declared illegal by the department of building inspection it should be noted the subject building permit application bedroom proposed to merge the two third floor including the dr requesters flat taken back to the original use and it was this plan that the dr requester filled the subject permit was substantially revised to leave the dr requesters apartment in take in the front was converted to storage use the dr requester is norbert and he apologize if i mispronounced your name his concerns were stated in the dr application appear to be a physical aspects of the building fourth floor when is where it is to be legalized and the fourth floor is not the design that it detracks from the historical character of the neighborhood and the fourth floor should be setback 15 feet as directed by the residential guidelines. >> from the physical form of the buildings 4 story was constructed with permit decades ago it is not within the purify purview it is the departments position the dr has not showed exceptional or extraordinary circumstances not take dr and approve as proposed. >> dr requester. >> i

retrofits adu project one adu is allowed for buildings for 4 units or less and large sized buildings there is no cap on the number of adu's employed so the commission found that strategy is more aligned with the departments strategy in terms of controlling density which is more using formula related factors like open space requirements and similarly in this legislation there are form related factors for adu's they need to be living and existing built envelope and can't use space on residential units commission recommended that to use the same strategy so for district 8 the recommendation would be one adu for buildings of four units or less and no cap on the number for large sized buildings i'm here for any other questions. >> thank you for being here for questions supervisor kim has a view. >> it is specifically on what you stated it was confusing in the report they should be consistent between items five and six as well the district 8 what was ovrj recommended previously one adu for you said building every 10 units and under. >> yes. >> and two unit for 10 unit and above. >> uh-huh.

of the industrial buildings singular in the think building and detailed like the industrial buildings and here you see the existing buildings plan and our new plan with the expanded rear yard and the matching locality which responses to the lightwell of the adjacent building this is a dinning room showing the allowable heights of the project and the actual height of our building which is a full less than what is commented this is our interpretations of the industrial type of bays and formed to the requirements of the typical bay window and the various floor plans of the project so essentially the section and the front and rear elevation with the lightwell and without the lightwell and the use of the building so like all our projects around the city we've tried to respond specifically to the particular and unique earth that is in the project and to show you some of the responses on sutter street we worked with the tradition of the wedding cake architecture on octavia and taken the victorians and reinterpreted it in a contemporary way? our project of building contemporary architecture i

located ajaistant to the palace hotel and the call building which then was the tallest building west of the mississippi and the examer of the call and chronicle. many reporters on hand to take paragraphs and document the movement of the fire. there is nonone public or neighborhood opposition. the department staff reached out to the building owners but haven't received formal notice in support of or in opposition. this conclude my program and happy to answer questions >> commissioners does anyone have questions? commissioner johnck >> jonathan beautiful report and presentation but i guess the question is about the attitude of the owner. do we pursue that? i can't remember whether we have to have official approval or support? >> tim fry detarmt staff. commissioners owner support is not required as part of the code but we do make ever effort to engage the property owner. before the board of supervisors hearing we would like some sort of written position by the owners and will continue to pursue that up until that time and then to point out this is a nishiation hearing so by the time of

the tower buildings building number one, the main building on the military medical center campus is right off wisconsin avenue. it's right as you come into the main part of the campus there. you would find this building there are some clinical operations but we don't believe you would find a lot of patients in that building as you would expect to find in other parts of a more traditional hospital setting at walter reid. >> and we're looking at some of the things located within that tower as aaron was mentioning building number one. they have 3 d medical operations naval post graduate dental school in there as well, and we saw officers probably about 10 minutes ago now going into that building number one but they weren't going in with any sort of panic or extreme urgency. they were casually walking in. kind of what you're seeing there. it looks like they are being escorted by police as they're doing that. >> so we're just getting a bit more information from montgomery county police saying they got a call at about 10:48 this morning for a report of a single shot heard. they are on the scene

jonathan gilliam to you, as they are searching these buildings with focus was on building 197, the building where that 2013 deadly shooting took place. it says they have not seen any evidence of shots fired in that building. walk me through what you're doing now in the all of the surrounding buildings. they do say the shelter in place is still in effect, so they haven't evacuated everyone. >> the police have to treat it as though there is a shooter somewhere there. they will be going building to building, room to room and clearing this thing as they go through. and this is a very -- they have to be very careful when they go through and do this because almost 100% of the people you're going to come in contact with are workers, they're innocent they're not doing anything. so you cannot have trigger happy people going through and doing this type of clearing. it's systemsystematic. it's not as fast and aggressive typically as it would be in a hostage rescue but at the same time it has to be at a smooth and fast pace. as they go through they're having to discover who's in here and what is the sc

