>> i am done, thank you. >> the abatement notice would notify your client that there is an abatement hearing scheduled. the client attended the hearing. >> correct. there were deficiencies that needed to be corrected. a hearing after that, he corrected the deficiencies, went to the abatement hearing but was not sure what it was for or why he had to be there if he actually did correct the deficiencies. at the hearing, you will hear podcast, did you fix these things and he said i did. do you have proof and he said sure. where is it? at my restaurant. could i come back? we cannot do that. this is the hearing date. we're not allowed to continue it. that is where we are. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> anything else? >> eis there reason why you never mentioned any language barrier? >> i must say that i did not put those papers together. and i have only recently become involved in this. what it does say and i have looked at these issues and spoken to the operator and understood this issue of the language problem. there is no question that it is there. i do believe that because of economic i

all the abatement repairs need to be made within 60 days. give somewhere in there we assess the cost. >> i would like to say three months to get the permit for legalizing. not six months. if there is a delay in planning. >> i do not know if it is reasonable to me to put a time line on something this property owner has no control over, which is planning. >> it would just be a permit application. nine months for the completion. or six months. three months and planning. >> just to clarify, if we uphold the department's decision, we are giving 60 days to correct the life safety decision, and then the six months to get the permits and to planning. -- into planning. >> which means she would have to get the actual plan. she has to get a contractor draw up the plan, which is a good $6,000 cost, right? i am not sure that three months -- i will defer to other folks. the other choice -- what is the other process? >> you would knowingly have individuals occupying to illegal units with no building permit, so if anything were to happen it would be not onl

item d, new appeals, orders of abatement. case no. 6759, 575 shotwell street. action requested by appellant, to reverse the order of abatement and assessment of costs. >> we are happy to announce the appeal has been withdrawn because they provided us with the necessary permits, so the order of abatement is revoked. there are no costs outstanding. in the letter you received related to the withdrawal, you will see in the first paragraph of the first two in the case before you today, a second paragraph in the letter referring to another complaint that is not before you today. just making that clarification. thank you. >> item e. general public comment. is there anyone here for general public comment relating to abatement appeals board? seeing none, item f, adjournment. is there a motion to adjourn? >> motion. >> second. >> the building inspection commission meeting will begin at 9:45 a.m. we are adjourned. and the good morning, everyone is. welcome to san francisco. -- >> good morning, everyone. welcome to san francisco. i wanted to express my appreciation at bein

you have an abatement hearing because we have a notice of violation. they did not say this is a notice of a historical problem and you have not cleared this. i know that this is the department's position. their position does not conform with the notice the issued. the notice they issued, there is an issue of whether it was understood or whether it was understood to present the documents. the notice says three issues. three violations on the 22nd. it did not say whether you fix them or do not fix them you are done. we had enough. you need to show us that you have a new operational plan in place. there was none of that. that is the basis and that is a fairness basis for a rehearing. there were only three items that were listed. vice president fung: we have heard this argument. thank you. >> i want to thank the people who came out to speak. that was compelling and very moving testimony. frankly, i am moved on one of these -- i one of these kind of people who want to give people another chance, but i have the images from the work done by the department to

any general public comment on issues related to the abatement appeals court? seeing none, item f, adjournment. all in favor? any opposed? we are now adjourned and the building inspection commission will adjourn and approximately 10 minutes. >> good morning. today is wednesday, june 20, 2012. i would like to remind everyone to please turn off all electronic devices. the first item is roll-call. [calling roll] we have a quorum. the next item is president's announcements. president mccarthy. >> president mccarthy. president mccarthy: in this the interest of time, i will forgo those announcements. >> present mccarthy, vice president mar, and commissioners, my name is tom. i have not been able to make meetings, because it has been a busy year and this position. i wanted to let you know who i am and reconnect a little more. i have been a fire prevention and investigation for 20 years. in the fire department 30, and worked as a supervisor when the building department was still on mcallister streets, so we a relationships with a lot of the directors and deputy directo

abatement conference on february 10 -- kory 28. -- february 28. bringing documents and photos to prove that the work had been done. while i think it is better -- inspector tong give him the notice of abatement, this is the record on february 27. together with the notice for closing the restaurant on that day. really, mr. lei does not understand what his abatement contract is. that is the only chance he could come down to prove you have finished our work. the [unintelligible] i would remind the commission that based on the hearing, he -- [unintelligible] pest control of something. he will prove to you [unintelligible] and i hope the department will come down and make an inspection. if he does not do the work, he is entitled to close it down. but the the dead, the department -- if he did, the department will report to you. i ask you give him a fair chance before you close it down, before [unintelligible] will be in chinatown again. i am asking you to give him a chance for a rehearing and he can present evidence at all the document, proof. he hired p

force for we have to remember we are not painters we abate graffiti. we are abaters not painters. get that out of the way and keep moving. >> how many of these do you do a day? how many poles we do a day? >> yeah. >> depends on the location. may be 20. >> do you like working with the team? >> yes because i'm a people person. i like being outside and interacting with the public and i like the response we get especially from the good job we do in the community. >> goodbye. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor chiu: the afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting. thank you to sfgovtv further help in televising these weekly meetings. these culpable. supervisor avalos: -- >> supervisor avalos, president. supervisor compos, president. supervisor chu, president. supervisor elsbernd, present. supervisor care -- supervisor kim, present. supervisor mar, present. supervisor olague, president. supervisor wiener, president. supervisor chiu: ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance

