commissioner fung. >> we do have the adaptation. is there any public comment call the roll >> so we have a motion from commissioner fung for the minutes commissioner fung. commissioner hurtado. commissioner president hwang commissioner honda >> thank you. the vote is 5 to zero those minutes are adapted. >> thank you. we have with the president's content going to call item out even if order 6. mike vs. the code for the planning department this is on katrero avenue to the permit to erect a building 77 unit with a mixed be building with ground floor area. so we'll start with the appellant >> excuse me. i have a conflict recuse me, please. >> so you have 7 minutes to present our case. >> before my time spoke i believe you spoke to commissioner lazarus about a continuance she e-mailed me and everyone two members but not the former appellants can't make it by 515 to jean and another person can't be here. so juan was coming from a water commission in sacramento and flying out later this evening and jean had an

. >> commissioner fung two things one because the board is the last decision making body for this and it's subject to my attention measures you have to uphold it a draft is permitted and it's entered into the record. >> you want to do that. >> why don't you read it. >> i'll read it then and i was wondering if there's a basis for which you want to state the upholding of the permit. >> well more myself i've read it therefore concur with it. >> not basis for the denying of the appeal under our normal procedures we have to have a stated for the denial of the appeal. >> okay. that's two simple but i will say then that based on the fact that the project is co- off and on and gone through a tremendous you amount of review and approval. >> okay. all right. so the draft environmental finding are one on august 8, 2013, by the motion found that the constructions of the new 6 story mishgd or mixed use had ground floor area the project and didn't have an effect on the environment by motion number one. and approved the project authorization and decided there was no substantial evidence the project

and commissioner fung is absent so that motion passed 4 to zero. thank you. okay with the president's content we're going to hear the 21 appeals that make up the rest of the calenders as follows: the parties will first be provided time to present the board that argument that are for the 21 appeals and rubltd and the board will see what appeals are the patterns and time of the appeals will be provided for the groups if there are members of the public who wish to comment they should speak up and finally the board will hear 4 appeals because their fact patterns wouldn't fit into the group and one appeal will be separated. time for public comment will be provided for each individual hearing and copies of what i've old are on the podium in case you want to see each of the groups. first, i need to run through all the addresses and a they are filed by the at&t and the subject properties are. 190 randal street and ralph street and buchanan and ralph street and 1157 church street and 31530th avenue and 1335 mission street and buchanan street and ann agree street and 1

of appeals the preceding officer is commissioner president lazarus and we're joined we commissioner fung and commissioner honda and to my left is san francisco city attorney brian and at the controls of the legal process clerk. i'm cyber that goldstein the boards executive director. we're joined by representatives from the city departments that have matters before the board and other from the entertainment commission. so the board requests that you silence all phones and iron devices to not disturb the proceeds you are boards of rules of appreciation appellant and responder have 7 minutes to respond present the case and rebuttals are 7 minutes the members of the public not photographed have up to 3 minutes and speak spot microphone to assist the board in the minutes you're not required to required to submit a card the speaker cards are on the left side of the podium or there's satisfaction forms and if you have a question, please speak to us on board we're on 1650 mission street. this meeting is broadcast live on chaebl 78 and rebroadcasts on fridays as 4 o'clock p.m. and the dvds are av

so when commissioner fung asked the architect in the last hearing well, can i see some of the drawings you looked for the step down presuming to help you come up with conditions for approval the architect said i only looked at the one for the previous project that's not before you tonight so commissioner fung came up with verbal quantifiable standards for the set back that reflected the small-scale of the building for hill street. so we have a neighborhood group you're going the project sponsor to refine the mass we have the planning department do the same thing we have the planner asks for accident refinement but the project sponsor never acted. no deeds only word. commissioners the marsh asks you deny the request and uphold our approval on february 24th keeping in mind the latin phrase deeds not words >> ms. gallagher i see a lot of supports of the marsh with the tags are they intending to speak tonight. >> they are commissioner fung. >> i would never mind. i can ask them to stand and for all those who want to stand and opposite the request for the rehearing on behalf of the marsh th

as well as you have been hearing from cynthia fung talking about the enterprise resource planning system and this is modernizing our software systems and allowing for better integration across our systems which will benefit our operations but also our partners both on the agency side when we pay the invoices more timely as well as our vendors. so moving toward the strategic view going forward again started with the goals that you all help us set. we looked at internal operations where we might be more effective and these new directions i hope reflect your guidance for us as well as we're excited to work on each of them. the neighborhood transportation improvement program is the first role going forward that we see as a main stay of the next five years. this is the idea to ensure planning and studies and activities in each district over the five years supported by our staff and consultants but also with the direct involvement of other agencies as well as two neighborhood scale projects in each district. this would ensure there would be a pipeline of capital projects in every part of the c

