commissioner hurtado and commissioner president lazarus. thank you, commissioners commissioner hwang is absent. we'll move to item one general public comment. at this time, members of the public may address the commission is there anyone who wishes to speak in general public comment. seeing none, we'll move to item two commissioners, comments or questions. seeing none, then item 3 is did boards consideration and a possible adaptation of the minutes of the meeting of april 9, 2014. >> any addition or corrections a motion to adapt the minutes we have a motion to adapt seeing none, commissioner fung. commissioner hwang is absent and commissioner president lazarus and commissioner honda the minutes are passed by a motion of 4 to zero we'll call the first appeal. david those good vs. the entertainment commission on stuart street for the proposal grant to a gentleman a place of entertainment permit their hours are up to 2:00 a.m. on if i and saturday nights. we'll start with the appellant please step forward. you have 7 manipulates to present you

. >> sorry commissioner president lazarus. i want to thank everyone who came out in this process because i think that the people make the point in a much more powerful way. what you heard over and over was the notice was given and there were box walks and the community said we don't think your proposed location works you should use this alternative place at&t agrees that location is better and meets all the technical requirements. then those people came to the hearing and they expected what was going to happen was the hearing officer was going to approve one of the location and not worrying about this. the department won't follow its own rules everything here they are time is waste. at&t is not here saying give us the original proposed location at&t told the hearing officer yet there are multiple location and the community has identified as being less impact full and we're okay we think should be approved and naturally i understand why people are concerned it's not at&t's position we're entitled we want the community input pre

i'm brian i'm co-author of a paper that was submitted to commissioner president lazarus. we did not obtain to another at&t s m f installation in the neighborhood open the location. i live there i have an s m f right in front of my house. there would be another s m f right on the side of my house we did a box walk. we identified an alternative site. we just building that dpw shown good faith in the process by denying the installation site at the 100 thorton street and at&t cooperated worked with us until the time they filed for a appeal. we're not official parties to the suit we're tax paying citizens that are continual being negatively effected. we respectfully ask you deny at&t appeal number 14 dash 0 dash 2 >> thank you is there any public comment. >> thank you, ma'am chair and i live on thorton avenue which is the first house next to the proposed s m f facility at one hundred thorton. i believe that this particular appeal would have been grouped with another group had it not been with a conflict of interest we subscribe to all the other argument in supporting the dpw d

i'm brian i'm co-author of a paper that was submitted to commissioner president lazarus.e did not obtain to another at&t s m f installation in the neighborhood open the location. i live there i have an s m f right in front of my house. there would be another s m f right on the side of my house we did a box walk. we identified an alternative site. we just building that dpw shown good faith in the process by denying the installation site at the 100 thorton street and at&t cooperated worked with us until the time they filed for a

. >> before my time spoke i believe you spoke to commissioner lazarus about a continuance she e-mailed me and everyone two members but not the former appellants can't make it by 515 to jean and another person can't be here. so juan was coming from a water commission in sacramento and flying out later this evening and jean had another meeting i had 10 e-mails from ms. gold's steno to ask if it could be rescheduled so i thought one thing would cancel but not everything. it's important to my community that they provide comments it's not all my story yeah. i humbly request if they can't be here >> ma'am, is there a reason why this is move forward up. >> yes. a request by a permit holder for an accomodation. so if the board wants to entertain at that motion to continue that or else we'll precede >> i think we should leave it as the regular meeting and whoever is available we'll take the testimony. >> may i make i mean, i was told it was moved forward especially, if it's the permit holder both sides have to agree. >> it's clear when people file a appraisal it can be called at any time we're

commissioner president hwang commissioner lazarus. commissioner honda. thank you. the vote is 4 to 1 this permit is upheld on that basis. we'll call our last item appeal. for kenneth vs. the city and it's on thud avenue protesting the ownerships on 2012 to non-associates to add one bath at the attic level and to approve the application attic sprinkler under a separate issue. >> good evening president lazarus i'm appealing the permit application. at 715, 22nd avenue part of the brief talks about the concerns about the quality active factors we would have express if there was notification or some type of communication if the permit holder we had no idea of until we saw it being built. we struggled with the decision because we're not wanting to cause any problems but we thought we noted to say something and express our concerns. my main concern after we filled the appeal was the method it was approved. my statements are primarily fact driven so i'm going to be reference a lot of the documents the building plans that were submitted. i first wanted to show the 2013 appl

commissioner president lazarus and the commissioner honda is reused and there's no further business.efore the board this evening we are thursday, april 10, 2014, idle to voices the members of the audience kind and and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. irving at this point commissioner president wu. commissioner fong. commissioner antonini. commissioner borden. commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya you commissioners first on your calendar is items for continuance. formula retail controls informational presentation is proposed actually may 44 e 24, 2014 items a b requests for discretion review is proposed for continuance until may first, 2014 and a variance is tail proposed for continuance actually april 23rd which is the next wednesday variance hearing the reason for the separation the dr is going to be withdrawn but if not, we're continuing that matter out. commissioners hale that's all i have for continuance nrdz >> is there any public comment seeing none, public comment is closed commissioner antonini. >>

