the d.r. requestor's house is finished with proper siding. is there specific direction from the commission on the top floor? if there is, we would like to hear that. >> i concur with commissioner richards, that to me the size equity is an issue. six bedrooms with a ladder in the back reads more like group housing than two-unit in an rh-2 residential district. so i -- give than ground floor rec room and six units in the top, i would say that you can design a two-unit building, you know, in that space without having the fourth floor. >> so if we think that the project sponsor needs more time, might i suggest either march 8 or 15? >> i would go even further. 22nd maybe. >> march 22, if that's ameanable to the motion-maker? >> yes. >> and seconder? >> yes. >> so on the motion to continue this matter to march 22 -- [roll call] >> excellent. that matter has been continued to march 22. we'll move on to item number 17. 2016-014684drp at 2622-2624 greenwich street, request for discretionary review. >>

like the d.r. requester mentioned, we've met with them twice, but multiple communications back and forth. so we started with the pre-app. during the pre-app, we made a modification according to their request. they mentioned that we need to reduce the width of our 25 feet extension, but they're okay lengthwise. that was noted in the pre-application. after that, we made changes, brought it back to them in october where we presented the modifications and they have requested additional cutbacks, which we also accommodated before submitting it to planning department. this feels like through these modifications and addressing their requests, it's still unsatisfactory to the d.r. requester. hence, the d.r. was filed. we did continue communication, even at the last week, we tried to reach out to the requester, but unfortunately, we haven't received any responses to our follow-up. but through these outreach, we've talked to our adjacent neighbors and received overwhelming support, which we have sent out the

so is that a motion to take d.r.? >> it's a motion to take d.r. and deal with privacy issues on the north and south side with the two moves that i described mr. washington sketched out. >> commissioner moore, we're going to bring it in on the south side to the trellis to the edge of the bay, and then, we're going to install a trellis on the north side, so essentially, a privacy screen. >> is there a second? >> second. >> thank you, commissioners. there's a motion that has been seconded to take d.r. and to modify the project to deal with privacy issues on the north end, south sides. on that motion -- [ roll call. ] >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passed unanimously, 5-0. >> all right. that -- we're adjourned. >> welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of the san francisco ethics commission. i'm going to first start with a roll call, and commission-- [ roll call. ] >> and so everyone is present, and i'd like to congratulate commissioner lee. she has been reappointed to a full term by mayor farrell. great to have you continuing to be with

the d.r. requester on this? yes, sir. please come up. >> so you will have 5 minutes. >> good afternoon. >> good evening. my name is jack wong. 693 26th avenue occupant. i am concerned about the construction of the top unit because that area, especially in summertime, is typically overcast, wet and humid, which causes a lot of black mold around that area. i had a report done and it showed a problem with moisture because of the shading and the climate, especially in the summertime. i would say we get about 30%, 40% overcast weather. and i read something in regard to the inspection from the centers for disease control. and it says that, it's not necessary to determine the type of mold. all mold should be treated as potentially hazardous to the health and be removed. black mold may grow on paper, dust, lint or gypsum. water damages, flooding, condensation or excess humidity can cause mold to grow. before construction, it has seemed an eradication for the mold infestation around the area. it is pot

so then, the motion should not take d.r. >> no, but she wants toic at that d.r. and work on it to make sure that the adu. >> oh, that's right. >> i think it would be good to work that out beforehand. >> thank you. that's actually better. so the motion is to take d.r. and to continue working with staff on the design of the adu, and then, to approve the conditional use authorization with conditions as amended to continue working with staff on the design. on that motion. [ roll call. ] >> that motion passes, 4-1. acting zoning administrator would say. >> i'll close the public hearing for the variance and intent the grant with the standard conditions. >> very good. commissioners, that'll place us under your discretionary review calendar for case number 2017003 drp at 554 lewis avenue. this is a discretionary review. we're going to hear from staff first. we're going to hear from staff first, and then, the d.r. requester. >> oh, okay. >> good evening, plan commission, del watson, it's on the west side of forest side. it's involving the extension of a rear stowy deck, w

