president's announcements. >> good morning and welcome to tuesday november 18th, 2014, building inspection commission. so, just with that and president's announcements congratulations and thanks to dbi director, tom for his clear and formative testimony on october 9th to the seismic safety commission, the state commission is responsible for the seismic safety issues throughout california and the commission held the first meeting on the city's board of supervisor's chambers and invited testimony from the director and the capitol planning committee and the mayor's earthquake safety implementation and sfpuc and the san francisco effort to improve the earthquake safety in our buildings and critical infrastructure as well as ongoing planning by the city policy makers to insure, resil ans and recovery for the next major earthquake or other disaster. congratulations to the director, too for his new article on the mandatory seismic retrofitting program that appeared in the sfapartment magazine, entitled tick tok, retrofit, very appropriate. and the effort to bring as many soft story building owners in compli

were there well within the 90 seconds actions of the members of the san francisco aab/building inspection commission were successful in helping the aircraft those members were dribble involved in the successful rescue of 3 hundred and 4 passengers from the aircraft without a moment's notice they are immediately went into action individuals stories of heroic abound in the officers but this was a team that came together at the exact place and time to save lives each of those brave officers could have directed people to stand back from the plane but they made the decision to preach approach the aircraft that could explode but rescued passengers in doing this the officers were successful in saving the lives of 3 hundred and four people those members are awarded medal of valthmeda (clapping.) the officers seated received silver medal of valor those 8 officers will receive gold. >> (clapping) (laughter) (clapping). >> perhaps a standing ovation

this is the regular meeting of the building inspection commission. i would like to remind everyone for please turn off all electronic devices the first item is roll call. >> president mccarthy. >> here. >> commissioner lee? >> here. >> commissioner mccray?

that could be placed on the agenda of the next meeting and other future meetings of the building inspection commission. >> our next regularly schedule meeting is november 19th. >> okay. >> and so line of two, commissioner walker, and mar? >> commissioner melgar? >> just to reiterate the specifics short term rental legislation, and amendments, and including dbi and planning f they will come, also, specifically, the issue o it and if we could hear about the project and plan checks and with respect to that issue and have it on the agenda? >> okay. there was a point raised about the permit fees that we charged for the different, and i would like to do an internal audit and have it back to the commission and maybe it will come to where the fees come out and we will reflect for the past year and whether we adhere to the federal guidelines and how closely we adhere to the federal guidelines and the all of the different projects. one of the things brought up was the (inaudible) that the enforcement by the contractors, and could play, in the short term rental, legislation? and enforcement? and specifically it

. >> excellent i'll add we talked about did follow-up meeting with the building inspection commission that can be another that agenda item i know there's requirements that obviously that are broad and we're following them we've seen a number of cases where the documents were not prepared. >> in addition there are guidelines many our rules and regulations that's correct we've worked on that. >> we've never updated them the creation as in the department of 5 sets of submittals that will be easy to address those that were simpleminded prior to the new commissioners been put on i'll be happy to look at this and meet with dbi it's simple to create less a.m. gut than expected. >> thank you commissioner antonini. >> yeah. a few things i had a meeting recently with one of the porcelain on fulsome a p u d as a point of information my office is in the cal hallow area and the barky has been closed it doesn't make any difference but to the request by commissioner moore for the projects to give us update of how many of their residents are full-time residents and how many work in san francisco and

. >> good, morning is wednesday, october 15, 2014, this is the regular meeting of the building inspection commission. and i would like to remind everyone for turn off all electronic devices. and the first item on the agenda is roll call. >> president mccarthy? >> here. >> vice president mar. >> here. >> commissioner lee. >> here. >> commissioner mccray? >> present >> commissioner melgar.

