion to deny the appeal the permit was properly issued. >> two in one night that's a record. >> so the motion from the president to deny the appeal and uphold the appeal it was
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properly issued commissioner vice president fung commissioner wilson commissioner swig that that item passes with a vote of 4 to zero and. >> there's no further business. >> thank you >> if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encoura >> the annual celebration of hardly strictly bluegrass is
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always a hit now completing itself 12 year of music in the incredible golden gate park. >> this is just the best park to come to. it's safe. it's wonderful and such a fun time of the year. there is every kind of music you can imagine and can wander around and go from one stage to another and just have fun. >> 81 bands and six stages and no admission. this is hardly strictly bluegrass. >> i love music and peace. >> i think it represents what is great about the bay area. >> everyone is here for the music and the experience. this is why i live here. >> the culture out here is amazing. it's san francisco. >> this is a legacy of the old warren hel ment and receive necessary funding for ten years after his death.
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>> there is a legacy that started and it's cool and he's done something wonderful for the city and we're all grateful. hopefully we will keep this thing going on for years and years to come. >>[gavel] >> good afternoon everyone. this meeting will come to order. welcome to the march 22 2000 something regular meeting of the rules committee. my name is super supervisor safai chairman of the committee did
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to my right is vice chairman sandy fewer and to my left is supervisor norman chinese. our clerk is derek evans also like to thank phil jackson and jesse larson at sfgov tv for stepping this meeting. mr. clerk any announcements? >> yes please silence all electronic devices eating and drinking is not permitted in the gallery the please provide any doctrines in the legislative file to be submitted to the clerk. items acted on today will be around march 28, 2017 supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated >> thank you mr. cook it please: number one >> item 1 hearing consider appointing one of her term ending june 6, 2018 to the immigrant rights commission. there are two seats and one applicant. >> thank you mr. clerk. [inaudible] applied for seat find 11. seat one and five and
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five that's baking and is applying for those seats. so mr. clerk, as lessors any comments were announcements for my committee members will go ahead and call ms. roy to come to present and we can ask questions. >> supervisors safai, fewer, yee my name is angela wooley animate immigrate from chile. i been living in san francisco for close to 10 years. like many immigrants before me i came to san francisco in hopes of better opportunities. lightwave was to attend uc berkeley which after many trials and tribulations and low-wage jobs i was able to do. i graduated with a political science degree from uc berkeley. since then i've worked leading political campaigns locally and also try to take a you should
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role in my committee. currently the president of the san francisco young democrats which the largest chapter of democrats in the state. when i first orders of business has been to open the organization for noncitizens, including immigrants, holding different type of visas, and [inaudible] immigrants. currently, that policy has been discussed statewide demo which really makes me proud. it's been my dream to apply to the commission since i was a student at berkeley did i been attending meetings regularly since 2013. i have also done a lot of work in the immigrant community. i started teaching literature and spanish at the college of san francisco and then moved on to doing the productive rights work to california rights for reproductive justice, and also with the aclu,, dictating or
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teaching know your rights workshops to immigrants as well as advocating for the [inaudible] drivers license if it appointed to the commission i'm hoping to bring my enthusiasm and dedication to the community to the commission i also have a log of communication skills and a lot of contacts in the community, which i hope to utilize not only to promote the work that immigrant rights commission is doing, but also to bring more people and more diverse immigrant communities into the fold. thank you. >> thank you ms. roy. let's hear from our committee members. supervisor fewer any questions or comments? okay supervisor yee >> yes just a quick question. i'm just curious, like when you were a student what actually sparked your interest to be on this commission?
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>> when i was in college-i mean i've always been passionate about politics. but i really wanted to do was to become an integral part of the community of my city, san francisco. it was in that attempt to try to get back that made me want to apply to the commission and to become involved in all the organizations i have. >> okay. >> great. thank you ms. roy. i don't think there's any of the questions from our committee members. there's two seats, one applicant. looking at your resume and knowing your background i think you are imminently qualified to hold the position. i think it's great for commission to of someone that has a perspective all the way from their years in undergraduate assuming they were shooting towards-i think that makes it special for you and for our city. so i appreciate that. so if there
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are no further comments from the commissioners, is there anyone the way to have public comment on this item? speakers have 2 min. clearly, state your name and speak directly into the microphone for maybe the copy the document for the official file but these, went up to the right if there's any speakers on this item. thank you. >> good afternoon supervised my name is roscoe maps. i have had the privilege and honor of knowing angela and working closely with her for a while now. i met her about three years ago and i think anyone who's ever worked with her immediately is drawn to her spirit for life. her energy is extraordinary. when i first met her, i wonder where it came from and after hearing her immigrant story, i knew that it
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was special. she had a determination, drive a resilience and i believe on this commission she will carry all those characteristics with her. i think shall serve us very well and i just thank you so much not only for your work, with immigration rights, but also considering her for this opportunity. think you very much. >> thank you. and your members alike to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> can i make a motion? >> yes, please >> i make a motion we accept angela roy as applicant for the emergent rights commission. >> foresee? >> seat-i would say seat number one >> okay.
