. >> president fung: any comments or corrections? >> we have a motion from commissioner lazarus to adopt the minutes of the august 8th, 2018 board meeting. are there any public comments on the minutes? seeing then, on that motion, president funk we ? >> that motion carries. we will move on to item number 4. this is an appeal. the subject property is 128 lc street. michael and joanna carter versus the zoning administrator. appealing the issuance on july 3rd, 2018 of the suspension request regarding building permit application -- applications. they were approved by the planning department on march 29th, 2010 to allow construction of a four-story, no basement single-family dwelling pursuant to variants issued on april 8th, 2010 regarding the front setback, rear yard and curb cut at the subject property. however, this permit was not issued until may 22nd, 2015. three years after the variance decision which rendered the variance decision void and cancelled. the planning department is requesting that the permit be suspended to allow the pr

the matter is submitted. >> president fung: commissioners? >> i am not sure what is accomplished by allowing the decision to stand. arguably, if the variance goes away, they have the option to come back and build something that would be code compliant and not accommodate the neighbors. and simply not go for the variance. i also think that there was a lack of clarity and the fact that building department continued to reissue the permit or extend the permit and take fees, that is another action by a city department. i am bothered by this. >> again, as i disclose, i developed a property across the street. the neighborhood district is one of the toughest and strongest neighbourhoods in the city. they have further restrictions than the planning and building codes. and dealing with the neighbors, if it did not get complaints, it means that the previous owner has worked very closely with the neighbors. i agree with my fellow commissioner in what is accomplished. also the fact that the planning department is going to change their language indicating

thank you. >> president fung: thank you. >> we will now hear from the department. >> good evening, commissioners. i was san francisco public works bureau of urban forestry. many streets in san francisco have established species pattern of 2-3 species. or a single set species on a block. and a decision regarding ed replacement species is not often left open for the fronting property owners. on port -- on cortland, there is a mix in a variety of species and not a pattern. we are open to discussing a range of replacement species with the property owner. if the tree size with maturity was appropriate with the sidewalk and proximity to the streetlight. a medium sized tree or smaller. the april tent meeting with the appellant and the representatives, was made clear there was no interest on their part to discussing medium stature replacement tree species as recommended by public works and the resulting director's order. instead, there is a doubling down at insistence that too large replacement trees be allowed to be planted adjacen

i just wanted to put that out there. >> president fung: we can change that up. as long as there is a 40 inch pedestrian access. that would seemingly work. 6 inches, 2 feet, forefeet would give you that 40-inch pedestrian walkway. >> the subject property has a 6-foot sidewalk. it would be a two by four with a 4-foot passage. >> yeah. >> president fung: i do not have a problem with that. the only concerning issue would be that it would set a precedent and calls for further fallback for the department. but as members of the public testified, the department is handing out information that indicates that is a 6-foot six rather than a 7-foot at the new director's order. given that information, i would support that motion as well. >> on the basis for the motion? it is public safety and the lack of clarity currently with regard to the departmental guidelines. >> ok. so we have a motion -- >> commissioner honda: we would recommend public safety and accessibility on the sidewalk. let's stop it at that. >> and the lack of clarified lines greece. >> commissioner honda: know

. >> president fung: anybody else? i think i showed my cards and i would be prepared to suggest a motion where the appeal is upheld and that the current street trees are removed and replaced by two new street trees in a 2-foot square box, as long as a 40-inch pedestrian access exists on the sidewalk and that the replacement trees would be at the discretion of the department. that would be my motion if anyone wants to discuss. that would be wonderful. >> i am with the urban forestry. one note is it could be a two by three basin or a two by four. in terms of -- we would want a three by three or three by four. but just for taxi purposes. i just wanted to put that out there. >> president fung: we can change that up. as long as there is a 40 inch pedestrian access. that would seemingly work. 6 inches, 2 feet, forefeet would give you that 40-inch pedestrian walkway. >> the subject property has a 6-foot sidewalk. it would be a two by four with a 4-foot passage. >> yeah. >> president fung: i do not have a problem with that. th

