board president frank fung will be the presiding offer. to my left is deputy city attorney who'll provide the board with legal advice. at controls gary. we'll be joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before the board. acting zoning administrator, joseph duffy, syrian building inspector. we expect him later. and amanda higgins from department of public works. the board meeting guidelines are as follows. we request that you turn off or silence all phones and other electronic devices so they will not disturb the proceedings. carry on conversations in the hallway. the rules of presentation are as follows. a each are given 7 minutes to present their case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. people affiliated must include their comments within these periods. members of the public are not a failiated and have up to 3 minutes each to address the board and no rebuttal. please speak in the microphone to assist the board in the accurate preparation of minutes, you're asked to present a speaker card. cards are available on the lef

you have seven minutes. >> good evening, president fung and the rest of the board. we appreciate you taking your time here. first and foremost, the gatti's complaints are not relevant to this permit. it was issued to correct a 4 inch height discrepancy in the measurement of a small section of our retaining wall within the inner perimeter of our yard. you can see what the permit was intended to correct. may i use the overhead? so this -- the circles are the -- it's a little hard to see, but the circles are the sections of the retaining wall that were mismeasured because of the pavers. that was the purpose of this permit. it was not to address water intrusion in any way or fence height. so the appellant's assertion that the permit was to address these things is just incorrect. i have to address what the attorney just mentioned, which is that their main complaints are based on regrading the yard. the yard was not regraded. the essential portion of the yard was levelled, but was not regraded. therefore we did not need an initial permit. we just required this alteration

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so on that motion, president fung? once his measures have been adopted. so on that motion [roll call] >> clerk: that motion passes. thank you and i hope that you can successfully finish the project in harmony with the tenants. okay. i will text her right now. okay we are just waiting for commissioner wilson. she will be here in a moment. >> clerk: okay we are returning to the main ninth 2018 hearing for the san francisco board of appeals. we are onto item number 6. and to this is appeal number 1 number 17... the subject property... protesting the issue on december 20tdecember12th 2017. a letter of determination regarding a request to prevent a massage establishment on this location for three years based that the property owner was not notified invite there's a violation of the health code and did not however... this is case number 20170085. the hearing request was granted on april 11th. the board voted 1-4. it was faulty due to lack of notice to the property owner. lacking the votes needed to posh cat the motion failed. the determination was upheld by ope

. >> good evening, please fung and commissioners. i'm jeanine young. i've been with the environmental health for 25 years working for the department and actually doing the retail tobacco program since 2010. so thank you for bringing up the exception. so we did indicate to the applicant to provide us with proof from dbi that the former location was being seismically upgraded so that they could see -- have that seismic upgrade exception under, i think it's the building code chapter 34(b). so they did not -- we gave them a couple of weeks to provide that documentation from dbi. they did not provide it to us, so we had to move forward with evaluating based on the information that they gave us, and the information they gave us in the application was that the building was being converted by the property owner to a youth center, so it was a change of use permit, because dbi issued a seismic retrofitting notice. >> it sucks. our dbi guy left already, huh? >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> the old days, a change of use required a structural upgrade. >> i woul

so good evening, president fung and commissioners. i am john lum, the project architect for this project, and i'll just give you a quick synopsis of the project and explain our rebuttals or our responses to the appellants. this project consists of demolishing a single-family two story house and replacing it with a three story house of about 2500 square feet with a 1400 square feet adu. of that adu, 800 square feet is below grade. our application was submitted in december 2015, and we worked over six months with the planning department before the notification was sent out in august 2016. the approved designed was determined by planning staff to be consistent with the residential design guidelines and approved by the planning commission as fully consistent with the planning code. this project will provide homes for two san francisco families and will ease the current housing crisis. the upper unit is a three bedroom family style house and is a traditional layout with a formal living room-dining room in the front with a kitchen in the ba

. >> good evening, president fung, commissioners, cory teague, planning department staff. the subject letter of determination under appeals tonight was issued by the zoning administrator on june 15, 2017. as outlined in that letter, the dph had conducted an enforcing case at the subject property at 518 tail i don't remember street. this enforcement process ran from march of 2016 and march of 2017, and the settlement included acknowledgement from the business owner that the massage establishment had operated in violation of article 29 of the health code. once the settlement was reached, dph informed the planning department of the confirmed violation. in response, the planning department sent the property owner a notice of enforcement that pursuant to planning code section 202.2(a) 4 no new massage establishment could operate on the property for three years because it had been found to be in violation of article 29 of the health code. however because the violating establishment had already vacated the premises, the planning department could not issue a notice of violation. i

