even this was ormgally approved as a garage -- originally approved as a garage with a roof on it and i think i see a significant deviation from that approval given all of a sudden that somebody wants to add a balcony which is different from a patch of green roof and the visual amenity and very much in keeping with high density neighborhoods when the applicant already has sufficient open space adjacent to it on multiple the amount of balcony space or terrace space is 600 square feet and that is larger than some of the units some of us are living in. so i find it a lil t bit grabby to tell you the truth unless i misinterpret the permit history. i am very hesitant to support this as sequential permitting to just get more. and i would have to basically oppose the project primarily on this permitting history and the fact that with the previous approval more than sufficient roof deck open space was approved and what constitutes as single family unit of significantly large size. >> to clarify on the previous variances on the property, the garage extension at the rear of the building was app

they were unanimous in their vote to oppose the garage. i do know that the 41 and the 45 are a regular, and they are kind of our thoroughfare transportation to get downtown. i contend that the signs we see, we have the densest parking in the city. we had a meeting at my home on russian hill, and i'm not at the top of russian hill, and supervisor chu came over to address us on transportation, parking, and traffic, and he said for two hours. i asked him if he rode his bicycle, and he said he changed it to a post three blocks down. i'm never going to move from russian hill, but having said that, we really do -- the marina has tough parking. we win with that. thank you very much. commissioner olague: thank you. [reading names] >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm presenting information that has to do with the testimony, so i would like to go first and lady technical ground. mr. harney owns the property on union street, colored green, which is contiguous to the 1945 hyde street project. i'm going to put up a plan of the areas circled. the apar

garages at the airport, and the other 27 will be distributed at 13 other city-owned garages throughout the city. this has been a project involving many departments, we coordinated on doing this at the airport, for instance, airport electrician will be doing the installations. within the city-own garages, which are under the purview of the mta, we are working with mt aid to identify locations, working with the puc to make sure the power requirements are sufficient. also, the puc attrition will be doing the installations in the downtown garages. this is a project that we think is the first rollout of our public infrastructure for electric vehicle charging. we hope to have it completed by early summer. supervisor chu: thank you. just to clarify, this is a grant that would allow us to install 47 different charging locations across the city and also at our airport facility. does not require the creation of any new positions, also does not require any city matching funds, which is why we do not have a budget analyst report. just a question on the distribution of the sites. 20 going to the ai

neighbors then decide that they have to put in their own garages. each driveway takes one or two parking places off of the street so it is no longer available to the public. this also increases the value of the property for that honor and for their neighbors, which makes it more difficult for middle- income people to live in this neighborhood, so we are well on our way to creating russian hill as a rich center only, which is how it is always portrayed, but i'm here to tell you that it is not. i want to speak very forcefully for middle income families. commissioner olague: thank you. [reading names] >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm an architect and a professor of design at uc-davis, and i have spoken and published articles about these buildings. san francisco is blessed with a rare and excellent inventory of historic garages like the one a 1945 high. it is an important example of a tight. these buildings are early symbols of the evolving car culture, and the passat represent a combination of civic pride and pride of ownership. the facades typica

i think they're one story over garage, maybe two. across the street you have similar maybe size but because of the gable, you gain some height. and i don't know if you can play with the design in some way in that manner to make an appearance of the building less bulky and -- and i don't know about -- i'm not so opposed to trying to get three or four units in here but if it doesn't result externally in a building that's compatible with the neighborhood, then you may have to drop back to two single families. also parking seems to be a big issue. i don't think seven spaces is a starter for this commission. i can't speak for the rest of the commissioners. but if there's going to be four units, i think that probably five is going to be about the max that at least this commissioner would look at. and if you're going to have fewer units, obviously, you're going to have fewer parking spaces. that's all i have for now. i haven't been in this neighborhood for a number of years. i used to live on the north slope of bernal and used to drive arou

the proposed use meets the public and community commercial garages definition. community parking is principal committed -- principally permitted. it is part of city policy to encourage small business in the area. the letters from adjacent business owners indicate many parking spaces will be for patrons and customers. although public transit options do exist, the garages and interim use which does not conflict with potential development of the site pending future improvements of transit. the existing building is a historic building and is proposed to become part of the south and -- end historic district. this can be accomplished with minor alterations to the building code. i am available for any questions. president olague: project sponsor? >> good afternoon, commissioners. rick gladstone. i am pleased to be here today to prevent this project. i am here on behalf of ares cp,,er = = -- i am here on behalf of ares commercial property. i would like to think many people for their letters and calls for support, including the giants, the mission bay business associatio

