, to nancy wong, alteration permit (response to nov no. 201317501; shoring plan and sequence of excavation up to 20' at perimeter walls; revision to bpa no. 2007/07/12/6583; reference to bpa nos. 2009/09/24/7633, 2011/09/21/5155 and 2007/07/12/6583) >> and we can start with the appellant. or the appellant's agent. >> good evening, i'm mike bowling, construction on behalf of patricia calderahead. >> in my brief i do not want to be redundant and so i have outlined what we would like to say but i would like to respond to their brief, which we received after of course, we filed our brief, page one of their brief states, they were on page one, they are appealing a permit based on financial reasons, not areasons pertaining to the building code this is a civil matter, and it is not related to the validity of the permit, however that could be true, i have done everything that i can to keep patricia from suing the architect and the contractor and the property owner and involving the city in a lawsuit because the city has stated that they have responsible here because they had an inspector that was

and the shoring and there are concerns by the appellant that our excavation will effect their patio and we have the report that describes the soil conditions and the top layer about that 21 inches of soil, and it was plantable soil and the rest is walk and so we will be able to remove the soft area on the top, condition and make sure that we analyze and review the roots of the trees that the parents are concerned about and so are we, we are concerned about the health of those trees and we have retained the services of the arborist that will be on the site during the exposure of the roots that are encroaching on to the property and any of the premoval of those roots will be done in a manner that will be acceptable to the arborist and we will be happy to engage the appellant's arborist. and in regard to the additional excavation, and and the water proofing will be the top on the addendum but the package that will be reviewed to the dbi. >> thank you. >> how do you handle the drainage that is exterior to the structure? >> we have the permit water system and a membrane and it will have

and the excavation work is really progressed. and it is 90 percent complete now and all of the bracing in. and supporting the walls all the way into zone three. which is down to freemont street. it is between freemont and beal and we have bracing and the excavation has started and we also relocated some utility conduits underneath the bridge and that was completed by pgand e and that was in support of the block. and the grounding and the med slab and excavation and bracing is completed we can go up to zone three. and we are moving along with the excavation, and we can follow on the work of the micropiles and the thermal and micro piling will follow. the slab pours we have poured over 28,000 cubic yards and so you may know that just about every saturday we start around midnight on friday and we pour between 4,000 and 6,000 yards of concrete any from where 400 to 600 separate delivers and that has gone really well and our next pour is november 23rd. and one final pour on december 7th. >> and the next step that after we get the conc

excavation, and and the water proofing will be the top on the addendum but the package that will be reviewed to the dbi. >> thank you. >> how do you handle the drainage that is exterior to the structure? >> we have the permit water system and a membrane and it will have a series of drains, below the slab that will be connected to a sump pump and it will be a permanent watering system and we will make sure that the walls are designed for the build up of the hydrostatic pressure and the drainage will be collected under the slab. >> on your property? >> correct. >> thank you, commissioners >> thank you. >> good evening, commissioners, cory tea gue, this is a rear addition to the existing building that is primarily below grade and it was approved by our department on october 8th of this year and it did not require 311 notification, because it did fall under a permitted rear yard structure under 136 c26 as mentioned the project sponsor did work cooperatively and proactively with the planning department early on to make sure that the design would meet the planning code, and the existing interpreta

and you can see both lines come across where the project will be, and so excavations will occur in that zone and this holds for the other trees as well. this is the next tree along the line. and again, the red circle, and identifying that zone, and it overlaps the construction or the excavation site, and the middle tree, the glossy privet does so even more so. so the question as to whether there is going to be an impact, there is going to be a very high impact on two of the trees, a high impact on the second, or on the third tree and, then the cypress we don't know because we don't know where the roots are and nobody has established that. 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

