sue hester, you wished to comment? >> up until friday, i thought this legislation could be salvaged. i do not think so right now. i have asked for two changes. when i have been asking for along with other people for four years. this is for common notice. it never shows up in any legislation. i have asked for three or four times. second, the current structure we have, which sets the time of appeal for an e.r. -- an e i are -- and eir after the product certification. the planning commission schedules to have a 12 or 15 hour hearing with two commissions because they do not want any intervene or appeal. it is an easier soft -- and easily solved problem. time the eir appeal to the planning decision. i have a hard time understanding the changes that were being made today. i am not sure whether the entire cadex process was taken out. i am pleading for you to make specific -- you have cadex notices for this brand new category we have a lot of. you adopt an area plan and there are no more eirs in that area because they are tier

>> sue hester. i was at the eir. i think the commission has the opportunity to give some feedback, that you should be telling us, the academy of art, where this is going. bohol -- >> they are doing this wherever they want to purchase a building. and they have had very serious impact in the areas of knob hill. this happened at the scoping meeting as people were talking about the dramatic changes in their buildings. and the problems that were caused by the concentration of students preparing ad hoc yahoo! basically, of the students and these activities, of students home reexport -- of students. basically, of the students and these activities. they have to provide housing for a significant portion of these students that they have built. and they cannot take over all of these apartments. we will have nothing left for the people who are now in the academy of art. -- not in the academy of art. the second thing that they need to be told about is you have to concentrate on academics, in areas that make sense, such as transit

hester's comments. as far as the work, ms. ha has done, it is extraordinary. in keeping the tenacious leash on this. i know he only came on a year ago, following at least four other land use attorneys. maybe he can move this along. that is a statement i made before. i appreciate the permits have been filed. i think the fact we must realize 100 permis filts filed just emphasize the disregard the academy has had to the planning code of the city. it totally emphasizes it. that is what needs to be kept in mind. >> commissioner moore? commissioner moore: this is like a career. i do think that the staff has done a great job to really hit on all the issues. and explaining what is happening. magnifying the extent of what the issues are. if anybody else would drag this out, we would not be living here anymore. i am strongly in support of the department. that we would support carefully drafting supportive legislation to prohibit the conversion of the existing residential units, outlined in detail, planning comdde ammendments to address housing. to define what student ho

hester and patel have withdrawn, leaving jackman. the staff looked into the demolition of a 25,000 square foot building, and the construction of a tourist hotel with 172 rooms, and ground floor retail space. there of the pedestrian access to mission street. the issues raised in the remaining letters include the following. transportation and noise, and wind. this is for the traffic and the loading analysis. when there is enough capacity to meet the demand of the proposed project, her and the surrounding business. the commercial lending activities would not create a major hazard, or cause supported ahoy increases for the levels of service. with the noise issues, or the department of building inspection would make certain maps the guests would not be exposed to excessive noise levels. and as the noise from construction may be annoying during these hours, the increase in vibrations would be considered less significant because this would be temporary, and restrictive that the current level. the project will not have any significant noise

. >> i would agree with -- with some of the concerns miss hester raised. i'm not planning to oppose steppeding the project but what is of great concern to me is that in 2006 we're still approving one-on-one parking near transit for 332 units. somewhat a contradiction of where we're going, particularly in light of the fact that we're building the terminal three blocks away. there's something not quite right. i'm not going to single out this project to discuss that but i think there's a policy discussion which we sooner or later need to have. >> in this particular developer is unusually trustworthy. >> i'm not going to single this one out. >> i'm not singling this one out either. there's issue can we need to address. >> you're correct, commissioner moore and commissioner olague. your cop meants when you look at the application of june 15th of 2006, you have to -- i -- i presume an environmental though four starting or at the latest 2005. -- that's going to put us five or six years back on the viretal. the parking has changed. the area has changed. so, i'm no

. >> sue hester. i don't think you had a report from land use. waint to talk about what happened at land use. the is sequ amendments are going through the board. they were continued to next monday, with the exception of commissioner fong who i need to add to my list. i sent all of the commissioners and mr. ram a letter saying what i am asking the board to do. what i am asking the board to do and what i'm asking this commission to do is to start thinking about how your process of hearing major case that is have e.i.r.'s has become dysfunctional. i'm asking the board to change the appeal time from e.i.r. certification to project approval for projects that have e.i.r.'s. this wasn't a problem before the state put in this appeal process to the board of supervisors. all of the big hearings and with e.i.r.'s and i'm most familiar with the downtown man which i was heavily involved in for years had multiple hearings on legislation that was major. that you had an e.i.r. certification followed by commission deliberations which was thoughtful about the chan

