he had some concerns about a large box attached to garage. -- large duct attach to the garage. i met with the project sponsor and the building owner. joe wanted john to remove a very unsightly three-foot diameter duct that ran down a ligh twell and -- light well and past the windows of the building. his position was that it was potentially dangerous and he wanted john to remove it. he asked joe whether he had concerns about the project and joe said he was not opposed, and he was also in the real-estate business. with that understanding, john asked me to remove the duct, which i did later that week. removing that had the effect of significantly improving of view and light of at least two units. i have been on the roof many times and i know the conditions well. the only two windows on joe pose a property that have a sideline of the new building are primarily looking on the existing concrete para pit wall of the garage. one of the tenants keeps her curtains drawn during the day so it appears she does not consider the window to have any view. it is clear to me that even with the ne

>> it is if the garage is supplying required parking.you have a single ushg nit building you are required to have one off street parking space. if the house was built with that parking space once you require parking you can't remove it without a variance. if you are storing things in your garage so your car cannot be parked there you are vie lating the planning code it's not legal to park in the front setback, driveways. we require 180 square feet in the garage to park the car. this can't be something 1 foot wide and 180 foot long. it's got to be a configuration a car can fit in. we use an 18 to 20 foot length to get the 180 square feet. >> if you want to store in the basement or something in a multifamily building, rosemary, you need to have sprinklers? >> again, if for a unit that has 5 units or more it requires fire sprinklers for storage. that's everything that can better than n. that situation it's more restrictive. the reason for this the reasoning is that if somebody has something in the bottom part of the building in the storage

fourth street garage, market, third street garage, the city hall garage, and this one the second andarlos. the city does plan to offer an incentive to pay. they will offer diners on nights and weekends longer free periods of parking. there are some business owners in the area that are very concerned they will have to balance out the cost if rate hikes were to go into effect. reporting live in san jose jade hernandez. >>> all right 6:49 is the time. back over to sal. sal, so far commute has been pretty smooth it sounds like. >> i would say so pam and dave. by the way traffic is moving along lighter than usual. but steve has been saying it might rain. you might want to plan that into your commute for later. not now. maybe tonight and of course driving over the weekend may be effected. just put that in the back of your mind traffic looks okay on 880. no problems on westbound 80 bay bridge. if you are driving into the union city hayward area, traffic is moving well heading south. it's a little bit of slowing in union city. let's go to steve. >>> all right, sal. just wondering i know the

i would be nervous standing before you with there was a waiting list to get into the garage. it was turning away business and it was full all the time. as far as i can tell, that is not the case. i said the neighbors themselves don't value this asset. that is not to duplicate them. it is to say that, by objective economic measurement, it is not valued for its original use. like anywhere else, the people in this never would appear to be making rational economic decisions and availing themselves of the subsidized parking on the street. this parking inside this building is market rate and it does not appear to have the value they say it does. as far as the transit center, in a better world, there would be transit centers in every neighborhood. in the real world, they don't work without enormous subsidy. i am not aware of any way of subsidizing something like this. maybe some day. it appears there has been a concession made in addition to the earlier concessions on setbacks on the 10 spaces for parking. frankly, we are a little disappointed. we like the earlier project better. it

before that, this was a repair garage. there was no hourly parking before october of 2008. we have offered 10 community parking spaces. that will probably accommodate about 30 restaurant customers a night. the parking spaces turn over about three times a night. we have an ability to provide 30 restaurant customers with parking. we think we have solved that issue. the two extra spaces the russian hell neighbors have requested simply don't get much and cost a great deal. they wreck the lower unit. right now, it is a generous two- bedroom unit. there are also two extra parking spaces that would be awkward to use and not terribly functional. we request that you stick with the 17 spaces. it is the best balance between adding community parking and making that lower unit remain viable. we do agree with the russian neighbors that the 17-space garage be managed by a single entity so hourly parking can buy in be operated -- can viably be operated. finally, before our time got cut off, zoe was showing you a 10- foot setback that we presented today. it was rejected but seems like a goo

parking garage. >> the morning but more recent a word police department declared his of homicide they went through the interviews and the videotapes and all these things together and made them declare late last night that the is up, this is a and video of kaiser hospital where she was taking class's. during a break she grabbed her keys and cell phone and went to the parking garages. police now believe that there was some type of conversation in that parking garage. they have interviewed over 25 people and they are trying to track down all leads all that are involved in this case. so far everything is pointing to a homicide. they do not plan on pulling off any more detectives from this investigation. this whole thing has started a massive manhunt. there were daily and vigils for her. french promised they will not stop until she is returned safely. we will try and hear from the hayward police department later on in the morning right now it is all homicide cases. >> more news her grieving mother is spea

