i believe the units in the rear of the property, as far as the lot width are concerned are far larger than what the average units around there are doing, so i question that. i believe there's a lot of ambiguity. habits die hard. i have to believe that while this area in front of the rear unit is designated as fire lane, with the garage door closed, it will be useful parking. that is kind of like, unfortunately, the way people do things, that there could be a red fire lap and a hydrant, and people park no matter what. it's reasonable to assume that people may need parking. buildings at this time are not designed with parking spaces, and that's why i believe the way that rear buildings are cited leave a lot open for interpretation even if it's currently lined as if you can't park there. i would like to see verification with two question jardines. we have two lots and three buildings. are they taking a lot split? >> yes. the rear lot is proposed for a subdivision, which is actually that's required -- the easements have already been recorded and included in your packets, and the city fire

yard, totally in the rear yard, and the rear building, which is the illegal unit that the staff is diagnoasking to b legalized is built without any building permits. and so in consultation with the department of building inspection, the project architect has been told that that illegal unit has to be totally demolished, and if the department or this commission want it to be rebuilt, they have to literally build a new building in the same square footage, but they will have to raise the ceiling height because there's a lot of problem, and the architect is here to answer questions about the illegality of that building and why it has to be demolished and completely redesigned. i think what's important in terms of this project is that there is -- as the staff indicated, they have no problem recommending the single-family home in front, and yet, they're recommending denying the total project. second, i think when we look at this, i think we have true basic planning policy competing with each other. one of them is replacement of units that's going to be demolished, and t

the whole building. >> the question is, what does it do to -- does it eliminate bedrooms in the rear bottom unit or ruin in some other way this floor and the one below it? if you take this living space, and you put it where that car is, what does it do to the floor below, and does it eliminate a bedroom or two in the lower unit. for example if the bedroom is now in here, where do you relocate this stuff? >> is that what you're saying, commissioner richards, to put the bedroom where the garage it. >> -- is. >> i'm not trying to redesign the kblg. >> it's not the car parking thags ae the issue. it's trying to take the stair circulation around the light well, basically, trying to get two windows -- two bedrooms that have good windows for egress onto this level and trying to make that whole light well and stair circulation work. because if you look here, we have to -- >> it's true. it's the light well causing the work around these issues, but again, i don't know what we're trying to solve. like, we have neighbors -- >> absolutely crucial to make it a three bedroom on bottom and not a one. >> right.

you mentioned that originally that kind of stair structure in the rear was required for a second means of egress because there was four units in there. that's the purpose of it. but if it's to remain a single-family home -- >> two units. >> and then the stair issue, you don't cross the rubicon of going from 1 or 2, only the jurisdiction of the building permit, you go to three, it's fire department jurisdiction, and that is the line, that third unit. so, we even tried to craft, call it a housekeeping, because that was the other way to put it. >> i'm not really asking you that. >> you don't need the rear exit. the upper portions of the stair and deck area technically would not be required now. >> i think -- yeah, what you would have to do at the back is pretty minimal if it's a single-family house with accessory dwelling at the bottom. yeah, a.d.u. >> thank you. >> all right. so a motion to continue with the second. for two weeks. >> shall i call the question? >> on the motion to continue to march 22. [vote taken] so moved, commissioners, the motion passes unanimously, 7-0. under the discretionary review calendar, item 19 is

issues in the army that were endemic been, again, most of that happened in the it vietnam in the rear echelon units, and a lot of it in germany in the units then. stateside where i was in the ninth division, not a lot and a lot of it was because with the choice recruiting we were recruiting in the washington area, and oregon, and we did not recruit a lot of blacks from that particular area. i had noncommissioned officers who were blacks, but they were not a lot of black soldiers enlisted. >> ok, how was your time in command of bravo company? harry: it was fantastic, too short. >> how long? harry: it was an exciting time, besides being challenging, because general westmoreland, when he became chief of staff, he decided along with a volunteer army that he was going to, to his credit, he would revamp the way that the army trained. >> right. harry: a lot of literature that follows the army, how it developed, it focuses on the latter part of that period, but one of the first things general westmoreland did was he threw out the training regulations, which for the army back in the 1960's was the army subj

