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

the placement of the stairs and elevators are not arbitrary. besides being a great design, this project will create jobs that are desperately needed in the city. please allow this project to proceed. >> good evening. i support the project. a lot of people have not seen the whole papers of the project. i suggest for them to go back and look at them. there is something beautiful coming out to them. president olague: thank you. >> could inning, commissioners. my name is sandy denuto. i am a disabled person. i am limited in the buildings i can live in because there is no elevator access. i am happy they are taking into consideration ada regulations and that i would not be excluded from being able to enjoy the roof access the other tenants would because i am not able to use steps anymore. an elevator is becoming more and more important to a lot of san francisco residents as we age. it is not possible to get up four flights of stairs without having an elevator. i think that is a great idea. president olague: thank you. >> my name is kieran buckley. i

one could walk up the stairs and through that doorway up onto a wooden porch and stair. all of that is in peril because it wants to put a building. this is about to have a building 1 inch away. how can we do that? how can we make conditions of approval and require people to do things and then change our minds? article 19 in the guidelines, the exceptions for class 3. these are qualified by consideration where the project is to be located. thieves might read as a historic district and be significant. these are significant except where the project might be an environmental resource. not only was the study area rich in 19th century buildings and historic resources but only excluded two of the lots from the potential historic district and that he found. what unusual circumstances are there here? we have been building that was made it to the secretary of the interior. there was a prior deal which was required and it was thrown out. the developer settled and then exceeds the scope of work. i will answer any questions. >> are there any questions? >> but moved to public comment

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

water was poll -- pouring down the stairs and into the lot. there was an emergency order demolishing the cottage. now we are talking about a structure that nobody is looking at from the north to the south with these roof decks and dr. mays. -- dr. knees. i do not know if he popped the champagne when this was demolished. every building on our street is terraced slightly upwards as we go west. this one is slightly higher. this is what it looks like. with that, i think he will get a clear understanding. >> thank you. over here, sir. >> i am and owner of the property at lombard street. we have been living there for 22, 23 years. it is uniform as far as the roof line. i guess the sponsor mentioned that there are more units. there are apartment buildings down below us. now, when i talk about the building, we are not talking about remodeling. we had a stairway to the roof. the penthouse is up 40 feet. it comes to about 50 feet at the penthouse. i do not understand that. i think that is too big. i have a lot that is 30 feet by 100. i disagree with the

how can they not stair. arms and 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 mig

one could walk up the stairs and through that doorway up onto a wooden porch and stair. all of that is in peril because it wants to put a building. this is about to have a building 1 inch away

saddy staired at her feet. i saw this fancy woman once madison said. he put his arm around her sister and guided her along the path. she took all the feeling from a man's toes. she gave him a foot rub. when she got to the toes she put them in her mouth. saddy squinted at her brother. it's true. one by one she sucked them and they were dirty. but when she was done you know what? the man started hollering he says, i cannot feel my toes. he jumps up and waddels like a turkey. he didn't know he didn't have any toes anymore. madison grinned the woman was a witch much the fields were soft to the touch. all the way home madison told his sister about the witches and the world. when the saudi came to view he stopped talking the door was open the inside shadowy. there was no one in sight but he could hear his sister in law kth rin talking to blue flies. madison tucked his chin as if against the weather. something about the air felt dense. something felt like pushing against water on a flooded plain. well, a lot happens between now and the next morning i will sum

they internalized, to a certain degree, the stairs. you do have to go up to the master bedroom level to access the roof deck. commissinoner antonini: i think that is most of my questions. thank you very much. vice president miguel: what you are there, just to settle one thing, the building as proposed is within the variants that was granted? >> it is within the variantce. vice president miguel: that is all right. i will say this again, because i have said this to a number of the people i met with from the delores heights improvement group. we are not here to hear a variance. that was heard. it was appealed. it was settled. it is not before us. it is there. as far as the roof deck is concerned, i did not see anything in the special use district that forbids roof? -- roof decks. the special use district and the improvement association does not exist in my mind as a wild, gated community. it exists in a general neighborhood. the argument they are making -- and i do not know, because i did not look in detail at the boundaries -- that there