high quality chinese wine since setting up the con and winery in the new province seven years ago one fung has been granted a number of accolades she discovered her love of wine in germany where she lived for a decade the vintner and her staff are always experimenting to get tastes just right she doesn't have a professional qualification but you don't necessarily need one to be able to identify the perfect flavor so what's her secret. my wine palate. i love wine. drinking it is my hobby and. if you really love wine you need to be able to rely on your palate need to be able to say no that's not right. something still missing. one funks father has a winery of his own right across the way one thing you was the first person to cultivate grapes in the region that was fifteen years ago despite the less than ideal climate he was confident that the soil was suitable the retired agricultural engineer and a colleague thanks to the authorities to lease them a piece of land. back then they said nothing would come of this old folks wanting to grow wine here. but one thing you stuck to his guns and thes

fung -- commissioner fung was before me, but that's fine. i would have liked to see a 3-d massing, and i don't see any materials. obviously, the architect is well known, does very good work. the building is a little bit self-centered. that is, it's hard to understand what is behind the window screens there, but it is code compliant, meets the residential guidelines. does its stepping. it is a modern addition versus a gabled house, and it is difficult to take d.r., other than looking for a neighborly gesture that didn't occur. and we cannot really enforce it because while i believe property line windows on all the buildings perhaps should be a neighborly gesture, we cannot enforce that. i would have liked to see a certain recognition of that gesture, but i believe there seemed to be a little bit of animosity between the parties. why, how, i don't know, but this is nothing we can physically deal with. we cannot take on getting in between that nonresolved discourse between the two parties. so i'm not making a motion. i'd hoped that there would

i agree with president fung, i think that they should still have that ability at this point. >> i would -- i would not oppose that. >> so my question, those, is if we overturn this, where does that leave us? >> it's up to -- no, it's up to public health. >> there's still a violation of the public health code. >> yeah. so i mean the decision and the letter of determination is fair fairly binary. it's either the section kicks in or it doesn't. in this case, we said it did because there was a violation. you are correct that this action tonight won't impact dph's decision, which is not in front of you right now, just overturn this decision. obviously, there can be findings adopted as to why and perhaps the dph violation was found so not be sufficient to trigger 202.(a)4, and just to clarify very quickly, for that section to kick in and trigger the three year ban, it doesn't necessarily require that the violating establishment close, it just says if it's -- if it's he basically found in violation -- if it's basically found in violation -- actually, it's more loose than that. it says if any o

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board president frank fung will be with the presiding officer tonight and joined by vice president swig, commissioner honda and we expect commissioner bobby wilson to arrive after items five a and five br heard. will provide the board with any needed legal advice this evening. at the controls is the board's legal assistant. i am julie rosenberg. we will also be joined by representatives from departments that have cases before the board to this evening. we expect the assistant zoning administrator and at representing the planning department and planning commission. building

board president frank fung will be with the presiding officer tonight and joined by vice president swig, commissioner honda and we expect commissioner bobby wilson to arrive after items five

we have a motion from president fung to continue this matter to june 6th to enable the department of public health to gather further data on their density cap analysis. on that motion -- [ roll call. ] >> clerk: okay. that motion passes, and this meeting is adjourned. thank you. >> welcome to our land use committee meeting of april 30, 2018. i'm katy tang. supervisor kim. and supervisor safai. and we would like to thank sfgov. madam clerk. any announcements? >> clerk: please silence any cell foepz and any paperwork is now with the clerk. >> supervisor tang: can you call item one? >> clerk: yes. ordinance amending the planning code to allow the owner of premises leased to the city and county san francisco. >> supervisor kim: i don't have opening comments. just want to bring up planning department staff to present. >> the planning commission heard this item on april 19 and voted to approve the ordinance with modifications. it's my understanding that supervisor kim has those changes in the draft. they are largely clerical in nature the commission supports the legislation as it aligned w

joining me is dana bash and brian fung, a tech reporter for "the washington post." so there was a leak to describe how the white house tries to prevent leaks. in fact, actually when this band went into place, it was very upsetting that immediately the memo he wrote about why this ban was going to be out there was out there. >> it is a very tough environment, people who go to the white house, people who talk to staff inside the white house. it has been heightened by the fact that the boss, the president of the united states is really, really upset about leaks to point where he is tweeting, as you said, rightly, at his own staff. having said that, in this particular case, the whole discussion about leaks is a smoke screen because the real issue is what susan collins told manu raju and what every republican encountering a reporter on capitol hill already is enough already, it's been five, six, seven days. apologize. and in talking about leaks, which i'm not saying it's not a problem, but in this particular case, it's trying to kind skirt around the bigger question. >>