i like that this garage is not planned to be open in the evening. it is only expected to be a daytime garage, which is a good thing. it relieves the congestion issues in the evening with the noise you might be concerned about. i think that is definitely a much more amenable approach. i think it is great that this building is historic. at this point, if there is a use that can help maintain it, we know what happens when we have historic buildings that did to be vacant. other people get ideas about what could happen to them. i support the project because of that. commissioner moore: this is an interesting problem. here is one of the parts of the city where old meets new in the most explicit way. i think there are wonderful beginning points for residential and mixed use, including our recreation and entertainment part of the waterfront. i do believe that supporting a five-year interim use is the right thing to do. i like the way the code reads with providing adequate off- street parking for existing eating and commercial use. i think that has a sensiti

slope on the ramp to the garage. there is a fairly simple way for them to have a 25% slope to get into the garage to make the grosz more usable without raising the has 18 inches. you can see in this diagram that simply by inserting the ramp further into the house that a 25% slope can be achieved and the floor of the existing garage lowered somewhat. we would urge the zoning administrator to consider that. president olague: thank you. we will call you up if we have questions. second dr requestor, you have two minutes. >> i said most of what i had to say. just what we are asking is a modest pullback from the proposed plan, maybe a couple of feet would make a big difference, certainly coming to the edge of our house or even the average of the two houses. president olague: thank you. project sponsor, you have two minutes. >> thank you, commissioners. on behalf of john dibenedetti and his family, we have filed a request for accommodation in the americans with disabilities act so he can get the vehicle into his garage. it

i know that this was an actual repair garages. i don't know enough about the interaction between the current owners and the businesses in the area and how the garage has been promoted, whether there are discounts on parking of any time with the use of the surrounding businesses. none of that and formation has been supplied to me. i don't have enough information to go on. >> by a am a little surprised because i used to live on high street. i am very familiar with russian hill. all of these places are places i have frequented. i don't drive to russian hell because i know you can't park. this is what we talked about in other areas of the city, we discourage people from driving to places that you don't drive in. taxicabs are cheaper than what you pay for parking for a night. when we are talking about transit first and holding the other areas to a higher standard, the whole premise is that you make it more difficult and hopefully people will take transit. this seems counter to all of the areas. in general, i don't think that the best u

i know you have seen this image of the garage. there we go. the contact parking there, there are three cars. the parking dimensions are shown in the plan submitted by the developer as 7 feet by 16 feet, 112 square feet. the compact parking requires a minimum of 127.5 square feet. the planning code minimum for a compact zone is 112.5 square feet. you can see the parking plan is unworkable. five cars will not fit in the garage. the problem here is one of overbuilding. the parking is a mechanism to keep the building in scale. thank you. >> good afternoon. i live at 2 peralta. everybody that moves into these huge new buildings will have to make a u-turn in front of my driveway. i have seen 17 accidents since 1983 when i moved into the house from people speeding up the street and turning onto peralta. this exacerbates the problem. i am upset that all the efforts we have made, after several meetings with the developers and the owner and the architect -- it has resulted in false information being presented to you and to the planning commission. sever

the building has a parking garage. they recommend to not require a public hearing. president olague: i would like to open it up for public comment period that we have a speaker card. -- public comment. we have one speaker card. >> i live on the east side of telegraph hill. i am here as an informal representative of the neighborhood. we found out about this agenda item yesterday. i am hoping they will postpone this matter briefly so that we may meet withhold -- with holt and work out a resolution for the parking matter. president olague: is there any additional public comment? if you live like to address the commission. -- would like to address the commission. >> i am the architect and project sponsor for holt international business school. this is their second time presenting a master plan. at that time, we requested 28,000 square feet and we are occupying that on two floors. the business previously have gone out of business and closed shops. holt has occupied the first two floors, and they are working third floor. they're talking to various people, their concerns a

we have distributed among as many garages as we can. at this point, i do not believe we have flexibility because we have identified the specific locations, gone the approach it requisites, exemptions, and so forth, but certainly, going forward, we are looking and border distribution. where we can, through the municipal property, install additional chargers. we hope to be doing that next year -- later this year. supervisor chu: so there is no flexibility because the application was predicated on certain ceqa evaluation based on the site. >> it has moved forward with these ceqa reviews of the specific sites. supervisor chu: with regard to the dept.'s overall thought process, one of the things that i continue to be disappointed in in the departments is a lack of geographic equity, where you place benefits for residents of the city. residents on the southern edges of the city do not get the benefits from these programs. that is something that is severely lacking. what can you commit to, going forward, with these projects, not only chargers,

