so how were the included parcels and the substance parcel handles? our office sent notices to two categories of people. first, the owner of record, and second any recorded lienholders for all parcels on the tax auction list. for the owner of record, we relied on the last known mailing record listed in the assessor's data babase. as we now know, the last -- so identify recordedlene holders, we follow the laws in the california tax sale manual, and engaged two vendors, the same that are used by other vendors across the state to search for the owners on the auction list. their report which was completed in february 2015 identified owners in 2510 through their lot and plot. i want to stop here for a moment because the association's brief lists several reported documents they claim we should have found, however, none of the documents we list were specific to this parcel. i'll go into more detail later about how we can change the search protocol for future automobile accidents. back in 2015, we sent notices of the auction via certified mail. of the 1,480 c

well the puc parcel? i'm not trying to redo the settlement, but were things like that considered? >> many options were considered. it's the puc parcel. they must get maximum value. they cannot split a parcel and have a portion that's basically useless on the market. from the puc's perspective, if they're going to sell a surplus asset, they're going to sell it at the highest value, which includes the dpw parcel being thrown in at the same time. when you have a larger parcel thrown together, it's a higher value. >> commissioner johnson: okay. i'm glad we got that clear. i think the piece that was missing for me is the reason that we cannot provide the easement, so i got it. >> and i should clarify, the reason why it's going to rezone technically, it's standard practice that the unzoned would take -- so it would transfer the property to the plaintiff in this case. and standard practice is that it would not remain public, or we would have to face this issue or rezone it. it is happening before or at the same

>> the sf-puc parcel -- correct. it was zoned public, but i believe 20 years ago it was determined by the sf-puc not to use that land for whatever public purpose they had for it before. >> commissioner johnson: okay. i'm still -- i feel like -- and that's the analysis of the only options. i know in the case report, it sort of says that the staff looked at how else to achieve the goals of the settlement and one was to -- can you explain those again? it was unclear to me why there was a couple of options and you said it was unfeasible. if you can go through those options again. >> absolutely. the first option looked at was installing an extension of the staircase or the public sidewalk along copper alley to connect burnett avenue to greystone terrace. unfortunately again, the slope of the lot becomes a problem. it would not only have to be a very interesting engineering solution that would need to be found to create that access, but

we automate letter traffic and increasingly parcels.oad at 2pm. you have been facing challenges in restructuring the business because like anywhere in the world, we are sending fewer letters, maybe more parcels, online shopping really big thing, how have you managed that change? the business has changed over the years. that is are still hugely important to us, 60% of uk revenue , hugely important to us, 60% of uk revenue, but parcels are continuing to grow. 6% increase in parcels in the last annual report. parcels are our business now increasingly. thank you. let me introduce you to a marketing expert, really nice to see you. retailers, really busy time of year, all of this sort of stuff going through the system, how do they plan for things like this? the busiest time of year. increasingly, we want to be able to buy products for all sorts of retailers. the planning takes forever, as soon as christmas has finished, the plan for the year after, it is about making supply chains are as efficient as possible. the business has changed, online

parcels such as presidio terrace because it requires more of a tax collector when it's an occupied parcel. in that situation, i believe it's 3707.4 -- i may have the numbers transposed a little bit, 3707.7 requires the tax collector to go to the location of the occupied parcel and try to contact the owner and if the owner's not there, then post notice of an impending sale. and it's significant that the state code does not require that extra step or steps when we're talking about a vacant lot, and there's likely a very solid policy reason behind that decision by the legislature not to require that because in virtually every single case, it's not going to accomplish anything with a neglected, abandoned vacant lot. going out there and posting a notice is not going to effectuate the notice that the tax collector intends to deliver if possible. now, i think that if the board were to make the decision to rescind this sale, that would set a very dangerous precedent going forward. not only does it potentially invalidate every one of the sales that occurred not only this tax auction, but at previo