the dwelling unit above. the commission also directed that the project's proposed fourth story be eliminated, along with the proposed rear fire escape. following the february 8th hearing, the project sponsor revised the project to eliminate the four story fire escape and reconfigured the two dwelling units such that each has similar layouts and number of bedrooms. the area behind the garage is now proposed to be a family room part of the unit above connected by interior stairs. it's staff's recommendation that the proposed revisions appropriately respond to the commission's corrections and also address the d.r. requester's concerns. is there -- staff recommends that the commission did not -- does not take d.r. and approve the project as revised. >> commissioner melgar: okay. it doesn't look like -- >> vice president richards: commissioners, if i may, i had -- during the break, i had a conversation with several of the neighbors and the d.r. requester, who -- all of them were not able to remain. they gave me comments in writing, handwritten some comments, and there are three -- i have one, two, three neighbors who -- who w

shiite but faced threat from both sides in those two neighborhoods that reare flected continue threat in the middle east that unitedtes and israel face today so on the one hand in the predominantly infiltrated by van i can revolutionary guard cores they would supply a very deadly road side bomb known as forum projectile to penetrate any armor to include a tank. on the other side you had a lot of fighters at the time al qaeda, iraq later morphed into islamic state that was being supported by sunni extremist group you know going back to their roots in the brotherhood from the very beginning. and those two threats are there today. you have the threat of extremism in form of al qaeda or islamic state you still have -- radical shiite access that is -- led by and most places controlled by iran. those threats existed to israel today they still exist to us as well that's why it is so important that we have -- our partnership not just with our two nations but also with similar sichghted nation in middle east that also face two threats. >> well, and speaking of iran, you were opposed to the nuclear deal with iran. you -- >>

the country to. do everything possible to raise the united states the lives of people. in the rear vision council. process. was more and more about the quality of living here i mean that's. how many people can come in. here for the candidates of course you know it's all worked on pretty hard to us the people to come down to the. election booth and. choose the president. today trust has gone and leave them for their own eyes a better life i'm going to protect them and of course it's tonight it's not easy she became mr blunt some. of the numbers are strong right now and so much many others are going. to get close to zero you have to do you have doubts because you'll be see these have been difficulties for russia economically politically there were people who said that like to me putin's popularity was going down there were people that said that not a lot of people would turn out to vote in these elections that it cannot would be no did you have doubts and i'm not. thinking so. in a situation like that because i'm amanpour myself right now you played golf championships olympic games during the cold w

he basically said this rear admiral in the united states navy went before the american people and lied and said he may not have even conducted correct medical tests despite his years of excellent training. so let's not pull punches here, norm. you called this man a liar and a quack. here's what i think. >> i do -- >> let me finish. >> i do want to set that issue aside. i want to get to the issue which is the central one here of running the v.a. that's the job at hand here. do you believe he's qualified to run the v.a. and can help solve these real, present and, you know, life-changing problems that the v.a. faces? >> i hope he does a good job, and i think we need to give this man a chance. i'm not going to fight norm on the fact he has non-traditional qualifications for this. i do also prefer the president go through a better vetting process for presidential appointments. i did presidential personnel vetting for president george w. bush, and i would prefer a stronger vetting process. i think what we have to hope here is that dr. jackson's qualifications are thoroughly probed in the con

the issuance of december 15, 2017, to 1033-1037. fourth floor and renovation of third floor unit entry, renovation of basement repair of existing egress stair at rear of property. you have 7 minutes. please speak into the microphone and you can swing it around if you need to closer to the projector. >> good afternoon, board members first of all, i want to tell that you we've been as a family involved with comments on this project from the very beginning. we -- i was called by mr. chang and told about this project -- he called me several times. each time i said, it's not feasible, because it will have such detrimental impact on our building. and, finally, i wrote him a letter. here's the letter. i wrote a letter to express the same concerns and andrew perry was in charge and i kept emailing him. you can take a look. and it had no impact. so there was a denial by board of appeals by 3-2. i was denied by 2-3, which makes a big difference. as a matter of fact, the board found out -- majority of the board found out that the zoning administrator did not prove her point and that extraordinary circumstances and didn't list a single extraordinary circumstan

