meeting of san francisco board of appeals the presiding officer is our president commissioner president lazarus joined by commissioner vice president honda and commissioner fung and commissioner wilson is absent we have a vacant seat when a seat is vacant a vote of 3 members is required robert brown the deputy city attorney and provides the board with legal advice and mr. pacheco is the board legal assistant i'm cynthia goldstein the boards director we'll to be joined by representatives that have matter before the board scott sanchez is the zoning administrator and he represents planning department and planning commission and joe duffy for the department of building inspection mr. pacheco go over others meetings guidelines and conduct the swearing in >> phones and other electronic devices are prohibited. out in the hallway. people affiliated with these parties must conclude their comments within 7 minutes, participants not affiliated have up to 3 minutes - no rebuttal. to assist the board in the accurate preparation of the minutes, members of the public are asked, not required to submit a speak

mar is not in the room commissioner president lazarus would you like to call the next item. >> so we'llt hold off and move on to item 5 another subject property on caesar chavez street the board received a letter lawyers miller versus dbi and january 29th the board voted with commissioner wilson and other commissioners to deny the permit it is enrolling issued 3 votes being required to overturn or modify the departmental actions the subject permit was uphold by the operation of law and the project is disconnect and remove the sink and over-the-counter put it below the flat mr. crow 3 minutes. >> good evening members of the board and staff i'm dave i represent the appellant pam miller the request was an extraordinarily cases to prevent a maneuvered justice at february 11th meeting you denied a building permit to remove an illegal unit on kansas city street you based your decision that permit was issued without benefit of block notice due to an error we recognized that was important to avail the appellant to request a review and also recognize that was important to follow a legally consis

18, 2015 meeting of san francisco board of appeals the presiding officer is commissioner president lazarus and she's joined by our vice president commissioner vice president honda's and commissioner fung and commissioner wilson to my left is robert ryan the deputy city attorney and provides the board with advise at the board is mr. pacheco and i'm sdng the boards director we have departments with cases before the board scott sanchez is representing the planning commission and planning department and explain if you would at this point go over the board guidelines and please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones and other electronic devices are prohibited. out in the hallway. people affiliated with these parties must conclude their comments within 7 minutes, participants not affiliated minutes, members of the public are asked, not required to submit a speaker card or business card to the clerk. speaker cards and pens are available on the left side of the podium. the board welcomes your comments. there are customer satisfaction forms available. if you have a question about the sche

. >> commissioner president lazarus before you gun mr. patterson so that is going to be testifying i believe a second swearing in. >> just a moment please. if you intended to testify another this hearing 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 evening. i'm here to protest the denials of the permit for the spray booth on green i did buy the building in 19989 july at this point there was people there the date of the booth was made in 1975 they're saying i'm not sure the booklet was there but a block building at a time we buy the building it is under a conditional use permit the tenant had the rights and he misused the process and denial the paying rent so i evicted him in 1994 at a time i had the conditional use permit switched in my name the city loud that in doing that the past inspects except for the fire department as you recall said it was a body shop and booth in the building you must have a sprinkler i did the sprinklers in th

conditions and that extra condition on extending the date to 7 slash 31 and commissioner president lazarus arrest commissioner honda and commissioner wilson thank you vote is 4 to zero that permit is uphold with those conditions and that extra condition on the expiration date thank you. >> okay. thank you so we'll take items 10 a and b appeal number. >> call the item. >> i feel the tempo 02 both at 1784 sean's street versus the zoning administrator and anthony with the department approval for the property on sanchez and anastasia of a rear yard vaurnts to construct a 2 story building on january 23rd of arrest alteration project to include stared to include some donors and windows as well as electrical plumbing and we'll wait for the commissioner to return and you'll have 4 minutes to present your case. >> okay. we're ready commissioner president lazarus if i may have a short pointed of order we have 3 new photographs, some screen shots of property with the variance accredited and a february 25, 2015, active exhibit that are new we have copies available for the board if they'll it for mr. g

