and i think i would like to take d.r. and find reasonable metrics by reduce the capacity of this oversized building. i don't think we can reduce the envelope. i think that is far afar of what we can do. >> that envelope was approved a while ago. >> commissioner moore: okay. so the envelope is what it is. however, we can definitely redescribe of how it should be inhabited, and that is with a maximum of six bedrooms. that what i see even remotely compatible with the neighborhood, and i think we need to have additional restrictions on the property relative to how many bedrooms it can have. all of the plumbing needs to be reduced, the proper number of hookups as we will be describing in the d.r. and i personally believe it is not six bedrooms, six bathrooms. i think it is six bedrooms and four bathrooms, and perhaps two half bathrooms, a powder room here, one on the upper floor, one on the lower floor or whatever, but it's not six full bathrooms. and then, we also need to ask if this is a six-bedroom family home, that the pla

the d.r.aring on the site and was continued while the project sponsor resolves complaints filed on the property which address -- i will address in a moment. the requester's stage that the proposed edition -- addition does not respond to the topography pattern with breaking with existing roofline patterns. to propose additional... by changing exiting air current patterns and the additional story would harm the ability to retain internet. during the 311 notification. three neighbors aside from the d.r. voiced concerns regarding the proposal to identify their location. the one at 153 bonavista terrace and the other at 169 bonavista terrace. the neighbor at 153 had concerns regarding his lower apartment and blockage to natural light. the neighbor at 169, not the d.r. requester had written -- concerns of city views in the neighborhood. the publication of the packet, additional comment letters have been provided to the department. i have a copy for the record which is passed forward. and additional

quite frankly, you don't see them on a regular basis, but d.r. opportunities to present a d.r. to commissions like this that really ensure that government is working and working on behalf of everyone. not the people that can pay a permit expediter, not people that can afford an attorney to grease the wheels that can make things happen. supervisor, safai and i have come to ask you to not allow this to go forward. i just want to recognize a number of people that are here on this project. could you standup if you're here to testify and raise concern? i just want to also acknowledge we've got keith barraca from the san francisco fire department, also a neighbor in the neighborhood. so this is enough of something serious that you've got at least three city employees. maybe more. director rahaim, it's always good to see you. jonas, good to see you. >> president hillis: all right. >> matt dido. apologies. i'm a little sweaty. i may have run up here. don't do it in a suit. the project before you is a request of discretionary review at 278 monticello street from a block book notice hold

one neighbor didn't like the project, so they d.r.'d it. and then that neighbor decided to d.r. that neighbor. so it's a d.r. fight. this is a waste of all of your time and resource. you have a lot of important housi housing projects to focus on. for the minor stuff, streamline it and make it easier for everyone. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. teresa fladrick, senior action. the case of carl jensen, i really treasure and value that we do have a process in order to bring exactly those things to the light. we must admit there are some bad actors. they're not all bad actors. but because they do exist and we know they've gone way beyond the scope of a permit or gone ahead and just built and later asked for legalization of things, we need to accept that that exists and to try to do whatever we can to prevent those bad actors from continuing that. so if you can please find a way to flag what you do know and you do know of a number of people who consistently do the same things over and over again. it's the other reason we do have dis

i filed a d.r. among all the stlderho in the planning process, we residents have the least amount of knowledge, skills and typically, money. this lopsided distribution of resources is a major process issue. it skews the process against neighbors and neighborhood. a filing period of only 20 days robs us of our last resource, time. for most of us, because we work and have found the commitments, our time is very, very limited to devote to this process. the second reason i object to this 20 day notice period, is it reduces the possibility of achieving compromise. the threat of a 311 filing brings the parties to the table to resolve issues. again i speak from experience. to negotiate a compromise, we need time. time to explain and understand the project, discuss the impact of objections on the proposed changes. both sides also need time to change their mind. to get past our emotions. to see that changes won't ruin our lives. these petitions can't be made in a split second. especially when the project wil

the original d.r. filer, who is the complainant has used every device in the book from d.r. to filing building complaints, to delaying hearings, to filing letters of determination, to appealing their own letters of determination, to delay the process. and this has come at extreme expense both to the property owners emotionally and financially. and we want this to be treated as a single project, such that we're not dealing with a notice of violation and then dealing with additional series of d.r.'s and appeals. because though it could lead to a speedy resolution of the complaint, it gives more devices and more process at the finger tips of the complainant to make the project sponsor's life difficult. i think keeping it as one item makes it clean, allows the different departments to look at holistically and not break it up into pieces. >> and duly noted. and i do understand your thought process with regard to that. based on the history here. if there was some memorandum of understanding that would not be appealed, would that change anything? >> if there were a memorandum of un