the i.c.'s generally get ready reports from roof units or units inside that have made it to the rear of the building to get the report for the back and side of the fire building. fire, smoke conditions inside, back of building sides, sides of building, exposure problems, etc. determine the occupant sur viefl -- survival profile. and conduct the initial risk assessment and implement the safe plan. if you don't have the resources to protect firefighters, seriously consider defensive strategy. i am a huge advocate of call more resources if you need them. if nobody behind you, pull the hook and the next level of alarm. rater have the resources there and not need them than need the resources and not have them. do not risk firefighter lives for or property that cannot be saved for life or property that cannot be saved. seriously consider a defensive strategy. extend limited risk to protect favorable property. we do that often because we're trying to contain the fire to the building of origin, as you know, and with the property lines a lot of fires are in buildings that are type five and spread to other bu

if you think about, ten days ago on february 7, the united states military absolutely kicked his rear syria. many russian mercenaries sent to syria. they were doing terrible things to innocent people. we went in and took care of it. the oligarch that is involved with all the stuff was in charge of the mercenaries. what putin was trying to do, who knows if it's true, he was trying to make it look like the country of russia was bigger and better than it actually is. in every single area of its economy, all around the world. geopolitical efforts, the things they try to do here that they didn't succeed in in 2016, all of those things make that country look really small. internally he has to make it look like he is so big. one thing that is changing, when those social media posts started going up after the mercenaries were killed, he can't stop that. he has to figure out a way to prevent people from getting information. the west people to -- the best people to help the people in russia is get them more information. >> kimberly: what do you make of this, jesse? >> jesse: putin flexing. i ag

the exterior. >> commissioner moore: three entrances right now to the unit. one from the mud room, one from the exterior, and one from the -- from the rear yard, from the terrace now? >> vice president richards: you could eliminate the mud room entrance. >> you could eliminate the entrance into the mud room. >> president hillis: why are we doing that? >> commissioner moore: in order to create the proper separation that units need to be counted as separate units because if you don't do that, you can always connect the building and make it one home without it being -- two independent units. >> but you could always do that by just putting a door in there, also. >> they've got a renter who's been renting the lower unit for three years. it's going to be two separate units, and one is a door from the garage up the stairs, and the other is a doorway going from the mud room. we can eliminate that door, if you want. that's no big deal. >> commissioner moore: yeah, that should be eliminated in order to follow the rules. >> you're okay with that offer? >> president hillis: i'm fine with that offer. i don't think it's illegal to have a shared mud room, but i get the point

the second floor in this case. two of the units are the guest rooms face the street, which is the lower part. you can see the varying balconies and sizes. the upper two face the rear yard of the block. the size of these guest rooms range from 160 to about 220. the average is 192, a little below 200men00. they're pretty small. the setback is 25%. we're going up to the first floor there which is the kitchen. it's partially buried. that's not even a full story at the back. these are the upper floors. then when you get to the upper part of the building to the roof, we're proposing 520 square foot roof deck on the left. you can see it set back from the building walls on all sides by 3 feet 6 inches. there's two areas. there's a little area in the front and a little area in the back. this is planned to be an amenity to the guests. this is not for anybody walking in on the street. this is for them to go up there in the morning or afternoon and hang out and look around a little bit. [ stand by ] commissioners. my name is steven adams, and i'm here representing myself and a neighbor and a small business advocate. i support this project 110%. like the previous speaker said,

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the rear northern wall. you can see it's shown as being as a flush property line wall with storage units stacked and then there's no change here where the a.d.u.s are being proposed. in terms of what was proposed in the plans there was no proposed building expansion where the a.d.u.s were expand. if so it could only be under a cantilevered space or one-story deck. we were approving the plans based on what was represented so i can't verify the appellants plans where it's an accurate representation of what's existing in the field. >> thank you. >> a site visit may be appropriate to verify existing conditions and structural issues i'd be concerned about. i got a look at structural drawings and there may be one wall that's a sheer wall. only drawings before me there are no -- it may be the best course of action. i also have concerns about the area between the doors it look like into the units. they're calling out for 1r doors and walls but there's two windows in there. you can't have that if that's a rated area and that then would affect the living area and i'd need to do research on that as well. i'm asking for mor

