i filed a d.r. to assist the property owner, and i'd like just to come in to object on the basis -- >> clerk: i'm sorry, you're the d.r. filer. >> that's correct. >> clerk: so your opportunity to speak was during that first five minutes. you can have two minutes of rebuttal, if you'd like. [ inaudible ] >> clerk: he's listed as the d.r. requester, so you has that five minutes to speak. he can speak under the two-minute rebuttal. >> president hillis: you'll have two minutes to speak at rebuttal. next speaker, please. [ inaudible ] >> hi. good afternoon. my name is paul betras. i'm a resident at 2525 19th street. it's a small unit down stairs. so the building going up next door with the added fourth floor is going to severely impede -- it's going to cause a large amount of shade placed over the house, and this is going to affect my unit as well, because most of the light that comes into my unit is from two windows, in the bathroom and one in the kitchen that are in the light well. if the fourth floor

seeing none, d.r. requester, you each have a two-minute rebuttal, miss fevbre. [ inaudible ] >> i was interrupted. basically, i object to the project on the basis that the proposal contradicted the residential design guidelines, specifically light and privacy scale, sloped roofs, and light wells. the project adds a vertical fourth story that extends directly adjacent to the existing light well on 2525 19th street, and most of the light that that light well gets is not direct, it's ambient from the sun light hitting the wall of the light well and reflecting into the windows below. those windows provide all the light for the bedroom that i live in, that's directly below there and that's the picture with the big lit bedroom window. the other two pictures that you have should show the edge of the window that shows a building. the residential design guidelines talked about sloped roofs, so that those light wells are lit, and light wells that -- that are there. the -- you know, i'd also like to express my sy

we do a complete and full d.r. analysis and for those we do require more materials such as renderings. for smaller projects we feel are within the bounds of the residential design guidelines we consider those to be abbreviated d.r. reports so we do a short report to the planning commission. we do not require the additional material. and that was what this was an abbreviated d.r. packet to the planning commission so no rendering were required. i think the issue that's been raised is a very peculiar issue how people use their buildings. there's not really a specific issue relate to urban design and specifically the residential design guidelines. those guidelines talk of impact to the open space and they do not necessarily protect sunlight to specific homes or views or rooms for specific uses. because of that, when this was heard at the planning commission in october of last year, there was definitely sympathy or the neighbor in terms of having a peculiar use. however, the d.r. was unanimously disapproved and the proj

lastly, the d.r. applicant, georgia schuttish, she lives on duncan street, which is over four blocks away from this project, so we're not really sure why she's protesting this project. she objects as you know to the demolition of the house, that its appraised value, and yet it met the requirements for the zoning administrator to approve the demolition. and even the current value of the house, which is perzillow, is currently listed at 2.18 million. it far exceeds the tula praised value of the current new appraisal. so we're not sure why she is concerned about the demolition of this property. it was never considered affordable, and we actually were not approaching this project from a demolition for the conditions of the building. regardless of that, this project went through a thorough d.r. process and public hearing, so even if there was a need for a conditional use, it has fully been vetted. so in -- in -- miss schuttish asserts that the zoning of an rh 1 property is illegal, but we know that the ord

the reason i filed this d.r. is that once again, the planning department is disregarding the rent ordinance and how permits affect existing tenants. planning's adu guidelines state adu's can be used in only unused spaces. we have established procedures if an owner wants to sever spaces, which the project sponsors are ignoring. overhead, please. i'm giving you copies of this. this is the annual buyout report from the rent board. you'll see that one of the columns includes garages and common space and a room for a figure for buyouts for those. landlords can try to regain common tenant spaces designs but it is up to the tenant's discretion whether to agree or not. this discussion never took place and there's no agreement with the tenants. and to show you that i am not making this up, here's a letter from the rent board to a different landlord that states that they are violating section 37.9(a) by trying to take away a garage from a tenant that has always been part of this lease. we know that the owner has access to

