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we go to that medallion holder. when those problems continue we move forward with /sr*ef revocation. we've discussed with the medallion holder, the company what the problems are and now we have nowhere else to go to rectify these problems. and finally, mr. oha is not meeting the driver requirement and i think mr. leon proved that very well in the below hearing regarding his waybills. one of the things you should know, one of the important things about that driving requirement is that had mr. oha been a regular driver in his vehicle, in his ramp medallion vehicles, he would have recognized very early on the issues that he was having regarding the wheelchair pick ups. it's something that many of our medallion holders make an attempt to try to rectify. they'll try to get in that car on their own and do the pick ups themselves. mr. oha is the final responsibility, he's the person i have to call to say hey, make sure you drivers do this. he's the medallion holder. we cannot subsidize that company any longer. it's merely
we go to that medallion holder. when those problems continue we move forward with /sr*ef revocation. we've discussed with the medallion holder, the company what the problems are and now we have nowhere else to go to rectify these problems. and finally, mr. oha is not meeting the driver requirement and i think mr. leon proved that very well in the below hearing regarding his waybills. one of the things you should know, one of the important things about that driving requirement is that had mr....
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permit holders: andrea higgins & peter chung. project: addition of new office space in rear yard below associated patio at natural grade; demo exterior rear wall; bpa no. 2013/04/26/5579s >> thank you, item 4. rehearing request. item 4: subject property at 1532 cole street. letter from david polatnick, appellant, requesting rehearing of appeal no. 13-140, polatnick vs. dbi, pda, decided december 18, 2013. at that time, the board voted 5-0 to uphold the subject permit on the basis that the planning department's determination on height is accurate, and on a further basis that the structure is code compliant. permit holders: andrea higgins & peter chung. project: addition of new office space in rear yard below associated patio at natural grade; demo exterior rear wall; bpa no. 2013/04/26/5579s >> thank you, item 4. rehearing request. item 4: subject property at 1532 cole street. letter from david polatnick, appellant, requesting rehearing of appeal no. 13-140, polatnick vs. dbi, pda, decided december 18, 2013. at that time, the boar
permit holders: andrea higgins & peter chung. project: addition of new office space in rear yard below associated patio at natural grade; demo exterior rear wall; bpa no. 2013/04/26/5579s >> thank you, item 4. rehearing request. item 4: subject property at 1532 cole street. letter from david polatnick, appellant, requesting rehearing of appeal no. 13-140, polatnick vs. dbi, pda, decided december 18, 2013. at that time, the board voted 5-0 to uphold the subject permit on the basis that...
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oha as well as the color scheme holder for best cab. in respect to the problematic issues with this color scheme, best cab had repeated failures of not properly maintaining his business permits at least since 2009 for not staffing the business from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. there were eight separate occasions, including myself and the sfmta staff to announce
oha as well as the color scheme holder for best cab. in respect to the problematic issues with this color scheme, best cab had repeated failures of not properly maintaining his business permits at least since 2009 for not staffing the business from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. there were eight separate occasions, including myself and the sfmta staff to announce
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i'll hear from the permit holder next. we're ready for your rebuttal. 6 minutes >> i know things might have been done but again we're discussing the same privilege they want 24 inches from the bottom we're willing to give that to them. in those plans they were submitted to disallow before that meeting at the building department. before we submitted we called them again and said fine. we met that day it showed 24 inches. fine we'll label the section this is the copy of the approved plans that specifically show the 24 inches from the bottom of they're under pinning. i showed them back to a him and he agreed. he didn't say anything he look at it and we preceded with our application and the next thing we heard was an appeal. so again, i have to grant to them that we've been trying to - they have not happened the way they should have one hundred percent on their part. the meat of the problem is the 24 inches. we don't want to see this drug on another 3 months. now the fact that this foundation for the type of soils i'm not a so
i'll hear from the permit holder next. we're ready for your rebuttal. 6 minutes >> i know things might have been done but again we're discussing the same privilege they want 24 inches from the bottom we're willing to give that to them. in those plans they were submitted to disallow before that meeting at the building department. before we submitted we called them again and said fine. we met that day it showed 24 inches. fine we'll label the section this is the copy of the approved plans...
