commissioner president lazarus and commissioner honda. okay. great so with that request granted i don't know if there's additional comments the parties need to make on the rehearing of this matter anything futuristic from the zoning administer >> the only thing to note our understanding is this permit entitled the surveillance and resolve a life safety prior condition that is the result of parking in house and restoring the curb cut. >> public comment is closed.. any public comment on that item? >> it's being overruled the denial do we need to put the curb cuts in this. >> so you want to condition mr. sanchez you want the board to issue the offer turning of the addressing of the curb. >> that's correct. >> i'll move to grant the appeal and overrule the denial of the building permit on the basis that a surveillance has been successfully applied for and received. and condition the permit upon the removal of the curb cut. >> okay. so we have a motion from commissioner fung to grant the appeal and overturn the denial on the variance on the conditio

commissioner president lazarus. thank you. the vote is 5 to zero that motivator is rescheduled to june 4th and please go over the meeting board guidelines and enact the swearing in process please. please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices please carry open conversation in the hallway appellants and permit holder and department representatives each have 7 minutes to present and 3 minutes for rebuttals people must include their comments within the 7 minutes and parties that are not ffltd may not have rebuttal interest are are. members of the public who wish to speak on an item are not required to submit a sprrd the speaker cards are available on the left side of the podium there's a customer satisfaction form if you have questions please speak to the staff or call the board office on 1650 mission street. it is broadcast live over sfgovtv capable 78 and dvds are available for purchase. thank you for your attention if you tipped to testify and wish to have the bo

commissioner president lazarus. and commissioner honda. thank you very much commissioners that was our last item that was our end of our business and adjourned >> on december 28, 1912, san francisco mayor stared into a sea of 60,000 of constituents that gathered at geary. the berth of the first publicly owned transit system in the city, the san francisco municipal railwa >> hello, i'm nona along with the legacy of voters in san francisco i'm here to discuss 19th street only june 3rd the city and county of san francisco through it's port commission mfrtsz 3 and a half miles of waterfront along the bay and it currently regulates the maximum allowed heights they run from 40 to 84 feet they usually need approval by the planning commission and the board of supervisors those changes don't currently require the voters to approve it prop b has height limits in effect unless the city voters approve the height limit any ballot question to there those must specific the proposed height limits in you vote yes. you want to prevent the city from port pro

commissioner president lazarus commissioner honda. thank you. this vote is 5 to zero this permit is upheld take. medical cannabis of the san francisco board of appeals i'm calling the next item 10 is neighbors of the green street garage the property as 1776 green street protesting the ownerships to larry of an alternative process for the heat detergent we should wait for the fifth commissioner to return to the seat. >> mr. patterson ask i consultation the second swearing in. >> you can do that. anyone else >> do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> i do. >> thank you. >> good to see you. >> so with the communicating in the room we'll begin with the appellant. you have 7 minutes >> thank you commissioner president lazarus and commissioners ryan patterson for the neighbors of the green street garage. this is one of most interesting appeals but i represent a group of 25 neighbors that live around the green street garbage that's an automobile body garage only for parkin

. >> 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

vice president is absent commissioner president lazarus. and commissioner honda and okay.hat motion carries 3 to 1 and that permit is upheld on those conditions. okay. thank you. so the next item we actually are calling items 9 through 16 together. already hang on a second i was incorrect there's a 4 vote need to pass that motion i was speaking incorrectly that motion does not carry and absent any other motion the permit would be upheld >> you want to modify the motion. >> i'll file the motion. >> it has been vote on. >> i'll make a motion the same motion except if i do this commissioner fung would it be worthy my time. >> make the motion. >> the objection i heard from commissioner fung part of the condition where the trees would be removed to the date to the site that the site permit is issued i think this motion will be modified to say the trees will be removed to the dated of the hearing on site permit; is that correct? >> yes. >> i think i need clarification on the hearing and on june 5th open the project that's a site permit; right? >> it's a large project for authori

