the first d.r. application or d.r. requester concerned that the current building design that contemporary architecture is errant with surrounding earlier 20th century architecture, therefore proposed third story addition will increase this currently anomaly. the next is third story is -- well, makes the building disproportionate. large on the lot. next project does not respect the mid park open space. finally the current available light to the third story windows will be affected. there is a further concern, which is not typically related to the application that is subject to the one-car garage used as storage, not for parking. * storey) >> in the second application, basically includes the concerns regarding third storey -- will result building to be out of scale. not comparable with surrounding buildings. then there is too much area under third storey rear elevation, which will result in loss of privacy and light pollution to the d.r. request err's house. all three suggest proposed petition be denied. staff as well as

i urge you do get together with the d.r. requester and urge you to lose the roof deck on top of the fourth floor and encourage you to consider a setback. >> okay. thank you. >>> commissioner antonini. >> well, i have to talk to mr. cabreres here. i believe you are doing this case. i'm not quite sure. i'm looking at these plans. there would be the need if you want a matching light well on the north you have to increase the proposed light well by another looks like possibly two feet and two inches, then matching light wells there. i don't quite understand what d.r. requester's interest in asking separation other than where their light well is. because there is still going to be light coming in. i don't understand what they will gain with a separation or setback for property where they don't have windows. you are going to answer that? >> if i may. [ laughter] >> i live in a building where we have the same situation. these buildings are built cheek-to-jowl. your light well now had an addition on adjoining building which comes to

then talk about the previous d.r. as well. hey did not live here then but people they bought the house with filed a d.r. against the project. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, my name is susan redtiv. for 42 of 43 years i have lived at 1460 masonic with my family. behind and downhill 611 buena vista west. i will try to put into words partly intangible but really weighty effect i believe this plan would have on the contiguous block of homes of which we are part with 611 buena visit to west. they are venerable homes, as in distinctive with an atmosphere that reflects the era they were build in more than 100-plus years ago. things like the spaces in between the homes. the light and the dark. the solid and the glass and the fact we -- whether our curtains are up or down and lights are off and on, there is a wonderful balance created without any offense to anyone. that was up until nine years ago when, to our mind, 611 buena vista west encroached on that fragile balance by adding another story to their house. which among

par fines from the meetings attended that the project sponsor has been more than accommodating to the d.r requester by reducing the building height by reducing the fourth floor, installing matching light wells, august 12th, 2011 meeting. extending the original structure and as requested by the planning department. in addition park fines of the proposed project would be a welcome and long overdue addition. the services the project sponsor would provide our neighborhood is unique and beneficial to our residents. we are pleased that the project sponsors and that the owner to the smile for life foundation recognized by the california legislature assembly. i ask that you approve this project with no further modifications or delays. thank you for your consideration thank you board member representative, land use committee. sheryl schultz. thank you. >> hi, good evening. i'm here to speak on behalf of joseph franks who is a 15-year-old foster youth who was awarded a smile for lifetime scholarship. i can attest to what kayla had said previously which is that the beneficial nature of the scholarsh

commissioner antonini. >> could i ask questions for the d.r. requester. i missed the very beginning of your presentation but i also am looking at the plans. from what i'm hearing is concern about the light wells matching, i think. looks like the existing light well to the -- not sure what direction this is but i'm going to say to the north. i'm not sure if that is correct or not, is 20.6. he is going with 18.4 so what you might do is make that matching to the existing light well -- i guess it is your property. >> it doesn't need to match. the bigger objection is height of the expansion on the fourth floor. it actually going right up to the existing edge of the light well. by doing that it is basically blocking everything that we have today. >> okay. i'm just kind of looking to -- historically we try to match light wells, as a manner of preserving the light that exists. then looking the opposite side, presumably the south, there is a light well carved out, which is smaller. i don't see that duplicated in the present plans. i will ask other commissioners to

