they bought a 3-unit building and they want to turn it into a one 1 unit with a tiny unit. but butt that's my struggle personally on this based upon our policies and trying to preserve housing stock and the fact that there are so many affordable units in the market. i feel it's something who bought the building, if it was once a single family home and maybe we can wait 5 years and do the same. that's the challenge i have with it. not specifically per say what the outcome is in terms of the size. we've seen cases where you make it 3,000 square foot unit and give us a studio of 500 square feet. that's the struggle. >> i just wanted to respond to a couple of your comments. the studio unit that is in the front of the second floor that is being maintained went from gross square footage loss to 44 square feet. but it gained functionality. it's definitely small. it's 300 square feet. it's a studio and it has access to the foyer and elevator and garage, parking and storage. we are in essence improving that studio unit. i want to make sure it wasn't looked at just sliding this. unfo

basically in a four unit building you can expand two of the units but not the other two. this would allow you to expand the legal nonconforming units provided that you don't expand the building's envelope. unless there had been a no fault eviction in that building. does that help? >> yes. my other question is you said merger in two units. what exactly -- >> so, that would occur -- say you're dealing with the same four-unit building and an owner comes in and has purchased two of the units and decides to combine the two units into a larger space. perhaps -- in that case either the unit would need to be empty to do that or there would need to be some sort of eviction processo

two units available to merge into a larger unit. >> okay. so, to make your legislation, connect the dots for me. how does this save rentals? or affordable -- what are we trying to do here? >> according to this incentive for units to be demolished or merged and converted. one of the ways is if there has been a no-fault eviction or there is a disincentive, you can't evict a tenant because you're not going to be able to actually make a conversion of the building or merge units in the building or demolish the building in the future. so, it could actually work to preserving the tenants and the rental stock in those building. we're also making sure that where a property owner does want to make improvements to nonconforming units, that a building where there are conforming units, that they be able to make those conversions and to actually stabilize that overall property and making sure that we're preserving rental property in those units that are nonconforming to be able to become a higher standard, but also make sure there remains -- maintain thei

infusion of money since two thousand and one the united states has spent i think over a five hundred billion dollars on intelligence during that period and american officials have long claimed that you know the main outcome of that exorbitant spending was the lack of any. additional catastrophic terrorist attack but of course many other countries achieve the same result for much much less i wonder if these. you know all that spending has really led to any increase in efficiency of operations or rather what they've had possibly an opposite effect because we all know that when money is not an issue efficiency is usually not the first concern well i would disagree with you i don't think it's exorbitant spending at all when you look at what happened in the united states on september eleventh to have two of our biggest buildings in new york knocked down the pentagon attacked and another plane that was heading for washington d.c. that was very appropriate spending and i think we've seen the results you mentioned other countries other countries are not the target that the united states is f

it is zoned r2h meaning it can have two units with two secondary units, two granny units. a month after the new planning code was adopted in 1979, the planning department inspected and found four units. they said okay as long as it is two families we don't care how many units it has. today 34 years later the property is rent controlled and has still the same four affordable units. however, beginning in 2004 the building and planning department decided that i as a new owner and not the original builder who purchased the four unit building had installed a new kitchen. they filed an abatement against the building, billed me for a fine which i paid and then have continued to harass me, telling me i must remove two affordable rent controlled units. i have repeatedly pointed out this is in violation of their own stated principles of not removing affordable housing installed on improved -- on approved permits. they have posted a lien against my property. i cannot sell it or refinance since i could not refinance when the loans were 1 and 2% during the downturn. the harassment has

we did explore keeping the rear unit as the maintained unit and we did explore trying to maintain a unit on the ground floor as you suggested because of the nature of the beast which is a couple trying to build their home for the long-term. there was a few non-negotiable items from the husband's perspective one of which was a library that opened up that was way from everybody else in the family. that's not for you to care about, but we did explore that. it didn't make sense for this project. >> maybe i can ask some questions. do you have any comparison of similar cases. every single family house is very different. but if you can just give us some perspective on whenever this sits on other mandatory dr cases you have seen. >> i will defer this to washington. >> we evaluate this case based on the criteria. essentially they that had majority of those particular findings to support. as far as trying to job my memory specifically on projects where we have had residential alterations that resulted in creation of a unit that was substantially smaller than what may have been the original configu