it will also replace an existing spiral stair. the sunroom addition will be constructed on the space that is values that will project 6 feet from an existing rear wall. this is in compliance with the planning cut. the support has reviewed this project and found that it will not adversely impact the open space that is already compromised because of numerous buildings having full plot coverage. this project does not contain any exceptional or extraordinary circumstances. it warrants an abbreviated analysis. this concludes my presentation. president olague: d.r. requestor. >> the owners of the property. the rear yard her face is the rear yard of 235 francisco that is located, slow down held. one of the issues we are bringing out today is that there is a very interconnected relationship between these buildings. it was initially built in 1930. the area behind the building was open space and a parking area. they decided to build a condominium complex on the lower portion of this property. this came before the planning commission in a ve

and the filbert street stairs, because of the rockfall that occurred, new stairs were built, and they were built in a manner that when rockfalls occur, that actually lift out the stairs and put them on the ground and allow the crane to get back there to access the rockfall. >> beyond that, the building that we see at the bottom of the rockfall was actually designed to allow barack to fall off and be compounded by the building -- actually designed to allow barack to fall off and be impounded by the building. >> that is the corner of sansome and green. every couple years, there is a rock fall that occurs behind that building. >> now we are on russian hill. this is the most beautiful location of exposed bedrock. across the street from the art institute on chestnut. >> that and tires sitting -- that entire setting, that is a beautiful setting, the deck and the panorama of the city. >> cannot be it. now we are on at leavenworth street, around the corner of chestnut or francisco. >> these walls are common throughout the city, and they were built as part of the stimulus package following the

the spiral stair on the rear i

-- i would like the stair to have, basically, a ticket rather than a solid -- a picket rather than a solid wall. a roof with a deck pulled back looks like a parapet in an office building. it might be out of scale. i would like to see a low, minimum parapet, and only within the area that is allowed as a deck a walkable deck surface and picket finceence, so the signate of the building is the different plans of pickets. that makes the building of more -- look more notched and airy. this looks much too solid. president olague: this sounds like a modification of your original movement. commissioner moore: yes. >> on the stairwell railing, they may need to have that solid parapet on the exterior side. commissioner moore: i look for the architect that he does that in a way that it does not look so jarring. at this moment, i am not attacking your design. it is just the way these rendering techniques do not leave any imagination. that are just what they are. for the sake of the project sponsor and everyone here -- president olague: please restate the motion. commissioner moore: staff will wor

if you look up at the ceilings and panels and feel the lights in the building and walked up the stairwalk up the stairs, i am sure i'm not going to be alone and calling this the crown jewel, the biggest branch library in our system. so thank you so much for being here with us today. this is an incredible library. thank you. >> thank you so much, supervisor. like any project, there are helpful groups along the way, and there were a couple here for the richmond project. we had a funding gap, but during that time i can always remember talking to the supervisor and having him say, do not give up, we will make it happen. he did, and it is my pleasure to introduce the former supervisor. thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon. we printed a lot of money, and late at night we would blow on it. we got through it. it is a miracle the year after year san francisco found a way to finance. as a wonderful, wonderful free library system, in addition to everything else. when i got this job, the year before i was elected, almost nine years ago, there was an event here to kick off the campaign. nine ye

help him down the stairs there, very tricky. very tricky coming down the last stairs. very tricky.ow one of them. did you swallow one of them? all right, go ahead, dump them in the dog bowl here. be careful. well done, well done, my friend. [ cheers and applause ] great job. great job. that's it, everybody. hold your balls. let's see how you did. you got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 is the magic number! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ congratulations. how did it feel? >> it felt good going up, a little unbalanced coming down. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, it was a little scary coming down. i got you. >> a little weird. >> jimmy: contestant number two, come on over. take care, buddy. how are you, man? >> how are we doing? >> jimmy: pretty good. how's it going? how are you? >> good, good. >> jimmy: what is your name and where are you from? >> i'm andrew, i'm from westchester. [ scattered cheers ] >> jimmy: what's your first name? >> andrew. >> jimmy: andrew. >> andrew. >> jimmy: andrew from westchester. very good. andrew, you have to