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>> i'm more than one to support her dreams from college days. >> exactly. i know her accomplishments of fully confidential do a great job. >> jacuzzi with positive recommendation >> positive recommendation >> thank you. so there's a motion that doesn't need a second without objection this item is approved. congratulations ms. roy. >>[gavel] he was please, call the next next item >> item number to appoint two members terms ending march 1, 2022 the in-home supportive services public authority. there's two seats, two applicants >> thank you mr. clerk. messrs. initial comments from the committee, let's hear from our applicant mr.-yes mr. mike boyd and easy macarthur. if you would please come forward and addressed the committee?you can
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adjust one at the time >> good afternoon supervisors. supervisor fewer safai yee. hello. my name is daisy macarthur [inaudible] if you recall from last month i've been with the in-home support services for over 25 years. i have worked hard and diligently for senior citizens, the handicapped, and also the members could i service the tenderloin. i service north hill. i service mission. i serviced fillmore. bayview. i
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am all over. i have a passion for this paperwork may be because watching my mother coming up in the deep deep south how they would take care of the neighbors and how [inaudible] we would have to get buckets of water and do certain things and watch the bandages and everything. also, i have a passion because my sister was a medical doctor in new york city. i worked very hard for public authority and also for my members here in san francisco. there is not anything that is too high that i won't claim i can do and have help my fellow citizens and also my fellow members. i worked on time she changes. appeals. i go and visit them i have meetings once a month and when the registry gets there a full at public authority i will go in and i will get the job application that will take them around and place them in all the sros, the wanderings, the
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bodega stores. for anyone that has a passion for home care, to come in and sign up and take the classes and have their fingerprints done and get on board. i have been recognized for many years here at the board of supervisors. by many supervisors that have gone on in the past. from the state to the county, i worked on school boards from the state to the county. you know, that's about all i can say to you will, but i really believe have a passion for what i do. helping people. no matter what time of it is at night, told everybody, call me. i am constantly walking the street looking for the members, feeding the homeless, caring
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for the homeless, doing anything i can do to help out here in the city. so, thank you. >> thank you ms. macarthur. mr. boyd. >> michael boyd. i been on the advisory committee. i worked in special systems [inaudible] roberts worked for jerry brown for eight years in the largest disability organization in the world. after which he got a macarthur genius fellowship could he was inducted into the california hall of fame and this will be the sixth year that had the state hold a in his honor at roberts state january 23. he was paralyzed by polio and for 45 years he made the joke, he said i think walking is highly overrated i have not walked in 45 years. i
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took his one-of-a-kind 1970 wheelchair to the smithsonian and spoke at a memorial ceremony at the office building . berkeley honored tom bates and loni hancock this year. fred roberts day because they were his next door neighbors and even very well. but because san francisco is kind of a nursing home city, he was never allowed into san francisco. no one knows who he is. no one in the house storm and or in-home supportive services as celebrated his state holiday. i have some information here. a woman named diana carson has publish a children's book about ed roberts. the martin luther king of disability that i hope
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to get through the board of education. one of his closest friends patrick conley now deceased, go straight in the book. but, berkeley is most sophisticated city in the world for people with disabilities. it's the highest per capita city in the entire world. san francisco we used to say is 25 years behind it it's really like 40 years behind. every bureaucrat in san francisco has a nursing home mentality. when at roberts was a teenager he spent two years in a nursing home and was the most horrible experience of his life. he spent the rest of his life destroying them nursing home monopoly and creative. california was the first home care state is the largest home care state now. their home care in every state in the union. he
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was called the martin luther king of disability when he died. he traveled internationally. he was called the mahatma gandhi of disability. he had federal contracts in 47 states and 27,000 disabled people having trained in his advanced as though the leadership. zero having trained in california. zero having trained in san francisco. 27,000 people having trained. anyhow, i'm returning to the in-home supportive services public authority advisory board and i have a couple of pieces of information here for the supervisors. i've already given them to supervisor safai. >> thank you. thank you mr. boyd. any questions from
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committee members for mr. boyd or ms. macarthur? seeing none, we will go to public comments. anyone from the public that like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> any additional comments or questions from colleagues? if not then i'll entertain a motion >> i will first of all to think most of both of them for serving on this important committee considering what's going on not only at the federal level but at the state level. something we need to push back on. so what i'd like to do is make a motion to recommend both mr. boyd >> one other thing to say it was a conference >> mr. boyd i'm sorry. >> otherwise would not have an opportunity to-mr. boyd and ms. macarthur, to be appointed to
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seat one and 12 respectively. with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> okay.. the motion is on the floor to send a positive recognition from this board for mr. boyd and ms. macarthur respectively. without objection, that item is approved. thank you. >>[gavel] >> congratulations mr. boyd and ms. macarthur and thank you for your continued service. it's very important. mr. clerk, please call next item >> item number three hearing to consider pointing to members terms ending february 23, 2019 to the citizens committee on community development. to see into applicants. >> great. thank you. messrs. initial comments from my colleagues on the committee let's hear from our first applicants. is ms. emma kelsey here? please, come forward and addressed the committee.