i suspect they're searching floor by floor, building by building. i can't imagine how tense it is inside because i cannot think of a place, perhaps the white house or the pentagon where the security is as extush yatingly -- excruciatingly tight as it is here. i don't want to divulge secrets of walter reed medical center but i can tell you from person experience -- personal experience that they are well prepared for people who do not have the best of intentions headed here. again you see a chopper overhead. i'm watching that one building to see what looks like employees being led out. i'm going to see if i can get a hold of a campus map to further elaborate on which employees might be in there. i'm fairly comfort they are employees based on their badges that they're wearing. obviously there are many patients there who may not be in a position of being evacuated. again more police presence headed here. i'm looking both ways on rockville pike. we have a police cruiser that's shown up there. i can't tell if it is a county or one of the federal agencies

>> san francisco never had a policy of build, build, builds. maybe in the '60s, definitely not since the 2000s. is average population growth of the united states is 1% a year. that's an average. that includes buffalo, a place that is dying. san francisco, bay area is not dying. we should be growing our residential capacity at at least 1% a year. since 1980, we have averaged half a per cent a year. we haven't even made it to match, like, population growth in the united states, the average population growth. even if we were building at 1% a year, almost 4,000 units a year, that's not enough. itis been more like 2,000 a year. >> let's get back to the arguments. first, carol, i want to bring you in and take a step back in terms of how cities are addressing the problems. a moritorium is an option. what are some of the other options? >> sure well, i would first start by saying, this is not just a mission district problem or a san francisco problem, it really is a regional problem. it starts with the fact that we have generated, you know close to 500,

foot buildings the last project is michael latest scheme it out of the 3 buildings with consist of 7 floors of housing no commercial or retail only 7 floors of housing one would think the director ram's statement that is intent of the code is that the 5 feet be applied to the because of the building on the retail level with suffice or commissioner richards recollection those height rules were to promote an active ground floor use and supervisor cowen testified they were promised the extra 5 feet noted used to squeeze in more housing another gentleman has had the lawyers to go through it and not find any restrictions in the from a planning code maximize the ceiling heights for pdr uses and where heights end in ground floor ceiling some maximize the 15 foot envelope the ground floor retail pdr a 15 foot envelope my more questions. >> is there any additional public comment - >> i'm jackie teach at the university of san francisco we have many people in the union teachers and we find it difficult to live in san francisco those are adjuncts we're adjunct proefrz we've not spent 25 years in

lopsided in the sense we are not building more jails with the intent to building more jails and not doing the work on the ground to decrease are sitivism and increase access to education. what comes to mind is the expansion of the 5 keys charter program we expanded in the south eastern part of san francisco. i just wanted to remind my colleagues that may be concerned about the negdic and affirming it based on the fact there isn't a project or a plan solidified and well thought out. just want to remind you we had a splar situation where the body had no problem accepting state money without a plan. thank you. >> thank you supervisor cohen. supervisor christensen >> a few questions starting with city attorney. this question of the normal sequence of neg deck and sequa review. i know we see things when they are on appeal and later in the process, but is this completely out of sequence for a normal process? >> the approval definition in sequa may mean the sequa durmt has to be completed earlier in the process or later in the process. what is happening here is because of the proposal that was s

in a larger sized than 5 unit buildings it is used a special balls of the type of structure of the building that is used in they're under seismic retrofitting and bans that more recent approach we used towards controlling density we find there are form related factors which is allowing adu's only with the existing built and not the corner but not allowing space from existing units so those are like formulated factors that are controlled we think that is sufficient in terms of controlling density rather than absolute numbers. >> okay. thank you. >> i want to i'll see what my fellow commissioners have to say but i have heard a number of concerns around outreach and process around this legislation i think this sounds like we've seen supervisor wiener's legislation before so it seem like this year steps but we've heard a lot of request for outreach for district 3. >> commissioner moore. >> i appreciate theclarification the majority of speakers that came out in favor were addressing legal listing the in-law units a complete process that is not automatic, however the city has many tools in place