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 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 den

you have 7 minutes >> thank you commissioner president lazarus and commissioners ryan patterson for the neighbors of the green street garage. this is one of most interesting appeals but i represent a group of 25 neighbors that live around the green street garbage that's an automobile body garage only for parking. it's for a new water system and heat detect our we suspect something is being done the plans for example, don't show the spray boothd that's been heat by neighborhood we actually decided to withdraw the appeal no since fighting over nothing about the appellant attorney said this permit is used to entitle the spraying. i was national fy naturally shocked the permit holder cancelled the meeting. on a related note i'm told the dbi inspectors can't getting get into the garage. this appeal is simply this permit is for a fire sprinkler monitoring system that has two restrictions the first is a fire permitted sprinkler and if the system is going to monitor the spray green booth neither have a permit the sprinkle system had a permit but the permit was cancelled. this permit depended on

commissioner president lazarus. the vote is four to one the permit it upheld with those conditions. >> thank you. >> okay. so we've already voted to move item 7 and 8 now to item 4 which is the appeal janet curry vs. the city and county of san francisco protesting the issuance on march 12 to k f and development inc. to rereck a single-family dwelling with ground floor area. we'll start with the appellant 7 minutes >> commissioner president lazarus i'm jan curry on live on circle last year avenue adjacent to the subject property i filled the appeal. i outlined accident brief it's out of character with my neighborhood and will cause harm to me and my neighborhood it's important to state my objective has never been to stop the construction. since moving here my desire is to have a neighbor detection t door not dying rose bushes i've lived next to but a nice house that is the size of neighboring homes will be a welcomed edition. my neighbors and i are observed to a 3 story house. a structure that's a full story tall and

charge of the fire planning review and ask him to talk about the details >> commissioner president lazarus and members mario balanced arrested as mr. patterson states that's a simple matter a permit was put in but the system was permit process was never completed and not reported as being complete the permit expired my so again in essence any additional work to a system that was not signed off is illegal. unfortunately, the permit process the fire department that approved to permit the permit hadn't expired they'll ask the building department will tell them to reinstitute the permit. and lastly in rectifying the fire department records there is no permit but the process was never completed and to date there is no legal permit for the spray booth at that address. >> i'm sorry, i think i miss our authority what's our background all i'm what i'm retired from the san francisco fire department for 14 years and managed the planning definition. >> so your statement there's no legal permit from the fire department did you do a review. >> that was part of the scope of my work i managed. >> you reca

. >> well commissioner president lazarus i would disagree one of the arguments the city discretion to deny the cabinet. >> i think we've heard that before. >> there's no evidence in the record as to the permit location that the original proposed location would in any way block the public right-of-way that's not an argument i made at the last hearing. >> when your technical instead of or excuse me. when at&t's technical staff looks at the sites are there alternative sites in their feasibility analysis and with your commission commissioner president lazarus i'm going to ask mr. blackman to come up and address that. >> could you restate the question. >> let's take an palm street one technically privity alternative site was discovered from the box site was it determined from your staff in addition to the one you've applied for and no, it was not brought forth until the box walk in this case our proposed location was on the side of a business on palm and the proposed was in front of the business on geary. your preferred location is to get off main thoroughfares and pedestrian traffic and s

short >> good evening commissioner president lazarus and commissioners carl a short department of public works there are two orders of the memoranda and to insure that a s m f has the least negative impact on the surrounding neighborhood i'll note the outlooks were received that's the subjective tonight's appeals. in order for us to do so the applicant should locate one application plus so they'll choose among the locations which allows dpw to identify appropriate location for the proposal to require the public notice for the locations and 3 authorizing the hearing officer to choose the best of the locations. so the principle behind this is at the outset a number even if locations will be identified and sufficient notice for all neighborhoods for the proposals. the second function of the s m f order is to make sure that the residents and property owners can participate in the selection process. we say the at&t applications were correctly did understand did at&t proposes any outcomes as attend by mou and in every case dealership alternative locations and dpw can't approve those without pr

commissioner president lazarus. commissioner honda. thank you p the vote is 5 to zero and it's denied. >> thank you. the next item item 5 is the subject property 0 and is board received a letter requester asking the board take condition over this ordinance which will oasis issued ton march 20th and the appeal end and the jurisdiction request was filed in 2014 the permit holder it, llc and the project to remove a legal unit to convert to a single-family home we've started with the requester you have 3 minutes arrest. >> i'm nan an attorney in san francisco and practiced a long time in the city primarily representing the tenant and done other civil event. i'm not as familiar with the permit appeal process but when she came to me and received and she's here today for anyone that's lived her mom is 91 and she is 66 and have lived in the property for more than 40 years their spanish speaking family and spinal columns speaks italian when we got the notice i got when we find out there was an eviction notice to demolish the property i want dow

