provides that you can't plan a code. >> what's the reason for that? >> to allow more opportunity for neighborhood serving uses and that's the the intent when this was passed in 2008. >> you listed four different types of zoning controls in north beach district. were those in existence at the time? >> no. none of them would have been. at the time it was -- we are still under, it probably still a commercial zoning district. there is 7 zoning districts and now we have more than a hundred. so at the time -- >> going to the argument billion -- of how the idea is, it's legally something else but those zoning controls no response place and applicable today are not applicable then. i think that goes against your argument that it would basically generate -- or encourage property owners to illegally do something else to open a restaurant. that wasn't at issue at the time. the retail use was sort of classified in a c f c that it was allowed to do? >> i think my concern is the appellant's argument is that we should look at not at the last legal use but the last u

this is his code. >> it's not the city attorney's code. >> i think the question is and i'm reading it again, i want to come up with the right, the one i can stand behind as well. it's just whether or not e applies. even if 2 seems to be the applicable provision, if it's what commissioner fong is saying, it's not an existing prohibited. i think we got that confirmed from the zoning administrator. >> we have to find a use of discretion in the interpretation of the law and that is the high standard that we have to meet. >> okay. commissioners, just to remind you, you have the option to uphold or over turn, you also have the option to continue this case if you want to allow the appellant time to accrue so they won't have penalties. >> what are the penalties? how much are we talking about penalty wise? >> scott san , the penalties are $250 a day. they have not been closed because of these proceedings. they can continue open through the process. i have concerns about continuing the violation of penalties. that provides very little incentive for anyone to actually file an application. they d

move is subject to those code sections. a lot, yes, it's subject to code section but it doesn't mean it's non-conforming use. they refer to nop conforming use to the regulation but they do not say this is non-conforming use and you have to use this code section. they say, this is something we want to you do and refer you to that code section for regulation. we never realize that's a non-conforming use. we just you use regulation a, regulation a to regulate b. >> are you saying you don't agree that that's an applicable section. you disagree in >> i disagree that's non-conforming use. >> you disagree? >> yeah. >> okay. >> i guess i have a question for mr. sanchez. did you say that there was an explicit provision in the 2008 legislation for businesses that were already in existence before 2008 as fringe financial services? >> can i have the overhead to show up on 249, it's actually included in. >> we can't see that. why don't you read it? >> okay. thank you. this part of the appellant's brief 249.5 continuing existing prohibit

i would suggest to the board that that section of the planning code does not apply. further more, i don't believe that the public in anyway is harmed by simply acknowledging the facts here that the code says last occupied by. the reason that matters is this section of the code is there to protect against the loss of neighborhood serving retail to hire paying restaurants and bars. i would suggest and appreciate the administrators diligence that neither the policy or the law are violated by altering this finding in the letter of determines and also reiterate the only reason we are here is to dispute that finding, really one sentence in the entire letter that states effectively that the building was last occupied by a neighborhood serving retail use. we believe that to be in inaccurate. thank you. >> you have 3 minutes of rebuttal. do you care to use it? no? okay. mr. sanchez. >> thank you, with the planning department. commissioner fong in response to your question, i could not locate any additional formation -- information from the building permit. both did very clear

the key part of code and launching code clubs in high school. we're making sure that we are inviting female sbrures and having them talk about -- entrepreneurs and having them talk about and learn how they build a business. they can see people who look like them. that is important for the girls of color. i couldn't find one black female engineer in the entire city. can you imagine that? for these girls -- it is so funny we just had the application process at google and we saw all these african american women and latin american women come in saying i want to learn how to code, teach me. [applause] e of my girls came here from another country and they don't give them culture in technology. so we had to teach her how to use a mouse. eight weeks later she built a website on how to teach other girls on how to code in 32 different languages. >> wow. [applause] >> we focus on that. if we commit to them, if we aeat -- girls for code is not nonprofit organization, it is a movement. you wrote about this, it is the most domestic issue of our time. the trai

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john: and already under the existing codes he have a code for if you're bitten by doc, a slightly differentave been struck by a duck. who cares? >> two pears. the debt does not care, neither should the patient or the doctor. you want to treat the injury. that is the biggest concern. john: code for our fall at an art gallery. we ask health and human services why so many, and they did not get back to us. >> not surprising. john: from wt i read, they say this will help them plan for the future, you ship information to another doctor. he knows if you walk into a pole or if you tire people walker into which might make a difference in how it treats you. >> maybe, maybe not. the federal government needs to put all this stossel@foxbusiness.com to just keep records at this great expense commendably they do. john: it is unbelievable. the old book again. the new one will be five or almost ten times as big. they're not just a bit. it must have our reason for doing this. it and wanted to build empires, do they? we have to understand that when regulators go work every day and meet around and drink their

