reuben, junius & rose representation of the entity powering before the board will not have any effecton my decision today. >> thank you you have 7 minutes to present to the board. >> thank you, commissioners and board members for hearing the appeal i'll matt a surgeon in san francisco via medical center and residents and one of the owners on scott street my property boundaries filbert i believe you have photos and in brief of july 2015 we received a handwritten note on the property and with a request to contract the property owner have an opportunity to build a new fence not to touch our retaining wall our property will not be affected and only need to set foot to stand in our yard to put up the wall we gave verbal consent the workers started to demolish our wall without our consent and built a support frame and damaged the plants and built the wall twice the size we made multiply attempts to contact him and had letters delivered to his residence with no response my wife kablt inspector duffy and to stop the work the work continued nonetheless at one point i found the landscapers on o

. >> good afternoon with reuben, junius & rose representing the project sponsor this code can't be what we read from the planning code to the extent it is unclear the planning code says is zoning administrators job to make sure that is needed to pacific avenue and the mcd zone was created 9 years ago and amended on 13 occasions but what the code says today in this case no ambiguity what the code is intending to provide on the overhead if you look at the actual section one 34 it is intended to sure the continuation of the established mid block open spaces the 2007 rediscovering rezoning is those originals in our packets and they talk about for instance, preserving the character neighborhood and the code section for the specific mcd protecting the rear yard patterns and i've pulled up a dictionary the word preserve to maintain something in its state and protect to preserve something no where the code does the the president of the rear yard setback talk about creating an open space mid block open space where one didn't exist on the overhead american people area of the site we do not have a

. >> i need to make my disclosure i wish to say i've hired reuben, junius & rose of the entities beforehis board not having is an effect on my decision. >> thank you, again with the presidents extent we'll give peach appellant 5 minutes to present their case because of two appeals you have 10 minutes. >> thank you thank you john with reuben, junius & rose here on behalf of the project sponsor we were here discussing the renovation of a residential building we've got appeals from the rear neighbor ape the south neighbor a side neighbor the south neighbors concerns were related to the fact two dwelling units at the basement where their preliminary means of entrance from the rear of the property in our first- their concern was we had rear steps directed towards their home santa monica's towards the front the first hearing we proposed clipping the stairs to move towards the front of the building and proposed putting installing a entry gates on the side of the home where there is the walkway in order to control access to the rear we heard from the boarded last time more effort firemen's in t

we'll begin the proceedings. >> i'd like to make a disclosure i wish to disclose i've hired reuben, junius rose their representations of the entity before this board will not have any effect on any decision today. >> okay mr. stephen when you're ready. >> i have visuals let's see. >> i'm sorry. >> okay. i have a couple there we go. >> figuring this out. >> you want to wait until robert comes back. >> ready let's wait until people stop by. >> we're ready. >> hi my name is greg steve richie the ceo of theatres and this on or about we're talking about is about saving something that is as grand as the castro theatre and not making the mistakes like with the fox theatre and years and years of regret so i wanted to kind of poetry what we're sort of dealing with you have a theatre that is - has this people have not yielded seen the inside for over 40 years they don't realize what their giving up to the community didn't know they're making a dedication that may have saviev consequences it is important to know that we were with approvpre have the ability and put on the ballot and have the community

lindsey that is sitting in for the director i'm jim with reuben, junius & rose and represent the projectonsor and the architect sponsor himself is here losing i'm sorry lisa is here in case any questions the most important i've not seen a brief if steve williams and wondering up through this moment what in their questions and requirement because we thought we met them i don't know where that brief went but not to my office as far as i know it is hard for us 0 responds to a brief we've not seen nevertheless, that project doesn't warnlt a discretionary review and louis will do his best to talk about this we're pleased we resolved one of the dr requester and one of the neighbors we talked with you can't please all the people but one reasonable neighbor talked to others so we got something reasonable so louis address this even though we don't have the brief. >> good afternoon, members i'm louis the architect. 2626 green i have up on the screen i think an important graphic that helps explain noble the specifics of this project buses the relationship of how e houses on this block i'd like to m

