unit. commissioner hillis: 1 not try to legalize that unit? -- why not try to legalize that unit? >> two units. i am sorry. it is a four unit illegal building with a fifth illegal units. commissioner hillis: why not legalize it? >> it is not possible because of the zoning, as far as i know. in fact, it would be a windfall to us if we could. then we have an extra unit. but we do not know it would be possible. >> thank you. scott sanchez, planning department. just to confirm, the property is located in an rh-2 zoning district. we have the authorized use as a for family dwelling. a fifth unit would not be allowed under the density requirements in the code. there is no way to legalize the unit of this property. it is already over density for the zone. >> mr. duffy? >> joe duffy, dbi. it started back in 2009. we got a complaint. actually, housing went up on a routine inspection, and noticed there was an illegal units. we sent a notice of violation. there was a subsequent permit obtained. that building permit never got signed off. there is no history after that time of an electric probl

but it is not something that we would use as reference for establishing the number of legal units in a building. president garcia: i was just curious as to whether or not it was three units, this being the third, that the request for lives in. or whether there were actually six minutes -- six units? >> if it was being rented out as office space, that would be illegal. this is not a city documentary we did not generate this, so i cannot comment on it. >> i believe this refers to the property across the street. there are some allocations in the brief about the requester's tendency across the street. president garcia: thank you for clearing that up. commissioner fung: the legalization process is different. it needs to be initiated at the planning commission, does it not? >> in terms of establishing this as a legal unit, we do defer to the department of building inspection to establish the legal number of units in the building. a report was prepared last year as part of the transfer of the property to the current owner. they have established this as two units treat you can petition to the

unit. commissioner hillis: 1 not try to legalize that unit? -- why not try to legalize that unit? >> two units. i am sorry. it is a four unit illegal building with a fifth illegal units. commissioner hillis: why not legalize it? >> it is not possible because of the zoning, as far as i know. in fact, it would be a windfall to us if we could. then we have an extra unit. but we do not know it would be possible.

unit the goal. following their it vice, -- legal. following their advice, i have tried to keep them up-to-date with the status. my cousin nathan has been helping them. the fines for the unit have been large and accumulate faster. i had hoped to get the permits in place before the inspection to mitigate the violations and fines. i had one permit out of the three required when the appeal was filed. the inspection went ahead on the 21st of march. i have not had the report yet. the inspector went on vacation and will not return until the end of the month. at the moment, i have an ego unit complaint, violations to be issued, permits to correct the complaint have been suspended. it has been a stressful and uncertain couple of months. i had to take several days of work to meet was consultants. -- off work to meet with consultants. i do not want to force her out of her apartment. i'm willing to work with her to find a reasonable time frame and financial relocation package to help her with a smooth transition. my primary responsibility is the

i have legalized dozens of dwelling units, illegal units, for people in san francisco. in the last 10 years, there has been a sea change within the bureaucracy, the building and planning departments, where the attitude has been very proactive in trying to help property owners bring things up to code and to save these old, illegal units, rather than force them to be abandoned. the attitude of the city has really changed a lot and people are more likely to get help from their building inspector rather than enforcement. >> what i had hoped we could do is look at this little hand out for further discussion. starting on page one, it is from a website, home remodeling magazine, there is a long list of things supposedly san francisco-based, adjusted for local conditions, and how much of the cost you can expect to recoup for the work you're doing in the building. if you're doing work because you want to live there and you want to appreciate the improvement, that is different. if you're doing work with a clear eye to how much you can get back, i am shocked to see under the colum

detached from the legal units. commissioner fung: what happens to the nov if there is an appeal? and the permit is being appealed? >> if our department finds that this unit is illegal, we will issue a notice of violation. we have to. commissioner fung: i understand that. what happens to the enforcement and the penalties associated when the permit that carries it is at the board of appeals? >> i think i talked about that. i do not think there will be penalties because the permit was in place. you're not going to tell them to get a permit. commissioner hillis: the property owner could appeal the nov. >> yes, they could appeal it. i do not think you can appeal it to the board of appeals. president garcia: what happens if they allow this to languish without taking it up? what happens under those circumstances? >> we had a similar case earlier. the enforcement action goes ahead. the enforcement action is a long, drawn-out process as well. it does not mean the units -- the previous case we had, they got a permit to remove it and they renew the permit in 2012. in answer to your question,

