at that point, he applied for a permit, permit number 11 -mff-0169 following the process . during this process the department provided mailing a notification to all businesses within 300 feet of this location, and i believe that was at that point that the current permit holder, leo's hot dogs, ceasar's, he was informed and came to the department asking for -- number one are, objecting to this application and also asking the department to issue him the permit based upon his current -- since it expired police department permit. at that point, the department was placed in a situation where he failed to come to the department within 90 days and by law, he would not be able to renew his permit, number one. number two, we already have in essence a new application for this site that it will be inappropriate for us to provide a level of entitlement given that that entitlement period has lapsed specifically and therefore based upon a requirement under the code we had to deny that location to him specifically. the department did its best faith effort based on the information we were

an existing permit. i agree with what president garcia's stated about the irrelevance of the negative comments with respect to the businesses, and i think they have no place here, but i think generally my inclination is to overrule and grant the appeal. >> i agree with that for the reasons stated. good >> i will make the motion, but i do have one comment, and that would be, assuming the will of the board is to allow the gentleman to go through the proper procedure, he might not end up with that location, but is the does happen to please work vigorously to get him a good spot. >> the permit is before you. the permit is granted to the individual at that location. >> i would move we overturned based upon the facts that this board or i am making the motion that the procedure was on reasonable to this appellant region would be unreasonable to the appellant and would constitute failure. >> you could say that because of the 90-day period. as soon as he got notice, he promptly applied. >> thank you. >> we can ca

was the building permit. i am thinking ok, i'm going to file an application for it when i filed with the planning department, in a decided to deny my reasonable accommodation request. if you remember the earlier part of 2011, it was a tax return and i said i needed a one-week continuance to get the names and addresses. they were insisting that i needed to follow that step. they talked among themselves, called me back and said, we are not going to grant your reasonable accommodation. you will have to figure out how to get this in by our deadline. that was not one to be possible. i have asthma and arthritis. i thought, my next step is going to be the actual posting of the notices. those postings' did not happen. as i've stated before, there is a problem in the neighborhood with the non-residential warehouse owners. even the city and county of san francisco did an improper roasting. i know what the process is. here i am and i'm hoping to be given an opportunity to be able to have the period of time properly post

you need a permit for most other things. you need plan review permitting. when you come and pay a large fee for us to review your plans before you get your permits. the street use permit. public works street mapping where the dumpster goes. issue permits for construction work taking place in the public rieft way. fire sprinkler permits get reviewed by fire departments. signs have a separate requirement under the planning and building code. although they are usually included with the building perm permit. if someone wants a restaurant design the sign acknowledges part of the over all permit otherwise it's separate. and lek signs have different permit requirements. additional licenses include those that the contractor needs to build including his

you have all the permits. you cannot be denied a permit for the building. so in that department, i really don't know why but it's up to you commissioners to do the right thing because i'm not against anybody else. it's just that i have the permits and somebody in the city they didn't communicate, the department of public works that i have a permit. this is the whole thing. and i already applied even in november 3 and a few hours i did whatever i have to do because i'm very good in that. i became very successful in business which is i just even want to mention when i moved from north beach to the mission in the 1970's, it was the ghetto, and my business, put the light on the mission district, take a look what i did. now at 19 and mission, this cart has beautiful lights for nighttime, lots of lights, beautiful things. it's not illegal. it's the joy of the health department. thank you very much. president garcia: sir, in your papers you submitted to us there's some mention of the fact that you reached out to your offices. i'm going to assume that's d.p.w.'s of

we need to discuss and actual permit expiration for permits with violations. what happens is, sometimes they will get a permit issued, permit application, and they cannot get the permit within the time limit, and to to some hold up by another department. we would like to be able to extend that. i actually had comments that were due in from the pac and they have not been received yet. that is why i put that in. we need to discuss this. table b is the maximum time allowed to complete the work allowed by the building permit. on the permit extension four projects, even on the small projects, they would like to be able to extend and 720 days. that does not include a code enforcement cases. this would be for regular permits to extend the 720 days, which is essentially two years, and the same thing on the permits over $2.5 million. so far, that is as far as we have gotten in table 1a in discussions at the puc meeting. the next meeting is february 8. we will try to a agendas -- agendize the president abbas comments so that we can move on. i like the opinion of the com