minutes each. >> thank you. >> calling for speakers in support of the d.r. request, sir. >> patricia voy, merchant. our association wasn't even notified of this issue. second of all, when a compromised proposal was on the table it should be worked on. this reeks of 273537 baker no. reply. no one inch. i'm going to get what i want. this bothers me. you are going to be neighbors, et cetera. it doesn't follow design guideline from what i have seen. i only found out about this three days ago. i fully believe the fact that they should have tried to compromise the developers. and they didn't. my suggestion is to the one side wants it moved back seven feet, the other side moves it back none. why don't you move it back three and a half or four. see if you can come up with a compromise for them because the developer doesn't want to compromise at all. i thank all sides. i want to mention this. just so you know, this closing up of light wells and going wall-to-wall with not the proper fire codes, this mouse must be sprinkles from one end to the other. for 30 years i ha

thank you very much. >> are there any other speakers in favor of the project? >> ok. d.r. requester, you have a two-minute rebutal. >> thank you, president fong. steve williams again. don't pick the need of these tetants against the continued viblingt against providing dental care to children. that's a false dichotomy and you know it. that's not the choice that you're facing here. there's nothing to legally compel that used to be in this new office building anywhere. it's a shame we didn't get the offer earlier. it's a shame that we wouldn't agree to continue it so we could work out the details of that. we wanted to work out a solution. they referenced the agreement and how generous they're being and all the changes they're making, et, etc. etc. but look at the changes. light wells three by three. there that's nowhere. look at the light wells they don't even match the light wells. nothing close to a written agreement that they reached. they handed something to us today and to the commissioners today that came a little bit closer to what they agreed to in writing a year ahea

. >> i will call upon the d.r. requester to report back on whether there was an agreement or not. >> unfortunately, the devil is in the town. i have us and to agree to a continuance so we can hammer out an agreement, because there are a lot of variables floating around, and they are not amenable to that. >> no agreement. gooif we are going to follow the process, the d.r. requester has had a chance to speak. we should now have died. >> i do have cards there. goo[list of names] >> hello, commissioners. thank you for listening to me. i believe i stand in front of you as a property manager representing the owners who are people who really care about his property. >> can you state your name for the record? >> eva. and the impact it will have on our tenants, regardless of the low rent they are paying. we have a 71-year-old who has been here, and he wants to be here, but he cannot. she is only paying $212, and she has been here 20 years. another one who has been here more than 45 years, this is their quality of life we are

are there any other speakerses in favor of the d.r.? >> it's a point of order. commissioners let me tell you and i'm really shocked. i'm shocked because we've got 12 tenants, low income elderly an disabled, 71 years of age who could not come here tonight and we ignore them in this whole process. if we're going to go to the ballot in november looking for $200 million to $300 million to build affordable housing that's going to go down in the fields if this commission does not take a serious look at this place. this process is ignored them. the process, the planning lly interpreted. we need to put a human face on it. because if the human face is ignored tonight, believe me that human face will be used as a poster child and by skeptic ö in mass. let me assure you that in 2003 where proposition a or proposition b was going forward put by the affordable housing group it went down to the thieves. it had support from the labor and the nonprofit community. and so do not jeopardize affordable housing that's needed by ignoring the human impact here. and so i'm saying to yo

we ask you to uphold the decision of scott sanchez and the planning commission on the d.r. and the change was in 2008 when these additions happened, not in 1999. thank you. >> thank you for the complete and thorough response. just reiterating the history here. the appellant it obtain a permit to reconstruct and the department recognized there were errors in the permit. as mentioned in the site plan, there were inconsistencies in their. it should not have been recognized without a variance. the appellant was represented by a competent counsel at the time of the work of the commission. we believe the commission did make the correct terman -- determination. i hope you will uphold and i am available for any questions. >> your stufstaff made site viss to verify what was permitted? >> we did site visits but i had not asked him that. i know from the records from the building permit they have made several visits to the site. >> your department had some reliance on what the building department did. >> this was a complicated matter. the department did review the permits. >> anything f

