i just served on board 3 for the assessment appeals board. i was enthusiastic before my commission began and i have to be honest, i'm more enthusiastic now than ever. i would like to serve on either board 1 or board 2. this last year has been a fantastic experience that i would like to extend, if possible. and i believe that my background as an attorney and an accountant who has involvement in construction projects,, as well as dealing with property management outfits here in san francisco allows me to be quite familiar with the process. in fact, i have engaged in the assessment appeal process myself several times and privy to the application process as far as the applicant's side is concerned. i would like to continue, if you approve >> thank you. >> could you state your name your name for the record. >> yosef tahbazof. thank you. >> i have a question. >> supervisor campos. >> my understanding from the city attorney you can only serve on one of these boards and you have an application for a seat on board no. 1 and then the next item has an ap

of the conditional lot split issued in april falls under the jurisdiction of the board of supervisors no appeal of the subdivision conditional approval was filed by the permit holder within the 10 day filing window that's not closed with the board of supervisors board of supervisors does not accept late appeals that board does not allow jurisdiction to the conditional approval was final even if this board grants the rehearing or if in the hearing the board rules in favor the new legislation under the substitution decision will still stand as a result any further consideration of that matter in a new hearing by this board is effectively renewed and the hearing requests falls short of a new hearing under the boards rules we've certainly harder no arraign under the boards rules it will be changed the boards hearing to deny the permit does not create a regular thank you taking or molester just justice by the way, they have to right to rebuild the green area in addition the protected covenant by the permit holder and the hearing request are not new facts and would have been provided at the old heari

that concludes our ceremony thank you, very much >> welcome to the meeting of the san francisco board of appealseceding officer tonight is board president, ann lazarus and she is joined fung and honda, and hurtado is absent, to my right is the deputy city attorney who will provide the board. >> and scott is here on behalf of the zoning administrator and the planning department and representing them on the cases before the board. if you would please go over the meeting guidelines at this time and then conduct the swearing in process. >> the board requests that you turn off all phones and pagers so that it will not disturb the proceedings and carry on the conversations in the hallway, apell tents and department representative haves 7 minutes for case and 3 minutes for rebuttals people in these cases must include the comments in the periodses, and member of the purpose that are not affiliated with the parties are have up to three minutes, but no rebuttal and to assist the board in the accurate preparation of minutes, members of the public who wish to speak on an item are asked to submit a speaker c

thank you. >> >> today, is wednesday, october 15, this is the regular meeting of the abatement appeals board, please turn off all electronic devices and the first item on the agenda is roll call. >> vice president melgar? >> here. >> commissioner mccarthy? >> here. >> commissioner mar. >> here. >> commissioner lee? >> here. >> commissioner mccray. >> present. >> and commissioner walker? >> here. >> president clinch is excused. we have a quorum and the next item is item b, the oath. will all parties giving testimony today please stand and raise your right-hand? [oath] pe. >> thank you. >> you may be seated. >> next item is item c. progress report, case number 6791, complaint no 201463716 regarding 921 central avenue to determine whether the order of abatement shall be further held in abay ens. >> i believe that we get the facts first. >> yes, the staff will present first. we will call you up after the staff. >> chief housing inspector. we don't have that much information for you from the last hearing, except that we did do a on sight inspection and did not find last week because of the holida

said it was not pending in the ordinance and bans that the department feels that the board should uphold the appeal and the application we do agree that in order not to prejudice at&t that the one year prohibition does not apply, however, the retroactive does apply the ordinance requires that the board uphold the appeal and at&t file another permit to install that on, on that note i'll say while i think that supervisor wiener has made it clear his ordinance was addressing some of the concerns raised by many of the applications put forth by at&t the law was not designed to target one entity and many other entities are subject to the smf ordinances we've met with other services providers that have to install smf and are subject to the permit and given the draft dwp order i'll dispute the discertification that was designed to target one entity many concerns raised in particular about at&t surface mandatory facilities is the stipend to effect all applicants for surface mount facilities in public right of ways in san francisco. >> and lastly i'd like to read into the record our all the time statement it

dollars per day and the violation continues unabated any such determination or order will be appealed to the board with regard to the timing and amount of the assessed penalties, providing that mr. sanchez agrees with the characteration of the agreement, the university will formally withdraw its appeal. >> we have a long history of enforcement, regarding the university and over the last year we have made progress in bringing the propertis in compliance, in terms of processing the eir that is required to bring many of these properties before the planning commission for their consideration, in regard to this property, we had treated this differently from some of the other properties which we had held the penalties and tied them to the eir and however in this case, as currently occupied the building cannot be legalized and under the zoning for the subject property, the academy has indicated that they will reduce the size of the use to something that could be approved and that will be bringing it back to the last legal use of the property which appears to be the gap several years ago. so we are workin