but these were the original drawings, for the purpose of the drainage and to be excavated. and we the guys, we started on this side, yes. and we dug exposed a 3 foot beam, 35 foot long and five foot wide area as the photograph shows. and now, that is the area that was exposed. and when that happened, i did not run to the building department, i called a soil engineer and a called a structural engineer, and asked them to help me establish a guideline and establish what needs to be done and they came up to the design that i then took to the building department and i, that is at that time, the building department, because of the initial one of five building permits which were originals, and assessed to this drainage, design, and i went to the building department and said, do i need to have the same drawings that you have here revised and the building department said, no, you need to have all new drawings. so yes, we came up with all new drawings and, all new drags were, and there were two things. and this design, this design of the open drain, and this drain of v, and because o

but these were the original drawings, for the purpose of the drainage and to be excavated. and we the guys, we started on this side, yes. and we dug exposed a 3 foot beam, 35 foot long and five foot wide area as the photograph shows. and now, that is the area that was

a couple months ago i informed you that while we started the excavation that we found some traces of the hayward fault we are about to start the excavation that will complete their investigation on these previously unidentified features. we should have a report by urs by the end of december with a recommended fix. it could be minor, it could be significant. it's still really unclear how much of an impact these new features will have on our new design. once we have the recommended fix. we will pass that along to the contractor who is going to need to submit a proposal and only then will we know the magnitude of the impact on schedule and budget. i anticipate that on that project, we'll have an idea of the impacts some time in the first few months of 2014. two more projects both in the peninsula. cfsa transmission upgrade. that project is now 80 percent done. we are currently, we have completed work on one added in each of the reservoirs. we are also well along on the work at the crystal springs pump station. by early or first month of 2014. we will have completed work on two outlet st

lena called south korea began excavating the remains of hundreds of chinese soldiers killed during the korean war. we had them all words are to be a start that its walkman is in the act was trying to set up an exhibition game the lights off for the me that the us. it shows you have to wait and see when he scolds the eye. but if that's the effect. it's awful. five minutes. all the welcome to cc to the new twilight from a gene on until we stopped in south korea the country's defence ministry has begun excavating the remains of chinese soldiers killed during the korean will be excavated remains on to be returned to china as part of the month mark agreement between the two countries the act nationwide is expected to take several months as he remains need to be properly washed dried and placed in the coffin. these include the ceos and his badges and no tree uniforms or two got the four hundred and twenty five sets of remains of chinese soldiers will be re times. south korea would take charge of all the preparations from that distance amends to placing the remains in coffins the chinese gove

david webster is the archaeologist who excavated much of the noble's house. this man probably had about 200 to 300 people who were dependent on him in some way, including his wives, his brothers, his political retainers, his economic specialists, living in this patio group and the other patio groups. they're buried here. there are about 250 or 300 burials here. which are the people who were his dependents. and essentially what this is is an elaborate household. keach: the maya noble could support his household because he controlled the rich farmland surrounding the compound. the land was so fertile it could produce a surplus which fed the noble's dependents, including specialists like the artisan, who were not themselves farmers. this was the basis of the economic system of the elites in ancient copan. for the noble, the system worked well. the more dependents he controlled, the more powerful he appeared. but the system also created a problem. what was he to do with such a large family of elites ? i suspect that one of the things is what do you do with these

you can see the bed box all above us and this is the area that has been excavated. >> the excavation up evidence that this cave was occupied during the time of king david, right up through the time of jesus. >> there were traces of dung and broken pottery and coins. so it was used for stabling, and for storage. ♪ >> so this would be a wonderful place to go for a flock or to store grain after the summer, perfectly no risk of damp, and for a young woman giving birth, no draft. >> a trip to the holy land is as much a journey of emotion as it is distance. 2,000 years after the birth of christ, there is so much sadness here. the little town where the baby was wrapped in swaddling clothes is now itself wrapped in barbed wire. where the shepherds stood guard over there sheep there are guard towers now. and gun-toting soldiers. yet it is possible to look past today's troubles, just seeing the historic sites of the bible inspires all, to walk the streets where jesus walked, to gaze on the landscape we saw, to touch the stones that were standing when he passed by, brings on a profound sense of

the economic recession has meant that he has other priorities that many of the buildings not to excavate is being damaged by bombing the scenery. an aspect of the base but the center leading environmental agency says the most important aspect of the community involvement. a community which is set in the international because the president sign it is on the unesco days until we can request help. well quiet tell you though. the idea is to use the internet to get individuals to cook together to buy up sections of the sites that funding is cold. forty seven years to shed the open piece of history. and mm mm. actually spend all extended his lead in the overall world cup standings by putting the band was downhill. the italian resort of all the old sunday the norwegian cost of fresh snow conditions of the cell vehicles to his fourth victory at the end of season twenty fifth triumph of his career. i am a thirty one year old who is the reigning world champion in that this pimple to quitting time of one minute and fifty four point zero eight seconds with the victory the link super g champion also

