the appellants filed this appeal for the very narrow issue of assuring that the permit holder, john britton, who is also the owner and the landlord of this, does not use this permit in order to eliminate the appellants' long-term laundry facilities at this. they recognize and have never disputed that the notice of violations issued by the department of building inspection do, in fact, identified and list serious problems with conditions of the decks and the stairs at this property. on top of that, the appellants welcome repair work if it is in the scope that he will conduct pursuant to this permit. they welcome that repair work to actually abate these notices of violation. it is very important that the board understand that that is not an issue here at all. the only issue here, once again, is that based on permit holder's communications with appellants based on the permit holders lack of response to the appellants' fears over the last few months in regards to their laundry, they filed this appeal. hopefully with better communication between the parties, we would not be here tonight, but unf

. >> my name is john britton. i purchased this building in may with an existing notice of violation on it, and on june 2, i got a permit for making the repairs. after meeting with the senior housing inspector, i met with him twice, the inspector who was taking on this was on vacation, but the inspector i met with tony to just go down and get the permits, and shortly thereafter, the tenants got an appeal to say that i was removing the dead and putting on a lesser deck. that is not accurate. i am just trying to make repairs. i am sitting here for two hours listening to issues of noncompliance, so i am trying to comply. if mr. mcfarlane has an issue with the way i operate the building, he should go to the facilities on van ness avenue, but he should not be here trying to hold up trying to get these repairs made. there are immediate life safety issues. there are is garbage all of the decks that is blocking the exits. -- all over the decks. it has to be corrected immediately. i do not think the building department or t

john britton said that we do not know who will replace him. this shows the weakness of our intelligence. moving from these shall we unverifiable proclamations about whether i'll fight it is on the votes, let's turn to objective indicators. in the 9/11 commission report, in analyzing what al qaeda and other groups need to execute catastrophic attacks against the u.s. concluded that they require physical sanctuary. 10 years ago, they had won in afghanistan here today, al qaeda affiliate's enjoy four -- somalia, yemen, pakistan. you look at the geography, it is not going in our favor. nobody has the plans to dislodge of fighting leadership from these areas. and they retain the capability to understate catastrophic attacks. beyond the threat of a massive cash as traffic attack, al qaeda's overarching strategy is going fairly well. the group is undermining our economy. peter is right -- this is what i am going to say, but it is also true. the group has turned toward what they called a strategy of 1000 cuts, emphasizing smaller, more frequent attack

john britton said that we do not know who will replace him. this shows the weakness of our intelligence. moving from these shall we unverifiable proclamations about whether i'll fight it is on the votes, let's turn to objective indicators. in the 9/11 commission report, in analyzing what al qaeda and other groups need to execute catastrophic aacks against the u.s. concluded that they require physical sanctuary. 10 years ago, they had won in afghanistan here today, al qaeda affiliate's enjoy four -- somalia, yemen, pakistan. you look at the geography, it is not going in our favor. nobody has the plans to dislodge of fighting leadership from these areas. and they retain the capability to understate catastrophic attacks. beyond the threat of a massive cash as traffic attack, al qaeda's overarching strategy is going fairly well. the group is undermining our economy. peter is right -- this is what i am going to say, but it is also true. the group has turned toward what they called a strategy of 1000 cuts, emphasizing smaller, more frequent attacks,

john britton said that we do not know who will replace him. this shows the weakness of our intelligence. moving from these shall we unverifiable proclamations about whether i'll fight it is on the votes, let's turn to objective indicators. in the 9/11 commission report, in analyzing what al qaeda and other groups need to execute catastrophic attacks against the u.s. concluded that they require physical sanctuary. 10 years ago, they had won in afghanistan here today, al qaeda affiliate's enjoy four -- somalia, yemen, pakistan. you look at the geography, it is not going in our favor. nobody has the plans to dislodge of fighting leadership from these areas. and they retain the capability to understate catastrophic attacks. beyond the threat of a massive cash as traffic attack, al qaeda's overarching strategy is going fairly well. the group is undermining our economy. peter is right -- this is what i am going to say, but it is also true. the group has turned toward what they called a strategy of 1000 cuts, emphasizing smaller, more frequent attack

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