>> commissioner moore: since this is -- since the d.r. applicant's windows are east facing and full access to the sun still comes up on this midblock driveway, i personally do not see that there really is an issue, particularly, separation is 20 feet, if i heard that correctly, sand the overlap is not really significant. i -- i had a slightly harder time understanding what the purpose of the mezzanine is because i do not see any kind of furnishings other than shelves and build ins, but perhaps that is a question i shouldn't be asking. the, i think, department's requests for holding back on the building are very good, and we are assured that the department's instructions were properly followed. so i personally do not have anything against this project. >> president hillis: do we have a motion? >>. >> commissioner moore: a motion to -- there's a motion not to take d.r. and approve as proposed. >> commissioner koppel: second. >> clerk: if there's nothing further, commissioners, there's a motion that's been seconded to not take d.r. and appro

don'want to seeleff hog projects when we've had d.r.'s, i kind of rolled my eyes and thought why are we seeing these? complyess and they gs that were re just delaying things even more. on these other things, they they should not be in the code, planning code, in the past, oh, how many times havee actually changed these things in the last 40 years? you know, we want to make they can flexible. i think the words were modernized, flexible, standardized, i completely agree. some of stuff i don't mind actually having this in the planning code. we don't change it that often. i don tnk we' changed i ever. we probably just kept adding on, adding on. it's too usit needs to be stream lined, i completely agree. i like some of this stuff still being in the planning code. as for the -- and i'll go -- i've got some specifics here, but as for the notification, we do do a 30-day now, we do a ten-day, we do a 20-day. i actually can support just a flat 30 days honestly, and i think it would engender the trust of the public. it's not like we are doing more

i am very much against moving the d.r. office to alcatraz. that being said, you know, i believe that the specific proposals could use a little tweaking. so of all of this great stuff that is being done, i have heard two things that people are upset about. one is the pop outs, and the one is the notification of the 311 session to 20 days. so i support going back and looking at that a little bit more closely and not throwing the baby out with the bath water and holding up everything else that's great in this process off legislation. i heard it from shawn keegan and commissioner hillis. i think if we think about the process a little bit differently, we can come up with something that will, you know, put things in abeyance. i like that sort of, you know, concept, giving everybody a transparent notification and not clogging up the planner's time while at the same time allowing folks to look at it, weigh in, and then, you know, i actually trust in the process. i think if something's code compliant, and, you know, someone's not trying to mess with a

democratic republic of congo where it's shrinking the fastest the nonprofit global witness says the d.r. she's biggest timber company north to timber is illegally harvesting trees at nearly ninety percent of its sites with impunity north timber which is portuguese owned denies congolese subsidy sort of force is breaching its contract it says the accusations have no basis it acknowledges some management plans may not be in place but that it's talking with the ministry of environment about them global witness is also accusing importers such as portugal and friends of failing to take action there are some plans in the books being negotiated between france and norway which if approved or triple the area large one hundred thousand square kilometers to three hundred thousand square kilometers. researchers are trying to learn about the forest unique ecosystem before it's too late. these forests are under pressure from humans so we scientists want to categorize the fauna the birds the only thought of this forest before it is destroyed. scientists say the congo rainforest is a source of food and

democratic republic of congo where it's shrinking the fastest the nonprofit global witness says the d.r. she's biggest timber company north to timber is illegally harvesting trees at nearly ninety percent of its sites with impunity north through timber which is portuguese owned denies congolese subsidy ery sort of force is breaching its contract it says the accusations have no basis it acknowledges some management plans may not be in place but that it's talking with the ministry of environment about them global witness is also accusing importers such as portugal and friends of failing to take action there are some plans on the books being negotiated between france and norway which if approved or triple the area large from one hundred thousand square kilometers to three hundred thousand square kilometers researchers are trying to learn about the forced unique ecosystem before it's too late. these forests are under pressure from humans so we scientists want to categorize the fauna and the birds the only thought of this forest before it is destroyed. scientists say the congo rain forest is

the neighbor didn't do a d.r. so i thought about all those i've known -- forgetting about speculative projects, but the ones sold once they got the entitlement from the staff. church street, jersey street, homestead, duncan, castro, 21st street and outside of noe valley, i know there's a lot more. between the speculative development that turns them into $4 million, $5 million, $7 million and those that are sold and accelerate the price and resold. i think it's time to do something. that's my suggestion. thank you very much. >> president hillis: thank you. any additional general public comment? seeing none, we can move to regular calendar. >> commissioners, that places us on item 10. case 2018-003260pca, public parking lots in permitted use in the glen park district and adjoining locations. this is a planning code amendment. >> we have someone from supervisor sheehy's office. i think we'd like to hear from her first. >> sharon johnson, supervisor sheehy's office. thank you, dan. i'm here on behalf of supervisor she

