we have a motion from commissioner lazarus to deny this jurisdiction request. on that motion. [ roll call. ] >> that motion passes, and the jurisdiction request is denied. okay. so item number 7 was rescheduled to january 17th. item number 8 a and 8 b were both just withdrawn, so we are calling items number 9 a and 9 b, appeal number 17-050 and appeal number 17-052, both having to do with the property at 1709 broderick street and both are protesting the issue wednesday issued on december 9th, 2017. new side bay window, deca-addition at rear, new roof deck. so i'm just curious if the appellants are going to combine their time and make a presentation together. are you representing everybody at once? >> yes, thank you. we would prefer to combine time. >> okay. 14 minutes. >> okay. >> president honda: welcome, counselor, again. >> thank you president honda and commissioners, and thank you for helping us settle items 8 a and 8 b tonight. commissioners, ryan paterson representing the appellants in this case. this is a case where there are serious legal defects in the

>> commissioner lazarus: i was fine with it. one minor edit, but i can convey that later to our liaison. >> vice president fung: i was fine with it, but if board members have any, bring forth your changes within the next day or so and we'll go forward. >> i read it and thought it was fine. >> okay. then approval to post the job announcement as described, win of would mean on the city's portal and also to engage the services of dhr's recruitment and advertising firm to place the job announcement in publications. that would be likely to engage people who are interested in this type of position. so that involves spending some money. and we can work with the vice president to determine exactly which publications to use. the board does have sufficient funds to cover that type of an expense. >> may i ask a question -- this is a job that requires a legal degree? >> yes, it does. >> and experience in land use preferably. >> yes. >> and so may we ask the human resource department to place special effort in calling to the attention of the

thank you. >> commissioner lazarus: just to clarify that. you're satisfied with 15 inch being appropriate given the rate of which it will grow? is that what you're saying? >> i think in the immediate area where the subject trees are located, all those replacement trees should be 24 inch box size trees. we will have to determine the exact count. on multiple, where the two locations are on both frontages and where the one tree is on sutter, there's definitely an opportunity to have several 24 inch box replacement trees that would become future significant trees as they get bigger in the future. say in those immediate areas which are greened out, where they're doing that soil mitigation, within the green areas, those replacement tries should be 24 inch box. >> commissioner lazarus: not 36, but 24? >> exactly. based on, again, we're not advocating here for retaining trees. so to us it seems reasonable. it's unfortunate, but it seems reasonable removal despite the loss to the community. >> president honda: thank you. >> thanks. >> matter submitte

they're concerned about -- >> commissioner lazarus: that wasn't my question. i'm not interested in how many bedrooms are there now. the permit says you're adding four bedrooms. are you adding four bedrooms? >> i guess so. because the basement existing has two bedroom already. >> commissioner lazarus: we'll come back to it. thank you. >> president honda: thank you. >> batter up. shed some light on this. good evening. corey teague planning tkep staff. yes, the building permit that's before you tonight was first filed in march of 2015 for a rear addition to the existing two story single family home and interior remodel. i think the point you made before is that legally the existing building has two bedrooms but there are two other rooms on the ground floor that may not be legal bedrooms. maybe have operated as defacto bedrooms in the past. depending on which number you use. probably adds they're adding four bedrooms. that's obviously the number of legal bedrooms they're adding. this project was reviewed by our staff. it did go out for a neighborhood notification

>> commissioner lazarus: aye. we can return to item number 6, which is appeal 17-161 tout esker versus department of building inspection. digging through them all we were able to determine the proposed changes would not have been impact that would be non co compliant regarding the planning code. defined by the planning department. >> subjects never have an easy time, that's the way it works, thank you. >> inspector duffy. >> i agree with that comment from planning as well. it looks like there's no building code issues that would come up on the changes. >> thank you, senior inspector. >> commissioners and the matter submitted if you wish to adopt we would need a motion. do we have a copy of the plans. ok. thank you. move to deny the appeal. >> grant the appeal and to accept the drawings dated december 13th, 2017 as a condition. >> ok. is that on the bases it reflects the agreement of parties? >> that's correct. >> thank you. that motion is to grant the appeal and issue the permit it be revised to reflect the plans