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at the shaft, you could work either on the north or south to excavations and we can start at the south end and the north end and this cuts down the amount of time needed to build that tunnel. the other ventilation shaft is on the quarter of third and townsend and this is on the side of the property that we don't own, and so it is part of the environmental supplement that we are in fact currently under way doing. when we get passed the underground station, it stops to rise up at mission bay boulevard and that is presently along them and we also had in the original environmental documents, underground possibilities and we are now, actually put in a revision to the design during this year. to consider, taking off to get under six street off-ramp so that there was in fact a closed tunnel that continues, beyond on the north side parallel to townsend and it ended ready to accept any tunnel build in the future from the south that would go underneath the mission bay boulevard and 16th street. and so, it any land use can be done without stopping when the build a future tunnel it connects to an

third that we went to the escalator and many people many people could see this this huge excavator right in the center right next to the presence of mr think not a single car could enter downtown but there was this excoriates safely waiting for this crowd of radicals next to the presence of mr h. and there was a pile of stones well prepared for that so i think their position was really something really good and important when we went there and pull some people out of there and so that's the one think about what we saw here on sunday about eight hundred thousand people peacefully standing on them i don't think the crowd of that size. it successfully states peacefully here and if you if you go to the dancers now you see a very peaceful crowd of people to be fair to the president in a call which he himself can down the use of force by the police he called it excessive and he also called on the opposition to abide by the law and abide by the democratic procedures that exist in any democratic country i want to play a sound bite from what he said and have you comment on that let's listen to wh

third that we went to the escalator and many people many people could see this huge excavator right in the center right next to the presence of mr think not a single car. but there was this ex-co way to safely waiting for this crowd of radicals next to the presence of mr bush and there was a pile of stones well prepared for that so i think their position was really something really good and important when we went there and pull some people out of there and so that's the one think about what we saw here on sunday about eight hundred thousand people peacefully standing on them i don't consider the crowd of this size. it successful estates peacefully here and if you if you go to the dancers now you see a very peaceful crowd of people to be fair to the president in a call which he himself can down the use of force by the police he called it excessive and he also called on the opposition to abide by the law and abide by the democratic procedure is that exist in any democratic country i want to play a sound bite from what he said and have you comment on that let's listen to what he had to sa

third that we went to the escalator and many people many people could see this huge excavator right in the center right next to the presence of mr think not a single car could enter downtown but there was this extra way to safely waiting for this crowd to fred because next to the presence of mr action there was a pile of stones prepared to that so i think their position was really did something really good and important when we went there and pulled some people out of there and so that's the one think about what we saw here on sunday about eight hundred thousand people peacefully standing on them i don't can see in the crowd of that size. it successfully states peacefully here and if you if you go to the dancers now you see a very peaceful crowd of people to be fair to the president in a call which he himself can down the use of force by the police he called it excessive and he also called on the opposition to abide by the law and abide by the democratic procedure is that exist in any democratic country i want to play a sound bite from what he said and have you comment on that let's li

but we had wonderful folks that worked with excavation and gprs you can see the mapping on the side.ourse we always have to understand our social and historical context that we are dealing with and this is the medieval wound, this is from the surgeon's guide. you can see we have the sharp force trauma blunt with hammers and projectiles into soap we knew we could be looking for a variety of different wounds. here's a good example of the sharp force trauma. this individual had a broadsword that went through his left eye, through his nose and down into the mandible. it gets any wonderfu is been a r us to be able to say that the type at least sharp force trauma and the kind of believe that we can see. blunt force is more difficult to see. it's more nondescript although it gives us these mice radiating fractures, both radiating and circumstantial because we know the biomechanics that give us a bull's-eye. some blunt force if it's very localized we get some nice shapes such as these mice squares and doing the wounded profiles, we are able to see that these were the top five from a pool ask