president lazarus, meeting is adjourned. (clapping) >> so thank you all for coming out this morning, i'm edward reiskin i'm the director of transportation here in san francisco. happy to see you all here we're going to need everybody's help here today. where i will start we're lucky san francisco is a great city and one of the most walkable city if not in the world it attracts people here. it's a great city to walk around and be in. however, we we have a problem and the problem is people are getting killed in our streets and that shouldn't be happening pr it's unacceptable people are getting killed my seriously injured it's traefblg not only for the families especially for the families to whom it happens but for our whole city but the good news is it's preventable every one of those dedicates and serious injuries is preventable. the good news behind that is that we have great leadership in the city as manifested by the strong and power showing of folks behind me that are focused and committed and dedicated to preventing thos

president lazarus, meeting is adjourned. (clapping) >> so thank you all for coming out this morning, i'm edward reiskin i'm the director of transportation here in san francisco. happy to see you all here we're

the purpose of the meeting and everyone was asked to be open and honest about their opinions. jim lazarusm san francisco chamber of commerce, said on the disappointment with the america's cup 34 and the amp [inaudible] jobs and business opportunities. he was repeatedly stated that minority communities, african-american and hispanic in particular, were not responding to the ports are these because it was a foregone conclusion that the same good old boys would win the contacts. so, there's a feeling of mistrust with the cities bidding process is something that we really really need to overcome and pres. katz, dir. morehead and myself along with vp adams, all committed to working with the chamber and their members to change this perception about providing technical support mentioning and more opportunities for purchasing under proposition q. what also to be more inclusive of the lg bt community. we received a lot of great feedback and ideas to help with the establishment of clear channels of communication and timely alert some of the business opportunities and how we can better work together

>> commissioners, jim lazarus san francisco chamber of commerce, i appreciate your comments on this very complicated issue and the involvement of many of you on the commission and efforts that we have to bring a broad cross-section of the business community together. obviously this has impacts on small businesses, but impacts larger businesses in the city as well. i thought it was kind of ironic talking about protecting small business in formula retail, which of course is supported by so many supervisors and yet, they had no real constraints perhaps politically on higher minimum wage mandating health care spending and things that really jeopardize the future of small business on a daily basis in san francisco. and to argue that minimum wage can be set in a vacuum without having an economic impact is just not believable. san francisco had 600,000 jobs in 2000. there was a run-up during the dot com boom and lose almost 80,000 jobs in a couple of years by 2004. down to 520,000 with the run-up to 2007, we never got back to 600,000 jobs and it wasn't until last year that we got this city back

april 16, 2014, of san francisco board of appeals the preceding officer is commissioner president lazarus and we're joined we commissioner fung and commissioner honda and to my left is san francisco city attorney brian and at the controls of the legal process clerk. i'm cyber that goldstein the boards executive director. we're joined by representatives from the city departments that have matters before the board

president lazarus and commissioner honda >> thank you. the vote is 5 to zero this permit is restraining order hi revoked. there's no further business. before the board. we're folks. >> welcome ladies and gentlemen, i'm rick i'm the senior manager of digital learning at the academy of science it's wonderful seeing our folks logan and aboard i want to inside of the up the teacher and youth director at the educational academy (clapping.) thanks rick first of all, i want to say on on behalf of the entire science including gregory our executive director and alison our chief of staff and cove and our jrgd. i'm so pleased to welcome you all i'm meg the director of the education at the academy and digital learning is one of the major categories we're delighted to be participating in today's program and i really want to thank the mayor and his office in making this happen. that's an amazing morning i'm sorry that you weren't here earlier today to see the youth working on those programs i need inform do more cod pr for those of you you who have not

commissioner hwang commissioner president lazarus. and commissioner honda >> okay. so that motions passes 4 to zero. >> i'd like to take a 5 minute break. >> okay. we're going to take a 5 minute break. >> we're going returning and we're calling four cases. at the 1335 mission street and mr. george you have 3 minutes to present our case. >> so i'll be brief so the hearing officer found that on december 4th, 2012, at&t submitted it's police station there wasn't a hearing scheduled for more than a year until january the 6 of 2014. i have taken looking at the status it says a local entity shall approve or deny an application within 60 days of ref the completed application i respect if you disagree with the hearing commissioners. there was an alternative site identified on mission street rather than hold the hearing open and request that at&t do an additional? as the recommendation hearing officer was to deny the application and ordered the applicant to cooperate with the parking meter for the double parking meter for the s m f i assume on mission street. i'll point out

president lazarus and commissioner honda >> thank you. the vote is 5 to zero this permit is restraining order hi revoked. there's no further business. before the board. we're - >> good afternoon. welcome. >> good afternoon. >> i want to welcome you to city hall and the mayor's office celebration of women's history month i other people emily i have the prestige of serving on the department of women by a showing of hands how many live in san francisco so actually, i work for you and the mayor we've been having an women and girls since 197540 years i want to recognize our commissioners on the status of women please stand nancy vice president andrea and commissioner young and commissioner amy and julie sue. >> (clapping) >> we're joined by many members of our city family if you could hold our applause chief suhr anyone, etc. and board of appeals director and mayor's office of housing and mayor's office education hydra mendoza and al and city administrator naomi kelly and many members of the mayor's office staff please help me welcome those me