the landlord hats evicted us to get out it's going from 4 unit to 2 unit. it's like the ellis act was to allow the owners to evict and build something new. the seniors in order to get huge profits it's a dislocation of longer san franciscans to leave the area and drive us into homelessness. those tenants are being replaced by new conforms >> thank you, very much. >> thank you very much. >> thank you supervisor avalos for our proposal. >> tom director of loveable city. thank you supervisor avalos. we have a huge for a moment crisis and when you're in a hole we need to stop digging and this was mentioned before really catch the planning code criteria policies up with the housing elements criteria policies that favors keeping housing and those dpaelt towards housing issues. on the questions of group housing we brought together a few different definitions of demolition. the article 7 and 8 that was covered in mixed youth districts they include the demolitions and article 317 that covers the other districts of city doesn't include groip group housing. we want to

between europe and the united states. without getting too detailed and too involved in the role of the law. i can say from an economic perspective and a relationship a business perspective it's clearly an inincredibly important tool. and allows far huge amount of trade and important relationships that consumers benefit from and that businesses benefit from. and it became a target in the conversation. i started to say in september and i said just last week if it was an easy target but wasn't the right target. if we want to focus on government surveillance issues we should. or happening through rules or adequacy determination or any other mechanisms for cross-border transfers. that is where the conversation should have happen around the appropriate scope of government surveillance. what i've noticed and frankly the e.u. commission issued report on first step in the report on safe harbor. and i think that this conversation i've been engaged in as well as others. i don't want to say i'm the only one. it seems to have gained r

and once that unit is reoccupied by a landlord, it has to be that same unit in the future. it cannot be another unit unless they file a petition, i believe, with the rent board. and, so, i think that not all -- when we think about property owners, it's not all property owners are equal. there are definitely some who really struggle who have no choice but to maybe rent out another unit for the extra additional income, but may not have [speaker not understood] they want to put the unit on for the duration that they're living there. so, i would like to he see if supervisor avalos would be amenable to either removing the prohibition of the owner move-in occupancy or reducing the moratorium down to maybe half of what has been proposed today. >> supervisor avalos, do you want to respond to that or do you want to continue it down roll call? >> i would entertain the idea of reducing the moratorium from 10 to 5 years for omi evictions. i think that could help us and show that we're treating omi evictions differently in this legislation, which i think would help it to be stronger and

again united states has never ratified that we have the the cluster munitions weapons ban again the united states has never signed on to that the mine bans united states and signed on to that so when we actually look at these various international agreements we can talk about all sorts of like the covenant of the social economic cultural rights again you know united states never signed on to that you know we actually find that here could be said to be the you will of the international community but we find that the self-appointed spokesman of the community haven't actually signed on to these important agreements you want to jump in there. yeah i think a few days ago i was i usually follow the news also from not only from the west and also news outlets but from the eastern one and i use the term international community is used in the if you were in your. media particularly press t.v. or so it's being used to really i think you can say loosely cross the war but again i think. i think the term is without that is a western concept which was you can say a post-war war to legacy. which basically

we did explore keeping the rear unit as the maintained unit and we did explore trying to maintain a unit on the ground floor as you suggested because of the nature of the beast which is a couple trying to build their home for the long-term. there was a few non-negotiable items from the husband's perspective one of which was a library that opened up that was way from everybody else in the family. that's not for you to care about, but we did explore that. it didn't make sense for this project. >> maybe i can ask some questions. do

those are not in law units. typically ass those are non-conforming unit that are built before our laws that were built in the city and the age of the opt are prominently rent control units. there are nearly 52 thousands of those units e.r. 52 thousand of the cities stock. we have a map i have it here that shouz shows the units are they're all in the core of the city but throughout san francisco. again 14 percent of overall housing stock a 3 unit building in an rh unit the owners because designate two he thought units at the conforming and one as non-conforming and the building owners are still allowed to pick the non conforming unit their usual the most undesirable ones in the believe. they have the urban affordable housing and the planning code doesn't allow those unless the work will eliminate the housing unit. this ordinance will allow four africans to those non-conforming it is to preserve those for rent controlled housing. currently because the aefls are prohibited but the removal is loud the current code c