you go in, and you begin to work, excavate, play with the dancers, and then things began to emerge. you may have a plan that this is what i want to create. here are the ideas i want to play with, but then, you go into the room, and there maybe some fertile ideas that are becoming manifest that are more interesting than the idea you had initially set out to plan. so there has to be this openness for spontaneity. also, a sense that regardless of the deadline, that you have tons of time so the you can keep your creativity alive and not cut it off and just go into old habits. it is a lot like listening. really listening to watch what is going to emerge. i like this thing where you put your foot on his back. let's keep it. were your mind is is how you build your life. if you put it in steel or in failure, it works. that works. it is a commitment. for most artists, it is a vacation and a life that they have committed themselves to. there is this notion that artists continue to do their work because of some kind of the external financial support. if that was taken away, artists would still

crime scene technicians will spend today excavating the skull and bones and the coroner will then try to identify the person using either dental records or dna. >> it was one of those gut feelings, i knew exactly what it was. >> reporter: chris cain made the discovery yesterday afternoon. he was walking just off of a hiking trail with his two kids when they spotted the skull. now this park is blocked off as they investigate evidence. regular hikers say it's all a bit unnerving. >> you just have to wait and see, let them do their job. it is sad. >> a sergeant said those remains could have been out there several months or several years. it is hard to tell. this will remain an active crime scene for most. day but in the long run, figuring out exactly what happened will be a long complicated process. alex savage, ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> a major shake up in the sheriff's department as the fbi arrested a number of deputies. it is part of an investigation into inmate abuse. they will release more details of the case this afternoon. the fbi has been investigating allegations of exces

crews have excavated the cemetery to make way for a new high school. the lins say they are angry no one contacted them in advance. officials say they had no idea relatives of those buried in the site were still in the area. tonight's meeting at edward kelley leadership center is in manassas at 7:00. >>> one man is dead after a violent carjacking outside an upscale north carolina mall. police say the victim had just finished holiday shopping with his wife when the shots rang out. janel burrell has more. >> reporter: emergency crews seen rushing the victim out of the parking deck, fighting for his life after being shot in the head. the 30-year-old man would not make it, later dying at the hospital. the man gunned downright in front of his -- down, right in front of his wife at the mall. >> i didn't know what was going on. >> i heard a lady screaming at the top of her lungs. >> reporter: prosecutors say the couple was leading to the mall, heading to their range rover suv when two men approached. >> the victim had opened the door for his wife. she got in t

and folks that were expanding this unearthed this as they were excavating out. thirty-nine individuals that had extensive, and they were comingled and as you can see, sorting these individuals out was quite a challenge. and we have a wonderful folks and you can see this on the side. of course, we always have to understand the social and historical context that we are dealing with. this is a medieval wounded man, you can see we have the, here, projectiles, and we knew that we could be looking for a variety of the, that this individual had. he had a sore that went through his left eye, through his nose, down into the mandible. and it has been a wonderful tool for us and being able to say that the type of blade that we can see is shown here. blunt force is more typical to see. it is more nondescript. but he gives us these nice radiating fractures, because we know the biomechanics, and he gives us a bull's-eye and of its very localized, we get some nice shapes like these nice squares and doing when profiling, we are able to see that these were the top spikes from po

the suit claimed the company's excavation work weakened flood walls. he has presided over the case for the past eight years, and was chosen because he did not receive any damage to his personal property because of flooding. >> while temperatures in california are hitting record highs, it is cold with 50 degree below zero wind chill factors in the northern plains. across the u.s. - light snow causing blizzard mornings across north dakota. we'll see it from the wind and snow and cold. it's impressive cold and an impressive amount of rainfall from the south-east. this is going to be heavy times. severe thunder storms from georgia to south and nortes john carlos and virginia through the day tomorrow. as the rain makes its way up the coast into the north-east it will change to the snow as the arctic air bleeds out from the great lakes. cold temperatures really brought to you by factoring this in wind chills, with the cold temperatures. it feels like 50 degrees below zero. heading to nebraska, you are getting to 10 degrees. with the dusts out we have wind ch