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

the spiral stair on the rear deck is being replaced. perhaps the owner needs a slightly wider sphere -- stair. some of the common features of the building, which includes closing two skylights, are being suggested. we are not discussing that. it is properly and architectural discussion. but i do not believe that adding 47 square feet in what i consider to be a violation or misinterpretation of the early variance is something i want to consider. i cannot support this. i am asking that we take dr and deny this project. commissioner antonini: i have a question for ms. kirk, please. -- ms. kerr, please. we spoke earlier today and you had some concerns about parcel months. i assume those are the averaging you were talking about earlier. are there other concerns? >> i think providing the parcel mapping shows there are two parcels next to each other and that one was skipped over for the purposes of rear yard average and. that was an issue we have brought up. i do not know if that has been resolved. commissioner antonini: i will ask stuff a que

she climbed up the stairs and booked for those holes in the roof and did not find them. president olague: thank you. is there additional public comment? anyone who has not spoken can speak for two minutes. >> i am a resident of san francisco. i am more like a fly on the wall. i do not live in the neighborhood, but i do walk through the area. i have to say that knowing -- looking at what you have projected here on screen, and having been in my own neighborhood, sometimes we have seen architectural designs that were going to be interested. someone is always going to be bruised somewhere along the way. it is almost a given. looking at this come up with my graphic knowledge and background of 30 years in design, i can at least said that when you put a building like this with a setback of 15 feet for the next levels up, it does not show an obtrusive as for the street. it fits very well among these other gems and treasures that we have along that avenue. the given consideration to the backside, where it tears itself down as opposed to the other buildings that have rectangular e

were watching her walk up those stairs wondering "who is this young woman?"upset. her trademark music and hair-do outdoing someone else's. ♪ baby baby baby esperanza spalding had just won the grammy for best new artist, beating out justin bieber. >> i'll do my best to make a whole lot of great music for all of you. >> reporter: when we met up with her this week in japan, we learned she'd been working up to that moment since kindergarten. >> the first defining moment that sort of set off this road of my life as a musician was when i was 5 and i saw yoyo ma on "mister rogers neighborhood." i saw that and i said, i want to do music. >> reporter: drowning out the noise in her tough neighborhood in oregon with her devoted single mother. >> finding instruments. finding teachers. i sort of think of her as my saint, you know. >> reporter: she would learn obo, guitar, piano. before settling on the bass. ♪ finest days so talented, at 20, she began teaching at the famous berkeley school of music. she'd graduate to bigger stages. president obama and the nobel peace prize

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 furniture and debris falling into the street. even if you are in a car if you are next to large, brick buildings and if collapsed on you there is no safe place to go. how about here. the safety spot is second base. no doubt about it. you have 60,000 people want to go to second base. people get injured jumping chairs. go between the chairs, cover your head and get your head below the seat. there is a lot of crud down there. the chairs will break the fall. if you stop, someone behind you will hit you. so, slow down, pull to the side of the road. stay with the car until the shaking stops. you need protection for your hea

there was a california highway patrolman shot just from walking down the front stairs of that building. isn't it nice to make sure that he has a clean record the matter what? thank you. >> the taser issue was talked about last night. overwhelming support. the cost savings. we have workers' compensation for our officers.

the original wood floor was not restored, nor the original stairs or original skylights. there were a number of excellent improvements. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> happy black history month. i want to talk about black history, medical marijuana, and lgbt. this is a picture of glory. you cannot go see the african american gis. i want to thank new village for kwanzaa. today, we learned that black history is actually american history. the month of february, we celebrate our chinese new year, black history, medical marijuana week, president's day, the super bowl, groundhog day. it is women's heart month. it is important to everyone. i saw this lady. she got nine months before rosa parks. if i write a book, it would be called diversity in justice while black. we have heard a lot in this city. i think giving these owners to everyone, that we should bring these people together to work on a concrete situation, to give people these recommendations but not bring them back through the year is in vain. as we know does, our country in a civil war. in washington, we are