our d.r. hearing date is -- has now been postponed and we fear that the senior tenants in occupancy will be forced to vacate as their ellis act eviction date is april 28. please, we request a d.r. hearing as soon as possible. thank you very much for your time and consideration. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is ken hogar, the other half. and i am the owner of 75 and 77 28th, next door to michael and connie. we filed for a d.r. hearing in 2017 in hopes of a quick hearing date as the current tenants who were seniors in their late '70s have been living there for 29 years and have been subjected to an ellis act eviction by april 28. the planner, chris towns, has attempted to schedule a d.r. hearing date in march with an rdat date of january 17. on january 15, the sponsors architect, russell phlegmings, requested a delay so his clients could resolve the tenant issue. one week after chris town said he would schedule a hearing date in march, he

the issue about the d.r. on 79 28th street, i'm sitting here listening to a lot of people talking about that. kind of reminds me of the executioner transmiting to the supreme court saying i'm going to change my brief on why i should execute the prisoner, but in the meantime, he's executed the prisoner. so i think that delaying plans and making minor change on them is a real -- it is a way to just get these people out of their unit and i think that we should go ahead and take d.r. before they actually have the eviction data. we should rise to that occasion and do that for the elderly tenants. the others one about -- and i asked the chair and v.p. to consider that. the other one interesting enough, mr. david, they talked about this whole issue of permits going down and going through construction costs, i completely get it. maybe i misunderstand. i -- misunderstood. i thought the feasibility study had a if this goes up, this goes down. these are the assumptions we make. when the assumption change, something chan

but we'd like to have the d.r. pushed up so that the owner understands that, you know, there's not a lot of reason the ellis act if they can't get these permits approved. we have a lot of community supporters today who will request the same thing. if there is any way we could get this pushed up would be really helpful. thanks. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, president hillis. members of the commission. my ?aim joe butler and i'm an architect in the city. i'm curious whethers any meeting has been scheduled between the planning commission and the building inspection commission. the building inspection commission, we were chagrined to hear that maybe a june date would be possible. that seemed like a long way off, but give than a month has passed or more and nothing has happened yet, it could be june of 2019. >> good afternoon. overhead, please. and put my glasses on. so, thank you. it's nice to be here again. i'd like to thank the planning domestic for its response to the commission's request for an analysis of the p

it's the cheapest rail service in the d.r. congo like a local bus it stops a virtually every station and drools huge crowds. half of them a street vendors a day every stop even in the remotest villages the station becomes an instant market. the. amateur. i don't know if that is the ideal home program yet i wrote that there are several. there are no. i'm going to the time good. bye. but there's not much time for selling. the train is already packed. passengers clamber for remaining seats. has been riding this train for twenty years. he knows what to expect. them to come see but he got there i think because the self emphasizes the decision deducted the part of both. public will be. willing. to see. sit by young today. one of them of the fifty a day for these young people for the business they pull on this i see the loonies it's so this it's a sonic as i said of the. people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity. for those who want to able to f

it's the cheapest rail service in the d.r. congo like a local bus it stops a virtually every station and draws huge crowds. half of them a street vendors a day every stop even in the remotest villages the station becomes an instant market. i am very different. i don't know if that is the idea of home program yet i wrote that there are several . there. but for the time good. bye. but there's not much time for selling. the train is already packed. passengers clamber for remaining seats. clement has been riding this train for twenty years. he knows what to expect. from c. but he got there i think because the self emphasizing said this is deducted it was just done. he. said to simulate let's. say by young today. or not so much did you do your day for these people for the business. but this i say he said so this it's a sonic as i said if. the people cram into whatever space they can find nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity. for those who want to able to find a place or who can't aff

