mr. lazarus and i will call two more names. >> good afternoon, jim lazarus, san francisco chance chamber of commerce. whatever you do, i think the leadership of peninsula in san francisco cannot make the mistake of ending up with a system with differential heights of platforms. anything that can result in reduced flexibility at stations and certainly at the end of the line at transbay has to be avoided. it wasn't a height issue, but those of us who have been around since muni metro went into embarcadero station, know we have end of the line problems with capacity in san francisco with muni medical center metro. we thought it would be resolved and we still have problems at peak times i'm sorry if it's going to be a problem ultimately or a difficulty for caltrain to figure out the equipment that they need to buy. but we know what the international standard is for high-speed rail and that seems to be approximately 50" level floor, with the propulsion systems underneath. if that is what it has to be, we need to find a way to make caltrain's equipment compatible with the needs of statewide hi

mr. silverman. >> good evening commissioner president lazarus and commissioners david silverman on behalf of the permit holder there have been no new facts and circumstances presented to the board that couldn't have been present at the prior hearing i understand from ms. murdock's comments tonight that she wished to emphasize the outreach but in her own comments two commissioners recovered did outreach with my clients though she may dispute her accounts that's not new evidence on a rehash of what's gone over we encourage you to deny her request. >> i have a question. >> yes. >> what about her attempts to talk directly to the clients or you. >> that was addressed by my clients at the prior hearing my recollection they met her at a party at a house across the street, i believe there was e-mails after that and i - yeah, you can come up. >> please. >> so i'm the project sponsor of the project to clarify oh, i'm sorry vivian lee project manager to clarify the communications i can say that ms. murdock only actively engaged after her and her land given the emotions were running high to keep the

mr. jim lazarus. >> good afternoon commissioners. jim lazarus with the san francisco chamber of commerce. happy new year happy new year. >> happy new year happy new year. >> an exciting project, a very informative presentation. i think a lot of us are on the one hand sorry that the restoration of pier 30-32 didn't go forward with the arena because it's such an important mara time asset for the port and the city but this is certainly a great location. like at&t park this event center will be an anchor in mission bay like at&t park has been in the northern sector. with the giants project to the north it will tie together retail, commercial, residential activities that will be the heart and the sowfl the new mission bay. from a staff point of view and commission point of view i hope that this agency will push the developer, the consultants, your own staff, other city departments to approve this project as expeditiously as legally possible. this is a huge economic engine for san francisco. this isn't replacing an existing economic engine

mr. pacheco. >> we have a motion month commissioner president lazarus to uphold the permit on the basis it was properly issued on that motion commissioner fung commissioner honda commissioner wilson thank you. >> the vote is had to zero the permit it up legally on that basis. >> move our or on to item 8 versus the department of building inspection with the planning department approval the property on 40526th street to robert edmond to erect a building with 17 hundred and 50 secret of ground floor area we'll start with the appellants. >> good evening, members of the board i live on 27th street and thank you so much thank you for the opportunity to voice any concerns and the concerns of fellow residents all of whom were on or after march 13 of 2013 by the live in four units that are negatively impacted by the site plan on 27th street we request you require positive design a changes to the plan so we can obtain our only source of sunlight important before issuing the site permit there's a light well, that serves 4 units in the building the only source of quality year around direct sunlight an

mr. tigue. >> good evening president lazarus and commissioners, corey tigue for planning department. we feel like this project was approved appropriately by planning department. sounds like the proposed changes between the two parties would if anything, result in a smaller project overall so wouldn't trigger any additional notification requirements and i don't think we have any issues for the compromise that's been reached. i'm available for any questions you may have. >> any public comment? seeing none, then commissioners, the matter is submitted. mr. duffy, commissioners are you willing to entertain him again? >> yes. >> as long as he entertains that. >> sorry commissioners for the time. just one point of clarification, i heard mr. calvin there saying that the -- it would take the walls down prior to any -- the addendum being issued. you can't start the work until the addenda has to be issued before you take the walls down so we won't know what the foundation is until the a ddenda is issued. >> well you can have multiple addenda. >> they could do something but the structure is usua

mr. silverman. >> good evening commissioner president lazarus and members of the board david silverman on behalf of the approved including the mosser company first of all, thank you. the russian hill neighbors for coming tonight i'm very glad they're supportive of the trees and we also support the trees in the city no one favors any tree removed that's the history of the anti trees this gentleman said is not an issue tonight bureau of urban foresty said the trees are damaged and pose a threat to the public my clients will replace the trees with a sturdy quality carli short said it is a threat to public safety to approve the question q request the trees are significantly damaged their verifyable data 3 arborists all disagreed with the russian hill neighbors consultant on his analysis going on from managerial we'll evaluate each tree separately and base our novels all four of the tries are black wood or cash they don't respond to grooming and this species after the leaves have been cut we don't take removal lightly in light of the statements the fact the trees have survived for the last 8 years is in

