dear requestor, -- d.r. requestor, a two minute rebuttal. you are speaking in support? >> i am the owner of the project. i wanted to say that on behalf of our neighbors, we wanted to improve the value of not only our building but the neighborhood. we think the look and feel is consistent with 10 or 12 other properties on the block. we do not want to impose on their light. that was a big concern. we spent over $4,000 on the study. we were more than willing to pay for some light but the tests showed there is no impact on light. the stairs is a mistake. we switched the stairs and recommended when we did the original modification that metal stairs would hold up longer. it turned out to be louder. it was a mistake. there were built incorrectly. we tried to rectify it but we could not pull. going for, the plan is to replace the stairs and put rubber on it to reduce the noise. i am sorry, my daughter goes up and down the stairs, she takes the dogs up and down, it is the only way to get to the back yard is the back stairs. i apologize but hopefully with a rubber on the stairs i

vice president hwang: the jurisdiction requestor is in the room. if there is any question of places, this is the time to get it clarified. if it is expired and there are no issues, then the jurisdiction requestor would not take an appeal. president garcia: you cannot speak from there. >> i do not think the officers would accept an expired permit appeal. >> i would suggest a continuance just to look into that. i think there's a question as to whether the board can take jurisdiction. president garcia: if far more elegant solution would be for us to vote not to take jurisdiction. >> i would agree with that. we were not aware that this permit has expired. i was not aware that next g had responded to the request. if you deny the jr request for the brussels street vacation, then those property owners have opportunity for the process to get to unfold. they will have the opportunity to respond. president garcia: thank you. commissioner hillis: with the caveat that i still do not understand why i am voting on an expired permit. president garcia: do whatever

requestor, you have five minutes. dat>> you need to start your presentation. it will come on. >> good afternoon. i am an architect in san francisco. in my 25th year of practice here. so proprietor. i would like to start with the screen and show you what i consider to be an extraordinary circumstance. this is a permit, you can see by the day, february 3, 2011. the issued date is 2-25. something came happened and you had to come back 22 days later. it is to receive final inspection of the work under the earlier permit. all work is complete. on the backside, you will see a box checked that states that planning is required. their review. the word "n/a" had been written in crossed out -- in and crossed out by the department of building and actor -- inspection. this document appeared which does not have the february 3 stamp at the top. when we look at the back of that all-important planning requirement, it looks as if there is a third word. it is planning required. both of these applications were approved by dbi on the same day, by the same person and neither was re

youaise your hand if used ojis's requestor services. okay. a few. raise your hand if you are a foia professional. also a good bit. raise your hand if you've been on the other end of ojis's requestor services. okay. so a good number of folks with some firsthand experience here. for the rest of you, i think it's important to recognize that the requestor services have a real value at both macro level. there were somewhere around half a million fioa requests filed across the government last year, and i can tell you with absolute certainty that not every one

requestor, you have rebuttal. >> thank you. joseph butler. the project sponsor is mr. spears and mr. quinn, they say they got their inspections, they got their permit, the work was done, it was finished and signed off. if the permit was for final inspection only and all work was complete, that is the fiction. that all the work was done. i think that it does not take too much to understand that rather than the first time around when it took six months to go through the planning process, these delmon could not wait. they found another way. if you misrepresent the application that issues a permit, that is on its face a fiction. to say that a permit for final inspection, all work is complete, is then constructed from scratch, they have admitted it here. your process involves a long and patient record of proposed construction. when this happened, the face that everyone who follows the rules has in the process is harmed. -- faith that everyone who follows the rules has in the process is harmed. we would like the -- this would have happened if there were allowed to review the

there were two requestor, so they will get six minutes total. you can wait for the clerk. to see if she is ready with the six minutes. you may begin. >> good afternoon. i am the rich and earn their of this jr request at referred to as af and the documentation. i would like to take this opportunity to request that the appeal timeframe be reopened for the wireless boxes noted in the request. this request was filed on behalf of the neighbors on polk street in question. we feel deprived of our rights and to be informed and what goes on in our neighborhoods, especially of matters that affect our health and aesthetics of the spaces. we are aware of the appeal. for the permits filed, -- of the appeal time frame for the permit fire, however with all due respect, how could an appeal be fired -- be filed when there was a no dedication during that timeframe. also, there was just as the mandate of wireless permits. that notification was intended to protect people like me and my neighbors from this kind of situation, but there are still no notification. the day after i wrote complained

texas not just our requestor, but also for -- for requestors, but for agencies. starting into our third year, we have had more and more agencies come to us for help with complex requests, difficult requestors, that sort of thing. we are not here to advocate for requestors. gavin talked about our best practices. we just came up with some best practices for requestors and best practices for agencies. we handled several cases dealing with databases. they can be difficult for both sides of the request. we have those. unfortunately, we do not have them on the handouts. they are on our website. please look them up there. let us know what you think. i think i am going to end it there. >> either one of you. >> let me say something perhaps more complementary than miriam being modest wooden -- would not ordinarily highlight about ogis. if you would like to get an acute sense of what ogis is all about, you can look at four words in publications. on the 27 -- on january 27, there was a headline that said striking down the foia requests. it says, even if you request -- even i