so we have a motion from president fung to grant the appeals and issue the permits on the condition that they be revised to reflect revised plans that will be submitted and approved based on d.b.i.'s review. >> i think the department might -- did you want to say something, senior inspector? >> sorry. one thing that will come into play is the declaration of use with one of the windows that is close to the wark that has taken place. the department will take into consideration that there is a possibility that window, because of those construction, we might have to get into a legal thing but that -- because of the roof deck and the commissioner lazarus brought up, what comes first. what is existing, the window was existing but now there's a permit and that declaration of use says if you build within six feet of that, that you may not be allowed that opening. the read the building code may take over here. i just want to let you know that. >> that's why i asked, would that be pertinent if there was a wall there. it's more if it's a window. >> correct, yes. >> do you want us to make an exceptio

. >> president fung: overhead, please. >> if you can see the windows here -- the windows here all a joining. the windows we have also here. here, here, here. there are windows here and here. windows here. this is only a sampling. >> sir, your time is up. >> it's the first time. >> thank you. >> you had three minutes total. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> we will hear from the appellant. >> you have three minutes. >> good evening, members of the board. my name is leo brown. this has been a very stressful time. not only time-consuming because of the time for me and my family. he had many chances to provide a full detailed plan in compliance with the fire code, structural code, mechanical code, which includes title 24. but so far, he continues to look for a short cut. on the contrary, i have provided in my briefs three in total so far. fact, the permit holder's plan is not in compliance. which includes, number one, i made improvements on my property, fully vetted, and inspected by the city, which includes the construction of the roof deck and a hatch that is less than six feet away from the per

the authority, as president fung noted, did get distribute. the land use review went to the planning department. the affordable housing requirement went to mayor's office of housing and community development, and ocii was created to deal with the d.d.a. -- development agreements and implement those contracts as the years continued. in 2015, the mayor's office notified the property owner, the appellant, of their requirement, reminding them of their requirement to rent these units, has never been successful in getting that requirement satisfied. after multiple notices, the appellant did reach out to the planning department, and i discussed this with melody, one of the appellants, about the idea of converting the building to student housing. they said that it was not really well utilized as residential care facility. at the time of the 2006 hearing at redevelopment agency, they said it was 40% occupied. they said that raising the amount they could charge for even the affordable units would allow them to fill those units very, very quickly. that w

good evening, president fung and commissioners, ryan fung for the appellant. this is to orient you to the properties. this is a two story building on upper market street. the building is owned by c.t.c., presumably short for crossroads trading company. the upstairs is occupied by the academy of ballet of san francisco. the appellant owns the property next door at 2135 market street. the subject permit tonight is a permit for secondary egress from the ground floor commercial space. the problem with the mer my is it doesn't go far enough to -- permit is it doesn't go far enough to give secondary egress to the ballet school, as well. it does not have a legal second means of egress. the two properties were previously under the same ownership, which allowed the ballet school to exit across the appellant's property historically, but when the ownership changed, the permit holder asserted that it had an unrecorded easement across the appellant's record for the ballet school's egress. they went to court, and the judge issued a 28-page decision. if i could have the over

president fung? >> president fong: aye. >> clerk: commissioner honda? >> commissioner honda: aye. >> clerk: vice president swig. >> vice-president swig: aye. >> clerk: that passes 4-0. >> president fong: let's take a fi >> clerk: okay. welcome back to the september 12, 2018 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. we are moving on to item number 7. versus the historic preservation commission. this subject project is the fulton street right-of-way, issuance to the san francisco arts commission of a certificate of appropriateness for proposed work removing the storage the bronze early day sculpt really group from the pioneer monument. consistent with the purposes and the standards of the san francisco planning code article 10 and to meet the secretary of interior standards for rehabilitation of the property located between the subject block 0353, and 0354. and this is case number 2017 2017-015491coa. h.p.c. motion number 0331. rehearing grants on june 13, 2018. on april 18, 2018, the board voted 5-0 to grant the appeal of the basis that the historic

his. >> president fung: i have a question. so, your brief, basically alludes to the fact that, perhaps, or is no direct link in the charter between the appeal authority of this board and the commission. do you feel similarly about h.p.c.? because there is no direct link in the charter back i will say we have learned a lot about the charger authorities in relationship to the charger authorities of h.p.c. through this process. we have been in this process for over a year. at the time that we were filing in good faith, as we work well with hbc and we bring in a number of issues to then, we wanted to work in good partnership to bring that to them. working with the city attorney, they think we could do that at an advisory level. we could do that as an informational presentation for inquired and consideration. i think going forward, we may need to review that, given the experiences here. >> president fung: as long as they agree with you? [laughter] yes. our city attorney would work on looking at that authority. whenever possible, we