, at a minimum one unit to be affordable unit. that's my point. >> i don't think -- >> i am talking about it as a concept. i am trying to understand that something, whether anyone agrees is another question. >> that's the problem, there are potential conflicts. if you want to prioritize the scale as a major issue here, well, something has to give. >> right. >> so -- you know. >> i have to say -- >> can that still make it financially rewarding to the developer and if they use an affordable unit, the marsh is happy and the neighborhood is happy but the affordable housing project is not. he was not guaranteeing them anyway, so there is not an issue here. >> that wasn't an issue for me anyway. the question of affordable housing versus inplace is a circular argument and never been answered. >> i agree. >> i have to say that knowing people that had bmr units it's not actually that affordable, truthfully. it isn't. i mean you still have to pay the h oa fees. that keeps going. it's not really affordable. >> well, i have one for sale now.

what more can and should the united states be doing. and what other threats do you see on the horizon? >> first of all, don't alienate our allies in the middle east. some of our strongest allies are not happy. when saudi arabia said they will find a shift away from the united states. and other friends saying they cannot count on the united states. that is a huge problem. we need them as partners in our efforts against counter-terrorism programs. that frame is concerning to me. they are mad about withholding mony -- money -- from the folks who are going after the muslim brotherhood. they don't under the redline in syria and then it wasn't a redline it was a talk without them included but with the russians in a place they didn't agree with. they didn't agree with the iranian deal. that was the straw that broke the camels back. what is happening in sinai is when morrisy was president we saw them pull back completely. the israelis had to kickback. and after the weapons flying sinai that became a very dangerous place. once the military took

for unit 175, the unit was on the market and vacant from april to may, 2013, prior to april 4th, occupants josh green and robert and john rented the unit from july 20, 2011, to march, 2013. for unit 3179, occupant anneal became october. in order for the project to proceed, the project requires planning commission approval under section 1332 and 1331 to allow the condominium conversion. i'm ethiopia answer any questions. >> is there any public comment on this item? >> i'm the attorney representing the owner of this. there are just typographical errors. >> thank you. any further public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner antonini? >> it appears this doesn't change anything other than the fact that it was type graphically done. the conditions met are all satisfied by this project. >> correct, the project still meets the requirements. >> i would move to approve. >> second. >> [roll call vote taken] that motion passes unanimously 6-06789 that places you on item 10, the area plan implementation and inter indemnity plan implementa

this is a critically important region in the united states. and the key factor is central in this policy is china's rise and how the united states will manage china's rise going forward. >> how does china's rise look, camille, when you're standing in manila. is the country looking to tighten itself to the united states because a politically, powerful china makes it feel insecure? >> you can see that the philippines may be insecure, but we are just admitting that our military capabilities are limited, and it's challenged, and so having the united states there as a key ally, one of our oldest allies, really, gives us more confidence. facing china, however, we see--we look at it as david versus goliath. we have elevated the government has elevated the case through the al jazeera america arbitration course through the hague, there is a case there right now on the south china sea dispute. having the united states support this measurement is something that the people really appreciate, the public and the government, that they have a backer some how.

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threat that israel has posed to the world if things don't go its way but when you talk about the united states that it states is israel's main supporter but right now we see that it's kind of open to iran as well knowing how much anxiety that raises among his rallies what does it tell you about the u.s. well it tells me that the people are beginning to realize their power i think there are things that correlate the approval rating for barack obama in the u.s. congress is about as low as it's possible to get somewhere in the neighborhood of ten percent twenty percent maximum the people have come to a point where they are sick and tired of being lied to they know they're being lied to and when they see their so-called leaders trying to cooperate with israel and yet another war that would lead to disastrous consequences for the region and for the united states and every other person involved they've had it and the reflection of the policies is that and is indeed that of the. people it's the people who are sick and tired and i do see that there is some demarcation coming going on here betwe

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states to be neutral and then because of these treaty commitments the united states may find itself having to do something that it really doesn't want to do go ahead john. as you point out the united states you know professes to be neutral it is kind of secured its position in the asia pacific region as a so-called honest broker and so it has tried to do this at the same time of course it has allies so it's very difficult for the united states to actually be an honest broker when it supplies south korea with a tremendous amount of military so. court as i said surpass supported japan for some time provides taiwan with a great deal of military support so the honest broker position is actually rather difficult and yet at the same time we have seen china and japan as well as china and some of the countries bordering the south china sea come to some agreements for instance over oil and gas exploration under sea and these agreements i think could be the kind of core of some agreement in the future one of those agreements was just back in two thousand and eight around the. island and we've