president fung, commissioners. cory teague for planning department staff. i do actually want to, at this point, touch on some of the more subjective components. there are some comments about whether or not there is an appropriate scale and massing and height for this street. i mean, this -- this side of the block on 28th street has a very clear two story presence. the proposal is a three story building at the street, at 28th street. one of the probably more well known standards in the residential design guidelines is when you have a very set two story or three story pattern on a -- on a block, that you know, if you're running up a floor, you should set it back, and generally, if you're running a tremendous strong pattern, you should set it back 13 feet. in this case, the proposed floor plan is set back 15 feet, and meets the residential design guidelines there. the residential design guidelines also provide forms towards roof guidelines and stepping and trying to visually continue the topo graphy on which the property exists. in this situation, the front ro

board president frank fung will be the presiding offer. to my left is deputy city attorney who'll provide the board with legal advice. at controls gary. we'll be joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before the board. acting

thank you, commissioners, president fung, for your perseverance that you can hear our appeal. this appeal resolves around the law that resolves around accessory dwelling units. and i provided you a brief that listed items pertinent to the ordinance for the most part, and i'll go over them and summarize them, but i also want to give you some contexts to this appeal. so i am a tenant in this property. i also have a lease for one of the three garages that would be converted, and i'm also -- i work for architecture firms doing residential rehabilitations in the city, so i've done that for two decades, so i'm familiar with a lot of the things that are required. so i first got involved after there had been two recent permits since the current owners bought the property there were form eight, no plans permits that were done after tenants had left. the first one stated no structural work. during the time of that permit, an addition was built in the back. also, a room was excavated from underneath my garage, my third of the three garages, and a retaining wall was put up. i knew that th

. >> good evening, again, president fung, commissioners. cory teague from planning department staff. on september 22, 2017, geddes ulintskis requested to measure the zoning height. on february 27, 2018 the zoning administrator issued a letter of determination that clarifies the following points. first the letter stated that the planning code's way to measure sloping was the following step. such point shall be taken as curb level for measuring the height of the closest part of the building within 10 feet of the property line at such street. at every other cross section of the building at right angles to the centerline of the building or building step, such point shall be taken as the average height of the building elevations at each step of that cross section. the elevations used shall be existing eflss or the elevation used from new excavations encompassing the block. just to paraphrase, what the next is saying when you have an up sloping lot, the first 10 feet, you measure feet based on the height of the lot at grade, at curb level, but on

. >> good evening, president fung, commissioners, cory teague, planning department staff. the subject property is 188 winfield, in the bernal heights special use district. the property tds have two structures on it. one is a six unit building and the other is this detached three car garage structure. again, there's no brief filed, there were no plans, but luckily, i was able to get plans from our system. they had been uploaded in time so we can go over that in just a moment. specifically this permit was to convert the existing three car garage structure into a single adu that encompasses both floors. the planning department approved the building permit on october 16 of 2017, and it was issued on january 4, 2018 specifically to the appellant's claim bh the ground floor area -- about the ground floor area, we don't have any active complaints on file about any work being done to the garage, so i don't know for sure if -- under what permit or under what circumstances that basement level area was excavated to some degree to add the laundry room. and as much as it's relevant to

joining me now is chloe moss and anne fung. thank you both for joining us.e, you know, i actually know morgan freeman professionally. i've interviewed him here. i know him socially. i admire his work, but i'm surprised at this. what did you find out about this during the course of your investigation? >> yes, well, don, you're not alone. many people are surprised by what our investigation uncovered. it was months in the making and 16 people agreed to share their stories with cnn. several of them said that freeman made constant comments about their bodies and clothing choices. eight said they were victims of harassment or inappropriate behavior. and don, two of those eight said they were subjected to unwanted touching by freeman. i want to share one of those stories with you. one woman who was a production assistant on the movie "going in style" said while filming it in 2015, don, that freeman subjected her to unwanted touching of her lower back and comments about her figure on a near daily basis. in one incident, don, she said freeman actually attempted to tr

we have a motion from president fung to continue this matter to june 6th to enable the department of public health to gather further data on their density cap analysis. on that motion -- [ roll call. ] >> clerk: okay. that motion passes, and this meeting is adjourned. thank you. >> clerk: i would like to remind members of the public that the commission does not tolerate any disruption or outbursts of any kind. please silence your mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings, and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i'd like to take roll at this time. [roll call] >> clerk: we do expect commissioners melgar, johnson, and richards to be absent today. commissioners, first on your agenda is items proposed for continuance. [agenda items read ] >> clerk: i have no speaker cards. >> president hillis: thank you, jonas. any public comment on items being proposed for a continuance? seeing none, we'll close public comment. commission commission commissioner koppel? >> commissioner koppel: yeah. motion to continue items as proposed