commissioner frank fung and commissioner honda and hurtado. to my left is -- who will provide the board with any legal advice and we have mr. pacheco. i'm the board of director. scott sanchez is here representing the planning department and bureau of streets and mapping and jeffrey is a building inspector representing the department of building inspection. >> mr. pacheco if you will go over the meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. >> the board request that you turn off all cell phones and pagers so they will not disturb the proceeding. the boards rules of presentation are as follows: appellants and department representative each has seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttals. people affiliated with these parties must include their comments within the 7 or 3 minute minutes. members not affiliated with the parties have up to 3 minutes to address the board and no rebuttals. to assist the board in accurate representation of the minutes, people are asked, but not required to submit a speaker card when yo

commissioner fung. okay on that motion from commissioner fung to adopt the findings, no new changes. president hwang? aye, lazarus? no. commissioner honda? aye. the vote is 3-1. thank you. >> call item no. 5 item 5: appeal no. 13-056 walter haas, appellanttss vs. dept. of building inspection, respondent planning dept. approval 1 spruce street. protesting the issuance on april 25, 2013, to john maniscalco & mary tesluk, permit to alter a building interior remodel and horizontal addition at rear on 1st and 2nd storiess. application no. 2012/02/23/4708s. for hearing today.>> call item no. 5 sf 51234 this matter is on for hearing tonight. i understand the parties have an agreement. i have the appellant here to speak to the board. >> is there anyone here representing? >> maybe he can come up at the same time. that would be great. >> thank you, commissioners. i'm scott on behalf of walter haas. there has been some amended plans that mr. maniscalco is a permit holder. it allows everybody to move forward and be

on that motion, commissioner fung? aye, lazarus? aye, honda? aye. thank you, this vote is 4-0. this matter will continue on july 17th. no additional briefing. >> so we are ready to call item no. 9. is miss cold well st ill in the room? >> all right. let me just call the item first and then i will ask you to please stay an we can address the board. this is the property 162 west portal avenue protesting the issuance april 11, 2013, to bay area gold and silver buyers. secondhand dealer permit. i asked if the permit holder was in the room. >> i'm captain -- i represent the police department in this matter. she notified me that she is withdrawing the permit application because the police department no longer supports her decision. she's left the building. >> is there something that happens when a permit is withdrawn. is there a process with a notification or documentation? >> we would send a confirmation on it and go from there and she is not here and we are not supporting granting the permit at this time. >> okay. all right. thank you. >> it's a little bit of a change. >> yeah. so

on that motion, president huang, lazarus, fung, honored a hurtado. this matter is scheduled to july 10. there is no additional briefing because all briefs have been submitted. >> thank you. >> all right. so we'll go back to item no. 1 which is public comment. is there any member of the public that would like to speak on an item that is not on tonight's calendar? seeing none. commissioners comments and questions. commissioners? >> no? okay. item no. 3 is the adoption of minutes. for your consideration of the meeting of may 22nd, 2013. >> i move to adopt the minutes. >> thank you, any public comments on the minutes? >> seeing none. mr. pacheco please call the roll please. >> on that motion from the president to adopt the may 22, 2013, minutes. commissioner fung, aye, hurtado, aye, lazarus aye, commissioner honda. those minutes are adopted. >> item no. 4. item 4: subject property at 349 banks street. letter from vicki shipkowitz, appellant, requesting rehearing of appeal no. 13-034, shipkowitz vs. za, decided may 08, 2013. at that time, the board voted

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on that motion to over rule and issue this permit, commissioners fung? aye, commissioner hurtado is absent. commissioner lazarus, the decision is 4-0. >> i would like to take a short ten minute break, please. >>>

. >> i too greatly respect commissioner fung's opinion. however, the applicant is not a party to this issue. it's the respondent is the police department. so technically there is no due process issue with the applicant. >> it's the interested party. she has a stake in this process. >> she was here and chose to leave. >> so under the board's rules people who are officers of the west portal merchants association are not allowed to speak under public comment because they are represented by mr. kramer, but general members arrest -- are allowed to participate under public comment. if there is anyone in those categories who would like to speak please come forward. can you raise your hand so i can determine how much time to let you have. this is only on the subject of continuance. i would like two minutes each. >> my name is caroline johnson, the reason why i would object to a continuance or at the minimum allow the people who are here, members of the neighborhood who have been waiting around for 3 1/2 hours to speak, to just be able to get up an

fung? >> good evening commissioners. i just want to clarify one last thing. the existing locations from the operations were from thursday to sunday at night with one position at late evening for the proposed location also at 100 montgomery from 6-8 p.m.. i have nothing to add. >> the dolores park. was that for late night? >> they wouldn't even allow coffee at dolores park. >> actually it was daytime. >> there wouldn't be any confusion as to the carts that needed to close down by 1 a.m.? >> that is correct. >> how would someone find out they would have to break down 1/2 hour before? is that written? >> it's not written specifically in the order. what the requirement of the code and the good neighbor policy is the merchant, the applicant must police the area and clean up all garbage and debris from the location to remove all trash and debris. the expectation is you need to shut down early in order to follow that good neighbor policy. >> so the expectation is by your cutoff by 1 a.m. and everything should be cleaned up and out. >> that is the expectation. yes. >