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global witness says companies like north timber seventy five million hectares of rain forest in the d.r. see global witness demanding all those involved from governments to importers and buyers to stop being complicit in the destruction of d r c's tropical rain forests and the impact it's having on the planet's climate. john al-jazeera the american company that makes some of the best known motorbikes and knowing donald trump he doesn't like harley davidsons plans to miss some production lines of prague to avoid european trading in tariffs rob and also more from washington. the growing global trade war is claiming some of its first victims in the u.s. motorcycle maker harley davidson announced it was moving some of its production overseas to avoid steep tariffs imposed by the european union. the e.u. action came after president donald trump slapped tariffs on european steel and aluminum harley davidson says it sold forty thousand motorcycles in europe last year it's not yet clear how many workers will lose their jobs trump tweeted surprised that harley davidson of all companies would be

it is not just a d.r. where you are working at the issues. >> that is correct. >> has staff seen the revised proposal? >> we submitted to the staff of the revised proposal, but there maybe one element they haven't seen. would you like to testify as to whether -- >> yes or no, has the staff seen what we are presenting later? >> they've seen what was i the pocket to you, commissioners, but there is a small notch that has been pat -- cut back from that since they saw it. and it is a three-story propos proposal. >> any other items being proposed for a continuance? >> i live at 236 clipper street drugs clipper street next to the project we are just discussion. -- discussing. we've been in productive conversations. i think we are also in favour of going in and hearing it today with the three-story proposal that was submitted and a small adjustment that we have just discussed with him this morning. and recognizing that staff would need to review that as well. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello my name i

we expect to have this wrapped up quickly, and it's a d.r. it'll be written, and it won't be back in front of you again. and thank you for your consideration. >> president hillis: all right. thank you. any additional public comment? seeing none, we'll close public comments and open it up to commissioners. commissioner moore? >> commissioner moore: i move to continue items 1 through 3 as proposed. move to continue item 15 for july 12 and open 11 up for further comment from the commissioners. >> president hillis: can we just -- staff here who's recommending not continuing it, just so we can hear why. >> commissioner richards: i believe they were prepared to speak to the matter of continuance when the item was called -- oh, very good. >> the department is recommending disapproval of this item. we do not see the need for a continuance. the project sponsor, mr. paul, has been staff's most exclusive point of contact throughout this application process, and we do not see how the continuance would affect our recommendation of disapproval in this case

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stuart: whatever you say, d.r.a quarter of tesla model 3 reservation deposits have been refunded. why? >> yeah, it is all about production delays. they've got 518,000, half a million 1,000-dollar deposits. now at some point in time, those deposits terrors were going to have to choose whether they would put a nonrefundable additional depositown to pick the -- pick the exact things they wanted on their car. big chunk of those in april and instead of saying we are going to wait indefinitely, they said me my money back. liz: tesla has big shareholder meeting today. watch for headlines coming out of that. some unions want to unseat certain directors on the board. so you can imagine it's going to be fireworks at the shareholder meeting today. stuart: okay, i want to talk about mcdonalds, they have a huge push towards self-serve kiosks. ceo says, when people stay in the restaurant longer, they select and buy more. now what's this -- how many kiosks are going to be introduced? do you hav the numbers? >> a thousand per quar

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democratic republic of congo where it's shrinking the fastest the nonprofit global witness says the d.r. she's biggest timber company north to timber is illegally harvesting trees at nearly ninety percent of its sites with impunity north timber which is portuguese owned denies congolese subsidy sort of war is reaching its contracts it says the accusations have no basis it acknowledges some management plans may not be in place but that. talking with the ministry of environment about them global witness is also accusing importers such as portugal and friends of failing to take action there are some plans on the books being negotiated between france and norway which if approved or triple the area large from one hundred thousand square kilometers to three hundred thousand square kilometers researchers are trying to learn about the forest unique ecosystem before it's too late. these forests are under pressure from humans so we scientists want to categorize the fauna and the birds the only thought of this forest before it is destroyed and scientists say the congo rainforest is a source of foo