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i have no basis on this point to decide whether we need to take into consideration the permit holders arguments that we need to make specific findings about public health and safety under that code section. >> anybody else? >> i'm certainly not comfortable with that issue at the moment. so if you would support a continuance for a briefing purposes? >> yes, i think i might like some further comment from our own city attorney. >> at that point? >> during. if we are going to continue it for additional briefing that would be fine. >> okay. i too notwithstanding my view of the appeals should fall and i believe in support of the findings, i do, like my company commissioners want our findings and our rulings to stand up, i think it's unfortunate that the question on the housing affordability act, i believe that was, accountability act was raised sort of in this context rather than at the time we were discussing issue but it has been presented. i want to address it. i would like to see some briefing on it. i think that would be useful for us and for to come to a decision on how we, to what ex
i have no basis on this point to decide whether we need to take into consideration the permit holders arguments that we need to make specific findings about public health and safety under that code section. >> anybody else? >> i'm certainly not comfortable with that issue at the moment. so if you would support a continuance for a briefing purposes? >> yes, i think i might like some further comment from our own city attorney. >> at that point? >> during. if we are...
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no way she got out without holder knowing. impossible. >> this is the director of prisons working with eric holder's doj to work with this woman, a convicted supporter of a convicted terrorist -- one of the worst we have in the country, to get her out early based on compassion because she's ill. >> by the way, it say this is the order here in the motions that the united states attorney which is the department of justice consents to the motion. they can't argue they didn't know. they brought the motion. they brought the motion on behalf of the bureau of prisons which reports to the department of justice and to the attorney general. the deputy attorney general in charge of this james coal criticized in the legal times and other period calls the bush administration on the war on terror. are we shocked they are now releasing the terrorists and accomplices? >> she said her new higgins is to work for radicals and polycall prisoners. she can't practice law but will try while she is, they say, dying of cancer. now that she's free. i h
no way she got out without holder knowing. impossible. >> this is the director of prisons working with eric holder's doj to work with this woman, a convicted supporter of a convicted terrorist -- one of the worst we have in the country, to get her out early based on compassion because she's ill. >> by the way, it say this is the order here in the motions that the united states attorney which is the department of justice consents to the motion. they can't argue they didn't know. they...
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the permit holder is requesting the matter be rescheduled. with the vice-president, we can give the parties to discuss regarding the hearing date. if the matter is heard tonight, it can be heard in a normal order. if not, they can not sit through most of the meeting. we would start then with mr. yee. who would have 3 minutes to speak on the date of the hearing. >> good afternoon. i'm with the parks and recreation. the parks and recreation department request that we reschedule this hearing to make a decision on the design. the committee has a three phase review on the process. the project has already received a phase 1 and 2 approval. however, it has come to our attention that the project has not received the final phase 3 approval. this was an unintentional oversight caused by the design of the three separate restrooms and were packaged and heard together by the arts commission at the one and two approvals. out of the three approvals, one has not yet. with phase two, the arts commission has already received the findings. the purpose of phase
the permit holder is requesting the matter be rescheduled. with the vice-president, we can give the parties to discuss regarding the hearing date. if the matter is heard tonight, it can be heard in a normal order. if not, they can not sit through most of the meeting. we would start then with mr. yee. who would have 3 minutes to speak on the date of the hearing. >> good afternoon. i'm with the parks and recreation. the parks and recreation department request that we reschedule this hearing...
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eric holder modified the policies on the releases about eight months ago.he then falled under the criteria for release, and you know, she's -- no contriction on her end. with her statements, has she said what she did was wrong? communicating and conveying messages from a terrorist to violate a cease-fire? no, but the director of the bureau of prisons. >> charles samuels jr. >> reports to the deputy attorney general, reports directly to eric holder. that's the way it works. >> no way she got out without eric holder knowing. >> the bureau of prisons working with eric holder's doj to try to get this woman, who is a convicted supporter of a convicted terrorist, one of the worst convicted terrorists we have in the country, to get her out early, based on compassion, because she's ill. >> yeah, and by the way, megyn, it says in the order and the motions that the united states attorney, the department of justice, consense to this motion. they can't argue they didn't know about it. they brought the motion. they brought the motion on behalf of the bureau of prisons,
eric holder modified the policies on the releases about eight months ago.he then falled under the criteria for release, and you know, she's -- no contriction on her end. with her statements, has she said what she did was wrong? communicating and conveying messages from a terrorist to violate a cease-fire? no, but the director of the bureau of prisons. >> charles samuels jr. >> reports to the deputy attorney general, reports directly to eric holder. that's the way it works. >>...
