d.r. and approve the project as submitted. i'm available for any questions. >> thank you. d.r. questioner. -- d.r. requester. >> good afternoon, my name is john he is ler. i'm the owner of 12394th avenue, together with my family, members of which occupy both units of the property. thank you for the opportunity to speak in support of this request for discretionary review. first of all, i appreciate the effort and expense that the developer has undertaken to modify the original proposal. no one would dispute that some of the changes they have proposed are marginal improvements from the standpoint of surrounding properties. i assume that the planning department, i just learned that the planning department, having been granted an approval for the original proposal will in all likelihood go forward with the plan as now revised but none of these facts change the basis of our original appeal. i'd like to make three quick points. in recommending that the commission not take d.r., the planning department has in our view not given adequate consideration to the extent that the proposed dev

d.r. applicant, it would be whatever your pleasure is. i am available for any questions. commissioner miguel: thank you. >> d.r.. >> in light of the fact that we haven't heard from the project sponsor, i would like them to go first and then we will speak. >> i don't know if you can go first. >> we don't know what he's going to say. how do i address what they are going to say? >> that means you don't have a comment. and you want them to go. >> i want them to go first and then i will speak. you want me to go first? >> that is the order. >> okay. this is a very unusual case and a very unusual proceeding. sue hester for the next door neighbor. and what i am going to put out here for the staff to give to you is photographs of the front of the building. and i will talk about them on the overhead. but here are the photos for you to pass around. there was no discussions for quite a while and we have been through a cycle and you have my brief. and my brief is it's very confusing dealing with this situation and no real substantive discussions or negotiations because they really don'

d.r. questioner, rodney greavey. you have heard from my representatives and this is now 3 1/2 neighborhood since they identified the most recent legal addition and we have had to live with this structure the way it's been in the photographs. and especially to the may 19 meeting and being respectful to your directive, i actually engage mid own architect so we could come to a resolution here and were able to get a better than 15-minute meeting with the yee's and their representative and have gotten no surprise from that side. and that is where we are today and didn't want to be in front of the commission today. commissioner miguel: thank you very much. project sponsor. >> gafrp, commissioners. my name is john carey, an southeastern in san francisco and i represent the sink hole concluded in late 1997 and the city agreed to restore the retaining wall that ran parallel to the house that went into the sink home and disappeared. and fixing the retaining wall or how that would leave the property and other than the city repr

questions. >> thank you. d.r. requestors. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i live at 1831 fall in the street immediately adjacent to bistro gambrinus. it is not a self-service restaurant or a full-service restaurant. it is a sports bar that draws people from throughout the bay area. it lets patrons lose on to our neighborhood after they become drunk and unruly. the evidence proves this point. the name gambrinos is the patron saint of beer and beer making. 1.3 pages of different types of beer. only two-thirds of a page of food. the patrons are frequently drunk. may i have the overhead, please? on august 26, my neighbor and i were attacked by patrons of gambrinos. i am convinced that the attacks were coordinated by the owner to take our cameras, with which we were photographing numerous violations. we were a photograph ingot drunk people assembling on the sidewalks after 10:00 p.m. the police was called. the employees told police that they can be opened 24 hours a day. the decor is that of a sports bar. since these pictures were taken, they have added another

questions. >> thank you. d.r. requestors. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i live at 1831 fall in the street immediately adjacent to bistro gambrinus. it is not a self-service restaurant or a full-serce

commissioner antonini: if i could ask a question to the d.r. requester in regards to the plans that were presented for us. if you want to come up to the microphone? somebody speaking for the d.r. requester. yeah, i'm looking at this two of these. it would seem to me that the impact is less with their revised plan where it drops the extension into the rear yard down to one floor. and while there is a little bit more of an extension on floors two and three in that one section, it still allows for a 2.6-inch separation between both. so i assume you're more favorable to their revised version? >> i'm a little bit reluctant to speak for everyone. for my own part, the part of my family, i think we feel that the modifications that have been proposed which seem to be a genuine effort to try to make some accommodations about our original concerns do, in fact, mitigate some of the impacts. so i think we would feel better about the revised plan that jeremy has asked -- has asked you to accept under discretionary review if i understand the process. commissi

questions from the commission. commissioner miguel: we called the d.r. requester, but i think the d.r. requester may have left. they did leave us a note. are there any speakers here in favor of the d.r. requester? if not, i will call on the project sponsor. >> thank you very much for the opportunity to speak to the planning commission today -- >> you can pull the microphone down. >> thank you. or i should grow. thank you for the time to defend our small pronth. we decided to put together some plans to build the roof deck to minimally impact the side of the building and any impact on our neighbors so we don't think that the -- to satisfy the code the parapet wall we have to build is not going to block any light or air to our neighborhood. and we just don't feel that there is much more to say and i think the impact on the neighborhood will be minimal. commissioner miguel: thank you. are there any other speakers on this one? if not -- oh, yes. certainly. >> thank you very much. i am also speaking in favor of the proposed plan. secretary avery: could you state your name please? >> i am karen ar ron and we are look

d.r. show, i find myself asking the same question every day.n earth do we do when you don't have people in washington making the tough decisions when you don't have people in the capital of europe making the right decisions -- >> and if you look at history, and this is perfect that we're getting to you at this point, if you look at history, when we don't deal with these problems, we go to a giant world war. we did it in world war ii, the civil war -- that's what we do, and then at the end of the war we're like, okay, welm, what do you say we restructure the debt? instead of restructuring the debt before the war. and i'm not suggesting -- >> forego the war. >> skip the war and do a third marshall plan. >> the trouble is, we're missing leaders at the moment. no leader is strong enough to lead. with the eurozone, you're dealing with 17 countries, 17 different democracies. huge problems with all of these leaders back home domestically, you've got obama with his problems domestically. until we hit massive, massive crisis point, apparently we're not.