have a motion on the floor to deny the jurisdiction request on that motion commissioner president lazarus commissioner vice president honda commissioner wilson thank you the vote is 4 to zero the jurisdiction is denied no appeal shall be filed against this department. >> thank you. >> item 6 appeal number is next scott and jeanie amy's versus the department of building inspection protesting the issuance on november 10th of an alteration permit to remodel the kitchen and the second-story and replace the bedroom at second-story and 3 bathrooms and four bedrooms this meter was heard on january 14th and continued to have a site visit i want to ask if there's anyone from the permit holder the appellant is here okay so commissioners just wanted you to know i was contact by the permit holder who indicated to me i believe he spoke to inspector kern they're interested in canceling this permit and resubmitting a permit for a second-story building they were interested in a continuance to allow the cancelation process to take place i understand the appellants want to address this board so with our pe

both maternities are continued. >> commissioner president lazarus moibdz. >> adjourned watching. >> ever wonder about programs the city is working on to make san francisco the best place to live and work we bring shine won our city department and the people making them happy what happened next sf oh san francisco known for it's looks at and history and beauty this place arts has it all but it's city government is pretty unique in fact, san francisco city departments are filled with truly initiative programming that turns this way our goal is to create programs that are easily digestable and easy to follow so that our resident can participate in healing the planet with the new take dial initiative they're getting close to zero waste we 2020 and today san francisco is diverting land filled and while those numbers are imperfect not enough. >> we're sending over 4 hundred thousand tons of waste to the landfill and over the 4 hundred tons 10 thousands are textile and unwanted listen ones doesn't have to be find in the trash. >> i could has are the ones creating the partnerships with the

. >> commissioner president lazarus commissioner honda commissioner wilson thank you vote is 4 to zero both maternities are continued. >> commissioner president lazarus moibdz. >> adjourned >> what if you could make a memorial that is more about information and you are never fixed and it can go wherever it wants to go? everyone who has donated to it could use it host it share it. >> for quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005 she struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. >> it was a bench at one point. it was a darkened room at another point. but the theme always was a theme of how do we call people's attention to the issue of species species extinction. >> many exhibits do make long detailed explanations about species decline and biology of birds and that is very useful for lots of purposes. but i think it is also important to try to pull at the strings inside people. >> missing is not just about specific extinct or endangered species. it is about absence and a more fundamental level of not knowing what we are losing and we need to link species los

thank you we'll hear from the departments. >> sir. >> good evening commissioner president lazarus and commissioners nick with the department of public works i'd like to go over just brief process how we issue night noise permits in most cases in almost all cases it is in coordination if there's a part of city there's public safety concerned sfmta typically requests us if the contractor can do the work at night retypically ask the contractor to do outreach to the neighborhood in this case sfmta was the applicant this was their contract even though probing management was the permittee ambassador based on public safety this public vents due to the ridership volume of the n judah and the safety of the tunnel you know it kind of outran it's life we determined that this would be a good candidate froipt to issue night noise we've been involved in a conversations between the gentleman and mta and we're prepared to you know approve any conditions they agree to they agree to and i'd like to defer the rest my testimony to director vince harris of mta going over details regarding the contract its

the vote is 3 to one this denial is uphold open that basis thank you. >> commissioner president lazarus no further business we're adjourned. >> okay >> can everybody hear me thank you for hosting us all i'm john the councilmember gloria vice president and along with my much nor talented colleagues and megan our program managers i offer see the responsibility of zen detect when we they moved no inviting one of the things we've heard loud and clear was the importance of the hiring locally and many technology growing companies we're distancing in search of specific talents those are hard to find in the bay area in the neighborhood of san francisco but as you sit here now detection has a great relationship with the office of economic workforce development and currently sits on the investment board this is where we learned ambassador tech sf graduation and the local jobs training program to provide relevant skills several conversations led us to the realized the faster way to create zen dick technology to train the san franciscans on our product that will fast track them to an important job

