. >> thank you, john with reuben, junius & rose here on behalf of the project sponsor so i think ms. hester brought you up to speed pretty well the subject of the appeal as well as at the board of supervisors the sdrapts surrounding the project but the project manager recognizes the need to improve the streetscape we're working with supervisor kim's office to we've already you know - offered to help move this process forward and fund the improvements but supervisor kim asked for a continuance yesterday for one week in order to cooperate with sfmta prior to going through with that appeal hearing we may not be asking for the boards sympathy but we're working on this since september of 2013 we're a year and a half into this for a partial office conversion of an existing building we've been working through the issues we'll got the board of supervisors next wednesday and our commission is april 8th we would prefer this on april 8th, april 15th is not a date that works with the project team the next is a month out from today, we respect and understand the board has a full calendar on april

reuben? i'm sorry >> what we're hearing the planners are not here to work what i'm trying to figure out we can come next week or the week after. >> i think we're trying to make sure we have sufficient time to not only have the discussions about incorporating those are changes but enough time to reflect by the staff report and make sure that the plans are tight we want to have sufficient time for the conversations to happen. >> gentleman i'd like to talk about april 15th. >> very good. >> i'm not here on april 16th. >> april 23rdrd. >> i'm here on april 23rd yes, thank you occupy that. >> commissioners there is a motion and a second to continue this matter to april 23rd to allow development of the project commissioner antonini that no arrest commissioner hillis no arrest commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong no. >> that motion passes 4 to 3 with commissioner hillis commissioner antonini and commissioner president fong voting a

. >> i've been hired that i reuben, junius & rose so i feel i can hear this case appropriately. >> when you're ready ms. mar. >> you need to come up to the podium and speak into the microphone. >> going somewhere. >> sorry. >> i was borden how to work this. >> for example like the. >> face up. >> i've got it like this? so this is sufficient >> got it okay. okay. >> okay that's correct okay thank you, commissioners i am very happy to be here today i'd like to apologize for not submitting my belief 3 weeks ago my neighborhood is telegraph hill hires here's a drawing of my house my house is downhill it is on the street uphill is my neighborhoods 26 hodge's alley on the second drawings you'll see my house and light well and windows 26 alley and thirty hodge's alley it is open over here this entire area is open so i want to explain why i and submit a brief 3 weeks ago a that's not norma landslide of the variance hit my house on december 12th i've not been able to go home and green under a doctors care for are serious emotional distress at this point my attorneys have i don't let a contractor

good morning, commissioners john with reuben, junius & rose here on behalf of the project sponsor since we were last here

then the project went on hold again and in 2014 reuben rose approached the city to bring up the rest of the document and seek their final execution. we involved counselor freelander, who pick a very convenient time to review the documents from 15 years ago. identify what the requirements were on both parties? we have been working for several months with the developers to finalize those documents for eventual execution. during that time over 15 years a lot has changed in park policy and we as department have raised with the developers and working collaboratively with them to meet ways to meet our interests around three specific issues. those issues include park hours. currently the agreements that were approved, but not executed by the commission and planning commission and board of supervisors set forth hours of sunrise to sunset. st. mary's square hours are governed by the park ordinance adopted by the board last year to set hours for the park. and then also the park design itself, which approved in concept level in 2008, but since then the committee for better parks and recreation

reuben during one of the presentations one of the public speakers said that there was some discussion be there obey onsite if it's rental and offsite or vice versa my understanding the project sponsor was in favor of paying the number two, fees. >> i wasn't perp involved in the conversation i'm a reporter here george the principle who's here had conversations with s bs n a more than conversations presentations i believe that they evolved to the point that s b h n a was comfortable with the exception if i might indulge that plan we're talking about this is the code section 207.6 that allows for deviation from the dwelling unit that is caudal called the irregular sites with physical constraint i mean, that's in the code section here's the policy adopted with the market octavia plan and it says open small irregular lots a lot is less than 35 hundred square feet if that code section and that policy tellers there is a lot of results in everything everybody says and the boos because of that i believe they were comfortable with the exemption to the dwelling unit mix they said george to do so