in my jurisdiction we are in a building boom as in many jurisdictions and we see high rise buildings coming into a small jurisdiction that hasn't had them before and we had one 19 story building at completion -- it's a classic story it had accessibility problems and the only way to deal with them was really to go in structurally change some things, so this list as simple as it is would have helped dra -- dramatically and it was before i was building official and i heard the nightmares and this will assist the developers and the clients it will also assist those behind the counter, the regulators and i talked to my inspectors and they are graciously thankful, and they do use the list now. the one thing that they -- one of my inspectors one of his favorite comments is "make it look like the picture" and his comment was "more pictures." the fact that it's a word document and i will take that back to him makes it >> we do perform numerous over the counter permits to check for accessibility. we review the plans the same but most of it is accessibility comes with commercial. however, when

is a unique building i'm sure you're aware of there's a great variety of conditions throughout the building it is no a typical office building because you know maybe 10 or 20 different types of partitioned our floor to floor height averages 24 feet quite at all the rereinforcing the walls and some fire conditions to be met we're designed the building to say a maintenance friendly as possible and reinforcing some of the walls with steel plates with glass high impact which i said wall boards to keep the maintenance moving through the back areas of the building inspection and the pedestrian moving through the front areas of the building don't damage the walls they never look as good as at the start depending on the location i'm sure you're aware of it a big building and all the conditions we have we tried optimize the specific walls to the locations and you know that is how we arrived at the larger number of wall types of we were doing it for the long term for the building as well as the efficiency in constricting that based on the floor heights and so forth. >> during the construction ability

lot in district 8 only two are loud in buildings with more than 10 units the larger sized buildings aligned with the existing seismic retrofitted buildings and the density control the city's most recent planning is only the open space type of units in terms of bedroom numbers this strategy is different from the density controls in our district per lot and the density controls limited based on the size of the lot recycle in that some of the cu district adu's are within the envelope and can't use space from an existing units this provides limited space in how many adu's can be added staff adams the proposal to and then the district 3 for adu's in buildings undergoing seismic retrofitting this allows building with less than 5 units and no limits with 5 units or more staff recommends that the board expand eligible geography to district 8 to include the buffer around supervisor wiener including the adu's will serve the broader public interest and be consistent with the application of those provisions lastly i'd like to talk about the adu's within the city 37 thousand residential households can a

if people understood and not necessarily the job of the building department. if people understood it's more than the code and it's basic civil rights and it's the right thing to do they might take it more seriously than a building code thing and this is probably related but a lot of the problems that i see in accessibility don't start at the first inspection with the building inspector. it goes back to the architects who don't design with dimensional tolerance, and if every building department will tell all of the architects to go to the access board's website and look at the study that they had david balace do about three years ago on dimensional tolerances and read chapter two. there's three of them and it's all about designing in tolerance. the codes have changed in recent years so there are few absolutes and more ranges but still when i look at drawings because i do some reviews too i see the absolutes still appearing. one in 12 for a ramp and 32 inches clear, and people don't realize that people can't build that way, so if they would all go to the u.s. ac

as well as new buildings the four seasons and a new building we have the humboldt bank and the combination of text turns in the area your role to take the original design and update it to be conforming to the area and change the program somewhat again, the mid block site anchored by two buildings a hotel on the left-hand side of the grammar and 6 story on the right-hand side and across the street the flood building it is hundred and thirty feet tall this is another example of the area the context as you can see we have quite a bit of architecture styles throughout the district some modern some 70s and again, some historic presence there we took a couple of shots what that building might look like if a distance the most paramount view is humming bottle it disappears in the context of the area another important issue this is a really important slides the retail concentration as you can see farrell street as the concentration as does polk on ellis street what happens for the first thirty feet and it device off because of parking garages and not that much retail activity what that building doe

you can't build back in wood. conversations with planning said they have to go in [inaudible] i'm dealing with trying to find tur ozo steps because that is what have to go back but they thought they could rebuild them in wood. it wasn't to make it difficult for the tenet, this is the property owner trying to do something too fax and fix something simple like wood steps they could do right there and that was a bad decision but that was not a attempt to keep the tenants out. that was a attempt by the owner to do things too fast and it didn't work out. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner walker. >> so this is been before us for a while now and i think we sort of discussed our herd a lot of the explanation about the comicated set of violations and i just want to say that when you buy a piece of property, you buy a piece of property and all of those things attached to it including tenant and notice of violation problems and i feel like we have probably taken too long to get these issues resolved and left people livin

