in comparison with the d.r. requesters's windows, i am not quite sure with what we are talking about this. here is a picture of our next- door neighbor's house. on the windows, plastic, compared with the beautiful depth and detail of my windows which had been approved. these are the windows are replaced in 2007. they are unattractive, single- pane, drafty, made of aluminum. these are the windows i replaced them with. they are beautiful. look at the depth and detail. from the inside, my windows are an improvement as well. the next important thing i would like to focus on is that there have been no complaints about my windows in four years and two months. not a word was ever said to me about this from any neighbor, not even the d.r. requester air until i received a demand letter in january pointing out that my windows -- if i did not pay him $30,000 to remedy the fact that they were not permitted, he would sue me. i'd promptly went to the city and found out i could get an over-the-counter permit which i did on tha

d.r.'s hearing was originally set for today's date, march 22, because on the last day possible, two of the private neighbors filed private request for discretionary review. that original march 22 date was already continued to april 26. they are now asking to push this out until a date in june when more of the people opposing the project can be present. i'm here to suggest that that is not a legitimate justification for the significant delay that they're asking for. and the burden that it places on the permit holder is undue. this process has been going on for a period of more than nine months, trying to work with the neighborhood association and accommodate them. there have been many revisions of the plans at a great cost to permit holder. from the planning commission's own website, there's a section that talks about the attempted d.r. reform, which acknowledges and recognizes the problems with this discretionary review process, which points out that it makes the development process more le

taking the d.r. may not change of the loaner -- how the owner wants to use the space. >> this is one of the strangest d.r.'s i've ever seen. somebody wants to open a principally permitted hot business in the space they own. we really want a hardware store in our neighborhood, but that is not what you're going to get. there doesn't seem to be a viable option to have a deli there. things change. the more important thing is the compelling factors that support what they want to do. we have heard about weightle -- wait lists. i know what is going on the. they have 25 applicants already for this school. i can't believe there won't be some improvement in the retail by these families coming. many of them will walk because almost all of them are residents. one would think that they might get to patronize the grocery a little bit more. certainly more than a vacant store. there is a zone for drop-off for those using cars. they made the effort. i know about her establishments , rosa's cafe. she may have another

in favor of the d.r.? -- next speaker. >> i am representing [unintelligible] i was a previous tenant. >> can you state your name for the record? >> to make a statement, the location is not able to have a ktichen -- the kitchen. this area around here is a false ceiling, it goes from there, there sis two possibilities. >> you can move the microphone. >> there is no problem with the exhaust. and these are the -- they also have [unintelligible] for the kitchen. i do not know. i think there is the -- one way out. it was not possible to put the kitchen. she got the small business administration loan. which was different from what i had. she signed a lease, her mortgage is at 1231, 2010, and proceeded to evict me from the location. thank you. president fong: thank you. >> good afternoon. i have lived on potrero hill for 33 years. i have the property next door, a victorian that was condemned. i built a fence between the east fence for this property, when this property was a meat market, and then klein's came in an

therefore, a continuous is a question as to what date was acceptable for the d.r. requester your project sponsor. apparently, it is not working for him. i would like to get this finished. i think we should move its into may. if you are available may 3, we can make the motion for may 3. otherwise, we can make it for the tent. >> may 3 it is then. commissioner antonini: thank you. i moved to continue to may 3. >> second. commissioner sugaya: it is our understanding that there are enough issues that the product sponsor should attempt to meet with the d.r. requester in the meantime on both sides. if you could inform mr. marquez and ms. hansen that we are encouraging them to meet with the project sponsor before may. >> i certainly will. they have been encouraged to meet with each other. commissioner sugaya: ok. let's give it one more try. commissioner moore: is it appropriate to make it a part of the condition of why we support the continuance? i believe we need to expect accountability towards each other while we see the dilemma he is under having to travel. i do not w