second, for people who are interested in tracking code violations. there is a free app now which you can put on your cellphone which is u p 2 code. the website was launched monday and helps that you not just call 311 but key yourself where the code violation s this was published on the examiner on april 4, unless it's a fools day joke i don't know. it is possible to do it this way. i will pass the printout out so you can follow it. mr. sanchez will be greatly alleviated to see this work. >> thank you, i was fortunate to be able to attend an event last night at pier 28. i thought it was very well done. it involved a panel discussion and brought together some members of the tech community, the small business owners association and it was also under the auspices of city.com and supervisor ferrel motion to dismiss moderated the group and there was good information regarding small businesses in general and the city family and what can be done to move things more smoothly and help each other promote their businesses and everyone really liked it. in fact th

if somebody said is my building up to code, i will say yes it is up to code. it is up to the 1909 code. in 1909 there was no requirement for earthquake design. >> until 1933 when the reilly act went into effect after the disastrous 1933 santa barbara -- >> long beach. >> destroyed elementary schools. they were brick. if the kids were in school, we would have lost thousands of kids. that banned brick construction and required seismic designs to be incorporated in buildings. >> there was a major -- there are a number of thresholds over the course of the development. the big one is in the mid '70s, but a whole threshold, series of these thresholds. many of the older buildings, like the 1 across the street have been upgraded to meet some modern standards. this is the williams building that we were talking about that is the replacement of the building that was damaged in the 1906 earthquake. it was built just like it with the plans. >> this building they were going to dynamite it. in '06, they dynamited buildings to clear the path. >> from an interesting point of v

and tear down more of the building than would ordinary be allowed by the code. mr. murphy, at first said, or at the request of the dr request

john: and already under the existing codes he have a code for if you're bitten by doc, a slightly differentes have been struck by a duck. who cares? >> two pears. the debt does not care, neither should the patient or the doctor. you want to treat the injury. that is the biggest concern. john: code for our fall at an art gallery. we ask health and human services why so many, and they did not get back to us. >> not surprising. john: from what i read, they say this will help them plan for the future, you ship information to another docto he knows if you walk into a pole or if you tire people walker into which might make a difference in how it treats you. >> maybe, maybe not. the federal government needs to put all this stossel@foxbusiness.com to just keep records at this great expense commendably they do. john: it is unbelievable. the old book again. the new one will be five or almost ten times as big. they're not just a bit. it must have our reason for doing this. it and wanted to build empires, do they? we have to understand that when regulators go work every day and meet arod and drink thei

it will meet the stand standards of the code and mr. santos is here to talk about issues but you have three minutes and come up. >> in terms of the engineering issues but this will be a better, safer situation once this project is built. >> commissioners, santos, (inaudible) for the project. stability of the site, we are proposing absolutely the best thing that can happen to this hill. why? one, we are going to take all of the water and create a permanent new watering system, so all of the drainage issues that are occurring on the adjacent properties have been solved by the fact that we are taking that excavation. two, we will have retaining walls that are properly designed and properly reinforced and more importantly they will be peer reviewed and we will have another pair of eyes and structural engineers and source engineer and geologists this is the best possible thing that could happen to the hill and stabilized and let's talk about the demolition. mr. williams is saying, is that according to his interpretation of demolition, if you

the key part of code and launching code clubs in high school. we're making sure that we are inviting female sbrures and having them talk about -- entrepreneurs and having them talk about and learn how they build a business. they can see people who look like them. that is important for the girls of color. i couldn't find one black female engineer in the entire city. can you imagine that? for these girls -- it is so funny we just had the application process at google and we saw all these african american women and latin american women come in saying i want to learn how to code, teach me. \[applause] one of my girls came here from another country and they don't give them culture in technology. so we had to teach her how to use a mouse. eight weeks later she built a website on how to teach other girls on how to code in 32 different languages. >> wow. \[applause] >> we focus on that. if we commit to them, if we treat -- girls for code is not a nonprofit organization, it is a movement. you wrote about this, it is the most domestic issue of our time. t

an amendment to the park code that would allow the department to enforce the park code so that we can take advantage of the provisions that are relevant to the city parks. that amendment has been introduced by supervisor kim at the board of supervisors and we are hopeful they will approve it in the next month or so so with that background i would like to talk about a proposed amendment to the mou that you should all have before you. at operations committee there was some questions about the certainty of the funding for the maintenance, the 20 year maintenance program. i think we're very happy to report with the mayor's office and dpw we reached a compromise that will have them pre-fund all of the maintenance into an account that is delicated solely for this purpose, so upon the completion of a project the department would receive $1.6 million and that is that $66,000 in maintenance funding for the next 20 years with certain escalators. we would receive that money up front. it's a dedicated account we would draw down over the next 20 years so we can make sure moving forward the funding

and they implement it through the tax code.hey need to step back and say, look, if we need certain amount of revenues agreed to by congress, simplest way we're going to do that charge everyone a flat rate. individuals or corporations and yeah, maybe a deduction here or there, but i'm in favor of making everything simplified and toby said, i think pointed out. then it's clear what you need to do to get richer or grow your corporation to-- >> but gary b, the government is not just picking winners and losers, they're buying reelection is what they're doing. >> i agree with that, also. >> and i've got to pull you back into this. i know where you stand on this, you can that the wealthy get a lot of freebies, but lower income people do, too, and isn't it best to take them out of the picture and put everyone on a level playing field? >> i agree that the tax code needs to be simplified. the answer is not a flat tax. the answer is, to really have people recognize that government is in the business of spending a lot of money, not through