so as you know, we had three appellants, two which were the former d.r. requesters. miss efkehtari, she's appealing the permit issuance regarding the shoring plans, once the different type of foundation design is requesting to have additional documents reviewed by a licensed surveyor. we have several experts on the project, but to this day, she -- regardless of eight e-mails and responses to her, she has not responded to any of our requests to be able to come on her property to document, perher request, absolutely zero response. the land surveyor has been retained for the project to do a site sentiment survey. this was requested, no request. a civil sections

all right so we have two d.r. requesters. are you presenting together or have you got separate presentations? all right. you can go first here. we have five minutes for each of you, then we'll take public testimony. >> jennifer fever with the tenants' union. so in 2014 the owners purchased this building for 1,425,000. most of the households are gone and very fresh tenants have moved in who are on the support side

this was the case even before the addition of the adu at the final d.r. hearing in september. there is some confusion about this in the project sponsor's brief on page four. the statement about the commission approving the roof deck because of the shared space is not accurate. because there was a sentiment to remove the roof deck as dr. tong discussed in his brief at the planning commission. the project sponsor asked the confusion on page two of his brief where he says the upper unit has open space on the roof denying, the lower unit has open space at the yard. they can both have the yard. it's big enough for both of them. and the roof deck is extra. additionally, the drawings appear to show, as i said, stairs to the rear yard of each unit at different levels on the patios. the roof deck is not necessary to open space. it adds to the mass and loss of privacy for dr. tong and his neighbors. i think that dr. tong outlined what he hoped this board would do to reduce the mass for -- i have to stop. this is just dr. tong's or my time? >>. >> clerk: we'll let you know when his time

refugees are settled he then headed to cosign your landing site on the shores of lake albert in the d.r. see this is where many refugees take boats to escape to uganda and finally he visits badia and a cab for people who fled the fighting and malcolm is joining us live from bernie announcer tell us about where you are malcolm. we're in a camp for displaced people which is a collection of thousands of shelters built on a muddy slope in the town of when you're really ten thousand people staying here it's raining at the moment the shelters are just plastic see stretched over simple structures made of sticks the floor inside them is bad so you can imagine what this kind of rainfall does for the conditions of the people here they all slept here about three months ago when military attack people were caught up with machetes some were shot and so thousands fled and tens of thousands more fled across lake albert to neighboring uganda and we retrace the journey of some of those refugees starting in the chiang wali refugee camp in uganda let's take a look at that story now. it's taken days for co

d.r., buyer or seller at 264?a seller, i agree with mike, they are going to need money, they are still burning cash and they say they've got the production going, there's still only about two-thirds of where they want to be and need to be to stem that cash drain. stuart: am i right, ash that was a huge improvement in their production -- ashley: absolutely. what were they doing, 150 a week, very poor, almost laughable. now into the range, okay, they are almost to where they said they were going to be. it's taken a while. stuart: 15, $16 higher, mike murphy went on the air and said sell the thing and it's up only $10. let's talk apple and facebook, apple's chief tim cook said apple would never be in the situation like facebooks, the mishandling of user data, now facebook chief mark zuckerberg said cook's comments were extremely glib, can i say something here? ashley: you can. stuart: zuckerberg should come out fighting, defendwhat he has created. ashley: but he is. stuart: he should be pounding the table, i have a f

d.r. barton, mike murphy. d.r., what do you think of the china blink?think what we need to do is move toward cooperation as we do that to figure out how the biggest economies can work and china in their details, he gave us a great one. he did talk about helping out on intellectual property, i think that's one of the big things -- stuart: he said that before so many times. >> he has to show action, i agree. i think that's why the market is so happy. stuart: bottom line, mike, is they are talking? mike: you asked if he blink, of course, he blinked. he put out tariffs for u.s. cars in china are ten times greater than they are for chinese in america, 24 hours later we get this announcement from the president of china that this is a blink, this is a negotiation, and this is a negotiation that as of right now the president is winning, that's why you're seeing the market up. stuart: up 400 points. tesla the big winner here. liz, tell me again why tesla is the big winner? liz: because they make cars here and they have been desperately trying to get into china t

