honda's question -- i think it was commissioner honda. it's late, and my short-term memory is going to heck. it wouldn't be the first time that a third party vendor made a boo boo, and that we have had several occasions where there has been bad noticing. they just -- bad noticing. it's a mistake, but in my past experience at least, again, i'll rely on the panel to support or deny my position, public works really was on the case and said no, we looked at the -- you know, we validated that this -- you know, the mailing list was done correctly, and so i'm finding a different story from any -- you are new to us, in front of us, but i'm finding a new story from this person and less reconciliation of what did or did not happen, which i'm finding a dangerous precedent or a dangerous direction because we really don't know if they made a boo boo or they made it right. so -- >> is that a question? >> vice president swig: yeah. >> can i have a question? >> vice president swig: yeah. so what happened to follow up? what happened to -- i mean, your pre

>> commissioner honda: the antenna. >> oh . >> commissioner honda: is it the box? well, she said it's only 1 inch more because they decided to combine two units into one, right? [inaudible] >> commissioner honda: sorry. sorry. >> sorry. so just pointing here. so this -- kind of the radio equipment and -- sorry, radio equipment, and then, further up, the antenna? the top equipment is what's larger. the bottom equipment is about the same size. >> commissioner honda: so it's not four times larger. >> i don't believe so. i don't have the other carrier specifications with me? but we have been poling the equipment on city owned poles to be pretty consistent. >> commissioner honda: thank you very much. >> vice president swig: question. the subject of excellent view and notable street, you know, we -- i think about a year ago or so, we bounced one of these because it had a gorgeous view of golden gate park, which i would consider this view significantly better than the one that we bounced. so how do you qualify significant street and excellent view and validate that becaus

-- i think it was commissioner honda. it's late, and my short-term memory is going to heck. it wouldn't be the first time that a third party vendor made a boo boo, and that we have had several occasions where there has been bad noticing. they just -- bad noticing. it's a mistake, but in my past experience at least, again, i'll

us. >> commissioner honda: okay. thank you. >> it seemed like there has been work performed without permits prior to this notice of violation and trying to correct it beyond just the office, removal of the kitchen. is there something to really investigate, like, what has happened here? i've heard there's walls taken down, and what kind of permit somebody needs to get for the percentage. >> i don't know if we can look back in time, but we can ascertain a site visit to see if it was within the bounds of this permit before it was suspended. beyond that, we can issue a notice of violation for the penalty of that work involved. >> commissioner tanner: okay. thank you. >>clerk: okay. so president fung did make a motion to continue the matter till january 23, 2019 so that the board could review copies of the permit drawings and d.b.i. could do a site visit for this permit. so we would want these plans the thursday prior to the hearing. and are we going to allow any additional briefing? >> president fung: yes. >>clerk: yes?

>> i am. >> commissioner honda: okay. can you give us a light description of what that would have allowed prior to govern i don't remember -- governor brown vetoing that? >> it would have removed a lot of the city processes in place -- >> commissioner honda: basically, in short, it allowed the telecommunication companies to put anything they want on top of our poles. >> it certainly wasn't carte blanche. >> there was no size requirement, there was only a noise requirement. >> yes, i believe. >> commissioner honda: okay. thank you. >>clerk: is there anything else from the department of public works or planning? planning? okay. thank you. so commissioners, this matter is submitted. >> commissioner honda: i'll start off. so one, i really appreciate every spending -- i know that you really wanted to spend six hours down at city hall this evening, and trust me, i'm very sympathetic to this. but again, as i've said, we've heard literally thousands of these particular cases. the state has pretty much tide or arms with article 25

>> commissioner honda: i'm asking. so prior -- even though there was no notification required for this particular project, the project sponsors or the owners of the property sent out that they would have meetings with -- with evidently the neighbors. did you not get any of these notifications? >> when were these sent out? >>clerk: quiet in the audience, please. >> i get every piece of mail. i only got a notice posted on the door from somebody across the street with a different -- they're building something across the street, and i went to that meeting. >> commissioner honda: okay. i'll get the information. >> okay. i got nothing, and i attend everything. >> commissioner honda: okay. >>clerk: next speaker, please. you can come up. you can start walking up. that's fine. >> yeah. >>clerk: thank you. please go ahead. >> hi. my name is lauren lai. i'm a neighbor. i am kind of excited about this project because i truly believe that this project can add very positive aspect to this neighborhood because as of right now, the bu