>> as i mentioned, they've worked on the alice griffith parcel. >> which project? >> alice griffith, it's two blocks away from the 10a parcel and it's the first of the developments to kickoff construction and finish some construction in candlestick point. >> just one last question, did i hear you could have apple trees? and there's going to be vegetables and fruit harvested bit residents? i see nodding. >> oh that's cost. >> farm to table backyard to table. >> yes, farm to table from, you know, you are right. backyard to table. ok, thank you. couple more questions. >> i talked to mr. lee, you know , how this thing is going on this project. >> we're in contract compliance supervisor. >> about everything is under order? >> it is. >> according to s.p. and w.b.? >> correct. the developers and code developers have been co-operative in working with contract com lieance in assemble ing the design team as well as looking at the general contractor in a partnership with michael baines group. >> thank you. >> commissioner rosales. >> yeah, i had a question on marketing for th

parcels are hugely important, last december we handled 100 and 38 million parcels, —— 138 million parcelse on that. the good news is we have completed our external mediation involving royal mailand external mediation involving royal mail and the communication workers union. a set of recommendations were made and we are back into detailed communications with the union, and we are hopeful of a settlement early in the new year. so no strikes over christmas? no strikes over christmas. let's talk about what you need to do to make sure that stuff gets where it is going. all of these quys gets where it is going. all of these guys are working hard to make sure everything get where it needs to go. talk us through some dates. the last recommended date for second class is the 20th, first class the 21st, we ask people to address it really clearly a nd ask people to address it really clearly and use the postcode. let me introduce you to kerry, from the greeting card association. it is so interesting, surrounded by parcels and letters and particularly greeting cards. you have a pretty good insight into

parcels not arriving in time. do you use amazon?n is on prime subscriber, unlike my fellow reviewer, who pays £79 a year, i gather. —— amazon prime. because he has been promised deliveries within two days. and it is those people who have been let down? yes. they are not happy. interestingly, amazon's helpdesk has apologised, saying that this is a busy time of year. wow, funny, that. sometimes it is 48 hours and at other times it isn't. i think the smile that is on the side of the amazon parcels will have been wiped off some of those boxes when they arrive late. big, bad company time for you, is it? (inaudible). what was that? they will make a huge amount of money, a huge amount of sales over christmas. £1.4 billion in 2016 in profit. it is better to promise three days, don't promise two days and then say it is a busy time. i want to take your points about the image of amazon. one of the things that was chilling, which came out of the story of the murdoch deal, murdoch selling to disney, your media editor spelt it out fa ntastically.

>>supervisor tang: and do you have a process for resending those returned parcels? >> yes. it's published in the newspaper, and therefore it's know identified in a couple of different ways. >>supervisor tang: and i don't know if you had an answer for the continuous parcels, and if the owners of presidio terrace would be considered owners of continuous parcels. >> my understanding is there's a section that has to do with a particular type of treatment called sealed bids of parcels, and i would invite the city attorney's office who's more learned on that than i am to comment on what that refers to. >>president breed: one second. we'll turn your mic on. it should be on now. >> supervisor tang, my name is carol roark, deputy city attorney, and the sealed auction process contemplates that adjacent property owners and others are to be notified. it's a limited auction process, and it is not a mandatory procedure, it's optional, and my understanding is the tax collector may use this process in the future, but there are a lot of issues with it that they want to consider, and not all

after that is -- >> your parcels, your priority mail parcels, by the 20th.and if you're really going a little bit late and you're sending priority mail nd you're going to pay for it, too. okay. the other thing, some of us getç to the post office and come in with your bag of gifts and boxes and tissue paper and whatever and try to start assembling everything there at the post office which may not be the best idea. you're probably also just shoving things in a box. there is a proper way to make sure they get there so they're handled with care and not broken when they get to your loved one's house.ç you want to show us about that, right?

>> the former owned state parcels? for transbay? >> you know, affordable units obligations status. and there's a first 40 acres in downtown neighborhood. >> sure, yeah. so this is the transbay the re development project area of transbay and there's two zones and there's zone one and zone two. zone two is where ocii has district purview and where the formally owned state parcels are and those are the parcels that are being turned over to ocii for development of affordable housing and it's the total of the stay on parcels are about 1d over all is 40 acres and that's where the transit terminal also is. >> we have lots of work. >> i want to clarify zone one. >> i do not see 40 acres, lots of acres in downtown you know. i never see that. >> it's a lot, i know. >> we own them. [laughter] >> we hold them in trust. >> ok. >> ok. thank you. >> you don't understand me 40 acres are. >> i think yeah and they're identifying what is geographically. >> we have a great a map to you and if you like that map bev a perfect map that describes the whole area. >> so in 40 acres we're going to go and the