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annual report and it was to the commissioners note a thirty percent increase in the number of appeals and the board hears a lot of appeals a number of appeals from planning and it could decrease slightly by a decrease in the dpw of the boxes and the public right of ways and that's all. >> good afternoon, commissioners tim frye here to share with you briefly a couple of items from the october 1st and the october 15th preservation hearing that two items to share the h pc renewed their delegation for preservation entitlements we think the h pc further tra trust in the department thirty percent of the entitlements can be approved at the staff level rather than a fuel commission hearing that delegation is for two years and significantly reduced our backlog and the loose item to mention the h pc unanimously recommend approval of 3 miles contract to the board of supervisors all 3 contracts are located within the park district and they involve single and multiple family retains and the maintenance projects they've agreed to the restoration for the seismic retrofit they'll hear that this year. >> commission

the prosecutor's office and appeals board in kundu city. afghan forces fought against the attackers for hours as they defended the city. they used a familiar taliban method, a suicide bomber to get past the front gate then the fighters moved in. fighting as they went. the policemen and prosecutors among the dead as well as all of the attackers. the taliban say they targeted the court building because they believe government trials are unfair that they are biased against their fighters. afghan armed forces have faced fierce resistance from the taliban this year across afghanistan and they have taken heavy casualties. nato is wrawng. withdrawing. while a small nato contingent will remain until 2016 afghan forces are in charge here and the taliban is testing them with attacks like this one as well as on the battlefield. jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. >>> pakistani forces continue in tribal areas near the afghan border. pakistani officials say it has driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. an estimated 700,000 people are l

regarding the abatement appeals board that are not on this agenda seeing none, item g, adjournment. >> is there a motion to adjourn? >> so moved. >> second. >> okay, are all commissioners in favor. >> aye. >> any opposed? >> okay, we are now adjourned, it is 11:50 a.m.. thank you. >> all right. well good morning to all of you seven hundred and 50 of you welcome to our annual san francisco structures forum i'm mar i'm the publish of san francisco business times i have someone i want you to meet this is our breaking news of this week i want you to meet corey wee bit beggar our new real estate resort he i've been talking to several of you so corey good job for the advanced work you've gotten stories going now have you have a face call him and we consider you all sources this is corey we're happy to have him he's smart and curious again call corey real estate is an important beat to the san francisco business times back to welcoming all of you, we have a great program good morning and thank you for being here on behalf of our spokesperson mr. hampton we're going to hear from our mayor thi

fairly itinerant, surprisingly his mother has a high position, deputy chair person of the refugee appeal board and she is utterly dismayed. his intention to go to syria appears unknown to anybody until the mother told police yesterday. so it is unclear at this point. >> thank you very much. we all saw the terrifying video. [ gunfire ]. >> dozens of shots rings out in parliament sending workers running for their lives. john was in the building during the attack, and he joins us from ottawa. good evening sir. first our condolences to your country. you are losing a member of your military so our condoelencescon >> thank you very much i appreciate it. >> sir, where were you when this happened. >> i was 50 meter as way from where the gunman was taken down. we could hear two rifle shots we weren't sure what it was but when the semi-automatic echoed through the halls we all ducked for cover. we didn't know what was going on. we were pleased to learn the majority of gunfire was security forces taking the terrorist down. >> how long were you locked down? >> six hours. >> they wanted to do everything th

another permit to legalize the unit what will happen is the building permit is ultimately appeal able to the board of appeals there's not an you outstanding notice of violation on the project that this owner has come in voluntarily to try to legalize or try to get rid of the illegal unit but this commission does have the ability in disapproving the permit under section 207.3 so and as you noted this commission doesn't have authority over what happens to the tenant that is a separate matter for the rent board to you to continue it and take dr and disapprove or approve with conditions of some sort. >> can we approve the entire structure. >> no. we're moving an illegal unit be let's get rid of it we can't do that. >> you're being subconscious. >> i recommend we take dr and not approve it. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much there's lots of again to clarify the issues i definitely agree with not approving the building permit we can't force the legalize we can't force them to sell it i want to focus why i'm going to support denying the project first of all, itself think it's absurd the proj