the department recommends that you take d.r. and disapproved the c.d. this concludes my presentation and i am available for questions. vice president wu: thank you. project sponsor? >> good evening. my name is daniel. a little bit about myself -- i am an attorney, a small-business owner in san francisco. i am also a patient and proud supporter of the medicinal marijuana community. and the values that this community shares on behalf of san francisco. san francisco has a very proud history of supporting civil rights. san francisco's politicians and the community have identified san francisco as a sanctuary city, ensuring safe access to cannabis on behalf of those individuals who have recommendations and required it. providing safe access to medicine is critical to the well-being of our san francisco community members, especially as we know that san francisco has one of the largest per-capita prevalence of people living with hiv. 471 jessie st. is a phenomenal resource for san francisco. it is an ideal location for a dispensary. it is ideal and it has been

i think the d.r. approach doesn't really work because it's extraordinary is a little harder as a general matter to point out. vice president wu: thank you. commissioner sugaya? commissioner sugaya: thank you. i think my comments are all over the map and i can't help but be a little cynical sometimes and maybe sarcastic but i give it a go anyway. commissioner antonini reminded me that my first deposit was 50 cents into the bank of america at my school. now, if we want to talk about service and convenience and how to reach people and we are depending on branches, maybe the banking industry ought to take a look at what they used to do in the past. i took my 50 cents and one dollar bill to school and somehow everything worked out. maybe you ought to try that. also. i don't know how to pronounce it. i think it's ing just opened up what you might call a branch about two blocks from my office and it isn't really a banking facility. it's a kind of community gathering place, if you can call it that, in the mid

when you are losing housing, i do not think it is a good idea to go to a d.r. and put the burden on the committee to deal with it. the burden should be on staff and the developer to set out the standards that should be applied in a cu. i do not agree -- i do not understand, pulling the number of a hat and this is page five. changing the area from one- fourth to one-third. why? tell me what it is, the policy underlying that. one gets to be one-third, it gets to be substantial. the last time we had pitched battles on accessory uses was in the 1990's. when it was the volume of live and worth that was constrained by this world. thank you. commissioner wu: thank you. any further public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. last time we discussed this, we took them by topic area. was that a useful way to discuss what would you like to make your comments? >> i just have a few. commissioner miguel: was there any comment regarding the cm comment? >> thank you. i was nervous about entering into my own interpretation. what the legislation does is make the -- mak

president fong: d.r. requester? >> pahor -- good evening. i owned the lower unit. i have been there for 15 years. my neighbor moved in in 2006. one year later, she installed new windows, aluminum-clad windows into her unit. the building, at the time, had a non-original aluminum windows that were installed in the 1970's, both in the top and bottom units. that was the existing conditions that we are considering here. both units had non-original aluminum windows. currently, the planning department has two permits under review. this is one of them and the other is my permit for wood windows in the lower unit. the question is, what is more appropriate for this building? the lower unit having wood windows, original detailing, a historic profile, or should we have the aluminum-clad windows at the top? clearly, from reviewing these standards, it would be far more appropriate to help would windows. it is undeniable. we are going to go through those standards in a moment. briefly, last week, this was heard as a matter of continuance at the board of appeals last week. there w

i will move to take d.r. -- there is a motion, i am sorry. i forgot. commissioner moore: in the absence of the economic strategy having been in front of us, this came as a surprise, seeing a recommendation in the staff report which is neither the law, an ordinance, a vested recommendation, or anything. the document has been in the making for 10 months. while i appreciate what it does, to use this document as an isolated documents in the absence of a progress report on it, i think is a stretch. i cannot do that because there is lack of notice and lack of fairness. the document would have had to be mentioned early on when we were looking at second street. we have been struggling with the idea of clustering. we have asked for help, and discretion. this study was never mentioned. while it might provide a tool for the community examination, at this moment, it does not give me any guidance on which i can based a denial. the presentation that there are nine mcd's within the study area is a slight overstatement. the study area falls into what is called the str