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>> good afternoon. my name is emma kelsey and the like to thank you for your consideration of my application for a seat on the citizens community committee on community about i grew up in the area in san francisco last summer. after i moved here i began to look for opportunities to get involved in my community and in particular to advocate for the interests of low income and disadvantage san franciscans. while housing policy is a new area for me, my educational and work background is in poverty alleviation and economic development. earlier work at [inaudible] a financial services company committed to extending credit to individuals were otherwise unable to access safe and affordable credit. in helping them to improve their financial health. i've a masters degree in policy from stanford and prior to moving back to the bay area managed for assistant grants at the us department of state. while i
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live in dc i also volunteered with spanish-speaking immigrant communities teaching daily words english and volunteering at the employment justice center to help workers access to legal services. through these experiences i found out workers rights protections in financial services are important tools for assisting low income populations without stable affordable housing, and accessible community services, individuals and families are still in a very precarious situation. one area that is particularly close to home is the result [inaudible] project the resident at potrero hill, seen how isolated the potrero terrace and annex are from the rest of the community. as construction has just begun on project x i'd like to ensure the community continues to be insulted and abused project x
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as a learning opportunity for the rest of the development. i would like to see the residence of potrero terrace and annex are better integrated into the rest of the neighborhood that have better access to educational employment and health services. i'm also interested in sharing that there's increased supply of affordable family housing that's missing middle housing in the city. were to benefit low and middle income communities. also, people of my generation start families were able to stay and live in economically and racially diverse neighborhoods. while i was unable to attend the committee meeting-the first meeting of the year was canceled yesterday-on equal to begin participating thank you for consideration >> thank you ms. keller. the next individual wheel call is mr. clint loughlin.
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>> good afternoon supervisors. think with opportunity to be here today. to discuss my qualification to continue to serve on the citizens committee on community development that you make offer my application, over 25-can you hear me? for 25 years of experience in formal housing development community developed the social services can be developed economic development and urban plan. currently the senior development program manager the oakland housing authority managing the financing and development award-winning affordable residential and mixed use project and include special needs housing for the homeless. developing the disabled, persons with hiv aids for those with mental health issues etc. expense includes working with numerous local state and federal funding sources such as the community give him and block grant program. home, emergency shelter grants, housing opportunities for persons with aids. fema adult services act section 8 and others. i funded and finance projects to include emergency shelters for men, women and entire families transitional housing, to permanent supportive housing in addition we have funded programs that include social services economic development
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adult and youth employment location assistance and for housing. i've managed division program and project budgets and conducted programmatic and financial audits for nonprofits in compliance with hud and local requirements. i've also managed amenity processes for community and a, to moment activities and served as a staff to city council appointed citizens advisory commission planning commissions. listen of additional leadership activities activities is provided in my application i served on the ccd for about two years now and i believe that my experience coupled with my education and focus on finance and strategy and public and nonprofit management has provided me with the tools to contribute to the goals of the city and helping the disadvantaged. we honor to continue to serve on the committee i thank you for your consideration. >> thank you mr. laughlin. any questions for ms. kelsey or mr. lockman >> i do have a question. >> supervisor fewer >> in light of migration of african american population and in light of the challenges that
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we have had for african-american residents to access some of the great wealth is coming to san francisco, what are some ideas you have to build an economic base for african-american community here in san francisco? >> good question. education is one most important things because as our jobs continue to get more more sophisticated that will be a key component of what we do here as a city. if we can do that with a ccd that would be great. i think that working to develop affordable housing to execute people in san francisco i think would be another great opportunity in providing jobs for people i think be a huge challenge. >> thank you. >> supervisor yee >> one more. >> go-ahead supervisor fewer. >> one area i'm interested in
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particular is financial services and affordable housing. i believe without both it's difficult for people to maintain stability and stay in the city which as pinots extremely expensive and becoming increasingly unequal. so i would like to see increased counseling services available for people to better have better knowledge of how to access a for the housing and also how to be improving their financial health. >> thank you. >> supervisor yee >> so mr. lofton in.first book of how long have even serving on this? >> two years >> you seem like a real busy guy. have you been able to make the meetings? >> yes i have. >> always a good time. i'm just curious in the two years what you think you have had the
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biggest impact on in terms of some of accomplishments with moving the committee? >> in the last two years i think that it's on the most valuable for me is the committee a reach when we go into the community have these meetings and get to hear from the individuals in the community for example i get one in the castro grime the seniors got their input and think that's really important to hear directly from the people who are recipient of the funds. i think that's the kind of stuff that's important and bring that back to the community. >> in the next few years, what would you hope to-what is the one thing they really want to make sure that i can like to see get done >> i think the biggest challenge for the next few years, four years probably, is the federal budget what that's going to have in terms of its impact on cbd g and etc. i
