mr. sanchez, but i'll address it to you and you can pass it on to mr. sanchez and address it in rebuttal. but you said the whole 311 notice process has been disregarded and/or undermined by virtue of the fact that we just got plans today. they weren't even done in time for the briefs to be filed. so how could there be a satisfactory 311 notice process with discussion back and ping-ponging back and forth to arrive at a compromise or a consensus? i know mr. sanchez will address this and the changes that are proposed may not fall under it. i'll let the planning department answer that. i'll let mr. shan ches answer that. >> i asked you so he could prepare for rebuttal. i really hate coincidences and one of the coincidences is on page a-1.0, which is the excavation accounts. isn't it a coincidence that these total 39 cubic yards that fall just under the level that would trigger a greater study? these are the coincidences that drive me nuts. okay. >> you and me both. >> is it true that this is our last bite at the apple with regard to this appeal because when

and what we are going to ask mr sanchez ok obviously and offer pressure. to sit together in the. table of negotiations with no conditions that means that we are going to put in that they will these referendum these right of catalonia to serve that their mission and we want to ask mr scientist the nasty. the amnesty sorry for our colleagues in prison so you have a long list of demands and while you feel that this is a time maybe where because of his political situation. you could get more of a chance to be listened to this is nothing that he's new party he's no partying though or a man of the most defended me that's probably the most in catalonia has defended. political prisoners should should should be free they have defend referendum for a couple onya and they have defended the amnesty for. political prisoners so if now these parties going to be part of the government of spain i think that we are very close to to the solution if you look at the results of the elections for catalonia the pro independence parties got 23 seats to 48 so not the majority no. way you speak you feel qu

could take mr sanchez. 4 months ago he had many opportunities to. run from oriented to one side or to another while he decided to go to elections and now after these elections we've become stronger while he will decide europe didn't really embrace the cause that it sort of kept a little bit on the margins in the sense that you probably when mr man went to brussels he probably expected more pressure. coming from brussels on the government in madrid that didn't really happen. and it will be disappointed by the position of the european union but from the other side was was the people was the citizens of europe and we feel very close to these europe that. the you took that we feel ourselves. committed sooner power fraternity that you know of solidarity the europe that helps the. people of the world to be free they won it but it's a europe that's also having another problem with the rise of the far right which which happened also in spain and one. say that part of this rise of the vox party was also the catalonia issue they talked about it over and over

mr. sanchez? >> thank you. good evening, president swig, members of the board, scott sanchez. i will focus on the comments that the board gave at last hearing and to give you the alternative. i won't try to sway you in the wisdom of the planning commission, but i appreciate the diligent work and quick responsiveness of the appellant and they did address all the concerns and comments we had with regard to the additional a.d.u. the project has been revised to be code complaint. they have addressed the demolition calculations which have been raised at the public comment in the previous hearing. we have issued the memo as necessary for authorizing the a.d.u. and updated the categorical exemption and the environmental review document to reflect the revised scope of work for the project. given that it was denied by the planning commission which action if the board does overturn the denial, this would be the first approval action for the purposes of the environmental review. and i do appreciate this has

mr. sanchez just did. it clearly says who the president is. it's lori brook and it has a p. o. box on that website. for that reason alone this permit needs to be denied. and the other reason, as i went into detail earlier is 190 -- 19 is not effective, it is not retroactive, it is not appropriate here. >> thank you. we'll now hear from ms. patel. i'm sorry. ms. court>> you heard from my lawyer before. the reason i felt i had to bring a lawyer was the last time a came to the public hearing i found it very difficult to speak. i found it very intimidating to talk to all of you. i'm an mba. i've had a professional career for a long time but it's extremely scary and hard to come forward. but i feel very passionately about a wireless antenna outside my home that is 20 feet away from the bedroom of my children. i have a one-year-old, a four-year-old and a seven-year-old. the i live at 2740 green street. it is literally the closest thing possible to my children's bedroom window. and when i came to appeal, i appealed because i the street has no above-ground utilities at all. they are go

mr. sanchez said, there's a lot of eyes on this project. i doubt it will be missed. you had a question. >> commissioner tanner: public drain age, during public testimony time, some folks are concerned with drain age in the area which would be seem to be the permit holder's issue other than the fact that they might suffer from it, as well. can you speak to how we address drain age from one property to the other or what would be required? >> yes. it's a very good question. basically, everyone's responsible for their own drainage. as mr. sanchez said, you can't drain on somebody's property. unfortunately, it's going to drain downhill. there are occasions -- in this project, for example, if there's drainage, they're going to have to take care of it, the retaining wall, anything like that, they're going to have to take care of it. water can't run from their property on to somebody's property. there may be something just because of the area, and for the lady that got up and said she's got water coming through her garage, she's got a water cable table or something, i would