on that motion, commissioner lazarus. >> commissioner lazarus: aye. >> president honda: aye. >> commissioner wilson: aye. >> commissioner swig: aye. >> okay. that motion passes, and that moti matter is continued to that evening. next item is withdrawn, so commissioner honda, there's no further -- >> oh, you scared me for a second. [ gavel ] >> good morning everyone. this is a great occasion and i first want to say i'm not doug shumaker. you may wonder where he is, he's doing father duty and that's something we encouraged him to do and something important he had to take care of with his son that he will talk to you about if he's here before it's over. i'm jane grass, i'm ceo of mercy housing nationally. but i was in the role that doug is in and i'm delighted to be here and see the development come to fruition. it's been a few years. some of us remember 1989 and then the long moment of what are we going to do, what are we going to do? here's what we're going to do, we're going to develop 108 units of affordable housing in this wonderful neighborhood. there are a lot of people to thank. i'm not

on that motion, commissioner lazarus. >> commissioner lazarus: aye. >> president honda: aye. >> commissioner wilson: aye. >> commissioner swig: aye. >> okay. that motion passes, and that moti matter is continued to that evening. next item is withdrawn, so commissioner honda, there's no further -- >> oh, you scared me for a second. [ gavel ] >> we'll start by having a roll call. >> prescott. >> present. >> vice president lin. >> present. >> commissioner breslin. >> here. >> commission. >> present. >> supervisor sheehy. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you. action item number 1. >> item 1 action item public employee appointment hiring hss executive district or position vote on whether to hold closed session for update discussion and possible action regarding board selection of h.s.s. executive director prescott. >> i'm now ready to entertain a motion to hold closed session for the purposes outlined in action item 1. >> i move we have closed session >> is there a second. >> second. >> properly moved and seconded that we have a closed session for the purposes outlined in action item 1. are there an

on that motion, commissioner lazarus. >> commissioner lazarus: aye. >> president honda: aye. >> commissioner wilson: aye. >> commissioner swig: aye. >> okay. that motion passes, and that moti matter is continued to that evening. next item is withdrawn, so commissioner honda, there's no further -- >> oh, you scared me for a second. [ gavel ] >> good morning. >> it's such an amazing, wonderful, wonderful morning. thank you for coming to this incredible event. i'm the director from the office of the mayor. i want to do a few house keeping notes beforehanding it over. i want to thank the office, our incredible leader here who made the event possible. and the partners at jon stewart company. i know i see kathryn back there, the amazing people. thank you for your leadership. (applause) and the community of infrastructure and investment, nadia, you are somewhere here. thank you so much for the investment in the amazing development and the mayor's office of housing and community development. thank you for coming here. so without further adue, we want to start the celebration this ribbon cutting, thi

on that motion, commissioner lazarus. >> commissioner lazarus: aye. >> president honda: aye. >> commissioner wilson: aye. >> commissioner swig: aye. >> okay. that motion passes, and that moti matter is continued to that evening. next item is withdrawn, so commissioner honda, there's no further -- >> oh, you scared me for a second. [ gavel ] >> good morning everyone. thank you for being here today. i just want to thank all of you for coming and give a special thanks to the va who is here joining us, they're important partners in this project. the owners of the site, there they are. thank you for making this site available and for being partners with the city on this and other sites to help address homelessness. we want to thank the nonprofit providers running the site, everybody from dish, if you can raise your hand. many dish staff are here and providing services on site. everybody from the mayor's office and their staff. thank you very much. this is an important day for -- sorry and dell seymour. i forgot my other boss, the local chair of the coordinating homeless board along with ralph pey

. >> i have a follow-up question on commissioner lazarus's question for the planning department. we hear a lot in regards to article 25. and so article 25 allows this and allows that. is there specific language regarding article 25 and i think that's what commissioner lazarus is alluding to, is one pole viewed the same with the bird's nest and one without? is there a difference when there's additional wiring on that pole already? >> there is no specific language -- >> no articulation of -- okay. so whether one has 100 wires on, it will be ruled the same as one with two? i see someone else stepping up to the plate. batter up. >> yeah, again there, is no language that references that, but we do take into consideration the pole, area around it and -- >> i get the structured around it. but i think that commissioner lazarus was alluding to the amount of specific wires on that existing pole and that should be taken into consideration when you are attempting to add new equipment. >> we do take the existing wires into consideration during our review. >> okay. thank you. >> commissioners,

and on that motion of president honda, commissioner lazarus and commissioner wilson dissented, whichis why it didn't pass. >> my -- my thoughts on this is that -- that there was a -- originally a glass enclosed penthouse that was -- that we -- it was described as a beam of light that would intrude on the neighbors and change the character of the neighborhood, and i think that's what we reacted to. i'm going to put aside for the moment the new -- the new plans because we haven't had a chance to really study them, but i -- let's stay focused on -- i want to say focus on what we -- what i had an issue with. obviously, in my motion, i heard from all the commissioners who did, as well. so i -- i would be prepared to do the same motion, but a deck. i'd like some help with the size of it, but with some special restrictions that relate to no, i guess, combustible materials -- example, a fire pit or a barbecue or cooking option, no storage unit or other permanent structure. no lighting of any kind unless required for emergency purposes by planning or the building department, and so that's --