to zero the hearing request is denied and a notice break. >> 2k7 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals we're on item 10 michael vs. the department of building inspection property is at 2047 polk street for the 2014 to gathering young of a plumbing permit remove the cap off a gas pipe and it those furnace consideration to allow the deniable to conclude it's analysis of the dwnl dwelling status i understand that commissioner wilson has reviewed the file. >> yes. i have. >> mr. duffy with the research and hear what he has to say power points content 20 men's. >> commissioners there was some evidence that we have a cf c the building was fy in ground floor with a retail residential above and dbi had notes they were seeing it as two unit i went back to dbi and presented the cf c it the housing intersection services the complaint that housing inspector had been hey challenged his notes overhead - - a little bit on the bottom just to - >> and mr. pacheco if you can try to address the flickering problem. >> so if you can read the that better. >> not open ear our screen. >> august 18th from the

it to grow to two hundred and thirty thousand more can be contributed to t to the drs appeal i'm hopefully, the board will agree with the agreement by the planning department and rdt 3 visits and the planning commission choose not to take dr and although, my wife to build a edition i'm going to give the rest to my attorney i'll be available for questions. >> good evening commissioners melinda with rose we're asking together you deny the appeal for the following reasons first, as tie mentioned in the code project not asking for concessions or mischievous it is a project under the code could search warrant have been build larger it will fit within the scale of the neighborhood and second this is not a project that has slipped through the cranks it was thoroughly reviewed and mraufd by the planning department and dbi and checked by zoning administrator and reviewed by the planning commission chose not to take a discretionary review and allow this project to proceed and third tie and molly have been receptive to remove a 6 foot tall fences and set back along the north property line the one point a that's

>> impede to the october 8, 2014, meeting of san francisco board of appeals presiding officer is commissioner president lazarus and she's joined by commissioner fung commissioner honda and we're pleased to welcome bobby wilson the vice president will be absent to my left is deputy city attorney robert bryan for legal advice and victor is the legal have an opportunity i'm cynthia goldstein we're joined by representatives from the department that have matter before the board socioskoonlz is the zoning administrator representing the planning commission and jeff is the senior building representing the department of building inspection jean is from the department of public works and joined by sherry categorizing from the city attorney's office to advise the department of the public health mr. pacheco go over the board meetings guidelines and swear in. >> the board requests you turn off the cell phones and pager please carry on conversation in the halfway appellants and department representatives have 7 minutes to present their cases and 3 minutes for rebuttal participant affiliated must complete t

appealing the suspicion of a tobacco sales permits 25 dies superstition for selling to minors start with the appellant or the appellants attorney you have 7 minutes to present our case. >> good afternoon the honorable board i would like to start with there are two components to our appeal i'm sorry julia james jan law group i represent the appellant and i'll take on the respond the department of public health opposition and other issues i've raised the two issues looked like i i'd like to start with the second that is the matter of the san francisco police department using a decoy under the age of 17 years of age the department of public health did not sdrau disagree that the actions taken notably righted shields from prosecution that my minor that is participating in an activist adapted pursuant to the code section 22952 c and d that particular code section is struck only persons 15 or 16 years old maybe used as a decoy regardless of whether the city has contracted the elements are still applicable if the city is to the compliant it's subsequently its on rules it who subject its own decoys to prosecution it must be in compliance with the c and d which direct that decoys must be 15 or 16 years old not 17

the board said the school had the right to suspend the 7-year-old after the incident last year. the family is now appealing to the state board to get their son is's record wiped clean. . >>> today you can say how you think your commute can improve in northern virginia. leaders in manassas and manassas park will be at a meeting to talk about how you can improve route 28. at the same meetings vdot will talk about traffic problems across the commonwealth. 6:30 at the district office in fairfax county on alliance drive. >>> transportation in arlington could start to change pretty soon too. the county could receive millions of dollars for transportation projects, including rehabbing the bridge over four mile run, changing the boundary channel drive interchange in crystal city, and adding sidewalks including on south walter reed drive. this weekend leaders will vote to apply for those funds. >>> well, we had two great baseball teams in our area this year, but this morning we are all having to look forward to next year. >> the orioles are out of the playoffs. they lost four straight to the kansas city royals. her