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. >> we can hear from the mer permit holder. >> good evening. my name is brent sxh i am the contractor. i inherited this project december of 2012. from a client that i asked to sort out the amount of building permits that were taken out for a period of ten years. and so on december of 2012, the dbi and i sat down, and we went through all of the building permits. of 26, permits which were plumbing electrical and it took many scopes of work and we came up with 8 permits. and out of those 8 permits, i am the one who mistakingly took one permit because one permit was based on the administrative view. and that is where the dollar came in and actually, the drainage and the irrigation was not the case. it was drainage. and excavation, and that portion was never completed from 2000 from the time that it took out the permit to the present. and so, in june of this year, because of my issues, the a group, of guys went and dug out or take a portion of the area which is not on the drawings, the drawings of the actual drainage permits which was designed and a
. >> we can hear from the mer permit holder. >> good evening. my name is brent sxh i am the contractor. i inherited this project december of 2012. from a client that i asked to sort out the amount of building permits that were taken out for a period of ten years. and so on december of 2012, the dbi and i sat down, and we went through all of the building permits. of 26, permits which were plumbing electrical and it took many scopes of work and we came up with 8 permits. and out of...
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there is no way she got out without eric holder knowing about it.mpossible. >> this is bureau of prisons working with the doj to try to get this woman who is a convicted supporter of a convicted terrorist one of the worst convicted terrorists we have in the country to get her out early based on compassion because she is ill. >> by the way megan it says in the order by the united states attorney the department of justice conscienced to the motion. they brought the motion on behalf of the bureau of prisons. they report to the department of justice the attorney general the deputy attorney general in charge of it james coal in 2002 criticized in the legal times and other periodicals the bush administration on the war on terror. >> she said her new mission is going to be to work on behalf of political prisoners and radicals and she can't fight the law but she is going to try. while she is they say dying of cancer. now that she has been free. i got to run. i got to run. >> it is unbelievable. >> at the end of the day eric holder is responsible. department
there is no way she got out without eric holder knowing about it.mpossible. >> this is bureau of prisons working with the doj to try to get this woman who is a convicted supporter of a convicted terrorist one of the worst convicted terrorists we have in the country to get her out early based on compassion because she is ill. >> by the way megan it says in the order by the united states attorney the department of justice conscienced to the motion. they brought the motion on behalf of...
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we can hear from the permit holder or his agent. thanks >> good evening commissioner. the project manager for the gentleman since we started when we starred the project with mr. low we went there and took a long time the lighting and the open space and the neighborhood. we consider it then we come up >> can you stop for one minute. >> it's important you translate this to the parties what's being said now. go ahead. you can continue thank you >> and after that we can get a basic plan and go to the planning department to get a review and consider with the independence and discuss the opinion and all of those things we have been concerned about. i have been there for 20 years i'm the first time to come to the dr because we have to do the review we take all the information and we mate a very good process. a that's my first comment here then i start the project. and first of all, mr. lawson the mixed neighbor on the southeast side and the 25 third street and i have a picture we took in the morning. i can put it someplace >> overhead please are. >> this is the background thi
we can hear from the permit holder or his agent. thanks >> good evening commissioner. the project manager for the gentleman since we started when we starred the project with mr. low we went there and took a long time the lighting and the open space and the neighborhood. we consider it then we come up >> can you stop for one minute. >> it's important you translate this to the parties what's being said now. go ahead. you can continue thank you >> and after that we can get...
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time restrictions were arrived at after the appellant and commission and permit holder. and they are arbitrarily imposed. these new stop work time seems more like a sentence, more like a punishment than anything practical. please remember that despite all the demonization that we have heard here, creating jobs and tax base is still a desirable activity. we want to get this project done quickly. i just have to address the thing with mary gallagher here. we had nine meetings with the pell avenlt three of those meetings were with myself were specifically to address problems with their building that we were offering to do pro bono work, consulting to take care of whatever their problems. nine meetings. to say we never met at the last meeting is false testimony. thank you. >> thank you. >> i have a question for the project sponsor's attorney, please. >> thank you, commissioner. >> it's not clear to me that the housing accountability act applies to this project. can you explain how this project fits the definition or what is the definition of housing development project? >> it
time restrictions were arrived at after the appellant and commission and permit holder. and they are arbitrarily imposed. these new stop work time seems more like a sentence, more like a punishment than anything practical. please remember that despite all the demonization that we have heard here, creating jobs and tax base is still a desirable activity. we want to get this project done quickly. i just have to address the thing with mary gallagher here. we had nine meetings with the pell avenlt...