. >> 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 lazarus and commissioners i'm a 40 year resident of san francisco and lived here the first time that the affordable housing project that the mayor's office of housing put out 24 years ago and i'm one the original homeowners, in fact, i live a few doors down in 398 carl street. it's the narrow it street in san francisco that carries a streetcar it's practically in my living room i can hear the conversation openless trains. it is the most heavily iced streetcar in san francisco so this narrow street gets an inordinate amount of traffic in many cases the trains stop to all the passengers are pouring out into the sidewalk because the sidewalk is 96 inches in front of our homes as opposed to 8 needed as opposed to 15 feet like the sidewalks across the street they're wondering in the street that's so narrow in all the sites this is the one that definitely possess the greatest risk because the sidewalk is to narrow theres not room to house an insightly box and consideration should be given to the widower sidewalk on the south side of carl street or the odd numbers o

>> 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

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

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

commissioner president lazarus and commissioner honda >> thank you. the vote is 5 to zero the jurisdiction is grand and she now has a 5 day appeal period and this ends this coming monday. >> thank you. >> this coming monday. >> okay. we'll move on to item 67 the next stacey versus the urban forestry protesting the issuance on march 6 to the orthodox of a tree removal permit to receptionist two privately maintained trees. starting with the appellant you have 7 minutes >> hi i'm stacey we're representing in response 10 homeland security on the street at the 299 valencia street as concerned folks post of the case orthodox foundation we ask the board it the destruction of those trees is not necessary for the fruittion the church wants to see this done to reduce their costs this has nothing to do with the safety of the community and we shouldn't have to have the loss of those trees. the first argument the trees presented choke places for the mrufrm it's the trees if they're preserved they'll have to do the smaller section and delay their projects and exten

smith commissioner president lazarus and commissioners thank you for the opportunity to speaking speak in support of the appeal you should have any previously support it is the history of sunny side i'll be happy to answer questions. the developers and lawyers will have you to building the permit complies with the planning codes this appeal is based on the cities failure to enforce their own guidelines. may i have the offend. the additional specification of the planning code they must conform to the residential guidelines that insurer the scale is in corners are the neighborhood. the proposed building will have a sloped roof mr. g corrected that it states there's with only one window there are, in fact, two at the level one of which is the sole source of sunlight in the room. it includes a letter sent to ms. curry and me mipth e picket the report alleging to a meeting if the developer wants to negotiate in good faith neither of us received a response the purpose of the letter seemed to building cooperative before the board. the most glares omission is any responses to the concerns and

. >> good evening commissioner president lazarus holly with the department of public works just a few comments dpw gave the approval for the practices of the topping cuts that all 3 arc before us have commented on do result in the weekly failure so we think the branches are likely from that and we expect to see additional limb failures and in addition our concerns were about the fact that the trees were plant in the raised bed so the root structure has exceeded the area of the raised bed there's roots underneath the bed that's not a healthy root structure so those are the primary reason reapproved those inform removal as you saw in the breeflgz or briefs they're of prominent landscape so we understand their loss from the neighborhood is an impact to 0 the neighborhood but we feel that the trees are not in great condition because of the past pruning practices and ultimately they're not sustainable in that site being planted in the raised bed. i would say we don't believe they're an immediate hazard and i'll say that i think one hundred and 50 years for this species is an unlikely achie

