and in this particular case, they felt that an office/study would be fine and we send them to david lindsey at scott sanchez asking and they were sent to david and he is the head quadrant of that district because they thought that it was special enough and he confirmed that we could do that and for this particular jurisdiction we did not need a 311, so we did not need neighborhood notification or anything like that, but of course, he suggested that we should do out reach to the neighbors, which andrea and peter did do, they talked to the neighbors and talked to them about the plan and specifically this neighbor and showed them the drawings and which have not changed i will cory address the issue of it being too tall and we have drawings that were approved and shows the natural grade and how the addition is no more than 3 feet above grade and it is invisible to everybody and it is literally an underground room and i think that is mainly the two things that i would like to say, thank you. >> if you have any questions. >> i do. did you consider the five foot set back that is being raised. >> i

they could have done a letter of determination, david lindsey recommended it, and they didn't do it. there is no formal interpretation written down that says that the garage can be a living space. >> okay, we can take rebuttal from the permit holder. >> for the project and as the zoning administrator, clearly stated, the planning is filing when it comes to the property line trees and we are not, we are going to take all of the precautions when it comes to the excavation, we have an arborist and they have their expert and my client is perfectly willing to invite their experts during that excavation, and we know a great deal about this site. the building, was completed in 2006. and we have pictures that clearly describe the cross section of the soil, and the 21 inches of planting soil, and the rest is bed rock, and the roots are on that surface, and on the top layer. and we will be doing the excavation, very cautiously, and we will have our soils engineer and our arborist review the conditions of the encroaching roots and this is not a planning issue, this is a issue of implementation

i'm david lindsey from department staff i'm discussing discretionary case 15 filed been an altercation permit application to add a ground floor of a semistory house on the properties open the west side of the street between euclid to the south of laurel village the second would be behind the two car garages. the dr request was filled by peter who resides in a two-story building diagonally cross the street from the subject prop point public position was summarized in the staff report we've since that time, have received many additional public comment and in summary i'll give you the total including the comments received from the pass week that includes both letters and signatures the total being 20 in support of project and 22 in opposition to the promise. the dr requesters and neighborhoods concerns with summarized as follows there's a feel that the existing neighborhood character a single-family in nature and a second dwelling opt would be inconsistently with the neighborhood character. others feel the size the significant building is inadequate were multiple unit and that the additio

>> commissioners david lindsey from the department staff. the projection sponsor is continuing to work with staff and a neighbor group from polk strot street on this. with the holidays coming up we weren't able to come down with a definite date we've left it open when we come upon a date >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner moore. >> for the record the applicant sent a letter to the entire commission regarding - he's did you deliberating working on the project that were that xhifrmdz what you're saying the letter hadn't aspired. >> commissioner borden. >> i have a question is the continuance being requested by the public? >> actually, the department is requesting the continuance a 19 plus page letter we received late and haven't had a chance to look at it. january 16th is within our timeframe to look at those >> okay. great. >> commissioner sugaya. >> yes. for the january hearing i'd like a lot more information including where the addresses. i know there's there's a map but the map didn't have any addresses the nature of the bui

. >> so in addressing that, when we did our preliminary review with david lindsey it was brought to our attention that there are unwritten uses that the planning department, i think scott might be able to speak to this a little better. there are uses that they have allowed in the past that don't necessarily that are not limited strictly to garages, that they have adopted and approved. so there is a precedent for it. that's where it was brought to our attention when we did this preliminary review with the planning department that this is an acceptable use under this particular code section. >> did you rely on that when you draw up the plans? >> yes. that's the whole presup for us moving on the project. >> one question. your drawing shows that elevation 445-4. the appellants drawing shows that at 445-11. what was in your original drawing? was this the change? >> the elevation height of the fun. the -- finished. the top of the structure has not changed. i'm not sure which one he's referencing. if it's the dirt, the soil, the structure does have about 10-12 inches of soil on top of it. it's