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think trying to find ways to utilize that as efficiently as possible, whatever it is-whatever comes out of the budget from the administration i can be the biggest challenge. >> thank you. >> i the question. any other questions? ms. kelsey, >> so you mentioned you would like to try to get more connected housing to people with disabilities. i'm just curious, what are you i know you rattled off things [inaudible] but can you get a bit more specific about some of your own personal ordinances to make you qualified for this particular committee in regards to community development? >> yes absolutely. as i mentioned housing policy is new
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for me but working with underserved and low income people is not. for instance, in my current job at--one of my roles is managing our social impact for credit card program. what were interested in doing is helping our customers to improve their financial health. with goals from improving credit scores and trying to get them to change their behavior around that. then in my experience i worked quite closely with immigrant communities. working with workers who have been wrongfully terminated, working on those kinds of issues. i think both of these experiences have really enlightened me to the instability that these people face. because of that, i've also been difficult it is to ask a stable and a formal housing and that is when the primary areas barriers for people in terms of improving their own economic and social situation could >> i know you mentioned that not had a chance to ever attend
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a meeting. hopefully, he read some documents were got online to see what the committee has done in the past few years. if you have, i mean, what do you-what makes you excited about what they've done in the last let's say, two years? >> yes. i think one thing that is interesting for me has been the oversight of the hunters view-hunters point and bayview construction. the work that the committee has done. i have read past committee meeting minutes and some of the recommendations for the 2016-2017 budget. i think also in a document one area particularly interested me were the goals around financial
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health because that is something i do have subject matter knowledge in. in particular, was interested to see that some of the goals around for example increasing credit scores, that sort of thing with the alliance with my personal experience and knowledge that if you like toby will to contribute to. >> thank you very much. can i have some-is brian who is here equipped person to ask. i mean how many members on this committee? don't get it with this chart. >> yes [inaudible]. it's a nine-member committee could we have five members pointed by the mayor and four members appointed by the board. >> i guess what i'm seeing here is the for the board has. >> right. each of the four board seats are staggered so to caesar up this year and the other two seats are up next year. they're all two-year terms. >> can you just don't put you
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on the spot but who are the other five? just curious >> sure. so currently the composition we have five mayoral appointees in case you're familiar with any of them, [inaudible] riley some you may be familiar with her longtime connection with china township park vocal peer who's been active with groups such as payback and a consultant focusing on program evaluation. linda chavez-who is i [inaudible] at the walter [inaudible] fund megan laura, was a pastor on the west side and active in homeless and lgbt issues. and most recently, is diana cruise, who is an attorney with morrison and foerster. then, on the board appointees the other two appointees, one is peter cohen
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who as you knows a staff with accounts of community housing organizations and the coal pan, who is active in the contracting field and was formally with mission hiring hall. >> okay. this helps because when the reason i ask is i'm looking for balance and i think that you two candidates we have would certainly feed into the balance. >> i just want to bring mr. lofton back up for one more question. so, just this past friday pres. trump and his administration announced they were discussing the elimination of the cbd cbd g barlow. can you talk a look at how you think that's going to affect san francisco and what some your thoughts are on that and strategies you might have to do
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with that because in my opinion i think would be devastating to our city and any other city in the country. >> yes i agree it will be dennis devastating for a lot of cities throughout the country and am hopeful there sufficient support at the local level that aspect of his budget will not be implemented. i think if that were the case, i would hope that he would look at other sources such as his proposed infrastructure i guess billion dollars in infrastructure will be able to take some of the pressure off of local communities. so i think that's what the huge challenge. i'm hopeful it will not go away. >> thank you. ms. kelsey? >> i'm also hopeful the proposed budget is not the final iteration that will end up with. but in the case that it is, i believe that the city of san francisco should seek other sources of funding
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obviously [inaudible] will be very constrained but you would be necessary to continue vital services and building of affordable housing. >> thank you ms. coke colleagues, any other questions for the applicants? seeing none, let's go to public comments. any members of the public would like to testify on item number three? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> any additional comments, colleagues or questions? if there is and can i entertain the is there a motion? >> yes i moved to-sorry approved both these applicants for the positive recognition >> great. supervisor yee >> [inaudible] earth shattering >> okay. positive recognition to a need to save the seeds equipped any particular seats >> we do have mr. clinton and
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lofton was currently in c2. so the proceeds one and two respectively. two and one. >> [inaudible] >> mr. lofton for see number two and, kelsey for seat number one. >> with a positive recommendation. see no objections that motion is moved and approved. congratulations. ms. kelsey and mr. lofton. >>[gavel] >> mr. clerk, be please ask item >> item number for a hearing appointing one member for a one-year term ending august 31 to the canada state legalization task force. there's one seat and five applicants. >> thank you mr. clerk. unless there's an initial comments from the committee members, let's hear from our first applicant ms. tamara moritz.