the commission took d.r. and added a condition that the lower two floors at the rear of the building be converted to an accessory dwelling unit once the new home was completed. three separate appellants filed appeals. the arguments made on appeal were very similar to those held in the discretionary review hearings, and most of the discuss revolved around the requirements to add an adu once the home was completed. regarding the ability to enforce the condition, the board ultimately voted unanimously to uphold all the appeals. commissioners, that'll place us under general public comment. at this time members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except with respect to agenda item. with respect to agenda items your opportunity to comment will be when they reach the item in the meeting. we did have a couple of speaker cards. >> president hillis: and i'll read those, jeremy and georgia, but if others would like

ashley webster and elizabeth mcdonald, d.r. barton and mike murphy.ts, mike, the companies that have reported they are up 28%, 30 companies reporting, up 28% from last year, it's a blow-out. mike: it's a blow-out. we are doing even better than that, what i like what you said, stuart, it should be about the profits, i shouldn't be about the geopolitical events that are out there. the way you value a company is based on current profits and future profits and that's what we are seeing and right now this country is hitting on all cylinders. stuart: what do you say to that, d.r.? >> we still underestimate the impact of tax reform. we will continue to see that with every company that reports, we will continue to see that quarter after quarter, that rally is not done. stuart: by the way, the banks have been reporting strong profits, they have already actually, we have seen reports already, they say it's the result of the tax law, so d.r., if you're so hard on this, would you buy bank stocks? >> on the day of early february, you said where to put money, i sai

i don't know if they cut the building back or not, but that was the ruling on the d.r. i also think -- the one question that i keep asking is how do these people that keep doing this stuff keep getting permits? there needs to be a flag somewhere that says hey -- i forget what somebody said -- the schmuck's back. i believe criminal acts deserve criminal penalties, and i believe what we're seeing are criminal acts. they may not be criminal by some statute, but what they're doing to people and what they're doing to the process and what they're doing to people's views of us are criminal. and i'm sitting up here and i feel like we're being compared to the epa from the public. we're in charge of the rules, and yet we interpret them and we break them when we want, and poof, no problem. it pains me to sit here and hear all this stuff. two, i hear -- thank you staff, thank you miss w 5 ddie, mr. o'reardon. coming sn coming into the city after tech in 30 days was shocking. when i hear some of the solutions here today, i take pause because i keep hearing are solutions going to be

it was approved -- there was a d.r. on this a couple of years ago. it was approved in 2016. it's being remodelled. i'm not here to talk about the remodel, but the excavation. excavations are problematic because they're increasingly common, especially in our neighborhood and many others. as i understand it, the excavation is covered by the categorical exemption under ceqa, so it's approved by the commission, but jurisdiction of the excavation, review of the excavation and also monitoring of the excavation by contractors who are maybe not qualified to actually do the work for significant excavations is problematic. this picture was sent to me yesterday, taken by the neighbor downhill on noe street. there's rebar coming up through his basement about five or 6 feet over the property line. he contacted the dbi and was told by the dbi inspector, this is an insurance problem. call your insurance. i don't know, but this is something i wanted to bring to your attention. excavations are problematic. smaller ones and even larger ones create problems that are severe for homeowners more

to amnesty international children as young as seven were discovered or working in coal mines in the d.r. c. and they were being subjected to beatings and extortion by security guards. exploited by traders and a twenty six thousand report says quote despite the potentially fatal health effects of prolonged exposure to cobalt adult and child miners the work without even the most basic protective equipment although apple is in talks of kobold minds many speculate the deal could fall through part thank you so much ashley great reporting r.t. correspondent ashley banks thank you and china which yesterday and froze the initial three billion dollars of retell atory tariffs on u.s. fruit pork and steel pipes following the trumpet ministrations imposition of steel and aluminum tariffs says they will continue to match with the same measure and intensity any additional u.s. tariffs that's according to the chinese ambassador to united states and the trump administration says they intend to impose an additional fifty billion in tariffs on chinese goods coming into the u.s. the u.s. administration do