and building code as well. i'm not sure that was the case on this drawing. it probably maybe gotten this. we have another opportunity. >> what do you recommend as the appropriate process? >> well, i think we have to deny this permit and i don't think the conditions would be on a different address. i'm not too sure that that can happen with the condition permits because you are putting conditions on 1380 greenwich which is not here tonight. i think this permit has to be definitely denied. they need permits either way because the work is already done. they need permits. >> you can revoke the permit on the condition upon finalization of the new permit which requires departmental reviews. >> okay. >> that is a way to deal with this. >> you have been doing this a lot longer than me. you wrote that legislation. >> i'm losing track of these codes. there are so many of these. we have i believe all parties except perhaps one adjacent neighbor. is an agreement that the permit needs to be revoked? >> yes. >> the departmen

, sections 302, 355(a), and 355(e); and amending building code, tables 1a-a, and 1a-e, to waive fees for the month of may for certain façade improvements; and making findings, including environmental findings and findings of consistency with the general plan and priority policies of planning code, section 101.1. explanatory documents: bos file no. 130284 bos file no. >> my name is diana keyes (sounds like) i'm here to introduce an ordinance passed last year, waiving fees regarding awning and sign replacement and pedestrian lighting for small businesses and recognition of small business month. the impetus behind the ordinance is to assist small businesses in contributing to the revitalization of the corridor, and making small improvements. we heard from business owners, a lot offended not know if you wanted to make improvements to fix awnings and signs, do you have to go to the permit process and pay a certain fee? we used this fee waiver to educate businesses and the community and let them know what they would have to do with regards to this process. this year would like to do the sa

john: and already under the existing codes he have a code for if you're bitten by doc, a slightly differentes have been struck by a duck. who cares? >> two pears. the debt does not care, neither should the patient or the doctor. you want to treat the injury. that is the biggest concern. john: code for our fall at an art gallery. we ask health and human services why so many, and they did not get back to us. >> not surprising. john: from what i read, they say this will help them plan for the future, you ship information to another doctor. he knows if you walk into a pole or if you tire people walker into which might make a difference in how it treats you. >> maybe, maybe not. the federal government needs to put all this stossel@foxbusiness.com to just keep records at this great expense commendably they do. john: it is unbelievable. the old book again. the new one will be five or almost ten times as big. they're not just a bit. it must have our reason for doing this. it and wanted to build empires, do they? we have to understand that when regulators go work every day and meet around and drink

we want a tax code. i want a tax code and i know my colleagues on the ways and means committee want a tax code that promotes growth, that promotes economic opportunity, that promotes the opportunity for us to be competitive on the de beuse when america competes on a world stage in a competitive market, we win. we have the best workers. we have the best technology. we have freedom. we have the rule of law. we need to do commonsense tax reform for the purposes of putting us in a position where we can create the jobs today and for generations to come because we will then create a fair, level playing field that allows us to start building things in america, allows us to put people to work for generations to come. so i appreciate my good friend from oklahoma bringing this issue to the forefront and having this conversation tonight. and i know he's bringing forth a copy of the code and the regulations and all you have to do is look at that colossal piece of paper or reams of paper, books of paper, 70,000 pages

we have done various codes there's a metic. for example, if you tear down a building you have to meet the threshold and that does not exist here. the one thing we need to do is look at a process that is important to fame. when we develop a family planning zone we put in childcare and when we look at projects we need to have a way to make this project better for families and we don't have that. i've committed to supervisor kim how we can respond to what we've seen from the community feeling that it's not there yet. in terms of the issues of hotels there is a challenge in this city in terms of midrange hotels we've seen a lot of hotels do the condominiums and frankly the hotel business see - unless you're doing a mid hotel authenticity not economical. whether times are good or bad so there's a real issue around hotel. by there is too an opportunity around jobs in hotels. the best situation would be that the developer work together and find out how the jobs can benefit the community. i also think that we want to make sure that our

the key part of code and launching code clubs in high school. we're making sure that we are female entrepreneurs and having them talk about and learn how they build a business. they can see people who look like them. that is important for the girls of color. i couldn't find one black female engineer in the entire city. can you imagine that? for these girls -- it is so funny we just had the application process at google and we saw all these african american women and latin american women come in saying i want to learn how to code, teach me. [applause] one of my girls came here from another country and they don't give them culture in technology. psosure toive them ex technology. so we had to teach her how to use a mouse. eight weeks later she built a website on how to teach other girls on how to code in 32 different languages. >> wow. [applause] >> we focus on that. if we commit to them, if we treat -- girls for code is not a nonprofit organization, it is a movement. you wrote about this, it is the most domestic issue of our time. the train is lea