, on the south side of the building, whereas these are on the mission side of the building. i believe that information was repeated in the a.b.b. report. i'm trying to get to the bottom of why nobody is getting them to investigate curtain wall separation issues where they should be investigated, which is on the b stack. >> b stack is on the south? >> b stack is on the mission street side. >> that's where the crack is. >> that is where the crack is, correct. >> yeah. so their report that they issued, again, they inspected the cracked window, they inspected from the inside and the outside. they pulled some finishes off so they could inspect the attachment wall to the building. the question posed to our committee wasny the cracking associated with the -- was the cracking associated with the settlement of the building, so that's what we focused on. again, the a.b.b. report looked at the outside and the inside. they had an opinion that the damage that's cracked partway through the glass from the outside suggested that it was caused from some sort of impact from the outside. but th

first, in the building inventory, we tried to identify of the existing 156 buildings what foundation s they have and we have to look at the numbers but out of that 156, there's three or four that have the drilled shafts that go to bedrock. we point out in our reports, one of our recommendations is to for a group to put together an administrative bulletin or information sheet to take the best practice in geo technical engineering and the foundation design is less pre descriptive in the building code. it's to try to get the best practice from the geo technical engineering community and others to kind of agree on that and for the city to have kind of a incorporate that they're building code or to have that as an administrative bulletin. part of that answer you would get from every geo technical foundation engineer is whether or not a foundation goes to bedrock is building-specific. it's very site specific. so while in the popular press, it might say every building should do that there's no reason to do that. it would be a number one a waste of resources to do that every case and there's

building. —— for the bloomberg building. —— for the bloomberg building. palace of versailles. £1.3 billion was spent on it to achieve architect michael jones will be heading to the stage. he has worked for many years on this. a huge operation. we think about all of the various different things. they design their own special floorboards, they muffle the sound of footsteps. they enter through a vortex. and also creates a sense of awe. almost like entering a james bond layer. ——james bond lair. music. # you don't have to wait # you don't have to wait # i want you tojoin # you don't have to wait # i want you to join together in the band. michaeljones on the right of foster and partners. an awe—inspiring hq for europe. foster and partners. an awe-inspiring hq for europe. thank you everybody. it is such an honour to be the recipient of this. and i think as has already been said, the shortlist was an incredibly diverse group of buildings. in some way when we we re group of buildings. in some way when we were talking about collectively at those lectures, there wa

the elevator realm is where i'm at. >> you guys are familiar with the building and some of the tenants in it. how do you see -- how do you see this roll out if there is modernization? >> so i think in past buildings where there has been modernization or effort to fix up the elevator and there is potential to displace a tenant who is adjacent to the elevator shaft, what is proper to be done is that the landlord gives notification and provides an alter nate space on side. we help tenants through that. what i very much would not like to see in this situation, which i've seen in other situations with landlords, tenants are told you need to leave, we're giving you this amount of money and it's confusing and scary. and they're also given a notice that essentially says you need to be out by the end of the month. and you'll get a check in the mail and they're not following the proper guidelines, so i would really hope since they've been interacting with the dbi, with you all, with the commission, with everyone here, that they understand that there they need to follow the process, so tenants ar

to my astonishment -- not so much because the building is not the worst building in the world but it is not in great shape. it is a framed building on a windy hill. there were 12 housing code violations in the building. half of which were fire related. the most astonishing one was a storage space on the fifth floor which dedid not have a sprinkler and there was a presence of excessive storage. personal items including fabric, plastic bags, metal and wires were stacked to the top of the storage closet. there were two exits which were -- which did not have lighting that was in good shape. [bell] >> public: there was a need to remove an egress obsess on one floor. on the first floor, the rear exit door did not close properly. on several floors, exit sign lighting was inoperable. that's enough. i think you get the point. i certainly notice that this hearing the difference though between the treatment in noe valley and those in the mission and that's pitiful. work on this legislation and thank you very much for recommending it to the full board. >> public: good afternoon. theresa. thank yo

i'm not worried about the safety of the building. it may not be there with my new plans, but i'm not worried about the safety of that building. >> commissioner walk sneer? >> i know it's hard to estimate the time frame, but can you estimate the time frame of the process for the hearing and building, assuming that there is a -- >> well, planning has given me three comments they want to check some dimensional issues. that should happen within this week or next. i can get that and resubmit it. we're now, instead of submitting a brand new permit, they want to reuse the 2015 permit and the 2015 variance, so we've got to figure out a way to take my drawings and insert it into the 2015, which is some conversation about the exact location. i would expect by next week planning should have whatever they need to move forward to schedule cu. they're going to reuse the previous paperwork by the other consultants, which should be fine to schedule a planning. i would believe planning would want to move this forward because they're not happy about wh

