group is undertaking a collective effort to stop mobile food permits at spear street, and on the basis of the previous stated argument and on the dpw approval of the mobile food facility permit, we request that the board of appeals denied the appeal and uphold the permit in its entirety. thank you very much. president hwang: in terms of deer permits, it is for your food cart to be in front of 60 spear street, right? >> it is the federal reserve parking lot gate, it is the back entrance to the federal reserve. president hwang:

group is undertaking a collective effort to stop mobile food permits at spear street, and on the basis of the previous stated argument and on the dpw approval of the mobile food facility permit, we request that the board of appeals denied the appeal and uphold the permit in its entirety. thank you very much. president hwang: in terms of deer permits, it is for your food cart to be in front of 60 spear street, right? >> it is the federal reserve parking lot gate, it is the back entrance to the federal reserve. president hwang: you would be located between the walgreen's and the federal reserve? >> yes. president hwang: i think i know what you mean, thank you. >> d.o. currently operate at other locations? -- do you currently operates at other locations? you mentioned the howard street location, do you operate there now? >> yes. 400 howard. i believe it is 2.5 blocks away. >> how often? >> thursdays and fridays. my proposal was to operate at 60 spear on tuesdays and wednesdays. vice president fung: how do you handle mta's regulations on parking on the street? >> i have to operate as if i were parking my car there. i have to pay the me

here the permit itself is flawed. dpw may agree with this when we have this chance to look at it. grumpy's has identical food to many of the same operators that off the grid services. we would ask you revoke the permit. lastly, and i still do not have my head around this long, why are there -- this one, why are there two trucks? it makes things twice as bad? -- as bad. >> are for the delay. i run off the grid. i am going to do a power point and i will not take the full 14 minutes. i appreciate your patience while i get it started. president hwang: you can use the microphone that is closer to the display if it is easier for you. >> thank you. i have a hard copy of this presentation, if there is a preference to view it on paper or on the screen. i run off the grade -- grid. we organized logistics' for 18 weekly markets a. we are a san francisco-based company. as you can see on the screen, really what we do is more than morep -- simply poach areas. we work with vendors to see that they have their proper documents, that they are operating properly and also really what we look to do is

as permit holder, dpw would like to respectfully request the board to uphold with no new conditions. we will now address the issues specifically to the trees. >> thank you. carl ashort, urban forester. this slide shows some of the issues that are -- some of the factors with the ficus trees. all the trees have sustained some limb loss. these problems are typical to the species. it makes them prone to losing large limbs. two of the three have sustained some major root loss. significant trees are tree is located on private property, or on a dpw-owned property. they must meet any one of three sides criteria. street trees are in the trees located in the public right of way. all street trees are protected. the protection is not different between street trees and significant trees. the code requires that the director look specifically at seven criteria when approving the removal of significant trees. street trees, that is not called up for street trees. this is a very common mistake. the real problem with preservation of the trees is that it is very hard to protect trees during construction

i would urge you to, as dpw suggested, step back, reevaluate this permit, and the owner of grumpy's was not involved in these conversations. apparently there were some managers at the restaurant who apparently off the grid spoke to, not the owner. maybe a compromise is what is in order because we think it is excessive. it is not what most of the food truck experiences are like. it is not this. it is a hardship to our clients and we would ask you to reevaluate it, have a director's hearing, a move the permit to one struck -- one truck

permit? >> that was something dpw asked us to do until we had this hearing? we would prefer not to have the gates open during the day. " we still have plenty of unwanted visitors during the daytime as well. >> what about making the door ada accessible? >> i am not aure. -- sure. >> you talked about street vacation. this is a public street. why didn't you pursue more of a street vacation or does would become a private street? >> after doing some research, we found that the other dates had similar encroachment permits. that seemed like the most straightforward way to permit the gates. there were other similar rallies would similar issues in the tenderloin that had encouragement permits. we decided that was the best route to take. -- encroachment comments. we decided that was the best route to take. >> candidates be closed, but unlocked? -- tan the gate be closed, but unlocked? >> i do not believe so? >> closed, but it is not locked. >> it sort of defeats the purpose. >> not necessarily. if it appears that it is private, one might feel disinclined to open it. i

permit. based on the reasons stated by dpw and based on my comments as well. >> we have a motion from commissioner hurtado. correct? on that motion -- thank you. the vote is 3-line. this permit is upheld on that basis, thank you. -- the boat is 3-1. this permit is upheld on this basis, at thank you. >> we will move forward in calling item #7. patrick buscovich versus the department of building inspection. we will ask you to please leave the room quietly. we would very much appreciate it. the subject property is at 69 montezuma's street. this is an appeal the denial on january 26, 2011, of a permit to alter a building. when the appellant is ready, we will start. >> he does tend to be some diagrams and pictures of what he is going to show. president hwang: i think that is helpful. i assume the other side has received these. >> i tried to give it to him earlier. he gets worried when i hand him stuff. >> you do not have a laptop? >> [inaudible] i think i have seven minutes. give me a second. thank you for allowing me -- my name is patrick buscovich. this case is pretty straightforward. if you break it

i would urge you to, as dpw suggested, step back, reevaluate this permit, and the owner of grumpy's was not involved in these conversations. apparently there were some managers at the restaurant who apparently off the grid spoke to, not the owner. maybe a compromise is what is in order because we think it is excessive. it is not what most of the food truck experiences are like. it is not this. it is a hardship to our clients and we would ask you to reevaluate it, have a director's hearing, a move the permit to one struck -- one truck instead of two. it is a neighborhood issue. it is the business community. we appreciate the people who have come to speak. the people in my office like food trucks, but that is not the point. the point is what is fair to the business owners that. taxes -- pay the taxes. there is no riskier business then signing a lease and opening a restaurant and hiring a bunch of people and paying payroll taxes and property taxes and then to see the city allow -- 700 people in the course of two or three days, that is a lot of businesses that are losing. those customers wo