mr. t. >> good evening again commissioner president lazarus and commissioners corey t from the planning staff the permit at hand open the 27th street the permit was submitted no march 2013 it was reviewed by the residential design team with within the planning department to specifically to the residential guidelines in terms of the design it was found to be compliant with both the department heard the concerns the project was taken back to the design team at that review the issues it was a in debt review again found compliant with the residential guidelines and 311 notification was sent out in december of 2013 and ended in january of 2014 the project required a mandatory discretionary review because it was demolition of a dwelling unit and the construction of two replacement units it had to go before the planning commission it was before the planning commission of may of this year all the concerns that were raised for this appeal were raised for that discretionary review hearing the planning commission did unanimously approve the project with no conditions consistent with the guidelines to co

mr. pacheco. >> we have a motion from commissioner fung to grant the jurisdiction request on that motion to grant commissioner president lazarus commissioner honda and commissioner wilson is absent the vote is 3 to zero and given the boards vacancy the jurisdiction is granted and the nickel sons have a 5 day period and this will end this coming monday. >> okay i believe that mr. donny is now in the room and return to item 4a and b mr. donny. >> commissioners, i apologize for being late here today, i want to withdraw my appeal i worked for the last two years with dbi and planning and the board of appeals staff and now reinstated the permit this morning i'll be withdrawing my appeals. >> is there anything in the department mr. duffey. >> joe duffey i wanted to conform the permits h have been reinstated on december 9th the permit services and so there's nothing to appeal. >> okay well in that case. >> good solution anything to add any public comment on that item on those two items okay. so those items are withdrawn we can move on think to the next item item 6 versus the department of public health property on 1963 sutter street f

mr. pacheco when you're ready. >> we have a motion from commissioner fong or. >> commissioner president lazarus. >> where we have a motion from commissioner president lazarus to uphold all 3 permits that the dpw reset the dates and this is on the basis there's code compliant on that motion to uphold with that condition and that basis commissioner fong commissioner honda commissioner wilson thank you. the vote is 4 to zero those 3 permits are upheld on this basis and that condition thank you. >> thank you moving on to to item 5 appeal thomas versus the department of public works at 2120th street the continuance to 20th street of an alternatives from 6 to 8 feet by excavating down and replacing the slab that matter was heard on november 12th and continued for the dpw and permit holder to conduct a site survey and commissioner president lazarus if you want to give each party 3 minutes would you like to hear if the department farsz actual the permit holder approached me their attorney has not arrived they ask the board to call another case. >> okay so we'll put that off and if you see that person arrive. >> there's

mr. pacheco if you could take roll. >> we have a motion from commissioner fong commissioner fung to adapt itself november minutes. >> commissioner president lazarusommissioner honda and commissioner wilson is absent the vote is 3 to zero the minutes are adapted. >> then call item 4a and b appeal both filed by mr. donny against the department of building inspection with the disapproval with the subject on e street and their appealing the denial of a permit to erect a building garage super s structure with 44 hundred ground floor feet and the denial of the permit to alternate a building to a second level of a backyard wansz the surveillance and i understand mr. donny is he in the room can you step forward to the microphone. >> i know mr. donny he is stuck in traffic i'm here for another item i don't know if switching it will be okay. >> commissioner shall we hold this off and give mr. donny a chance to get here. >> yeah. if he's on his way. >> with the presidents consent what we had a request to have the board rescheduling item 7 with the presidents content we can hear that request now item no. 7 appeal versus the department of building inspection

mr. pacheco. >> we have a motion from commissioner honda to uphold the permit on the basis it is code compliant and was issued properly. >> on that motion to uphold commissioner fung commissioner president lazarus commissioner wilson thank you the vote is 4 to zero if it permit is upheld on that basis. >> we'll return to item 5 at 4121 that item has been called we'll start with mr. duffy begin to give a report back on his finding and this is the estrange it may we have not had this many non-parties show up i look at the caseload eetdz the amount of people in the audience i word does he come to the wrongs meeting. >> joe duffey the case at 2120 street it was directed that the permit holder look at the site no additional briefing we did that i've been out there there are issues with the permits i said that at the last hearing he saw a flurry of e-mails last week from both parties and the issued i believe the senior inspector bernie was out there he said they're working together since last week to resolve this at this point it maybe better to hear from both sides that maybe period of time and tyler definitely they need to get this figured out there were issues with the other property we did issue

mr. pacheco if you could call the roll please arrest there's a motion on the floor from commissioner fung to adapt the january 14, 2015 minutes on that motion to adapt commissioner president lazarus commissioner honda commissioner wilson thank you. the vote is 4 to zero those minutes are adapted >> thank you item 4 abc will be heard together appeals numbers all filed by julian against presidents board of appeals and mapping protesting the arresting borrow well, i know i know the addresses are 831 to 4180 one1 on gonzales drive we'll start you with sir you have 21 minutes if you need them. >> thank you, mr. goldstein i don't tipped to use all the minutes i think most of the commissioners maybe half of the commissioners have heard this case before i was before this board back if 2013 appealing the tree removals on park merced i'm here to appeal the occupation of the streets in mrashgd to remove those trees i'm here commissioners this company which is the contractor for park merced has a history of having accidents when they remove trees we had an accident in january of 2013 where a worker for or borrow well, was removing a tree 20 feet from where i live the limb of the tree fell an