it has a porch and stair on it. the variants will preclude replacement of that stair. all the other conditions of approval that were granted the same time for both properties -- president goh: i have a question. the handwritten document you were just reading from -- where does that appear? that was the thing you did not have previously? >> correct. in my request for a rehearing, exhibit b, an agreement for stair and landing, recorded 10/29/99. president goh: and it was recorded on the other property? >> i know. that is why i did not have it. president goh: and it was supposed to be recorded under 1269? >> i would imagine that if applied to both properties it would have correctly been recorded, yes. president goh: thank you. >> mr. gladstone? >> brett gladstone, representing the property owner. just to give you a little background on where we have been in previous hearings, the planning commission had three hearings. we unanimously approved the demolition and the new building. the a historic preservation board voted unanimously and had no problem with the new building.

you see the tape is coming off of this stair? i wanted to mention the behavioral uses that i keep talking about involve maintenance as well. somebody, you can't just put it in and leave it, you have to walk around and say is everything working? and replace the tape and that's a reasonable expectation. >> well, tape is a good retrofit solution, but a better design solution at the beginning would actually be to cast in place stone that has a darker color so that you have a permanently installed contrasting striping at the nose. >> here we have stairs in a new building. all new buildings are supposed to have all of their entrances accessible. in this case they say, go around the corner. in many cases in san francisco there are occupancies, commercial businesses on lower floors, basements, second floors, they are simply not accessible. what reasonably can we do? . >> there are probably cases where there simply is nothing you can do. >> there are things we could do. >> put in an elevator. >> and rail that comes up, flattens out at the

how can they not stair.d legs, pieces of torso scattered, the smell of new death and feared hair. they must be asking the same question. a person who blows themselves up must believe in something. must believe in something or else not. hopelessness degreesed in apnigzs, righteousness disguised in a tuxedo of death much the children don't understand. i being of the dead dying man the bleeding bystanders who left to buy cheese or tobacco. in car bombs suicide bombs and we keep talking as though this will end like the final judgment of that black man who looks white and sleeps with boys but doesn't touch them. after the bleeding the children's shoes will be forever stained in the crimson color of death. who will set the doves free then. >> the next is sdaefrt on the horizon. i'm sure many of you have seen or heard regularly in the news. my father came from iran so every time i see those headlines and get an article in my e mail i have this moment of panic thinking about my family members in iran who might be th

every love struck couple stairing into each other's eyes. every loner with a half empty beer even a waitress after a shift receives a visit from john nitto. he returns to the faces above the steaming plates before he's out into the neon lit street leaving behind a trail of rose petals bark as sacrificial hearts. thank you. [applause]. >> whenever i had writer's block i do research so i thought i would redo a section which started as writer's block and it took place in a library. i think all you need to know is my narrater is 19. the object of affection is 21. max's mother is a piannist and also polish. >> i saw little of rose after she moved her 2 valises into the nurses room on valentine's day of 1939. she did not allow a gust to drive her to the louve. she did not pause to look at me when i went to the gallery wearing a new shirt. nor did she take meals to my families. sometimes this was the best. at the dinner table my parents argued. father had been unsuccessful in keeping the newspapers from others. she practiced less and less. germany

but here it is this shows exactly where the shaping configuration of the stairs is. so we have a set of the most current inborn or sand born map's behind the planning department counter that will be happy to make or let you look at them and make copies of them there's a free copy machine. i've seen the old ones. not in the last year or two, do you know where they are? >> the series four books are on the sixth floor of the san francisco public library and early series are micro film also from the library. if you belong to a library in another jurisdiction like san jose or oakland they might have subscriptions for their area and that might extend -- they have maybe all california map's. >> do you know where the ariel services are and where. >> the planning department has three that are as of yet unconserved. >> what does that mean. >> we have not had the time or resources to digitize them. they're very large. more than this book here. they're about 32 inches square and cover the whole city in 1948 to 1950, somewhere in the mid 50s or 60's. >> to go on the resources tha

of the first floor by not raising the existing house 18 inches which would eliminate 5 external stairs. >> thank you. >> we think that this could be improved. the building improvement will be good for the environment here and for the neighborhood. we think that this is excessive because it extends both beyond the rear of the adjacent neighbors. we are looking at a residential design checklist which is different than the one in the guideline. there is the section of a rear addition. i have it here. this is the average of the two adjacent buildings. this one is not. then, it meets the minimum standard, this would be the next question. if this is greater than the average of the adjacent buildings, this is the minimum set back and the second floor and above for the entire length of the rear addition which contains the shorter building. this also does not meet that threshold. it goes on on the next page, which is page two or three. there is the side set back. the first question is if this is the setback of the adjacent building, this provided at a minimum of 5 feet. if the project about sev