. >> san francisco chamber of commerce reuben, junius & rose llp appoint associates glad advisors peterson hayward and associates, sf aa b m w l l and partners inc. and ss associates. >> okay. so we need a volunteer to select two from this group. >> la point and associates, san francisco chamber of commerce. >> thank you will you read the next level. >> so for this pacific gas and electric company committee on jobs building owners and management association of san francisco, berg davis public affairs, hanson 3wrig9 llp round floor public affairs louses 92 vin coalition for better housing public advocacy partners. >> okay. please select one from this group. >> hanson brigitte llp okay. so the last level. >> okay michael yeah. key andrew greg, airbnb barbary coast consulting karen flood bay bio trust company of the west, edward day t z k broadway, llc fisher man's property llp brooding cast capital, llc and the strategy communications fritz could systems inc. phillip lessor r l braun and matt he will. >> willie brown. >> james ross long law valero consulting inc. john newman. >> thank you se

ktvu's ann reuben is at the apartment complex on center road with the situation there tonight. >> reporter: neighbors here can't comprehend how the man they knew and saw every day could be responsible for this. >> it began on this balcony. witnesses say scott dunham stood here, gun in hand. >> when he came out on the balcony, that's when he yelled and fired. four shots. >> reporter: one of the shots claimed the life of officer johnson. >> i started getting emotional. i don't know what it was. >> reporter: the initial call had been for suicidal man with a gun. even now neighbors are in disbelief that scott dunham could have been responsible for this, and that now he too is dead. >> he was a very friendly guy. we would normally wave at each other, and say how are you doing? >> reporter: police said he had no recent run ins with the law. though he pled no contest to at least three misdemeanors. including assault and battery in 2006. >> nice people. >> reporter: dunham held a job working construction, and gardening. after 14 years there, he retired in 2012. >> i don't know what prompted him to

dan reuben is joining us in the area where the man first escaped. dan?reporter: 40-year-old jar income ell carter was being held on the child molestation charges. he was being taken to the valley medical center to be treated for an unspecified condition. >> reporter: 40-year-old jarnell carter allegedly attacked a sheriff's deputy and broke free from sheriff's custody. he ran into a residential neighborhood. >> hopefully they'll get him soon. pretty safe area around here. >> yeah. i'm worried. things can be scary. >> it's unsettling. >> air interagency department was brought in. still, the suspect managed to get away. >> reporter: did anybody contact you at all? >> they have not. but we're open if they want to ask us any questions. >> reporter: sheriff's keep zepties stopped by to canvas the area. the pan was last seen in thornton and moore park. a freeway on ramp lies just off in the distance. >> reporter: the deputy that was attacked is in the hospital. he has non-life-threatening injuries. we asked for an update or comment on jarnell carter. so far, t

good morning, commissioners john with reuben, junius & rose here on behalf of the project sponsor since we were last here we asked joe duffey to come out and talk about life safety issue there were no one we're moving forward decided to maintain our request from the board for a 10 year moratorium on enforcement of the order of abatement due to financial hardship that is the property owners mother that lives in the basement she's 0 no longer able to live diligently and can't afford to live it sth in 2, 3, 4 this neighborhood we looked at the abatement of the unit while that's available this is a single-family home neighborhood the purpose to provide the accomodation for the elderly mother and the intent not to create a new unit to be rented this is the property owner home so it is not intending to skier to create a second unit that's why we maintain the request for the moratorium and we're here for any questions you may have >> questions for the commissioners? okay. seeing none thank you. >> does the department want a rebuttal. >> it's deservedly in your hands. >> thank you. >> question

the same couple, reuben pannel and eliza henderson, it gives her maiden name. is legalizes the marriages -- this legalizes the marriages of formerly enslaved persons. if confined individuals that considered themselves married for 50 years or 60 years, people with grandchildren or so forth but all of them are going to the freedman's bureau to get marriages is recognized for the first time is within slavery -- because within slavery, they could be sold away from each other in the spots of the children because there was no legal recognition of family bond . that is something that is common in the records that we have. another variation of the names this is a census record which is another commonly used federal records that we have for genealogical research, just confirming that the family is in washington, d.c.. but also showing when you do research, do not view the records in isolation. if you can go to the freedman's bureau records but try to defend the two other right -- connect them to other records. you also need to go to the local level and state record to f

