hyman rented his unit the building consisted of three rental units all being rented to tenants. >> i would like to ask mr. hyman to give a statement about how this merger will effect him. >> hello. my name is ralph hyman and i have been hiv positive for over 20 years and i have lived at 227 douglass since june of 2007 i have the flexibility in my job because of my condition and the side effects of other health conditions resulting from that forces me to work at home and i go home when i need to due to fatigue. moving two effect my life, with an increased financial burden it would be hard for me financially to find a similar living situation especially i have a service dog. and would create stress in finding a new place and i have the inbility to actually do the move physically. although, the permits do not involve my units, this would need to be extensive work around me including the moving of walls and stairs, and since i often work at home, i would have not be able to live through this work. the landlord told me that i would have to vacate during this construction period and given

into his unit. we don't need to go destroy the whole building. destroying the whole building, however, let me state a lot of the misrepresentations have to be looked at. for example, look at the scope of work in the amount of work that they declare on the permit. they declared that there is going to be only $3,000 in work. i asked you to show them the drawings that they have. they had to say that because they had to make the planning department believe that there was very little work here. it looks like a single family home, it exists as a single family home and there is removing a wet bar, and removing a kitchen and that is all there is to it. the property holder himself stated to you that he in effect evicting himself. i ask you to consider the amount of money that he is going to spend, the fact that he is going to have to find a new place to live and he is doing it all for a tenant who is rent controlled. i just have to ask, whether that makes sense. if they were to get a second unit applied for,

in europe in the united states people are tired of war. pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political uproar is something that no sensible leader would pursue yet we so far we have no we see no sign that the united states wants to behave more humanely towards iran and more reasonably go ahead jump in. to syria. syria so i was in syria i did research and see how nice that is syria to i think i think there is no doubt that one of the. syrian war is exasperates iran iraq iran. is iran your support for the regime i think there is no doubt about that. i grew up in these two most notorious governments of. harmony i think. i think where we're talking about democratic they said democratic go is iran is a democratic government i think if you if you guardian council from the beginning if you are not supporting this law macleod they will just they will strip you away from the election second of all i think many in the constitution he did the president is not the powerful person in the country the powerful and a

hyman's unit will remain as a separate rent controlled unit and that mr. hyman could not be evicted unless there is a good cause reason under the rent ordinance and the reason is not a no-fault eviction, he cannot evicted for an ellis act for illegal unit and the fact that he is turning this into condos or that somehow he is by living in his unit it is there for somehow illegally using this unit for whatever reason it is not considered a separate single unit. they have, in fact, admitted that they planned to do rent increases. if this were... mr. zaches just said on the record that they were going to increase his rent. as a single family home the rent could be increased without limitation whatsoever. mr. hyman could go to paying five times his rent. and this would be a defacto eviction. >> we would have him stipulate no rent increase. and we ask that this board as a condition of approving these permits, if they are not going to deny them, that the owner put on the record he will not do any sort of no-fault eviction on my client and will be or abide by the

in europe in the united states people are tired of war. pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political uproar is something that no sensible leader would pursue yet we so far we have no we see no sign that the united states wants to behave more humanely towards iran and more reasonably go ahead jump in. the syria. syria so i was in syria i did research syria to i think i think there is no doubt that one of the. syrian war is exasperates iran iraq iran. is iran iran your support for the regime i think there is no doubt about that. i grew up in these two most notorious governments of. harmony i think. i think where we're talking about democratic they said democratic god is iran is a democratic government i think if you if you're a guardian council from the beginning if you're not supporting this law macleod they were just they were stripping away from the election second of all i think many in the constitution he did the president is not the powerful person in the country they're powerful as many he has

countries at the time and the and the united states the technology and the support the u.n. security council blocked any condemnation of iraq so you know the crimes that have been created against humanity when it come is really we have to look to europe in the united states to see the real culprits and while it wears the iranians have never engaged in an attack iran even never even used chemical weapons when chemical weapons were used against iran iran never you can produce chemical weapons so i think that at the end of the day it's quite obvious that the united states its policy towards iran is. base upon an irrational form of hatred and i think that unless people begin to speak out against this sort of policy the united states may once again attempt to drag the region into a greater crisis the iranians don't believe that the united states will attack iran again because the united states is on the decline they have economic crises in europe in the united states people are tired of war but pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political

