that was for mr. duffy, choosing to pursue this appeal as a way to find a resolution. we did meet with mr. denny and mr. myaki this afternoon, but it is premature to say we are at a settlement, and i don't think that is what is before you tonight. what is before you is whether or not these permits should move forward. we want to be clear that the building has residential and commercial tenants, and it is impossible for us to complete our renovation with no impact to the residents. our permits have been properly reviewed, and are valid, and we are committed to find a solution that all party cans tolerate given there will be an end in sight hopefully in the next three months. additionally, we wanted to have the opportunity to speak with all tenants and we noticed a meeting last night and we had 27 people in attendance. at first everybody was very concerned about the construction noise, but by the end of the meeting, people were actually asking us to work longer in order to finish the construction in a more timely manner. we now know that we have a phone and an email and a

so mr. duffy raised a question, how much longer of this level of noise is going to continue, where are you in the project? >> well, david can probably give us a better update where we are overall, he's the senior superintendent. >> i'm david alexander, the senior superintendent on site. it's kind of a difficult question because we've had -- the permits are spread throughout the floors. so some of those have been suspended, so that work, even though we're in the loudest part of it, had to stop. we took the permits we were allowed to work on and continued through those. 4th floor and the 2nd floor, still open permits, we've gotten past most of the loud stuff. there is really no quiet way to attach to concrete it's a concrete structure. that's the world we're living in. with those two hours a day, we maximize that time. we have to make that noise, so right at 7 and right at 9, those are our windows. but our goal, as much as it is for them, probably just as bad, we want to be finished an be out of the

teague and mr. duffy do now accurately show the existing condition and accurately show the plans for the adu's. if you look on page -- the third page, thank you bottom -- >> could you hold on one moment, mr. vettel? did you want to accept these? >> yeah. >> did you also provide the same set to the appellant? >> yes. so as the inspection's 2340e9s, the plan on the bottom of pa-- noted, the plan on the bottom of page three showed the proposed set back with a slightly smaller adu unit at that location. it also shows some changes in the openings and the shear wall to confirm the integrity of the shear walls pursuant to the plan checker's directions. and then, the third thing this plan shows is the relocation of the housing services from the area where the adu's are going into other parts of the ground floor so that we're not severing any housing services. rather, we're relocating certain of those services. you can see on the bottom plan that there are the upper left corner is a storage room that the appellant

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and mr. duffy, before you begin, if there are any other members of the public who would like to address the board during general public comments, please step up. thank you. please proceed. >> yeah. i also know rita from our neighborhood, and yeah, she's -- she's some, you know, obviously the world ignores her or allows that to go on. something missing. i don't know if s.b.1045 is the answer, we have to work that out locally. not just her, but we have janet jackson, regularly has the wardrobe malfunctions, pavaroti, the guy, and the tip of the iceberg. so, obviously compassion is the item of the day. you know, i would think somewhere in this city there would be a place we could, some corner where we could grow some hemp, for example, you know. what i was thinking was, madam president, you know, sooner or later this board is going to have to pick a new president, less than a year away, at the longest. and i just hope that we don't make the mistake that we made a few years ago where we picked somebody

and mr. duffy, before you begin, if there are any other members of the public who would like to address the board during general public comments, please step up. thank you. please proceed. >> yeah.

mr. duffy is correct that he has tried to put us together, but that's after the fact. that's after google pops up, that we have suspended their permits. it's only after that because they're forced to do that. in addition to that, if you go to -- i show that the information portrayed by the legal counsel is false. if you go to exhibit 2, exhibit 2, they say they're going to finish in july. exhibit 2, it says we've received requests. this is from gray star. we have received request for updates on the status of the renovations occurring in rincon center, commercial space. the work has been halted -- i'm reading the wrong one first. we received requests for update on the status of the renovation. >> into the microphone a little more. >> we received request for updates on the status of the rincon center, commercial space, we requested a schedule that notes the impactful noises caused by a process called roto hammering is estimated to be completed by march 15. we have multiple e-mails that it was november and then december. at this time, when we get to december, this push it

where is the phasing where if it was mr. duffy standing in your position from the building department, there would be a fine because a wrong turn was taken? where is the phasing in this process that allows somebody to go on notice, pay a fine, be clear on a penalty other than this immediate track to your business is gone? >> i don't think it was immediate. it's been long coming. >> where is the phasing -- [overlapping speakers] >> unfortunately, i'm not an attorney and i didn't present this. i made my hearing at the hearing when we had the revocation hearing. there are citations. there's police reports where mr. badillo is listed. i guess the burden of proof or weight is put on him as an owner to now municipal codes and the fees. there's a lot of stuff that mr. badillo doesn't know as a young business owner. but there are penalties which is drivers being cited, police reports were made, enterprise didn't want to prosecute him. they are a big company. but their vehicles were taken from them and held and money was extorted from them