tell me i can't use my garage. >> then the little streets, how who is responsible for the trees and gardens and everything else there. >> in most case, it is the adjacent property owner who are responsible. so even though those, when those streets dead end, we have a lot in san francisco, they're unaccepted streets, it is too steep to build there, the street couldn't go through, the property owner, the public right of way, it is still where the street would have been. but the adjacent property owners have to take care of that area. in some cases they made beautiful gar dens and sometimes they do the minimum and sometimes they don't know they're responsible and it can get neglected. >> it is trees and gardens. >> tree landscapes, the way the ordinance phrases it, you have to maintain it in good condition. it is a little vague, so long as it is not a blighted area. it doesn't have to be a manicured lawn, but we don't want it to be overgrown weeds. >> there are recent aamendments that say you can't pave over the required landscape area, in the front setback, particularly, planning says

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

all have a row of garages. those are the icons of san francisco. they all have garages. let's talk about the other interior and hardware issues. go back and talk about doors. here's inn exterior door set. how does one retain and maintain hardware like this. you don't want to replace should go like that. if you do it will be expensive. vsx+or?3vy÷voa;lñr you can rep parts. you buy a house and there's no key. you take this out -- >> have that replaced. you get it all rekeyed. there's one there. >> you don't have to replace the hardware. >> you don't have to replace it. i'm working on a large house now where we have taken every singet piece of hardware off. hings. the lock sets and having them all replated and going to a company that will come in and they will rebuild grease, give the old locks a tune up. there are ways to save it as opposed to replacing it. this one you see the locks that goes to the side of the door many of the new doors you bore a hole and it goes through there. if you wanted to take this out

that allows people to exit the parking garage onto keri boulevard. there are a lot of things going on on geary, and we expect more pedestrians, and vehicular traffic associated with the parking garage. there's also the transit-only lane, additionally the high volume of returns from geary onto van ness. all of these things in combination, if you about cars to exit, we felt that would be hazardous impact, and that is why you are seeing on the proposed project that exit eliminated. president olague: i was wondering if you might, in laymen's terms, explain what l.o.s. means. >> sure, without getting too technical, it is level of service, which is how we measure impact to traffic. level of service "a" is a good condition, meaning a vehicle driver does not have to wait too much. it ranges from service "a" to "f," being a feeling condition, meaning you are stuck at the intersection and you go through several cycles of lights before you cross. president olague: just for the sake of the public, level c and d on the slide, am i correct? >> yes. president olagu

this is going down to the garage. you go up to the third floor and you will see windows right above the windows i just pointed to. vice president garcia: and the circular staircase you were describing would be where on that rendering? >> right here. vice president garcia: i had thought the commissioner was asking you about the back. >> i know. there are 2 the luster cases, one here and won here. -- there are two staircases, one here and one here. this goes from the outside yard to the kitchen. vice president garcia: thank you. >> thank you. mr. murphy. no rebuttal? ok. mr. sanchez. >> i would like to put on the overhead and an aerial photo that might help show the subject property. this long building is the permit holder's property. the adjacent building is the appellant's property. commissioner fung: excuse me. victor, can you grow -- blow that up a little bit? thank you. that is good. thank you. >> this would be the -- my finger is huge. this would be the permit holder's property. this is the appellant's property. y

it says no working for the new garage. do you know what that means? >> i am guessing that has to do with the bureau streets and mapping. it probably has to do with sidewalk work very good -- sidewalk work. let me see if i can find it. >> i have some questions about the collapse of risk. you do not have an opinion about that? >> i am not an engineer. >> did you find notice was sufficient? >> i think the notice was really an inspection of the common areas. it is called a routine inspection. that is held by the inspection commission. it is an annual or semiannual inspection. >> what i am asking is whether or not more notice was required than was given to the tenants are the project sponsor. >> that is not something our department regulates. >> who wouldn't? >> civil law. don >> thank you 3 good -- >> thank you. let's of planning the same question. >> the property is located within the zoning districts within the special use district. there is no zoning requirements. however, they do add in the section 312 notification, certification is required for expan

