take d.r. -- >> president hillis: take d.r. >> commissioner moore: take d.r. and modify the plan as perstaff's recommendation and miss flores and have the staff continue to work with the applicant so we get this right, including on you the adu is properly accessible from the outside and independent from the living space. >> president hillis: that's the motion. is there a second? >> commissioner moore: yes. that's a motion. >> second. >> clerk: thank you. commissioners. there's a motion to take d.r. with the proposed modifications. on that motion -- [roll call] >> commissioner moore: would you please also read into the record that the adu has to be modified that is in addition to the staff's recommendation. >> clerk: and that the adu be modified to meet staff's -- >> commissioner moore: meet standard requirements. staff did not catch that, the adu's. >> president hillis: yeah. it's to make it independently accessible. >> commissioner moore: yes. >> president hillis: make that adu independently accessible. >> clerk: very good. on that motion, then, commissioners

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

many of these workers are victims of the d.r. sees ongoing conflicts the men have forged with any one of the dozens of armed groups that are active in the region but now they're tired of war and have come home the women have been raped by fighters. so ron's ferrar is trying to improve people's lives one step at a time thanks to her many people here now have official papers and they have new tools which means that women can work more efficiently and earn more money the government provides nothing and does not in a position to try to end the conflict. now. as though our politicians are completely numb to human feeling they don't pay attention to ordinary people. but that's why we can't afford to sit by idly we will fight until we see this region develop in accordance with its wealth. and until the rest of the world realizes that here too human rights must be respected. that's something even the congolese government seems reluctant to address together with laurence farrar we meet the minister responsible for mines in the province to

on that motion -- >> not as proposed. >> president hillis: take d.r. and approve the project, but recognize the -- >> clerk: okay. not take d.r. and approve the project, but recognize the private clerk. on that motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously, 6-0. zoning administrator, what say you? >> cory teague, public hearing grant with the standard conditions. >> clerk: very good, commissioners. >> president hillis: all right. so we'll move to our regular calendar. >> clerk: very good, commissioners. that places us on item 10. [agenda item read] >> president hillis: jonas, we're going to take >> clerk: good afternoon and welcome back to the san francisco planning commission regular hearing. excuse me, if i could have your attention. i'd like to welcome you back to the san francisco planning commission regular hearing for thursday, may 17, 2018, and i will remind members of the public to please silence your mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings. commissioners, we left off on your regular

so as you know, we had three appellants, two which were the former d.r. requesters. miss efkehtari, she's

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, aol

it was a d.r., that the public missed the original time to appeal and that's why it went to d.r. today it turned into an equitiable and satisfying result that this commission even highlighted today. so to actually improve these processes, we want to make sure it rude imtally works for -- rudimentary works for the public and the commission. i also don't degree with proposing to issue over the counter permits for expansions into the rear yard up to two floors and 20 feet deep. it should really be a 60 day notice for mail posted on-line until we have internet access for our most vulnerable residents. thank you for your time. >> president hillis: thank you. commissioner warshell? >> i'm jim warshell, and i'm speaking for myself, not as a commissioner. i'm going to pile on. whenever you say things can be no smaller than a postcard and no smaller than 11 by 17, that's probably what we're going to wind up with. those are both really, really small, folks. you can't get much information on a posed card, and 11 by 17 is legal. it's small. one of the speakers said even now on a 30 did i 30,

under how wiring is the current situation with the first reported case of ebola in the city in the d.r. c. there were some deets specially if you consider them bond is a couple of hundred kilometers away from the small town where the outbreak actually started so the wires has traveled quite far ready and monday aka has more than a million people it is an urban center and if you remember the huge abel outbreak in two thousand and fourteen and fifteen in west africa managed to kill more than eleven thousand people mainly because the virus went into urban areas into the capitals of sierra leone off liberia and of guinea is so this is indeed very worrisome but on the other hand there's also no need for panic because we also saw rather positive examples in the past i still remember the day when i was in lagos and there was a report of a man from liberia who came to lagos the mega city he had twenty million people and they discovered that he had there was a kind of panic here people were very worried that the y. was could spread very fast and in this make a city but the earth already has rea

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

chose headquarters is rushing now to ship supplies of the vaccine to the d.r. see. hectic preparations in geneva how to get the vaccine to the democratic republic of congo the temperature has to stay at minus eighty degrees celsius or the doses might not work two thousand units of the new experimental ebola vaccine are now ready to ship to can. in the past in most of the breaks in the city it's been rural and fairly self limited but now we know that populations of more than a million are at risk the other major issue here is that this center of he's on the banks of the river. it's around six hundred kilometers between bun dhaka and the capital kinshasa the congo river connects the two cities and is a heavily used transport route for both people and goods. fear grips the capital everyone here recalls the twenty fourteen west african a bold outbreak that killed more than eleven thousand people. so. if this is a bona outbreak ever reaches can chasa we're going to see is. very dirty in the city governments and individuals must make an effort to improve sanitation. guys.