time for the permit holder to seek consultation of the abandonment of permit commissioner president lazarus commissioner vice president honda arrest commissioner wilson thank you vote is 4 to zero this matter is continued until my 13th. >> thank you item 7 ab appeal numbers 14207 and 15002 on sanchez street are next filed by two appellants against the zoning administrator and the second against the department of building inspection the protesting of the granting to james and affordable unit stash of a rear yard variance to construct a two story and the issuance of january 2015 of an alteration permit to include two stairs and some doors and windows as well as electrical and plumbing work both matter were considered by the board and continued to allow time for further negotiation between the parties and commissioners, i was contacted by the determination holder today with a request that the board consider a what with the request of the matter to be continued the appellants are not interested in a turns so we will give each party a few minutes to address the board with a continuance request s

commissioner fung to adopt the february 11, 2015, amendments on that motion commissioner president lazarus commissioner honda commissioner wilson thank you the vote is 4 to zero the minutes are adapted. >> item number 4 is a rehearing subject property on baltimore way we've received a letter from the appellants requesting a rehearing of a property decided on january 28th at that time the board vote do to uphold the permit the permit holder is tiffany and the project is comply with the condition legalized bathroom we'll start with the requesters. >> good evening, commissioners so before i start, i have two exhibits i'm going to be oh, sorry i'm courtney brown a law student and we represent the tenants so before i start with the argument i have two exhibits that i'm going to be discussing and i have actual copies in the board would like them. >> can you tell us. >> one is a one page memo from a mrmger who inspected the property and one is the bathroom being discussed that was taken by the plumber. >> is the permit holder seen either one of those of you want to use the pictures during your pr

motion from commissioner fung to adopt the budget proposals on that motion commissioner president lazarus commissioner honda and commissioner wilson. >> ion the well funded project. >> thank you the vote is 4 to zero those budget proposals are adapted. >> commissioner president lazarus there's not other business before the board we're adjourned at 549. >> wow.you. >> what do you think about working at an airport and i love it is busy all the time. >> we want it to be an those away was this is a venture if i didn't love it i'll be an accountant. >> we want the experience that is a non-airport experience the negative stigma we're trying to erase that. >> everything is in a bad food to excite them about the food and they have time to learn about us. >> people are imitated by traveling and the last thing to do is come to a place fill of chaos. >> telling me how the extent of napa a farms came about. >> it was a vision of the airport director he had a suspicion of a really cool gourmet speciality market locally friendly products this market local flavors this is the best. >> can we get a littl

18, 2015 meeting of san francisco board of appeals the presiding officer is commissioner president lazarus she's joined by our vice president commissioner vice president honda's and commissioner fung and commissioner wilson to my left is robert ryan the deputy city attorney and provides the board with advise at the board is mr. pacheco and i'm sdng the boards director we have departments with cases before the

. >> commissioner president lazarus no further business we're adjourned. >> okay (clapping.) >> good morning, everyone. i want to thank you all for coming out this morning it's a beautiful san francisco morning as it seems to be those dazed but a difficult morning as yesterday yesterday morning an 87-year-old resident of sunset resident named alfred was walk on this street geary that boulevard in a krouks on 26 oath trying to cross the road when struck by an automatic turning left onto endearing later in the afternoon died another san francisco general hospital this is not yet conformed we ronald reagan are hearing that someone driving a motorcycle on 15th was struck and killed by an automobile i want to express you know on my behalf and everyone here our profound condolences to the family and friends and anybody that i know either of the individuals are who is impacted by the loss it is tragic that those people are losing their lives on our streets this is a franklin we're restore here the city adopted a goal a policy to eliminate traffic deaths in san francisco and while we're not