the auditing found that the current mode of administering the six garages through long-term leases to five non-profit corporations, they were originally set up to help us fund the bonding for the building of the garages. the auditing found out it was unnecessarily costing the city an estimated $550,000 annually due to inefficiencies and duplications of some of the draft duties. we have reviewed this portion of the department with the rec and park department who also have jurisdiction over union square and portsmouth square and they agree with the findings of the audit. in the coming months, we will be addressing with them the i did concerns and to eliminate some redundancies in the operations model that currently is in place and help to standardize the row of the garage managers. we don't currently have a standard for specifying their job descriptions and the pay scales and so forth. that's in a nutshell the audit and i'll be glad to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. members of the board, questions or comments? thank you very much. appreciate the comprehensive report. >

a window and you can see into the garage. all i could see was flames and smoke. >> we were just three minutes from here. we looked up in the sky and saw the black smoke. i started driving here as fast as i could. it put on the flashers and started passing people going as fast as i could.>> atkins is on his way to alaska when the fire broke out. he immediately returned to nashville. >>> x-men is back in a big way. the 20th century fox prequell grossed 56 million bucks at the box office this weekend to capture the number one spot. last week answered big hit the hangover part 2 came in at number 2 in the second weekend on the big screen and kung fu panda part 2 rounded out the top three. >>> big honor for robert patinsen who wacked away with three trophies at the mtv movie awards in los angeles yesterday. it was for the role as the edward -- as the sam pine edward. he won -- as the vampire edward. >> i didn't think i was going to win. >> he won for best fight and best kiss and stewart won for best female performance from eclipse

we understand that the current use of the project is a parking garage. and it definitely services the community better than the seven units currently. and even though it doesn't fall within conforming zoning, but because we're changing the use, we hope that the commission will take the additional two spaces and also give the allowable option if for some unforeseeable future that they find a way to put in 25 spaces that the commission would allow them to be granted the 25 spaces if for some unlikely case that they could do such. and that is it. thank you. president olague: thank you. second d.r. requester. >> good afternoon. jamie terry, rhca. this is the third hearing for this project. why? because this project is rife with extraordinary circumstances. we are here to ask the commission to exercise its d.r. powers and consider if niece extraordinary circumstances are good planning. this project looks deceptively simple. it looks like it meets code. and that's good. but it unravels quickly when it's realized that the current planning code is insufficient f

and so if in fact sometimes congestion is added to by people not having a garage and going around in circles looking for a place to park. so, i mean, i think where it's appropriate, and we feel it's ok, giving conditional use to one-to-one parking or higher levels of parking, might actually decrease congestion, not increase it. because it's not going to be a choice between whether you have a car or not. it's going to be what you're going to do with the car and how many trips it's going to take before it goes to rest. so fee deferral program, you know, not -- not -- i think it's a very good idea. i wish there would be more programs moving forward and projects. but because of the economy, it isn't. i think what we need to do is try to figure out as a city a way to work in some of these community improvements as part of our normal budget. whether it be through operating expenses, not really likely in today's climate. but by bond issues, maybe. you know, by deferral of some expenses that are being used for other purposes and city government and more toward infrastructure which is really

white as you be leaving the parking garage. they cannot say with certainty because of the cameras are not zoomed in on the passenger's side. her car was found a few blocks away in a neighborhood that investigators say she has no friends or family and no business being in that neighborhood. for 10 days detectives searched high and low, they looked everywhere and asked the fbi to come in and help with the case. finally last night the change this investigation from a missing persons case to a homicide investigation. here is the capt. telling us why the change in classification. >> the result of forensic examination of michelle's car, the area of the parking structure, information from multiple interviews including those of friends, family and persons of interest in the, the examination of evidence collected during the service of several search warrants, an examination of the video evidence from the kaiser brush and other locations, examination of michelle's cell phone records before her phone went dead last saturday. >> it is trul

the rate hike will affect four other garages. our media partner, the "san jose mercury news" reports the city plans to modify the parking program beyond two hours of free parking that shoppers and diners currently receive to soften the rate hike. >>> warning to anyone with a glass-enclosed fireplace. a fireplace maker has been ordered to offer protective screens for its products. amid growing number of children burned by glass fireplaces there is increasing pressure on the industry to make safer products. it's a story first reported by the investigative news investigation fair warning.org. heather ishimaru has details. >> reporter: 20-month-old sydney wears compression gloves on her hands nearly a year after getting third degree burns from a glass fireplace in her parent's san francisco home. >> we had no idea that that fireplace can get 500 degrees. it takes 150 degrees to cause a third-degree burn. >> sydney's then 3-1/2-year-old brother turned on the place with a remote that afternoon. sitter had no idea and hours later, neith