permit until further notice. i think i need a motion to continue at the request of the applicant. >> i moved to continue at the request of the applicant. >> second. >> same house, same call? president newlin: god it -- got it. item g. off the grid llc, loudspeaker permit. >> this is super cool. they work with gourmet food truck owners to locatioe locations around the city. the organized six trucks today. the get seven. we only get six. between 11 and 2. to provide for workers at the chronicle building or the metrion area. the -- partner with 5m and intersection with the arts, they found artist for the benefit of people eating the m. e. food. this is a little out of the box in terms of an ongoing, every wednesday and friday application. we would do these at staff level 41 off. we have done this before. this is not the first time we have seen this kind of thing. i bring these to you when we are requesting an ongoing limited in scope loudspeaker permit application. they waited all this time. they're the youngest peo

they have to figure out fees on the permits and that appear again electrical and plumbing permits are little bit faster, and we did at a clerk to help with those. those are going very well. it is the other permits that have to wait until the end of it to see if they need impact fees or other fees. that is what the court is doing. -- what the clerk is doing. the fees are not secured until the end of the permit process, and that is where it is taking time to hold up. and to get your permit issued, it is not the plan check time, it is more on the permit issuance side because of all of the things the clerk has to enter into the computer system that is manual now that could be on the tape -- automated. >>> i think we have all been concerned about stopping and how quickly we could bring on staff. i think what we have to be clear about is we have had a lot of permanent positions opened and improved -- approved, but we cannot bring them on because servals ocivil service has been slow and human resources has been inadequate in terms of testing and having a good pool of people we can regulate c

and the other permits? >> windows to not require permits. >> nothing else? >> deglazing of windows. >> all of the work you intend to do? >> and the rear of the building is going to be painted and repaired as necessary. it is going to look like a new building in the back. that is what our intention is. >> that would not be subject to a permit? >> from what i understand, if a permit was required we would get one. >> you're drawing shows on the windows. -- your drawing shows window. your permit only talks about stairs. >> the rear porch will stay as is. >> what about the windows? >> as is. >> the background on your drying -- drawing -- >> i was part of the negotiations. >> how'd we have a building that looks brand new from the back? >> i think he means it is going to be painted. we are replacing the stairs to meet the egress requirements. >> anything further? >> to you do this deliberately? >> i will start. it is a shame there are problems that exist with this building. the tenants seemed to be in a bad place. there is no contingency for some other project that

this permit is as old as the hills. it is a valid permit. this is a valid. >> in the days when these permits were issued. cabaret was after hours. was that in place of entertainment? do they have a place of entertainment as well hatoyama -- as well? >> it may just be age of this permit. they may issue the same permit with a different title on the top. what happened at the time, and when the decision was made of the dance hall keepers were going to be placed in residence, you have two permits, and one sort of falls off, and the place of entertainment takes over. that did not happen in this case. they are acting as a place of entertainment for all intensive purposes. we will issue is to permit under the heading of playce of entertainment. it was the old definition of entertainment. it has been revised many times. >> there was a contaminant permit. >> there should have been, but this was 1988. >> you have both liz. -- lists. you have a list from april 2, 2011 until january 3, 2012. you have 12 call to service. this is not a venue with a history

no new spaces could be permitted. the reason some existing businesses had not been legally permitted before the eastern neighborhood area plan -- the area plan also established a time-limited amnesty program. this program would allow property owners of nonconforming uses to comply and seek amnesty and legitimize the nonconforming use. this amnesty was offered for three years and expired on january 19, 2012. recently, the eastern neighborhood cac asked for a an extension, and this is a response to that request. the department recommendation is to support compliance to be planning code through a limited extension of this program. we recommend a couple of changes. one is the length of the extension. the department recommends approval of the extension of this program, and even suggests lengthening the extension to six months. since this program was ending in january 19, three months would not allow both adoption of the law and time for the department to except the applications. but extending it for six months would allow

system for testing the issuance of of wireless and box permit. -- of the wireless xbox permit. please step forward. you have five minutes. >> hello, my name is lauren. just to give you an idea of what we are discussing, that is an antenna. i am an electrical engineer, and i'll live in the neighborhood, and i was asked to look of the data, and we did a hearing, and we went to do over appeal, so i am trying to gather my thoughts. it seems to be the feeling i am appealing on health issues. i know you cannot smelrestrict d and and not based on health issues, so i never talked about -- you cannot restrict based on health issues, so i never talked about. he helped us through the process, and we paid $300, and i see they were to respond by february 2, so natasha is representing, and she has e- mailed me on the planes that were addressed in this appeal, so she clearly addressed complaints, -- the point, and i thank you. they were complete, and i would like to congratulate them for being able to put up the antennas. i wish i was in the spot. engineers love the data, so what i requested