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

what i wanted to mention was a year ago on may 4th, actually, you had a d.r. hearing for a project on 24th street up the hill just below market. and that, you took d.r., and you reduced the deck that was off the upper level. it was a horizontal and vertical two story vertical addition turning a two story single-family home into a two unit building. facade change, as well. and it's interesting, last week or two weeks ago, two people came up to me and said vertical addition. and here's the project as it is now, there's the machine in the back. here's a broader picture of it. here's a closeup. this, i want to highlight behind the garage there, and then, there's that more detailed, the...but this picture's interesting because it sort of looks like there's new wood there, but you can't tell. i just took these on sunday. well, there's about four or five complaints outstanding on it. people are having trouble, adjacent neighbors are having trouble with their foundation and just the -- their adjacent yards, so i guess -- oh, and it -- you approved it may 4th, and it g

please full support of the d.r., this completely needs to change, we need more affordable housing and more businesses that cater to the community. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you, commissioners, and to the public, again, i am a semi-retired senior living at 760 kapp street. and i have folded my hands and made nice with regard to the crisis in which i and many of the attended are living in today. it's a form of living in fear. at what -- at a certain point these solemn public congregations start to seem to me to be political theater. because the trend is with continuances, with endless continuances for movement during work days that we have to take off and attend these meetings and basically, it costs us more. basically to defend our position than the rich and powerful which continually seem to get sided with in this. again, this is grossly out of character, out of proportion development that has nothing to do with us. i can no longer go for coffee in my neighborhood, not because i can't occasionally afford an overpriced cup of coffee, but

and you had a d.r. on that last year and you took d.r. and reduced the roof deck, the area off the upper floor, the 4th level. and then it went to the board of appeals and nothing happened. said the house as it was single-family home, really nice, if you want to take the initiative and look on the internet, you can see it was a fine home inside. someone told me about it, so i took picture of it. i took that on sunday the 28th of april. and then i went this morning and i took that. so you can see that wall there, that's gone. i guess the question i have -- oh, and it sold after they got to the board of appeals and everything and they started the work. so it sold, the entitlement was sold. here's the yard of it as it was. very nice. and here's today. it's all messed up. and there are several complaints outstanding with the building department. i guess what is my point? i don't understand why are they doing such painstaking to build this thing? what is the point of this sort of pretend demolition? what advantage are they getting by doing thi

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while the vaccine has brought hope to the d.r. see its effectiveness has not been proven and it is officially unlicensed medical professionals are hoping to learn from this large scale test. we're trying to do now is to establish how effective is this vaccine do you need one dose or two doses to be protective and once you've been injected or vaccinated with this how long is up tension last as well. the world health organization is currently considering sending five additional unlicensed a pool of drugs to the g r c some have criticized authorities of being too eager to prove the use of experimental drugs but the central african country now facing its ninth the ball that seems unlikely to turn down the opportunity to curtail another crisis. you're watching d.w. news still to come on the program a new decree will soon see this religious symbol displayed in various public buildings for some it is reason to rejoice but for others it is a heavy cross to bear. more on that a little later in the program but first it's over to monica with

well the vaccine has brought hope to the d.r. see its effectiveness has not been proven and it is officially unlicensed medical professionals are hoping to learn from this large scale. we're trying to do now is to establish how effective is this vaccine do you need one dose or two doses to be protective and once you've been injected or vaccinated with this how long does up touch last is while. the world health organization is currently considering sending five additional unlicenced of all the drugs to the t r c some have criticized authorities of being too eager to prove the use of experimental drugs but the central african country now facing its ninth of all the outbreak seems unlikely to turn down the opportunity to curtail another crisis. to french open tennis now in paris where all of the big names managed to navigate the second round on tuesday caroline wozniacki had an easy day the australian open champion blasted her way past georgina garcia in straight sets meantime germany is world number three alexander swear i've had a

people showing symptoms of the disease prior to the official confirmation it is the ninth outbreak in d.r c. since it was discovered they are back in the one nine hundred seventy s. russian lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to approve dmitri medvedev for a further term as russian prime minister this after the reelected russian president nominated his long time ally for the job on monday but the idea of a previous term ran from two thousand and twelve. armenia's parliament has elected opposition leader nicole pasha now as prime minister is election marks a significant change of power in the former soviet nation it comes after weeks of mass protests that plunged the country into crisis and it forced armenia's longtime leader to resign. it would second time lucky finical caution yon the man who spearheaded weeks of protest clinched the parliamentary majority he needed to become prime minister. republican lawmakers had blocked his initial bid last week but backed him this time around saying it was in the national interest. the former political prisoner and opposition leader's first address was t