mr. sanchez. i actually printed the printout from the assessor's office and if i could have the overhead i'll show you that. so whenever we go to the permit tracking system, we need to find out where our dbi does the mailing to and we pick this from the assessor's records. you can see that there's two owners here susan kearney, east third avenue san mateo and there's a phillip, 166 san francisco. so dbi would use that address for the notification which was a notification which we did in fact send to 166 street so that's pretty typical of what we do. the permit itself, i didn't see any issues with the building end of it anyway. i went through the proper processes and from reading the brief, just on the property line windows, they're obviously non-conforming property line windows existing. and they are opening onto a general outline. so they're probably from back many years ago. i don't know how long. but when someone builds next to you and you have a property line window if there were new windows t

mrs. sanchez testified to that. okay. >> also we think that we are not here prepared to deal with the landlord tenant situation. maybe whenever we need to deal with that we will deal in the future. what we are going to do right now is go to our permit to renovate the home. that's it. >> are you done sir? >> two questions for you. i don't know if you both want to stay and answer. the gentleman produced an ad i couldn't see where it was from but it was indicating it was a short term rental. the person at the bottom. >> 4b. >> the person at the bottom i'm not sure if the gentleman is listed as the holder of that permit, if that is one of you or a member of your party or organization. >> that's a previous description we were trying to rent. we erased the short term because we knew it was not appropriate. >> you erased that? >> yes erased that. currently we have leases that we can provide showing that we don't have short term rentals. >> the assertion from ms. carhartt she was offered a lease for a studio do you care to

mr. sanchez? >> yes. >> chair fewer: okay. let's do that because i think that there's some questions here with this committee. we're not saying that this isn't something we should be funding. i think we're just saying we need deeper clarification as this is $8 million that we are talking about. so i'd like to make a motion to continue this item until the next meeting. >> clerk: excuse me, madam chair, would you like to have public comment on this item? >> chair fewer: oh, yes. is there any member of the public that would like to comment on item five? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair fewer: madam clerk, i would like to continue this until the next meeting of the budget and finance committee, and if we can take that without objection, thank you very much. [gavel]. >> chair fewer: and mr. sanchez, we will connect to get further clarification. thank you. madam clerk, would you please call item six. [agenda item read]. >> chair fewer: welcome. >> supervisor fewer, members of the committee. [inaudible] >> --

mr. sanchez? okay. mr. duffy? >> this is interesting. >> it is what it is.commissioners, these types of cases here are cause us many, many hours and days and weeks and months of stress. i was the inspector for this area the parking issues and the parking spaces. i believe one of the study tried to -- because of the project and the appearance of -- because of the construction and the parking, they were taking up four spaces. the unfortunate part of it is that the building code is for permits and extending and reviewing a permit. we probably -- i know i have another one of these types of projects in another district. you really just have to keep on people to what is going on. and the store front and probably spoken to the attorney about it. but what do you do? take the permit away and leave it in the middle of the work? and that the cracks weren't caused by her work or whatever. get the project completed. a couple of things from the appellant as well that the identity from the appellant heard that he had an engineer on board. sometimes we have these situations

mr. sanchez. when i went through it, i had a hard time deciphering which was which, and even a staff member like edgar had this problem, as well. >> the problem with l.c.u.s is they're pretty much an afterthought. it does come up here and there, but how does that language need to be in order to extend it to l.c.u.s? it could have had another line there, shall apply to neighborhood commercial districts and l.c.u.s in the following geographic areas. >> commissioner honda: and i'm almost done. last question. you know, it's an understanding that when the building department or the planning department errs in issuing a permit, that they take no responsibility for that. and being on this board for 7.5 years, we've seen that many times. but in this particular case, it seems that even -- i mean, it wasn't a clearer ror. it seems like to me that there's -- that the language is very muddy, at best, in regards to the n.c.d. and being on 4 2e a2e -- 42nd and 43rd. sorry to put you on the spot. >> there's a re

mr. sanchez. >> good evening. scott sanchez, planning department. we've noted that the proposed a.d.u. had already been constructed. that was the first time that the department knew that the unit had been illegally constructed. i reviewed nice photos of the unit as well as the appellant prepared a light study that they submitted to the department last week. as you recall, one of the purposes of the continuance was to allow for the zoning administrator to change his determination on the variance request, and after careful consideration of materials, the zoning administrator was not inclined to change -- >> commissioner honda: did you do a site visit? >> we did not do a site visit. this is a de novo hearing, so if the board finds the five findings have been met, that would be up to the discretion of the board, but the planning department, even after reviewing the materials was not supportive of the application. we also used this as an opportunity to review the plans that kind of led us to this place, and i confirmed from the plans that there was no -- you know, no plans had been approved

mr. sanchez. anything further? okay. mr. duffy? anything further? >> there are two storage shown on the plans on the ground floor. so they'll have to, you know whatever the rent board the rent control board, i was just looking up the dbi's question on that. a lot of the services loss of services, it's all in the ordinance. >> thank you. >> so commissioners, this matter is submitted. >> commissioners. what's before us is the permit regarding the required and mandated soft story retrofit of a multi-unit building. it's concerning to me that outside nevers invest -- investors come in buy properties with long-term san franciscans in them and relocate them. but what's before this body is the mandated permit that's required for the soft story retrofit which i believe was issued correctly. i'm pretty sure that we'll have some conditions here. it depends on my other commissioners, and you as tenants have rights to watch this and report this to the departments that are there. what are your thoughts on conditions? >> well, and again i'm not trying to villanies