a group of young people wearing masks commandeered an excavator and tried to break through police lines. tearpolice responded with gas and flash bernays to drive them back. the opposition denounced the violence, saying it was an attempt by the government to provoke a state of emergency. but others made their way to independence square despite barricades and a ban on protests there. many were energized by the violent dispersal of protesters on saturday morning. >> we want the government to be fair. we want the authorities to be for the people and stop beating them. >> we want to make sure what happened saturday night when they spilled blood doesn't happen again. we came here today to protect freedom, democracy and we want to join europe. >> they are angered by the president on a promise to sign a deal with the european union. >> we need a change of government because this government cannot or does not want to listen to the people. fell and most of the protesters return home, police intervened, trying to storm the president's office. the rally at independence square remains peaceful. some

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in many cases it's hard to excavate so we're going to work p with pe w. we do our own replacements. so the construction you'll have 15 more loops left >> as mentioned with year moratorium and that's when the street is being torn up four work and resacrificed this is a 5 year moratorium i don't come in 5 months later so when puc puts out the word pg&e will come in with the gas line and is that also true of street light work in terms of following the pavement you don't tear up new streets. >> yes. each project is announced you can see the timing of the work. the problem comes when we change the order of a street light repair depending on safety public inputs we might asks for more to your memory. we're looking at reporters to 17th street and cap that's into the district 6 and then some limited work in district

. >>> and crime scene technician worked to excavate the remains. yesterday a father walking with his two children came upon a skull and tennis shoe in a dry creek bed. deputies responded and spotted other remaps in the area. d -- remains in the area. the sheriff's violent crime unit looking into missing person cases. >>> an assistant at an after school program is facing charges she molested a student at catholic school many hey word. she's accused of molesting a 1- year-old boy attending all -- 14-year-old boy attending all ain'ts school. parents were notified of the arrest last week. police say they do not believe other children were victimized. >>> parents living along a busy traffic court say they fare for the safety of their children. the problem they say is with too many cars going too fast. now live with the steps being taken to try to make that area safer for children and pedestrians. >> reporter: two monomoms leading l charge against the county. all they want is a stop sign add the. but until this happened they will have the stroll we are t

they've been down to machu picchu to help excavate it. but they've never punched a time clock.y have no idea what it's like to actually be in an office at 9:00, with people handing them work and, oh, by the way, possibly asking them to stay late in the evening or their weekends. >> crane maintains that while this generation has extraordinary technical skills, childhoods filled with trophies and adulation didn't prepare them for the cold realities of work. >> you now have a generation coming into the workplace that has grown up with the expectation that they will automatically win and they'll always be rewarded, even for just showing up. >> to what extent are you having to tell the boomers, the bosses, the 50- to 60-year-olds, "the people who got to change are you guys, not them?" >> the boomers do need to hear the message that they're going to have to start focusing more on coaching rather than bossing. if this generation, in particular, you just tell them, "you got to do this; you got to do this; you got to do this," they truly will walk. and every major law firm, every major

it has not spread and we're in the process of working with the simms personnel heavy excavators to break the pile apart and extinguish the fire. >> reporter: at this point no shelter in place has been issued, but redwood city fire has contacted the office of emergency services in san mateo to let them know the situation. they're also consulting with bay area air quality management because it is a spare the air day to see if they need to issue, again, a shelter in place. that's something that they're still assessing right now because it's still so early in this fire right now. as far as the cause, we don't know. the fire marshal was saying that he doesn't believe that the recycling facility is operational. he says it's not uncommon for these fires to happen at a recycling plant. this is actually the fourth one that's happened here at simms metal recycling plant since 2007, and again, he just went back into the fire perimeter there to get us some more information and to give us an update. reporting live from redwood city janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 news. >>> san fransisco police are w