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would you please come forward and addressed the committee? >> hello. supervisors. thank you for having me here. before i begin i just want to say there's a mistake on the application and i actually have been to task force meetings, well one that's one more than zero. my name is tamara moritz and am applying to fill seat number 22 on the san francisco cannabis passports before i got into why wannabes are and why a believe him a good candidate for the test was a little you look about my background relationship with cannabis. i was born and raised in israel most if not the most important rest of countries when it comes to canada state that israel was when the first first countries the world to legalize medical cannabis 1992. four years before california did in 1996. this mentality was run by for the first half of my life. i feel we then moved to irvine when the most conservative cities in california restaurant
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had to address being surrounded by a vastly different mentality could this allow me to gain exposure and understand the various organizations for an against medical and recreational cannabis seen the effects of overstretching and criminalization for the portion my youth bring a sold sense of social injustice from the get go. business will actually did very presentations on legalization and decriminalization of cannabis to because was not as particular passion about want to build a better awareness around. up to six months ago the majority of my professional career has been dedicated to [inaudible] analytics data cross various industries it was most natural moved to join my company [inaudible] intellects retail sales tracking company for the cannabis organization [inaudible] just that you understand this was an opportunistic move, i am working for start up in the canada space and could easily
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working half the time in almost any other job. i'm here because i'm passionate about this industry been a passion of helping it grow correctly it unpatched about correcting the injustice in this industry but creating opportunities for those who deserve it but don't have the means to two years of injustice and a believe my background and access to literally hundreds of millions of data points may be a valuable asset to the task for scripture, [inaudible] i can provide multiple perspectives. having lived is run by the entire gamut of opinions on campus could have literally heard every argument for and against it. i also represent the millennial text community since that's exactly what i am exactly all my friends are not to be able to [inaudible] back to the test was not just my friends but from various tech community events i regulate and exposed to. in addition to all the cannabis events and committees currently actively involved in. finally, the
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number is much in this industry, whose only six months ago that i wasn't and consumer member having the mentality of someone who wasn't in the industry which is a perceptive uglies important to have. that's what i could bring to the table from a data perspective, a committee collects retail sales transactions from dispensaries aggregates and sells the data to brands lawyers legislators and other interested parties in the state. i can show you the exact sale of recreational versus medical habit and categories are doing even with those consumers are bowing down to the date you been able to measure these facts and trends can give us insight and how we choose to shape our recommendations on the passport. understanding the effects of the recreational market or have on the city and existing medical market and in fact we've even been able to assess the legislative change in both oregon or gone and color whether or not i'm selected to be on the task was a believe our data can submit in the effective useful to task force will continue to offer my service throughout the year and the object you're sitting here
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to oversee and be a part of the new wave of cannabis. we won michigan laws and regulations from the plant are in length of fairly correctly in a way that benefits people in the industry to people that want to be in the industry our communities city state and more. i believe that i am the data that should be part of that. >> thank you. any questions for ms. moritz colleagues? seeing none, let's go to our next applicants. mr. robert --i hope i said that right. you have 2 min. >> thank you. thank you for having me. i'm very humbled and thankful to be here in front of you guys speaking today to have this opportunity. to give you guys a little good background on myself, i am a business owner in the cannabis industry, students and i have participated in almost every single part of this industry from retail, manufacturing, and all the way to cultivation and have also performed the role of a consultant. as far as my lens
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in this industry goes from oncoming added as not only again as a business owner am a small business owner but coming at it from somebody who comes from a community that was impacted by the war on drugs. so that heavily influences my outlook on the subject. as far as my goals, if i am appointed, social justice again would be a huge part of it. training and preparing people from disenfranchised committees to be business owners as well as skilled workers in this industry . directing tax revenues to public education and afterschool programs that are currently under attack by the federal government. i also do
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believe that such programs could help in drug education must specifically scientifically-based evidence for cannabis. educating parents as well as the kids to reduce the exposure to minors. along with this regulations, regarding [inaudible] advertising could also reduce exposure to minors. providing communities with autonomy in regards to cannabis businesses in the communities are reaching out to communities, affected by the war on drugs to already existing organizations that are working in this communities in order to open take part and have their voices heard and again, assist in job and entrepreneurial readiness and youth prevention. it protects small businesses and assist in structure and ring a unique outlook on how these businesses
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are structured. employee protections and occupational safety and just overall to finish, even good steward to the city of san francisco and hopefully taking this experience elsewhere preps back home to hawaii one day. thank you. >> thank you. any questions for mr.--. click supervisor yee >> so, robert, i one*question for candidates and later on for tomorrow to later on insert it. do you believe that the industry should have unlimited access to opening as many retail storefronts as they want?
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>> i do believe that there should be a cap on the amount of retail businesses in san francisco. however, i do think that again communities should have essay, a strong say in where these businesses establish themselves. i also think that there should be-the repetitions for this already but strong rules regarding these businesses regarding zoning to correctly place them in the first days. >> thank you. >> any other questions? seeing none, thank you very much robert. we will call the next person. evan tenenbaum if you are present please, come forward and addressed the committee.
