scott sanchez, planning department. so just briefly to the questions that were raised from the conditional use authorization from 2017. in that motion, it did outline as all our motions do general planning code compliance, so it's one of the check boxes that we have. so street trees is one of those subjects that we covered, notes that there are 13 street trees required given the size of the property. it notes that there were three existing street trees, and therefore they needed to plant ten new street trees. there were no conditions of approval that required the tree existing street trees to be maintained. the street tree requirements initially it been in the planning code -- had been in the planning code and a lot of us had moved to the public works code. things do change after the fact, but we defer to the department of public works on those matters, but there was no condition requiring the street trees to remain. >> commissioner honda: thank you for clearing that up. >> clerk: is there any public comment on this ite

scott sanchez, planning department. i share the frustration that senior building inspector joe duffy expressed, as well as vice president swig. this process has not been followed by the project sponsor, the property owner. it was very frustrating for our staff, our enforcement staff, it was like pulling teeth to get plans that we believe accurately depicted to the best of your knowledge the existing -- best of our knowledge the existing conditions. the scope of work calls for the facade, the stucco to be replaced, otherwise maintains at it was before, with windows replaced, match those that were there previously. i think it's been frustrating for everyone, for the neighbors, up through this point. it's more frustrating when they don't engage with the board's process, follow what the board has asked them to do, show up at the hearings, file brief, i and i do have concerns that they will not follow the issues. but at least d.b.i. will have the enforcement process to compel compliance from for any owner or any future owner

scott sanchez, planning department. the subject permit proposes two dwelling units. the site permit was submitted in december 2015 after actually the previous owner had purchased the property and developed this application. it went through a neighborhood notice at the end of 2016. during that time, there was a discretionary review filed by the appellant, and i believe it was probably november or december of 2016. the schedule for hearing for discretionary hearing before the planning commission on february 26, 2017, then continued to march 16, 2017, then continued to april 27, 2017 and then continued again to july 13, 2017. at the final hearing, the planning commission heard the item and did not take discretionary review. at that time, it was noted some of the concerns raised by the appellant being the easement issue is not under the purview of the planning department or the planning commission. that's a private matter that they must resolve separately, given that their -- from all research that's been done, there is no easement that's recorded on the property. the pr

scott sanchez, planning department. a couple of points on the rehearing request. i don't believe that the standards necessary to justify granting a rehearing have been met by the appellant in this case. there were issues raised in the rehearing request regarding the d.r. reform effort which is the board may or may not be familiar with. a process that we have and that we had about 10 years ago that never was enacted. we never enacted the d.r. perform effort. but actually had we enacted the d.r. reform effort, the d.r. that was heard by the planning commission never would have been heard by the planning commission in this case because given the issues that were raised by the appellant in their d.r. request, it would not have met the threshold for us to take it to the planning commission. that is noted in our d.r. staff report that under the pending d.r. reform guideline, it would not have been fwrouth brought to the commission. the commission did hear as a discretionary review and considered the tree issues raised and in

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scott sanchez and i have both looked at this, and we both have determined that 24th street was definitely the frontage for purposes of the planning code. as was required, the required set back is 2 feet deeper into the proposed property than what is -- referenced property than what is proposed now. in rh-2, there is an additional height requirement. it basically states once you get up to 30 feet, you have to -- there's a 45-degree jog into the lot that you have to meet, and that -- where that line starts is even the front property line or the required front set back line. so in this situation you could theorically request a front set back variance, but that would not allow you to push that back into the variance. height cannot be varied. so in this situation, the statements are made by langust and language in the motion is more about design and less of a code issue. >> president melgar: thank you, mr. teague. commissioner richards? >> commissioner richards: mr. teague, can you at least with the drawings maybe show me what the 45 -- what that looks like because i'm just struggling to see h

scott sanchez, planning department. so the proposal here of this permit seeks essentially to change the railing from a previously approved deck and also add a spa or standing spa. it does not expand or change the footprint of the deck. so it's relatively discrete matter. the project does comply with the planning code. it was properly reviewed and approved by the planning department. the appellant in the brief submitted a copy of the draft, and actually it is a draft of our draft guidelines. it is not even what we essentially submitted to the planning commission as our draft guidelines. so this draft that was included by the appellant, i am not sure how they obtained it because it wasn't ever to my knowledge submitted to the public, but it does state we would regulate hot tubs and those types of features. that is not what the department decided to do. that is not what the department put forward to the planning commission last summer. and yet the guidelines are still a draft and have not been adopted by the planning commi

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scott mcgrew for marcus. >> i'm laura garcia. the work starts today and kris sanchez joins us with how it will reduce congestion and how soon we're looking. >> reporter: well hi there, laura and scott. the groundbreaking just wrapped up here. they just shovelled that first bit of symbolic dirt and now the real work begins. it takes about three years but in that time 32 miles of what are now car pool lanes will become express lanes. >> what we have lost -- >> reporter: and 237 in sunnyvale north -- >> what we have lost and what our residents have lost is the quality of their life. that's what this will do. when families can go home and get home at an hour they can go to their children's softball

scott mcgrew for marcus. >> i'm laura garcia. the work starts today and kris sanchez joins us with how it will reduce congestion and how soon we're looking. >> reporter: well hi there, laura and scott. the groundbreaking just wrapped up here. they just shovelled that first bit of symbolic dirt and now the real work begins. it takes about three years but in that time 32 miles of what are now car pool lanes will become express lanes. >> what we have lost -- >> reporter: and 237 in sunnyvale north -- >> what we have lost and what our residents have lost is the quality of their life. that's what this will do. when families can go home and get home at an hour they can go to their children's softball game, go their daughter's -- coach the team again. >> reporter: all right. that is one of the dignitaries out here talking about the benefits of having those car pool lanes transition into what will now be known as express lanes. if we can look at the map, i'll show you where we are talking about. this is a stretch of 101 between 380 in san bruno and 237 in sunnyvale north and

sanchez, "today in the bay." >> thanks, kris. >>> our business and tech reporter scott budman will be at the event, and will have a live report during our 5:00 and 6:00 newscast tonight. you could also follow him on twitter, his handl handle @scottbudman. >>> happening today, ride share drivers demanding their fair share plan to protest and strike across california. a union supporting drivers claims, uber recently cut drivers pay by 25% in some places. uber reportedly says this was actually the unintended result of an incentive promotion. union leaders have planned a one-day strike in southern california, and in san francisco, ride share drivers plan to protest outside a lyft ipo luncheon. both companies plan to go public in the next few weeks. >> 6:45 right now. >>> senator bernie sanders is spreading his message to the bay area in his latest bid to get into 1600 pennsylvania avenue. the line to see senator sanders at ft. mason sunday was a long one. people arrived hours ahead of the campaign rally to hear him. san francisco marked the final stop in his three-city tour of california. he made a strong push for c