i am here representing jim reuben who has been the attorney on the case working for scott sanchez for quite a long long time. scott did an excellent overview for this project so we are hear here for two floors, approximately 40,000 square feet of office space. this will impose fees because right now they have been stayed because this has been continuousl y continued by this board, until our client gets authorization from the planning commission and gets the building permit. that will happen by september of 2019. the central soma plan will hopef ully be approved this fall and that will not necessarily impact the ability of the problem to get an authorization. we won't be able to file until that plan is approved by that gives time to go through the authorization process. in the that time, we will still be paying fees. the property owner is happy to pay those fees. we are happy with the settle ment. they approach the city on their own to do so an we feel this is a good remedy to the problem and we hope to get your support and approval of this today. >> we are talking 100,000 square feet

scott sanchez, planning department. don't have a lot of additional information on the enforcement case. we did receive one back in april. i think it was the referral from the department of building inspection. the building is a known historic resource and think the complaint alleges that excessive amounts of the building were removed and reconstructed, which i'd say is particularly disappointing in this case, because the contractor was involved in the case that we had on 950 lombard street, which resulted in a supplement with the city of $450,000 for illegal demolition work, so our staff will be investigating the work here and will be working with the city attorney's office as appropriate and determining a resulting case. >> okay. may i ask a question, please, mr. sanchez. so are we putting the chicken -- the egg before the chicken or the chicken before the egg? we're approving a moving of a tree permit, but -- and the reason we're being asked to move the tree is because of the garage. >> if i understand correct, mr. bu

scott sanchez, planning department. so we do believe this is a violation. we believe this has been acknowledged by the applicant and they will be vacating the space at the end of the month. we don't anticipate the need to have a hearing on august 8 because by that time they will have violated the space and the violation -- vacated the space and the violation will have been abated. >> president fong: that's at the end of this month? >> that's correct. >> may i ask a question? so would you consider it would be prudent for us to go through the hearing, and if we were to find that -- in the same direction that the issue is going, that if they did not in fact abdicate and leave the space by the end of the month, you have a formal direction from the board of appeals, so the public doesn't have to -- first of all, the public has been inconvenienced. second of all, the public is looking for direction from us, so wouldn't it be more prudent for us to do it today and just give a direction? >> that would be great from our department, and maybe, yeah, the appellant cou

with the change in the verbiage suggested by scott sanchez. >> scott sanchez. >> clerk: all right. so on that motion by vise -- vice president swig -- [roll call] >> clerk: okay. so that motion passes, and the proposed findings are adopted. >> next case. >> clerk: we will now move onto item number seven. this is appeal number 17-055, mahar mamarzadei versus san francisco department of urban forestry. [agenda item read] >> clerk: note on february 28, 2018, the board voted 5-0 to continue the appeal to allow time for the parties to discuss settlement. so we've had a hearing on this matter, and so each party will get three minutes each total, no rebuttal, and we will hear first from the appellant. >> good evening. francisco gutierrez, attorney for the appellant. before cutting into the time, i would have a request. we do have three speakers, but the way we have postponed the hearing and continued it to this date was to meet and try to settle this matter with bureau of urban forestry. we did ultimately meet with chris buck on the 10th. which would like to smith pictures that include wr

jeff horn went directly to scott sanchez and said would you like the removal of this walkway and the permit action to correct the n.o.v. separated from the base building permit. he said no, i don't

. >> thank you scott sanchez planning department the subject at 826-828 does allow for three dwelling units in 2016 the property owner sought a letter of determination to remove the notice of special restrictions since that time planning code requirements have changed to be less burdensome for dwelling units and one of the reasons was that a third unit added would have to provide accessible parki ng place and while that provision exists does allow that to be satisfied with bicycle parking. when you are adding one new unit you don't trigger the requirem ent, now it's two or more units in the subject's zoning district. we issued the letter of determination and released the special restrictions to remove that restriction from the property and must meet all planning and zoning requirements . in march of 2017, the appellant filed the subject variance application because the proposeed third dwelling unit does not meet feasible open space of the planning code subject for hearing in august of last year. as we review the cases about a month ahead of the hearing date, staff brought the item to