unit building. the planning department rejected the conversion into three without legalizing or commenting on that second unit at the time. >> the approved this 3-2? >> yes. because the building inspection, the housing inspection, department of hotel inspection had issued citations on what it would take to legalize that sword unit. -- third unit. what's that application got to city planning, city planning said, the zoning will not permit a third unit. that was rh2 at the time. it would have required a variants going back into the 1950's to legalize the second unit. in order for city planning to have acted to include a second unit, it would have taken an action of the a master at the time and it would have taken an application to planning that did that. the record shows there was never an application that showed an actual change of this building for one to two. someone did overtime by gaining -- gaming record. reading history, you see the thumbprint of this property owner and the contractor watching how he did what he did at the time. it is an interesting forensic expiration. >> thank you. mr. duffy. >> c

department, and learned that there is a lot of compelling reasons to believe that my apartment is a legal unit. with that, i am not an expert. i would like to turn that over to mr. kristol to present to you. -- mr. driscoll to present to you. that is pretty much it. >> thank you. tonight, we are just addressing whether the appeal should be heard. as mr. hanson indicated, there is some efficacy in explaining why we want to be heard ultimately. this is a 1938 building that was recently constructed as a two- story building. i have seen a permit that allowed the additional unit to be constructed in 1940. also, i understand this is an rh2 zone now. i have seen the zoning map that showed that it was originally r3. i want the board to realize that this is not a pro forma appeal or request for jurisdiction but that there is some substance triet one thing i would like to amplify on what my client said it was he received notice on january 30. that is correct. it was attached as an exhibit to a 60-day notice attempting to terminate his tenancy. other than that, he had no notice of these proceedings. what

units. so if we cannot down the road to legalize the three units, we are putting a fire sprinkler in for a year. i got kind of confused on that. our biggest problem is the means of egress out of that unit. if you -- i can assure the planter a quick. -- i can show you the plan real quick. >> they can come back and paint a picture for us about how serious the issues are and that is why we ask your client, i am assuring it is your client to look into the feasibility of doing something that would diminish the chance there would be a life safety issue. we're not requiring that. we do not have the ability to require that. we're asking you to look into that. if after some time has passed, you feel like that is not feasible, when mr. duffy comes back with something the causes concern, you have to request it be taken off the call the chair and the should be brought back before the board. >> think you. -- thank you. >> there is a conflict. you're asking dbi to do some research and report back and then you're looking at a rather lengthy continuance and those two things do not seem to drive. >> you have to

legally, when the united states and alcohol prohibition, they had to pass a constitutional amendment first because the constitution gives the federal government no authority to outlaw cannabis, cocaine, or any other drug, so all the federal drug laws are unconstitutional, a legal, and nolan void, and i urge this commission to strongly send a message. >> thank you, starchild. each public comments person will bee allowed to minutes. -- two- minutes. >> i am an ex attics -- adict. i won the employee of the month award, and one day i was let go. my job was everything to me. but was the structure i had to learn in the program, because i did a program for 15 months. i am now the proud, law-abiding taxpaying citizen who lost my job. now i am unemployed, and it is devastating, so today i am doing things to better my future. next month i am going to try to get a certificate of rehabilitation. i am in america, and this is the land of opportunity. people from other countries come here, and they get a chance to make their lives and right, and i want the chance to make my life right. from the mis

legally, when the united states and alcohol prohibition, they had to pass a constitutional amendment first because the constitution gives the federal government no authority to outlaw cannabis, cocaine, or any other drug, so all the federal drug laws are unconstitutional, a legal, and nolan void, and i urge this commission to strongly send a message. >> thank you, starchild. each public comments person will bee allowed to minutes. -- two- minutes. >> i am an ex attics -- adict. i won the employee of the month award, and one day i was let go. my job was everything to me. but was the structure i had to learn in the program, because i did a program for 15 months. i am now the proud, law-abiding taxpaying citizen who lost my job

legally, when the united states and alcohol prohibition, they had to pass a constitutional amendment first because the constitution gives the federal government no authority to outlaw cannabis, cocaine, or any other drug, so all the federal drug laws are unconstitutional, a legal, and nolan void, and i urge this commission to strongly send a message. >> thank you, starchild. each public comments person will bee allowed to minutes. -- two- minutes. >> i am an ex attics