force unless it's authorized by the congress of the united states unless the vital interest of the united states are imperiled in some way or other and unless the american people are united over this intervention as you may know i was against the iraq war when president george w. bush took us to the iraq war while i favored the intervention in afghanistan after the massacre of nine eleven i did not believe the united states should stay in afghanistan and try to reform and remake that country according to our ideas and our ideals i thought that was a bridge too far for the united states i've opposed intervention in syria because i'm not an admirer of the regime there but no vital interest of the united states was threatened in that civil war so in each of those cases and frankly since the cold war ended i have been against a most of the american interventions because i didn't see them as directly related to the vital interest of my country nothing in my country was threatened our people were not threatened and so i did in i don't think we ought to be out trying to remake the world in our i

unit group housing or sro to student housing is not considered a conversion of a residential unit if the dwelling unit group housing or sro will be student housing owned, operated or otherwise controlled by a not for profit post secondary educational institution. and the next reference and the dnc ordinance is on page 10 line 13, much shorter. section 12, residential units shall mean the legal conforming or we're taking out the language that says nonconforming residential conforming or nonconforming dwelling unit as defined in planning code section 102.7 or illegal nonconforming live/work unit as defined in planning code section 102.13, or group housing, we're adding this language, or group housing as in planning code section 209.2a, b, and c, provided, however, this definition shall not include a residential unit in a residential hotel as defined and regulated by chapter 41 of the san francisco administrative code. that is the last amendment that i'm adding to the dnc residential legislation. thank you. >> supervisor avalos has made the motions to amend including what was described

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is that unit or buildings. that's buildings so somewhere in the place of 1500 units. i was off. we figured that from all of our previous statistics from the lottery and what we had been through. we thought there was somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 buildings available to convert come july 29. and i think the first day we only saw 12. 12 applications. >> right but 550 units is a lot already. >> buildings. >> buildings. >>genically we multiply by 3 or 3.5 to get the unit count. >> thank you. >> sure. >> commissioner sugaya. >> this is a dumb question but the 20,000 is per unit. >> correct. not a dumb question. >> commissioner antonini. >> let me see if i understand this correctly. one of the restrictions was that the participants to be eligible to pay the money and to be able to convert had to be in line as of april, 2008. they had to be already tic owners in a compliant situation. and anyone who got into something like that after that period of time will not be eligible for the conversion to condominiums. >> no, that's not correct. the first year it's that 2008 time frame. st

as the united states has adjusted to the fiscal realities that we have in the united states but i think it's been money very well spent i don't think it's been exorbitant whatsoever we are a big country like russia where we have a global intelligence service because we have interests all over the world we have more threats you know i think it's interesting it might be interesting for your viewers you know the way the united states sees intelligence is different than when we saw it in the cold war while the soviet union and the united states were sort of pitted against each other in a sense it was an easier intelligence mission because russia is a very large of the soviet union was a very large nation state within embassies and armaments and the rest whereas today's threats are stateless international terrorists they are political writers of weapons of mass destruction so the intelligence job is a little bit harder here today in the post cold war era than arguably it might have been in the cold war absolutely mr allen this is a good point but you just mentioned russia and russia is also

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important inare the united states.they become real connectors between brazil and the united states. one well-known company that has five subsidiaries in the united states. they are here because this is a big market, but this is also a place of innovation. i wanted to just remember something president dilma rousseff said exactly one year ago in her last interview of 2012. she was asked about this business of the fiscal cliff that the united states was going down. not manage their fiscal affairs and govern themselves. she said, i don't believe that the united states is losing importance in the world. quote, as ist a read this so many times. then she said, the united states ana country with extraordinarily flexible economy , with a great capacity to reinvent itself. -- united states is moving is the country of innovation and is something that she says, value very much, and we have to pay attention to. she repeated four times the word "education." there is a debate in the united states about the quality of education, but t

states is for islamic extremists and so i think the united states citizens have gotten what they've paid for when they because we've been able to for you all and prevent numerous attacks on the continental united states and in europe with some of our allies because we're spending so much more money on intelligence and because we're able to have a more capable intelligence service going after threats to our country well you just mentioned nine eleven and that was of course twelve years ago but if we consider the. funding that the cia has requested of the intelligence community or rather has requested for the fiscal year of two thousand and thirteen it is still pretty high over fifty two billion dollars and it is expected to stay at that level at least until two thousand and seventeen and just to our viewers to make it clear it is pretty much the same or similar to what the united states was spending on their own intelligence ad they hide all of the cold war and. i'm sure you know that these and zorbas and standing on the part of the soviet union was one of the main reasons for its ow