they were in the garage having some kind of a late-night event when this occurred. right now, one person dead, several others injured. not a life-threatening injuries. the twenty fifth homicide in san jose, most of it in as i see areas of known for data problems. they are not saying is this is a gain sensitive. this is a middle- class neighborhood not known for this >> barbara be invited first lady michelle obama for a breakfast fund-raiser for her husband's 2012 reelection bid. you're looking at the hotel is getting ready for her visit. tickets for the events began at $1,000 and approximately 250 people will be there. the food is organic is being catered by celebrity chef alice waters. the hotel expects to welcome several other vips. the first lady will attend a second fund-raiser in san francisco this afternoon. president obama is making a rare visit to pr even though people in pr cannot vote in the election, the president is focusing on porter ricans in the united states who could help them deliver one key state during his 2012 reelection. about 4.6 million korea

lieutenant brady carried a hose into the garage when the electric garage door closed trapping him inside. lieutenant perez and vallerio were veterans. >> it looked like they were playing it by the book all the way. and still this happened. i don't know if the flow plan would have helped. they were well aware of the risks going into it. >> reporter: reporting live in san francisco, rob roth ktvu channel 2 news. >>> and you can hear more of the emergency calls from dispatchers during the fire fight on ktvu.com. to find out complete coverage under is sf firefighter tab. >>> right now a storm is moving into the bay area, ktvu meteorologist mark tamayo is tracking that storm. looks like it's going to be a wet evening here. >> that's right. rainfall rates will continue to pick up over the next few hours. so far we've had just a few clouds in place. some reports of light rain. here's the radar loop over the last couple of hours. i will put that into a pause and show you some of the action up in the north bay. not all is reaching the ground. but santa rosa. the airport reporting light rain at la

you can see the smoke coming from the home's garage. viewer just e-mailed us this photo showing the thick plume of smoke rising high over the neighborhood. ktvu has learned lieutenant victor perez died at the hospital. 53-year-old tony valerio is in critical condition and the third figh

. >>> starting july 1st, it will cost more to park at city owned parking garages. the city will charge a $5 flat rate to park at three downtown garages on saturday. second and san carlos. third and santa clara. the evening rate will go up to $5 expect at the market garage where there will is a major event at hp pavilion. they also approved several budget cuts. they approved 10% cut in pay for police. it's also laying off 100 police officers and hundreds of other city workers. and hours will be cut at libraries and city communities as well. san jose has cut its budget by $300 million this year. >>> 4:37s is time. let's check in with sal. >> traffic is doing pretty well around the bay area. we are off to a nice start. there are no major issues here on 80 westbound heading out to the mccarthur maze. also the morning commute looks good if you are driving to the bay bridge toll plaza. it's light with no problems on the bridge itself. in the south bay 280 northbound is doing very nicely here through downtown. at 4:38 let's go to steve. >>> sal, thank you very much. yeste

. >> in the garage, away from the parking lot, and it goes down 7 feet. but the perimeter foundation does not open on the adjacent property foundation, and because the site is basically very hard clay, it was the opinion of the engineer that there was no danger, and therefore, under the civil code, because it is away from the property line, the permitee did not believe that he has to get any permit because there is no danger to the adjacent property. vice president garcia: and, therefore, no notice. >> and, therefore, no notice. excavation. vice president garcia: thank you. commissioner peterson: i was interested in the prior owner and the previous owner. some design. >> my understanding from their argument is that they believe what was changed is the amount of wall that has been demolished. they do not believe that the demolition is within the scope of what is allowed in the planning code, and we have followed -- the architect has followed a very vigorous calculation process, and it has gone back and forth, and the department will come back and say, "no,

is a 50-cent fee to enter or exit the garage during weekday business hours and 25-cent fee to enter and exit other times of the day. if someone entered and exited on sunday, that would be 50 cents and these numbers would adjust based on inflation. and finally, in conjunction with the city's transit-first policy, we were looking at having cpmc provide a muni fast pass to each employee that requests one and cpmc would be responsible for paying the face value of those passes which are either $60 for the muni-only pass or $75, muni plus bart and pay 60% of the total number of employees. and we are proposing that we would use the funding to offset some of the operating and capital expenditures associated with maintaining and improving transit, bicycle and pedestrian access along the corridors adjacent to the facility. and these corridors would be identified -- what we have identified in our transit project. with that, i would like to turn it over to the t.a. rachel, who will talk about the specifics of the project. >> good evening. transportation planner with the san francisco transporta