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and the permit holder ended up with a building department and he needed to get an emergency permit and it was work that we wanted to get done before the rainy season and we wanted to go with that work and the permit got appealed and he was right to appeal the permit. he is concerned about it, and the people living below and down at the bottom of the hill and had concerns about that. so, what i think actually simple enough that if we could i know that the building department wants this, and we are even with the three piers that they are working on as we speak and i think that i am going there tomorrow for an inspection and we want to get the pire.s done and the wall done and the backfilling done and then we are stopping all of the work and we are going to make them get through the proper review that this should have went through any way, and we are putting them back to the pier review because of the slope protection act. and so, that is if we sum and condition the permit, that all of these permits must go through a pier review that should satisfy both sides, i spoke to the permit holder
and the permit holder ended up with a building department and he needed to get an emergency permit and it was work that we wanted to get done before the rainy season and we wanted to go with that work and the permit got appealed and he was right to appeal the permit. he is concerned about it, and the people living below and down at the bottom of the hill and had concerns about that. so, what i think actually simple enough that if we could i know that the building department wants this, and we...
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i've spoken before this committee i'm a medallion taxi holder. i drive a taxi i know exactly what's going on for ramp taxis. all the rules are based on fines not anatomy rational you pick up. we pick upny
i've spoken before this committee i'm a medallion taxi holder. i drive a taxi i know exactly what's going on for ramp taxis. all the rules are based on fines not anatomy rational you pick up. we pick upny
i've spoken before this committee i'm a medallion taxi holder. i
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. >> so, we do have a lot of different stake holders, whose needs that we are trying to address, and speak to. and we have certainly heard from small meetings that i have had with the small business leaders from the commission meeting that i came to from the discussions with oewd and the office of small business, we understand that there are concerns about where does the small business community and the small businesses fit within all of these stake holders? and i do think that there is certainly room for improvement and i think that some of the recommendations that were provided in the previous presentation would help to put us on that path and we do try in balancing the stake holders not to pick one or the other but to guide the work that we do with the principals such as those in the center in the blue and the public safety first. and transit first, but again, not transit only. and planning for an economic vitality for population and job growth, using pilot programs, and paint, to test, and customizing to neighborhood and balancing the needs that we get that each commercial distri
. >> so, we do have a lot of different stake holders, whose needs that we are trying to address, and speak to. and we have certainly heard from small meetings that i have had with the small business leaders from the commission meeting that i came to from the discussions with oewd and the office of small business, we understand that there are concerns about where does the small business community and the small businesses fit within all of these stake holders? and i do think that there is...
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. >> could you provide those drawings to the permit holders? >> yeah. >> they have it. >>vy it here. >> no you have it? >> yes, i have it. >> you have not provided it to the permit holder. >> no, and you have been reading it as a structural engineer's office. and you have presumed of the drawing and shown what we plan to do. >> you presented it to them. >> yes. >> yes. i did. >> and thanks. >> i am happy to show you to you right here. >> that is okay for now. >> when did you do that presentation? when was that meeting? >> after the appeal was filed? >> no. it was about three weeks ago, i think. >> three weeks ago? >> yeah. >> okay. >> it was far before that. >> okay, thanks. >> but we had a meeting and we discuss what our plan is to fix the foundation. >> got it. >> okay, we can take the rebuttal from the permit holder. >> structural engineer, you heard the consultant and they don't have a drawing. and i have not seen it. we met four months ago and give me your proposals and i will review it immediately, they don't have a drawing. when we met they had a cross section of
. >> could you provide those drawings to the permit holders? >> yeah. >> they have it. >>vy it here. >> no you have it? >> yes, i have it. >> you have not provided it to the permit holder. >> no, and you have been reading it as a structural engineer's office. and you have presumed of the drawing and shown what we plan to do. >> you presented it to them. >> yes. >> yes. i did. >> and thanks. >> i am happy to show you...