. >> sue hester. may 1, there were three seats open on the port commission. the mayor did not do anything with them for an awfully long time. then one commissioner moved on to i believe the fire commission, and after he had been confirmed, the president of the board commission was surprisingly moved to the planning commission. that shocked everybody. we have had these rolling vacancies. this is the last appointment made by the mayor on this very powerful, extraordinarily important commission. at the beginning of this hearing, you said you were going to defer making a lot of decisions. this nomination was made the first of december. this hearing was notified thursday. for today. no one knows about it. you have to be really obsessive to find out about a hearing over a holiday weekend. i really think that's a port commission, given its magnitude -- there should be a little bit more thought given to it so that people can have a chance to really raise issues, and you can ask the full range of questions. i do not see why this has to be voted on tomorrow. that is my

director to execute contract modification no. 2 to agreement no. 08-07-contt-000 with mcguire and hester for additional construction services required as part of the temporary terminal project, increasing the contract by $378,700 for a total contract sum of $20,521,677.18. chairman ford: properly moved. seconded. all those in favor say aye. >> the consent calendar is approved. we can go ahead and move into the regular calendar. item eight. approving an amendment to contract no. 08-04-cmgc-000, authorizing webcor/obayashi joint venture to award a trade subcontract to balfour beatty infrastructure inc. as the responsible bidder submitting the lowest responsive bid in the amount of $187,251,070 for tg03 - buttress, shoring, and excavation, and thereby increasing authorized direct costs under contract no. 08-04- cmgc-000 by $187,251,070 and increasing the authorized construction services fee by $15,354,587.74. >> directors, we have brian who will present the item. we also have cheryl from legal counsel. chairman ford: thank you. >> good morning, directors. principal director, tjpa. this is t

. >> sue hester. the staff has done a good job and i want to talk about tweaking it to be really good. the website is critical. the planning web site is really hodgepodge. it is hard to find things. you can put all kinds of things on it. if you cannot find it its best as though it does not exist. it is really important for the community that is something is proposed to this site -- there is flooding. underground springs. if at the very dangerous grambling. -- at the very and you were scrambling. there is that memory. one of the other problems as there is no institutional memory on the planning commission practices. in the practice -- in the past, you always struggle with how you plan this. you say, we want to modify this. other planning commissions, and i do not think anyone else knows this, we are going to give you instructions. big problems, little problems. go back and review this. you do not have to have another hearing on this. you put the revision off in our package so you can make sure what we'

. >> sue hester for the neighbors. i want to clarify the procedural situation. you do not have plans before you that you can approve under your own decision or what we are asking >> the only plans you have are for a four story building that blocks the light on the west side of the site. eight variants -- a variance has to be granted based on criteria in the planning code. this cannot possibly meet the criteria because there is an effect of harm on the neighbor to the west. by refusing to flip the site, to flip the building, so it is at a location where the neighbor to the east has no harm and supports it and the neighbor to the west really needs the sunlight, it is an impossible situation on a variance. you asked the developer to come back with a three story building. this is a very narrow street on the side of a hill. it goes up the slope of and one of vista -- of buena vista. you have a context that was developed in the 1800's. this is an important vacant lot. what you need to do is to give instructions on an envelope. my clients do not care how they arrange t

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>> sue hester taking his first comment. this is not an -- an eastern neighborhood project. it is an old c.m. project. it doesn't meet eastern neighborhood standards. they chose not to meet them. that was part of the staff report. number two, when you have ground floor units like those shown on the screen, people don't use them because of privacy issues to be open to the street. i -- very rarely, you see thought given to ground floor unit that is allow them to be open to the street, like to flow from the house on to the sidewalk and they're to be some kind of visual connection. i didn't see anything in this. in the real world this will have shades pull do you understand. a barrier. because of privacy issues. i think there should be a lot more thought given to that. i support the staff recommendation regarding the rear yard, pulling back the building an additional 2 1/2 feet above the first -- first level. who owns the railroad spur? i mean, this assumption that it is per petly open space has the developer and the owner of the adjacent property at 2660 -- had discussions abou