to throw away cases of produce. >>> one month after two students were shot and killed in a parking garage at san jose state, the university says it is making changes to its safety alert system. many criticize the university for waiting 90 minutes after the shooting before sending out the first emergency alert. the university says there was a delay because police were sending the alerts from their phones. the school says they will now use a laptop to send alerts. >> we need to provide information. >>> 25-year-old cindy and 26- year-old thomas williams were found in a parking garage on may tenth. >>> your iphone won't be helping you avoid dui check points anymore. apple is changing the guidelines for its app store and now explicitly bans apps which list check points. earlier this year four u.s. senators isn't letters to apple asking them to stop selling the apps. the maker blackberry pulled the apps a short time later. google still offers those apps. >>> nasa plans to explore climate change. at 7:20 this morning the space agency has a five minute window to launch the satellite. the three ye

coming down we have three-story buildings on top of half-garage expressions. and then look down post street, this is where we have three-story buildings and smaller two-story buildings over garages with a three-story expression, and other one-and two-story buildings. once again, on lyon. and you can see the small map over here. hopefully it's clear enough. you see that we have smaller buildings with three stories and a garage, and two-story buildings with larger units and larger flora fluoride. so as we look down presidio ave, we have a smaller treat coming into a larger ave that's really as big as mission street and mayor son street. so it's a much larger street with residential blocks, larger, more horizontal expressions on one side of the street and then a transition to the uni yard on the other side, with more institutional uses. that's kind of supporting the baseline of some of the information that's been talked about today. i would like to talk about some of the acoustic issues that were brought up today. we'll be very detailed with those. we'll have to

gladstone said there would be two new curb cuts, three houses, three garages. >> there is actually a net gain. there would be three of street parking spaces with three curb cuts required. that would provide two off- street parking spaces each. the current plan would probably result in removal of one off- street parking space. we are looking at a net gain in each case of one additional parking space. vice president garcia: thank you. president goh: i am sorry. your time has expired. if commissioners have questions for you, they can call you up again. >> commissioners, the matter is submitted. president goh: comments, commissioners? commissioner fung: i would offer a little historical perspective, as i have been known to do. when i was at planning, the first residential district that had a residential design guidelines accepted was west would park, which is not far from here. that height limit was 28 feet. it went from 40 to 28. merrill loma park -- miraloma park wanted to adopt the exact same guidelines as set for western park. it never came to fruition, but if you look at this projec

the nearest garage across from terminal "b." most of the upper flores are for rental cars and we found that the changes are tricky to get used to. the signs are difficult to understand. i went to the lot and thought it's empty, is it the right place? >> it was. but the new signs should be in place for tuesday. name changes like no more long-term parking. it's going to be called economy. the rate is $15 a day. you should know in the economy lot there are 1700 spots. it's more than half the lots than before. it's expected to fill up on weekends. live from the mineta san jose international airport, john alston, abc7 news. >> thank you. >>> 6:02 now. bart awarded the second of two contracts to extent the fremont line to warm springs and eventually to san jose. springs construction of fairfield won $300 million contract. and the company will design and install tracks with the future warm springs bart station. that station will serve neighborhood in fremont near alameda-santa clara line. bart expects to open the nearly 5-1/2-mile long

neighbors say they seen white smoke comeing from the garage door. one problem is the house appears to be two stories from the front but there are two additional stories on the back. >>> two firemen were at the garage door but they were unconscious. and so the ambulance was here. they put them on a stretcher. i saw them doing cpr and then a big black cloud blew up above the house. >> back here live at the scene, we understand that the american red cross is helping the four people who lived in the house tonight. they did not want to talk with us. you can see the firefighters there. it appears that according to the spokeswoman they were all doing the standard operations when the flashover happens: but ut they're not sure what caused that flashover. we are hoping to get more information shortly. the battalion chief does say this road will be closed for most of the expeeng they will be here -- evening and they will be here overnight to watch this scene. reporting live in san francisco, ktvu channel 2 new. >> >> today's loss is the first time in eight yea