anybody must contact a staff ocurtoov forward to obtain your permit. we are up to cafe maria. >> i just want to clarify something from the last meeting, which i think was the second time we were considering this. it is still relatively new. i miss spoke, because we said there was a requirement that no windows and doors be closed. i think dianne must be -- i think that must be from an earlier draft. it is a restaurant. staff recommends approval of this permit. >> anybody here from cafe maria? arf hello. good -- >> hello. good evening, commissioners. i am here to represent the applicants for cafe maria. the applicant also owns the building, and he has a fabulous and background. he used to own michelangelo on columbus. dodi he came back and opened cafe meridian he came back and opened cafe maria. he wants to add an accordion player, perhaps a vocalist and guitarist. before, the restaurant was empty. i am very familiar with this because it happens to be one of my favorite places. they used to have somebody dancing, and they tried to apply for a permit, and

this permit is of help. -- is upheld. >> item 7 has been postponed.m eight has been withdrawn, so we will move to item 9, lydia lukian vs. zoya lukian, a permit to alter a building and install new doors at existing locations. we will start with the appellants or their representatives. you have seven minutes. >> my name is wayne canterbury, and i represent libydia and zoy, who are residents since 1969. that is for a row on baker street, and i submit it exhibit thb to illustrate the row of houses forms achieve -- net the row of houses. there are spaces between the bedroom facing the south to the opposing wall of the neighbor. in this case the neighbor is ruth carlsoton, a woman who livs at 10 05 baker street. she has applied for a permit to remodel her kitchen and construct an extensive system and wrapping around the rear of her home. this is the first invasion of that kind of space in the row of houses that was designed in an ingenious way to preserve white and security and privacy. we have met with ms. carlsoton prior to the appeal. she was very accom

you did not receive the permit? >> yes, we received the permit.mmissioner walker: do you want a continuation? >> yes, until we get the permit. commissioner murphy: does anyone know how long this would take? >> we could consider treating both cases similarly, if that is ok with you. commissioner walker: 90 days? commissioner murphy: i am not sure if that is enough, talking about planning. commissioner walker: maybe they could come back in 90 days to let us know. commissioner murphy: second. >> roll-call vote. is the public comment on this item? thank you. we can continue with the vote on the motion. [roll call] the motion carried unanimously. item e. new appeals to orders and abatement. 6755, 336 pear street. seven minutes for the department to speak, seven minutes from the appellant. rebuttal then public comments. >> members of the board, good morning. chief housing inspector representing the department of building inspection in this matter. this is a case that is before you in which property owner has appealed the order of abatement issues by the

there were cited for permit violation. on december 5, cited for permit violation. on december 6 at 2011, as notified by the entertainment commission that the place of entertainment permit was no valid. on january 5, 2012, yelp.com describes of bartender who pours free drinks and takes shots. these are abc violations. january 5, 2012. a yelp.com review states "it definitely attract more of a ghetto crowd. there were people shooting craps like they were in a 1990's hip- hop video pi." sfpd arrested the intoxicated mail. it was determined that the intoxicated mail was under the influence of a narcotic and had been transported to sfgh. security never called police. for every 12th through 13th 2011, a show resulted in three arrests which was outlined a few minutes prior. for outstanding warrants, a stolen vehicle and gun charges. one of the incidents resulted in a vehicle fleeing from police in their vehicle and crashed into a wall at a dead-end on sixth avenue and they fled on foot through backyards. the suspects got away. for every 23, 2011 -- 2012. i met with tim cho

you are the fastest permit tonight. we are all going to be going down to hit some strikes and spares i am sure. good luck to you. next permit. edmund chain -- edmond chang doing buisinessas shabu pub. mr. king, you are up. what happened to mr. king? nicolas? go for it. >> there was a belated request for a cantonese interpreter. i am checking with the applicant to see if he wanted to proceed or not. vice chair joseph: do we have an interpreter? >> no. vice chair joseph: and you just got the request? does the applicant want a continuance? >> i just checked with him and he said no. this is mr. chang the owner and operator. this is a place of entertainment permit for karaoke. i'll turn it to him. vice chair joseph: mr. chang? do you speak english? >> a little bit. ce cir joseph: a little bit. can you tell me about your eratio n you telle at >>o like aestaur. we jnt tgeom entertainment for the customer light dier enterinment vice chair joseph: whatin entertainment? >> singing karaoke. ce cir joseph: ok. anybody have any ques

