into his unit. we don't need to go destroy the whole building. destroying the whole building, however, let me state a lot of the misrepresentations have to be looked at. for example, look at the scope of work in the amount of work that they declare on the permit. they declared that there is going to be only $3,000 in work. i asked you to show them the drawings that they have. they had to say that because they had to make the planning department believe that there was very little work here. it looks like a single family home, it exists as a single family home and there is removing a wet bar, and removing a kitchen and that is all there is to it. the property holder himself stated to you that he in effect evicting himself. i ask you to consider the amount of money that he is going to spend, the fact that he is going to have to find a new place to live and he is doing it all for a tenant who is rent controlled. i just have to ask, whether that makes sense. if they were to get a second unit applied for,

what is going on is that the owner expects to merge his 800 square feet unit with mr. hyman's unit. i have viewed mr. hyman's unit and the outside of the property and to do such a merger would require the moving of walls and the moving of a staircase. if the units are merged and this becomes a single family home, it will lose its rent controlled status under the rent ordinance. mr. hyman would be subject to a rent increase without limitation that he could not afford. his rent could be or could go as high as $10,000, maybe more. in addition, if this building were to become a single family home, mr. hyman would be... a owner move in eviction. protection tenants in multiunits could not be evict but single family homes are exempt from that requirement. in addition, it is difficult for an owner who lives in the same building as the tenant to do an owner move in eviction due to the good faith requirements of the rent ordinance as it seems suspicious, why is the owner trying to move into the tenant's unit when he already occupies a unit in the same building? >> the owner claims that he has

countries at the time and the and the united states the technology and the support the u.n. security council blocked any condemnation of iraq so the crimes that have been created against humanity when it come is really we have to look to europe in the united states to see the real culprits and while whereas the iranians have never engaged in an attack iran even never even used chemical weapons when chemical weapons were used against iran iran never you can produce chemical weapons so i think that at the end of the day it's quite obvious that the united states its policy towards iran is based upon. an irrational form of hatred and i think that unless people begin to speak out against this sort of policy the united states may once again attempt to drag the region into a greater crisis the iranians don't believe that the united states will attack iran again because the united states is on the decline they have economic crises in europe in the united states people are tired of war but pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political uproar is

in europe in the united states people are tired of war. pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political uproar is something that no sensible leader would pursue yet we so far we have no we see no sign that the united states wants to behave more humanely towards iran and more reasonably go ahead jump in. to syria i am half serious i was in syria i did research in syria had a study syria two i think i think there is no doubt that one of the. syrian war is exasperates iran iraq. is. a support for the regime i think there is no doubt about that. i grew up in these two most notorious governments of. harmony i think. i think where we're talking about democratic they said democratic god is iran is a democratic government i think if you if you guardian culture from the beginning if you are not supporting their slum it like they were just they were stripping away from the election second of all i think many in the constitution he did the president is not the powerful person in the country. powerful as many he h

hyman's unit will remain as a separate rent controlled unit and that mr. hyman could not be evicted unless there is a good cause reason under the rent ordinance and the reason is not a no-fault eviction, he cannot evicted for an ellis act for illegal unit and the fact that he is turning this into condos or that somehow he is by living in his unit it is there for somehow illegally using this unit for whatever reason it is not considered a separate single unit. they have, in fact, admitted that they planned to do rent increases. if this were... mr. zaches just said on the record that they were going to increase his rent. as a single family home the rent could be increased without limitation whatsoever. mr. hyman could go to paying five times his rent. and this would be a defacto eviction. >> we would have him stipulate no rent increase. and we ask that this board as a condition of approving these permits, if they are not going to deny them, that the owner put on the record he will not do any sort of no-fault eviction on my client and will be or abide by the

does that mean forth united states? looking back on if now, 24, 25, 26 months, there is a real security issues that have arisen here that are evolving that we have to address. >> rose: define them. >> we have porous borders. we have a proliferation of weapons that have arisen out of the breakdown of these governments, especially from libya. we have. >> rose: in fact some of the libyan islamists have gone to mali. >> they have, right. >> and we have-- they were from there originally and have gone back to mali but with weapons. >> you have less counterterrorism pressure on them, because these governments have changed over, and the counterterrorism forces aren't as experienced. they don't have the same kinds of laws that were in place before. we're having to reestablish relationships with them. and you have these groups being networked in some of them now claiming al qaeda, al qaeda connections. and all of this combines, and last, to, you have an expanding amount of ungoverned space. and we talked about ungoverned space a

countries at the time and the and the united states the technology and the support the u.n. security council blocked any condemnation of iraq so you know the crimes that have been created against humanity when it come is really we have to look to europe in the united states to see the real culprits and while it wears the iranians have never engaged in an attack iran even never even used chemical weapons when chemical weapons were used against iran iran never you can produce chemical weapons so i think that at the end of the day it's quite obvious that the united states its policy towards iran is. base upon an irrational form of hatred and i think that unless people begin to speak out against this sort of policy the united states may once again attempt to drag the region into a greater crisis the iranians don't believe that the united states will attack iran again because the united states is on the decline they have economic crises in europe in the united states people are tired of war but pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political