parcel q's previous praisal would be at 4,00,054,000. we request this committee move to approve the purchase and sale agreement and subsequent ground lease. at this time, the sponsor, john updike, director of property and myself are all available to answer any questions that you may have. >>supervisor cohen: thank you for that thorough presentation. colleagues, dow have any questions? all right. let's go to the budget legislative analyst and hear her thoughts. >> yes, this purchase of parcel q was contemplated by the mayor's office at the time that mercy housing purchased the property. the purchase price would be basically forgiveness of the loan. there would be a 99 year ground lease set at $59 persquare foot peryear, plus residual value. we made this a policy matter because there had not been a policy review on the original praisal, and the original praisal review rejected the initial appraisal by.9 million. we did final reference to an appraisal in 2018 that set the value at 3.9 million, which would be more than the purchase price, bu

they are facing christmas parcels inquiry. robert, are you waiting for parcels? a wall for four days. it was a straightforward report. amazon offer a service, to which i subscribe, called premium. for reviews, i do wa nt called premium. for reviews, i do want to be able to say, i will get that book in my hands or whatever the following day. that is what amazon prime promises. it is a premium account. i think it is about £9. we've got a lovely story for parcels going round the world and being delivered late and so on. but i don't think anything can damage the fair name of amazon at all. fairlane, possibly. benedicte, do you think that? i'm being sarcastic! no company is beyond criticism and beyond the bridge. i think if you promise that, you are in trouble. we had a story a few days ago about the fa ct of had a story a few days ago about the fact of how little the drivers are paid and how they are expected to peak ina paid and how they are expected to peak in a bottle and all kinds of things. big companies like this need to be very careful, whether it is uber or a

they will the first alice growth i am project and they're looking forward to completing another parceln the candlestick neighborhood. finally the schedule they will have the bond allocation this month and spend a year securing the rest of its financing sources and halfway through 2019 , and the ground lease after these two milestones the project will be ready to close on its construction financing and begin construction at the end of 2019 and it should be fully occupied by 2022. as i conclude my presentation, the development team has created a 3d model of the building divine to review which we can pass around and before we take questions i'll introduce members of the team who are here today. we have chris cummings the lead project manager and another project manager working on the project and if you guys to raise your hand. from y.c.d. mark akino employment and education specialist and program coordinator roy hannah and we have steve ryanenger and melissa garcia project manager and anita saay. and from y.a. studios we have the principle whom you also heard from and then finally from oc

supervisor farrell. >> supervisor farrell: thank you, this parcel sin district two. supervisor peskin and i spoke beforehand before bringing the appeal forward and he dealt with signatures we had an interest in so i wanted to and we discussed it beforehand and he wanted to highlight some issues he had with the process itself. so here we are. i will turn it over to supervisor peskin. >> supervisor breed: supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, madam president, major leagues. without pre judging the pre judging the use i want to thank the individuals to affixed their signatures to allow it to happen and for supervisor farrell for being gracious though it was in his district to allowing the hearing go forth. regardless of the presentations we'll hear and what's in the written record, i want to start at the outset by saying that this is an extraordinary case. unfortunately, not an isolated extraordinary case. but there is incredible historic -- are incredible historic resources in the city. and we have laws and procedures in place that failed in every single

police said a parcel was delivered by courier to a pharmacy near the market in the afternoon. the owner of the pharmacy alerted the police. with the support of the german federal police we x. rayed the parcel and confirmed that there was indeed a cylindrical object inside and it contained nails history and. so far no detonator has been found police say the parcel held a large firecracker without a fuse and with hundreds of small nails it's an open question as to the motive. it is all here for it's too early to speculate because we really cannot yet say whether the target was the pharmacist or whether it was the christmas market would involve notes my. investigations are continuing but the mayor of potsdam says the market will open as usual tomorrow morning. and standing by in part some forested obviously in a few linda as i said police have defused the device in question have they found anything else that suspicious and what else have they been telling you. well they're still trying to play here all of the area what they're doing right now is sending dogs looking for any explo