he was always joking about things. >> reporter: what about lazarus?y in the documentary, we understand that was on his bucket list. he wanted to do a musial. >> seeing that it's a weapon. >> reporter: inspired by the character film "the man who fell to earth", he had wanted to create a musical since he started in the '60s. >> when he started a musical, he didn't know he was ill. >> reporter: but he was undergoing treatment when he was finishing. he passed away a month after the show's opening night. ♪ i was looking for >> reporter: when you look at "la "lazarus", there are a lot of people who say it's prophetic. >> he's in the bed and bandaged up. but originally, when they conceived of that idea, the video director had no knowledge that david was ill, and i'm not sure david knew how ill he was or that it was going to be terminal. there are two lazaruss in the bible. one of them comes back to life. it could be a sign that this is hopeful. so when he at the end of that video he goes back into the closet, which is a joke, and i remember the video directo

. >> commissioner lazarus: i just would like to say one thing and that is this permit has clearly been suspended for a while. it doesn't seem to have had an effect on the number of people that are coming to the neighborhood, so i have to make a complete detachment between the permit and what is going on in the neighborhood. which isn't to say i would want to live there, because it sounds pretty bad. but i can't get from the permit to that situation. >> commissioner swig: which is why that's not going to be part of the motion. >> commissioner lazarus: well, it's going to be a different motion, any way. >> vice president fung: further comments? if not, i'm going to move to grant the appeal and to revoke the permit on the basis that it was issued in error. madam director, should we make this a motion of intent? >> well, i think it's the reason that it was issued in error is because of the planning department's failure to issue a proper block book notification, we can just include that in the motion now. >> vice president fung: then that would be the basis of my motion. >> so it's to grant

. >> but for delivery at lazarus' pizza, business is booming. bike delivery guy j.p. murphy prefers the cold. it means more tips from customers. >> what do they say at your door? >> they always say, stay warm. but it's not the cold, it's the wind and ice that make it dangerous, to be on a bike especially. >> this is what j.p.'s talking about. the snow piles can be dangerous to deliverymen and women on bikes. if you are driving and see them, give them extra space. if you are planning to order in, word to the wise, be patient. it could take a while to get your food. jeff chirico, "action news." jim? >> new england got hit harder than we did as the storm intensified off of the coast. maggie shows us the bulls eye. >> millions of americans chiseling out from a no nor'easr are set for record-breaking cold. >> stay inside. it's bad out here. >> windchill approaching negative 50 in part of new england, freezing over cities walloped by yesterday's storm, boston breaking a record for highest tide ever. >> if anyone questions global warming, the flad zones didn't flood 30 years

he was always joking about things. >> what about "lazarus."ted to do a musical. >> assume it's a weapon. >> reporter: inspired by the character he played in the 1976 film "the man who fell to earth," bowie had been wanting to create a musical since t the '60s. >> so when he started "lazarus: the musical" my understanding he didn't know he was ill. >> he was undergoing treatment when he was finishing it. >> reporter: he passed away a month after the show's opening night. ♪ i was looking for you >> reporter: when you look at "lazarus," the video, a lot say it seemed prophetic. >> a lot do because he is in a bed and he's bandaged up but originally when they conceived of that idea, certainly the video director had no knowledge that david was ill and i'm not even sure that david knew how ihl he was or whether it would be terminal. there were two lazaruss in the bible. one comes back to life after all. he doesn't die, he comes back to life when jesus brings him back to life so could be a sign this is hopeful, so when he at the end of that video he g

music: lazarus # ain't thatjust like me # steven smith, and david bowie, who died two years ago today to you. the weather fortu nes good evening to you. the weather fortunes were mixed across the british isles today. some of us saw glorious sunshine. here is a picture of the afternoon. some of our sparely got a look in. one or two areas were stuck with some persistent cloud, and here in worcestershire you can hardly make up worcestershire you can hardly make up the bridge in the background. just a very dank and damp feeling day as well. the fog is thickening outside across the midlands once more and extending across wales, into southern england, across northern ireland, very murky at the moment, and we expect some dense patches across scotland at the end of the night. chilly as well with a patchy frost in these areas. further is, mild with cloud around thanks to the remnants of a weather front in the remnants of a weather front in the east, so it is murky one way or another —— further east. the fog is likely to be problematic, dense patches and widespread, if you are taking to the roa