the opportunity to present this project jay our preservation architect is here as daniel if reuben, junius & rose and now i'm going to turn it over to dabbling the project architect from da r. >> we have terrific input from planning and the neighborhood and it has been a great effort and can i have the - there we go. >> an unusual u ash site the configuration has a geography and runs from market street to 15 street and there recent an exist as mentioned the staff report a 3 unit building and existing on 15 street and the surface parking that is to be roved and replaced with fully gastrogoodwill ground parking and no curve cuts on market street the other interesting kafkts is the shape in geometry of the block itself as you look at the knowledge as you can see how we respond to the geographyy and again 9 market octavia plan was a very important component of that project but also as we talked with jay turnball about the character of the historic district and looking at the context that is very diverse neighborhood with a broad variety i have architectural style from mid century more than to

. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm tom of reuben, junius & rose on here on behalf of the project sponsor we appreciate the staff report and all the work that staff do the to help us and appreciate their recommendation of approval we really feel this is an ideal location for skin spirit it is comparable and works well with the neighborhood and as staff has 6 letters of support with the project sponsor is our architect hillary she will speak briefly and talk about the use of floor areas and the improvements made to the property and we have our owner and founder of skin spirit who will speak about the company and this particular space will be used we also have the property owner that is in full support we're i'm available to answer any questions and we thank you for your time and consideration. >> great, thank you. >> overhead please there you go. >> hello i'm hillary human being arrested architect for skin spirit and explain the design and proposed improvement improvement united states of america it is an sacramento street between presidio and walnut street with 24 ground floor ret

trying to build housing that is affordable to a vast of income groups and another thing phil reuben, junius & rose testified and concerned about the height bulls this the lp a i'm users west portal you'll familiar you have bank parking lots and are you probably won attire that might be 10 or 12 feet as a right they're probably 40 they can con assembly be 100 percent bonus part went through a shock and would be a huge- that could happen all ever the city we have to be okay with this it but not going to approve 60 feet only 40 i mean, i'm thinking this should be our ability there are circumstances that might make that more desireable for these to be somewhat smaller the other thing on businesses being displaced a valid criticism what should happen the project sponsor has to agree to give the existing building first right of refusal when the new building goes on it make sense didn't mean wear restricting the ability of the owner to charge whatever represent he feels is appropriate he can do that now, in fact, the people are at jeopardy in existing businesses can be evicted or charged high rent

. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm tom of reuben, junius & rose on here on behalf of the project sponsor we appreciate the staff report and all the work that staff do the to help us and appreciate their recommendation of approval we really feel this is an ideal location for skin spirit it is comparable and works well with the neighborhood and as staff has 6 letters of support with the project sponsor is our architect hillary she will speak briefly and talk about the use of floor areas and the improvements made to the property and we have our owner and founder of skin spirit who will speak about the company and this particular space will be used we also have the property owner that is in full support we're i'm available to answer any questions and we thank you for your time and consideration. >> great, thank you. >> overhead please there you go. >> hello i'm hillary human being arrested architect for skin spirit and explain the design and proposed improvement improvement united states of america it is an sacramento street between presidio and walnut street with 24 ground floor ret

. >> good afternoon with reuben, junius & rose representing the project sponsor this code can't be what we read from the planning code to the extent it is unclear the planning code says is zoning administrators job to make sure that is needed to pacific avenue and the mcd zone was created 9 years ago and amended on 13 occasions but what the code says today in this case no ambiguity what the code is intending to provide on the overhead if you look at the actual section one 34 it is intended to sure the continuation of the established mid block open spaces the 2007 rediscovering rezoning is those originals in our packets and they talk about for instance, preserving the character neighborhood and the code section for the specific mcd protecting the rear yard patterns and i've pulled up a dictionary the word preserve to maintain something in its state and protect to preserve something no where the code does the the president of the rear yard setback talk about creating an open space mid block open space where one didn't exist on the overhead american people area of the site we do not have a