organization says it's preparing for the worst case scenario as it ships an experimental vaccine to the d.r. sea to tackle a new abode outbreak and. i believe. the ousted chief justice of the philippines who dared to criticize the president calls her removal from office unconstitutional. hello and welcome back and i share the satellite imagery for a strike because this circulation this low pressure center has been responsible for the what stays in tasmania as recorded history morn one hundred twenty nine millimeters of rain falling in hobart causing some real flooding the low center itself is moving moving a little bit further towards the east out into the townsmen sea but with the seventy flows going to be fairly cool for adelaide melbourne through towards sydney further towards the west where the conditions are looking fine for perth with highs of twenty eight but as we head through sunday a change in wind direction drops the temperatures by five degrees so that states are pulling up the call that across the southeastern coast now as we move across into new zealand we've already got unset

of us here we've got a few showers around the coast of madagascar perhaps a few further north over d.r. congo and into angola but further south largely fine and dry including for us in cape town at seventy there with sponsored by the time it's. sixty seven. promise. to be established to the jewish. at the expense of the palestinians. the story of the british declaration that changed the middle east. seems to school and i'll just. welcome back let's update you with the top story so far today here on al-jazeera the u.s. president donald trump says america is withdrawing from the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal was struck the agreement is defective to its core adding he will impose the highest level of sanctions against tehran. iranian presidents of the us withdrawal from the nuclear deal was on all full and accused washington of not respecting its international commitments hassan rouhani said to iran is now getting ready to start your reign him in richmond. voting is underway in malaysia in an election marred by scandal and fierce competition the prime minister najib razak cast his ball

teams to help prevent the highly infectious disease from spreading this is the night outbreak in the d.r. c. in the past forty years. hundreds of people have protested in montenegro after the latest attack on a journalist in the balkan country the protesters of the capital because that the government has not done enough to tackle violence against the press have been a number of incidents in recent years including on tuesday when a reporter called all of our luggage was shot outside her home the general manager of a newspaper says there's been a total of twenty five attacks on its offices and journalists went out to armenia where the new prime minister has visited the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh on his first official day on the job the area is recognized internationally as part of azerbaijan but has been controlled by ethnic amini and forces since one thousand nine hundred forty said he's ready for talks with azerbaijan about the issue but wants the separatists to take part as well as a by john said his trip showed either naive or ignorance now an elderly academic preparing for as

two of only patients who fled hospital in the d.r. c. went to church before they died potentially exposing more than fifty people to this deadly virus health officials are struggling to contain an outbreak of the disease in the city of twenty two people in the to have died since april doctors without borders say the two patients were vomiting and they were infectious and they died just hours after attending a procession. at least one thousand people are missing after cycling miku new hit the yemeni island of so katra a state of emergency has now been declared and evacuations are underway in nearby oman with the storm is expected to make landfall next mohammed reports now from the southern omani city of salah. high waters ahead of the coming storm locals in your mind city of salada gather their belongings and scramble to evacuate buses and helicopters take the vulnerable out of the path of cyclonic emergency services are being deployed and people are being urged to seek safety the government warns that low lying areas are at risk from flo

d.r.ar, scarlet was mentioning home depot missing revenue sales, that is causing some to wonder whether or not their softness for the u.s. housing market is causing homebuilders to slide in a big way. look at d.r. horton down 7%. has brought interesting aspects to the s&p 500 technicals. if we happen to the bloomberg and use the gtb function, this is a one year chart of the s&p 500. a beautiful uptrend. this year on these volatilities i was mentioning as rates trade higher, we see the s&p 500 is back on that 100 day moving average. very much appearing as though it will go to the bottom of the range, that are some are calling between 2600 and 2800. maybe back toward the bottom of that range as rates climb higher. lisa: thank you so much, abigail doolittle from goldilocks to inflation worries in a couple days. let's go to the first word news with mark crumpton. mark: thank you. the huge number of wounded protesters in gaza is putting extra pressure on gaza's already stressed hospitals. medic