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>> hello. supervised. thank you for having my name is evan tenenbaum. i'm the ceo and founder of prize brands to cannabis distribution company did they keep your time and for the opportunity to serve this great city. i like to provide you with some brief context that's why i'm applying for the seat in san francisco. glutinous ingram micro and pencil of here my mother was born here and was determined to raise the as a san francisco child. why ended up landing in san mateo by mother is the leader in the dioceses prevented by father worked on tv for over 20 years. i've easily grew up in the city. -internship at [inaudible] radio and eventually was able to live here for three years before foreplay getting priced out having to move to the east bay a few years ago. i love the city with all my heart and my dream my aspiration is to base
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my business here to get on here and to raise my family here. what's the cannabis industry take off over the last decade and in its wake i've witnessed cities and counties with opportunities to structure the cannabis policies and such waiver will create greater opportunities for thousands other community members. san francisco has unique opportunity to learn from these other cities successes and missteps and am thrilled and humbled by the chancellor impacted her at such a crucial time. i think the passports has already done a fantastic job with the previous recommendations. i also believe my expense within the cannabis industry has allowed me a fairly unique viewpoint with [inaudible] across the ecosystem every day on the opportunity to work with cultivators, extractors just to bidders, dispensaries, delivery driver software platforms and beyond. all of this has really shown to me just how the vast majority of the small business owners are hungry for smart policy and regulations good yes, we are increasingly an industry of suits but we are also community
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of idealists. i speak with people everyday who are eager to find a city that will tax them fairly and spend those funds on education career, neighborhood safety and support of low income. i believe encouraging corporate responsibility in the best local present believe in supporting small businesses and i believe in providing extra sport to entrepreneurs for underserved populations. i look forward to serving the city. thank you for your time. thank you. >> thank you. any questions for mr. tenenbaum? >> i'm sorry did you guess my question? >> not yet but am happy to. i believe there should be a specific cap but i do believe the smart zoning regulations you can limit the number of retail operations. as will think it's important to note that while there's a focus on retail operations is a huge opportunity on the nonretail aspects of the cannabis industry which the city could specifically benefit from. >> thank you >> any other questions? let's
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call up the next speaker, mr. chrisman bowers. >> good afternoon supervisors. ms. kristin bowers and it's great to introduce myself to you or a member of your staff over the past few days. as you know i'm applying for seat 22 of the canada state the causation task force. i hope you will at least consider my application in the comments for the record as to appoint a successor. i will start by briefly just how you about myself. was born and raised here in california. i two wonderful parents by dad is a rabbi and my mom is a small business owner. i'm the youngest of seven siblings and i still no idea why my parents had that many children. and i would like to save my child it was pretty unique for two reasons. the first is, when i
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was young i spent every free moment i had in my mom's legal office helping folks were being evicted were needed to file for bankruptcy or in many cases trying to get their records expunged. so i have first-hand experience on how policy impacts people as it pertains to the law. the second is because of the youngest director in the director for president obama's reelection campaign i was managing most important region in ohio and i was 18 years old. so i've seen firsthand how can ease organizing and engagement worked particularly as it relates to young folks and ensuring they have a seat at the table. i also have not so fond memories of my childhood with my family has seen the first-hand effects and consequences of the failed war on drugs in one of my brothers and my cousins have been incarcerated for drug possession. that's one of the
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reasons i'm such a huge proponent of criminal justice reform in i care so much about equity especially as relates to marijuana legalization could that's why i was related to [inaudible] of proposition 64 on behalf of the drug policy alliance last year. our community engagement efforts that only helped get us to this point where we are discussing implementation of legalization but also allowed us to educate and engage the lineal communities, communities of color, and those were formerly incarcerated. all that to say, as young person i would be bringing all of that personal work experience and perspective to the seat. if appointed to the seat, i believe i would be the only african-american and one of a couple people of color serving the cannabis task force. that's important to note because as we know, the war on drugs has been a war on peoples of color. it's important that our voices be heard and
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prioritized as local regulations are formulated. if appointed i would like to hope that has forced thing about the approximate $500 million annually that the state had and that's going to the state youth education prevention and treatment fun. i would like to advocate for the creation of a community task force in an advisory group that will allow us to prioritize hitting our community-based organizations here in san francisco 80 at that statewide lawmaking process to ensure that we have access to some of those funds. i also leave very interested in prioritizing or ensuring local license equity as we roll out rules for legalization. i believe i am qualified candidate for the apartment to see 22 and am happy to answer any questions that you have. thank you. actually i would answer your question. i do think that that should be a
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process for the community is involved in obviously. but i will say this. there is a path. i think it should not look like places where like in la, where i think it was a cap of 12 dispensaries and they all went to essentially, the old boys club. which were cannabis dispensaries owned by white folks and so when we think about equity and ensuring access if there's a captain should be some thought process into ensuring there is a diverse group of folks who have access to the mark. >> thank you >> any other questions? great. thank you mr. bowers could i will call up the next individual, individual,stephen-- >> hello. supervisor. thank you for considering my name is
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stephen-i did perceive 22 on the chemist has for all give you a little background i've held nearly every position from delivery driver consultant tremor team manager cultivation manager and seen the downfalls of the cannabis in the street as it is now good we have unsafe working conditions. very few regulations for workers. very [inaudible] and is a member of the task force i would like to make recommendations to try to help you get this strongly affects our youth and particularly drawn to the cannabis industry and i see it as a strong opportunity to empower our youth are young people could i see the seat as having really two main purposes. as a young person on the task force, i think it's pretty important that