this is the whole building — the two buildings, in fact.ular place. everything is encouraging people to get out of their seats, walk around a bit, bump into people, meet? correct. and there are very few meeting rooms, very few rooms where people can just disappear. the whole idea is you do itjust in using the building. but of course, the crucial part of the project was having a billionaire willing to experiment — michael bloomberg. i have to ask the question. how much? i think it was over 1.5, maybe $1.75 billion by the time we got done. keep in mind we restored a temple, we helped build a subway stop. oh, i didn‘t mention the temple, did i? this is the temple of mithras. this is around 2,000 years old, and is now finally open to the public for free. the cult of mithras itself, we know, was male. only men would have been allowed in and the people who would have been worshippers were generally high—ranking merchants, or high—ranking members of the army. the bigwigs, the wealthy guys. exactly that, yes. newsreel: the remains of a roman temple

and the wall on their building is actually bearing for the building. so it's making their building an unreinforced masonry building. we have submitted alternate plans to try to work around that issue but it's creating an unreinforced masonry building and it's permitting us from doing a seismic on that building which also needs to be done. so it's posing earthquake challenges from retrofitting a 20-unit s.r.o., and on the canilever portion, 300 columbus is a 70-unit building that is below this wall. so in the event of an earthquake, and i think that there's an article in today's paper that we're back to a 65% chance of an earthquake in the next 20 years, that's a hugely optimistic belief, the fault slips every 100 years plus or minus 10 and we're 13 years into the plus side. so i believe that we're going to have an earthquake soon. knock on wood, not too soon, but it's going to happen. these earthquakes are not random events and they're due to strain and release of the strain, which is an earthquake. so when there is an earthquake i'm very concerned that

i asked about the population in the building. the demographic and whether or not elders in the building. who may have immediated additional assistance. we were unable to fete that answer. one of the individuals who was rescued had been in a wheat chair. just over from the video that we're showing you now. i want to tell you what's happening on the ground. right now chief hays white is talking to reporters and supervisor. who may have been in the area when the calls first started going out. there were multiple calls to 911. many reports. i know you have been showing some video of what the flames looked like. a spokesperson said that the flames were really billowing when they arrived here. he described it as lapping the flames were lapping. and of course the different scene. this fire is contained. and they are going floor to floor to make sure everybody is secure. and everybody is doing okay at this time. we're waiting to hear more information including the cause of the fire. that is unknown. an active scene here expected to contin

depending on the context of the other buildings. so the residential design guideline is telling you right there that the planning code is not the last word on whether something should be allowed, and the fact that the planning department has issued -- has allowed plans for this mid space open block to be in many ways eradicated is directly contrary to what is required of the board by the residential design guidelines, and based on that alone, this project should be denied and sent back to be reconfigure sod that it does comply with the residential design guidelines. on that same page, 26 of the residential design guidelines, they caution against boxing in neighbors with buildings that extend into the mid space, mid block open space. they say we should not -- or you may not allow neighbors to be cut off from mid block open space. and that is what this building, this proposed building s doing. it is moving into the mid block open space and cutting it off. on page 25 of the residential design guideline, it says that it is not sufficient

first they got us out of the building. had us 10 yards back, 20 yards back, until we were at the end of the street, blocking it off. i notice now they're at least letting people back, i don't know, a quarter block closer to the building. i don't know if that's significant. they have taken the time to put up some metal barriers, at least on the block of 58th street there. so again, they're not letting down the alarm entirely, but we're forced back a little less far than we had been until a few minutes ago. >> we're told the mayor, mayor de blasio of new york, has been fully briefed on the latest developments. the white house has been briefed. law enforcement in new york is dealing with a major situation. let's not forget, suspicious packages were also intercepted, addressed to the obama residence here in washington, the clinton residence in chappaqua, new york, and earlier there was a suspicious package sent to george soros' residence outside of new york city as well. so there's a whole series of incidents, suspicious packa

