>> they are. >> are they the original stairs? >> they're not the original stairs. they were replaced in the renovation but they were replaced in the original configuration and that was due -- and dan can talk more about this, for budgetary reasons. the reconfiguration and the change in the stairs was approved in the 2001 certificate of appropriateness but it wasn't undertaken at that time as part of the 2011 final approval. >> even though -- if we were to replace the stairs with wood stairs, they're still going to look pretty different. my concern would be that they actually, because they're going to be more clunky, then a steel stair would be better. >> i wouldn't support cladding the whole thing in wood. i do think that having wood treads would be a good compromise. >> would that be solid or vainer? [laughter] >> solid. >> that's good. >> not vainer. >> could i ask a question about the weather out there and the weather tightness of the interior where the stairs are? i mean, is it -- do you have weathering problems on the interior? i assume it's not conditions saf

. >> as you know the notch is currently for the existing stairs which means the existing building is had has an open stair in what is the notched area instead of filling that in i want to encourage to have it partially filled b in but have the last portion be cut back again so you're not having too much of an expansion into the property line. >> i'm not sure i know where it is. >> it's that piece they can share that. >> it's west. >> this is where the deck would be. >> it's up here. >> this portion here is this what you're take the opportunity. >> no, no, no, no. >> third-story. >> right and exactly where mr. jennings is pointing. >> this sliver. >> no 3 feet on the corner. >> no, no. >> it's the part that is - >> it's where the current stairs are. >> we're saying not fill it in do you have the drawings? and the existing stairs are on the north side. >> sfgov if we could get the overhead overhead. >> he the drawings we have this is - >> yeah. >> is that little piece. >> okay. >> so this is right here and even if we agree to leave the deck all the way out here i want to pull the deck

>> if you're rebuilding the stair, if you're starting from scratch and going to put the stairs in, you want to put the stairs in first and you have two options. one is to put the stairs in first and run a regularlet around the stairs that the stucco comes down to. a reglet is an l-shaped piece of metal that you're waterproofing for the stucco that goes behind distribute stucco goes on top of. it's a piece of flashing and that follows -- they'll make it -- it follows the curves and the whole edge of the stairs. and so you can put that on there, the stucco paper comes down there and you would stucco on top that have after and then you have a little caulk joint that is just something you have to maintain. it's not critical, that goes between the reglet and president stair. that will keep the stucco from cracking. >> here's an example of why we need to maintain a distance clearance between the dwround and the siding. you see this wood siding goes right down to the concrete sidewalk and it's rotting at the bottom. that rot is just going to run up through the wood and into the framing behind

climbed on a daily basis younger so ditch the elevator and take the stairs to keep your brain young what you think about that well we don't have enough stairs to me to worry about it but you know okay we work upstairs were on the second floor i me going upstairs to the third okay i don't i had a responded that were stairs in a parking garage to get up okay it's okay we'll will pass okay i think he's on my side it's almost that time of the year were not talking about the holidays were talking about people magazine sexiest men of their own never be the sexiest man of the knowing that their stairs and then taking the stairs so and friday finally ahead in a way you sooner talk i did know we have a long conversation about stairs but okay you can tell it's regulators great out there for anything to do in your bedroom and stamper celebrating on the weekend is as a prey to start at 10:00 o'clock on saturday megan will be there jeremy how along with some other fox 31 folks we hope to see you there as well but it will be gorgeou little bit chilly but right now warming up nicely 54 degrees in

and the building you must remove the stairs first then remove the fill if you want to put the stairs back that's fine but not place a surcharge open the wood two on the wall and third in so doing if you look at the footing that footing sits on old file i hope a new design will properly design the foundation so it sits on competent material like the that's the issue the fill is a recent fill as recorded by connecticut insuring that is an excellent geotech firmer you have to take the stairs do you think that's the issue here that's the issue as far as, mr. dui listency it was because of his injection into the planner that is being removed and new one being built if it wasn't for him we have another issue with the planner thank you very much. >> thank you project sponsor you have the rebuttal. >> commissioners, i have no other information to add out of respect for our time i'll wave them. >> that clicks the public hearing portion. >> commissioner richards. >> i i guess i recalled a situation where a neighbor built something up against my house we came to an agreements i sad with the nei

the new ramp and stair composed of the railing, clear glass and concrete. the configuration allows for egress and access from both north and east wings and we have consolidated the original design. we actually in response to arc comments, we have regrade td pathway from the west gate to the east entry achieving 120 slope and reduce the over all length of the ramp foot print by 11 feet. working with blank staff, the switch back was moved to the north and we added a stair to align with the east entry as you can see that it is unobstructed view. the ramp is a non-permanent fix you are that can -- if fixture that can be removed at a later date. we are taking out a portion of the existing historic window assembly and we are saving that on-site. we are replacing that with a can can ustom design for historic buildings and new non-historic entry doors will be setback to create an entry vestibule and it will mimic the original historic design. >> again, we believe the changes we made in the historic design, is comparable to the arc and this design conforms to the st