jeff horn went directly to scott sanchez and said would you like the removal of this walkway and the permit action to correct the n.o.v. separated from the base building permit. he said no, i don't want another permit filed for this. i want to keep this as one ball of wax and move forward. >> okay, mr. jacobs. thank you for that. okay. mr. boskovitch? >> good afternoon, commissioners. >> you and i, we know the industry. i do actually -- >> i'm trying to help him out. >> would you be interested in -- would you be able to give him that kind of peace of mind that this process -- based on your testimony i can't see why you would not. >> i'm happy to sit with planning, continue for a month and sit with planning and see if there's something. i'm trying to help them out. the first time i've been thrown under the bus to say waive the fine and help them resolve it, if they do it their way it will be a nightmare mess. i'm happy to work with planning, if they do it their way it will make building permit process two years from now a mess. i'm happy to sit with them in planning to see if there's

nearly a year ago today on july 12, 2017, scott sanchez stood before you and on behalf of the planning department solicited guidance from you on how article 25 should be interpreted. your draft decision gives him the guidance in the context of one neighborhood, a neighborhood that has completely undergrounded all utilities and is nearly entirely eligible for the inclusion on the state's list of historic districts. under article 25, neighborhood context matters. no matter what one's opinion is about the design of verizon's wireless equipment in the abstract, the aesthetic characteristics of the location where verizon wishes to put its equipment must be taken into account. for that lesson, we are truly grateful. d.p.w. opposes your decision. they claim that you should accept planning's decision in this matter at face value. that is clearly not the position of planning itself, as i've already explained, mr. sanchez appeared before this board a year ago and expressly admitted that planning needs your guidance on how to interpret article 25 and planning is willing to follow your guidance. m

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i )m kris sanchez in for laura garcia. and i )m scott mcgrew in for marcus washington. starting in the south bay... >>> fog and bit of smoke. >> yeah. we have to deal with it all today. we have had poor air quality over the weekend. we could see the drifts of smoke coming by. we see a shift in the wind and the clouds and the fog we are seeing over san francisco right now. air quality will be moderate for the north way, east bay and fir mainly aloft. we'll see temperatures from the low 60s to upper 70s. you'll notice more cooling. you're also starting with what's happening in the south bay. this is reading in north from san francisco. it will be more visible during the daylight hours. we had a lot of slowing southbound. not a lot of folks know where that is but it is off of the freeway if that's what you need to know. there may have been a vehicle because there's no construction scheduled for that area. over here coming up from san martin your limit for the south county. this is equally light through s here. back to you. >>> and we are ge

sanchez.. and i )m scott mcgrew. laura and marcus have the morning off. let )s get you up o speed on this breaking news we )ve followed all morning. police say this man - demetrius >>> on this breaking news, that we have been following all morning, police say this man told an undercover fbi agent he planned to blow up the fourth of july parade in cleveland. the fbi says he scouted out the downtown area. he reportedly wanted to kill military families and law enforcement. now, the fbi says he expressed allegiance to al qaeda. as we read through the charging documents we also learned he might have considered the bay area, as well. our reporter is live with that part of the story. >> reporter: yeah, you guys as we all know thousands will gather here along the embarcadero for the fourth of july celebration. what the court documents show is that he allegedly told undercover agents to do reconnaissance for al qaeda. here's what the documents reveal. june 30th of this year, undercover agents called pitts and told him his planned attack for cleveland on july fourt

i )m kris sanchez in for laura garcia. and i )m scott the south bay... >>> fog and bit of smoke. >> yeah. we have to deal with it all today. we have had poor air quality over the weekend. we could see the drifts of smoke coming by. we see a shift in the wind and the clouds and the fog we are seeing over san francisco right now. air quality will be moderate for the north way, east bay and

i )m scott mcgrew in for marcus washington. and i )m kris sanchez in for laura garcia. >>> we want to get to the forecast. tomorrow is a holiday. >> it will be a great day too. we are enjoying cooler temperatures around the bay area. it is breezy and cool. nice warm up by early afternoon. we'll help you make plans on where to watch parades and fireworks. you're taking us to the bay bridge. it's starting to back up? >> except for a look behind me. it's not as bad as we often see. we are talking about how bad it will be later today. the morning commute will be lighter. we are look to go register. it should be any second as well. >> a light backup here. if you bring cash you can get out of the fast cash lane and maybe have a food drive. it cleared up very quickly. looks great. no delays. back to you. go thank you. >> back to a developing story in thailand crews working to rescue a youth soccer team that was found alife after more than a week trapped in the caves. it may take them months to get out of the cave. we have the latest. >> they are calling th