if you think that you should file a d.r., you should file a d.r. maybe i shouldn't say that but i'll say it. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> can i have the overhead, please? 655 alvarado was a small house, 900 square feet for the planning department property information map. and the property owner demolished it without a permit. the property owner submitted documentation to the planning department claiming the existing structure was 2,700 square feet. does that look like a 2,700 square foot house to you? three times larger than what it was. as you can see the picture it was a small house in the middle of the block. the aerial photo they submitted is for a different house. so what we have here is more deception. the proposal before you is either a single or a two-unit five stories. 5100 square-foot monster house. how would you feel if you lived on the either side of a five story house and the neighboring property owner gave me this picture to show you. that's what it looks like. building code section 103a.3, addresses unp

by the time the d.r. is filed, most sponsors clean up the worst of the inaccuracies and neither they or the planners disclose how inaccurate the plans were when the design review decisions were made. some planners are vigilant about spotting and correcting errors. others, like the steiner case, the planners say it is not their job to correct. so it doesn't seem to be any procedure around this issue. as my neighbour explained to you several weeks ago, there is no penalty whatsoever for the submission of false plans. today you will be deciding the budgets and work programme. we ask that you include a programme to get to this bottom of this issue and stop it. the practice of sub mitting inaccurate plans for its architects that are honest hurts national conventions and makes a mockery of planning regulations and everyone in the city should have to play by the same set of rules. thank you for listening. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i wanted to update you on th

the consequence of there being more conflict in urban centers that isn't the case though in eastern d.r. see where you are is it. not only in some places it is. urban syria. yemen that's right in the congo it's not really the countryside we women children suffer alone because there are too few even what is able to reach them and we could do much more if we have resource here because i'm go it's also a question of lack of attention lack of ability and willingness to go out to the fields in the villages where people are suffering ok and prayed guild that brings us neatly to you as somebody in opposition in the british parliament but somebody who will have an input in terms of policy of aid giving for britain towards issues like have been outlined by both george and jan what is the current thinking in the u.k. with regard to humanitarian aid is especially of course given the backdrop of the oxfam scandal. firstly i'm really important here the new statistics on children in conflict and it's really concerning because if you look at yemen it's appalling that on one hand we spend almost two hu

media in the past few days we now have the russian line on what happened in the syrian province of d.r. as the last week media reports have alleged that anything from several dozens to more than six hundred russian military personnel all mercenaries were killed in these u.s. strikes last week. the harvard today speaking in a press briefings that actually the number according to preliminary reports is more like five and these five people may have been russian but then again they may not have the nationalities or identities of these people have still not been confirmed but what she was very clear and very adamant on was that these people were not russian military personnel in fact she said russian military were not even in the vicinity at the time of these u.s. strikes the media reports doing the rounds of the past few days about the dozens or hundreds of russian military personnel killed in these strikes is just a result of classic distance a nation spread by anti government militias she said. the reports ago dozens of hundreds of russian service personnel killed arik last example of di

the day for central parts of africa we've got some significant showers across parts uganda towards d.r. congo central from republic of bonn much of west africa has a risk of showers there but jerry not looking too bad akron ghana looking at highs of thirty two degree celsius across southern portions of the continent we've got some heavy rain likely to affect in parts of some b.-a. i was always telling him how famous he was going to make that's how he presented hello my name. northwest represent. teachers pretty cool. i said you were a member of the special meeting. and he said. i knew immediately this is a color. on the. al-jazeera investigation. of silence this time. to put one of the top stories on al-jazeera. opposer has been sworn in as south africa's president a day after him battled leader jacob zuma resign he's promising to fight corruption and to revitalize the economy. the saudi owned television news station out of beer has surrendered its right to broadcast in the united kingdom amid allegations of fake news broadcast about qatar. the gunman accused of killing seventeen peopl

the day for central parts of africa we've got some significant showers across parts uganda towards d.r. congo central from republic of bonn much of west africa has a risk of showers there but jerry not looking too bad akron ghana looking at highs of thirty two degree celsius across southern portions of the continent we've got some heavy rain likely to affect in parts of some b.-a. the way the sponsored body counts on. the scene for us whether online. and in your mind that peace is possible but it never happens not because the situation is. because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera user our top stories that have been small protests and the u.s. secretary of state has been holding talks with his turkish counterpart. thursday ties between the two countries have been strained at moments of a u.s. support for. south africa's ne