there was nothing there, i went down stairs, saw the door, opened it walked down the stairs and found myself in the old kgb prison which a few years earlier had people in it. for the next two hours, in absolute silence and all alone i walked from cell to cell to cell. the torture rooms, place where they shot people. it was just extraordinary. i am a pretty smart guy, well educated i was asking myself how come i don't know what happened in this country. >> what period of time does your film cover? >> from the hitler stalin packet 1939 to the collapse of the system. >>> who were the players. >> initially soviets and germans dividing eastern europe between them then stalin moving in for a year, year and a half, little by little occupying the baltic republics, deporting the night of june 13th, 1941, one out of every 100 people in all thecountries in a massive deportation. shortly there after, hitler invaded russia, broke the pact. germans came in for three or four years, end of world war ii. >> what baltic countries? >> lit rain yeah, latvia, estonia. >> how many people died? >> one out o

there is a certain depth for the stairs. it sets of circulation in the house. commissioner moore: does that answer questions for you about sizing and when your dimensions going in an east-west direction? commissioner antonini: i have talked to the project sponsor's representative and it sounded like the dr requestor wanted another addition, but i am comfortable with 2 ft. 4 2 feet. >> if that is the desire of the commission. you might think about asking them to move the spiral staircase to the south a bit, so it is not right in the corner. i think that would be helpful. commissioner antonini: project architect, what do you think about that spiral staircase? >> you could have a slope at the kitchen door. commissioner antonini: you do not want to have to avoid the staircase to get up to the back. >> the dec is only 9 ft. 6 feet. one of the reasons for the depth of the first floor is to have a usable? space adjacent to the kitchen -- a useable deck space adjacent to the kitchen and family room. i am talking about the deck on top of the family room. commissioner an

always take it is stairs. when you go down the stairs hang on to the hand rails you will have people bump into you. pay attention to the floors, you have fourth floor, third floor, in case the lights go out you know you have 3 more floors. people think, i will go to the bottom until it stops. let's say you have 2 floors of parking you are under ground. sometimes it's a fire escape, never go up unless there is smoke down there and you can't go down. majority of the time don't go up. it's not like in tower interno where you go to the roof and the helicopters come pick you up u. notice fire department, work in pairs with 2 extinguishers. one extinguisher and the other person is a backup to get you out. that's an nert volunteer. never fight a fire if it's a large fire. large is over your head. if you are scared and it's too big, it's too large for you. if it's spread beyond where it started and blocking our escape route and you are unsure how to use an extinguisher. there are 4 types of fire it's on the label. on

they actually just got back from india today, so that would be a set of stairs they would have to climb. currently where they live, they are ready to one story and my dad is pretty active. i think it would be good exercise, and there is also the deck which would give them outdoor space. the other unit would be dedicated to my daughter, who hopefully by the time is built she has graduated and it is a source of income to help pay for this, and i have reserved and offered, as i have always done, to my current tenants. we have kept in mind that it meets all of the compliance of today's safety measures, which currently is not in place, such as if there is an earthquake, fire, and is also ada compliance. president olague: 90. i like to open it up for public comment. -- thank you. i would like to open it up for public comment. >> three minutes? my name is tom, and i was here in december when we had the previous session with my house mate. we have been co-residence at 353, renters really, 353 san jose avenue the past 20-some years. she could not make it today, so i am speaking on her behalf. bu

think of the butter in the living room or the soap on the stairs.t remembering people's names? a lot of us struggle with that. the trick is to use your visual skills and your wildest imagination. so, for example, this is my colleague michael corn. michael, turn around, thank you. for him, you would want to picture not just a field of corn, but a field of corn on fire. and what about where you left your keys? one scientist tells us the best tactic is to remember when you set them down to take a mental snap shot of the exact spot. >> put these on. >> reporter: josh foer took this whole thing very far, training daily with special goggles and ear muffs to block out distractions. >> this is a mental athlete ready to go into battle. >> reporter: but the rest of us can use this stuff right away. no special equipment needed. just our imaginations. dan harris, abc news, new york. >> so, i'm picturing my most indelible image of elizabeth taylor. what's yours? i'll show you mine in a moment. desperate for nighttime heartburn relief? for many, nexium helps reli