. >> y jenny rivera realiza venta de garage y pone en venta hasta su propia ropa íntima, la tijera tienes. >> con esta tijera que bien se corta y comienza ya!. >> (♪). >> buenas tardes entran nuevos personajes a la tijera, la betty y la fea de nuera belleza latina increíble señores. >> acción todos los casting hasta que la eligieron. >> carolina sandoval tiene el día libre y nos acompaña, orlando segura cómo estás?. >> muy bien gracias. >> vamos con raúl garcía para queos cuente qué más tenemos para hoy. >> lucero nos dejó esperando, tiró la piedra y skoescondió la mano. >> mi sueño más preciado como la de oscar de la hoysi no encontrar mel un millón y medio de dólares. >> y shakira llega a la tierra de antonio de la rúa, aquí se los cuento para que juzgue por sí mismo. >> cómo celebró aracely arámbula su cumpleaños, esto lo verán en telefutura. >> comencemos de una vez con mi compadre para que nos cuente que eso que jenny rivera vendió todo. >> así es comadre, déjame contarte, la vida de la banda sa todas las cosas que no le servían para venderlas en una venta de garage y recaudar fondo

>>catherine: reggie kumar is in burlington with a flood garage. >>reporter: camino gables condominium community with 3 ft. of water in a garage five cars of water damage. they are going to take all day. to remove the swatter with extra generators pumping out that water. with city and fire officials tried to get all this water all of this garage. not until this evening is expected for this water to extract to remove this- water. 20 02 = 30 cars damage the reason why this is continuing higher than the garage. the water comes down from the hillside and goes right into the garage. live in rollinburlington burlingame reggie kumar. >>catherine: these creek levels higher. with more momud >> s >>at noon, the problems were about the worst. 13 ft. at noon. currently, 8 ft.. we are seeing that these twigs, leaves, branches of vertically this is where the water will law wathe water level that is where this was around noon. this was practically some merge when i got here at noon. this is the scene where businesses were on edge. they put sandbags and apply what

>> if the current legal use is that of a public parking garage, they can retain that use even if they are converting the upper floors. we could look at this factoring into the project. >> they could entertain some portion of it. >> i would just say that we have asked the community to work with the project sponsor, that means that the answer cannot be that we only want the garages. i want to point that out. we're working with the project sponsor and figuring out how your needs can be addressed through the parking situation and how can a new use the introduced. again, we have plenty of vacant buildings throughout san francisco. we cannot make people do something they don't want to do. there are many instances where people wait and the neighborhood gets frustrated before they do something. it is hard to have compromised if there is not a compromise position. this project could better meet your needs at the same time and make this building continue to be an active use going forward. >> the motion on the floor is for continuance until may 19th. i am assuming that the public hearing will re

only for renovations, where the existing building made it impractical to construct more garage space. that means that everybody else who builds in our neighborhood manages to comply with section 242. the argument they should have a variance because the code is out of date is frivolous. the commission would not consider this argument for other cases. it would amount to spot the zoning on peralta avenue, since all nearby properties have to comply with the parking regulations. this property is not on a transit corridor. there is one bus six blocks down the hill. that is not a transit corridor. in summary, the east slope design review board believes a reduction in the size and scale of the buildings will be a solution that results most of the issues in the case. thank you. president olague: thank you. >> commissioners, thank you. my name is joan. i live on an unpaved section, and on paved block after block above the site. i am here because i understand this developer is claiming this site is close to transit. i am somebody who takes public transit. i don't have a car. i want to tell you w

we have many dwelling swithout garages. -- dwellings without garages. you have people who charge in their garage, they may bypass a number of families without a garage. it doesn't mean the technology can't work. we can make lemonade and do this through shared cars. other technologies need to be looked at. and we will have a chance to find money to put into that. as far as this is concerned, let's make the right investment in demonstrating how this works for us. in doing that ,, we will lead by example to improve the chance of adopting this technology. >> this will help popularize the new electric vehicles ,hittin, g the market in 2011. the nissan leaf is supposed to be able to travel several hundred miles, and previously, this was more limited. the $2.4 million project gives us -- hopefully, people get more used to this. the longer distances people can travel. >> i don't know i've heard of one that can do several hundred, but i have heard a hundred miles. given the distribution of trips. there is a great piece of evidence. the commute has stayed at a ha