and so this is a new challenge, a rst impreson f the united states that the united states has to deal with islamic governments, right, who have been democratically elected and in countries where there are a multitude of stakeholders. and this is a new circumstances for the united statesment now the united states in north africa including in egypt but in north africa generally faces a security situation which is something, mike rogers, the chairman of the house intelligence community wrote a piece in plirtco today calling for a comprehensive strategy and he's rit to deal with the countertrorismssuethat are arising in north africa, what do they arise from, after at rab revolutions and we had multiple simultaneous revolutions rooted in the histories of these countries, different country to country, but at the core rooted in three things, i think, governments that weren't performing, that letdown their people, a communications revolution both internally and externally, people could communicate internally and organize themselves but they also knew what was going on in the outside world. yo

countries at the time and the and the united states the technology and the support the u.n. security council blocked any condemnation of iraq so the crimes that have been created against humanity when it come is really we have to look to europe in the united states to see the real culprits and while whereas the iranians have never engaged in an attack iran even never even used chemical weapons when chemical weapons were used against iran iran never you can produce chemical weapons so i think that at the end of the day it's quite obvious that the united states its policy towards iran is based upon. an irrational form of hatred and i think that unless people begin to speak out against this sort of policy the united states may once again attempt to drag the region into a greater crisis the iranians don't believe that the united states will attack iran again because the united states is on the decline they have economic crises in europe in the united states people are tired of war but pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political uproar is

countries at the time and the and the united states the technology and the support the u.n. security council blocked any condemnation of iraq so you know the crimes that have been created against humanity when it come is really we have to look to europe in the united states to see the real culprits and while whereas the iranians have never engaged in an attack iran even never even used chemical weapons when chemical weapons were used against iran iran never you can produce chemical weapons so i think that at the end of the day it's quite obvious that the united states its policy towards iran is. base upon an irrational form of hatred and i think that unless people begin to speak out against this sort of policy the united states may once again attempt to drag the region into a greater crisis the iranians don't believe that the united states will attack iran again because the united states is on the decline they have economic crises in europe in the united states people are tired of war but pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political u

what is going on is that the owner expects to merge his 800 square feet unit with mr. hyman's unit. i have viewed mr. hyman's unit and the outside of the property and to do such a merger would require the moving of walls and the moving of a staircase. if the units are merged and this becomes a single family home, it will lose its rent controlled status under the rent ordinance. mr. hyman would be subject to a rent increase without limitation that he could not afford. his rent could be or could go as high as $10,000, maybe more. in addition, if this building were to become a single family home, mr. hyman would be... a owner move in eviction. protection tenants in multiunits could not be evict but single family homes are exempt from that requirement. in addition, it is difficult for an owner who lives in the same building as the tenant to do an owner move in eviction due to the good faith requirements of the rent ordinance as it seems suspicious, why is the owner trying to move into the tenant's unit when he already occupies a unit in the same building? >> the owner claims that he has

the units. okay? there is no address permits because we actually have the map that shows all of the legal addresses. so in 1949, the owner builder, this is the legal address there is only one. the owner builder mr. grady comes in and pulls a permit for two units legal, two units existing, only one address and calls it a dry rot permit. and let's repair front. and it is a dry rot on the front steps and the city signs off, comes out, and basically says, nice try. it is not a world war ii grandpa fathered unit based in on a address it is a single family dwelling and it says 5 r residential run story plus basement one family dwelling. i went in there again today to double check with patty who is in charge of microfilm to go over this process. this cfc is the birth certificate of the building. it is everything. it is everything that i deal with the building department, cfcs control unless there is a subsequent cfc. so, and there were other ways that you could have fixed this. it could have come in la