. >> sylvester -- sue hester. i have been dealing with the port in a land use context for 30 or 40 years. the part deals with balancing a variety of issues. it balances real-estate. it balances maritime needs. it balances the public interest. what is troubling to me is basically two things. the mayor sat on a port commission seat for an extraordinarily long time. that seat became vacant the first of may. the mayor let two of the three seats laps. the other one he put on to the planning commission very recently, rodney fong. the port has major demands on it. it has to sort out realistic things. and i did not hear anything that leads me to have comfort on this. if you go to the backside of the b section today, there is an enormous obituary on kay kerr. she was one of the founders of save the bay. save the bay was created because of the pressures on the waterfront all around the bay. we have issues that no one has really talked about, and now we have this big thing on the waterfront, the america's cup. the real-estat

. >> sue hester. i want to thank the supervisors who introduced the resolution about the morning show on kpfa. when you have local programming that deals with area news, it's really important, the morning show has been a really important vehicle for talking about what's happening in the bay area. we have so few news outlets. "the examiner" is not really a strong newspaper. "the chronicle" has shrunken and we don't have local news. and so kpfa is the biggest wattage of the public radio in northern california. it is a huge area and it covers what happens here in oakland, emeryville, in fresno and really gives news for northern california. and i think there's an appropriate time for the boards of supervisors to say something and losing a local program that deals with news at nonprofit level is a huge hole. it is a huge hole in my life every morning from 7:00 to 9:00 to not have any local news. thank you very much. >> thanks. next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. anthony fess, 20-year san francisco

>> sue hester and i guess my question is, when do you think you will be considering your rules? because last week i think it became clear to me that there needs to be rules on when you have a rehearing so you don't blow your calendar out. i apologize for being involved with a case that went on forever that affected your calendar so severely. i plead not guilty, but it happened. and i realize there really needs to be some understanding and some direction from the commission to staff. if you have hearing number one and you tell people to go away and redesign the building and do certain changes to it, the hearing is not that. it is not about everything under the sun because i am chagrinned that the case i was involved in really did blow out the calendar last week. and i think the appropriate way to deal with this if you are going to be considering the rules, i would like to participate in doing a reasonable draft on the coming back to the commission round two, where if you have had already had your hearing. not a continued case because you have never resolved anything, but when you

. >> it was tyler hester's idea, an english teacher who wanted to motivate the students, some of whom not reading at grade level. >> the book that is completely in line with their life experiences. they're gonnaing thrilled to read. >> our interests, whatever we're interested in, we can get to read it and won't be bored about reading it. >> for most of us pomplamoose may seem like an unusual name for a group. >> it's from the center grapefruit. >> grapefruit. >> grapefruit! >> thanks to the group, the students now have an excellent source of knowledge. richmond, lee ann melendez, abc 7 news. >> all right. good job. we have an excellent source of fog right now for the time being. >> we have. it hasn't budged for like the past several days. but south bay was sunny, san francisco is sunny and we have a little more wind this morning. and a weak weather system that is pushing on through to hopefully erode some of that cold air, that damp cold air that's locked in across the bay area. here's the airport. and we're looking at cool conditions here at about 40 degrees. you got into some sunshi

. >> it was tyler hester's idea, an english teacher who wanted to motivate the students, some of whom reading at grade level. >> a book that is completely in line with their life experiences, they're going to be thrilled to read. >> what we like and our interest, whatever we're interested in, we can have the book to get to read it and won't be board. >> for most of us, it may seem like an unusual name for a group. >> pomplamoose is a grapefruit. >> these students now have an excellent source of knowledge. richmond lee ann melendez, abc 7 news. >> lisa argen with us now. a nice sunday but rain is on the way eventually. >> yes, nice if we can get some of that sun back into sunday. yeah. outside now the clouds have been with us throughout the overnight hours. we have that cool damp east wind bringing in that tulie fog from the valley. what else is new, right? we did manage yesterday sun around san jose and the airport but never quite made it up into the north bay. but today a little wind shift should help us do that. as we get started this morning, numbers quite cool. in fact, looking at