ryan patterson. the judge explicitly found that these two entities are related, crossroads trading company and c.t.c. and in fact treated them as one entity for the purposes of that litigation. so you know, the -- the permit itself says the owner-contractor is doing the work. i think it's clear that c.t.c.'s building owner is deeply involved in this. to respond to a couple of things, the temporary licensing agreement is not an easement. that was the court's decision, his conclusion, and this is something that has to be solved now or is -- as inspector duffy said, it goes to a complaint process, and the fire department is very likely to shutdown the ballet. so you know, if we were okay with that happening, we wouldn't have gone through with this appeal, we would have just gone to a complaint process. the reason we're here is that we hope the board, we hope today might be willing to just extend that egress corridor back, solve the issue so it's not the fire department solving it with a heavy hand. this

. >> ryan patterson. i want to be clear. we're not trying to excuse what the previous team did in terms of processing here and what the contractor did. it's hard to understand why they went through all of that process, but at this point, pat and i and the rest of the team are trying to do everything we can to fix the problem and get this housing restored. i want to thank dbi. i think they've been very diligent in staying on top of. this we don't fault them for this process either. just so you know what we've done, we brought in an architectural preservationist to restore it to the type of previous construction. we've gone through a whole long process. i think we're just about to the end of it. >> if there's anything we can do, we'll be happy to do it. >> commissioner walker? >> i think it's laudable that there's an attempt to preserve this as affordable housing, but there was clear violations presented by the staff in the initial -- i believe it's appropriate for a motion to uphold the order of abatement, assess fees to the

ryan patterson and sarah hoffman for the appellant. nice to see you again so soon. thank you so much for taking the time to make a site visit. i hope it was helpful. very briefly, there were two different sets of work that we're talking about in this permit application. the first set is improvements for the residents -- amenity improvements, opening spaces up to allow light in, creating spaces for community spaces, mahjong, and karaoke. the second is creating administrator's and deputy administrator's unit. the deputy administrator's unit was completed sometime back, and the administrator's unit was in progress. miss wong has explained why those units are necessary. we're in agreement to scale back the administrator unit, remove one of the units and partition that back off if that helps. and i'll turn it over to sarah for a moment. >> okay. very briefly, sarah hoffman, pleasure to be addressing you. i'm talking about section 102 of the planning code and why these administrator units are more aptly treated as an accessory use than an administrator use. it allows them

. >> ryan patterson for the appellant.i think the commissioners have hit the issue right on the head here. i will respond briefly to the applicant attorney statements that every lot is created by some human, deliberate act. that is true. but for most lots, that city is the actor. this was a lot, in recent memory that was put in this condition by the owner. this is the predecessor in interest of the applicant. and heard the planning code, if the hardship conditions, the unusual condition is either created by or contribute to bull to the applicant to, the variance cannot be granted. here, as i was trying to note, the original primary portion of the lot is rectangular. it is not unusually small for the neighborhood. there are several other lots cited in the brief that are comparably sized undeveloped. and while the current owner didn't do it, the predecessor in interest did it. we can expect that whatever condition was created there, it reflected the price when i sold it to the next owner. when that owner sold it to this appl

patterson? >> that's fine. good evening, president fung and commissioners, ryan fung for the appellant. this is to orient you to the properties. this is a two story building on upper market street. the building is owned by c.t.c., presumably short for crossroads trading company. the upstairs is occupied by the academy of ballet of san francisco. the appellant owns the property next door at 2135 market street. the subject permit tonight is a permit for secondary egress from the ground floor commercial space. the problem with the mer my is it doesn't go far enough to -- permit is it doesn't go far enough to give secondary egress to the ballet school, as well. it does not have a legal second means of egress. the two properties were previously under the same ownership, which allowed the ballet school to exit across the appellant's property historically, but when the ownership changed, the permit holder asserted that it had an unrecorded easement across the appellant's record for the ballet school's egress. they went to court, and the judge issued a 28-page decision. if i could have the over

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