i have a garage full of stuff i don't use. there is a place on tunnel avenue if you are a city resident you take it down there and show them you are a city resident and they will take it. call us. say, i can't get down there i have, they might come out with 50 gallon drums if you have waste or oil they will come and pick it up. if you have gasoline you haven't used in a while they will come and pick it up. the main thing is safety. we don't want to end up like this guy. he didn't heed the warnings. for each one of these to carry out this guy, how many guys are backing them up? i figure 4 a piece. we don't send in a team unless we have the same amount of people and then some to back them up. to get you to gage what an incident is the guy with the big thumb. the rule of thumb is this. if you cover the incident with your thumb you are far enough away. does it look like he's got it covered with his thumb? you see the smoke going to the side. he's still too close. he's got to back up further even with the rule of thumb. we want you

that water rushes into the garage. reporting live from a burlingame, reggie >> things are easing up a bit but we still of the potential for moderate/have become false. that, coming up. moderate/heavy downfalls. that, coming up. off (music) the rain continues. easing up a bit. the san mateo bridge flight showers. this is what we've seen for the last 24 hours 1.5 = a santa rosa. and napa, nearly sfo is reporting heavy rain fall even through morgan health. flood advisories still in effect for santa clara, through mid-morgan hill. with moderate/heavy downpours continuing in that area. rainfall totals are 1 in. per hour. the streams and creeks are continuing to rise at this current hour. the stormtracker 4 is showing that the path of the severe weather is pushing off to the central valley. we are continuing with spotty showers to the south, and the heavy rain is pushing to the east of morgan hill. a fairly heavy near gilroy and towards the peninsula. those showers are continuing towards the richmond bridge. it is pushing th

the garage is within the yard and considered noncomplying. and various administrator interpretations of planning section 188 which governs noncomplying structures allow decking to be placed upon the flat roof of a noncomplying drunk driver providing it is virtually -- provide it is virtually flat and any areas must be open and no higher than required by a building code. such decks are exempt from section 311 neighborhood notification. however, notification is required to be provided to residents and owners of any properties that boarder the subject property. the project is 11 feet deep, 21 1/2 feet wide to be located behind an existing deck. the new deck area would be surrounded by a 42-inch high tempered glass railing, the minimum height required by the building code. the d.r. filer with the property perpendicular to and north of the project property and his concern is that it will affect his privacy. the residential design team reviewed the project and concluded that the project that would not create a significant adverse impact to addition

we are expanding the garage to fit a car in the garage. if we are not allowed to do that, we would have to park the car on the street, which presents a big challenge for me to locate the car. i attempt to be helpful with my family. unloading the car is one of the things i do. the fed cannot unload the car, that is a major challenge for me. there is an office proposed on lower-level. this is designed for me to have a separate space to work with my personal assistant to read me papers and not impose on my family in the common areas. i will share an anecdote from more than points the need for some separate space. i went into my office the other day and did not realize somebody had left a cup of coffee there. i knocked it over on to some very important papers. it was very frustrating for me to have to make mistakes like that. that is the reason for the office on the lower level. we also have a family room planned. i have a very personal reason for wanting to have the family room for our kids to play their. i am not able to shuttle the kids aro

the garage is in the lower region of the house. some of them have been rebuilt and some of them have not. that water will spread i have seen this increase in the past. it does not appear to be stopping right there at this area. >>catherine: that are anybody able to return to their homes? >>reporter: yes. i am standing right from thnot far from where those photos were. people are coming, going, and going about their business it seems to be over, at least for the moment. >>catherine: thank rob fladeboe. you are looking at the marin with a very stormy day. more news after the break. hey marcel, watch this! hey marcel, watch this! [ buzzer sounds ] [ cheers and applause ] ♪ hey marcel, watch this! yeah, marcel! -marcel! -hey marcel! are you listening to me? marcel! [ male announcer ] don't miss a second of ncaa march madness with my multiview, only from at&t u-verse. just $29 a month for the first 6 months. dvr included. in the network there are no hard choices. >>catherine: delays it sfo. gabe slate his reporting live. we will check i

this is easier to turn on and off if you is get in the garage. if you can't use the one in the street. do it only if it's say safe to do so. if it's dangerous, leave it. >> this is a basic electric system. a switch and the screw in fuses. there are not many of these anymore. most have the breakers. okay. to show you what they look like. on, off. this is a safety box you can't get it open until you turn it off. a couple of screw in fuses. this is a cartridge and screw in fuses. here it says on and off. pull it out stick it upside down and stick it back in. circuit break /-rs this is what most have. you have the meter. that's how pg and e /khrarpblgs us. you have the big main. usually there are 60 or a hundred or 50. the little guys are 20-15-30. if you want to shut off the power you shut