. >> closure i've hired reuben, junius & rose for a personal private matter prior and feel like i can hear this case obviously. >> before i start my presentation based upon the fact we have a high burden and one of the issues with this procedure since the planning commission we've asked to be included in with the dialog and been included in that so so would the board poison this and have real dialog with the property owners again, that's one of our main issues here as well but i we're ready to have a host off neighbors here so whatever. >> we'll precede. >> okay, here we go. >> again members i'm annuity rude i'm here are my husband mr. fox we live around the corner from the subject property and lived here 23 years raised our 3 girls as each of our surrounding neighbors and while we've not at the end the discretionary review hearing we find this with interest to the varies procedure the neighbors who opposed the discretionary review please stand up they're all here designated 3 speakers for the public participation time and in order to keep our points short and to the point the project

. >> good afternoon, commissioners joed from reuben, junius & rose here on behalf of the project sponsor or not as you've heard agreeing not plans on office space on sutter street this project will not cover up any of the historic features will serve as a work station and special station that harkens back to the days it is important that the project sponsor preserve this as you'll hear from the project sponsor in a few minutes this project allows a vacant building to be given new life and allows a local company to expand they anticipate the employees that will be working there with restaurant and bars it is an ear that is subject to public transportation i mean off van ness and expected that most of the employees will walk bicycle or take public transit no parking required at the site and none proposed only a site room we all know that the city needs more office spoois space that is an excellent opportunity to add office space where nothing is taken away in a building that's vacate they recognize the type of flexibility is necessary in order to preserve historic buildings this is a perfe

. >> thank you good afternoon, commissioners tom of reuben, junius & rose on behalf of the j two properties the property owner and as the gentleman said there is no though the property owners are represented by coupled no project that is proposed this is simply - the underlying zoning didn't change this is a proposal for the property overlay we have had ideas for development potential at the property we have had neighborhood meetings two meetings with the neighborhood to discuss possibilities there's a great deal of support we know of no opposition at all and have been in touch with the supervisors office about this matter and i'm not goings-on to speak for the supervisor they've encouraged us to moving forward and continue to work with them so as i understand this is just the initiation of the proposal to get us to a hearing date where we can discuss this more thoroughly so we will encourage the commission to consider adopting the initiation we we'll be back to talk about it in more delays questions, i'll be happy to answer them. >> any public comment on this item? okay public comment is c

good afternoon commissioner president fong director ram and members of the commission i'm jim ruben reuben, junius & rose i'm working with the owners of the building that actually own that this since 1977 he's here today i think that is notable i need to not we thought it was an office building there are a lot of reasons back in 1990 when the department created the south end historic district there themselves a survey done that showed an office building since 1997 when the building was purchased a subsequent maim of work has been done all good work with building brit i permitting i don't know why those building permits were released and caused us to be here was not here's sort of a before and after show the second street front and the frontage after is all glazing and that's exactly what i think the urban design guidelines wants you to do with pedestrian window line along second street as i say most of the work is already done building itself has been operated for thirty years or so the zoning and this is what dlaevents this building from the other ones with the square 660 third street wer

afternoon commissioner president fong members of the commission director ram i'm jim rubbing benefit reuben, junius & rose i'm working with george for the last 17 years has been the owner of this small property and the building on the property during those i guess the last couple of the 17 years been working with me he trying to get before you we provided a submittal that is complete in going through the things you've heard from the planning department george is here i'm going to turn it over to warren to show you the project i'm aware there's been questions asked perhaps amongst users that is better to respond to what we might hear from the members of the public or questions after you get the presentation thank you. >> warner. >> i'd like to talk about the architecture of the building first talk about it's context when we look at this particular site it is important site in many ways a wonderful location it's one of the 6 gore sites in the market octavia plan that has the educate characterization of the three-way intersection it's a tiny sight only 35 hundred square feet of area while the

seeing none project sponsor >> good afternoon, commissioners jody from the reuben, junius & rose here on behalf of the project sponsor i appreciate staffs recommendations that the project be approved just a quick matter i have a support letter we've received this morning from a neighbor 0 on vallejo street just want to give a quick overview of the house i'll get that living area of the house is currently under 15 hundred square feet so the first year i'll describe the house the first floor has a garage and next to that is a small all over the studio the next is a gallows kitchen small for a refrigerator and no diamond space and a tiny living room on the side of the living room a steep staircase leading up to the roof deck and as you can see the house is tiny and really not usable as a single-family home the project will keep the ground floor with a garage and small bedroom the second-story losses one bedroom to add a fungal living room the small edition of taking out a jog in the currently living room with the steep staircase and remove that is it not usable and provide a usable livin

