this is the side yard between 6 69 and 675 marina. this is actually right across the street from my home and this is 37 34, 3736 broadway -- i'm sorry, broderick, and it's the backyard of 6 99 marina. ~ and this right here is the side yard between 37 33 and 37 37 rick broderick. i'd like to say i purchased my home eight years ago in the marina. the main reason i bought it was because of a lot of natural light ~ and just being able to look out of the windows. at that time i didn't have children. i do have two kids now. one is 18 months and one is five years. regardless, they look out of my windows all the time. they're always looking out there and they're looking at the beautiful natural landscape of the marina and our street and the marina to the back forward. so, i'm here to support pam and darren and thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >>> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you for your time. my name is [speaker not understood] and i'm a resident of the marina. i live a couple blocks away. i want to talk about the varian

i've admired that house for as long as i've lived in the marina. i think those people enjoy lovely space and probably have the room to expand within, without encroaching on the light and air space that the rishwains have. in closing i am here again just to support all the efforts and all the people who are here to do the same. thank you very much for your time. >>> hi, my name is elaine gabriel. i've been a resident in the marina for 25 years. and i'm here to support jerry and pam. everyone keeps describing the side yard that faces jefferson street as a rear yard and the side yard that faces broderick street as the rear yard. but i'd like to suggest that maybe it should be the other way around. on a corner lot, the planning department determine where the rear yard is.

the marina side yards are one of this neighborhood's beautiful and unique features. they provide view corridors and natural sunlight to neighboring properties. many of them are landscaped and raised for the entire neighborhood and passersby, tourists to enjoy. i don't understand the variance aspect of the proposal. i thought a variance was only supposed to be grant in truly exceptional circumstances to give the applicant something he really can't do without in order to live a normal life in his building. it cannot be a hardship to live in a four-story 3,000 plus square foot home in the marina. it's not a hardship to not have a second laundry room added into your rear garden. it's not a hardship not to have a new deck when you already have a deck and a very large roof deck besides. if the city's residential design guidelines are intend today provide meaningful preservation of the neighborhood's unique characteristics, these side yards and backyards must be respected in the same way as [speaker not understood] and footprints are. i hope you will maintain our beautiful m

this is one of the early marina gardens on marina boulevard. we also have side yards that are developed in several different ways and as in the letter we wrote to you. some of them are front to back. most often occurring closest to the water to the marina boulevard and in this case also to another body of water, the house of fine arts lagoon. in some cases we have [speaker not understood] developed side yards. in this case and common cases a one-story garage and also a secondary one-story entrance. but all of these cases have in common is they were built adjacent to residential buildings with property line windows which provide light and air to the rooms overlooking the side yard. this is another example of a one-story garage. this is in fact the case you saw about a year ago and i'm going to come back to that later. what we have not said or as mr. armor implies in his d-r response is that all of these iterations or any of them are uniform [speaker not understood] and the contrary, they're varied and unique. they're frequent enough to be clearly

the overwhelming majority of marina properties consume the full width of their lot and i have literally never heard a discussion about side yards being a factor in anyone's choice of marina property. there's more. may i go on? >> you have 15 seconds. >>> okay. one last item, the owners of 1990 jefferson were distraught that their neighbor david lacy, former owner of 3700 broderick that my client did not approach them with an opportunity to purchase this property and [speaker not understood] listed with me and sold his property -- may i make a personal statement as well? >> your three minutes is up. >>> this would be my statement -- >> you used your three minutes to read her statement. otherwise she could have just simply submitted that to the record. >>> good afternoon, commissioners. i would just like to address one issue and show a picture here if we can -- >> speak into the microphone. >>> my name is john [speaker not understood]. i'm the owner with my wife at 3700 broderick street. [speaker not understood] the previous speaker that was here is also a marina resident. he lives on bro

i know for a fact that that boat, the cat was living on his boat or could it be a stray cat in the marinand i said i didn't know that. >> would you would have known for a fact if you had talked to jerry. you would have seen the litter box right there. >> that's what with i am having a hard time. you are the owner. so you have got more here at stake than the board of directors. you are the owner. he tells you and you are telling me you didn't even go to jerry's boat to figure this out. >> i did not go to jerry's boat. >> here's the problem i have, erin, the marina. >> yes. >> you are the enforcing group. you, especially you, you are the enforcing group. >> yes. >> you are the owner and the board is there for one reason, to protect the rights of each marina member. >> exactly. >> that is what you are supposed to do. >> yes. >> you are supposed to protect each person equally. >> yes. >> and your failure to protect him equally is what you have gotten in to trouble with here. you have exposed yourself to liability because what you have done is that you have a member in good standing who specif