--uphold the order of abatement. any questions? >> are the units occupied? >> yes, the units are occupied, and staff is to the state receiving complaints regarding the conditions of the units. i might note that as of today, no permits have yet been filed to correct the notice of violations, to either remove them or to legalize the units. >> what are the nature of the complaints? >> the conditions of the habitable spaces, lack of smoke detectors and so forth. commissioner clinch: how many units are currently permitted? >> the legal use of the building is for two units. >> i have a question. on your report, it says there is and an improved second means of egress. >> there is no second means of egress. it is a converted apartment house. the only path of travel is through that walkway, through that sad walkway. that is the only way in and out. >> when you go straight back, does it go into a backyard? where does it go? >> i have not been to this property myself. as far as i know, my understanding is it just goes straight

this vendor did not understand what he needed to present at the abatement hearing. he would have presented that. the evidence that -- [inaudible] shows he had these documents and he took this action and it is unfortunate he was not allowed to do that and therefore we would strongly ask for a rehearing on the merits of this issue. i do not know if there is questions for me or for the operator. president hwang: i do not know if it was translated. you did not stop, sir. >> i would say my presentation i have gone over with the operator. prior to this. he clearly understood, most of this was information i obtained from him. he is here if there are questions. the information i provided to you was your extensive questioning and talking with the operator over the last few days. i certainly -- he is here to answer any questions. i can certainly answer the questions i have from reviewing all this documentation. >> i have to questions but let me disclose i did review the tape and i have read the materials on the currents of mission for the rehearing and the previous submission

lei does not understand what his abatement contract is. that is the only chance he could come down to prove you have finished our work. the [unintelligible] i would remind the commission that based on the hearing, he -- [unintelligible] pest control of something. he will prove to you [unintelligible] and i hope the department will come down and make an inspection. if he does not do the work, he is entitled to close it down. but the the dead, the department -- if he did, the department will report to you. i ask you give him a fair chance before you close it down, before [unintelligible] will be in chinatown again. i am asking you to give him a chance for a rehearing and he can present evidence at all the document, proof. he hired pest control and [unintelligible] before they did. i am happy that the department is doing a good job to make sure that the food is safe. we all appreciate that. i hope that you can give him a chance to prove that he did finish this work. thank you very much. i hope you consider the re- hearing. president hwang: th

i am not sure that through an abatement appeal that is the way to do it. but i do think that we need to, as a body, explorer -- explore what staff is recommending. i did your rosemary say a couple of things i would like to hear more about in terms of the kinds of permits you could get to allow you to start exploring how to fix some of these issues. i do trust rosemary and the guidance that the department can offer you. i do not think that it is something that -- we are not going to solve the issue of the illegal units during this appeal, but i do think that the department is here to help and guide you through our permitting process so that you can get this legal issue better resolved. >> can i just say one more thing? the ceiling height just got legalized. it was 7.5 feet, and maya understanding was at the beginning of the year, they lowered it to 7 feet, so now my regulation -- so now it fits regulation. not because i did anything. but because the law changed. >> this will be for bottle. >> i can tell you that personally, since i have been with the city a

and there's no feasible maintenance means that can abate the hazard. so we ask that you grant the removal, conditioned upon we repalatial the eight trees with 11 trees as part of the landscaping plan that are equal or better value than currently existing. thank you. >> i have a question or a couple of questions. if this staging area that you had on the diagram you put on the overhead, can you put that, please, back up. is that -- are you saying that that staging -- can we have the overhead? the staging area, that's the only possible location for purposes of hoisting -- did you say unitized window system? >> that's correct. imagine that this is the building. >> ok. >> in front of you, folsom street. large panels that are shipped from china. typically you put pieces of a wall in the window. these are unitized premanufactured curtain wall systems that are shipped over large -- on large palettes and hoisted up. swinging by crane. and then moved onto the wall and affixed. so they have metal-glass-steel all connected. so they have to be hoisted and applied r

pleasrequest the court of appeao order the abatement of the building permit. to say that balcony must be built 4 feet away from the public line so people stand on the balcony cannot see into our room. as one of the homeowners, i have never been invited to any of the meetings or conversations that was mentioned in the brief. i do not believe david and him ever came on in a verbal agreement on his attention -- intention of building a balcony. the definition of a balcony is a platform projecting from the wall of a building, a railing along its outer edge with access from a door or window. please look at exhibit b. a picture of the response. this is what it would look like before was built into a balcony. it is not a balcony. what he claims is -- a balcony existed before he built it. no one can stand on that thing. i do not know how to college. my english is not that good. the pictures show how it was before it was expanded into a balcony today. you can look at it. exhibit e from the appellate brief. this is before it was expanded. i am sorry. thank you. it can se

the robbery abatement team maintain surveillance of the -- of the vehicle for hours, but no signs of activity. park station please -- plain clothes officer under the direction of sergeant scott ryan and robert lieu adnd reyes observed. they noticed until lights were on and the sun roof was opened. officer lew quickly executed a u-turn and confirmed it was occupied by the suspect. officers immediately got out of the car, drew their weapons and began giving verbal commands. they identified themselves, told a suspect he was under arrest and ordered them to surrender. the officers instinctively trying to related on the vehicle. officer ray is move to position your their rear passenger side of the suspect's car. officer lew move to their rear of the driver's side of the vehicle parked to the left -- officer lieu. they recognize the suspects flight reaction, but officers continue to give firm, clear, commands. the suspect abruptly threw his car into reverse, accelerating rapidly from his parking space. as he reversed rapidly, the suspect smashed into the vehicle, flanking the driver's side