on that motion >> commissioner fung. no. commissioner president hwang commissioner lazarus. commissioner honda. thank you. the vote is 4 to 1 this permit is upheld on that basis. we'll call our last item appeal. for kenneth vs. the city and it's on thud avenue protesting the ownerships on 2012 to non-associates to add one bath at the attic level and to approve the application attic sprinkler under a separate issue. >> good evening president lazarus i'm appealing the permit application. at 715, 22nd avenue part of the brief talks about the concerns about the quality active factors we would have express if there was notification or some type of communication if the permit holder we had no idea of until we saw it being built. we struggled with the decision because we're not wanting to cause any problems but we thought we noted to say something and express our concerns. my main concern after we filled the appeal was the method it was approved. my statements are primarily fact driven so i'm going to be reference a lot of the documents the building plans that were submitted. i fir

commissioner fung. commissioner hwang is absent. commissioner president lazarus and commissioner honda. okay. that motions carries four to zero thank you. before we move on to group two i wonder if there's anyone in the audience for thorton avenue. since there's a commissioner conflict on that address and with that commissioner leaving for the conflict we'll only have 3

. >> i'm confused about the threshold, which is what commissioner fung was going at. i didn't follow. the pharmacy is, did you say 1900? >> no. >> the pharmacy's 1300 and something square feet. >> i think -- >> that's not a change of use, is what i was getting at. >> see, i'm confused because i don't have any -- >> i think you're saying if any part -- this is where i'm stuck too because the appellant's saying that the entire 2,000 square feet has to be medical office for the conditional use to apply. you're saying if any part of the entire 2,000 square feet of a change of use -- that doesn't make sense. >> it's required on two counts. >> putting aside the formula retail use. >> the castro street neighborhood district a conditional use is required for any use larger than 2,000 square feet. >> right, but the medical office is only 800 square feet. >> no. the medical office is 21 and on top of that there's another 1300. >> oh, okay. >> yeah. so the proposal is -- >> i thought it was 2100 total too. >> 2100 of office and 1390 square feet of retail so it's -- >> got it. >>

of appeals the preceding officer is commissioner president lazarus and we're joined we commissioner fung and commissioner honda and to my left is san francisco city attorney brian and at the controls of the legal process clerk. i'm cyber that goldstein the boards executive director. we're joined by representatives from the city departments that have matters before the board

. >> commissioner fung to the best of my ability i'll try to answer the question my understanding is the effective radius is still, you know, 5 to 16 years later 3 hundred feet theirs serious landlines their signal strength problems and this equipment only works in this kind of input radius. i apologize i don't have more technical information. i talked with miracle blackman from at&t this evening about this but that's what he told me the technology in the case of those utility cabinets has not dramatically changing changed. one more technical question do those things operate serially in other words do you have a have a series of boxess to connect up for the service in the area or - >> with our permission i think i know what the answer is but hang on. so my understanding is this is it's a distribution network you know the fiber goes out and connects with the rest of the network. and but that does not softly solve the cabinet one limits on where those utility cabinets can be pleased they have to be placed within 3 hundred feet of the utility cabinets that are already there. you know th

on that motion made that i commissioner fung. commissioner hwang absent. commissioner hurtado. commissioner president lazarus and commissioner honda >> that motion carries 4 to zero we'll move ton to item 21 on scott street. mr. johnson. >> i don't believe there's anything particularly unusual about this appeal i'll try to be very, very brief there's an 11 most gap and ms. fong again found that at&t complieltd with the requirements of the s m f. during the sidewalk as the hearing director reported two members of the community attend the box walk and at&t walked the neighborhood and found another site - my apologizes i'm reading from 100 furton street. what happened was about at&t offered to walk the site to review alternative site locations, however, the obtain terrors found no suitable area and that's one of the difficulties that at&t faces because the way this process is supposed to work at&t works with the community to find the least impacted loeshgs but if the community won't identify any location then at&t appeal the specific denial was that the hearing officer saw the pro

commissioner fung. commissioner wong. president lazarus and commissioner honda >> thank you. the vote is 5 to zero this permit is restraining order hi revoked. there's no further business. before the board. we're folks. >> welcome ladies and gentlemen, i'm rick i'm the senior manager of digital learning at the academy of science it's wonderful seeing our folks logan and aboard i want to inside of the up the teacher and youth director at the educational academy (clapping.) thanks rick first of all, i want to say on on behalf of the entire science including gregory our executive director and alison our chief of staff and cove and our jrgd. i'm so pleased to welcome you all i'm meg the director of the education at the academy and digital learning is one of the major categories we're delighted to be participating in today's program and i really want to thank the mayor and his office in making this happen. that's an amazing morning i'm sorry that you weren't here earlier today to see the youth working on those programs i need inform do more cod pr for those of you you who have not