we have that motion from commissioner honda. on that motion, president fung. >> i. >> commissioner lazarus? [roll call] >> that motion carries and i will administratively dismiss those two appeals. we are now moving on to appeal seven b. this is appeal number -- item seven b., appeal number 18-127. >> renovation of the kitchen and bathroom and the replacement of two walls. we will hear from the appellant appellants first. you have seven minutes. >> may i ask a question? is there someone representing the permit holder in the room? okay. thank you. >> high. good evening. my name is caroline duffy. i reside at 50 alta, apartment six. i have called this my home for ten years now. i have to say, by alta street standards, i am somewhat of a new person on the street. i was already pretty nervous to start off with. so this is going into, clearly a very emotional issue. what i like to do briefly is walk-through -- the reason as tenants we felt compelled to file an appeal. this is just to give you a visual of the property that we are talk

corporations honda's total sales in china reached nearly one point five million year over year in march. and saying in china there is surprising news of the labor unrest dude.

i have some thoughts. >> commissioner honda? >> commissioner honda: i'll let you start. go ahead. you're the president this evening. go for it. >> vice president swig: i -- this is -- this is tough. i purposely asked the question about -- to mr. sucre about if that corner lot wasn't there, and if in fact that building sat on the corner, would it have proper rear yard coverage with the -- with the current plan, and you answered, mr. sucre, yes, because we would take the -- the measurement from the yard next door. and it does -- and then, i asked -- and then, mr. duffy covered a question which i had in my mind, also, is that rear yard satisfactory from a security and safety standpoint, and he said it -- it seems to be, and i agree, 25 feet, which would be adequate for -- did you not say adequate for safety and security purposes. so for -- for me, both those answers were okay in the context of doing the expansion. and i -- i can't help, and it's not because it's not subject to any of the appellant's comments, i probably can't take it into consideration, and -- but the house -- i can'

corporations honda's total sales in china reached nearly one point five million year over year in march. and saying in china there is surprising news of labor unrest student solidarity and official repression organizers with jessica workers solidarity which supports workers at a plant owned by jessica technologies say chinese officials detained ten of their members five of them students last friday night one eyewitness told a.f.p. that she saw men clad in black beat one activist on the campus of peking university before driving him away the financial times reports similar cycles of unrest and repression are underway in beijing shanghai and shenzhen while apparently isolated the student labor solidarity is notable development in china's. capitalistic tator ship which is of course overseen by the communist party. a bevy of big banks are bailing from london to the european continent due to the u.k. leaving the e.u. breck's it is already having a big bad negative impact some of the names on the move include bank of america h.s.b.c. that europe's biggest bank germany's deutsche of big d. b.

version of nafta at the summit and turning to some apparent consequences a president trumps traders a honda motor company says that they will increase production of the acura r.d.x. luxury vehicle in china rather than producing inputs in the u.s. and shipping them hondas actions seems quite sensible even predictable i suppose as china is set to increase tariffs on u.s. vehicle imports to forty percent in response to u.s. tariff increases honda's move will reportedly benefit their current chinese partners wu's new and dongfang corporations honda's total sales in china reached nearly one point five million year over year in march. and saying in china there is surprising news of labor unrest student solidarity and official repression organizers with jessica workers solidarity which supports workers at a plant owned by jessica technologies say chinese officials detained ten of their members five of them students last friday night one eyewitness told a.f.p. that she saw men clad in black beat one activist on the campus of peking university before driving him away the financial times reports simi