. >> on that motion to overrule commissioner president lazarus no commissioner vice president honda. >> no commissioner wilson is absent thank you. the vote is 1 to 2 the motion fails, the granting of this variance is upheld. >> i have no other motions. >> okay with no other motion commissioners there's no further business. we're a - >> first of all, let me begin by saying what a wonderful city i'm so luke for the mayor of a great city like san francisco you know offer the years when i was city administrator i was working with then dominating to make sure that a city we also be prepared and read for the biggest disasters and i often used the term i continue uss it is another internal revenue magnify this great city if we're ready then the words like recovery and reliantcy will be common words we use everyday where our departments or nonprofit organizations working the community or volunteers that by the constantly try to recruit and today, i want to say to you that we don't have to be waiting for big disasters on a citywide basis to happen before you we oozed use those word we're cha

scope of work go description was not clear and inaccurate an m that motion commissioner president lazarus commissioner vice president honda commissioner wilson is absent thank you. the vote is 3 to zero this permit is revoked given the boards vacancy 3 votes needs to overturn any departmental action thank you. >> take a a 5 minute break. >> we're returning to the will march 25, 2015 brrldz and calling item 9 appeal gregory fox and anita versus the zoning administrator subject property on lake street protesting the january for a rear yard variance to construct a rear horizontal and new three story into the rear yard we'll start with the appellant you have 7 minutes. >> closure i've hired reuben, junius & rose for a personal private matter prior and feel like i can hear this case obviously. >> before i start my presentation based upon the fact we have a high burden and one of the issues with this procedure since the planning commission we've asked to be included in with the dialog and been included in that so so would the board poison this and have real dialog with the property owners again

variance on the basis that the 5 criteria have been met on that motion to uphold commissioner president lazarus is commissioner vice president honda and commissioner wilson. >> thank you the vote is 4 to zero the grant of the variance is upheld on that basis. >> we're going to take a 5 minute break. >> welcome back to the march 18, 2015 meeting of san francisco board of appeals we're now calling item 9 appeal number mark tony the property on nobody else's alley protesting the issuance on january 14th to tony of an taefls permit and an address correction number 12 to 15 noticeable alley mr. bruno you have 7 minutes. >> sorry 7 minutes. >> thank you for hearing this permit appeal i'm sure you're aware of i haven't submitted a brief i do was to submit a request for rescheduling until march 18 the two other appeals i've been asked to build 7 to 9 nobody else's alley i have a same matter with the same permit holder he owns the building where i live and next door to me what those people did after i appealed the court permit based on the san francisco load based abatement act they moved next door and

>> so on that motion to uphold the 48 box size condition commissioner fung commissioner president lazarus no commissioner wilson no vote is 2 to 2 3 votes are needed to amend my departmental action so absent another motion in permit will be you would as is with the 36 inch box condition thank you. >> i tried okay. >> no let's leave it at that. >> the permit is you would as is. >> all right. so we'll move on the next is appeal demetry virus the department of public works mapping arrest the property on market street protesting the ordinances to yummy hotdogs with the sale of hotdogs and cold drinks and we can start with the appellate in this case as well you have 7 minutes to present. >> good evening, council my name is demetri i own a beauty supply on market street for the past 10 years i want to clarify something that is not 995 we're ms. christensen for 994 and this case was heard last year and it was recommended that he be approved the permit one of the things they're not looking at one it is going to effect my business negatively i've procrastinate photos to show how close to the my bi

this matter on that motion from commissioner fung to continue to april 15th commissioner president lazarus commissioner vice president honda and commissioner wilson is absent thank you. the vote it 3 to zero it matter it continued until april 15th thank you. >> thank you so i see that ms. fox has returned to the room item 7 that item has been called so we'll begin with the appellant. >> thank you good evening rachel fox on behalf of the appellant we'll ask for continuance given 3 commissioners here our position we have 3 votes to have this permit revoked. >> the other side here we'll deal with the continuances be rebuttals only. >> hear from the permit holder. >> good afternoon or good evening. i'm for the permit holder annie. >> i'm sorry could you or could you speak into the mike. >> it's easier i represent the permit holder annie fong we'll request that the hearing be held today as schedule and the briefs are submitted we don't see a continuance on a technicality i believe the commissioners can make the motion if they feel for the she means to is warden, however, i feel the hearing shou