president newlin: your permit has been approved. goodluck. item b. synoground, barry and zawinski, jamie. the dna lounge. >> they recently have gone through the conditional use process with the planning department to basically purchase and include a pizza parlor that commissioner lee is intimately familiar with. next door to them to become part of the dna lounge. >> it is not yours any more. >> they have gone through an extensive outreach process and had a public hearing. in your package, you will find exhibit a from planning that sets out the conditions so they can expand this entertainment use in the western soma area. that is the requirement to do any expansion. we have had no issues with the dna lounge. dellwood of the better operators in the city. we bring this to you again because there is an amendment to the amendment adding a bunch of area. it is only appropriate to do that. we do not expect any of their operations to change substantially. they are here. purple hair and all. to answer any questions you might ask. >> officer chan has submitted

if you get enough science, we can suspend your permit, so you have to follow the rules of the permits beginning today. do you understand that? >> yes, i do. >> you cannot try to follow it. you must follow it. the old permit does not have die recommendations from the station and is that within our purview to require any of these? >> i think these are for 49. i would like to move we conditions permit to include the good neighbor policy. in addition that he must soundproof his sidewalls sufficiently and insulate any members or metal joists. no alcohol is allowed outside the venue. >> you have security. >> that is my motion. >> secure the darshan does the security have -- does the security have bedard cards -- garuard cards? >> how many do you have? >> one or two. >> there is a motion on the floor. the sound is definitely -- the sound issue is addressed by the commission. i have to bring up the issue of crime control. or control of patrons between not only beer bottles, broken glass, noise on the street. from my own observation, this is a major issue. there needs to be somebody out front.

i have a little experience in 404 permit. i was actually cited or given my miranda rights for a potential violation of the 404 permit because i was involved in damming up sewage coming in from mexico. and they constituted it a sewage break as possible inand a halfable water. it is very near and dear. also, mr. chairman, there's a lot of talk here in washington, d.c. about, certain jobs by the federal government. and the tennessee authority was one of them that's been cited again and again. and i like to point out to everybody that the tennessee authority, though it

there is less of a tendency to actually pull all the permits. i have made repeated attempts with ddi -- dbi to have an explanation of what the term "office" uses in a building permit. factories always tend to have an office, and the offices tend to be remodeled in to take out a permit. that is extraordinarily spotty checking of actual plans. the building permit office was a 200 square foot an entire floor. i am getting tired of being lead detective on all of this stuff. it is derek expensive for me to pull up records, because staff can pull them up for free, but the public cannot. i am disheartened. i have been dealing with conversions throughout the 90's, when we had the dotcoms in the south of market and the north mission. we are extending this some more. at a certain point, i have to say any lip service given to the importance of pdr is just lip service. we do not have any view for the economy of the city other than office space. it is like putting your head against the wall to get a decent staff report on some of these cases. i do not think

the nationwide permits do not require other permanenits. transcanada submitted preconstruction notifications and requested that work in the water in the u.s. in association with the keystone xl pipeline be verified under nationwide acts. it was requested that permit 12 be suspended for dredge and fill materials associated with the keystone xl pipeline application, these decisions were made because of concerns identified by the department of state that could not be addressed until a final decision was made on the pending presidential permit application. the president has since

we are trying to implement a permit tracking system. i know they do think -- they do seem like they are taking a long time, but we are trying to move forward to a better situation. i want to thank you, everybody, for doing a good job. commissioner mar: i was before commissioner melgar the newest commissioner in this body. i wanted to just bank commissioner murphy -- sank commissioner murphy and -- thank commissioner murphy and hechanova for briefing me on what it would be like to sit on this commission. it is important for everyone to understand we are a citizen commission. some of us come from different places. some of us were landlords. some of us were in the professions, whether architecture, engineering, and construction, and we bring some of those experiences with us, but it is different when you are up here. it is not your projectit is not. it is other people's projects. what commissioner lee said is a very important. we want to keep things open. i want to think three commissioners. romero, murphy, and hechanova. i think we have m