>> i'm okay with it. >> aye. >> commissioner honda? >> commissioner honda: that motion carries 3-0. we will now move -- that concludes that numb per. bemove on to 5a through 5e and these are five appeals related to christopher cole, kristine gardner, ayca erbilgin, emrah kostem, and protesting the issuance on august 1, 2018 to bill canihan of a site permit, the change of use to convert an existing single-family house to a two-unit residence with horizontal and vertical addition. remodel new kitchen, new bathrooms, new bedrooms and living space,, new decks, and install new elevator. excavate rear yard and add fire sprinkler system throughout under separate hermit. did the appellants decide how to present the case? you have a total of 35 minutes. >> yes. we would like to do it individually. 7 minutes each. >> yes, please. >> what order would you like to do it? >> i'm going to go first. i'm robin. and then kristine. then napthali. >> them emrah and then chris cole. >> okay. all right. thank you. >> thank you. so you have seven minutes please. good afternoon, members of the board of app

it's really important because it's one of these is right on the corner of laguna honda and rockaway, across from st. brendan's catholic church. there is a lot of activity on that five-way corner. traffic, kids, you've got st. brendan's school, the parish, commute time in the evening. there are a lot of people walking on the street, a lot of cars in that intersection. so having the poles lit once again would be wonderful. and thank you john and jarlean for working with us on this. >> 30 seconds remaining. anything else? >> that's it. thank you so much. any other member of the public like to comment? no, seeing none, public comment is close. approved and send to the full board with a positive recommendation. thank you, madam clerk. appreciate it. please call item four. >> four, resolution approving the issuance of revenue bonds or loan plan of financing in aggregate issue not to exceed 21 million to refinance all or portion of certain outstanding debt obligation that originally financed or refinanced the acquisition, construction, improvement, equipping and furnishing of educational fa

he has acknowledged to mr honda and has been on this matter for 12 years. he was originally with the neighbors when there is a dispute when this matter was first proposed back in 2005 and 2006. after ten years of a happy relationship between the properties when the building was built and the owners took ownership of their units, one of whom is here today, he came back in as an expert for four years of litigation. all the parties spent a ton of money and went to mediation and went to court and reached an amicable agreement with respect to all of these issues. the foundation, the structural integrity of the two buildings and the two buildings made their peace with the settlement agreement that was approved by the court. and when i looked at this appeal , i asked myself, i think as mr honda did, what is he doing here? he is not a good samaritan. he made a lot of money. perhaps was frustrated that his ideas didn't lead him to make more. but he is not the permit holder. he is not an owner. he has no interest and he hasn't even alleged much shown any public inter

it grows about 36 inches peryear. >> commissioner honda: yeah. i noticed in the brief that the monogrowth was pretty significant. >> okay. thank you. >>clerk: thank you. we will now hear from the department of urban forestry. >> good evening, commissioners. chris buck, san francisco urban forester, with the deputy of urban forestry. if i could have the overhead, i'll go through some slides in our presentation. i want to say right out at our public works hearing the other month, this property owner has definitely maintained this tree for a long time. most property owners would have pursued removal many years before now. that said, i'm going to go through our presentation and why at the staff level and departmental level that we denied the request for removal but also how we feel at this point in time in presentation for this evening's hearing. this tree is an ash tree. we've got a number of these planted on masonic and other locations throughout the city. it does have some weak attachments, so the report submitted by the applicant, they are referr

it's in the upstairs of the honda dealer. most people won't know one thing about it, this gentleman may know about it, some people from san francisco may know. when a project like this comes along and mitigation measures one of the measures talks about a visual and an oral presentation about bill graham and fillmore. that can be available to the public on a mid-block on market street. somewhere where thousands and thousands of people can learn about this. i'm challenged. i'm saying we -- i'm not advocating we should tear down the building. no one knows about fillmore west now compared to the possibility of tens of thousands of people going through that intersection learning about bill graham and the grateful dead. i grew up with that music as well. i'm not quite as old. i had an older brother who went to fillmore east. it's just a challenge that i put out that we come to all the time on these kind of projects with you want to tear down a building and is the mitigation sufficient enough to convey the history. that's a challeng

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. >> commissioner honda: okay. i'll start off with this project in its current configuration has undergone quite a bit of process through our city departments. we're talking it's gone through the planning commission, planning department, building department. we can say that it's fully vetted. the past project, i'm really not concerned about because that's not before us this evening. i'm not willing to reduce the project in any scope, and to be honest, when you appeal a decision from the planning commission, not only -- this does a de novo board. not only can we not agree with them, we can add the decks back on, and so that's always a risk coming to this -- coming to this commission after the planning commission has made theirs. what i see before us on this project is a fully code compliant project. it's not asking for any variances or exceptions, and the fact that the current owner did an ellis act, that's a decision for him, and at which point there's a deed restriction on that which does not concern this board. i