hensarling: i'm happy to yield two minutes to the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. duffy, chairman of the subcommittee on housing and insurance. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized for two minutes. mr. duffy: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, mr. chairman. i want to congratulate mr. hill on putting together such a great bill, the volcker rule regulatory harmonization act, a bill that you might not know from this conversation but it has wide bipartisan support in our committee which has a lot of different views, left and right, it passed 50-10. passed 50-10. i want to talk about the volcker rule in a second but my good friend across the aisle, i call her a friend, is talking about big banks and the big banks and the all the bad things they're doing. listen. when banks do well, our communities do well. when banks don't do well, we see crises spread across america and people get hurt. and when we talk about some of the biggest banks and making sure they have strong and stiff regulation, i would agree with the ranking member but when he we tal

with that, the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. duffy, chairman of the housing subcommittee. >> mr. quarles, welcome. tas as my colleagues mentioned it's nice to have you here and testify before the committee. as we complained it's been long overdue. so, welcome. first i want to thank you for your ongoing work to re-evaluate the systemic risk or lack thereof of our u.s. insurance industry. thank you for that. now we all know that you have direct oversight over our savings and loan holding companies and those that have been designated as sephies. with the fed seat on the sab and ias, developing capital standards similar to our european sort ofncy standards. do you believe our state-based regulatory model has been effective in the u.s.? >> yes, i think that over the long life, it's been pretty effective. >> will you commit that the federal reserve and your work with treasury will make clear that we will not see our regulatory system and move forward with the development of a european cent rick international capital standard unless iis reco

. >> that you do recognize the judgment from wisconsin mr. duffy. >> thank you, mr. chairman. welcome, director mulvaney. i would just note from the first part of the sink there seems to be a bit of agitation coming from the other side of the aisle, and i understand education because democrats don't have a lot of power or control over your directorship of the cpb, nor do we on the republican side. because that was the intent of congress to make sure that congress had no power or control over the cpb. and so when you are a party in power with the president who can appoint the director that's in line they do with your viewpoint, you are plot the director because you think they are great, but if you're not in power the becomes a great tool of frustration and again i would note by the very structure of the cpb i came from dodd-frank that my friends voted for that is because of that very frustration. i would just note to the gentlelady from new york when we talk about 5 million individuals losing their homes, i would argue there's a great number of those people who are getting loan

duffy. >> president f. fung: mr. tam, do you need more time? >> yeah, is that okay [off mic] >> president f. fung: okay. perhaps we should -- >> take a 5-minute break? >> president f. fung: take a 5-minute break. >> okay, welcome back to the regular meeting of the board of appeals. today is april 11th, 2018. and we were on item number 6 on the agenda. we were giving the appellant time to review the newly submitted plans. mr. tam, are you ready to address the board? >> president f. fung: please come forward. >> for the record my name is vincent tam, i'm the son of anthony tam who is unavailable to make it to today's meeting. so good evening, president fung, commissioners. for the 5-6 minutes i was able to review, i still want to fight for the rear because, as you can see, there's a large gap for the neighbors property right here. so the neighbor is free and clear of any air quality and privacy. but on this side, we have no privacy. but the neighbors do. i feel that's not fair to us and i feel like maybe they can do some revision and make it equa

duffy from d.b.i. doesn't have any -- >> i have a question, mr. inspector. >> mr. fung. the reference made by the project sponsor on the permit number, i'm looking at the application which was the number he referred to. but your permit numbers usually start with the year, doesn't it? >> yes, that's correct, yes. >> so the number that is on the application filled out by staff? >> it is, yes. >> and it's a tracking number versus a permit number? >> well, the application number should be 2017-2016, should start with, it should always be that. >> take a look at your package. it says permit is 1447832. >> could you repeat the number? >> 1447382. >> that's the receipt number. it's a permit number. but that's just for financial purposes. it doesn't show up anywhere in any of our tracking systems. our permit tracking system would give you the application number. that permit number, it's on everything, it's confusing a little bit. but you won't find that anywhere unless you have micro film copy of the permit but it's nowhere in our permit tracking system. it's more for our centra

duffy -- ar khaddafi. it's just hard to know and you have one new player, john bolton has taken over today. whether mr. pompeo will be in place by then is somewhat up in the air, i just don't know. thathard for me to believe it won't have an impact, that it of't be related in terms whatever happens on may 11 tied to things that may or may not happen in these negotiations long-term. that should be informed by the korean summit with cap -- which happens before that. i just don't know. supported the agreement, it has its flaws but it also has its strengths. the downside of living out of in terms of iran's ability to bring nuclear weapons forward . we forget how rapidly they can move their technology. that is a huge concern i have. the knock on effects, the reason i talk about earlier is part of this as well. andn't know how kim jong-un his advisers would not be paying a lot of attention to that as well. actually, it probably could work in the other direction. in a constructive way. in terms of staying with that and kim jong-un might be able to think he can make a deal. i'm just not sure. mr. cha: can i of