we do not need secondary units legalized everywhere, especially without parking. we do not need all the high rises that are proposed in the housing elements. the neighborhoods have sued the city once before. and we will sue the city again if the city does not get it right. we need funding and training in imitation of more effective outreach to an engagement with neighborhood associations on proposed legislative exchanges. there were discussions and the input was largely ignored. this had to do with limited live performance permits in the current rezoning of restaurants. a restaurant limited as a writer in the upper fell more, even though we just lifted the prohibition that all two service should be a conditional use. the neighbors needs to be listened to. the neighborhood input is important. to lock in the neighborhood is ignored. we hope there will be taken more seriously in the future. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, greg. from districts 3, annie chung. there you are. >> hello. thank you. good evening. good evening, mayor, supervisors, and all our representa

the question for us and for the book, "taming globalization," is how the united states political and legal system responded. can the united states cooperate with these international institutions, new kinds of regimes and how does it do it? that is the fundamental tension and the issue. as you can guess, my description , some of the new kinds of regulations and institutions are intentioned with the way the united states traditionally exercises public power. particularly the prices of congress, especially over control of domestic law and plays like taxation, but also the practice of the executive branch and of the judiciary. to give one example, when the treaty regulates an issue this standard doctrine amongst many scholars and many people who work in this area, treaties are not limited by the same restrictions they have for federalism that apply to congressional statutes. there is a famous case called missouri versus holland were back in the 1920's it was thought that congress could not regulate -- could not regulate and protect species of birds, endangered species reasons. the court and th

we do not need secondary units legalized everywhere, especially legalized everywhere, especially without parking.

we do not need secondary units legalized everywhere, especially without parking. we do not need all the high rises that are proposed in the housing elements. the neighborhoods have sued the city once before. and we will sue the city again if the city does not get it right. we need funding and training in imitation of more effective outreach to an engagement with neighborhood associations on proposed legislative exchanges. there were discussions and the input was largely ignored. this had to do with limited live performance permits in the current rezoning of restaurants. a restaurant limited as a writer in the upper fell more, even though we just lifted the prohibition that all two service should be a conditional use. the neighbors needs to be listed

going to forty one status would you be getting people legally in the united states that the world i. mean you know we grew up in the police officer is he somebody on the street see why are you here what are you doing for us we. know it so you can see that someone is different fire away all questions are valid but if not mom with the word good to know so are basically blaming gays for their own discrimination and suggesting that to combat discrimination birthplaces across the country should adopt a don't ask don't tell policy representative steve king is tonight's poll timer. ok it's time for happy hour and joining me tonight r.t. correspondent christine and lauren lyster host of a capital account here on r t i care all. and all about going on ladies ladies happy hour. let's talk about this hospital and texas basically what they're doing is that they've stated they will no longer hire anybody with a body mass index of thirty five or higher to give you a little perspective of that that's two hundred ten pounds for somebody who is five five but i've got a problem with this because we've

only one of the african-american servants had been born while slavery was still legal in the united states and she was the only servant on lafayette square listed as unable to read or write. the only white servant listed in the decatur household was born in austria, and he was the first live-in servant from europe recorded at decatur house. now, this image of the slave quarters taken between 1918 and 1920 offers the first truly detailed record of the building's appearance. and it shows how little the exterior of the building changed. the only real major differences of how this portion of the building still appears is that there's one additional door providing access to h street and no shutters on that side of the building at this point. the next census to record servants living at the decatur house was the 1930 census, which you see here and was the last federal census currently available. all four servants listed were female and literate. two had been born in europe, and kate hollis, the only servant in the household classified by the census as negro had been born in virginia, and she wor

is control and it is also become clear even as a result of testimony in the proceedings legal proceedings and united states so the u.s. could have put out this bounty payment a year ago two years ago. now has a leverage move in the course of u.s. hispanic discussions and was affected no course not exactly you know he and other custodian leaders laughed at it awfully say something a press conference and spoke to the media he's been doing things to me he's been doing quite a few press conferences in public speeches he's been appearing on talk shows how he doesn't seem to be operating like i wanted van nuys all and you know he knows that you know he has the confidence of senior figures in the darkest money military but just confidence in him they've been broken funding and training him and then has grown so you know you might you wouldn't his mentor mentality to study government in fact so the idea that i could stand is going to turn it over to the united states that's not going to happen well they've asked to pakistani government has asked the u.s. for evidence which they say if i bring the evidence t