agency is warning of a humanitarian crisis of extraordinary proportions in the eastern part of the d.r. see each other better says more on that. the eastern border of the democratic republic of congo isn't whom world reports of violence to reach one thousand kilometers north to south. clashes between a ugandan rebel group and seize military in the north east has pushed civilians to make the dangerous crossing into and some are attempting to roll across lake albert one of africa's great lakes and the tale of petals and you know some died of hunger some drowned and the like there's no one to help you there's nothing to eat surviving in the bush like animals. now at the south east is reaching a tipping point where humanitarian disaster extraordinary proportions is about to hit the southeastern part of the democratic republic of the congress the province of plunges further into violence triggering spiralling displacement and human rights abuses the south east has been plagued by ethnic violence but new armed groups of popping up in congo leads in the area traps fighters don't know who is o

the cow size in the d.r. sea jan is in yemen. burundi northern rakhine in myanmar have become some of the most prolific slaughterhouses of humans in recent times because lot enough was done early on collectively to prevent the rising horrors our correspondent in geneva is david chaytor. what marked out the opening speeches of the session was the sense very much of frustration and anger from the united nations secretary general now terrorist said that there are a very long list of human rights abuses on the seventieth anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights he doesn't know where to start when he looks across the globe and looks across well but he did start on eastern ghouta gutierrez called that a hell on earth but he also pointed out the the situation for the in myanmar and and also he is going to develop perhaps more evidence on southern sudan almost being forgotten by the international media where there are also serious human rights abuses but perhaps the most important point was made by the human rights commis

elizabeth and ashley, david deets and d.r. barton.ed market watcher is the worst over, no, it's not, you will have selling and a lot of choppiness. david deets, is the worst over? >> i don't think so. the underlying problems are still there. we've gotten import prices that came in that are inflationary than excepted. the same underlying concerns that could drive interest rates higher are still there. longer term i love the tax cut picture. liz: top analyst there that the i nation figure is already in the ten-year field. stuart: it's not going to go up anymore. ashley: housing stocks hit -- stuart: we are up, we turned positive. ashley: we have gotten to the point where good news is actually good news. we have to recognize that the economy is moving forward. stuart: market watcher d.r. barton, is the worst over? >> i believe that for the near term, six or eight weeks, stuart, unless we get something big happening outside, we have made a significant turn at a significant spot on the technical analysis charts and for a very specific reas

. >> i'm off to the d.r. all right. let's check in. remember the photos online look great. this resort even making groupon's best of 2017 list. but inside the room, we find big problems. >> look at this. this is a vent. there is a missing screw here. and it is literally separating from the ceiling. water is dripping down on me here. and the ceiling itself feels a bit flimsy as well. it gets worse. look at the floor. i almost tripped and hurt myself when i talked about this because of this pooling water on the bathroom floor. there's a leak under the sink. and we just checked in. it gets worse, folks. come up here. yeah. that is what appears to be mold. all along the trillion. bathroom. >> the mirrors looks at this. the glass is shattered. that's not part of the pattern. can you hear it? that's the jagged glass. >> big tip here, make sure you cross reference reviews on multiple travel sites. maybe we'll have more luck at this next popular destination. cancun. i find a great deal on groupon. a gluks ocean view room and this stunling infinity pool. when i arrive -- >> hi. i'm

and according to the d.r. your millet tar six other people were executed on the same day as a month zero. was when we found all of them in this grave in this before. it opens up this is it and if he doesn't see this museum is like a place where we've buried him and can reveal to everyone his story his struggle and his death since the internet is history and input and this exhibition of his bones has indeed had an impact yet for me these are not his bonus they are a months ago himself each of us reacts in our own way to this point of what i would describe as the cycle of pain when you actually find your missing relatives if you look in the photos of those it'll be for me personally that is the start of the cycle of pain the beginning of grief. i mean it's in this because at that moment you accept everything that has been written and said. ed and what we ourselves knew about my father's disappearance you recently by those events since he's going to invest in me doesn't mean until the bones are found deep down in