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

. >> 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

. >> 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

lazarus. >> next speaker good afternoon. i'm ms. butler in the noah residents i want to compliment you for your efforts. i also want to second with the gentleman from the hate ashbury said about requiring at&t to provide an accurate make up b of what this is going to look like and with american people accurate designation of where exactly it is going to be placed if that hadn't happened they need to do that it could be included in your legislation. and also have concerns i realize you are trying to address the neighbor pitted against neighborhood but i'm not convinced that the neighbors coming tooth and talking about various locations the what if what if at the end of that meeting the neighbors are not in agreement about where the box is going to be placed and if this happens i can see that then who decides where will the final decision be made and by whom that's not in the legislation >> in the department of health of public works. >> okay. >> and i notice at the board of permit appeals the lawyers from at&t stayed that one cabinet

. >> the president has commissioner lazarus said abused of the size of the crowd and i will ask if people who want to speak line up on the far left side of the room and ms. gomez if you haven't filed out a sequa card will help in the preparation of our minutes and you can give it to the clerk. first people can come up to the mike ms. gomez that's fine >> i think there might be a sign of that this is one too meetings on this issue if i'm known by name (laughter) but i thank you all for having the patience and giving us the opportunity to speak. in defense of the marsh in defense of this historic neighborhood and in defense of the artists community and the working class community i'm maria gomez i'm the honor of being an actress and an artist this might be the fourth meeting i've been to an this issue of protecting the marshes ability to condition as a performance venue for the performances not amplified. i ask you to respectfully deny the request rehearing from the condominium project. man. and that you uphold the decision that i did make compromising his wishes and the needs of the marsh

into in this permit application and in the rest the group and it's something commissioner president lazarusou 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 d

gary lazarus, the inventor of the semi-colon is here. [ laughter and applause ] and gary, while you'rence and for all explain to us why and when you actually use a semi-colon? see? even you can't do it. [ laughter ] and you invented the damn thing. you're a son of a bitch, gary lazarus. [ laughter ] and not a semi son of a bitch, you're the whole dam thing. next, author aubrey f. dumont is here. aubrey is the woman who created the senual series of young adult novels of about two teenage ghosts who live in tasseltop, massachusetts called "below the netherworld." i will now read a passage from the very sensual, very ghostly, "below the netherworld." there was a knock at the door. but before kate could open it, jonathan had already entered through wall because he is a ghost. [ laughter ] hey, said kate. boo, said jonathan. [ laughter ] then they ghost boned. [ laughter and applause ] so sensual. such a mastery of language. ladies and gentlemen, chris kattan impersonator, clark seagul is here. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: clark, how are you? we're so happy to have you here. clark, you

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commissioner president lazarus and the commissioner honda is reused and there's no further business.efore the board this evening we are >> thursday, may 1, 2014 and i would like to remind the members of audience, that the commission does not tolerate any outbursts of any kind and please silence any devices and if you care to state your name for the record, would i like to take roll. commissioner president wu? >> here. >> commission vice president fong? >> here. >> commissioner antonini? >> here. >> commission borden? >> here. >> commission moore? >> here. >> commissioner sugaya. >> here. >> first is considering for items proposed for continuiation yawn item no. 1, 2013-1 166t amendment to the planning code sections 303i formula retail and is proposed to continuance to june 5 2014. item 2, case no. 2010.0726x at 20 a1 third street, request for large project authorization is proposed for continuance. and item 2013.0465d at 2479 francisco street has been withdrawn. >> any public comment on the items proposed for continuance? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner sugaya. >>

and as jim lazarus said the commission does not see that the way that the businesses have been utilizing the hras as a loophole but as a means of really trying to deal with complying with the high cost of healthcare that the insurance companies they are not previously up until 2014, with the aca were not charged for businesses. and also, i think, you know, the commission had representation on the universal healthcare council and the business community was there and we were all in agreement with the goals and really want to work on trying to find a solution. to really work to the most effective means of finding a solution to really get to i think, the target population that you are trying to address today. although, the expenditure and the mandated spending requirement, in light of what is as a loophole >> i mean, as, and it is not... >> i mean no, it is not a loophole, the money was there for the employees to use and access and for the majority of the businesses, individuals did just that. and you know, with even with the city's mra, but didn't have 100 percent utilization, with the citi