is is control role and it is also become clear as a result of testimony and proceeding legal proceeding the united states u.s. could have without this bounty payment a year ago two years ago now as a leverage move in the course of u.s. markets pending discussion what does affect no course not. you know he had other pakistani leaders last. summer a press conference and spoke to the media yeah he's been doing it seems to me he's been doing quite a few press conferences and public speeches he's been appearing on talk shows he doesn't seem to be operating like i want to. know all the you know he knows you know the competence of senior figures in the darkest i mean military but just confidence in him they've been able to funding and training him and his group so you know you might use them as mr mentality but pakistani government so the idea the caucus plan is going to turn it over to the united states that's likely to happen well they've asked pakistani government has asked the u.s. for evidence which they say bring the evidence. you know present that to their area and give them a trial why don't the

control and it is also become bigger even as a result of testimony in the proceedings legal proceedings and united states so the u.s. could have put out this bounty payment a year ago two years ago if it now i as a leverage move in the course of us this kind of discussions and was it effective no course not exactly you know what he and others like to study leaders laugh that it probably say something to a press conference and spoke to the media he's been doing it seems to me he's been doing quite a few press conferences in public speeches he's been appearing on talk shows he doesn't seem to be operating like i want to ban it not at all and he you know he knows that you know he has the confidence of senior figures in the pakistani military not just confidence and when they're going to rope in funding and training him and his growth so you know you might view them as instrumentality but i could spend the government in fact so the i think the pakistan is going to turn it over to the united states that's not going to happen and well they've asked pakistani government has asked the u.s. for evidence wh

citizens and legal residents in the united states each year in violation of their constitutional rights. some of them have even been deported and then been brought back to the united states of america. that's not an old story. that's a story of today. the federal government took a step in the right direction when it legally challenged the show me your papers laws in alabama, south carolina, and arizona. because the state laws are unconstitutional and interfere with the federal government's authority to set and enforce immigration policy. but it makes no sense to file suit against unconstitutional laws on the one hand, and on the other hand, allow those same laws to funnel people into our detention centers and deportation pipeline. gabino has been denied relief from dough pour takes because he's been stopped too many times, according to the federal government, for driving without a license. the government is complicit in serial profiling because the states cannot deport him and break up his family of american citizens, the federal government is doing just that. and programs like 287-g, s

. >> tissue banking is legal throughout the united states. as long as there's consent from the legal next of kin. >> the procedures that we were doing that cadaver or patient, i still called it a patient, you know, was prepped and draped like it was in an operating room. the patient is lying on a table, in a supine position, meaning on its back. and there are certain tissues that are going to be recovered. incisions are made in certain areas of the body. and certain tissue types are removed. >> we recovered patella tendons, achilles tendons. >> you know, the femur, the fib tib. the tibia, the fibula. >> the humerus, radius ulnus. we also did hemi pelvises. >> we put the tissue on ice and then the tissues would then go back to the lab and from the lab, they would be processed, sterilized and go from distribution centers and to hospitals and ultimately, the patient gets the olograph. >> my name is dana ryan. in 2003, my family and i were living in ohio, and i was working for a private catholic university. the medical problems started in 2001. it

marijuana for a number of years sixteen states have legalized it there's almost a million legal medical marijuana patients united states but still congress is not the only thing in the white house is not showing leadership when it comes to the full legalization of marijuana really like alcohol there's a chance that one of these initiatives to lead we regularly girl one are either in colorado washington state continues here on election day both are leading in the polls right now there's little question that the federal government whether it's obama or romney are going to come. they have to live with they do but i think the more the public opinion supports this the more states that say we're leaving that we get out of that we federal government we want to do is responsible and what you are federal prosecutors are doing had nothing to do with protecting public safety public health i think we'll get it tipping point when sixty percent of americans say that and we see more and more states legalizing it in a state where you know it's going to pay to support them whether there's other boy wrote and you know you're an e