many came home from work this evening to find their garage flooded.ktvu's amber lee is live now in buerlingame. >> reporter: rain came gushing down overwhelming storm drains and flowed into the garage of this 21 unit condo building. >> el camino was flooded like a whirlpool. it was just like it was up to my knees. right above my knees. >>> it took crews more than six hours to pump out the water. several homeowners told us this is deja vu. >> i'm just devastated. this is the second time this has happened. you know i come home from work and i find this. i lost my car in 2003. >> now the elevator is out of commission until we can get it repaired. >> reporter: flood waters also damaged this elevator. without it james keith says his 81-year-old mother will have difficult getting around so she's staying with friends. >> she's going to have to probably spend a night away because you know, she can't come back like this. >> reporter: none of the vehicles in the garage appear to be severely damaged. still homeowners say the city needs to be more. they say the s

many came home from work this evening to find their garage flooded.ktvu's amber lee is live now in buerlingame. >> reporter: rain came gushing down overwhelming storm drains and flowed into the garage of this 21 unit condo building. >> el camino was flooded like a whirlpool. it was just like it was up to my knees. right above my knees. >>> it took crews more than six hours to pump out the water. several homeowners told us this is deja vu. >> i'm just devastated. this is the second time this has happened. you know i come home from work and i find this. i lost my car in 2003. >> now the elevator is out of commission until we can get it repaired. >> reporter: flood waters also damaged this elevator. without it james keith says his 81-year-old mother will have difficult getting around so she's staying with friends. >> she's going to have to probably spend a night away because you know, she can't come back like this. >> reporter: none of the vehicles in the garage appear to be severely damaged. still homeowners say the city needs to be more. they say the s

while the cars in the garage were not severely damaged, residents are not happy. they say the storm drains aren't enough and something needs to be done to help the run-off. >>> people commuting by strain will have to find a different route today. there will be no commuter express trains running because of a mud slide. now it's on the union pacific tracks in the canyon area east of fremont. mud, water and debris are blocking the tracks. it's not known when the mess will be cleared, but trains are expected to be running again on monday. >>> 4:35 is the time. again, i know in parts of the county, definitely rainy and windy overnight. there could with problems. >>> there could be problems. yesterday actually one of my friends calledded me and a tree came down on his block and crush -- called me and a tree came down and crushed a family mini van. this was yesterday. today, still going to be damage. and we are out there now patrolling the area. we will hear more in a while. let's take a look at westbound 80. looks good out to the maze. but driving across the bridge toda

i think they're one story over garage, maybe two. across the street you have similar maybe size but because of the gable, you gain some height. and i don't know if you can play with the design in some way in that manner to make an appearance of the building less bulky and -- and i don't know about -- i'm not so opposed to trying to get three or four units in here but if it doesn't result externally in a building that's compatible with the

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we had a second garage. we put in storage. we always wanted to redo the kitchen. that was the main thing. people say, i love the kitchen. we sold that without redoing the kitchen. we made more money than we thought we ever could. they loved the kitchen. we separated the appliances and painted the whole thing. we did all the things around it. we made sure there was storage, and parking. all of the things that that was one thing that was not on, for somebody who would like to have it your personal, the kitchen, particularly, do it -- do everything else. that was a very big lesson in some ways. i thought the value would be taken away for that. it was not. >> that is a good point. you are right. especially if you -- did you do a countertop change at all? you didn't. you did appliances. >> yellow. >> new appliances can help a lot. especially today, the cost of competitive prices are pretty good and you can make those changes for $3,000, $4,000, $5,000. they're oftentimes more energy- efficient. the general consensus is people like that. one other thing that i think is

it also works to limit the appearance and dominance of garages.require that new large parking facilities be constructed in a way to be more easily converted in the future. establishes ground floor controls in industrial districts, which we did not have previously. it removes parking minimum requirements. it allows for the zoning administrator to reduce parking requirements when certain conditions are met. and it applies street frontage controls to what we call limited corner commercial uses in residential districts, so those are the little corner stores. also applies to formulary tell requirements, and allows some awnings that will also be permitted in our smallest neighborhood commercial districts. it allows users in the rc district that would be allowed on the ground floor, and this was from our previous planning district recommendation in december. it also allows commercial uses, the corner stores, in our higher density commercial districts. finally, it does add procedures for buildings over 50 feet in height and incorporates alleyway controls