if it rains right after it, water gets in the building. the worst thing for a building is water. and then, we have 1200 -- the 1200 block of fourth street, where we have sinking sidewalk and street. and that was done by experts, too. i would also like to have the fire department here. what do they expect to happen when all this glass starts falling from the sky in an earthquake? questions. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, mr. gilberti. i just have one other question for mr. tom. mr. tom, when your inspectors were in unit 36-b, inspecting that window, did they observe any cracks in the ceiling? i'm informed there are cracks in the ceiling in said unit. >> supervisor peskin, i would have to go back and find out. i was not -- i was not made aware of anything of that nature. >> supervisor peskin: mr. strong? >> maybe i can add because chief building inspector o'reardon did look into that dplant when i received it from our colleague at nbc, and there is no cracked ceiling marks to be observed is what i was told. >> supervisor peskin: okay. a disagreement amongst experts. wit

mixed in with low-rise buildings. the number of buildings doesn't tell the whole story, so it's really to take stock of what can happen to downtown under scenario earth quiquake study a what could happen. again, thinking about this risk of cordons and what that could entail, how that could impede emergency routes through the city, and then to think about the challenges and recovery, thinking about the financial capital that will be needed. and also, the density in the downtown with these tall buildings to think of the reconstruction planning and logistics, so this recovery plan, this would be a longer range study to think about the agretate effects. what's the chance that buildings will be damged, tall buildings will be down, and they'll affect residents that are in them? or when if a building is closed, and residents are not able to return to their homes or businesses, how that affects the socioeconomics of the neighborhood. if you think of our utility systems in the roadway, what might be the impact on some of those sys

the building to the inside of the building. if it was all in the inside of the building, we wouldn't be having this discussion, but this has nothing to do with the four walls surrounding the building and access into the building. to me, that's an owner's issue, and i'm wondering -- >> i think that's a good question. >> -- where's the owner? because suddenly, this may be -- that easement -- you know, without paperwork -- if you and i have an agreement, and then suddenly someone disappears, one of the parties disappears, and somebody said oh, we always had that agreement as a verbal agreement, there's no record of that, therefore, there is no agreement. >> i can probably tell you -- >> it's an illegal building. >> what's going to happen is if this other property owner decides to block that door, which is his right to do, someday that ballet school is going to close, not going to be allowed to occupy that space. fire department will do it, any way, because assembly does having adequate exiting, not sure it's going to last very long

the whole building is essentially a store room. n this slope towards what is the final destination. even the walls are symbolic. you are looking at here is compacted soil. it comes from the cemetery itself and will over the next few decades eventually dissolve and returned back to the earth. this is the prayer hall in which the funeral service will take place. lead the way. when you are told it was going to be made of compacted soil, what were your feelings? it is interesting. i had a sort of spiritual tingling. there is a passage in the bible where after adam is expelled from the garden of eden, and the lord says to him, dust you are, and to dust you will return, and so to be able to have a place where you are performing herfuneral service that has been made from material that's been extruded from the ground and then at a later stage at the end of this building's life will return to the ground, it has certain spiritual resonance about it. beautifully symbolic. of course there are complexities. anyone descended from the priestly cla

for the building reissued and correctly reflect the building as an r3-two family dwelling. this per ab28 is required to be followed. this is given significant weight and force as future building permits are filed. frankly it's perplexing that d.b.i. then would deny the permit application that they told the appellant to file. i think the answer from my conversation, has to be they don't like repudiating c.f.c.s and they would like the board of appeals to hear this and hopefully do it for them. we have significant amount of expert testimony as well. >> good evening, my name is michael. i'm a license preservation architect practicing san francisco for 37 years. i performed a side visit and confirmed there's no historical or physical evidence that a one-hour tire rating or off street parking were installed from 1963 to today. the original historic detailing is still intact. that means mandatory work for legalization was not done. and the illegal kitchen was removed regard than legalized. >> there will be timing rebuttle. >> i have a question. >> going to the briefs, there was a

s showing the unit as a three unit building. this is application 2018323234544, and we will hear from the appellant first. >> and as earlier, i need to disclose that i am a partner in a project that has hired reuben and junius as counsel. they are present before this body, and it will have no effect on my decision. good evening, mr. patterson. >> commissioners, this is a case about a permit to correct the record. d.b.i. and the fire department formally determined in a preapplication meeting that the property's unit count is incorrect, and they instructed the appellant to file the subject permit to correct the record. here's the problem in this case: was the c.f.c. issued in error? the c.f.c. says three units, but it's actually two. >> to remove the illegal unit. there's a lot of other evidence as well. 19 # 5 permit and the cfc say the property was not upgraded to one hour construction. the permit checks no no in 1986 and 94 the owner signed saying no off street parking was consisted. a certificate of occupancy was never issued.