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 oh 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 one day 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.

starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program we go deep into the d.r. see where ethnic violence has displaced the hundreds of thousands of people but the government insists that the situation is under control president mccrone urges europeans not to retreat into selfish nationalism as he warns of an atmosphere of civil war in the e.u. and scientists discover a plastic eating enzyme that could help tackle the planet's pollution problem. international chemical weapons inspectors have arrived in the former syrian rebel on klav duma to investigate a suspected chemical attack that happened ten days ago inspectors had been due to arrive in the russian controlled area twenty four hours ago the u.s. accused russia of tampering with the site while moscow blamed the delays on security concerns the team from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons will investigate what happened on april seventh but it won't assign blame western powers accuse syrian forces of using nerve gas to kill dozens of people but the mask is and its ally russia has sent a h

south of that throughout trough grafter reason some pretty big downpours in tanzania more recently d.r. congo and uganda and the green tops here show the heaviest showers. right. welcome back to al-jazeera i'm so robin a reminder of our top news stories south korea's former president park geun hye has been found guilty of abuse of power and coercion the court has handed her a twenty four year jail term for her part in the corruption scandal park who wasn't in attendance for the proceedings has been given a week to decide if she'll appeal against the ruling. also palestinians are preparing for more protests along the gaza israel border prompting fears of more violence a week after the bloodiest day in years at least twenty one palestinians have been killed over the past week and more than fourteen hundred injured half of them hit by israeli gunfire. and south africa's former leader jacob zuma has arrived in court and to face charges of corruption it comes just two months after he stepped down from the presidency and now the allegations are connected to a multi-billion dollar deal almost

japan and he's run the satellite sequence that's hardly surprising more showers across parts uganda d.r. congo once again liberal expect to see some showers heise here of thirty degrees celsius. the weather sponsored by qatar and release. the scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back let's just revisit our top stories for you so far this hour police in toronto in canada are questioning a suspect after a van was driven onto a crowded sidewalk at least ten people died and fifteen injured officers say the suspect and it appears to have acted deliberately. the u.n. secretary general has condemned an airstrike on a wedding party in yemen more than thirty people were killed in the att

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 the 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 route. 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. this is techno a show about innovations that could change lives the science of fight fire we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity we're doing it that way . this is a show about science. now by scientists. tonight saving th

staff, and if there is a removal of historically significant features, our layout staff will initiate a d.r. >> vice president richards: original features. >> okay. our only concern is that requires all interior permits, any -- any work on the interior to -- >> president hillis: yes. >> -- and then, we're looking at significant time for review. >> vice president richards: well, the review is at the counter by a preservation staff person to ensure whether it should be taken in. >> president hillis: the comment that you made about a hood, that shouldn't -- >> vice president richards: plumbing in the house, i think that should be a judgment call on the planner's portion, but i want to make sure that there's a notation on the property and a notice of restriction recorded. >> these conditions will be recorded and noticed as restrictions. >> president hillis: okay. so there was a motion and seconded. >> it has been seconded? >> seconded. >> thank you. so there is a motion to approve this motion with amended to include that interior motion denied ficatio denied -- modifications to be routed to the

take a look at some of the homebuilders as we have homebuilders selling off in a big way, including d.r. horton, and kb home. this after the construction data came in for the month of february weaker than expected, .1%, the estimate had been up 14%. that's clearly weighing on this -- .4%. the's clearly weighing on sector. they are having the worst day since early february. u.s. stocks under pressure once again. abigail doolittle, thank you. let's put financials of the focus is the second quarter gets underway. wasserstrom, having just initiated coverage of the u.s. and server specialty finance sector, interesting names for the nice of american it -- with the likes of american express and sigourney. eric, you have a contrarian view. explain to us this issue. mr. wasserstrom: thanks ravi having me. it's great to see you. our view is that on the one hand, growth may be more constructive than the broader market is looking for, in part because a lot of our proprietary survey data points to continued sustained demand for debt across all consumer demographics. that some of the underlying credi