. >> president david chiu: ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> >>> i'm nicole and lindsey, i like the fresh air. when we sign up, it's always so gratifying. we want to be here. so i'm very excite ied to be here today. >> your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. >> last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. without that we can't survive. volunteering is really important because we can't do this. it's important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. we have almost a 160 acres in the district 10 area. >> it's fun to come out here. >> we have a park. it's better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. >> the street, every time, our friends. >> i think everybody should give back. we are very fortunate. we are successful with the company and it's time to give back. it's a great place for us. the weather is nice. no rain. beautiful san francisco. >> it's a great way to be able to have fun and give back and walk away with a great feeling. for more opportunities we have volunteering every single d

david leanne all-star snub took it out on the clips. 22 and 11 for lee. the warriors win 111-92. >>> lindseyked bears got schooled at number 4 stanford. cardinal led by 30. they win by 6. >>> randy bennett trying to make roster moves in san diego. nothing worked. they shot 25%. johnnie d had 17. they route the gaels -- they rout the gaels 61-43. >>> sharks lost. the flames sean moynihan, sharks lose 4-1 in calgary. >>> in a salt lake city zoo, a primate selected the seahawks to wind sunday's super bowl. he had a winning run. eli has correctly picked the last six winners. like to hang out with that guy, make some money. see you later, everybody. >> i think eli might be wrong this year. >> i was going to say eli, meet michelle griego, my friend! >>> play of the day, nfl. check out this no-look pass and perfect setup. they topped the kings in l.a. after a no looker open goal see you later goalie doesn't even see it. your play of the day. >> nice there. >> hand motion there. >> a little hand motion. >>> okay. well, colin kaepernick has been, you know, fairly quiet about that rant that richard sh

so names like nick geper and david wise and maddie bowman, they're going to be big, big, big stars in just a few more days. >> lindseyry. do you think this is the end of seeing her in the olympics and will our ski team be good without her? >> her career is going to come rocketing back up. the next thing you want to know, will the ski team be just as strong without her? bow bode miller finished third. he should have won the race but for one mistake. ted laity won three gold medals at the championships last year. he is the best giant slalom skier in the world. julia mchughes is rounding into form. stacy cook -- the american alpine team is super strong. >> we have some superstars, for sure. how about olympic bobsledder lolo jones. kind of controversial with teammates. can you give me the story in about 20 seconds? >> she was the olympic hurdler, now a bobsledder. lolo attracts attention everywhere she goes. lolo made the bobsled team, so did lauren williams. they're both track stars turned bobsledders. lauren has attracted no attention and yet lolo does. this is just the way lolo rolls. people want to know, did lolo mak

we've got quincy crosby from prudential financial, david sourby from loom missales and company. kyle harrington. peter boockvar from lindsey group, and warren myers from illustro trading. warren, give us the play by play, the perspective from the floor. what's going on? >> i'll tell you, you know, the one thing i will say up front is there is no sense of real panic, so i don't want people out there to say that the world is coming to an end. you know i think so many people have been expecting a sell-off for so long that once we had a couple days in a row of a down market i think this has been kind of feeding on itself and i think that's really all you really have seen on the floor. yes, it's an accumulation of a few events. i think the surprise events were the emerging markets and china a bigger impact than the earnings in the last couple days but i think those three combined are what's driving the market down but it's in an orderly fashion. >> quincy let's talk about china. is this what is ailing the market more broadly? is it because of that data? >> i think it had more to do with the worries over the credit markets in ch

david baum on humility. on c-span's q&a. more now on the fighting in iraq from republican centers -- senators john mccain and lindsey graham. >> my calling from south carolina will shortly join me -- colleague from south carolina will shortly join me on the floor but i would like to make remarks while i am waiting. when the senator from south carolina joins me i asked for -- >> without objection. some of us were here in senate 10 years ago when u.s. troops led to major offensives against al qaeda and other militants in the i iraqi -- in the iraqi city of falluja. how 146us are member men and women lost their lives and thousands more were warned it. those were some of the toughest and bloodiest battle since the vietnam war. success was costly but success we did. there we are 10 years later and al qaeda has once again raised black flags over falluja and are battling to control or parts of iraq. they find themselves agreeing with congressman duncan hunter, a former range who fought in falluja. i quote, we did our job. we did what we were asked to do and we won. every single man and woman who fought in iraq feels a kick in the