us in the preparation of our minutes you'll have two minutes to speak and commissioner president lazarus because of the hour and the length of the - >> okay. so please begin. >> hi, good evening. i'm amanda jones a resident of the san francisco and board member of sf moderate and concerned citizen who is thinking about quality of life for middle-class families in san francisco i feel are slowly being forced out of the city by the cost of living and the difficulty of getting things done the case is wrought to my taerngs altercation this family is a post child child and with good reason this is the only house that they can afford it is a home that anastasia inherited and was raised in shouldn't that account for something that is not rich people i read the belief all one hundred and 14 pages and the letters i see the come up has worked hard to come miss with their design and keeping up with the architecture integrity of their home i think this is time to get out of their way and let them live in san francisco in a modest home their simply asking to make a one bedroom home into a bigger fami

. >> commissioner president lazarus and members of the commission good evening. i'm tim, i live on 29th avenue with my wife and 3 kids adjacent to this project. >> overhead. >> the zoning administrator does in the establish it the requirement of planning code section 305 are met explicit states the granting of such variants are not injures to people in the area it ignores residential design guidelines section 4 building scale the building examinations to the rear are not appropriate if their deep and at all and out of scale rear yard addition leaves surrounding resident feeling cut off from the mid block open space this out of scale expansion is uncharacterizing deep and at all and will leave my family permanently feeling boxed if and severely cut off from the open space that exists now they record in overlooking the one property that is will impacted by this variance extravagant demand not hardships drive a desire for a of thousand square feet home that teller injure properties if the vicinity those lurks or lecturers are a grand for and large dining room and 5

meeting of san francisco board of appeals the presiding officer is our president commissioner president lazarus joined by commissioner vice president honda and commissioner fung and commissioner wilson is absent we have a vacant seat when a seat is vacant a vote of 3 members is required robert brown the deputy city attorney and provides the board with legal advice and mr. pacheco is

let's take a picture the trophies together and let's get back to work thank you very much >> i am jim lazarus with the chamber of commerce co-chairing the outreach effort as we transition to gross receipts. thank you for being here. this has been a huge effort for many years. in fact from the business community interest goes back decades with our ongoing concern that you don't tax job creation. you tax economic success and although the city is limited -- cities and counties are lipted in california on the income side gross receipts is as close as we can get to a tax structure that allows us to tax economic activity and growth rather than jobs and certainly in this economy now when we made other steps to move job creation forward even with the payroll tax in place this is going to be a great transition as businesses look at their tax liabilities under the payroll tax transition the remaining four, and five years to a full gross receipts tax. supervisor christensen here today and members of the mayor's staff and the tax collector's office and the controller's office that really made this possib

. >> hi, i'm kate lazarus born and raised on 5th avenue my husband and i u my husband and i have a house on the boulevard i'm a lawyer i've been practicing the last couple of years in van ness in san francisco i will will strongly the richmond needs better transit options particularly to get downtown i've been run to work it's not that much slower i'm not that fast a runner i take the bus particularly in the evening you can't get an express back to the richmond it's not a fast opposite we're the only people that don't have a good underground connection in our neighborhood i think i can help. >> at this time any questions or comments seeing none, any other applicants for the geary brt cac seeing none all right. let's open this up to public comment any members of the public wish to comment okay seeing none, public comment is closed all right. colleagues do we have any recommendations i mean supervisor yee >> thank you chair katie tang it seems like i'm other than the rules committee you have again multiple candidates that are very qualified to be part of this cac by the way a katie used to