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you know what kind of message is the united states sending the world. well it's not a good message at all i mean some people really approve off and some people don't really care less and there's a lot of confusion of by to but certainly i find in europe that there's a lot of descend a lot of complaints about what the united states is doing with what the cia is doing and i think is one of my real worries really is what's going on in the united states no seems to be a change in presidential powers and the seem to be not you know who seem to be limitless of the moment and one example was when the libyan war would if you want to call it a war when when the libyan when a bomb a sent drones into libya. he didn't go back to congress under sixty days as he should have done under the war powers resolution and hurrell co his chief lawyer said well there was no commitment to american troops on the ground so we didn't need to does this mean the president can just go off killing people go to war war powers resolution all those sort of constraints that are in the pre

does that mean forth united states? looking back on if now, 24, 25, 26 months, there is a real security issues that have arisen here that are evolving that we have to address. >> rose: define them. >> we have porous borders. we have a proliferation of weapons that have arisen out of the breakdown of these governments, especially from libya. we have. >> rose: in fact some of the libyan islamists have gone to mali. >> they have, right. >> and we have-- they were from there originally and have gone back to mali but with weapons. >> you have less counterterrorism pressure on them, because these governments have changed over, and the counterterrorism forces aren't as experienced. they don't have the same kinds of laws that were in place before. we're having to reestablish relationships with them. and you have these groups being networked in some of them now claiming al qaeda, al qaeda connections. and all of this combines, and last, to, you have an expanding amount of ungoverned space. and we talked about ungoverned space a

countries at the time and the and the united states the technology and the support the u.n. security council blocked any condemnation of iraq so you know the crimes that have been created against humanity when it come is really we have to look to europe in the united states to see the real culprits and while it wears the iranians have never engaged in an attack iran even never even used chemical weapons when chemical weapons were used against iran iran never you can produce chemical weapons so i think that at the end of the day it's quite obvious that the united states its policy towards iran is based upon. an irrational form of hatred and i think that unless people begin to speak out against this sort of policy the united states may once again attempt to drag the region into a greater crisis the iranians don't believe that the united states will attack iran again because the united states is on the decline they have economic crises in europe in the united states people are tired of war but pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political

europe in the united states people are tired of war. pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political uproar is something that no sensible leader would pursue yet we so far we have no we see no sign that the united states wants to behave more humanely towards iran and more reasonably go ahead jump in. to syria. syria so i was in syria i did research is syria two i think i think there is no doubt that one of the. syrian war is exasperates iran iraq iran. is iran the support for the regime i think there is no doubt about that. i grew up in these two most notorious governments of. harmony i think. i think where we're talking about democratic they said democratic go is iran is a democratic government i think if you if you're a guardian council from the beginning if you're not supporting this long it like they were just they were stripped away from the election second of all i think many in the constitution he did the president is not the powerful person in the country they're powerful as many he has the

they have had warnings from the former comptroller of the united states that the u.s. is now two years away from that greece was when it had its crisis and then europe is totally broke and hopeless who just spain just pulls another records in instead the highest that accumulation of addition in one hundred years italy is out of control that there isn't any improvement in the economic side and so nothing is under control where that's not a currency war or the basement in order to reduce the debt burden in real terms rethink money printing is going to continue on the massive scale and be doing thing that those currencies the dollar the euro the yen and stern actually for that matter and to some extent the global currency is across the board the safe store of value anymore because of that ok where do you jump in on this ok i mean people are talking about a new bubble here i mean i got to tell you there's an old. well i mean there's an old line you know when writing a dead horse dismount and in the united states we continue to print this money and let's not forget the unit

in 2005 306 units were converted to condominiums, in 2006, it was over double, 727 units.ow, when we have a lottery process of 200, plus a number of two-unit t.i.c.s that converted every year i mean that spike was really alarming to me and it peaked at 845 units in 2008. and i'm just curious as to how that happened the patterns around that, what you have seen at dpw. >> frankly, that's my fault. i made the process a lot more efficient. my staff made the process a lot more efficient. i was hired in 2005 and there was a horrendous backlog and we made the process more efficient. it doesn't reflect any change in the number of applicants. actually, the number of applicants were probably three or four years has declined for a two-unit bypasses. the 200 unit cap on the condo lottery is the same every year. but the decline has been in the two-unit bypasses. >> co-chair kim: and so these spikes really were just in the two-unit condominiums. that were maybe backlogged over the last several years. but thanks to efficiencies that you had put in place in dpw were able to kind of fast t