neil: you know, d.r. barton, look at this, i mean, the argument is always -- and the president has used this -- that all of these countries, chiefly china, are far more vulnerable to a trade war than we are, we would be damaged less than they would be, and so it's in china's interest to do something. do you buy that, and is that the line given the fact that a lot of the asian markets, particularly china, have that tumble far more than ours since all of this began? >> yeah. neil, you know, the numbers are very, very clear. you look at the world trade organization numbers, the cia fact book numbers, china exports 45% more than the u.s. exports, and we import 35% more than they do. so clearly the president sees that he has a strong negotiating stance here, and he -- neil: i think he's overplague it, d.r., i think he's overplaying it. i agree with brian on this, i'll get to him in a second, the president might be getting too cocky about this. reading the economic numbers, reading the fact that the chinese hav

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could be fled the d.r. c.in two thousand and sixteen when prosecutors accused him of hiring foreign mercenaries one month later he was sentenced to three years in prison for real estate fraud he denies all the charges against him as promising to return for a presidential run. president joseph kabila has ruled that the r.c. for seventeen years his term in office officially ended in december twenty sixth team but elections have been repeatedly delayed the floor protesters are accusing him of trying to hang on to power the constitution bars him from seeking a third term but could be still hasn't confirmed that he won't run again elections are now set for december but whoever emerges as leader will have major challenges to deal with more than a million people have been forced from their homes in eastern province as the military battles armed groups. the chaos has left nearly eight million people on the verge of starvation. the opposition are optimistic but there's still a great deal of uncertainty. to rest to be r

from the advocate she was very good her turkeys presents are drawn addresses an election rally in the d.r. booker to stop the sin city known to be the kurdish heartland he made it clear that no one should be seeking an independent state for turkey skirts. all citizens including kurds are assured by the target for public other demands should be legitimate and within the rule of law the spite the kurds disappointment in their ruling party in the face peace process and on still has strong support among some of them. he values people the previous leaders didn't treat us well especially kurds. the ruling our party launched a peace process in the two thousand tends to find a way to end turkey's decades long conflict with the outboard kurdistan workers party or the p.k. k. a conflict that claimed one of them forty thousand lives but the fridge or peace was short lived it effectively ended in two thousand and fifteen when both sides resume talks starlet the situation got more complicated when a state of emergency was declared following a failed coup in two thousand and sixteen. first the governme

i would support converting the medical cannabis, i think now a mandatory to a d.r. to a c.u.in chinatown, to have the extra layer of protection. but we have had fights on lombard streets, fisherman's wharf, we denied, and certainly, i think the same claims could be made we probably should ban them because there's neighbors in neighborhoods that are against them there also. but i just think that's not the right way to go. i'm concerned about too many in my neighborhood around upper haight and divisadero, some, i don't want my kids walking by tons of them but i think we have struck a balance with the c.u. and kind of the clustering provisions we put in. so, i like where planning went with it, sunset in two years and take a look at it. i've been surprised by kind of the relatively low impact that the existing m.c.d.s that have converted to recreational or don't use, had in the one in my neighborhood, no additional impact from that. so i also can't support legislation as proposed. >> commissioner fong. >> commissioner fong: i'm likely not to be supportive as well, and i just, i t

are doing a code-compliant process, it is a 30-day process. 10-day notice is currently required for d.r. hearings, large downtown projects and eastern neighborhoods projects. many forms of notification do not reach tenants. they are not provided in multiple languages and not access tonight the general public. notification requirements for retained scopes of work today the planning department review backlog. planners have 40 to 60 projects assigned to them and keeping track of various notice requirements creates room for error and delays. this ordinance proposes a simplified notice that becomes operative january 1, 2019. consistent notification requirements for all application hearings, including a 20-day mail notices to 150-foot radius of te nanls and property owners. one poster every 25 feet and 20-day period of online notice which will be more accessible to the public than the newspaper notice. plans would no longer be mailed, saving three tonnes of paper annually. instead, neighbors will receive a half sheet with a link to plans. all notice will be multilingual and available online d