her son reuben stood in as best man. >> you have a ring picked to go on your hand. >> oh, my gosh the ring. >> she sees me, she opened up her house, her heart, she gave me her family. >> i raul take you laquisha. >> i raul take thee laquisha. >> to be my wedded wife. >> to be my wedded wife. >> to have and to hold from this day forward. >> to have and to hold from this day forward. >> i'm the black sheep from my family. i am the only one that has ever been to prison. >> i laquisha take raul to be my wedded husband. >> to have and to hold from this day forward. >> to have and to hold from this day forward. >> i have been thinking about the sacrifice she made. how much she loves me to do something like that. >> as you take this ring and place it on her hand, raul, would you repeat after me. i give you this ring -- >> i give you this ring -- >> as a symbol and commitment in marriage. >> she knows that the possibilities of me getting out are slim to none. and she accepted that. >> this is the first day of the rest of your lives together. and we would all hope that tomorrow would be even h

. >> good evening commissioner president lazarus and members of the board i'm jim reuben, junius & rose and i am a quiet a recent addition to the project team i say recent i'll be struggling with the same thing the extent of the record created and how much water is under this bridge already in the of fact i was called about four years ago to become involved and i declined because of the proximity of my home to this site when i was called back against by alice barkley they needed avoidance to move things along from the planning department i looked at the record and thought that was time to end this those are my neighbors as well variance decision is based on pretty simple set of facts it is like the sightings of the home and which is toward the rear of the lot in fact a portion of the home is in the rear yard before we started what you have in front of you i'm going to try this gadget i brought ambassador if it works mr. rubbing benefit it will help us more mr. pacheco. >> okay. so what we have here shaded what is code compliant building portion of the lot that this homes adds to it is t

. >> good afternoon john doe 234ig9 from reuben, junius & rose i'd like to start and could you speak into the mike please. is that better i'm to start by giving you a site plan you saw before the photograph taken from ms. mars house where it sat from the project so that's one factor that makes her property not effected by the project and another factor as you can see i heard about her light well, that is all the way over here this is the variance area over here that is shaded in yellow and as you can see her - if it's visible stall from her light well, it has on a impact on here light whatsoever also regarding her light well, this is where all the bushes are over grown this is her light well, that's probably years of growth since that's been used for any light to enter into the building so of there was an impact on light to her property because of the variance is shows not urging that portion of the property to get light i just want to speak briefly about the one property that is potentially minimally effected is the thirty hodge's the income tax neighbor and that neighbor is actuall

. >> ann reuben spoke with the teenager's father. >>reporter: it was supposed to be care field night. and rasner had gone with his friend. >> they did what teenagers do and window shop and looking at things they can't afford. >> what happened next, his father can't understand. christian and his friend were approached by two strangers asking if they were in a gang. they said they are not. still the two were followed out of the mall and attacked in a nearby parking lot. >> it's not a simple, you know, oh kids will be a kid. they got into a fight. these are two thugs who thought nothing about beating up a kid. >> christian an honor student was punched twice and falling and hitting his head on the ground. he's in intensive care and in a drug induced coma following a three hour surgery. >> they didn't think he would make it through the surgery so that was a long three hours for a parent. >> while the attack wasn't captured on camera, san jose police said the mall video did provide the suspect. >> the description is they were asian, and mi

rose reuben celebrated 105 birthday at the olive guard anyone willow grove. complete with a beautiful cake and as you can see rose has plenty of people on hand to help bring in the occasion. from all of us here on "action news," happy birthday, rose. >> must be the water in the delaware valley. we've done more birthdays over 100 in the pa month. >> she looks incredible. >> we join "abc worls news" sunday in frog gress and "action news" returns at 11. >> and don't miss phl17 tonight and we're back here again on 6abc at 11. >> now for shirleen alicott melissa magee, jeff skversky, sarah bloomquist, the entire "action news" team, i'm walter perez, we'll see you back here at 11:00 so i was video chatting with my girlfriend. we haven't been together long but... she just says it. i love you. my heart is racing. so i say it right back. i love you too. and she freezes. not actually but the video chat. and i'm like, "did she even hear me?" i am so relieved i have verizon. i panicked, tried to unfreeze it and hung up. we are so much in love. she never called me back. j