♪ >> good, morning is wednesday, october 15, 2014, this is the regular meeting of the building inspection commissionke to remind everyone for turn off all electronic devices. and the first item on the agenda is roll call. >> president mccarthy? >> here. >> vice president mar. >> here. >> commissioner lee. >> here. >> commissioner mccray? >> present >> commissioner melgar. >> here. >> sxh commissioner walker. >> here. >> and commissioner clinch is excused and we have a quorum and the next item is president's announcements. >> madam secretary, if it is okay with my fellow commissioners i will take this out of order and go to item 5, supervisor scott weiner is here to give us a discussion on this as he has another appointment, if we could, if there is no objection we will go to item five. >> okay. we will be calling agenda item five.discussion of proposed legislation file no. 140954 ordinance amending the planning code to permit exceptions from dwelling unit density limits and other requirements of the code when adding dwelling units to existing buildings undergoing seismic retrofitting; deleting the r

. >> item 6,discussion of joint building inspection and planning commission meeting of october 2, 2014 and possible next steps in joint code enforcement efforts. >> >> and so, i am going to let my fellow commissioners talk and i know that there are commissioners who are happy with the meeting but with that, we start with commissioner walker that we should revisit and discuss the next steps. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> and at our october second meeting, we discussed a lot of about code enforcement, between planning and building, and there are many issues that come up for the city, i believe, around change of use, and the current issues are there are a number of them, but it is a pdr to the office and it is housing to short term rental. and how our departments work together to enforce the rules. once the rules have been established. so, nobody that our, and especially our housing division, around the short term rental, we heard from planning and we heard from dbi both, about the process. and there was a lot of of discussion back and forth and there was a commitment to have the departm

we will be joined by scott sanchez, and representing the planning commission and duffy representing the department of building inspectiond i believe by representative from the department of public works bureau of urban forestry. if you could go over the board meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. >> the board requests that you turn off all phones and pagers so that they will not disturb the proceedings and carry on the conversations in the hallway, the rules of presentation are as follows, each has seven minutes to present their case and three minutes for rebuttals. people affiliated with these parties must include their comments within the 7 or 3-minute periods and members of the public who are not affiliated with the parties have up to three minutes each to address the board, but no rebuttals. to assist the board in the accurate preparation of minutes, members of the public who wish for speak on an item are asked but not required to submit a speaker card or a business card to the staff when you come up to the podium, speaker cards and pens are available on the left side of the podium, and the board a

also representing the planning department and planning commission and we will be joined by joseph duffy representing the department of building inspectiongo over the meeting guidelines and conduct the

also representing the planning department and planning commission and we will be joined by joseph duffy representing the department of building inspection. if you will go over the meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. people affiliated with the parties must include the comments in a 7 and three minute period, others not affiliated will have up to three minutes and no rebuttals to assist the board in the accurate preparation of minutes, members of the public who wish to speak on an item are asked but not required to submit a speaker card, or a business card to the staff when you come up to the podium, speaker cards and pens are available on the left side of the podium. and the board also welcomes your comments and suggestions and there are customer satisfaction survey forms on the left side of the podium. and if you have questions, about requesting a rehearing, the board rules or hearing schedules, speak to the board staff during a break or after the meeting or call the board office tomorrow morning, the board office is located at 1650 mission street, room 304. and this evening is broadcast live on san francisco governm

building collapse on market street in the summer of 2013. >> the purpose of the commission was to conduct a full independent assessment and provide recommendations on the practices and operations of the department of licenses and inspections with the goal of public safety must always be our number one goal in virtually every department and agency of our city government, but certainly the department of licenses and inspections. >> and the mayor says the lni overhaul isn't finished yet. >>> well, they carry everything from cars to clothes, and in one shop, shipping port, it's now a complete mess. this is video you have to see. watch as a container ship tilts, tossing dozens of containers overboard. >>> brand new money for sandy victims. where $14 million in aid is now headed. >>> and all night long, septa will keep running weekend overnight subway trains. why the popular service will actually cost the transit agency money. >>> take a live tour of weather conditions all across the area now. here is a live look at the poconos at camelback mountain resort. an hour ago we started to see the flakes and now can clearly see the snow in the light. it's coming down quite steadily. been falling since about 4:00 p.m. i'd say. >>> and