d.r., do you buy that?als are sound ultimately and i don't want to misquote but that will win the day? >> i believe that joe's spot-on, and you know, connell and you did such an amazing job at the top of the show explaining this volatility change. these funds that had grown over the past year, the so-called inverse volatility trade essentially saying the market's going to be quiet trade. it unwound in an amazing and explosives fashion. there wasn't that much money in the big markets but enough money to trigger the sell-offs early in the week. i think that we're just dealing with the aftermath of that, and the derisking, people taking risk out of portfolio in this, neil, and it's the problem everyone is so scared because we've been walking across the plains of kansas and see the tiniest little hill, and it looks huge like we're going down into the abyss, we're going down a little bit compared to what's going on. i think joe is spot-on. fundamentals have not changed so we're looking for a bottom here. looking

stuart: thanks, d.r. barton, for joining us on the phone.e dip. that's the anxiety. when do you step this? nobody can call a bottom, but a number of names -- [audio difficulty] stuart: we're still down about 1.5%. mike murphy on the phone. advice to viewers right now. let me go further than that. would you buy the dip? this is a dip, would you buy it? >> like we discussed earlier in the week, the advice to viewers is not to panic. there are no good decisions being made by panicking in the market right now. let the news settle in, but if you see quality companies that are trading at a discount due to volatility, you absolutely step in and you buy. stuart: okay. you've always been a big champion of facebook. it's dropped, i think it's down to about 170 and change now, 176 at the moment. do you buy facebook at 176? >> well, if you remember, i bought it earlier this week. i wouldn't buy here because it's only having a pullback of just under 2% on the day, but i'm watching all the quality names, facebook being right at the top of the list. i'm al

charles: d.r. this -- most of people are sort of saying -- most of experts are saying we have been through it before. we don't want to dismiss the worries of folks who haven't been through this before. but what happens if it does keep going down. when do you start to change your mind if this doesn't stop? >> that's a great point. we are at a good inflection point right now. we have hit the lotus day, and below this are the overnight lows between monday and tuesday. so this is a very important point for to us look at. going down below here, we are still a long way away from many of our technical analytics. we have the correction now. if we tack on another 3 to 5% below this -- >> let me ask you about the moving averages. i like to use the 50 and 200 day exponential averages. is it conceivable we have to test 200-day moving averages? that would mean a lot more pain wouldn't it? >> that would be a bunch more pain. if we got down to the 200 here, something else will have to break on ther than the inves

the d.r. hearing will be heard on march 1. and staff has included the h.p.c.'s comments and concerns in the staff report as well as the transcript of the hearing for the planning commission's review. so that concludes my update and happy to answer any questions, should you have them. >> thank you. commissioner hyland? >> on 309 grove, was there any agreement to put any current security measures into place? >> that i do have some security measures in place. as part of the interim agreement. such as motion sensor lights and on-site security patrol. but apparently there have been -- there's still activity around the site. people trying to break in. set fires. so, they have agreed to make those more frequent to address those matters in the interim. >> thank you. any other questions, commissioners? no? we can move on. >> very good, commissioners. that will place us under commission matters. item three. president's report and announcements. >> the announcement i'd like to make today is appointment of members of the architectial review committee. i'd like to continue

most cases will be sprawled out for months coming to the planning commission for d.r. hearing you get upset. we got this upset. and the planner didn't even figure out that there would be tenants dispersed. i know you are going to be shocked that some people who apply for permits are not honest. and the planning department treats them as, oh, they're honest. they should be using their eyes to say how -- how is this not affecting existing tenants? until they do that, until they're trained to do that, you will have an abundance of d.r.s that deal with displaced tenants. that is a waste of time. lastly, 75 howard was in the "business times" two days ago. the units there are on the waterfront. $4,000 a square foot. the most expensive housing in the city. and the business times is calling this a good thing. i don't think it is a good thing. >> thank you, ms. hester. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. tree sa flander, senior and disabilities action. i'm actually here to talk about preserving housing rather than building. in terms of i wish there could be better communic

it's the cheapest rail service in the d.r. congo the largest country in sub-saharan africa the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi to a labor. it's the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the swallow has been around for more than fifty years like a local bus it stops a virtually every station passengers clamber for remaining seats people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity for those who want able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the roof. travelers have to remain alert a lapse in attention.