. >> any additional speakers in favor of the d.r. seeing none, project sponsor, you have five minutes. >> president fong, commissioners, tracy bucks on behalf of project sponsors. what i will do is give you a brief overview of the project as it stands now and key points we'd like you to consider. then i will yield the rest of the time to the project architect who will walk you through design considerations we think are important. primarily there are no exceptional or extraordinary circumstances warranting discretionary view. as such we ath you can see here -- sorry this is so small. if you look around the neighborhood around buena vista park, it is a huge variation of buildings. there's modern ones, there's old ones, ones from every era, every size, every shape and every material. it is really one of the most diverse places. there is a number of modern houses as well. our site is right here. sorry, as you can see, it is clumsy. but you can see a large diversity of buildings. that is good. that is what cities are about. they show evolu

the building and go south to incorporate the property line window on the second floor. >> we have the d.r. request for support of that. >> that some requests -- that is correct. this is 5 feet or 6 feet deep. this drying shows 3 feet. >> the northern light well and a larger southern light well, 6 feet, i believe. >> would you be willing to do those one in 3 feet. >> we are willing to do whatever the commission would propose. it would be of great benefit to these units. these would be rendered uninhabitable by the construction ida the definition of the building code. >> i agree, these issues should be resolved before they ever get here. you should be discussing this. you have put us in an awkward position. >> the project sponsor put you in that position. >> that is 5 feet forward. >> we are ready to sit down. >> i agree with that and it is important to get the light in there. on the issue of parking, you should take the bus to the dentist. a lot of people take the bus to the dentist. the buses are crowded, there are expressed and local buses. they are available. the commissioner suggested

. >> i will call upon the d.r. requester to

with that, i ask you to please support and adopt staff recommendation and approve the project without taking d.r.. thank you. >> calling for public comment. a will call you names and if you want to line up. i will call bunch of names if you want to line up, other speakers on that side of the room, that will be great. [reading names] >> i was walking down mission street 10 days ago and i walked by aside under active construction and i looked at it and said it will be a marijuana dispensaries. i wrote a letter which i do not know if it got to you folks are not. we've lived in the mission district more than 30 years. we have been pleased to see a transforming from an area most of the people i worked with thought was not safe. it is n area where residents and visitors are moving around with a sense of increased security. we work with the mission police department. and has been and is still a strongly family oriented area. it also has been and is still an area afflicted with drug trafficking and abuse and other crimes associated with drugs. marijuana i have heard described as a gateway drug. i think

existing home sales and housing starts must reach the highest level in more than two years. that drove home builders, d.r. horton all sharply higher. meanwhile, the sinking price of crude slowed down the energy sector. oil prices slid another 2 poi3. yesterday. overseas, china's manufacturing output dipped to the lowest level in 10 months. >>> according to "the wall street journal", bank of america is ramping up a cost-cutting plan that could result in a loss of 16,000 jobs by the end of the year. >> industrial bell wetter 3 m threw up a caution flag over weak economic conditions. on the earnings front, general mills got a bout from strong sales of yogurt overseas. >>> after the bell bed, bath and beyond fell 5%. adobe besystems, the software maker putting its new subscription based model, will take a toll this quarter. >>> american airlines has canceled hundreds of flights this week as it struggles with an increase in pilots calling out sick. >>> finally, microsoft co-founder bill gates has retained his spot at the top of forbes 400 richest list thanks to his $66 billion net worth. meanwhile, facebook's

the past 12 months. other homebuilders rallying include ryland group up 5.7%. d.r. horton added 4.1%. and standard pacific gained 3.8%. all of them rising on heavier than usual volume. the housing bump also included home depot. shares added 1% to close at its highest price in more than a decade. media company gannett has been dealing with a tough advertising market, and like a lot of media companies, it continues investing in its digital business. its stock continues rallying, up 4.3% today as it closed at its highest price since 2008. this week, 30 years after launching u.s.a. today, gannett unveiled a redesign of the national newspaper in an effort to reverse recent losses of subscribers and ad sales. coal miner alpha natural resources has been caught by low natural gas prices replacing coal demand from some power plants, and the slowdown in steel demand hurting sales of metallurgical coal. but the company's announcement this week of 1,200 job cuts and reducing its coal production has not helped the stock. shares were down 3.2%, making them the biggest percentage loser among s&p 500

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the housing data out in the last couple days has helped housing data. d.r. horton also very strong.ed that earlier with that pop jackie deangelis was talking about. consumer discretionary has been strong. is that a group you would like right now? >> i like a certain play in terms of consumer. i'm actually focusing on the value consumer. that means dollar tree. i just bought dollar tree. i love it because whether you believe there's going to be sluggish growth going forward or some kind of contraction, consumers are going to be