i think i think we have i think we have very moderate inflation in the united states. good arguments why inflation is understated there are also good arguments why inflation is. overstated for example quality improvements that are not adequately captured in the price index and other reasons but if i had a large inflation is under control and whoever you talk to who independent experts very very knowledgeable people will come. will confirm that fact so we are not yet in in a financial bubble not know yet not yet not yet still a fairly hearing which we are not yet. we are not yet in that situation i am was it about it i am again one assumes a i am not saying that this is the best of all worlds it's possible that a year from now or two years from now we will be seeing the manifestations of inflation and of a financial bubble and then the central banks will be under a lot of pressure to tighten quickly and we could have a major problem on our hands but i would not a central bank you know that actually maher is on you want to go to hong kong fair time i just say as i say it

the introduction of women at the unit level will improve the culture and the effectiveness of units in contemporary warfare. let's not assume there is a risk of negative outcomes in terms of effectiveness. let's think in terms of how we can be better at women fighting the nation's wars. that was the broader issues. there is another broader issue i would like to address. that is the united nations security council resolution 1325. the women's peace and security issue attached to this. since we are trying to achieve protection of civilians and preventing rape, military effectiveness is linked to the other issues. we have to think about women's rights. they go hand in hand abroad as well as at home. with that, let's look at the swedish experience. sweden is often seen as a role model in terms of gender equality and women's rights in the international community. perhaps rightly so. when we looked at the militant organization, all of the political obstacles were removed in 1981. that is where you are right. 1981. i would not go that far. it took 13 years of dragging their feet before the mi

and the future unit. please help my family and other trapped t.i.c. owners in the city. and i have to add that this is the first time, after many, many years, that i feel there is some likelihood of this very long tunnel. thank you for your time. >> chair wiener: thank you. i will call more names. josephine -josephine --y, shirl, shirley, christina, chin, ingles, jim inglings, jake block, chi, jane, susan, kay walker, deborah -- brian blake, iris, martis, gran, stacy, kevin, rose, and beth palmer. next speaker. >> thank you. my name is -- i'm a district 8 t.i.c. owner. i purchased a three unit t.i.c. in 2007, with a 20% downpayment. i lived with my wife and two children. since the peak of the market there's been a dynamic change in the financial lending practices of banks in the bay area that i believe is quite unfair. right now, we have tried to sell one of the three units in our building twice, with no success, due to the inability to refinance. additionally, my partner and i have tried to refinance our

and it is these units here and there is one unit that faces directly north. we are looking. >> number 6? >> that is number 6. >> that is not my number 6. >> exhibit 6. it is not the exact same, but it is close, it has arrows pointing. >> no. >> okay. >> thanks. >> yeah. >> and both of the buildings on either side of this building are substan hally shorter so this is going to stick up and be as i said blocking those windows, it is not about views, it is strictly about light. >> okay. thank you. >> okay, we can hear from the permit holder. >> did you rule on whether you wanted to see the industrial design? >> i am okay. >> not everybody wants it so. just forget it. >> good evening, board members my name is nick polter and i am the architect for the project. according to the board's published special instructions for parties, the standard of review, the board shall use in deciding a case such as this, shall only be in the case of error or abuse of the zoning administrator. that has not been shown. all of the technical procedures were followed correctly as will b

we suspect it wasn't this unit not the unit we wrote about, a different group. we suspect that they were looking for sources of stories that david, one of my colleagues wrote about the chinese. we don't know that for a fact but just looking at the patterns -- right. series of pieces about the former prime minister and his family fortune, very sensitive issue in china. but there have been other cases in recent times where they have gone after foreign policy elite of the united states. there was a fascinating attack on the council and foreign relations here in new york where the attack wasn't really aimed at getting material out of the counsel's computer systems, most of what's in there is opening available. probably be perfectly delayed if the chinese went and read it all. but instead it's what's called a water hole attack. think of animals coming to the watering hole. in this case the animals of the foreign policy elite, they see who is coming and they follow them back home to their home computers. a fascinating element. there were aspects of the -- institute an

your worst case scenario missile it comes to that which i think my worst case scenario is that the united states. starts another war in the middle east to disarm another middle eastern country weapons of mass destruction that it does not know. and that the damage that the backlash to this does to the american position. makes. how much damage was done in position by you variation of the law makes that will quite trivial by comparison that's my worst case i want to ask you about the new face of the pentagon chuck hagel he allowed himself to say right attacking iran is a stupid idea and i believe you also called for direct negotiations do you think we could see direct negotiations any time soon with chuck hagel in ministration well i think that that former senator hagel has taken courageous positions on iran on a range of issues and i admire them and respect them and the concern i have is that he is being nominated for the wrong job to carry out those positions his defense secretary if he is a if he is if he's approved to be as defense secretary he will not be the person in charge of creatin

