mr. bruno. apologize for not dressing up because we all rushed here to get here. but thank you all for allowing me to in public comment. um say something about. board of appeals processes. um, i've looked at other notices of appeal. notices of decision rather from this board, as you all know, because you're the experts. there have been many that say things like upheld on the condition that they be revised as follows. the tree shall not be removed. the bureau of urban forestry shall inspect the trees annually. um, there's another one from my neighborhood that's even more complicated because it asks somebody to reinstall a light. well, that simply a light. well, that didn't have permits to be obstructed with in some way. and yet in three hearings that i've recently, um, attended at this board, i feel that the city attorney and the board executive director has commented on policy without being asked by the commissioners. so we have a commissioner system. i'm somewhat familiar with it because i was

and i asked the department to follow up directly with mr. bruno, my question is i hear mr. bruno asking for permission from us or authority for us to initiate parking lot of this matter. and i'm wondering if the deputy city attorney can now or later tell us what authority we have to either revive or make get back jurisdiction over a matter that we thought had been resolved. >> commissioner trasvina i clarify the permit in question is not appealable. it is 15 days appealable 15 days from issuance not when reinstated the board made a final decision to modify that permit and it was the language the language changed that's not a new permit it statute same now it since the decision was issued it is no longer suspendd and reinstated that it is not appealable. >> so, it appear then what mr. bruno is asking for is rndz the impression we have theed able to do something you have now you no longer have jurisdiction over this permit. you skw dbi provide a response. we no longer have jurisdiction over that permit. >> and either from you or from the deputy city attorney dom we have author

actually, it was an email in response to your some of the comments that mr. bruno has made in public comment here, when the main concerns was is well, i don't know which was the main concern, but he did discuss us using the phrase reinstated for the permits, which is the appropriate action. we do that with the permits that come before the board of appeals. all the time. once the appeal is filed, we suspend the permit. after you make your decision, we either reinstate the permit or we revoke the permit. so the first part of the letter was just correcting that item. the second part of the letter was, if you recall, i agreed to send out a senior building senior plumbing inspector to investigate the property that was subject to the plumbing permit that was originally appealed and i did. i sent one of the senior plumbing, very senior plumbing inspector. he's been there nearly 30 years. he knows the whole process. he went out there with the property owner and he let me know that the work under this permit was in the three units at the front of the property, the ones faci