there the 3 stories will block any house sun they build that house my house will be medical do in the house my house didn't get sun because the other rows of hosing houses in the backyard i don't get sun in the bedroom and backyard i'm concerned because i don't get you live over there in peace for thirty years i hope you understand me thirty years peace i like the house because the sun in the afternoon i planted i will retire there and get the sun in the afternoon over there but now i feel something no coming because they build the house the house over there is always like this one behind to the other one i don't know if you want to look as you can see that or no or no. >> you can see one one one and nobody blocks anybody i want to tell the architect please build the house the same way as the other ones because everybody be happy and peace we had our neighborhood the block i live for thirty years is like brothers and sisters one thing he don't have problems with nobody welcome to the athens but leave the house same as before thank you very much that's all i want to tell you. >> okay p

the hall and the goldberg building. the article 11 change designation from category 4 to 3 was approved for 149, 9th street. this changed the the designation for the university mount and added another property building to the work program. department staff expects to bring the second hearing for university mound and the board out building along with four landmark negotiations in the next 6 months. the initiation to include the presbyterian church and the initiation for the piece and plaza will come before you as well as the community reveals the designation report. it will also come before you once the property owners have reviewed the tax credit option. during this recording corridor, department staff have received two property owners submitted for landmark designation application. the files which you just heard are 2215 leaven worth. staff continues to work with the applicant to finalize that application. staff continues to work on the landmark designation as the landmark district cafe floor and none of these applicat

the area burning the building. the contents of the vault survived and the exterior was undamaged. [inaudible] the bank and tobeen and tobeen muchbed back in in 1907. the bank [inaudible] and the penthouse addition was added in 35. the original certificate of appropriateness was approved december 5, 2012. [inaudible] project rehabilitation the building to meet current life safety and accessibility codes and make it suitable for commercial use including a full seismic upgrade. the proposed changes to had coa include changes made to improve accessibility and also to make change tooz the roof top penthouse which is really not visible from surrounding streets. with that i'll turn it to nijeal black to tell you more about the project. thank you. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is nijeal black and i'm the representative for the project sponsor. i would thrike thank chris and kelly for the time and thunk for the time to present. i'll walk you through the remainder of the presentation looking in more detail not too

code so the envelope of the building and those building codes are by their nature going to restrict the number of units we can add what we have in district 3 a large apartment buildings that were built in the first half of the century when space was rare and people were building massive boiler rooms and some of those are looking tasty as apartment sites one of the things that made me push right now under current code pertains can add bedrooms to existing units and they're doing it right now that means this precious space they're allowing property owners to creatinine thousand dollars apartment when we could be addressing additional dwelling units we're passing up that opportunity everyday since the haste for the legislation parking question that's another tough one i agree because with parking at some you premium hard to imagine we have to find space for more people that may or may not have cars that's an issue to supervisor wiener's point one of the great things about the units we're not talking about all of a sudden putting 2 hundred units in one spot but likely to be dispersed th

that is what the building department wants us to build to. it includes all the rooms because there are more rooms than there are supposed to be and the back stairs. >> my question is, until you get the permit from planning which is hopefully next week you can't do anything in there now? >> accept removing sheet hp walk and the contractor is concerned about stepping into this project without having the real permit and there are issues with the tenants that i'm not dealing with, that is them, i'm trying to get the permit and get it fixed. there are belongs in rooms that are somewhat of a issue too but that is their issue. >> commissioner nob [inaudible] >> so the tenants have been removered per our order. when was the building built? >> probably 1908. >> so the intention is to bring at least the occupants back who can legally be there, is that the-i know it isn't our jurisdiction but i am trying to figure out- >> i'm rebuilding the building back to the 94 plans that shows 2 units. >> okay so that would be something that has to be worked out but

and 1355 market street building. you can sort of start to see that shingled glass effect showing the renderings. this is a roof plan and what we are working on as lily pointed out as a strategy for the glass and maintaining the light fixtures on the left side of the bridge and we are looking at a fairly discrete tie off for tie off and perform maintenance on this and the roof of the bridge from 875 stevenson building. those are the conversations we are having with the landlord and glazing and window washing company. this is the relational building to 1355 market street and 875 stevenson boulevard. you can see the heavily ornamented facade and sitting in between but set way back from the corner. this is the facade as it exist on the stevenson street side 1355 and this shows where the bridge sits on that facade. you can see the two windows that have been removed and in filled with the stucco to match the adjacent wall. same with stevenson street side and where the bridge gets added to that facade. you can see where we

we spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are -- >> very vulnerable buildings. >> very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that that are like that. >> and time to. >> >> retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after the earthquake. >> what do they need? do they need information? do they need incentives? mandates? >> that's a good question. i think it starts with information. people think that new buildings are earthquake proof and don't understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent of letting people know is my building going to be safe in it after an earthquake? is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured? so developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some of the larger apartment buildings that are soft story we need a mandatory program to fix the buildings,

as we noted when state contracted for the temporary buildings, they contracted for buildings that had differing levels of security and didn't have overhead cover. el i would note in 2008 the state department notified the congress that they needed additional funds because the threat in kabul required overhead cover for the temporary facilities that in 2009 they contracted for temporary buildings that didn't specify the need for overhead cover. >> let me give an opportunity for ms. munoz or mr. starr to answer from your perspective on the question of not accepting all standards and with where you're at now. >> the recommendation to have different standards for temporary structures struck us as very strange. >> they are different facilities. >> well, the problem is invariably when i have seen standards for temporary structures or interim facilities it's a lowerering of the standard. what i'm afraid of oh is by virtue of the fact that a trailerer is a trailerer we'll is have lower levels of standards rather than striving to meet the real standard. an example is for many years all we had i

it was building 1 the 7 at navc systems command building in which -- >> it was building 197 where woeand shot and killed, murdered and -- >> building 197 was just reopened not too long ago there was a ceremony to do it. >> reporter: extensive renovations went on inside. it was a huge crime scene. it would have been a very difficult place to go back into if you were one of the folks assigned there. i've got a little information that i can add to what we're reporting right now. the associated press said shots have been reported in the building, navy spokesman petty officer first class rodriguez confirmed there is a lockedown under way. the nation's naval situation it's also the scenes -- scene of the send deadliest mass murder behind fort hood. confirmation the lockdown but sam was telling us he could see it from there. and again the police response continues to get bigger and more robust and much more inclusive. sam, have you got something? >> i'm not sure if sam can hear you. he is being pushed back. sam sweeney was one of the first ones down there. as you can look at what is unfoldin

planning department in terms of where the backward space and open block pattern we have several buildings in the area that is kind of bare it depends on our prospective in the mid block the southern block as well as the eastern side of the block are looking at garages and hours that are visibly impacted at this point in the interest of time i'll actually stop and allow people to continue with their discussions >> calling for p in support of project sponsor. >> okay. not seeing any - >> dr requester you have a 2 minute rebuttal. >> all right. i'm going to speak for sue i don't have much i want to make a couple of corrections in 9 original speech he mentioned it was near silver avenue in the outer mission not correct and 38 feet long i believe it is a little bit over 40 i just wanted to restate that the entrance we believe is not in line of the subjects it is for you to decide the case and i would make two other longer-term comments one is that looking at this mid block open space issue i will invite you to look at it the first page of the plan the subjectsetbacks the block would be complet

in my jurisdiction we are in a building boom as in many jurisdictions and we see high rise buildings coming into a small jurisdiction that hasn't had them before and we had one 19 story building at completion -- it's a classic story it had accessibility problems and the only way to deal with them was really to go in structurally change some things, so this list as simple as it is would have helped dra -- dramatically and it was before i was building official and i heard the nightmares and this will assist the developers and

this is just showing how it would be right in front of the agriculture building. we do have 3 gates, gate e exists now and we are adding 2 more and we are proposing adding 2 canpies between e and f and another one between f and g much smaller than what we had aoriginally shown in previous proposals. it is important to keep a couple things in mind, the canopies were never intend today provide full weather protection. it is just to alleviate the conditions and make it more attractive. the other thing i would point out is by having the canopy we eliminate vertical elements like lighting or signage can be incorporated as well. we did studies of solar access which we were asked to look at and they tend to perform quite adequately but we were also asked to look at wind driven rain and a com [inaudible] did an analysis of the canopies and found that even under the worst conditions they were 70 percent available at ground plane in terms of giving protection. again, we are not trying to-it is like a parasol. we want a little protection, but we also want to emphasize the hi