d.rs police offiay they went into an alley and encountered a group of men.he men took off running. during that chase officers say one pulled out a gun, the one you see here, and pointed it at them. officers fired kilng that man. it's unclear if they shot at police. neighbors say they o y heard one set of gunshots. justin finch will have more at the scene cing up at 6:45. >> police foiled a possible terror plotto intende take place at a virginia beach prom. a 17 and 18-year-oldave been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit a terroristic act. police were already on guardf becausehreats made against people at that prom. office spotted a suspicious man outside the hotel. when officers approachid he ran but dropped his gun. that led detectives to his hotel room where they found the 17-year-old as well as a handgun, rifle and ammunition. neither have ties to the high school. >>> 6:33. we have new details about a deadly police shooting in silver spring. this isideo you'll see only on news 4. it shows the moments after a montgomery county police officer sho

and then, also on page 48, starting line 20, d.r. is discretionary reviews, will be 30 days instead of ten days. so that is a change that is different, again, from what we were discussing. maybe we could go to kate stacey. >> president breed, that is true. i'm sorry. on the bottom of page 48, that is a change from current code requirements from what i think is ten days to 30-days. i need to look at the code to verify those dates, and i'll check the other dates that supervisor tang just mentioned. >> so supervisor tang, was that it? >> supervisor tang: i mean, there's more. i mentioned earlier that there are a lot of planning submittal guidelines that have newly been codified, and the rear neighbors, and i think that's from when we've talked, the intent is to force the conversation, to have it with your neighbors, and that is a really important part. you would never want this to happen in such a way that neighbors would not be notified or not have access to a full set of plans. i think a mandatory preapplication hearing forces that co

i'm now using this vehicle with d.r., department of human resources to put forward their recommendations and we're discussing those things, such aserral resolution. referral resolutionalks tbout in the rules, departments are supposed to resolve their referral within 60 days when they get a request for hire. there's a pattern of some departments that takes longer than that, and we have to look at how this is going to work. and so this is a way we can filter out what is the issue? is it a time constraints or is it something systematic? default certification and also promotional points. promotional points has been we're looking at a different way, a system of doing something for employees when alu're looking to promote that levls the playing field for people who are not in the system and coming in. so do we still need 60 points? can it be something different? so d.h.r. is looking at different ways we can do that. those are open discussions we are having with the departments, and first it goes before the commission and tn we have a discussion, open forum. these are some of the things that we

could be fled the d.r. c.in two thousand and sixteen when prosecutors accused him of hiring foreign mercenaries one month later he was sentenced to three years in prison for real estate fraud he denies all the charges against him as promising to return for a presidential run. president joseph kabila has ruled that the r.c. for seventeen years his term in office officially ended in december twenty sixth team but elections have been repeatedly delayed was at war protesters are accusing him of trying to hang on to power the constitution bars him from seeking a third term but could be still hasn't confirmed that he won't run again elections are now set for december but whoever emerges as leader will have major challenges to deal with more than a million people have been forced from their homes in eastern province as the military battles armed groups the chaos has left nearly eight million people on the verge of starvation. the opposition are optimistic but there's still a great deal of uncertainty. will risk arres

and so when we talk about these conversations with d.r., who -- whatever entity, the mayor's system has always been a transparent, open system, and so we have to try to maintain those things, and there's sometimes a balance that we have to have and a discussion on how things are going to work. it's not easy to just change the rules and post them and say that's it. we have to remain transparpt in the process, so that's -- transparent in the process. so that's my job. >> supervisor cohen: mr. own br >> i want to stress that last one, it is not necessary on the staff of the civil service commission to do the lineme, because we rely on the departments to do -- i'm finished. >> supervisor cohen: to do -- >> can i finish the sentence? >> supcervisoen: yes. >> we rely on the staff to do the information report. >> supervisor cohen: all right. thank you very much. i have one question, and i think it's a pretty simple, straightforward question. what's the division of labor tweenhe civil service commission and the department of human resources? >> what's the division? >> supervisor cohen: half. >>

pendlebury were jailed by turkish authorities covering unrest in the predominantly kurdish city of d.r. . pendlebury and hanrahan were released in a matter of days but their fixer mohamed rasool spent more than four hundred months in a high security prison on trumped up charges of allegedly assisting the outlawed p.k. k. mosul dam is the front line that this murder took it back from their islamic state . when it comes to reporting complex conflict ridden news stories it's not just the fixers who find themselves in the front lines whenever any journalist camera man local producer or other media worker loses their life in a hostile environment it serves to highlight just how much fixers are relied upon not only to open doors but also to be aware of what dangers might lurk behind them the fares they're mentioned. the security of the team who is coming from abroad it's to be one of his priority. that is sensitive and very important not only for him but also for the crew that he's working with especially if there is a conflict because to be. with conflict your mistakes will be the first. an

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