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we limit exposure to people who are under 18 while this income people over 21 try to bring them into the cannabis industry. right now, as you know it's not a great time to be graduating college. it's can't talk for those i think the cannabis industry is a great opportunity for young people. a lot of people were graduating were involved in the cannabis industry a kind of already at risk that a lot of these people have prior convictions because of their involvement in the cannabis industry. a lot of minorities living in areas that are underserved and i think it's important we address these issues and just try to pull our young people into the cannabis industry and make it as safe and regulated as possible. our industry. much welcomes regulation. it's been a lack of regulation that has really made our industry unsafe and unstable. so as a member of the
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task force, i would take strong recommendations to make the industry much more regulated than it is now and protect our workers. to let your question about neighborhoods and communities, it would be my recommendation to leave the licensing pretty similar to how it is not it seems like it's working well where dispensaries , have the opportunity to open it as a community backlash. they have an opportunity to voice their opinion that seems to work very well now so i would push for framework or a similar to how it is now where communities ultimately, hold the decision whether or not dispensaries will be allowed in their community. i would stress the importance that retail stores are sometimes the safer
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option. people in these committees are going to have access to the medicine they're going to get it through delivery with two other means which may not be as safe as a dispensary retail.. i hope that answers your question. >> thank you very much >> any other questions? any members of the public that would like to speak on this item? supervisor yee >> can we have the first speaker come back up. >> okay. you do have some questions. tomorrow, would you please come forward and addressed the question on- >> sure. i agree with most of the answers that are been stated that there should not necessarily a cap but absolutely there should be zoning restrictions that think that if we let capitalism progress as it usually does that on hurley and capping how many dispensaries there are per neighborhood or for city
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community. but-yes >> great. thank you. so any members of the public that wish to comment on item number four please lineup. state your name you have 2 min. >> hello. my name is nina parks. i am, one, i'm a person who was born and raised in san francisco. two, i worked in nonprofit afterschool program for a long time and currently, now running a cannabis delivery. so i've been very involved in the task force as a business owner. so [inaudible] formally held that seat and she and i have been working closely on things regarding community benefit agreements and what exactly that looks for san francisco. my organization that i cofounded [inaudible] women has been working closely with people in oakland having to do with what is equity look like for oakland and we got some amazing wins in the past month.
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but, just as some thinking points for you guys. they've you did a really amazing job of holding [inaudible] justice records like willie brady that fully support and she was really the only one in the task force besides of course the facilitator being able to echo what she has been sent to whoever fills that seat would definitely need to carry that work forward because i would hate to see that loss. thank you. >> thank you. any other members of the public village comment on item for? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> colleagues, any further questions or comments on this item? supervisor yee >> yes i want to thank all five applicants. it's when the situations again worry of all these qualified people and there's only one seat. i wish there were five seats. but there aren't and unfortunately,
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for other people not be moved forward and i'm hoping that their interests will continue even if they're not selected. hopefully, they will be considered in the future. >> thank you. supervisor fewer >> yes thank you. i want to echo what my colleague just said. i would encourage you to apply. there are many seats that are open that need to be come i think harvey appointed on august 31st 2017. there's position expires and so i would encourage you to actually apply for some of those positions because actually come i think many of you are qualified to old somebody seats. thank you. >> right. could thank you supervisor fewer. then there's this question of this task force was going to expire in august of this year but did not meet until little bit later so
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that they will go through the end of the year and then there's going to be a determination as to whether or not they will continue. so we are in communications with that committee and i think that would give the opportunity for further recommendations. i will say that i think that because this is a seat that is designed for younger adults, 21-30-year-olds, it's exciting to see so many different applicants so many different people excited and i echo the sentiments of my colleagues here are really well qualified. the other thing that we have to consider as a body is the makeup of that body. that adversity on the body from all different perspectives. the experience that one brings to the body from the industry. so i think those are all the things that we are waiting today. so to any of my colleagues want to >> i move-i think like i said
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i think everyone of them would bring a different perspective and some overlapping perspectives. i think what's going to tell to me is the not only the number of recommendation letters that have come in but in particular the one recordation letter from the personal that holds the seat right now, daisy. recommended robert--. so i would like to move his moving for first week number till you for positive recommendation to the full board. >> second. >> great. so seen the motion from the floor for positive recommendation for mr. robert--
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without objection, that is moved and approved. >>[gavel] >> congratulations and please, everyone that applied i know that your resumes are on file and will continue to look for you all to come back again for other opportunities. mr. cook, please call the next item number five >> item number five hearing to consider appointing one member for an indefinite term to the airport facilities naming advisory committee there's one seat to applicants >> thank you. we've one c to applicants. welcome mr. jeff silver and john martin. mr. silver, be please, just the community and speak on your qualifications? >> good afternoon supervise. thank you for the time. my name is jeff silver appeared i moved