. >> good evening commissioner president lazarus and members of the board i'm jim reuben, junius & rose and i am a quiet a recent addition to the project team i say recent i'll be struggling with the same thing the extent of the record created and how much water is under this bridge already in the of fact i was called about four years ago to become involved and i declined because of the proximity of my home to this site when i was called back against by alice barkley they needed avoidance to move things along from the planning department i looked at the record and thought that was time to end this those are my neighbors as well variance decision is based on pretty simple set of facts it is like the sightings of the home and which is toward the rear of the lot in fact a portion of the home is in the rear yard before we started what you have in front of you i'm going to try this gadget i brought ambassador if it works mr. rubbing benefit it will help us more mr. pacheco. >> okay. so what we have here shaded what is code compliant building portion of the lot that this homes adds to it is t

michael lazarus has been stalking a family and arresting mini denies the allegations and says that hecases of rabid bats. 4 cases.. they're sitting out fliers letting people know if you see a dead that do not touch it. they're concerned about the bad and they're also worried about other animals france's possums that could come up and eat those backs and get infected. >> reporter: the and this is an amateur and east bay the quest to keep your lawn fad roundup the wing killer is dangerous. i did after study out of mit and decorous to your health have been linked up. they feel that is a possibility it could be causing cancer or chose caught all causing children to get all schism. since >> reporter: san francisco we are perched approaching baseball season and there's an new amenities outside of att park specifically and the parking lot is call the art and mission and brought in as a beer garden shopping as of food trucks and is now open. jr stone kron 4 news >> pam: topping our national news is saving prosecutors in colorado say it will take about a week before charges are filed against t

. >> the gospel of john places the scene in the house of lazarus, the man jesus raised from the dead.> just a few days before his crucifixion, a woman came to jesus and anointed his feet with expensive ointments and perfumes. >> mary anoints jesus with the chanel number 5 of antiquity, and she uses a whole pot of it, a whole year's worth of a day laborer's wages. >> people who saw it were scandalized. they were shocked. >> none more so than the group's treasurer, judas. >> why was the ointment wasted in this way? >> leave her alone! >> jesus has been preaching this message about the poor and ministering to them and giving away your coat. and now all of a sudden he's going to let this woman pour a huge amount of money's worth of perfume on him. >> this ointment could have been more than 300 and given to the poor. >> sort of one set of rules for the disciples and a different set of rules for jesus. we can see why this event would upset judas. >> this was a big turning point for judas because immediately after he sees this anointing, he goes to the authorities and says, i will betray jes

as emma lazarus's poem on the statue of liberty says give me your tired, your poor your huddled massesarning to breathe free wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send us the homeless to me. if by this we mean refugees from war and other tragedies, well america doesn't send out many invitations. according to u.n., u.s. has taken in the equivalent of only .08% of refugees swede at 1% and jordan at 9%. off the roughly 4 million that fled the country, turkey has taken in 1,700,000 refugees. lebanon has taken in 1,200,000. but the united states has taken in 588 as of mid march. that's according to the state department. between 1 and 2,000 expected by october. syrian refugees aren't going away. by the end of 2015 the total number could approach 5 million the u.n. says. >> it's a scale we've never, ever seen before. >> andrew harper leads the u.n.'s response to the crisis in neighboring jordan. we sat down together when i was in that country's capital amman recently. more than 600,000 refugees in jordan around 8% of the country's total population. >> we're now seeing syrians representing th

one was a deputy counsel to president ford general lazarus. the other was vice president cheney's chief, deputy chief of staff. and the president is the community but i think is more than a. i think there's no question but that the president of the united states can speak to anyone about anything. i would say by the the way with respect to secrecy, it would probably be unwise to disclose all the content right away unless it's a question of political decision. that would be my own view. >> i entirely agree with it. it's not improper for one head of state to communicate or telegraph a change of policy to another. but perhaps part of your question, the israel-u.s. relationship obviously does implicate a range of congressional interest along the lines of some of what i've been discussing. congress isn't without its powers to keep the president from filling whatever threat or indication he may have made. >> i just might add something. this is pretty want to a lot of people. the president has these diplomatic powers that includes recognition of fore