the 2010 code has a slightly different interpretations on doors and stairs. i do not even want to talk about it. i am really concerned about how this project meets the rest of the world. i think the neighbors support and we all support appropriate development where it can be done. at this moment, i do not have enough evidence that this will work. vice president miguel: this whole project and this whole area is exceptional and extraordinary. you first have to find the block. i grew up around it several times. i could not find a minibus stop two blocks away. if there is one, i have no idea where it is. i looked at the muni maps and i still could not come out to be truthful. there is no question in my mind that a 15 foot setback, if this project was going to be built, is an absolute necessity. i took a look at the one drawing that shows the scope of the garage, not very well done as far as i am concerned. i park pandemic on a steep street and have to back out into traffic. at least one eye back out i am somewhat level. my wife is lower than in the car than me. i

. >> let's move on to the stairs.and outside. when we're looking at all this rain and snow it becomes slippery. with the elderly in particular it's dark outside, it may not be well lit. you want to make sure you have the stairs lit. if they're not lit enough, you can install automatic lights that go on when you're on them to really keep it brightly lit. you want to make sure that happens inside the home and outside the home. >> my next question, inside and out. i can see it on the patio or the porch. but do it inside, as well? >> that's right. if you have basement stairs that are maybe not as well lit. really important to have all the areas lit. >> these gates. a lot of parents with kids, keeps dogs in and kids at bay. >> that's right. >> in fact falls are a leading cause of injuries for children in the home. it caused 2.3 million injuries every year. make sure you have a great at the top and bottom of the stairs. you want a gate where you know it's going to shut and lock automatically. have a gate that doesn't open o

there were scares that had been leading up their that were painted but -- there were stairs. they had been removed and were laying there. there were three fixed windows in the rear of the property. they appear to be property line windows that were framed in. they were covered with plastic bags, so that we had to remove the bags in order to see that they were framed in, and there were windows, standing outside, there were windows on the south side of the second floor and also the roof, and that is all i have. later. commissioner hwang: i want to disclose that i also did a site visit, and all of the things that president goh observed, all of the bags on the windows. i did not observe the framed in windows. commissioner fung: i will disclose that i made a site visit. i walked through the main building from the street rule, and i went into the rear yard and entered into the rear structure and buildings. -- i walked through the main building from the street. vice president garcia: i climbed the steps across the street on divisadero so i could have a vantage point. director goldste

if you go down the stair well. if there's an earthquake and you are in a high rise building. ing -- no. if it hadn't collapsed in the disaster chances are it will stay up. outside, where's an open area? high rise building when glass breaks it floats it with hit 2 blocks away from where it falls. if you are outside, you want to look up and make sure nothing is coming toward you. there is 3-5 feet of glass on market street. top of that you are going to have office

he leads me to the stair well, but no sooner do i begin descending when i feel myself hurtled down my a kick to my back falling and landing up a level on my feet as the door closes with a snicker and the bus pulls away. from my amazement what they do, the latina asks in startled urgency on the sidewalk. and home wards make me realize, i am 72. for the first time in my life. 2. one could i suppose chaplin it a way. how for no reason suddenly one is popped or clobbered with the cane. kicked in the ass for a slap stick for silence. but it just happens, humiliation sounds very depth. just happens, a wound knows no depth of time and not so random is the karma of lungs breezing arkayicly. i didn't know the volatility of the hatred, i could only think dike. but if you prophecy be true that it will be reasoned. and reasoned must find it's violence in order to be for violence is the memory a horror carried by the soul of the blood to sect. she, a violent of resistance is also a violence for, if she said or of me. why not take all of me and shove it up your ass because you can just about sit wi

originally, the project came to us with pay a fairly large stair penthouse. that has since been removed. we also received additional letters of support from members on the street, 10 letters in total. there is support of their for this proposal. the owners have lived on the street for a long time and have talked to their neighbors. however, the department -- it is hard to take that into consideration, the fact that neighbors all support it. how we look at vertical editions is that we look at the pattern. we have two buildings on this block of day street, 11 of which are three story buildings with no setbacks. for the proposed or existing building, it is in a group of five buildings, which for us is a clear enough pattern of two- story buildings. although this is not like the sun set, where you have blocks and blocks of two-story buildings, we are looking largely at the block, and looking to form our recommendation. it is sandwiched between two- story buildings. the 15-foot front set back, we believe, is necessary. right now, they are proposing an approximatel