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to san francisco five years ago. i was before that a public school teacher in new york city and a lawyer in new york city and moved out here to work in morrison and foerster law firm downtown in a work at running club which is on the online lending coming. i have something i try to get involved in the video is a teacher's aide at the city college course for adults with disabilities in job training and interview skills i run the social justice organization in my synagogue which is called the kitchen. i'm also based downtown. i read about this advisory committee and thought i would put my name for. i think it's important for the facilities at sfo reflect the values of our community. i don't have specific names but i would want to put forward but would seek input from people in our community boat names that i think people would've done a lot maybe been forgotten or don't have access to decision-makers in san francisco. i am very aware of
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the contribution; applicant so to speak and his record of service to the airport and city and i thank you for considering me alongside him. thank you. >> thank you. mr. martin? any questions. we would to questions after. >> john martin. supervisor i am i would be honored and happy to serve on the committee as you know i worked my career at the airport at 21 years has airport director so privilege to serve the san francisco in that way. i have a lot of knowledge about san francisco history as well as airport history i've always been involved in the committee always want to give back many years as a hospice volunteer, board member for larkin street fundraising for larkin street [inaudible] most recently leading a buddhist insight meditation group the upper market neighborhood. i will be
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happy to answer any questions. >> thank you mr. martin. colleagues, any questions for mr. silver or mr. martin? supervisor yee. okay. seeing no questions other any members of the public that would like to comment on item 5? i'm not going to call your name but you can come up and line up and speak in order. >> good afternoon honorable supervisors and staff. julie lind-head of the san mateo council. i'm the representing the best unites workforce at sfo am here today to speak in favor of john martens appointed to the airport facilities naming advisory committee. throughout his 35. mr. martin, which many incredible things. such accomplishments include after our reach to in partnership with the san mateo labor councils airport labor coalition institution of the airport quality standards program. [inaudible] there and
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living wages and living conditions for all service and security providers in sfo beginning in 1990 the current wage standard being 14.40 in our. he is also a leader in the industry for safety and security technology and practices including operating the first airline security package system in the world which is now the industry-standard and it sfo's operated by union workers. [inaudible] door-to-door van so many commercial buses serving the airport using clean four, creating a culture of health and wellness among all employees leading to sfo >> my name is one healthiest places to work by the san francisco business times providing unique guest services such as locally owned restaurants and retail stores many which are unionized, [inaudible] accredited our program at the museum. we in
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the labor community as i'm sure all in the broader community do as well enjoyed a very positive relationship with mr. martin during his years at sfo. was always open and honest in his communications willing to meet with us whenever he was needed and committed to the partnership we developed for the shared goal of continuously improving the airports both for the flying public and for those that serve on its daily work first. we value that relationship so greatly that upon his retirement last year we chose to honor him with the community ward at our annual banquet and i can think of none more qualified than mr. martin to serve on the airport facility naming advisory committee i strongly support his appointment. thank you >> thank you. >>[calling public comment cards] >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is--on behalf of the members and president of local two [inaudible] we strongly rip when john martin appointment could over the years, john has shown a real commitment to working men and women it san
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francisco airport and earned the respect and admiration of our members for his tireless efforts on their behalf. under his watch, working people were insured decent wages, real health care and job security. john martens legacy as an airport that truly mirrors our principles and values as a city. a reflection of who we are and what we stand for. as we work on visitors from around the globe. we can think of no appointment more appropriate in order to continue that legacy. it is our sincere hope that john martin be appointed was for. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors.
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i am [inaudible] secretary-treasurer of [inaudible] local to some behalf of members of the united local two, we strongly recommend john martin appointment. so local two has about 13,000 members including 1500 members working for [inaudible] at san francisco airport many of them are working in the kitchen where the temperature under [inaudible] degrees and they were paying under san francisco wages during the contract fight 2014-2016 john was helping these working women and men so their wages are able to be increased to sfo 14.44 as of today. so we need john martin. this person to continue to serve san francisco and is our
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[inaudible] john martin appointment was for. thank you. >> thank you. any other members of the public wish to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> colleagues, can i entertain a motion on this item >> sure. you know, mr. martin is well well-qualified. he knows that inside and out. i complete your glutton for punishment that you're plying but it's wonderful to see you again. you are great director and again, hopefully you would provide something to this committee but given mr. martin's history and this discussion happened from the beginning, i think you would be one only to move forward with
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positive recommendation. at the appointed >> before you finalize that i want to thank you the stress of work for coming for. as i said to earlier today execution look into other opportunities become a little more active and i think we will see you in the future. mr. martin, we appreciate you taking time out of your come i guess her retirement activities were doing because this is an important-this is an important role in something that originated with a conversation around the appropriate naming of different aspects of the airport. so we appreciate you coming back and be involved in this important conversation. seeing no objection to the motion on the floor, that item is moved and approved >>[gavel] >> thank you, colleagues. mr. cook anymore items or issues today? >> no more items.
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around 3:15 thank you. >> proceedings. and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. commissioners, we left off under regular calendar on items 14, 15 a there e 1500 mission street project case numbers 2014 e and reservation enhancing