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i would -- i guess i would agree with you, president fung, that a continuance to find a better way might be the best way to go. but there's no way that i would support the appeal. >> i would expect something to come back that's different. >> yeah. >> i'm having a hard time with the entirety of what has gone on here. there wasn't any discussion and all about the effort to convert it to student housing just a couple of years, which speaks to me of a lack of commitment to this as well. i understand your sort of trying to sequence things but i don't know that denying this appeal is going to make a difference in the long run. i'm not prepared to continue it. >> i can go either way. i did do this site visit yesterday. i'm extremely concerned with the business plan and motto of this particular facility. the fact that the zoning administrator or one of the department either joe or scott noticed that even that the facility care licenses had been expired. i can go either way. i think that more importantly, the district attorney has other plans for this particular facility itself. but i do have a c

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the presence on those green fund in which that the developed countries are supposed to contribute fung. in order to all other countries. when i see it we're not one to not make the same mistakes of our right knowing our. or what i said this is going to be more like i want to say. you know look who i want to see. this is going to be my last questions to find do you think it's about time for us to try to think about alternatives instead of quick fixes like moving populations towards elana rebuilding the infrastructure because when you read the literature it says that we are into what looks like a new era. well i think we already know much of the solutions we just have to implement them so we don't have to think about two new solutions although obviously it helps to improve them but we know we can go one hundred percent renewable energy in the next decade if only we want to if there's a political will to do that and i think that is still the main thing that is lacking and of course in terms of adaptation i think people will either move away from some vulnerable coastal areas or they will

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board president frank fung will be the presiding officer tonight he is joined by commissioner lazarus swig and we expect commissioner commissioner on dirt shortly.

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board president frank fung will be the presiding officer tonight he is joined by commissioner lazarus, vice president swig and we expect commissioner commissioner on dirt shortly. to my right is the deputy city attorney who will provide any legal advice this evening. at the controls as a legal assistant. gary catera and i'm the board executive director. we will also be joined by representatives from the city

officer, miss brynn stevens, melissa dodd, and our assistant superintendent of middle schools, tom fung. >> thank you, commissioners. from this perspective, it looks dazzling. so we're pleased to present an update on the board this evening on the middle school redesign. my name is brent stephens, and i'm joined by two colleagues who will copresent this evening. >> melissa dodd, chief technology officer. >> good evening, commissioners, and department superintendent. my name is fong sung, and i am the assistant superintendent of middle schools, and i'm here to let you know that i will be participating in the middle school age redesign. i'm super excited and right now, i'm here to learn and listen and my colleagues are going to be showing me the way. >> so what we hope to do by way of this presentation is bring the board and the public up to speed on the most recent set of engagements that we've had on the topic of middle school redesign. we count that we've been in front of this body four or five times in the last two or three years to provide updates on the middle school redesign. we're

board president frank fung will be the president. to my left is deputy city attorney brad russy who will provide the board any legal advice this

i'm howard fung, senior project management southeast plan and wastewater program. i have the quarterly report followed by the wastewater enterprise quarterly report. the 70 projects in stage 1 representing $2.79 billion are 25% complete with $649 million at the close of june. there are 18 projects in construction represented by the green. it's still the biggest piece of the pie with the largest, dollar-value projects that are in this phase. the team is working diligently on design. we anticipate completing 95% by december. the team's also working on a few early-out packages that includes sewer replacement, demolition and utility work, which we anticipate will break ground in march, 2019. we have assumed ownership and will do the same for the greenhouse site once demolition is completed later this month. more recently, the agreement was signed by e.p.a. and p.u.c. on july 27. and the contact for construction management staff augmentation was signed on august 1. so we expect to have n.t.p. later this month. it's a bit hard to see, but the photo is the physical hydrau