. >> so commissioner fung and i were having a side discussion. sorry about that. the waiting list, the 5,000 are for sidewalk maintenance and removal? >> that's for sidewalk repairs, not for removal. >> that's why i was confused with your question. >> certainly the timing of the removal e depends on the condition of the tree. >> how many sites are on your list for removal? >> i don't have that. >> okay. thank you. >> commissioners, the matter is submitted. >> i think this is a perfect -- i'm sorry. >> let commissioner honda start. >> i love trees, in fact just drove to sequoia this weekend to see the general sherman tree. but this tree evidently has it's larger than the space and you can clearly see that in the photographs and even if you look at the other additional pictures which makes it look like an even canopy, it's not, there is two-thirds of the tree is definitely hanging on the side of the property address and the side that looks like that's failed, the limb that failed, failed on the opposite side. if they are going to prune the roots which is very diffic

so the motion then is to revoke the permit commissioner fung with the finding of insufficient notice? >> no, with the fact that there was insufficient notice community notice on the initial permit issuance. >> insufficient notice at time of issuance? >> defective notice >> i think that's correct. >> with the finding of defective annoys -- notices at the time of issuance. again to repeat we have a motion from commissioner fung to revoke this notice with defective notice at the time of issuance and the permit holder is not in the room. we would send out a no show letter to her. on that motion, president wang, lazarus, honda? aye. the vote is 4-0. this permit is revoked with that finding. >> we are going to move on. if everyone could leave the room quietly we would appreciate it. we are moving to item no. 10. >> jason perkins, bricks brik and mortar versus the entertainment commission. this feeling approval of may 21, 2013 of additional conditions against the existing place of entertainment permit. you have seven minutes. >> i just want to say thank you to the board for your patience thi

on that motion to over rule and issue this permit, commissioners fung? aye, commissioner hurtado is absent. commissioner lazarus, the decision is 4-0. >> i would like to take a short ten > >> welcome back to the june 19, 2013 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. we are now ready to call item no. 8. gerald and dale sullivan versus department of public works bureau of aura ban forestry. this is the order to approve removal of one smaller tree and deny removal of one larger tree. you have seven minutes. >> thank you. good evening. madam president and board members. we would like to take this time to dispute the ruling of the january 28 hearing that allowed the one tree to remain and the other one out. they earmarked the removal and the protest of hearing vowing for one tree to stay. we have dealt with these trees for 25 years. the property we own is on the corner of union street. in the packet you will see pictures of overhanging branches. the one tree is probably 65-75 feet tall. i would like to show you the corner property with the over hang and

on that motion to over rule and issue this permit, commissioners fung? aye, commissioner hurtado is absent. commissioner lazarus, the decision is 4-0. >> i would like to take a short ten > >> welcome back to the june 19, 2013 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. we are now ready to call item no. 8. gerald and dale sullivan versus department of public works bureau of aura ban forestry. this is the order to approve remo

commissioner fung, aye, hurtado is absent. lazarus? aye. commissioner honda? aye. the vote is 4-0. mr. church has a 5 day period to appeal. >> i just want to make sure that the appellants understand the time period under which need to submit appeals. okay? i see nodding. okay. >> okay. thank you. so then we'll call the next item which the item no. 7. 92 item 7: appeal no. 13-033 paula datesh, appellanttss vs. arts commission, respondent appealing the denial / non-renewal on march 21, 2013 of street artists certificate. certificate no. 8663. for hearing today.item no. 7. 92 sf 71234 we will start with you and you have seven minutes. >> good evening, i remember you commissioner fung. >> wow, not really much has changed except i left. i was in new york for seven years and i came back and well, okay. so, i just want to talk about the san francisco arts commission code in section 2408 b regarding the procedure to assist then revoked whatever street artist permit. this section violates city article 6en titled executive branch and commission which states that unless otherwise provided by

of the chung family and guests, what a remarkable contribution that mom chung made to the city of fung and while big al moves contributions in a different field, she too loves san francisco. she were two wonderful women who left their marks. as an architect you love construction projects and so did my grandmother and not only provide the infrastructure that our country needs but thousands of jobs as well. they also benefit to how the creativity and optism and confidence to the future. she was a model and studied art as what is known as the san francisco art institute. she is best known, however, for conceiving and delivering another construction project, the california pal ace of legion of honor and it should be remembered that this museum was originally build as a memorial to all of the thousands who died in world war i. >> i am not sure what you have thought about having a tunnel boring machine named after her, but she had a good sense of humor. she worked with a number of mayors and often entertaining them over a martini or two. i suspect, although it is not in my script that i was

the officer is chris hwang and lazarus and commissioner fung and honda. hurt hurtado will be absent. the attorney will provide any legal advice today. i'm the board's executive director. we are joined by representative from the city before the board tonight. scott is here representing the planning department and the planning commission. duffy is here, senior building inspector representing building inspection and marcos and permit bureau and i believe we'll be joined by urban forester representing the department of bureau of urban forestry and the director of san francisco entertainment commission and rebecca from the arts commission. at this time mr. pacheco if you can go over the boards meeting guidelines and conduct the swear in process. >> the board request that you turn off all phones and pagers so they will not disturb the proceeding and please carry on conversation in the hallway t board rules and presentation are as as follows.. department representative each has seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttals. people affiliat

1500 service men and as i said before, she was instrumental in the formation of the navy ways and so fung is san francisco is going to have a wonderful subway and our family is proud and humbled that mom change has a part in building it. and i know that mom chung is really smiling down upon us right now. thank you. [ applause ] >> the second machine, coming right up. it was named after big arm a, here in san francisco? 1881 to 1968 she is known as big ama because she was 6 feet tall. and the great grandmother of san francisco. ama was a wealthy socialite and among other persuaded her first husband, to fund and design the construction of the palace of legion of honors at lands end in san francisco and when she was younger she was a model. okay? and she is the inspiration for the victory, statute atop of athlete monuments in union square and we are honored today to have her here and the grandson and the great grandson that is taking a picture right now. >> mayor lee, chairman, and members of the board of supervisors and members of the chung family and guests, what a remarkable contribution