for the benefit of the public, the d.r. has been withdrawn and leaving us no additional business. >> president hillis: all right. thank you all for coming here today. [ inaudible ] in this san francisco office, there are about 1400 employees. and they're working in roughly 400,000 square feet. we were especially pleased that cleanpowersf offers the super green 100% clean energy, not only for commercial entities like ours, but also for residents of the city of san francisco. we were pleased with the package of services they offered and we're now encouraging our employees who have residence in san francisco to sign on as well. we didn't have any interruption of service or any problems with the switch over to cleanpowersf. this clean power opportunity reflects that. i would encourage any large business in san francisco to seriously consider converting and upgrading to the cleanpowersf service. it's good for the environment, it's good for business and it's good for the community. our reg meeting of the board of education for sa

. >> president hillis: is there any public comment on this beyond the project sponsor and d.r. requester. >> i just want to confirm we're preserving the notch shown in the plan, so it's articulated on our side of the property, on our side of the wall. >> president hillis: it's already set back on a sidewall? >> that's correct. that's this right here, this is a notch. >> president hillis: can you show it in planning because it's not clear. >> sheet a-1.4 shows that notch. >> president hillis: so the notch presumably goes back more than 4 feet. >> you can have the overhead. it's this area here. we'll keep it -- it's essentially the project as approved previously. >> president hillis: right, with that rear wall set back 'cause the notch is only -- >> yeah. >> president hillis: all right. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, we'll close public comment. commissioners? commission commission commissioner koppel? >> i make a motion to take d.c. and move the wall back. >> is there a second? >> second. >> clerk: thank you. to take the modification as modified, bringing

this is not an easy plan to understand, and what we've heard from the d.r. requesters, this project raises huge questions for me, and at this moment, i am not prepared to support it. >> president hillis: thanks. commissioner richards? >> commissioner richards: so people, there'll be people that will be throwing rocks and mud and saying oh, this is about parking versus people, houses versus cars, i can hear it now. the two words that, you know, the two things that we're trying to balance here is stablization of increasing communities along with the existing housing supply. there's our rub, so to say. the problem with this project is it proposes to increase the housing supply, and proposes to stablize the existing residents. this reminds me of 505 -- it just smacks of it. it's -- at the expense of the existing tenants, we're going to upgrade the building, and we're going to get rid of them because we're not going to be able to have this works done within three months, and we'll be back. i didn't need to see the existing drawings. we -- adu's are not supposed t

. >> so d.r. you could do by yourself, you decided to not go forward with the discretionary review. >> i had no idea what it was. this is the first time i'm going through the process. i had absolutely no idea what it was. and i thought, i expressed -- >> okay, thank you. >> so next we will hear from the permit holder. >> good evening, commissioners, todd mavis, project sponsor. commissioners, i'm a long-term resident of san francisco. over 20 years. my partner, he grew up in chinatown san francisco. we both care very, very much about the city and especially chinatown. i'm going to try to restrict my comments today specifically to just item 5a and not necessarily address the merits of our project. but just whether or not as prepared on the agenda, 5a, whether or not written findings should be written with respect to the decision taken by this board last month. we think that a request for preparation of written findings should be granted only if the findings are limited to the permit, the appellant

they are voting no, maybe d.r. horton yesterday, at the bottom line is that in anticipation in order to give a fair, opportunity for this nominee we cleared a hearing today with a meeting notice, and 30 meeting notice for tomorrow too. about something about adversary to the president. this is about the due diligence of article one and the views as to whether or not this is a secretary of state nominee who deserves a vote of each and every member. this.on't normally do we have people in traffic on both sides of the aisle, and i want to accommodate them. this is an important for for all members. we typically would make comments at the time of boat. vote. i know there are members want to speak to this nominee. what i would like to do is begin doing that, and will take care of the minor business if we complete that and you are still not here. i am more than got to hear from other members of this nomination. >> first let me say i am surprised to hear that center minute is says he is holding the trip that mr. pompeo made