a question came up, why we use inside the building and little marina green. and it's that the open space around the palace of fine arts is a designated -- it's a nonstructured recreation area. since we are a group use, we do not interfere with public access. we actually go across. so, that's why we have a protocol, but that's why we choose -- that's r why we're going to those recreation areas. >> got it. commissioner moore. >> i just wanted to express my full support for the project. i think it is a very wonderful continuation of the application for the expansion of the school on jackson street. i think it's very serendipitous that we find an appropriate interim user for a facility which needs to be occupied and needs to stay within the active public eye of san francisco given its somewhat peripheral location and accessibility. i believe that the low-key hardly noticeable reuse of the building is not really an issue. i think the school understands living in density and living with care, so, i am in full support. i believe that the question i had about accessib

pick up your radio, tell the marina residents shelter in place. don't go to your staging area out in the marina green. shelter in place. that may be one of your options. choose a room with no windows, as few as possible. pick a room with toilet, water, phone, have it large enough for family members. precut plastic with duct tape. there should be a law. have your disaster kit in that room, have snacks available for kids. turn off the hvac, heating, ventilation air conditioning units because you don't want to be blowing in or sucking in the vapor cloud outside. fireplace, close the dampers and seal off your shelter in place room by using duct tape and terms of the emergency alert system. listen to the radio. that's it. do not try to call the school, try to pick up your children because do you want to leave the area? no, you want to shelter in place. people own pets. do not risk your safety for pets. in summary, it is likely you are at an incident that may be involved with bnice, your safety is the most important. limit your time, get your distance a

the marina is in this area here. you can correlate the advancement of the shoreline of san francisco with the potential for liquefaction. >> it is a perfect example. it is all sold and liquefaction. >> treasure island is unique. it was originally developed to be the location of the world fair with the understanding that once it was finished, that would become the location of san francisco international airport. it is 11,000 feet long. in those days, the thought that was more than enough to land any conceivable airplane. they thought it was ideal. they said that we have all kinds of sand out in the bay from the sacramento river. we will take the stand out of the bay and create this island. the sand is loose and below the water. it liquefied in 1957. it liquefied in 1989 during the loma prieta. it was similar to what happened in the marina. >> as they move along and developed treasure island, the developer also has to provide stabilization programs. >> the sand has to be strengthened so that it will not liquefy. the bui

also given that once the students are on little marina green, there is actually no fencing you would normally see on a playground at other schools in the city. and, you know, the drivers that are coming down marina boulevard have no indication there's going to be children at play during these hours, so, that is all i have to say. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> patricia vaughan, [speaker not understood]. we're totally in favor of this and i want everybody in the room that's in favor of this to please stand up. now we don't have to have 50 repetitions. thank you. >> thank you. thanks, everyone. >>> commissioners, good afternoon. i'm brewster eli, head of the boys. [speaker not understood] had to leave because of the parking question he brought up. our pick up and drop off is way around in the west side of the parking lot. and, so, we have a whole system. it sort of breezed right through and keeps all of our families off any of the neighborhood streets other than accessing the back of the exploratorium site. so, his fears were allayed appropriately. my only comments t

this is webster at filbert street in the marina. around san francisco odd buildings abound and this thing is in somebody's backyard and all over we see the incremental development and they have a porch and rail and walls up and here we have in somebody's backyard a fence that has become a wall and now fully occupied. >> it's a green house. >> and next year living quarters and pretty soon a manufacturing facility. lam bar lombard strd this building has contentious past and the owners want to lift it up and put a story underneath and the reason they want to lift it up throughout the city street elevations have been adjusted and as the streets get improved and the city heights don't get adjusted and many driveways go down into the garage. >> or windows below the street that makes no sense. >> and the streets of elevated and graded and of course the building settles but not that must have and the original flow of the thi-- floor of the build. >> i of in the building. >> me too. >> you are looking at the second floor now. >> the first flo

anyone in the marina in 89? >> if you were in the main portion, the ground excelleration was 90 percent. if you way 100 pounds, the pound moved with 9 pounds. if the hay ward fault goes off, most of san francisco will feel 20 to 25 percent, the marina which will shake 30 percent. so if the hay ward fault goes off, san francisco will shake 3 or 4 times harder than in 89 and twice as long. >> the haward fault has return cycles plus or minus 10 for the last 140 years. the last was 1868. we are 140 years since the last haward fault went off. so, i would say, it's pretty likely it won't slip within the next 10 years. that will give you ground shakesing 3 to 4 times as last time. >> we have, pat and i and i couple of other people have run a program how to prepare in your life and home with problems related to an earthquake. that's not what our discussion is today. it's more of a global policy issues. one is proximity to the fault. how certain are geo technical engineering that the actual proximity of the fault is in fa