the rear yard requirement is 25%. so you could in theory cover 5 75% of the lot. there's a density restriction of one unit. because of our adu rules now, you can add an adu, so really, you could fit two units on that lot under our density restriction. >> vice president richards: okay. >> our height limit is -- the height limit is generally 40 feet, but for single-family homes, it's actually 35 feet. so you can build, in theory, up to 35 feet. in reality, what happens is we have design review, and so any new building proposed in an rh-1 has to meet or design guidelines, and so that involves a lot of sculpting. there's a theory envelope and what actually ends up happening. >> vice president richards: on f.a.r. 4.5, that's a 25,000 square foot building. >> if you took that same parcel, put a 25% rear yard, and then, you built eight stories up, we -- then, we estimate it sort of at an average unit size of 1,000 square feet, you could fit between ten and 16 units in that envelope. >> vice president richards: okay. but the build -- the building code minimum is what, 375 -- we have a minimum. >> yeah. i believe i

the issuance to steve hong for horizontal addition to rear side building. total area, 689 square feet and remodel second and third floor, add second unit to existing application. this matter was heard on february 21, 2018. at that time the board voted to continue the appeal to march 7 to allow time for the planning department to verify what plans were sent to the neighbors as part of the neighborhood notification process. commissioner wilson was absent on that evening, so commissioner wilson, i would ask if you could please state if you are prepared to participate tonight. ok, thank you so much. so, we will start with the department, here to report back on his findings. three minutes. >> planning department staff. just to give a recap where we were on this item, two weeks ago. so, again, the original permit was submitted in 2013. that original design was the yard, the neighbor to the north requested discretionary review. in 2014, g at that time the project sponsor decided to shift gears, get a new architect and amend the project. in part to avoid the d.r. and just to make some changes to the project. that new proposal was reviewed by the planning department a

the v.a. >> yeah. i mean, it's a daunting task for anybody, general. jackon son is a navy rear admir served presidents bush, obama and trump. led a medical unit in iraq. he knows what it is like to be out there. is he qualified to run the second largest department in the u.s. government. >> it is a highly unusual nomination. you look at this doctor's background, he's been the honor graduate of everything he did in his entire life. he's been involved in navy special ops. he's been deployed in combat. he spent 12 years in the white house, and he's got the confidence of the president. those are all the good news. the bad news is, the biggest unit he managed was 40 some odd medical people in the white house. that v.a. system which, by the way, if you're in the v.a. system, like my brother-in-law, 101st combat air force veteran, they love it. it is great medical care. but the giant, bloated, needs to be modernized. you have to outsource and let veterans, particularly in rural areas, go see the civilian health care providers. he's got his work cut out for him. i hope they get him a good chief of staff and competent people. don't politicize the agen

the same unit from which the guys came. guess what? the iraqis safeguarded the guy, they kept him quiet, and they got him to the rear. they did not know i was looking. they treated a war criminal, the enemy, with the same doctrinal correctness that we had been preaching to them 10 years before. that is called integrity, when you are doing the right thing when nobody is watching, that is one of the definitions of integrity. i do not want to propagandize what i saw, but that is another thing you do not see in the news, is when the good guys do good things and nobody is watching. go ahead. this is colonel arcand, he will be a movie star, he speaks perfect english and he directs every airstrike against isis, it is directed by this guy. the d9 bulldozer, armored plated, bulletproof glass, the first thing that drives against isis positions is a bulldozer. you can see the glass is riddled with bullets, the bravest men in iraq, an untold story that somebody needs to tell, the bulldozer drivers fighting isis. nothing but them and that blade driving against the bad guys. the tanks are behind the bulldozers. that is how badass

the basis that it was properly issued. permit holders: craig & marina greenwood. project: remodel upper unit of two-unit building; change rear portion of existing gable roof to flat roof with roof deck above; interior remodel of third floor below roof, including remodeled bathroom; new stair to roof; remodel interior stair; new small deck at level three. we will start with the requesters. three minutes to each -- >> may i relay i have read the materials. >> the clerk: thank you. >> you ask him and he lie about his garage he did not know the plan by his professional team and when he knew he fired them. starting in 2006, they issued writing and the claim was existing but the first floor is unexcavated. since 2005 he used the same team for many years. the testimony given after our rebuttal after the original hearing for the state agency therefore we were not able to produce this new evidence at original hearings. before i the hearing he refused to provide the information. he testified greenwood refused to provide and the state agency provided the code. in greenwood's opposition the said he was not aware. he could not find a cod