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 ] >> self-planning works to preserve and enhance the city what kind hispanic the environment in a variety of ways overhead plans to fwied other departments to open space and land use an urban design and a variety of other matters related to the physical urban environment planning projects include implementing code change or designing plaza or parks projects can be broad as proipd on overhead neighborhood planning effort typically include public involvement depending on the subject a new lot or effect or be active in the final process lots of people are troubled by they're moving loss of they're of what we preserve to be they're moving mid block or rear yard open space. >> one way to be involved attend a meeting to go it gives us and the neighbors to learn and participate dribble in future improvements meetings often take the form of open houses or

we'll also have our -- our rdat manager, will be handling all of the d.r. cases before you, so you'll be dealing with a single point of contact as you go through the discretionary review cases. our hope is internally that's going to free up a lot of work from our planners so they can continue working on active projects that are under their review but also provide for a much stronger feedback loop about what the expectations are for various projects. finally, in the area of administration and technology, we're making lots of improvements on a daily basis. one of them is we've implemented an in-house tool to allow us to generate all of the addresses that are needed for our neighborhood notification. previous the city had been reliant on third party providers to provide these addresses. that information had to be conveyed to the project planner on a certain time frame who then got it to preproduction services to print out the labels to send out the mailing and so on and so forth. now we have that tool for our intake and support staff to do at a 150 foot radius

teams to help prevent the highly infectious disease from spreading this is the ninth outbreak in the d.r. c. in the past forty years what is needed to deal with that you bowl outbreak is to have in place treatment centers so all those who are infected with hiv virus can be treated appropriately and timely it is also. it is also important to have in place contact tracing teams who will follow for twenty one days old those who may have been exposed to divide it is also important to work with the population so to make sure that the burials are done in a safe and secure way. now having a baby in nigeria is a major risk for women the u.n. says more than one hundred die in childbirth every day the lack of access to health care means many expectant mothers have babies in their villages jimmy to undergo reports from benyus state where a veteran midwife is trying to improve standards. people in the village call her mama bangali she's one of the oldest women living in this part of mccurdy in the jury essential been wrists eight i mean a garbo is her real name and she's hailed as a savior by the ot

similar outbreak in twenty seventeen four people died in last year's event but it's recurrent three the d.r. c. has now had nine ebola outbreaks in the last forty years it's one of the world's most notorious diseases ebola is highly infectious kills half of its victims and has no cure the absolute. clear idea of the problem. is that we hope really just. to make sure that. ebola passes from its origin bats to humans through bushmeat once in the population it spreads through bodily fluids symptoms of vaal from a fever headaches and a sore throat into organ failure and internal and external bleeding health workers are the most vulnerable being in close proximity to the victims so far three have been infected the w.h.o. is trying to support to gases health workers by sending in fifty experts and releasing one million dollars from an emergency fund to stop it from spreading to surrounding countries nigeria is already taking its own mischa's rolling out ebola screening at its border investigators will follow anyone who has been exposed to the virus for three weeks the time it takes for a bola to

teams to help prevent the highly infectious disease from spreading this is the ninth outbreak in the d.r. c. in the past forty years what is needed to deal with that you paula outbreak you still have in place treatment centers so all those who are infected with the virus can be treated appropriately and timely it is also. it is also important to have in place contact tracing teams who will follow for twenty one days old those who may have been exposed to the virus it is also important to work with the population so to make sure that the burials are done in a safe and secure way. in mozambique sounds of people have turned out for the funeral of opposition leader and rebel commander afonso. like a mother died of a suspected heart attack last week at his rural hideout in central mozambique he was sixty five years old a comer headed the opposition renamo group for almost four decades the funeral was attended by mozambique's president who's vowed to forge ahead with peace talks with the successor the having a baby in nigeria is a major risk for women the u.n. says more than one hundred die in

d.r. barton is here and the aforementioned mike murphy. d.r., to you first.this the gunnings or have we -- the beginnings, or have we started to see the second leg up on this market? >> yeah. i can't say this is the start, stuart. we had bottomed out, we talked about hitting a key support level the market loved every little bit of the trade war that goes away propels the market higher. we have so many good things happening globally and locally with earnings. this is the next leg up. stuart: okay. i've got 3.06% on the screen, the yield on the ten-year treasury. mike murphy, interest rates no longer a heldwind for the market? >> -- headwind for the market? >> as interest rates are going higher, they're going higher for the right reasons. they're going higher because the economy is performing, the economy is growing. we're seeing stimulation there that's finally coming to the forefront. is so now interest rates can go higher. they can go all the way up to 3.3, 3.5%, and as long as that's supported by growth in the economy, it won't derail the market in any way,

there are countless towns like kenny ola in the d.r. c. in many regions the catholic church has taken on the functions of the state many priests have become engaged in the country's politics. if you speak for the people you automatically belong to the opposition if you're a silent call it means the government has bought you out what should the church do i want a miss actually to be neutral to me neither on the government side nor that of the opposition we're here for the people. of the was. the the the. as a troll with their purpose to raise member of a pansy helps women who are victims of the mass rapes that happened during the war many have never spoken about the experience. as a victim you feel bad in your heart it is no longer the heart of a human being. in addition to the emotional pain there is the physical damage including illnesses like aids to raise listens to the women stories and explains the disease. tells how she spent six months imprisoned by rebels. also the entire time they hardly gave us anything to eat they beat us and ra