we are continuing to see more issued permits, both in volume and in the evaluation of permits, which is why we are seeing an increase in charges for services. but everything else is pretty much what we expect to see this time of year. in terms of the financial report, we are in good shape. commissioner hechanova: commissioners, questions? >> that was an excellent update. >> i

this permit is older than the hills, so a big part of it is by bringing this permit modern and compliant, we will probably take care a lot -- of a lot of issues. there is no security plan. there has never been a sound test of the entire club. a lot of this has never happened, so it is almost like treating it like a brand new permanent and modernizing it and making it compliant, but it is very important to listen to what the neighbors have to say so you have that range of what conditions you want. >> i want to say something about the residents on the side. are they attached? >> i take umbrage with the fact that a permit issued in 1988 is older than the hills. i am 47, but i would like to hear from the neighbors if you would like to respond to the issues. is there anyone here from ingleside station? >> no. >> i am one of the neighbors directly next to the bar. i have a copy i would like to give you that is signed, and just to give you a quick overview commo, my husband and n both of these buildings. this has been a long time coming. the out of control and intoxicated behavior at the bar re

operating raoke business without a permit. he did not submit his application until october 21. we ve merous talks. we have warned him on the 13th of august. we warned him again on the 15th. a hwas cite officerore is here. -- moore is here. he can talk about otherroblems likealcoholsalesotheecon floor, which is not permitted. although it is not under the commission per view, there have been questions about fire code violationsplanniviolations so for. why don't i turn it to officer more -- moore? vice chair joseph: his karaoke bar on taravel has that come before us before? >> i would need an address and a name to confirm it. vice chair joseph: officer? officer moore: good evening again. the ipector jt - he mentioned his first visit on august 13, where he advised mr. a then when we cited him for the permit violation. in addition they have an abc license but hav sales coumptioon theecd floo every karaoke room has been outfitted with plastic cups of ice -- of dice. there are also gambling tiles. iave photos. ter i ised from -- issu

when i upgrade my house i felt an electrical permit in the wall. i slid it in there it's kind of yellow, but it's useful if i ever have to say yes this work was done legally in 1932. the city does not retape that. so we want to keep hard copy. forget the electronic stuff. >> can we get those on-line? >> map's are available on-line through subscription by various libraries through the sand born map company. the san francisco library for a period of one year had a trial subscription and the use did not justify the cost so they suspended and the public demand to return that may occur again. >> what is sand born. >> the short answer is, no. sand born was a mapping company that was part of a fire insurance program that went around cities all over the united states and maybe beyond and actually, physically, mapped by hand every building, hold that up for me -- every building and every out building and set of stairs and updated these map's on an annual basis walking around the city and unfortunately someone had the mistakes of canceling the subscription t

we're only here today because the president denied the permit under his authority. he killed the project, just like the sierra club and nrdc asked him to do. when they sent their notice to congress, pursuant to the law on this, they said it wasn't on the merit. it wasn't on the merit. they just needed more time because nebraska's little 50-mile loop, or whatever it's going to be, the reality is they had time and the president ignored that. we heard testimony from the state department, we had a decision by the 31st. because nebraska, because nebraska, because nebraska we had to kill it. bull. they had all the time they needed on nebraska. so the reality is everything that they said isn't -- that they needed is sitting right here and will be part of what ferc bases their decisions on as well. the information there, they have already said it's not based on environmental issues the denial or anything else. the reality was because they don't want to make a decision before the election. >> gentleman from california. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i just want to correct the r

so the motion, then, is to grant this appeal, upholding the permit, conditioning the permit. the condition is a privacy screen of alternating lattice with dimensions of 4 feet 6 inches in width, 7 feet in height. this is parallel to the appellants property line. beginning 3 inches from the appellant's -- is that the west? >> the bedroom window. commissioner fung: there is no north on the drawing. >> beginning at the point of three inches from the street- side edge of the appellant's window with the finding that this is in agreement between the parties. >> we do the length and height? >> i can repeat it again. four feet, six inches in width. seven feet tall. >> look at the city attorney when you do that, she was the one not paying attention. >> perfect. i will repeat it one last time. crafty appeal on the condition that a privacy screen of alternating lattice with dimensions of 4 feet 6 inches and with by 7 feet in height parallel to the