dan snyder acting zoning administrator here on behalf of scott sanchez.first off, commissioners, i'd like to close the public hearing on the variance as well. what i would like to do in this case is take the matter under advisement. i would say that i am inclined to grant the rear yard and front setback variances. there's some unanswered questions with respect to the dwelling unit exposure variance, so i look forward to working with the sponsor and with staff to get these questions answered. just really quickly, some housekeeping matters. no decision is final on these variances until a letter is issues. that letter brings with it a 10-day window during which it may appeal to the board of appeals and if anyone would like a copy of the decision letter, please give their name and contact information to the secretary or to staff and we'll make sure you get a copy of it. thank you. >> ok. thank you very much. commissioners, you are in recess until 5:00 p.m.

scott chances is here, the city zoning administrator -- scott sanchez is here, the city zoning and minister, also representing the planning department. the senior building inspector is representing the department of building inspection. we have the environmental health section of the department of public health. jarvis murray is representing muni. i am going to go over meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. the board requests to turn off all phones, beepers, and pagers. please carry on conversations in the hallway. the rules of presentation are as follows. appellants, permit holders, and department respondents have seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttal. members of the public who are not affiliated with the parties have up to three minutes each to address the board, and no rebuttal. please speak into the end of the microphone. to assist in accurate proportion of minutes, you are asked but not required to submit a speaker card or business card. they are available on the left side of the podium. the board welcomes your comments and suggestions. th

scott sanchez is also representing the planning department. joseph duffey is here, a senior building inspector. we're joined by john fong, representing the bureau of for use and mapping. jarvis murray is also representing. i will go over the guidelines and conduct the swing-and the process. the board request that you turn off all speakers and pagers so they do not proceed -- disturb the proceedings. please carry on conversations in the hallway. the role of presentation is as follows, the apartment respondents have seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttal. people affiliated with these parties must include their comments within those periods. members of the public not affiliated have up to three minutes each to address the board. please begin to the end of the microphone. to assist the board in the actor preparation of minutes, you are asked to submit a speaker car business card to staff when you come up to speak. cards are available on the left side of the podium. the board welcomes your comments. there are customer s

we're joined by department of representatives in the front row, scott sanchez, the zoning administrator representing the planning department and planning commission, we're joined by the assistant to the zoning administrator, the senior building inspector representing the department of building inspection. john is the manager representing the department of public works bureau of st use and mapping. at this time, i will go over the meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. the board request that you turn off all cell phone so there will not disturb the proceedings and that you carry on conversations in the hallway. the roles of presentation are as follows. the permit holders and respondents each have seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttal. people affiliated with these parties must include their comments within the seven-or three-minute period. people not affiliated with the parties have up to three minutes each to address the board. please begin to the a end of the microphone. -- please speak into the end of the microphone. to assist the board in

scott sanchez, planning department staff. i think the presentation given by the project sponsor has been very thorough. i am lucky to be joined this evening by the planner who handled this. he is one of our neighborhood planners with excellent knowledge of this project. he will be able to get into detail with any question. on february 11, they certified the environmental impact report. at this hearing on the 10th, the planning commission also unanimously approved the office allocation for the project, the exceptions, and the variants granted for the project -- variance granted for the project. that has five findings which must be met and much show a hardship, versus the exception. that would consider a variety of criteria set back in the planning code. i would like to highlight two of the exceptions. i would like to talk a little bit about the goals. the tower separation is in order to assure there can be distinguished form. this is a corner lot. on two sides, it does have of this tower separation. one side has a courtyard. i

i love that phrase and we have scott sanchez from the planning department who is heavily involved in the sign issues. what are you working on now scott? >> we are launching the sign inventory so it's going to be an inventory of the advertising signs in the city and county of san francisco. we are getting inventories of sign companies and doing surveys. >> i understand that we are doing a city wide historical building inventory. are they linked together? >> no just for preservation and we will work together where we can. >> while you are out there i need some stuff i need to know. seriously once we are around looking stuff and we can populate the data base with other good information. that's great. we're glad to hav to yo we have a couple folks also here from sign america. thank you very much and i invited them to talk about the sign process. we have a lot of people here that know about signs. signs are such a big issue here in san francisco. i divided up the pictures and topics into four basic parts of the first is signs that advertise the commercial property for which they are locate

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