the marina district all throughout pacific heights, then you go out into the more sunset and out intoewer areas of the city and that's where you have the tuck-under garage types that are open. these are places, these are not just low-end units. so i don't think when we're looking at numbers like 250,000 displaced households with a repeat of 1906 in the bay area, you're not going to just be seeing low-income people displaced. it's going to be people of all income and it will be much like katrina in that people don't have earthquake insurance and the means and will just be overwelled with those numbers getting contractors and getting the resources together and competing and fighting for those resourcers going to be a real challenge for everybody, regardless of how much money you have. >> and those building when they do come back, rent control goes away by state law and they get rebuilt as condos. so we've incentivized not to retrofit these buildings because the price difference of the rent control building and cost to build sit less than selling a brand new condo. so we're on the opposi

it has to scale and angle and the projects were doing which is in airports olympic village and the marina you know they're not just commercial projects per se they also have this social olympic angle it's kind of a p.p.p. type projects you know the public private partnership thing where the government is helping us a lot with different structure you know for example in the seaports you know we have invested over six billion rubles which is roughly two hundred million dollars into the project however the government also have built have invested almost acquired some of the same amount of money in order to build the infrastructure support for that and if the return doesn't come argument's sake do you think there's going to be some punishment that he's going to beat. you know i don't think it's a it's a not a blaming game you know we we're not looking for anyone to blame if we turn doesn't come the government wants to see that investors do complete the obligation and you see here you know you know the olympic village you know this nice building is already standing ready to you know except a f

village that we're now working through i've been working on the airport refurbishing it as well as the marina to a total cost of one point four billion dollars i believe are you going to get your money back unless of course we will you know we'd be doing the poor for a long time you know we've been involved in different infrastructure projects and this one is very special you know and of course it's very special because it has the skill and angle the projects were doing which is an airport olympic village and the marina you know they're not just commercial projects per se they also have this social in olympic angle it's kind of a p.p.p. type projects you know the public private partnership thing where the government is helping us a lot with different structure you know for example in the seaport you know we have invested over six billion rubles which is roughly two hundred million dollars into the project however the government also have have invested almost squired some of the same amount of money in order to build the infrastructure support for that and if they return doesn't come argument'

it was a decision made by the planners of marina to try to make separations between those homes. maybe they were some of the first built, maybe they were influenced by the residential parks movement that was prevalent in the '20s in san francisco where playstations like st. francis would and forest hill and c-e-q-a for being built. we heard as it was built in testimony, as time went on and more of the marina was built it became denser and closer. even the houses in the heart of the marina have almost all flats or single-family homes have very good size rear yards, even though you can't see them because the houses are next to each other. you know, i think in this particular instance, a lot of the sources of light come from that corridor. so, those are my main feelings on the situation and i would be very much in favor of the addition, as i say, to the upper floor. i don't have big problems with the addition in the rear, although i appreciate project sponsor's offering to cut a little bit of that off. but i have a problem with the addition to the north. if there does have to be an a

anyone in the marina in 89? f you were in the main portion, the ground excelleration was 90 percent. if you way 100 pounds, the pound moved with 9 pounds. if the hay ward fault goes off, most of san francisco will feel 20 to 25 percent, the marina which will shake 30 percent. so if the hay ward fault goes off, san francisco will shake 3 or 4 times harder than in 89 and twice as long. >> the haward fault has return cycles plus or minus 10 for the last 140 years. the last was 1868. we are 140 years since the last haward fault went off. so, i would say, it's pretty likely it won't slip within the next 10 years. that will give you ground shakesing 3 to 4 times as last time. >>

out put the fires out in the marina. you want to stop, look, listen and think. you size up the situation this is what we do in the fire department. you look at it. is it a little fire. a candle burning. do i get the fire extinguisher. is it a big fire can i put it out. >> it would cover the area the size of a table. anything bigger or high are than your head it's too big for you to put out with an extinguisher. wait until everybody is out. it's best to work in pairs. make sure you are the last one out of the room. do not lock it. avoid smoke and gases. cover your mouth and nose with a towel or sheet or dry cloth. if you have a jacket, if there is a flame on the way out put clothes on or wrap yourself in a blanket the layer of clothing will give you protection. have an emergency plan for earthquakes and fires. elevators, a safe place to be? 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 c