african- american man wearing a black jacket entering the lobby and walking to an updarr, dash yip stairs room. within 30 minutes, a team of plainclothes officers arrested him. an attorney said those officers committed perjury by reporting that his client owned a white jacket that contained crack cocaine. >> the officers made a false accusation, he was in jail for three weeks until the charges were dismissed. >> we decided not to go forward with the case based on the potential disclosure of someone who has given us information. it didn't have to do with the video necessarily. >> reporter: the sfpd, the district attorney and the fbi launched investigations into six plainclothes officers -- officers seen making drug busts on tapes. michael rains is coordinatingtowns for these officers. >> so the officer who puts his hand up to the camera is simply trying to get the person at the front desk not be able to see what room they are going to. they would rather not have that person tipping that person off to their pence. >> reporter: the officers in that assignment have been put on administrative

>> at an indoor swimming pool in japan, water pours down the stair in the wake of the devastating earthquake. video was shot >>> disaster and devastation continue after the deadly earthquake in japan. one of the concerns, fires and explosions at failing nuclear power plant located near the epicenter of the earthquake. we have the latest developments tonight, including fallout concerns surrounding the nuclear power plant and what experts are saying about the possibility radiation could reach the west coast of the u.s. >>> the situation continues to change after friday's devastating earthquake. here is the latest. the death toll is more than 2400 and expects to rise as high as 10,000. more than 3,000 people are missing. thousands may have been swept away in the tsunami. 450,000 people are in shelters. the earthquake was upgraded to 9.0, making it the 4th largest in the world. explosions and fires are reported at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. radiation levels there are up. kron 4's jonathan bloom has the latest at the plant and the overall radiation threat there and here. >> report

this sets on the roof of the engineering kept department and down stairs engineers monitor readings around the clock. >> we want to tell the public and you, and everyone, what radiation, if there is any, what levels of radiation we have to deal w. >> scientists will know if they find traces of raceo active isotopz causing serious health damage after chernyobl. many say what's happening in japan is not near that level of disaster. >> this is probably more than a three-mile island but less than a chernyobl. >> scientists don't expect notable changes until tomorrow. any radioactive part cell koz wo have to travel more than 5100 miles. transported near a jet stream across the ocean. and if that happens they predict levels will be lower. this chart shows how much radiation we live with. >> this is less still than regular flight, if you go to the clinic and have an x ray that is higher radiation you will be exposed to, there. >> the epa's radiation monitors may be more high tech than what is on uc berkeley's roof tops but tell experts the same thick. this sits on tocht bay area air quality manag

starts at the front door, you can see there's no lock on this gate i'm even able to walk right up the stairs here and go inside with no problem. the owner han gardener has ignored fines and ignored calls to clean up her act for years. she is not able to collect rent until she does. >> she has not kept one single promise. >> reporter: ignacio de la fuente says that maybe the threat of jail time will get her to clean up her act. this also hits gardener with fines, it also requires her to pay relocation costs for any tenants that just want out. >>> at this hour, a series of landslides threatening a number of bay area homes. the recent rainy weather proved too much for some neighborhoods in scott valley and san pablo. right now there's worries about lands slides in hercules. >> reporter: trucks filled with mud keep traveling back and forth here on croy road as crews work frantically to clear out the road before it gets dark. crews have cleared out dozens of tons of debris and there's still more to clear. homeowners near by say they are overwhelmed by the mountain of mud. >> the ground is overly

i have lit the caves and the stairs and the hidouts in the folds of the mountain. i have washed the summit and every crevice of the mountain so my loved ones might pass in the forenoon of the mountain day. this is called, lament for a market place in babylon, by abdul karin al karid and it's a reference to a suicide bombing. this one and the next one are both translated by salim yusef. on this grave stone are angels and people weeping. what are people waiting for, their ship? here it comes, borne by the deluge. in a market place now frequented by money changers with beards and baggy trousers, who restores the limbs and who throws open the gates for hollow-eyed gods coming in from babylon with red chests and white furious hair? i wonder who? on the day of march 1st in the 5th year after the second millennium, a massacre took place in babylon. it's my pleasure it introduce the next poet, george evans. . >> first, i would like to read a poem by my dear friend and wife, daisy samora, who was to be here today but is in nicaragua, keeping in mind what michael said about