parcels at 948, 950 lombard and 841 chestnut street. the project, without objection we will proceed as follows. up to ten minutes for the presentation by the appellant or appellant representative and up to two minutes for speaker in support of the appeal and ten minutes for a presentation from the planning commission and ten minutes for the project sponsor or representative and ten minutes for opposition and up to three minutes for a rebut -- rebuttal. we'll open up the hearing. supervisor farrell. >> supervisor farrell: thank you, this parcel sin district two. supervisor peskin and i spoke beforehand before bringing the appeal forward and he dealt with signatures we had an interest in so i wanted to and we discussed it beforehand and he wanted to highlight some issues he had with the process itself. so here we are. i will turn it over to supervisor peskin. >> supervisor breed: supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, madam president, major leagues. without pre judging the pre judging the use i want to thank the individuals t

of the game, you have 13 quys and parcel of the game, you have 13 guys out there in the middle at anygs sometimes do go overboard, but that is part and parcel of being alpha males on a sporting arena. there have been a few incidents of back of the pitch, the one with ben duckett, there is a perception that england have a discipline problem when it comes to alcohol, is that fair? people will have perceptions and will read things, ifirmly have perceptions and will read things, i firmly believe that there has been a lot of hype, i think it has been a lot of hype, i think it has escalated a lot. we are in a position that hopefully with the results we have got, we can do the talking that has been escalated of bike field and we have a chance to do it on the field. we got ourselves into it and we need to get ourselves out of it and win three test matches. there is no hiding from that. that is the challenge that we have now got in front of us. well england didn't train today, australia did though as they step up preparations for the third test starting in perth — and our sports correspondent

and we have a parcel tax that was passed. so, sign me up. i want to help. [laughter] >> commissioner cook: it's on public record and it's the least i can do honestly. for what our educators are doing on a daly basis is really phenomenal. and you all don't get enough acknowledgment or praise for the transformative work you're doing on a daily basis and i want to see us honor that work by continuing to push for higher pay for our teachers. so, this is a great first step and i look forward to working with you more in the future. >> president walton: commissioner maurase. >> thank you. i do want to say i don't think we are there yet. we are not paying teachers as much as i would like. our educators feed to be able to live in the city, need to be able to make ends meet. but, i'm very glad that we've gotten to where we have in terms of an agreement. we've basically done the best that we could and i really appreciate the collaboration with the uesf leadership. and one of the things i'll proud of in the agreement is new language and i think the board, the district,

and 1101 connecticut street is the parcel for a 72-unit affordable housing project known as black x and it's part of the revitalization project. this committee and the board of supervisors has previously approved a 75-year grant lease with a 24-year extension to the affiliate of bridge housing which is the developer of black x. and black x began construction in january of this year and it's currently 25% complete and they've completed the foundation work and they are about to start the framing work. the project is estimated to be completed in november 2018. and includes infrastructure improvements on 25th street and connecticut street. adjacent to the project site as part of the master plan revitalization work. and the small access easement is required to give pg and e the permission to install an underground vault that requires three feet of access area around all four sides of the vault, three sides of that access are located in the street and the fourth side is located on the edge of 1101 connecticut, that parcel. mocd supports this easement as it's ensuring that the undergrounding o

supervisor farrell. >> supervisor farrell: thank you, this parcel sin district two.upervisor peskin and i spoke beforehand before bringing the appeal forward and he dealt with signatures we had an interest in so i wanted to and we discussed itef

the authorities have any idea who might be behind us well so far they've managed to trace back the parcel to brandenberg which is the state in which parts. so it seems that the perpetrator was in fact local and this was posted on thursday and delivered just a day later but also it is a now ask in the german general public just to be wary and keep an eye on any packages any suspicious packages that might be arriving also rafi is that there could still be some more packages going to be sent similar to the incident that we saw over the weekend and now investigators are very much just stressing that it's not an act of terror. a common crime culture. they said. why are they so reluctant to use the words terror here. of course there is germany's on high alert at the moment because of the terror attack last year. and this could well be part of the strategy to calm people's nerves at the moment but of course at the end of the day this is still someone in this particular case with these packages that is willing to put people's lives at risk and send potentially fatal packages anonymously kate brad

that's part and parcel of being alpha males out on a sporting arena.ncidents with england off the pitch as well, we saw the one with ben duckett at the weekend, there's a perception among some people that england have a discipline problem especially when it comes to alcohol, is that their? people will have perceptions and we'll read things... ifirmly perceptions and we'll read things... i firmly believe that there's been a lot of hype about it and it's been blown up as well, i think it's been escalated a heck of a lot. we're in a where hopefully the results we get in the next three games we can do the talking. there has been an escalation of the field and we have an opportunity to do that on the field. we got ourselves into it and we need to get ourselves out of it, we need to get ourselves out of it, we need to win three test matches, that's the bottom line, there's no hiding away from that and that's the challenge that we've now got in front of us. she was forced to miss racing on sunday after injuring her back in st moritz but american skiier lindse