to state law including negligence but throughout federal claims against the faculty and school board. appealsd by all parties. >> he found that the board of education's policies were proper. he found that school administrators took appropriate action and complied completely with federal law as soon as they were notified for this unfortunate incident. >> reporter: and what happened to the boy? well, he was not charged with a crime. instead court records show the school suspended him for five days for inappropriate touching of a female in boy's bathroom, then sent him to an alternative school for a short time. but he eventually returned to sparkman. it was at least the 13th sexual or violent incident in the boy's file, all in the space of two academic years. what do you think? >> he just gets away with it. >> reporter: if you're wondering about the aide and the administrators, june simpson was forced to resign. but the others have kept their positions with the school system. ronnie blair and teresa terrell are still principal and vice principal here at sparkman. and then there's jeanne dunaway,

that concludes our ceremony thank you, very much >> welcome to the meeting of the san francisco board of appeals

friend of mine the board of supervisors no preservation he hearing yesterday and although a board of appeals hearing the zoning administrator has invited me he'll provide you personally with the update next week. >> good afternoon aaron starr 10 east at this week's land use committee we've leader the project sponsored by supervisor wiener and supervisor breed this is you providing the arresting cascades in the hate street commercial district that was before this commission on september 18th they recommended the mischievous we treat the other arcadia commissions as game arcades to be permitted this commission voted to productive that and the last land use we voted unanimously to remedy the item to the full board and at the land use committee where the amendments to the heath and building codes for the flifrt and establishing of fees sponsored by supervisor cohen is it so related to the amendments to the advanced 1i7b9lation and this commission heard the item and recommended approval to the board supervisor cohen was the introduceer that required the dph fire and staff to elevate policies that

this meeting is adjourned >> welcome to the september 17, 2014, meeting of the san francisco board of appeals the proceeding officer is our vice mayor commissioner hurtado and joined by commissioner fung arrest commissioner honda the commissioner president lazarus will be absent this evening one seat vacant on pursuant to the chapter when a vacancy exists they may overrule the votes 4 votes are not required we're joining by deputy city attorney and at the controls is victor the boards legal assistant and i'm cynthia goldstein the board director we're joined by the pokes that have cases before the board scott sanchez that representing the planning department and jean ask here from 9 department of public health as well as chris buck and carla from the public works bureaucracy you urban forestry and we have the building inspector here mr. pacheco please go over the boards meeting guidelines and conduct the answering in. >> the board requests you turn off all electronic devising. >> appellant and representatives have 7 minutes to present their cases and 3 minutes for rebuttals people affiliated m

project as i say to the excision i think you already know even if a project is code compliant the board of appeals are will have the discretion do make the changes the excision choose not to make changes some reason proposed by itself project sponsor but didn't go to the extent that the appellant wanted to have i'm available for questions. >> have you confirmed that the two or three changes that did project sponsor made after the dr hearing were incorporated into this set we have and i believe see because the real issue the significant issues with the planning commission was the amount of notch and how many levels the notch was from reviewing the plans it appears what they've proposed prior to that hearing has been incorporated into the plans. >> that was one anticipate the height of the sill of the windows. >> so, yeah. >> did you look at that. >> on the proposed fte elevation those changes do purview to be nofrptd yes. >> you attended all the meetings at planning the 3. >> i believe so i was definitely there for the it out of 3. >> those two changes there was a third one i can't remember they re

appeals because the fees are slightly different depending on the type of appeal and i know that there is an request on the board to have us look at reducing the filing fees and i am in discussions with the mayor's office on that and they did not want to make that adjustment. but they are looking at doing it possibly in the next budget cycle and they wanted to have more time to study our fee structure and come up with a foundation for a new proposal and that topic is on the table. >> is there a consideration? >> i don't have any dollar amounts that they are looking at and i think that one of the goals here that we have talked about is try to level them out more and so there is not as much disparity between the amount that a person needs to pay for a filing an appeal of a zoning administrator, determination as opposed to a building permit. >> okay. >> on the expenditure side there is a chart on page 11 that shows you how the board operating budget is extended and the vast majority as is typical for us is spent on the salaries and fringe benefits of our staff that covers 72 percent of the budget and the services o