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commissioner fung. commissioner wong. president lazarus and commissioner honda >> thank you. the vote is 5 to zero this permit is restraining order hi revoked. there's no further business. before the board. we're - >> good afternoon. welcome. >> good afternoon. >> i want to welcome you to city hall and the mayor's office celebration of women's history month i other people emily i have the prestige of serving on the department of women by a showing of hands how many live in san francisco so actually, i work for you and the mayor we've been having an women and girls since 197540 years i want to recognize our commissioners on the status of women please stand nancy vice president andrea and commissioner young and commissioner amy and julie sue. >> (clapping) >> we're joined by many members of our city family if you could hold our applause chief suhr anyone, etc. and board of appeals director and mayor's office of housing and mayor's office education hydra mendoza and al and city administrator naomi kelly and many members of the mayor's office staff please help me welcome those me

commissioner fung. tauft. commissioner lazarus. this matter is continued until you july 16th. thank you >> okay. thank you. item 6 has already been heard item 7 alice vs. the department of public works and this is on post street protesting the issuance of the kevin of an alteration permit we'll start with the appellants agent >> can you disclose our prior. >> so we're both realtors i've had a transaction in the past i can hear this case. >> good evening, everyone i'm michael robin's i'm an architect and registered in california. i've been retained by alice lamb to look at the construction adjacent to her property. i've offered the native or the brief that was insinuated and i'd like to go over the documents from that. so this is really regarding the property owners on post a surveillance of permits a has been approved for the expansion of non-conforming desks in the rear yard it's a 3 family and 3 story building. the proposed decks decks are larger and extend into the rear yard. i'd like to get the overhead projector. >> could you speak more into the microphone, please. >> oka

commissioner fung. commissioner hwang is absent. commissioner president lazarus and commissioner honda. okay. that motions carries four to zero thank you. before we move on to group two i wonder if there's anyone in the audience for thorton avenue. since there's a commissioner conflict on that address and with that commissioner leaving for the conflict we'll only have 3 board members present i wanted to ask the appellant to have that matter continued so we'll have four board members here or have that hearing tonight with 3 board members. just fill out the picture. if there are 3 votes we'll automately hold it over >> step forward. >> at&t will leave this to the discretion of the board we'll be happy to have this appeal heard by the 3 members who aren't recused this evening and we'll be fine to come back, however, the board feels most appropriate. >> so i think we'll just leave it and precede with group two this is the 1205 i don't work street and 1201 york street and 79 lions street we'll start with the appellant with 5 minutes to a

. >> so there's a motion that i commissioner fung to deny the appeal so the permits were correct. >> commissioner hwang is absent. >> commissioner honda and commissioner honda that motion carries four to zero we're we'll move on to group be 3, 194 randall street and the next at the 210 randall street and next on ralph street and next on buchanan street we'll once again begin with the appellant you have 5 more minutes. >> i'm just going to briefly walk through the basis denies. the basis of the hearing officer denial for 194 on randall street he ordered at&t to consultation additional outreach after it was reported it the only site that would meet the technical requirements is the only location. after the appeal the hearing officer did understand on the basis that at&t did not full f fully comply that at&t work with the community the only finding in the record that he used to support that was at&t if provide the names of the attendee did he see prosecute the additional box walk that the department itself attended. and finally on 620 buchanan the hearing officer recommended the denial

commissioner fung. congressmen. commissioner president hwang commissioner honda. thank you.he vote is 5 to zero and the rehearing requests are denied >> break. >> week to the wednesday, april 9, 2014, of the san francisco board of appeals. we're now calling item 5 appeal. jeffrey kelly vs. the department of building inspection with the planning department approval protesting the oirnsz on june to rec and park department of a demolition permit to demolish one story restaurant type of building application. so we will start with the appellant i have 7 minutes >> madam president and ma'am, vice president and commissioners we appealed the deponent convenience station because it's character and historical importance. the w pa structure is an asset to our neighborhood the arts commission has yet to approve the design and no sequa was performed. if a sequa had been done we wouldn't be her now. the similar structures at the stern grove and the playground are prove of the preservation and rec and park department has stated the structure is in poor condition yet has shown no proof. thi

commissioner fung. commissioner hwang is absent.ommissioner president lazarus and the commissioner honda is reused and there's no further business. before the board this evening we are ring that someone special. welcome to corona height located in the height of the cast strow district the eye kong bay bridge and on towards the east bay. cone oi shakes park is one the city's best kept secrets on lake twin peaks it's hardly crowded on a day any day you will run into a new lolls and hop on a bus to get there without any parking worries and lolls bring their four-legged fronds run freely with other dogs and a small touch of grass for the small dogs and wild flowers carpet the grasslands keep on the look out nor hawks and ot >> welcome to the san francisco budget & finance committee regular meeting for thursday, april 24, 2014. please be advised that the commission does not permit outbursts of any kind please silence all electronic devices. that may sound off and when speaking before the commission please state your name for the record i

commissioner fung. commissioner hwang is absent.ommissioner president lazarus and the commissioner honda is reused and there's no further business. before the board this evening we are thursday, april 10, 2014, idle to voices the members of the audience kind and and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. irving at this point commissioner president wu. commissioner fong. commissioner antonini. commissioner borden. commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya you commissioners first on your calendar is items for continuance. formula retail controls informational presentation is proposed actually may 44 e 24, 2014 items a b requests for discretion review is proposed for continuance until may first, 2014 and a variance is tail proposed for continuance actually april 23rd which is the next wednesday variance hearing the reason for the separation the dr is going to be withdrawn but if not, we're continuing that matter out. commissioners hale that's all i have for continuance