. >> good evening and welcome to the october 23rd, 2013, meeting of the san francisco board appeals andhe presiding

>> good evening and welcome to the october 23rd, 2013, meeting of the san francisco board appeals and the presiding counsel equilibrium is lazarus and joined by fung, and honda and hurtado. >> and to my left is deputy city attorney, robert brian and he will provide the board with legal advice tonight and at the controls is the board legal assistant. the board's executive director, and we are joined tonight by representatives from the departments that have matters before the board. and corey tea ge is here and the acting administrator and the planning department and planning commission. and here, senior building inspector, representing the department of building inspection, and john hwang here, with the street use and mapping and will be joined by arez, building inspector. >> if you could please go over the meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. >> turn off all phones and pagers so that they will not disturb the proceedings and carry on conversations in the hallway, the rules of presentation representatives each has 7 minutes to present their cases and three minutes fo

. >> november 13th the metro of san francisco board of appeals. we're appeal 89 at 174 brighten avenue we have the permit holder to report on the conference in the hallway. we're of we've alleged while the bamboo combroiz that in that area i'll put up a lblgs screen that officers the amount of protection until the businessman both is grown so they can continue their privacy >> if you can step forward. something fun that bamboo the rufrn stuff might work out until the other bamboo grows >> you're smiling. >> miles assures me i'm going to put it in his hand. >> if you could stand here for one section i'm going to memorialize that i'm glad you're doing that in person but let's get this duplicate. i'm going studio grant the appeal that the permit person is going to do a businessman both growing at the fence and during which time as it grows in the meantime permit holder will >> have a temporary. >> have is a temporary prices screen on the deck at a level of 6 feet? >> yes. >> that's the motion. >> and that's obviously on the appellants side of the pro

>> welcome to the november 20, 2013 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals, the preceding officer this evening is board president chris hwang and joined tonight by lazarus and fung and honda and hurtado. >> the deputy city attorney robert brian and will provide the board with any needed legal advice and at the controls it the legal assistant victor and we are joined with the department who have the cases before the board tonight and scott sanchez and they are both representing the planning department and commission. joseph duffy is here representing the department of building inspection and actually he is not here at the moment but i believe that he will be here sthoertly and carly short is here, and the urban forester representing the department of public works and john, the manager of the public of works, and the street and the mapping and he is not already in the room i believe that he is joined and jarvis is here representing the san francisco transportation agency and division of taxis and if you could go over the board's meeting guidelines and conduct in the swearing in proc

. >> november 13th the metro of san francisco board of appeals.re appeal 89 at 174 brighten avenue we have the permit holder to report on the conference in the hallway. we're of

thank you, harvey, thanks pat for >> welcome to the november 20, 2013 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals, the preceding officer this evening is board president chris hwang and joined tonight by lazarus and fung and honda and hurtado. >> the deputy city attorney robert brian and will provide the board with any needed legal advice and at the controls it the legal assistant victor and we are joined with the depa

san francisco and would like to help improve the areas. i believe the capacity as a member of the assessment boards i'm an attorney 0 and i have a solid understanding of making informed appeals. and those are dealing with cost findings under the construction and that likewise me to understand the projects. my involvement in real estate has helped with the residential neighborhoods in both of which are factors in fair market value. as an attorney islam i've developed communication by property owners. i assume the responsibility and hope i'll do my part by serving the community and thank you for your consideration >> thank you. >> any questions. seeing none. thank you very much. next person is mr. collin >> supervisor cowen and breed and yee pr thank you for your time. and thank you for correcting my name are i find it very difficult for english speaking people to say the name correctly. and i appreciate the correction. i am seeing reappointment to board 2. i've been with the board a number of years and feel that my capabilities are serving the city well on that board. for a number of years i had a small real estate company with a dozen people and we covered the entire city of

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san francisco appeals court has ordered federal immigration officials to rethink not granting asylum to a man persecuted. russia has a number ofant gay policies that have triggered protests around the world. the court ordered the board of immigration appeals to review the case. >> china is sending pore planes interest a disputed area of the east china sea, the latest military move where tensions already high. a spokesman accused both japan and south korea of violating chinese airspace over a small chain of islands that china and japan claim as theirs. china declared an air defense zone over the islands on saturday and the united states responded by sending a pair of b-52 bombers into the region on monday. china says their air force will remain on high alert. >> second stage, abort, abort, abort. abort. abort. aborting. >> spacex tried and tried again but could not blast into orbit yesterday. the first try was scrubbed seconds before lift off and engineers were worried about an engine not putting out enough thrust. the company c.e.o. says the next attempt will be in a few days pending the review of rocket engine. >> astronomers believe the comet survived the close encounter with the sun when part of the nuclear cente

board of appeals. >>> (speaker not understood). >> the question was do we then regulate for views to be preserved? no, we do not. there is no right it a view in san francisco. if you wish to have a view or you wish to preserve your answer, the best way to do that is to cooperate with your neighbors and buy the rates to maintain your view. you cannot expect them to preserve your view over their property, or light and ventilation from their property. you are not entitled to take your required light and ventilation from your neighbor's property. you have to be entirely on your own property. you don't have the right to expect anything from your neighbor's property. yes, ma'am. >>> (inaudible). >> so how small can a fence be? a fence can be any height. there is no required fence. so these fences in our backyard are not required by the city so there is no minimum requirement. let's move on. we have retaining walls and that is a big interesting topic. here is another, once again, gates or doors. gates have to meet the door requirements. it's interesting because the building code chapter 10 says even if the door is not a required door, if you're putting it in for

appeals that continue to drag the situation out and have actually forced to be here today. [ inaudible ] [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: in san francisco, mark kelly, kpix 5. >> the national transportation safety boardndling the investigation into last month's deadly accident. it could be up to a year before there is a final report. >>> eyes up, bones down. san francisco wants muni riders to follow those instructions to improve security. the city is launching a new campaign specifically to reduce the number of robberies on buses and trains. they have already stepped up police patrols on certain lines but say they could use the help of riders. people will start seeing signs and ambassadors advising them to spend less time looking at their phones and more time at what's around them. >>> now we're cooking with gas! you've heard that. most chefs actually prefer to cook with gas. but now there's some new questions about the long term health effects for those who work over gas ranges. reporter louisa hodge on the east bay researchers who detected elevated levels of pollution. >> reporter: scientists with the u.s. department of energy's lawrence berkeley national conducted a study based on data from half o