section 317 requires mandatory d.r. when you are losing one dwelling unit. in theory, to lose one dwelling unit would be a d.r., for lccu's it would require a conditional use. it would be specific for lccu's. only when you are losing a dwelling when installing a lccu would you be required to do it conditional use. >> i would like to see a d.r. sensitive a -- instead of a cu. >> that is the way it is currently. >> on accessory uses, this is kind of detail. i looked at the code and i am not sure what the proposal is for which zones the change is from one-quarter to one-third. i want to ask why 1/3. is it consistency with the rest of the city? i do not know if this is going into too much detail, i am on page 183 of the original proposed code. it looks to me like the change from one-quarter to one-third is in all the zones. it is in crcn and pdr. >> it is in this district. it is not in residential district. as scott mentioned earlier, ncd's already have the one third. >> what about the hafts -- n and pdr. -- n and pdr? >> they are not changing the accessory uses

d d.r. requester, please. >> good evening, members from planning commission. i understand it is late and you are tired, but nevertheless, this issue is very important to me. my name is boris, i'm a discretionary review an applicant and owner of anza street location for 28 years. i've observed continued deterioration of the property. it has cost me a lot of money. i would like to mention to you that i also have a master's degree and i am associate member, and let me explain the region'asons i oppose this. the buildings alongside the street are build over loose sand deposits with an up-flow toward the boulevard. it is still moving and selling. it is a different time. i included in my hand out to you, the evidence and my experience during my of ownership of that. in 1996, it is the exhibit one, picture one. i think it is a poor service water drainage so i build some sort of drainage have the base of the foundation. it cost me about $9,000. the very next year i had flooding again. instead of the slab and the foundation, i remove all the existing floor is and compl

marquez who is requesting the d.r., he moved around a lot of offshore travel so he would be here and available for march 15 when they then said they weren't ready on march 15 and needed the april date of today, he couldn't do that one and that therefore he is requesting the extension to may. this is troubling because this is a project that really has sort of gone on forever. and it's been more problematic than any single family issue i've ever experienced in the community. in conversation with the sponsors during the break, i inquired if they had had a meeting with mr. marquez and they said no they haven't, they haven't been able to reach him and they mentioned that they had addressed ms. hansen's concerns as well and she -- the person on the east side who also supports the discretionary review and as i understand it, they have not had contact with her to review what they feel has resolved all of her concerns. so while they're saying they have tried to take into account everything, they have yet to meet with the people on the east or the west to go over and see that those things do m

then try it yourself and tell us what you think. >>> our d.r.iritual person deepak chopra is here to discuss his book. this is a remarkably practical book that you've put together and that you've asked people to present to you very common and frequently very difficult to resolve, very sometimes tragic, sometimes challenging situations and tried to offer them answers through the lens of what you call contracted awareness, expanded awareness or pure awareness. almost like three different settings on your own personal radio station when you deal with a given situation. explain to us the difference of these three different settings for yourself, if you will, and how it applies to the problems. >> contracted awareness is your awareness. feel separate from the ecosystem, the web of relationships around you. you feel fear, you feel resentment, you feel anger, hostility, guilt, depression, shame, any of those things, and that, of course, influences your beliefs, perceptions, assumptions, expectations and your mood which is very primary in how you see th

if not, then the d.r. request -- ok. >> hello. i am a teacher and assistant director for the child care and family center. the director and i are looking forward to contributing to the petro hill community and we had a lot of usable space. we have that debate passion for preschool and we have over 20 years of experience in the field. we know that the families' brought us there and they tell us that there is not enough convenient locations like the centers nearby. the families want to stay in the area and keep their business there. a lot of our families will be walking. there will be people that live there that on top of that even they say that they will probably end up stopping. a survey done by preschool for all shows that over a third of families would prefer child care within walking distance. they want to have child care in their neighborhood and they don't want to increase their commute t. this increases stress for the parent and child and decreases performance. for such reason, the child care, planning, and advisory council

