mr. pacheco, please read the world. secretary pacheco: on that motion, commissioner fung, vice president garcia: , commissioner peterson, that is rescheduled to december 14. director goldstein: thank you. moving back to a regular calendar, item number one, public comment. is there any member of the public who would like to speak on something that is not on tonight's calendar? please step forward. >> my name is ross wilkinson. good evening, commissioners. i am a tenant, and i brought an appeal in 2006, regarding with fans that the property owner was putting in the exterior walls of each unit, and i essentially got a 50% victory in that appeal. we got an agreement from the landlord to put on off switches on those fan units so that tenants could turn them off to prevent all of the conditioned air from being exhausted from the apartment. i recently discovered that the department of building inspection disregarded your order. they were very aggressive in opposing my efforts to have them make the building order to comply with

mr. pacheco, when you are ready, you can call the roll, please. secretary pacheco: so, again, the motion is from the vice president to grant the appeal and appalled apartment on the condition that all tenants do not have to vacate their units, and this is on the basis on a voluntary agreement between the permit holder and the appellant. on that motion, commissioner fung, president goh, commissioner peterson, commissioner hwang is absent, so the permit is upheld with that condition and on that basis. the vote is 4-0. thank you. director goldstein: we can call the next item, item number seven, appeal number 11-100. 1500 francisco street. unit no. 10. protesting the issuance on august 31, 2011, to martin beresford, a permit to alter a building, replace the existing roof deck, like for like. the matter is on for hearing today, and we will start with the appellant. you have seven minutes. >> good evening, madam president and commissioners. my name is right stern, and i am currently the president of the 1500 francisco street homeowners association. appe

mr. pacheco? director goldstein: i just want to make sure that the department of building inspection and understand that as far as the self closing door and hinges, they are the ones to be enforcing that, so i just want to make sure that they'll understand what it is that would be required. vice president garcia: commissioner fung, i do not want to put words in his mouth. these are apparently pressurized, so you can vary the rate at which they close. >> department of building inspection. there are several requirements for doors, depending on what purpose they serve. there is maximum and minimum force, and depending on the location of the door, it may be self closing or automatic closing. those are generally terms that we use for fire doors, off and just for clarification, it closes upon activation of a smoke detector or alarm. the self closing door is normally closed, and it would close automatically, so it is in a normally closed position, and then they have the hardware. and just to clarify, a d

mr. pacheco, would you call the world? it does not look like there is any additionthis. is this correct? secretary pacheco: again, we have a motion from commissioner fung, that he applied for and procure a new building permit for structural upgrade of the roof structure and on the basis that this permit is code compliance. on that motion, president goh, vice president garcia, commissioner peterson, commissioner hwang is absent, the boat is four-zero. the appeal is upheld with that condition and on that basis. director goldstein: ok, thank you. we will move into the last item on our calendar, which is item number eight, a discussion and possible adoption of the department's annual report. commissioners, we repaired -- prepared this report as part of the city charter, as all do, and it is also to inform the public. this covers the fiscal year 2010-2011, from july 1, 2010, to june 30, 2011, and what i thought i would do is touch on some of the highlights, and that i would be happy to answer any questions you might have. during that fiscal year, you have heard 151 matters, a

mr. it as submitted, but i believe it is number two? vice president garcia: with city planner, scott sanchez. secretary pacheco: so we can go by that. president goh: september 30, 2011. mr. sanchez appears to have a comment. >> to include in a language that the board of appeals is requiring it. otherwise, in the future, this will appear on the record, but nobody will have an idea how it got there, so this would be to make sure that their action is noted here. in kind of typical format for a notice of special restriction. >> mr. sanchez, normally are notice is also recorded, and would that not serve the same purpose? >> i think we would want to be clear that we are recording both. usually, the nsr is included. president goh: we're talking about this actual nsr. director goldstein: ok, so if you are in agreement with adding that, vice president garcia, we would have the board -- board vote on your motion, which is to grant the appeal, uphold the release of the suspension on condition that an nsr against its property be imposed, with language that it will be by this board and that it contained the language on this document dated 9/30/11