board did my request give the board to give a reason other than the record why the board thinks the rule didn't appeal or at&t is incorrect about the law i ask this because this case that will be appealed and it's only fair to the trial judge which the reasons why you think you can take this decision and it's important that the judge know that it's also a requirement from the california supreme court that our findings reach the analytic gap between the evidence and the ruling i simply request that the board give some reason on the record so the court can look at it why you think you have jurisdiction. >> ms. short. >> the department has no objection to every hearing the case this seeing it continued thanks. >> okay any public comment on that item on the issue of continuing this case? seeing none, commissioners do i want to stay a motion to continue or not and just i'd like to put one suggestion out there if there are two different decisions for those two appeals what does that mean? >> commissioners i'll move to continue this case since we have historically granted jurisdiction the issues the jurisdic

than 10 feet in height that's a section 311 notifications this is under the jurisdiction of the board of appeals and i will note that the reminded for the section 311 notification is the result of the zoning administrator section 11 not stated there think i understand there's one person requesting a firewall and maybe that can be discussed more further as we do the results but certainly having the party here requesting that the most combanthd party they could be justification for not requiring the full neighborhood notice for that portion of the project i concern is on the other side on the south side of the promissory note property although notification was provided for the hearing there has been no notification of the firewall new information for that neighborhood and perhaps in support of that but perhaps my concern is having an action without them having input about their feedback on the firewall i wanted to all that for the board while you're considering your decision i'm available for any questions. >> would you have a recommendations indoors that notification on the south side. >> you kno

2013, the court allowed provisions but threw out federal claims against the faculty and school board. appealsed by all parties. >> he found that the board of education's policies were proper. he found that school administrators took appropriate action and complied completely with federal law as soon as they were notified of this unfortunate incident. >> and what happened to the boy? well, he was not charged with a crime. instead, court records show the school suspended him for five days for inappropriate touching of female in boy's bathroom and then sent him to an alternative school for a short time. but he eventually returned to the school. it was at least the 13th sexual or violent incident in the boy's file, all in the space of two academic years. >> what do you think? >> he just gets away with it. >> if you're wondering about the aide and the administrators, june ann simpson, the teacher's aide, her attorney says she was forced to resign but the others have kept their positions with the school system. ron blair and teresa terrell are still with the school system. and the vice principal ha

>> but there are three appendix in the report and one that gives the detail on the board's jurisdiction and the appeal process and the one that gives detail on the cases heard and a litigation up date and so you can see three new lawsuits that were filed and the five cases that were resolved and all of the pending cases that are being handled for us by the city attorney's office. and there is actually just one last item that i want to mention that is kind of hidden in this report that is on page 2, where it says, what date commissioner fung joined the board. >> i saw that actually. >> and that was almost ten years ago to the day and so i wanted to say happy tenth anniversary, commissioner fung and i know that you served briefly before then and i am amazed and i appreciate your tenure on this board. >> thank you. >> and when i looked at that, it is wrong. >> it is in the city records. >> and so you will have to give me, >> it shows it, 6 months. >> yeah, that is when i was looking at that, i was shocked that it said --. >> you are saying that the report is wrong. >> it says january 88 to june 88. >> it

allow same-sex marriage things to illegal lagger aftermath of appeals court decisions that issued to date after today's decision from u.s. nice board of appeals ruled that nine marriage benefits of six couples hard crumpled meaning as u.s. supreme court refused to hear cases from states trying to keep same-sex marriage bans and place and not a definitive move by supreme court was seen as a test a victory for same-sex couples. >> : lessing's no time images capturing the been shared here on social media to sweden from biggest red to gay couples one getting a better marriage license tomorrow at the other got married in california as we said the marriage likely to be legal in 35 states and the coming weeks. >> : with cooler out there and cooling trend will continue the next couple days the plot becomes more sensitive fog but whats up tomorrow morning so to clear temperatures cooled off a bit more to marne again thursday we will warm back up into the weekend the look of fog tracker until 3:00 hour on the blood moon will be peaking the total lunar eclipse at 325 fog at the coastline patches of fog and are bay shore is. fog becomes more s

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