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. >> thank you, would the variance holder care to speak under rebuttal? okay, there is three 3 minutes for the zoning administrator. >> thank you scott sanchez planning department. i will be brief. first there were no valid ceqa or conditional use operations. it was unanimously approved by the planning commission. there have been substantial changes made over time. the planning commission did deny this project twice before approving it. in regards to mr. fung's question about whether or not we received code compliance, in regards to the department's design goals we would prefer to have the department in the corners here and require at least a rear yard variance. that would have been some direction that we would have been providing in this case. lastly, and regards to commissioner honda's question, i want to clarify in terms of the project not really relevant to this project because the environmental application was filed so long ago in 2004 that it was under previous code requirements for affordable housing. that's why the 17 percent would be for current
. >> thank you, would the variance holder care to speak under rebuttal? okay, there is three 3 minutes for the zoning administrator. >> thank you scott sanchez planning department. i will be brief. first there were no valid ceqa or conditional use operations. it was unanimously approved by the planning commission. there have been substantial changes made over time. the planning commission did deny this project twice before approving it. in regards to mr. fung's question about...
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if you would like we can hear from the permit holder first and ms. galvez can speak as well just to confirm that that's correct. my understanding from the departments is that these plans should be considered as supplemental to the existing plans and not as replacement to the plans. >> yes, the neighbors have agreed to the detailed drawings that i provided regarding the changes of the project that we are talking about and that is the disposal of the rain water and i did provide more detail and cited the code indicating that in all respects we comply with the drainage of the water. and there is nothing else, i can talk about which i think we agreed. >> okay. all right. thank you. and we can hear from ms. galvez now. >> i have a revised plan and he's incorporated all the changes we discussed in december and it looks satisfactory. it looks as if it would be something that won't interfere with my property and he's meeting all the requirements. >> thank you. i want to say thank you to both parties for working together and making this possible for both peop
if you would like we can hear from the permit holder first and ms. galvez can speak as well just to confirm that that's correct. my understanding from the departments is that these plans should be considered as supplemental to the existing plans and not as replacement to the plans. >> yes, the neighbors have agreed to the detailed drawings that i provided regarding the changes of the project that we are talking about and that is the disposal of the rain water and i did provide more detail...
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this is a sloping lot so the property is higher than the permit holder property. also as the permit holder noted there was a 2011 building permit application for addition and to add a garage and that went through notification. and there were no discretionary review requestcious , the building permit was issued last may and after the issuance of the building permit, they decided to add the roof deck and access to that roof deck. based upon the plan, that is code compliant and would not require notice. it would be allowed without section 311 notice as well as the railing that is proposed. that said, there are a couple of discrepancies that i did notice in the plans which maybe something that can be addressed as through revision process. when comparing the roof plan and third floor plan, the location of the retractable skylights do not lineup. there is also a proposed stair from the deck at the rear of the building that goes on top of the retaining wall in the rear yard. that's shown, i think on the floorplans but not on the site plan. the fixed skylight that shows o
this is a sloping lot so the property is higher than the permit holder property. also as the permit holder noted there was a 2011 building permit application for addition and to add a garage and that went through notification. and there were no discretionary review requestcious , the building permit was issued last may and after the issuance of the building permit, they decided to add the roof deck and access to that roof deck. based upon the plan, that is code compliant and would not require...
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for pardoning snowden, but holder said the justice department was willing to talk. >> if mr. snowden wanted to come back to the united states, enter a plea, we would engage with his lawyers. we'd do that with any defendant who wanted to enter a plea of guilty. >> reporter: snowden remains in russia where he's been granted asylum. during an online question and answer-session yesterday snowden was asked under what condition he would return to the u.s. >> returning to the u.s., i think, is the best resolution for the government, the public, and myself, snowden wrote, but it's unfortunately not possible in the face of current whistle blower protection laws which through a failure in law did not cover national security contractors like myself. but snowden does not believe he could get a fair trial in this country. he also denied he stole co-workers' passwords to gain access to the documents he took. holder said by releasing the classified material holding harmed the national security and he does not consider him a whistle blower. >> he's a person we have lodged criminal charges ag
for pardoning snowden, but holder said the justice department was willing to talk. >> if mr. snowden wanted to come back to the united states, enter a plea, we would engage with his lawyers. we'd do that with any defendant who wanted to enter a plea of guilty. >> reporter: snowden remains in russia where he's been granted asylum. during an online question and answer-session yesterday snowden was asked under what condition he would return to the u.s. >> returning to the u.s., i...