at the beginning of november and but in that case the black mail letter was actually lost as the parcel. as it was opened and so police are now investigating both of these packages both of these cases together so they're potentially linked to narrow the device inside the package did it ever actually pose a threat well completely contrary to what they were saying just yesterday they're now saying that the package was in fact explosive if there were several hundred grams of nails found inside of this device and authorities have said that it's completely pure look that the possible didn't in fact explode of course they could have had serious injuries and even death on their hands had that package in fact detonated so this package could have in fact gone off and killed people did the authorities have any idea who might be behind us well so far they've managed to trace back the parcel to brandenburg which is the state in which pop star is so it seems that the perpetrator was in fact local and this was posted on thursday and delivered just a day later but also it is a now ask in the german ge

radius from the parcel without a permit from the office of cannabis. so it's still somewhat restricted, but at least we are down back to the original 600-foot radius. and then, there was discussion in regards to consumption, so i reported last time that there will be the increased availability for retailers to have consumption. now, how this will absolutely unfold because a lot of retailers may not necessarily have the space to be able to add a consumption room, but there is -- there is the opportunity to be able to do onsite consumption, and onsite consumption does include smoking. originally, it was going to be the office of cannabis be able to make the determination as to how they were going to do that, but it was changed back to the department of health. so couple -- i think going back to the planning code, the one thing -- because supervisor cohen allowed for colocation for small retailers to be together, so in a situation where there is colocation for small retailers, that 600-foot parcel consideration does not apply. >> what about manufacturers?

lives along a private street that happened to be separately taxable or near what's called a sliver parcel which happens frequently in san francisco, but everyone should be required to have the tax collector follow the law. we agree with miss lamb's counsel, this is not about favoritism for the privilege, this is about everybody. everybody has the same rights and they should be entitled to have the tax collector make a reasonable effort before selling our property. the law is consistent with public policy, it's common sense. we ask that you rescind this unlawful sale and hopefully enact legislation to keep this from happening again. thank you. >>president breed: thank you. are there any members of the public who had he he like to speak in favor of rescinding the tax sale, this will be your opportunity. please lineup to your right. you will have up to two minutes. if there are any members of the public who are in the overflow room, please come to the chamber doors and you will be allowed to enter so that you have an opportunity to speak. first speaker, sir, please come forward, and please l

assesses approximately 677 parcels and is a property-based district. it's assessment budget in its initial year was approximately $981,000, 981,437-dollars and it was established in 2005 and it expires on june 30, 2020. the staff of the district is executive director steve gibson who is here today to address the c.b.d.'s program attic achievements and the service areas are public rights of way and sidewalk operations, district identity and streetscape improvement and management and operations. there was the benchmarks for the c.b.d., and benchmark one, whether the variance for the budget amounts was within 10 percentage points from the management plan. and benchmark two, whether 5% f the actuals came from sources other than assessment revenue and been mark three, whether the amounts for each service category was within 10 pertentage points from the actual. and benchmark whether the c.b.d. is indicating the amount of funds carrying over and the projects to be spent in the upcoming fiscal year. for benchmark one we have a comparative since 2010 through 2

as well as to increase the height limit for one of the parcels in support of the affordable housing parcel for the associated project and to establish the 1629 market street s.u.d. in addition, the planning commission considered a recommendation of approval for the development agreement as well as the conditional use authorization and planned unit, all of which were affirmed by the planning commission. i'd like to introduce michael cohen, the project sponsor, to provide information on the project. >> mr. cullen, good afternoon. >> good afternoon, supervise sorts. for the record, michael cohen, i'm a principal developer of this project. we'll throw up a very quick presentation for you. yep. thank you. so, our site is a 2.25-acre site which is on the eastern edge of the market octavia plan area near van ness. the property is owned by a local 38 plumber and pipefitters union and their pension trust fund in stratta has a 99-year lease of the property. current uses on the site, moving sort of east to west, market street include the civic center hotel, which is an aged s.r.o., local 38 hall, a s