while let's take a closer look at the conflict in the d.r. see the violence by militia spiked since president joseph kabila refused to step down when his term expires in twenty sixteen fighting is largely taking place along the eastern borders with uganda rwanda and burundi i think violence between the bantu and top group has intensified since mid two thousand and sixteen the recent conflict in technique a province is thought to be mainly between the two and other ethnic groups unrest in the east has forced almost two million people to flee their homes last year alone or michael is president of the association for development and democracy in congo and he's joining us from leicester in the u.k. via skype thank you very much indeed for your time so is the bulk of this about president joseph kabila refusing to step down or are there wider issues at play here now. you know who they are why that is. what example the central government is very weak i've been to has been for the past seventeen years unfortunately has been has not been able to build

with their call for any kind of public exist you should i think we've seen been there done that in the d.r. years where there were public floggings public and you shouldn't research has shown that this does not deter crime this kind of public it only brutalizing society further and i don't think that i don't i think that the punishment has to be that we certainty of punishment rather than the severity and that's what will help to deter crime. so much more to come on the news hour including if your peers defense minister defends the implementation of a state of emergency which bans protests for six months. the body of a filipino maid found dead in a freezer has returned to manila i mean strained diplomatic relations with kuwait. and poland to get their first medal of the china lympics true will be here with best faction in sport. the body of zimbabwe's opposition leader morgan tsvangirai has been repatriated from south africa he died on wednesday after battling colon cancer. or i was a key figure in zimbabwe in politics and formed the movement for democratic change . has more from harare. w

the other besieged areas in syria it's eerie the cat's eyes in the d.r. see jazz in yemen burundi northern rakhine in myanmar have become some of the most prolific slaughterhouses of humans in recent times because not enough was done early on collectively to prevent the rising horrors al-jazeera is david chaytor joins us live now from geneva david the u.n. secretary general antonio ted has highlighted the main crises of the day in his opening speech focusing as we saw on syria also on mandela getting seem frustrated angry that more wasn't being done what was the main message for you coming out of geneva today david. i think what we saw was a real sense of the anger and frustration of the united nations that. were described as hell on earth in eastern hooter a suburb of damascus the ceasefire clearly does not apply there we've heard from inside the city on our program another sixty raids today and a chlorine gas attack meant to drive out the civilians who are taking shelter in the basements and make them much more exposed to the strikes and artillery so ye

it's the cheapest rail service in the d.r. congo the largest country in sub-saharan africa the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi to a labor of it's the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the swallow has been around for more than fifty years like a local bus it stops a virtually every station passengers clamber for remaining seats people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity for those who want to able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the roof. travelers have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. the danger comes not just from above. even at the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can cut like a machete. i am doing this for the benefit of. so many see the importance of our guys. who witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. syrian government forces try to push their way into rebel held east and good just hours afte

of respecting fundamental rights including the right to demonstrate so if you are currently in the d.r. see we do want to get your thoughts let us know what's happening on the ground there connected us using the hash tag news grid or message me directly i'm at raheen a moment as i'm. thanks for hillary now if she jinping china's most powerful leader in decades could stay in office indefinitely that's after the ruling communist party called for a change in the constitution so leaders can serve more than two consecutive terms it would then allow she to be selected again as president in twenty twenty three will be formally chosen to serve a second term on march fifth let's talk more about this now with steve saying in nottingham in the u.k. via skype he's the director of the china institute of the school of oriental and african studies at the university of london good to speak with you so i let me ask you first of all are you surprised by this and the reason i asked that is because she jinping when you look at his his personal background he is the son of. a com senior communist party offi