it helps the building to stand out base of the building certain materiality mostly a glass tower you can see the tower pattern f when you get to the podium portion it is is circumstantial floor we added a footed galleys bring that to the base there is a bar between the massing of the turn over we breakdown the scale 1209 public realm this is a view of the plaza along howard you get an idea of 35 foot space the retail and art exhibit and plaza art will be located in this area that's what we're planning for once we get the art introduced into the plaza that will be exist open space we've shown here we've got open space on the site and parcels m-1 and 3 location getting to our access to those two parcels m-3 and one that is los angeles county complicated because of the train expectation we've developed a temporary park for both of those sites and once a final assess for entry the m-1 and 3 and those parts with filled with trees and outdoor spaces and seats generally we'll work with a nice landscaped design to be a variety of options for the users on both the parcels so with that said we

the building that is really important and those who are in the building will be in the community we're really proud of that and working closely with the commission to make sure you understand where we are at every part of the process 5 thousand 4 hundred people have to be trained i want to make sure you understand the depth of the work in the coming year and months so this is a lot of people that lillian will be responsible for insuring knowing how the hospital works i want to say that our work is not done we're getting to the end of the time period i'm proud of

live soundtrack with our guests at the restaurant nothing more audible than the speakers in the building now that's really it just a nice neighborhood bar where guests can come and enjoy cocktails and stay for music they're welcome to do so great commissioners. >> i have one question what's our cross street. >> connecticut. >> you know the neighbors are different. >> we know that the rocket dish had a kayak. >> the occupancy is 99. >> correct. >> okay do you know who the company might be. >> not at this time but we'll definitely have security. >> on the application that is our security plan to have entertainment thursday friday and saturday and one person checking ids at the door and you have a second person? there's a bar manager and a security 3 would be at the door onsite >> any other questions commissioners commissioner perez. >> hi thanks for coming did you have the same type of dj music at our previous location. >> we did not. >> this is the first time correct. >> correct. >> and i see you did the outreach thank you very much for doing that you did outreach with the boosters. >> ye

that is what the building department wants us to build to.includes all the rooms because there are more rooms than there are supposed to be and the back stairs. >> my question is, until you get the permit from planning which is hopefully next week you can't do anything in there now? >> accept removing sheet hp walk and the contractor is concerned about stepping into this project without having the real permit and there are issues with the tenants that i'm not dealing with, that is them, i'm trying to get the permit and get it fixed. there are belongs in rooms that are somewhat of a issue too but that is their issue. >> commissioner nob [inaudible] >> so the tenants have been removered per our order. when was the building built? >> probably 1908. >> so the intention is to bring at least the occupants back who can legally be there, is that the-i know it isn't our jurisdiction but i am trying to figure out- >> i'm rebuilding the building back to the 94 plans that shows 2 units. >> okay so that would be something that has to be worked out but tha

look at the history of the building and notice prior to buying it? >> i don't know. i'm trying to get it fixed so i can't answer that question. >> if the issues are not fixed then we are dealing with a whole new set of issues >> i don't know what they knew. i know when you buy a building on 3 r it doesn't have a list of existing notice of violation. i believe it has a list if there a abatement so i would look at the 3 r and see if there is a abatement order. if they knew that is a question for the lawyer. i don't know. >> okay. do we have any time left? >> i have paused it and started so there are 2 minutes left. >> did you want to add anything mr. freeman? you still have 2 more minutes. >> can you answer the question of has anyone looked at the history before the bought the building >> as far as i know orders of abatement show up on a title report but in terms of the specifics i don't know what was and wasn't-- >> you brought that up as if it had anything to do with the current status of the building and i'm saying when you buy a building you buy as

the building is still there today, built in 1855, the oldest standing building in topeka. it was known as constitution hall. when the topeka constitution got to washington, the national democratic administration, which was proslavery, said that this was not a legitimate government, it was not legitimate constitution convention and they rejected it. now, at the time in the u.s. congress, the house of representatives was now controlled by northerners, and they approved the topeka constitution, but the u.s. senate, controlled by southerners, refused to even discuss the topeka constitution. it died in washington. that was the very first constitution that was written in kansas. the second constitution, and we are looking at the title page of the famous lecompton constitution. that was written in the fall of 18357 in le compton, kansas, inside samuel jones' wood frame commercial building. this constitution, lecompton, would have made kansas a slave state. it was endorsed by president james buchanan from pennsylvania he was a northern man but he was strong pro slavery. his predec