scott. let's start with what we heard from boris sanchez, the reporting. the president's attorney in these new conditions that they're trying to set for mr. trump to agree for a meeting with the special counsel robert mueller, do you see mueller agreeing to conditions like these? >> no, absolutely not. but that's not the point. rudy giuliani gave the game away when he said, look, what we're trying to do is sway public opinion. in other words, try to convince the public there's no need for an investigation or that an investigation is politically motivated, biased against trump. and that's like new verse same song because the administration has been trying that for months with for example the nunes memo that sort of cobbled together memo that tried to discredit the fbi. with trump's tweets, the witch-hunt that insisted on no collusion. the twicht hest here is what th president's lawyers are saying you show us all the evidence you have, you show us everything that's out there and then maybe we'll let trump speak to you. guess what? political or legal process,

scott. what do you make of that? >> oh, i think again boris sanchez had it right. trump has got this idea that robert mueller owes him money at one of his golf clubs and that the entire motivation for the special counsel must be because he doesn't want to pay up. i suspect that isn't true, that robert mueller has motivations far beyond that. carrying out a legal investigation -- but i think donald trump's grasping at straws. as is rudy giuliani. take trump's tweet saying robert mueller owes me money and rudy giuliani saying oh, that tape must have been tampered with, although there's sbrult no evidence it was, and that just tells you the idea is to throw up enough mud on the wall, enough smoke in the eyes, that the realities of the trump russia investigation doesn't actually take over and bring him down. >> as the relationship continues to unravel between michael cohen and donald trump and we're seeing their legal team, scott, no longer sharing information, there's also the issue around allen weisselberg being subpoenaed. weisselberg, the chief financial officer of

let's go to our white house correspondent, boris sanchez, on all of the above. let's start with the scott pruitt conversation with the president involving jeff sessions. tell me what you know about that. >> reporter: several sources telling cnn that earlier this year, scott pruitt apparently asked president trump if he would fire his attorney general, jeff sessions, and at least temporarily put him in that role for some 200 days or so, according to the vacancies act, before he would then move back to oklahoma and run for political office. of course we know that president trump is publicly displeased with his attorney general jeff sessions, he's called him be leaguered before. it's not a surprise that he is pondsering a reforward-looking statement -- pondering a replacement. this on top of ethical violations. scott pruitt being investigated through 14 separate federal probes that we know of. it comes on the heels of recent reporting, a senior administration official telling cnn they believe that scott pruitt is inching closer to a tipping point with president trump. the white house has bee

the boris sanchez, cnn, traveling with the president, bed minister, new jersey. >>> let's bring in scott international politics in england. he's the founder and editor of e.a. world news. let's start with the incredible and emotional scenes across the united states, tens of thousands of people taking to the streets to protest donald trump's zero tolerance immigration policy, especially separating those more than 2,000 children from their parents. there's been silence from the president, which isn't surprising, but is it likely to have any impact on the administration? >> oh, yes. first you have the rallies. this isn't tens of thousands, this is hundreds of thousands so this is not just a one off. you will see this as a continuing expression of concern, not only over the immigration policy, the detention of children, the separation from parents but even wider than that, that is the attitude of the president, his administration towards people of other races which we have seen vividly in the past year. their attitude towards people of other religions, such as musl s muslims. their attitudes

boris sanchez, cnn, traveling with the president near bedminster, new jersey. >> let's bring in scott lucas to talk about all of this. scott a professor of international politics at the university of birmingh ingham i england. also the founder sxert of ea worldview live this hour in birmingham, england. a pleasure to have you on the show. let's talk of what we know about the president's pick here for the supreme court. mr. trump planning for a 9:00 p.m. eastern time announcement monday night, in true reality show fashion, regardless of who he picks help our viewers what this means for the balance of the court on central issues, abortion being key. >> well, you know, i always grew up with this idea, george, that the judicial branch was independent from the executive and from the legislature and so whatever happened in america it was sort of politically above everything else. well, that's not true. politics does affect the court. these are human beings. and this will be an attempt by the trump administration as a very conservative administration to entrench a conservative supreme court

sanchez, cnn, traveling with the president near bedminster, new jersey. >> boris, thank you for the reporting. now let's get some context with scott lucas. scott a professor of international politics at the university of birmingham live this hour via skype from birmingham. it's a pleasure to have you on the show, scott. look, the president says that he will not talk about, will not ask about roe versus wade, that he will not discuss lgbt rights. but given this president's track record with truth, saying one thing and doing another, do you take him at his word? >> no. he's telling the truth here, george, because he doesn't have to ask about roe v. wade. he doesn't have to ask about lgbt rights. because the people on the white house short list all have a judicial record which points to the fact that they may overturn roe v. wade, that they may restrict lgbt rights. in other words, anyone who will uphold the current stance on abortion rights is not likely to be on the short list. and let me just add to what susan collins said, that she would oppose anyone who is hostile to roe v. wade. no smart nominee is going to go before the confirmation