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the words david rivera. she called him by his initials d.r. calling him by his initials she called him by his nickname, the gangster. his nickname is the gangster. not a very nice nickname. it should probably be congressman gangster. we will see. but as i said, the david rivera race now leans democratic. weekends with alex witt starts now. >>> what happened in libya? new word from the top u.s. spy office on the killing of the american ambassador there. was it another september 11th al qaeda attack? >>> 38 days and counting. polls show a turn toward the president. how might those numbers affect what happens at the voting booth in november? we'll examine that. >>> not seeing red anymore? one report this morning suggests that an attack on iran by israel may not be as close as once thought. >>> in office politics, the "today" show's

the way up essentially. i wouldn't go there. i would still go to home depot. i think that's attractive in a good way. they were still buying d.r. horton, d.h.i. i think professor schiller knows in his heart the bottom has been in but he didn't call it, so he missed it and like all of us he is loathe to actual -- if we saw any pullback in here, i am sure he would be on it like that to say where he is calling about. >> brian kelly, you know the run the home builders have had. do you get in? do you get in now? >> yeah. i mean, i think you can probably go to some of the secondary plays. i think you will be safe on the home builders. i would say the data doesn't matter, the home market has bottomed. i can tell you that right now. i would go to something like look at a weyerhaeuser. that will be the lumber exposure and a dividend and i think that's the way to play it now. you can certainly still buy the home builders, but there is other ways out there to get into it now. >> the best way to play, i think, is the with a i to play the mortgage rates and fat yields and power mortgage and they have been great stocks and continue to do we

also citing the housing market that the recovery we're see something stronger than anticipated. we're seeing pulte, d.rennar all at multiyear highs. many of these names are up 50, 60, 70% year-to-date. back to you. >> nicole, thanks so much. mario draghi unveiling drastic measures to help the eurozone. buying government bonds in unlimited quantities. will this be a game-changer within the euro crisis? is it even a in their mandate? that is what i'm wondering. kathleen, can they do first and foremost? i heard people questioning that already. what do you think? >> they can because they have done it before. they did it with the s&p program which they started in may 2010 during the peak of that greek crisis. there is a precedent for it. you know, i think draghi certainly is bending the rules or interpreting the rules his way whereas the germans are very clear-cut. this is financing governments and we don't like it but they were outvoted. melissa: do you think this solves the problem? does it get to the heart of it? is it a short-term solution? what is your bet? >> i don't think it solves the problem but it

d.r. horton, kb home, because the market has been tough on the beezer lately.ject of a government investigation involving its promotional practices, it will cooperate with the investigation but shareholders are a little bit, looked like they're disturbed, down eight points. united health is down in the dow, which replaced kraft, which is now mondo -- i don't know. toyota is boosting its green line-up. hopefully you like that color. i think it shows the dirt too much, green, announcing plans for 21 new hybrids over the next three years. i wouldn't buy a green car because it's bad luck. >> why? >> the color green i don't like it. >> bad luck for who? did you make that up? >> no, i didn't. supposedly it's not a good luck. >> fighting irish. >> well, for that, yeah. >>> goldman sachs is planning to fire 100 partners, should we get some applause? the fat cats are out digging ditches where they deserve to be. "the sunday times" says that over the weekend. >> i think that was "the london times." >> all right, it was? okay, they need to add another line here. >>> deuts

the nasdaq market site. let's get a market splash, brian shactman back at headquarters. >> obviously not hard to find green arrows today. three specific spots, housing, consumer discretionary, and staples. start with housing, d.rrton, lennar, they were all pretty much outperforming, maybe not lennar. i also want to take a look at consumer discretionary. we have all-time highs, whole foods, costco, marriott at a five-year high. and i also want to point out as we take a look at wells fargo up 3.5%, take a look at staples. spiking a little bit more in the afterhours. a story on fortune.com, the private equity might come in and maybe make a deal, maybe not until the end of the year. maybe want to swoop in on a possible premium and bain is involved in the talks. baaing to you. >> thank you very much, brian shactman. staples is an interesting one because it's actually one of the biggest online retailers in this country behind amazon.com. >> yes, it is. and it actually in the last quarter they seem to be under a little bit more pressure from that than they have in the past. and that was disconcerted to us. i actually sold staples right around here. you remember bain, i think, was the original investor -- >> right. >>