the same couple, reuben pannel and eliza henderson, it gives her maiden name. what the freedman's bureau was doing is legalizing the marriages of formerly enslaved persons. if confined individuals that -- you can find individuals that say they considered themselves married for 50 years or 60 years, people with grandchildren or so forth, but all of them are going to the freedman's bureau to get marriages is recognized for the first time is within slavery -- because within slavery, they could be sold away from each other in the spots of -- from each other and their spouse and children because there was no legal recognition of family bought. that is something that is common in the records that we have. another variation of the names this is a census record which is another commonly used federal records that we have for genealogical research, just confirming that the family is in but also showing when you do research, do not view the records in isolation. if you can go to the freedman's bureau records but try to defend the two other right -- connect them to other r

. >> reporter: joe coffee owner jos.en reuben stien said his business has a loyal following. that's to expand to 12 locations in just 12 years. >> 12 years ago, we really started by borrowing money from family from friends, we would give people little pieces of the business in exchange or just borrow money and give them interest. >> at some point we had to say, okay i've tapped all my family friends, everybody invested in this still have family members, so for money, eventually you have to go outside and look at lending. >> yes, that's where i turned to. we want a new shop. go raise the money. >> reporter: joe coffee coo opted not to use a traditional bank. >> we are at a new location. we want to get that lease signed before one of our competitors finds it. we can't spend a month and a half or two months going through the traditional loan process with a big bank. >> reporter: small business lending has been slow to improve even if the u.s. economy recovered, but there's a new pop-up filling the void. loans at less than $1 million to entrepreneurs looking for a faster alternat

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about 15 minutes ago, i got off the phone with reuben rodriguez from washington gas. tried to find out how this could happen. how this could go down here. well, there is an organization that works for d.c. called utili utiliquest, it was supposed to have marked this area to inform the contractor not to dig in this spot. the contractor i spoke about about 10 minute ago said there were no lines here. reporting live stephen tschida abc 7 news. alison: prince william county police are looking for the man accused of sexually assaulting a woman in woodbridge. this happened yesterday morning. a 48-year-old woman told officers she was walking to her home on witmer drive when the man inappropriately grabbed her and then ran off. if you know anything, police are asking you to contact them. on the hill today, the director of the secret service appeared before lawmakers who are demanding to know why scandals continue to plague that agency. the hearing comes after those two agentses were accused of being drunk when their car hit a white house barrier. brian nobles has the latest.

he told me reuben networks. went to a football game. they were doing something fancy on their phone. bought the stock at 17. it's 24 now. i told my clients to buy that stock at five bucks in 2008. we took profits at seven. part of me wants to kick myself. i understand how it is i do this for a living and so do you, har he harry. of course, the market would crash some day. you said this 2014, '12, '11. 2016 might be the year. >> we've been right about most these cycles. neil: you've been wrong the last few years. >> people are going to listen to you. harry, you have to listen, people will listen to you and say wait a minute, he was right on that one call, but he's been wrong through that one rally. >> it's not one call. neil: this rally -- the dow is doubling. the nasdaq -- have you missed this over the last few years, yes or no? >> yes. neil: okay. >> neil yeah, we keep warning that this bubble can burst we have not gone on our newsletter every month and say it's time to sell now. we keep looking at the market and saying, you know what

this is jennifer reuben at "the washington post." gross pettiness and rudeness thre for all to see. she said president obama is obviously a loser in this sense just like the real loser in the israeli election. >> well, actually even back up. the white house started this months ago when on background they were calling the prime minister of israel bad names, dmen diminishing him and then doing it on the record in trying to influence their election. they made this calculation that if president obama didn't -- or if president obama had accepted benjamin netanyahu at the white house when he came to give that speech in front of congress, they made this calculation that somehow that president obama would be diminished if he invited him there. the exact opposite happened. that speech actually probably helped netanyahu. and one thing is for sure that in israel they are united 99% on foreign policy. >> right. >> netanyahu is the guy that they chose. he should be congratulated. and we should take this opportunity to work with him and if they need to tear up the playbook on the two-state soluti