>> the transit center is three distinct buildings. you've got the east building parked which is where fremont street, central building, which is west of first, and then, the west building, which is the -- by second street. the center and west building are not affected. >> so hare the food trucks stil out? >> no, the food trucks aren't still out. so when we decide that we can redeploy, we'll do that. >> 'cause they're over to the end of the west building. >> they are, but we haven't activated the building for the public. we're using it for construction work, basically. once we open the park, we can activate the food trucks and so forth. >> okay. my sense was most people using the food trucks are from the surrounding ground level neighborhood, not necessarily coming from the park. >> actually, a lot of them just took their food to the park. >> that was a pattern that we saw very early. yes, they grabbed their food and went up to the park. >> they stood in line and went up to the park and enjoyed their foods. >> it was a decision not to h

the building had already been rehabilitated. similar to the san carlos property this year and that was their concern. >> but if it is an emergency repair, you can't wait. >> correct. >> until the mills act contract is approved. >> correct. >> before that work is done. >> it is my intent to apply for the mills act and the property owner wants to proceed with the work. i don't think they should be penalized for doing that, especially since this is a yearly program and didn't make the deadline, it would have to wait a whole other year. >> we're happy to put in some language about -- one is to allow for -- tell me if this makes sense, to allow for work happening within that calendar year or happened within the calendar year to qualify and then two is perhaps a section where they're able to explain or justify the necessity of that work occurring prior to the mills act application. >> and then can fall under necessity. >> exactly. >> i see. >> mm-hmm. >> because if something falls on your roof -- >> right. >> and you have to fix your r

and the tenants that live in the building. please support this legislation as it will help reduce the impact fires have on the san francisco tenants. thank you. >> public: hi. good afternoon. my name is leticia and i'm one of the lead housing organizers. i have been working with tenants in the mission and other neighborhoods across the city since 2013. and i'm here today in support of this ordinance to amend the building and other housing codes to ensure landlords take the safety of their tenants seriously. i can share as an organizationer -- organizer, i have worked with tenants and i have conducted building inspections and outreach when tenants have horrible repairs. i have worked with families displaced by fire including tenants from the 22nd mission street fire and i have seen the gaping hole there with no hope. so, we really believe that this legislation is vital in protecting the well being and safety of tenants. and although i can say that we work closely with inspectors from the department of building inspection to get

at the senior building, rents will range from 30% to 70% a.m.i. and will include a 28% homeless as well as the 1330% units that were just added. the developers have done extensive community outreach and held close to 30 public meetings to obtain approval for the 88 broadway and 435 david project. early planning began in 2014 for this project. when most 'em parked on a goal to form the 88th broadway working group to the community input while conceptualizing this affordable housing project. as a result of early engagement and the relationships with the community, the city's vision to create a broad range of affordable housing is finally moving forward. we're excited to start construction in the second quarter of 2019 and we'll have the first apartments become available for residents in the summer of 2020. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. chinatown community development has been an incredible force of working with the community to make sure that our seniors have access to safe, affordable housing. and they are the ones who brought to my attention t

part of the house or the units that are in the building today. and, again, we think it's a really important benefit. next slide. just to remind people a little bit, and this is part of the community action plan for seismic safety, which was completed in 2010, and it's a 30-year look-forward on how we can make improvements. we often -- we have our capital plan that talks about publicly on infrastructure. this is where we're getting into what we need to do to address privately owned infrastructure in the city. as we know, estimates are 85% of the infrastructure across the country is privately owned. so this is important. and it feeds into some of the other work that we're doing. i think coming forward around private schools, around tall buildings. a lot of you have been hearing stuff about tall buildings. and we'll be coming up with the comprehensive study of earthquakes effects on tall bulledin buildings. there's a facade ordinance that we're going to work on to address facades that could be vulnerable in earthquakes. and i should mention the commu

i'll focus on the zuckerberg building 5. we have two projects the service space it started early part of 2018. it shows the demolition has been completed and we completed they'll hazmat and now in the framing portion. the next few months what we'll be anticipated is finishing framing and doing all the rebuild of mechanical duct work, plumbing systems to put everything back together based on the new program. and we started the program during the summer and we got this approved and we're in the midst and a lot of the projects are going to go through the same series of steps with a plan approved and start the hazmat abatement because they are existing building from the 1970s with things we know of that need to be department with abatement versus standard demolition. then moving on to the bidding phase. we do have one project much retrofit and the bids came in higher than expected and we repackaged them out for rebidding. it will impact it slightly but still anticipating to get the contracts on board by november and get the work