. >> thank you commissioner president lazarus. >> commissioner hwang. >> good evening john from the public works. at&t has suggested in argument in noois the location has been agreed upon. what the department is suggesting in this case specifically is that their definition of the community that agreed to it is not the community as a whole as was stated earlier in many cases and it was in our brief that in many cases at the beginning of the application process identified multiple locates and this was be irresponsibly contemplated you provide the notification to all the locations we get all the feedback from everyone that maybe impacted if there are outlooks we get the input from all the community members that are impacted and make a determination and find the least impactable location. this are 5 locations where at&t could have engaged the community where they could have provided additional notification in any cases for example, that was discussed internally after the one single site that at&t had they have a box walk where one or more additional locations may have been identified there was

into in this permit application and in the rest the group and it's something commissioner president lazarus you asked what if there's a boxed walk another location would be okay. and the hearing officer could have done and probably should have done and the board ordered this evening it should have held the order open for thirty days and have at&t see about the other locations and taking take a written public comment from the public and made a recommendation at the thirty day period. certainly one reasonable way for the board to deal with this cluster is simply require the hearing officer and department follow their own rules. that's essentially what we're asking for. that's what i have to say open this cluster i'll be happy to a answer questions >> a question is there anything that - so you've lead a box walk and the neighbors helped to identify an alternative side and at&t found at least some of the alternatives to the acceptable. >> yes. >> what's to stop you at this point from going out and noticing an alternative site. >> we're required under the s m f order with our relationship to the

. >> i don't want to leave you with the expression commissioner president lazarus at&t has held more than one hundred meetings around the city for the build out and agreed part of the memoranda to reach out to the neighborhoods. again for at&t the technical requirements those utility exhibits a can't go anywhere but within 3 hundred feet of an existing utility cabinet and >> we're quite aware of the 3 hundred feet from the cabinet but in regards to the notification and giving the public the availability to have proper notification in regards for the cabinet being placed at a location. >> one other thing i want to stress is that not one of those 21 dnldz was made on the basis that proper notification was not given. and len fong appeared at every one of the hearings and told the hearing officer that at&t's application was in corners with the san francisco works act. so if there's no basis on the administrative record to deny those appeals because proper notice wasn't right >> okay. >> okay. no other questions we'll hear from the department mr. fong. >> good evening john fong from the d

. >> i'm gladly that you asked me that question commissioner president lazarus. one of the things at&t has exercised they've tried to schedule the box walks at the night and they get a lot of complaints that essentially the utility is trying to do this under the cover of darkness. we also get objections what at&t is doing is cutting into family time. it's a additionally a problem to schedule on night or on weekends the department can't be there. so i don't know what the solution is whether or not those are scheduled during the day or in the we've gotten protest >> you're asking inform twenty-four hours later if that's correct. >> so something else i wanted to answer often those box walks are scheduled after people file protests so when you see there are multiple box walks if someone calls in and protests at&t was not doing during the beginning but now we expedite the box walks. i'm have to confer but one person says i have a problem with the location can at&t do a box walk with the person that's protesting >> it seems like that's for the box walk and it was educa

commissioner lazarus. this matter is continued until you july 16th. thank you >> okay. thank you. item 6 has already been heard item 7 alice vs. the department of public works and this is on post street protesting the issuance of the kevin of an alteration permit we'll start with the appellants agent >> can you disclose our prior. >> so we're both realtors i've had a transaction in the past i can hear this case. >> good evening, everyone i'm michael robin's i'm an architect and registered in california. i've been retained by alice lamb to look at the construction adjacent to her property. i've offered the native or the brief that was insinuated and i'd like to go over the documents from that. so this is really regarding the property owners on post a surveillance of permits a has been approved for the expansion of non-conforming desks in the rear yard it's a 3 family and 3 story building. the proposed decks decks are larger and extend into the rear yard. i'd like to get the overhead projector. >> could you speak more into the microphone, please. >> okay. as you can see the existing

commissioner lazarus and commissioner honda oh, recused the vote is 4 to zero and the permit it upheld on the basis with that finding >> thank you. >> shall i go get the - >> then i can read the next item. okay. so we we'll call the next two items this is item 4a and b which are the hearing requests the subject project on van ness street it's from the permit holder for the appeals and also received a letter from the appellants attorney. numbered 1397 and 98 both matters were decided at the time the board voted to uphold all permits and adapt the findings with revisions as stated a that the ground floor commercial space be limited as defined by san francisco planning code and the entitlement as the density be maintained and c there is setbacks of 10 to 12 feet depending on the articulated opinion of the sponsor. we're hearing those together and we'll start with the project sponsor requester gentlemen you have filed 4 hearing requests and have 12 minutes to present >> good evening mark permit holder we're asking for the appeal i'll do the first one and then we're asking for the appeal ba