or selling the unit. before it could be sold. but many people are going to condo convert and then flip it. my friend actually owns a t.i.c. he bought it for 260,000. his t.i.c. owner upstairs just sold their unit for 450. that was five years ago. so clearly you can sell your t.i.c. unit for some money. they knew what they were getting into when they bought the unit. there's a lottery. the lottery didn't start last week. my dad pays two-thirds of his income in rent. his building just sold. i'm really scared. >> chair wiener: thank you. next speaker. >> i have my card here. my name's jennifer grant, i've lived in san francisco for 25 years. i've worked at nonprofits that entire time, nonprofits funded by the san francisco. i ran two of the battered women's shelter for 17 years. currently i work at one of the family resource centers. as a single woman i saved for many years, i borrowed from my family, and was able to purchase my own home after renting for many years through the san francisco first time home

the united states have been talking to beijing for years but it was this very narrow kind of dialogue very focused on grievance american grievances toward china and what china was going to need to do to to bring itself in line with american preferences nixon and kissinger flip that on its head they said we are going to convey to the chinese both in words and in actions that we we accept the people's republic of china and on that basis the rest of these issues can be taken care of that's what enabled this dramatic turn in american diplomacy toward china that's what we need to do toward the islamic republic of iran to accept it and then to back that up with concrete actions in terms of rolling back covert action programs in terms of stopping economic warfare against iran but what are the chances for diplomacy i mean iran is surrounded by u.s. military bases by nato patriot missiles they have to sanctions that are crippling the rate in economy it seems there's more ground for blackmail now than for diplomacy unfortunately i think that is the american hope that we can still force coerced

it will boost the local economy and add 34 housing units with a good mix of studios, one and two units with over half suitable for families. it will add 4 bmr units on site to better housing into the community and will limit parking to 0.5 spaces per unit to promote public transportation over vehicles. it will have at least 25 bikes stall to promote modes of transportation and will add a dramatic restaurant space to a prominent corner to activate the pedestrian realm as well as close an empty stretch of retail. it will be environmentally sensitive by integrating the storm water capbility into the landscape feature of the building. it will create high density housing in a transit rich location that has more than a dozen cities and regional mass transit lines nearby. in terms of out reach, the project enjoys broad support. we have strong letters of support from the neighborhood association and the housing action coalition, and we have the support of our neighbors at 300 across the street. we ask for your support of this project today as recommended by the planning department. we believe

they have had warnings from the former comptroller of the united states that the u.s. is now two years away from that greece was when it had its crisis and then europe is totally broken hopelessly just spain just pose another records in instead the highest that accumulation of addition in one hundred years italy is out of control there isn't any improvement in the economic side and so nothing is under control where that's not a currency war or they did the basement in order to reduce the debt burden in real terms rethink money printing is going to continue on the massive scale and be doing thing that those currencies the dollar the euro the yen and stern actually for that matter and to some extent the global currency is across the board the safe store of value anymore because of that ok ed where do you jump in on this ok i mean people are talking about a new bubble here i mean i got to tell you there's an old. well i mean there's an old line you know when writing a dead horse dismount and in the united states we continue to print this money and let's not forget the uni

citizen in these circumstances when that citizen is an imminent threat to the united states meaning u.s. troops anywhere imminent meaning eventually imminent and being defined to mean nothing whatsoever and and is a senior operations official in al qaeda or some aligned organization which none of the three americans that we know to have been killed by this program remotely qualify as you know what the this is a program that was used to kill a sixteen year old american citizen and his teenage cousin who had the bad luck to be next to him and no one has remotely made any claims that he or his father who was killed earlier and was on the list before anyone had suggested anything of the sort the the three americans we know to have been killed don't meet the qualifications so this is a this is a paper to quote unquote legalize killing some other americans no you're agreeing ok because go ahead i agree with them but i was going to say i was going to. say that when i read the memo again it seemed to me that i agree entirely with what david just said i read the memo as meaning that imminent thr