build the '61 stairs. >> build the '61 stairs. that's what's amazing. i think the owner at the time went and got stairs to come out of the side of the house, down the back of the house, down to the backyard. and then they ended up instead moving those stairs over to the garage roof deck, building the garage roof deck. just build as it was proposed in '61. [buzzer] >> thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioners. let's discuss what is before us. commissioner? >> look, i wouldn't mind if i could hear from mr. jacobs just to respond to mr. boskovitch. >> why don't we do rebuttal. >> does staff have rebuttal and then we will have appellant? staff? >> yeah, we don't have any rebuttal on this. >> smart. >> thank you. >> i mean at this point we are talking about a bridge built in 1960. they are trying to do the right thing. if planning wants to do one whole permit, we are fine with it. we will always work with those notice of violations. >> have you had any communications with planning that is their preference? and

you see the tape is coming off of this stair? i wanted to mention the behavioral uses that i keep talking about involve maintenance as well. somebody, you can't just put it in and leave it, you have to walk around and say is everything working? and replace the tape and that's a reasonable expectation. >> well, tape is a good retrofit solution, but a better design solution at the beginning would actually be to cast in place stone that has a darker color so that you have a permanently installed contrasting striping at the nose. >> here we have stairs in a new building. all new buildings are supposed to have all of their entrances accessible. in this case they say, go around the corner. in many cases in san francisco there are occupancies, commercial businesses on lower floors, basements, second floors, they are simply not accessible. what reasonably can we do? . >> there are probably cases where there simply is nothing you can do. >> there are things we could do. >> put in an elevator. >> and rail that comes up, flattens out at the

we briefly looked at that because most of the addition is, in fact, $0.40 for the stairs and a elevators to put it there would require us enclosing through the bedrooms and it didn't seem okay for the function >> yeah, but again we're not going to get discouraged. so there's only a certain amount of room and it seems like there's a lot of remaining that didn't make sense >> so, i mean i think i've had a chance to go out to the site with both project sponsor. those houses were built at the same time and it goods into this side yard so the addition is out of scale and a inappropriate of what i'd consider the rear yard of this property. it's almost assessed they're open space you know this area and coupled with their side yard aids the other requesters side yard but looking at more space in the rear yard would be appropriate >> commissioner wu. hearing the zoning administrator has said though you have concerns about the rear yard so it's not ultimately up to us it's your call >> but i think along the lines confirm i see more development ultimately to the rear where the bedroom expands but i

childs retreating down the stairs. as the officer sdenldz the stairs he is heard telling the survivor, get down, get down. >> the surviving victim was on the stairs behind the officer. officer guided the surviving victim down the stairs mr. child pursued them with a knife in his right hand. mr. child is heard saying, you ran afraid you little bitch, the officer told mr. child. get back or i will shoot you, dude. >> as the officer went down the stairs mr. child saying, you little bitch you are running away, huh. >> the time from the top to the bottom of the stairs was 7 seconds. once at the bottom of the stairs the officer continued to give commands yelling, get back. as he assisted the surviving victim to the front door. as the officer and victim continued to the front door mr. child was benched at the b. stair case advancing toward them. maintaining distance with mr. child and the surviving victim the officer yelled, get back. get back, get back. >> mr. child did not comply what the officers xhans he advanced toward t

they also have three encroachments with existing stairs.so, we are looking at to encroachments, existing stairs as well as one encroachment on the side for the side wall. we thought that you can see the outline, and he sketched out lines of the distant trees, and this up here is an abstract of the existing juniper. these are extremely crude sketches. but they give you the sense of destruction and excavation that has to take place here. what needs to take place is the entire upper level including the stairs for excavation probably having to remove the upper walkway. what we tried to do is a lie in the retaining the wall which is -- and i'm sorry. which is this wall right here. and we tried to -- [chime] president olague: thank you. are there additional speakers? you can come up to the microphone. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. i hope you can hear me now. i am joann nelson, and i live two doors down from the applicant. i have been living two doors down from the applicant. i am very opposed in having the june upper cut down and the d

we've spent a lot of a year trying to figure out how to have reasonable sized rooms and fit in the stair we went with the architect and are around and around and around and finally got to this project that came before you the first time a penthouse was offered we thought well mariah's dad is getting older and we're getting older you look at of the roof deck and i don't know it seems like a nice way to do that a couple of times around with the staff we got 3 different staff people dealing with us they kind of filed each in on the project but what got lost was her needs she notes a house with rooms that are liveable and we i was there when everyone was saying don't move out into the existing because of the earthquakes i believe that she took it on herself to go down to the counter and found out it was minimal and the thought that will solve the problems we'll get auto the stairs and move them out in the middle of the existing roof so those pictures that you see that show a side view of this red spots city of chicago out, of course, they used red ink as the a side view is no one sees she ga