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sculptor gertrude vanderbilt whitney herself a d.r. member might well have been thinking of cleo, goddess of history, in fashioning the classically draped figure of a woman nine feet in height, her arms reaching out to what? the past? or the future? >> set amidst elegant landscaping it recalls whitney's other prominent work in the nation's capital, the "titanic" memorial near washington channel. only here instead of a flanking bench there's a low stone wall with bronze medallions honoring eugenia washington, mary desha, ellen harden wallworth, and mary smith lockwood. as charter members of the d.a.r., these four women invited others descended from revolutionary era combatants to celebrate their service and to promote greater public appreciation of the freedoms for which their ancestors fought. >> next on the civil war, more fromhe

i think we can get you that time line on the completed d.r. and the preferred alternative but it is not known when the funding will be available. commissioner antonini: we were not even able to get a figure on a timeline on when a preferred alternative would be chosen. ok. that would be greatly appreciated. >> i wanted to make sure, we will at the next hearing or before, get you every bit of information we can get on that. commissioner antonini: rick, i appreciate that. it is hard to evaluate the transportation element if we do not know what we're talking about. in my mind. i was interested to see that there is a vision and community -- visioning committee, that fifth wheel sitting out there in limbo in effect and has been in all the discussions we have had here at this commission. one on one for the last eight years since they abandoned the idea of building out there in california. i have mentioned the idea of beds, which garcia was talking about. and commissioner borden was discussing the psych bed need, which is important in san francisco a

i'm watching d.r. horton. they had impressive numbers, right. and they were positive in the early market. i want to look at an intraday chart because they have now gone negative and are selling off. d.r. horton moved from the short-term buy list at deutsche bank. they were up at the open and now down more than 3%. back to you. >> all right. brian, thank you very much. no matter what she says, good job. all right. big story out there today. it involves american airlines and u.s. airways. in fact, there was a rally downtown today because the transport workers union and two others representing the workers of american airlines are concerned about american airlines bankruptcy proposal to layoff as many as 13,000 jobs. >> uh-huh. >> however, u.s. airways, which has made no secret of its desire to buy american airlines has said if they are able to buy american, they would not lay off all those jobs. those union leaders today in new york city for a hearing on american airlines' bankruptcy proceedings. >> i got to look at what's better for the employees.

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from an account to an account and although i understand commissioner antonini's comments regarding d.r., i do not think that what we're talking about really should fall under the exceptional and extraordinary concept so i am absolutely in favor of this. >> second. vice president wu: commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: i'm opposed for reasons slated earlier but i do have a question for staff and i raised it briefly and this is in regards to future -- if we do, only we make a recommendation, board of supervisors will be passing this legislation, and if they do move financial institutions into the definition of formula retail and hayes valley, north beach and i believe china town do not allow formula retail, would that mean that new branches could not be built in those neighborhoods? >> you're correct although i think north beach has a -- half of it you can and half of it you can't. i'm sorry, they do prohibit formula retail outright but currently only half of the district doesn't allow banks and the other half does so this would effectively make new formula retail banks complet

we had communicated that if the variance was denied, we would refund those d.r., and we will talk more after this hearing about how to proceed because the project sponsor has an appeal right. if the project decision is overturned, it would move forward, have to look at how to move best forward. we want to be as fair as possible with all parties. with that, that is my decision and we will be closing this hearing at this time. thank you all very much. >> welcome. calling to order this meeting of the san francisco ethics commission on march 26, 2012. thank you all for being here. let me begin by calling the meeting to order and taking the roll. commissioner hayon? commissioner renne? let me note before we take public comment that matters related to the mayor's suspension of the sheriff that are the responsibility of the ethics commission will be handled and scheduled separately. they will begin with a preliminary hearing that will establish the rules and parameters for that process and the dates and times for those proceedings will be posted consistent

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i know he's in the d.r., so i'm jealous about that. >> i'm jealous, too.is getting pretty serious involving apple and digital books. >> yes. >> where does it go from here? >> it could go a number of ways. right now we don't know what could happen. but what the allegation states from the department of justice was that there was some price fixing on electronic books. we know right now at this point there were five publishers named in this allegation. three of those publishers have since settled with the department of justice almost immediately. only two other publishers are stanning beside apple saying wait a minute, this is not true. if this does continue to move forward, we may see e book prices roll back down. it may be a bad thing for the industry, because i worry about e-books being devalued, or almost wal-martized, but discounted, can tend to make it seem like the e-books don't have as much value. >> really? even if people keep snachg them up and letting the industry know how much they love them, how much they have modified their habits of reading as a