them reuben, junius & rose before the board will have not effect on my decision today. >> excuse me. no. >> good afternoon commissioners thank you, john here on behalf of the project sponsor this is the fourth hearing by the board of appeals the boards previously heard and approved the variance and the board approved the site permit after the permit holder has a top set back the hearing for a to hear it those are extraordinary cases and upon showing new or different facts have arisen if known at the time can effect the hearing and the dr requesters has not brought up any new information those were filed with the board and also provided to the appellants open this friday plans that this board was looking at may 13 are the plans that were are the current site permits excavation has commenced through a separate permit that's been pulled many months ago with the appeals period that work has been done consistent with the project so considering this project has been heavy vetted in 3 hearings and the fact and circumstances nothing new we respectfully ask the board to deny the request for a

good afternoon, commissioners with reuben, junius & rose representing the here on behalf of the project sponsor the hotel we're happy to be here to provide an update we recognize as a commission you've seen this project before by the prior owner and project sponsor today, we're here for a different reason on behalf of the hotel developer and operator they've purchased this two months ago we moving forward as fast as we can and fulfilling the sites plans we went to the arrest or ar c to show the updated refinement and here to show you the design as the design was approved some years ago i think from a policy prospective we all recognize there are not enough tourist hotel rooms in the city since the adaptation of the tourist hotel conversion ordinance the baseline in 2009 in terms of the number of hotel rooms in large hotels has remained static at the same time the occupancy rate was 84 percent compared to 2011 it was 61 percent so in summary we're proposing to start the construction on the project and get to the site permit process on the approved project that eliminates an existing surf

. >> good afternoon commissioners linda reuben, junius & rose i'm here on here on behalf of the project sponsor we're requesting the continuance due to comments received from the discretionary review requester regarding mroeltness of the packet posted online we prefer an august 6th due to the availability but spoken with the folks and adding to the august date and look forward to presenting at the next available hearing thank you. >> is there any additional public comment on the item of continuance? >> commissioner richards and public comment is closed. commissioner richards. >> i don't have an advanced calendar in front of any i think that is a great idea to continue the dr i've talked with the project sponsor called mia couple of times yesterday and talked with ms. tucker there is a spirit of cooperation to resolve this on both sides i move to continue to august 13th. >> second. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i mentioned did possibility we have a 5th thursday in july i know your claurnldz are full on the 6 and 13 i want to see in the dr requester or the project sponsor is amenable

. >> commissioner president fong and commissioners andy with reuben, junius & rose very excited to be here appreciate our patience when you thought you couldn't fit another one into downtown obviously busy doubt with lots of construction kevin gave a great summary why this is unusual you're not approving the design but the zone ggd if you recall in 2006 the transbay plan was essentially supposed to be primarily if not all residential plan that is still the case all the parcels up and down fulsome street will remain residential this is a unique aspect of zone one a couple years ago when occ put the rfp together they made a wise decision to put it project out as an office project one office is just about the right light and generates numerous amount of money hundred and $72 million that will fund the transbay tunnel and it is about subjected to millions and millions of jobs fees and up to $35 million and back to the basic urban planning it is a great office site it is right downtown it is about as smart a grove and intensification about oriented development if you're scoring those on th

. >> did you have - >> sure with reuben, junius & rose so clarification decision points on this in 2004 and 2010 and 2013 in terms of the extension they were they were additional environmental staff looked at what occurred and a couple of mitigation measures that were added and they still apply there's been when it comes to discuss so thank you. >> thank you. >> if nothing further. >> commissioners, the first item on your agenda for downtown monitoring reportreport monitoring report >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is powell with the departments information and analysis group i'm going to briefly summarize the 14 downtown monitoring report we published last week thanks. >> so i'm sure you're aware of the downtown plan was passed in 2004 and in particular the c-3 zoning district in red as part of the plan we're statutorily required to present reports for indicators and tops we put together every 5 years for this year's report is 2008 through 2014 one of the indicators of economic vital we track is commercial vacancy rates as you can see for the region for the city a

good afternoon mark reuben, junius & rose thank you north america lastly for a great presentation he have a few things to add 5 and dime has been in san francisco since the thirty and law school heights since the 40 there's been a lot of talk and this commission has had presentations about legacy businesses and maintaining legacy businesses in san francisco and this is exactly the kind of business that we should be allowing a slight expansion jeff took overrunning the business from his father who started the business as a starting started working in san francisco as a collect took over the business in sunset or robbed and made their way to laurel heights what exactly is going to be taking place in the new space the store itself is like a lot of hardware and variety stores they have a lot of stuff and materials for people to buy and quite frankly sometimes stores like that get accredited the new says that a called stan kitchen featuring only home wear as was said it has a separate storefront enter from the street basically, all the project sponsor is going to be doing knocking a hole

his father was junius brutus booth. he was born in london. his uncle was algernon sidney booth. when you start naming your children after political heroes all of a certain stripe, you know there is something going on there. not just like every child in london was named algernon sydney something. it was odd. this is the way the family was. and they, with their classical education, they had read all of milton who said that if you kill somebody, that's murder, but if the person you killed was a tyrant, that's not murder. and booth's father had performed in a play called "killing no murder" that came from the titus oates letter to the same effect. well, john wilkes booth sees all of this, and this is part of what would later be called evidence of insanity. but he knew things that other people did not know about the past and about all the cases in antiquity where people had dealt with extraordinary powers of centralized government. he saw modern day as a parallel, and he started to plot. now some people believe that he was plotting to capture abraham lincoln. i personally -- i cannot