wu this is the stairs in question. will well is a complaint that this landing will kaz noise come loss of privateace when legalized before you go down the stairs. we offered to remove the translucent panel to preserve privacy for mrs. w xushgs preserve her light. light would go in this way. take that down so this there is a mall barrier of the corner. the alternativesful is the stairs from the top floor straight down to the rear yard. one alternative. which means encroaches in the rear yard and also means people coming from the rear yard with dirt and mud and other things and on clothes come up through the bedrooms to reach it. loik likewise the alternative taking stairs and put them on the opposite side setback my cloinlt's home will result where people coming in from the backyard will bring in dirt through bedrooms. that's not the case with what has been designed legalized and as i have shown you and you heard from another niche this pattern is common of what is done here. and there hen no proof all the others are il

the proposed project includes the insertion of two new door openings and installation of a new stair and accessible ramp, installation of a new gate at the site wall, and redesign of the existing courtyard into a playground. constructed in 1931 in the mission revival style, 50 fell street historically known as the viavi buildingg is an l-plan building consisting of a two-story brick wing on the east and three-story reinforced concrete wing to the north. the subject property is designated as a category 1 significant building under article 11 of the planning code. 1234 >> good afternoon commissioners, kelly, department staff. the project before you is a request for a major permit to alter 50 felt street. a category 1 significant building of the planning code. the building was originally constructed in 1931 by ellis polk and company and known as the yabe building two 2 story concrete frame in the spanish colonial revival style. the l shaped building is divided into two wings and features sealed windows. rod iron ban bal balcony and courtyard specifically the project includes removal of

the person go up and down a set of stairs. why is this important? there are many many people in san francisco that have to deal with on a daily basis as you heard er early er we have old houses houses that are always going to be on hills and including a set of stairs before you even get to the first floor one of the calls i get the most is about stair lifts and the availability of having the financial resources to access them. it is not covered under medical or medicare to some degree it is if the providers want to work with them but it's still not enough to be able to allow or grant enough access so that's an issue i think can be explored more as far as the vendors their availability to have it covered through medical and also working to see about trying to diversify to make it more accessible. second in the picture in the middle i have a picture of one of our co-workers peter mendoza who's using his electric power chair but more importantly he has a setup of 2 smart tablets being held up in front of him by a coil type of cla

stair will be constructed of concrete and material that is used for the historic retaining wall and however it will have minimal detailing. and the new iron railing and gate will largely match the design of the historic iron railing as to not to introduce a new and distracting element and however they will be differentiated from the original railing and due to the modern finish and the trash bins will be located in the side wall of the stair so that it does not have a prominent presence when viewed from the street, the door will be wood to match the material of the doors on the property, however it will be designed on a simple manner. for the regarding the proposed sun room, the sun room is a later edition which has no architectural significance and the alterations will improve the compatibility of the feature with the character of the building and the work will replace aluminum doors, with the light and doors, and the framing will be compatible with the building without mimicking the original building, the pyramid skylights will be replaced with a lantern shaped skylights that rela

>> just fallen down the stairs. she fell down the stairs and hit her head. >> is she still breathing? >> i don't think so. >> when paramedics arrived, there was little they could do. >> she was dead by the time they had arrived. >> at first glance, it looked as if christine had tripped while carrying the laundry down the stairs. apparently, her head hit a ship's bell that they stored in the basement near the steps. >> he said that she was wearing some sort of dangerous black shoes that she had tripped on once before. >> but to investigators, something about the placement of the shoes didn't seem right. >> halfway up the staircase, it was a right shoe on the left side of the staircase as you're descending. going up the stairs it's not going to fall in this position. that was a little odd to me. >> during christine's autopsy, the medical examiner found evidence inconsistent with a fall. >> she had seven lacerations at the back of her head at multiple angles. what it told us she had some type of impact to the back of h

. >> that is how james wood describes his first night at the stair center in berkeley. is a wrapping rehousing program run by bay area community services our backs. the program is supposed to help people from encampments into permanent housing. >> i've been really upset because when i first got here it was deplorable conditions. >> in the stair center? >> yes. it seems to be a glorified homeless encampment. there was so much drugs being used and the doors were slamming every two minutes you can't sleep because they are up all night in and out of the buildings. >> james says he moved into the stair center in september. during his two months there he says the building has gone a full week without hot water. had things that didn't work, flooded bathrooms, broken washers and dryers and fire extinguishers that were more than six months overdue for inspection. >> doesn't feel safe?>> no. >> is it clean in there? >> no. that is why it was so deplorable. bathrooms were disgusting. >> james said the only suannapeblo t en rmthe firsg t was in usincoonnci when he went to move in,