when the building got built. or apply for a permit to legalize the way you have it and they did chose that path and that permit has been denied. that where they are in that case. mr. sanchez is happy to comment on that as well? but that's where i stand. >> they chose that path. it's just been denied by planning, that's all. >> correct. what's going to happen with -- >> the permit would have legalized all of things that they did. >> i understand that. how do we -- in denying if they were to deny the permit or deny the appeal, where is the point -- what's the next step to get this put back together in the way that it should be according to the agreement that the developer and owner -- >> i don't think this is the question for mr. duffy. >> well, all i can tell from is we will keep our enforcement going on the notice of violation. that will lead to further code enforcement processes. planning may have an enforcement case. the city attorney may have an enforcement case so there will be pressure coming from after agenc

at the heart of the building is this central space. eading down the winding central ramp to your desk.

it's not such the dwelling unit, it's that's you're building the dwelling units within existing buildings. you have older housing stock here in san francisco, that today, themselves, are existing nonconforming. so now we're going to build a unit within that building that has to meet current code. that is the challenge. and quite often, the designer cannot meet prescribed code as mandated by state law and state code. we as the local authority cannot be less restrictive than state code. we can find alternatives, alternative means, equivalencies to offset deficiencies and that's where our focus has been. in the past, typically, when an application comes in, it begins with planning, works through building and eventually gets to fire. we're at best third in line to review these applications. in the past, when we knew this was coming and we knew it was a priority, affordable housing, what we did was we identified a select group within our plan check team, our plan review team. we have 14 plan reviewers for san francisco fire. we have a select group of four and we had those four review the adus.

i would agree that the building is relentless. and i am interested in entertaining the idea of moving excessively large amount of ground floor retail into potentially housing units. this part of van ness really has hardly any commercial. it's really the residential part of van ness south of union street. on both sides it's a quieter character, we're experiencing a larger vacancy on van ness, this is 6,000 square feet that is ex sis i havexcessive and should be considered in a different situation to relief the massing. the massing relative to the lower buildings, both on filbert and van ness should emulate what we did at 1800 van ness, the building at the corner of van ness and clay, where we took the building in a very, very wonderful way which met both the height transition from lower to higher in a contemporary manner, respecting the a joining older buildings. i feel everybody knows the building i'm talking about. as a building expression, i'm concerned that the building, despite the changes that i commend the department on on mo

and making sure building setbacks reference the set by the existing buildings in the area which areall a consistent space of 40 or 60 feet in height. and thinking about the awnings and the scale of the openings, as well as providing specific guidance around the industrial -- the existing buildings within the district such as the stack and unit three. there are specific guidelines here that outline what to do specifically with retention of those buildings. this is an example of 23rd street and what it might look like, including some of these elements. you can see here the material, the setback, the fenestration, the awnings and the ground-floor p.d.r. uses that reinforce the character that exists in that neighborhood. and in addition to these design controls that we have we have a plan that is part of the documents that talks about the various experiences that will be defined as you move through the space. we used a team that did pier 70 and a park. building on that same set of elements where we have a hub of main interpretation at the stock that is obviously a really important place

process, sfpd was contacted about the buildings. in march of 2018, chief scott sent a letter to the city stating the police were considering use for the station. this was a conclusion of the n.a.a. process. on may 1st, 2018, the friends of the dogpatch board met with chief scott and were joined by oewd, the board of supervisors, melia cohen and staff and our architects. chief scott said that the site would be used for office space. we discussed our efforts to build a community center there on behalf of the neighborhood as well as the possibility of working together. however, at that time, sfpd did not have a feasibility study prepared. chief scott promised a final decision and a plan on how they would reuse, roll out or not, by the end of 2018. in the meantime, friends of the dogpatch is sharing with city commissions what we have learned would be required to adaptively reuse the buildings. >> thank you. >> thank you. thank you, very much. any further public comment? ms. miss brown? >> it even, everyone. i would like to use the overhe

number for all the steel buildings in the city. >> all right. well, i do know that the city, along with the department of building inspection, the department of emergency management, my office and our board of supervisors and mayor look forward to this report and start implementing the recommendations. thank you very much for being here today. >> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it goin