permits from your department or a roof -- a review? >> when i read the brief and so the braves and saw there was a complaint and our inspector had referred it to dpw because it was in the public right of way, i thought to myself i am sure i have seen permits for this before. because when you think about it, we have structural issues with regards to the construction of the gate, her reviews that, we have the exiting issues and accessibility issues, that is what the building department reviews on buildings all the time. this is on a city street across republic straight or a alleyway. -- across a public street or an alleyway. there are issues the building code needs to address and i am not sure if dpw has a plan to do that. i would imagine that there are building code issues that need to be addressed in this matter. with regard to being on the public way, we see other items where this is involved. i would be concerned about exiting. if there are people who need to get out of that building and they get to a point and the exit get smaller, the building code must address that. maybe that needs to be wider than 3 feet. you do need 32 inches clear for acc

permit. we originally applied when the mobile food system -- facility was brand new and we camped out for three days in the cold. we had no idea that dpw had not issued any guidelines and we did not know the property was not an acceptable location. we did our research, we paid for proper notice to be done to the proper locations. after three days of waiting in the cold and the rain, when we got up to the table, we discover that morning that the first location, which is isolated here, was not going to be acceptable. dpw moved us to the middle of the adjacent block in did not require us to give notice, which is part of the reason why we find ourselves here today. we do not want to surprise anybody. i will tell you how we decided to go out and why we are surprised to be here now. >> may i have a copy of the hard copy? >> yes. i have five copies. mine has my notes. >> give him mine. i can see this well. >> there are double sided. we tried to save paper. what you can see are the two permits we have. you will notice that each of them have multiple locations attached to them. the reason why we have a variety of trucks, almost everyone is on o

permit? is it revocable at 30 days? does it go on forever? >> it is revocable at the direction of dpw. >> dpw can decide to revoke and reopen the street? >> that would be correct. >> knowing what you know now, did dpw recommend they can be opened permanently as a result of the print from 85 fax you kind of half recommended it during this time period. >> their specific issues from the applicant. one is as it relates to disability access for a variety of residents at this property. the other one is again the issue related to quality of life and various issues the applicant has submitted. there seems to be -- needs to be a balance in this case. it would add additional facilities that allow easy ingress and egress to be appropriate for the gate open during daylight hours which may or may not results of the quality of life issues, that is something we can make a determination on. >> asked us -- access for emergency vehicles, is there a requirement for the lock box? >> the understanding is that this was reviewed by the fire department and police department. they have determined that this fa

permits, $50,000 for over time that. did leave skid marks all over the city. >> there is a they hired dpw to come back and clean off the marks the street. >> public works says it received only a few complaints and most of it shot with traffic was in the early morning and on weekends. >> and and still ahead at 6:00 congress tried to repeal the obama health care law. >> both sides have seen pressure. >> tonight the bay area team whose medical detective work helped visitors living inside all of use serena williams fresh off a win at wimbledon preparing for her next challenge. another half >>> on capitol hill the house is preparing to repeal at fordable health care act. a hearing held today in advance of the vote. mark matthews is here now with the fact check for us on today's very partisan debate. >> and there is tomorrow, the 31 time the house has tried to repeal all, or part of the act. without the senate it's come down to grandstanding. this is an opportunity for a fact check. the chairman said the hearing was about exploring the affordable care act on doctors and patients. >> the law creates 159 new agencies boards and comm

the team that shot it paid for permits and for police overtime that ford car left skid marks all over the city. >> they hired dpwe marks on the street anything leftover we've been told that they would wash off in the rain. >> the public works department says it received only a few complaints after the video was shot, most of the shooting was done in the early morning hours and a few weekends. >>> wash off in the rain, when is that going to be? >> exactly. >> that could be next year. >> yeah, rain would be nice not in the forecast today hot inland especially. >> exactly and the light humidity is going to make it cool quickly once the sun starts to set but you will still need the air conditioner to stay comfortable. clouds hanging around san francisco as we look at bank of america building there looks gorgeous very picturesque but it means fog when you talk about temperatures around the bay and inland. it does talk about the coast that's where clouds will be most stubborn and where we'll have the coolest weather today. clouds have not dropped any precipitation nor are they thick enough or moisture-laden enough to

dpw. on that motion vice president fung. aye. commissioner hillis. aye. commissioner hurtado. aye. the vote is 4-0. the denial is overruled. with all those conditions. thank you. >> thank you. to kelly kaplan of a permit to alter a building. renovation of rear yard cottage, scope includes conversion of crawlspace to habitable space, new roof deck, lower cottage, two new bedrooms and 2 1/2 baths and family room, upper and master be room, bath, kitchen and remodel. new half bath. this is on for hearing today, i understand the parties have reached an agreement. and would like to present a settlement agreement to the board. for some modifications to the department. you can start with the appellant. >> president hwang and commissioners, i'm maud hallin, the owner of the adjoining properties on greenwich street. and i see that we are appeal number 11-125 and i must say we have spent many months and with a lot of effort and collaboration from the parties involved to reach an agreement. and so i have handed over and mrs. kaplan has also handed over documentation to the board outlining our agreement with revisions. the new architectural drawings are dated march 21, 2012, and not as i had erroneously written he