mr. sanchez. so considering that there was another business there, and it hasn't exceeded the three years, the usage is still continuing, right. >> so the l.c.u. is only abandoned if the prior use has been vacated for more than three years, in which case it could be restored with a conditional use authorization. that hadn't always been the case. it used to be once you lost it, you lost it, but now, it can be restored via conditional use. >> commissioner honda: and regarding some of the terms that you just rattled off, is that building in noncompliance now, in terms of rundown, so it is not in compliance now? >> certainly. what i understand their business to be -- >> but, if the landlords would be -- if we deny this, the building would be -- >> they would then be required to restore the building, figure out what to do next. >> commissioner tanner: i have a question -- >> commissioner santacana: is it true that the supervisors -- supervisor tang's aide said that no business in this district other th

mr. sanchez. >> thank you. planning department. the appeal is appeal on planning for 344 14th street. the subject project originated in 2014 with a pta preliminary project assessment and the review was december 2510. and the select project authorization case in june 2016. the project was quite significantly revised and it's my understanding the beginning of last year it was to a project seeking authorization under the state density bonus. i think this is the first appeal the state density project that the board of appeals has heard. so under the state density bonus they are allowed to seek concessions or waivers. they are not seeking any concessions or incentives but they are seeking waivers from rear yard height and usable open space. there is no separate entitlement that is needed for a density bonus project. it's wrapped into whatever authorization, in this case large project authorization. as the permit holder stated the requirements for affordable housing are 18 percent. that works out to 19 percent for this project. additionally, there is a fee that is paid for additional square

and treatment not to take place we have real concerns on the evidence currently available that mr sanchez could die in prison the medical situation is thereby urgent no time to lose we have credible witness reports from people that saw julian recent weeks such as the souther. his barrister robin song and the former u.k. . and they all agree that julian's physical and mental condition. strictly in seriously. so his medical doctor we extremely concerned that nothing was being. by now or many consider him a political prisoner was. british brazen doctors from numerous countries such as the us the australia and italy have made their assessments based on eyewitness accounts as following his or his october court appearance back then it was reported that a song's couldn't recall his date of birth and when asked whether he could understand what was happening the australian replied that he couldn't think straight the wiki leaks that is so has also complained about the conditions of his imprisonment on multiple occasions a song just currently being held in london's belmarsh prison ways serving a 50

mr sanchez said the deal should last for four years.as introduced new bank notes. it's an attempt to ease the country's acute cash shortage. but there are fears it could fuel inflation, in a country where the rate is already about 300%. now have a look at this meteor falling from the sky in missouri — it was captured on a home security camera. the american meteor society says it has received over 120 reports from eight us states from people who say they spotted the object. most sightings were reported in missouri, but people in other states such as illinois, kansas, minnesota and nevada, also registered sightings with the scientific society. australia's high court has agreed to hear an appeal by the vatican's former treasurer, cardinal george pell, against his convictions for child sexual abuse. pell, who's 78, was found guilty of the rape of a 13—year—old choirboy and the sexual assault of another at st patrick's cathedral in melbourne in 1996. he has always denied any wrongdoing. my colleague shaimaa khalil has more from sydney. remem

mr. sanchez and the economic program.esented, there are many different options that can happen in the process. the prime minister failed at this election. if he resigns, can we do a grand coalition? >> obviously the prime minister went into the elections thinking or at least with a strategy of increasing seats, getting a stronger majority, and being able to gain a foothold with a larger majority for his program. that has not happened. it is exactly the opposite. we see now that parliament is more divided, you have the inreme left and right different areas, and at the same time, we have the nationalists. it is extremely confident desk obligated even if you make the different combinations of possible paths. i think he really needs to go to the citizens of the country and say, this has been a failure of strategy, and we need to think of the country and the best in an environment in which the economy is not growing as expected, and we need to do more. >> it is obvious that the country is in a mess. there is no other way to pu

one recent survey had the socialist party led by mr sanchez winning i2i seats stopping letters to make predicted a slidt whatore than the last time it also predicted a slidt what ore . the than the last time it also predicted a slidt whatore . the right? than the last time it also predicted a slidt what ore . the right? polls party. what about the right? polls suggest they might benefit this time around, but again may not enough to form a majority. the popular party is expected to do much better than a day a current seats stopping so to the populace right wing party vox which could double its share to 46 feet. however, the citizens party could be a big loser, perhaps dropping 60 seats to the midteens. catalonia has once again loomed over the election stopping there have been more large—scale pro— and anti— independence demonstrations, after nine separatist politicians were jailed for their part in the illegal referendum of 2017. the recent all—male leaders debate, they talked about new laws around state media. added to mr sanchez‘s woes are a slowdown in the spanish economy, and ajump