it is the same format as ann lazarus. >> i am here to ask for your it is the same format as ann lazarus. >> i am here to ask for your conf discussed earlier, the board here is a wide variety of cases. the majority of cases happen to be from the planning and building. my background as an architect and planner alliance itself to resolu the broader mission of the appeals that pits neighbor against neighbor is quite diverse. what we're really looking for is how we do what is fair, how we do what is looking at the law, at the charter, but also looking at the equity that is involved. that is extremely important for the commission that is called the court of last resort. prior to any potential litigation. what we bring to it is a willingness to listen, the willingness to hear all sides of it, to be able to make a rational and fair decision. supervisor kim: thank you. any questions? we will open up for public comment. public comment is now closed. colleagues? supervisor campos: thank you -- i am reading my agenda and correctly. thank you for coming forward. i am pretty familiar with how the com

i am also very pleased to announce and welcome our new appointed board member ann lazarus. i look forward to working with you. commissioner hillis will be joining us in just a minute. i am the board's executive director. we're joined this evening by representatives from departments that have cases before us. i expect to be joined shortly by the manager of the department of public works. if you could please go over the meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. >> the board request that you turn off all cell phones and pagers. please carry on conversations in the hallway. the rules of presentation are as follows. appellants, permit holders, and department representatives have seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rare bottle. people affiliated must include their comments within the -- three minutes before rebuttal. members of the public have up to three minutes to address the board, but no rebuttal. members of the public who wish to speak on an item are asked, but not required, to submit a speaker cards when you come up to the podium. speake

>> item 41 is the motion approving the mayor's deployment of -- appointment of ann lazarus. president chiu: i understand item 42 was not sent to the board. if we could move to item 43. >> item 43 was considered at -- was awarded to the board -- supervisor this item was heard yesterday and enjoyed unanimous support for it to come to the full board of supervisors. this is a long time coming for district four. there are many neighborhood commercial districts across the city, whether we're talking about the inner and outer clement, fillmore, the haight, castro, broadway. the sun set does not have any of them. we wanted to start help that -- to about that committee dictate and provide additional controls. it creates for the first time neighborhood or named neighborhood commercial districts on noriega streets and it does a couple of other things that allows for additional ground floor height. this has been done in other places that help to make the ground floor retail more attractive. there is also a requirement -- we have required that all uses the active -- that are active. if i

not any items of interest to the planning commission, it was the first meeting for commissioner ann lazarus, who previously served on the port commission, president fon would -- so president fong would be acquainted with her. we look forward to working with her on the board of appeals. they are meeting next week on august 1, and they do have an appeal of the planning commission action to approve the local coastal zone permit for the beach l.a. athletic field. that hearing will be next weekend. i will report back to you on tuesday. president fong: thank you. >> if nothing else, we can move forward to general public comment. at this time, members of the public might address you on items of interest to the public that fall within the jurisdiction of the public, with the exception of agenda items. however, for this category, each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes each, keeping in mind the entire category has a time limit of 15 minutes. i have one speaker card. president fong: linda chapman? >> linda chapman, on the subject of 1601 market. you should have be

. >> item number two, motion approving/rejecting the mayor's appointment of ann lazarus to the board of appeals for