as they climb the stairs, the tsunami bursts through the corridor.hey reach the window as two huge red containers sweep across the path. leaving the taxi was a good decision. it's now floating. but not everyone made shelter. there's a woman on the wall, a man in a tree, and standing on a car roof, a father clutching his two young children. someone finds a fire hose. it becomes a rope. as dusk falls, a human chain is formed and reaches the children. despite the aftershocks, despite the snow, they pass the children from person to person across the tops of shipping containers. >> just remarkable there. >>> elsewhere, the united nations security council has authorized, quote, all necessary measures to stop moammar gadhafi in libya, including strikes by sea and air. the resolution, which cleared yesterday with the backing of the u.s., france and england also imposed a no-fly zone over libya. the vote was 10-0 with five the libyan government responded by closing air space to all traffic. >>> now here's a look at other stories making news early today in ame

this is an opportunity to have the garbage down the stairs at the first floor away from the walkways and the exterior. number two. we mentioned the no ada restrooms. there is a ada restroom. he mentioned serial permitting. you tell me that there is not one building in san francisco, serial permitting is very common. this second phase is to add additional square footage for additional students. now you are skirting the building code again by having more than 5000 square feet. in fact, the total square footage for the project the improvement is 4200 square feet. the first floor and the small mezzanine for storage. then there was the proposed seating on the interior. if anyone of us know on old victorian buildings circa 1910 or 1920, they always have high ceilings. the owner wishes to lower the ceiling from 14 feet down to 11 feet for efficiency. this is for energy savings. nothing wrong with that. at the same time, the drop from 14 to 11 feet, from the street, you cannot see a thing. you cannot see the drop seating from the exterior. you mentioned about gate 731. there are a total of 2

i walked in, and i had an argument, and i run down the stairs, and i made a 911 call. i told 911 i get better service getting a ticket. "do you want to wait for an officer?" and the guy was still in the lobby. do the cameras in their work? if you call, they will say, a bold faced lie, that there is somebody there 24/7. do the cameras in the lobby work? number four, please -- [bell] take -- off of the police academy curriculum. >> thank you. >> hello, my name is mr. hunter. i spoke at the last police commission meeting, safety meeting, over here in the big room, and i have come back to just point a few things out to the police commission, and, for one, when people come or go to the police commission, occ to file a complaint, that person must have been violated to take all of this time to go there, so he or she should be taken seriously. i will say that to the whole group. and the only avenue a person has come a citizen has come is to go to the occ. i do not know how long the occ has been around, but they have been around long enough. as you see with the corruption, i do

cottage and underwent a series of the exterior renovations, which included new windows, possibly a new stair entrance. whereas a side building was renovated to victorian style, the existing cottage contained classic elements. as explained in the evaluation dated september 29, 2008, in order to qualify as an historic resource, the building must not only be shown to be significant to the california register, but it also must retain integrity. with an altered front facades and the inability to meet any of the criteria of the california register, 134 ord street is not an historic resources. there is no information to indicate it has any assisted asian -- has any association with an event. there's nothing to suggest it has had any importance to our local, regional, or national past. it does not have the characteristics of a type, period, or kind of construction or represents the work of a master. and there is nothing at 134 ord street that possesses archaeological significance. again, the building must be one of these four criteria to be protected under the law. staff made a review and determined

i don't know if i can get down the stairs in time to reach the bottom floor. my wife screamed down my ear because she was working in one of the buildings in tokyo. >> japanese people are taught from early age that earthquakes are part of life and from an early age the training kicks in at a vital moment. but more destructive still was the awesome power unleashed in the depths of the ocean, the tsunami. each cubic meter of water weighs a ton. its momentum sweeps away and smashes almost anything in its path. as it advances inland, it becomes a vast, silty churn. these are agriculture tunnels being swallowed up. there are cars, shipping containers, parts of buildings in the swirl. no one knows how many homes have been damaged or destroyed but it is certainly many thousands. not everyone got away on time the tremors from the biggest yeark -- earthquake ever recorded in this country were felt in parliament. >> it was a very strong earthquake and damage was been inflicted over a wide area. i offer my deepest sympathy to the people who have suffered the disaster. >>