countries at the time and the and the united states the technology and the support the u.n. security council blocked any condemnation of iraq so you know the crimes that have been created against humanity when it come is really we have to look to europe in the united states to see the real culprits and while whereas the iranians have never engaged in an attack iran even never even used chemical weapons when chemical weapons were used against iran iran never you can produce chemical weapons so i think that at the end of the day it's quite obvious that the united states its policy towards iran is. base upon an irrational form of hatred and i think that unless people begin to speak out against this sort of policy the united states may once again attempt to drag the region into a greater crisis the iranians don't believe that the united states will attack iran again because the united states is on the decline they have economic crises in europe in the united states people are tired of war but pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political u

the units. okay? there is no address permits because we actually have the map that shows all of the legal addresses. so in 1949, the owner builder, this is the legal address there is only one. the owner builder mr. grady comes in and pulls a permit for two units legal, two units existing, only one address and calls it a dry rot permit. and let's repair front. and it is a dry rot on the front steps and the city signs off, comes out, and basically says, nice try. it is not a world war ii grandpa fathered unit based in on a address it is a single family dwelling and it says 5 r residential run story plus basement one family dwelling. i went in there again today to double check with patty who is in charge of microfilm to go over this process. this cfc is the birth certificate of the building. it is everything. it is everything that i deal with the building department, cfcs control unless there is a subsequent cfc. so, and there were other ways that you could have fixed this. it could have come in la

countries at the time and the and the united states the technology and the support the u.n. security council blocked any condemnation of iraq so you know the crimes that have been created against humanity when it come is really we have to look to europe in the united states to see the real culprits and while it wears the iranians have never engaged in an attack iran even never even used chemical weapons when chemical weapons were used against iran iran never you can produce chemical weapons so i think that at the end of the day it's quite obvious that the united states its policy towards iran is based upon. an irrational form of hatred and i think that unless people begin to speak out against this sort of policy the united states may once again attempt to drag the region into a greater crisis the iranians don't believe that the united states will attack iran again because the united states is on the decline they have economic crises in europe in the united states people are tired of war but pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political

europe in the united states people are tired of war. pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political uproar is something that no sensible leader would pursue yet we so far we have no we see no sign that the united states wants to behave more humanely towards iran and more reasonably go ahead jump in. to syria. syria so i was in syria i did research is syria two i think i think there is no doubt that one of the. syrian war is exasperates iran iraq iran. is iran the support for the regime i think there is no doubt about that. i grew up in these two most notorious governments of. harmony i think. i think where we're talking about democratic they said democratic go is iran is a democratic government i think if you if you're a guardian council from the beginning if you're not supporting this long it like they were just they were stripped away from the election second of all i think many in the constitution he did the president is not the powerful person in the country they're powerful as many he has the

in europe in the united states people are tired of war. pushing for greater confrontation at a time when the home middle east is in political uproar is something that no sensible leader would pursue yet we so far we have no we see no sign that the united states wants to behave more humanely towards iran and more reasonably go ahead jump in. the syria. syria so i was in syria i did research syria to i think i think there is no doubt that one of the. syrian war is exasperates iran iraq iran. is iran iran your support for the regime i think there is no doubt about that. i grew up in these two most notorious governments of. harmony i think. i think where we're talking about democratic they said democratic god is iran is a democratic government i think if you if you're a guardian council from the beginning if you're not supporting this law macleod they were just they were stripping away from the election second of all i think many in the constitution he did the president is not the powerful person in the country they're powerful as many he has

the unit from them because we could not sell the unit.st ridiculous what the financing situation is -- forced us to do. they're our friends. what are we going to do. plan c doesn't solve everything but i think it does a lot for people in our situation. thank you. >> chair wiener: thank you very much. next speaker. >> my name's cole, i'm a t.i.c. owner occupier in the lower haight. it's a three unit building with one unit that's occupied. if this legislation passes i see three things happening with that building. myself and the other owner will have to get a good secure hopefully 30 year loan at 3% rather than the 6% we're currently paying. making life much easier for us, making it ease wh easier for usy in the city. the tenant occupied unit, the tenant will be given a lifetime lease. she's a lawyer, will have no -- enforcing that. the organization will get 145,000 from the quers. -- conversion. san francisco is famous for looking after its minorities. please give a little bit back to the middle and support the condo bypass. >> chair wiene

hyman rented his unit the building consisted of three rental units all being rented to tenants. >> i would like to ask mr. hyman to give a statement about how this merger will effect him. >> hello. my name is ralph hyman and i have been hiv positive for over 20 years and i have lived at 227 douglass since june of 2007 i have the flexibility in my job because of my condition and the side effects of other health conditions resulting from that forces me to work at home and i go home when i need to due to fatigue. moving two effect my life, with an increased financial burden it would be hard for me financially to find a similar living situation especially i have a service dog. and would create stress in finding a new place and i have the inbility to actually do the move physically. although, the permits do not involve my units, this would need to be extensive work around me including the moving of walls and stairs, and since i often work at home, i would have not be able to live through this work. the landlord told me that i would have to vacate during this construction period and given

unit. of the housing stock is not affected only the mechanism of ownership but this is important. ting t.i.c. results in more flexibility. housing stock is improved as --- physical system awch as plumbing and wiring are brought up to code. while affordable housing stock is scarce in san francisco, for rental, affordable housing for purchase is also very scarce. and t.i.c. or condo is the most affordable type of owner housing. increasing the housing stock is critical for both rental and owner housing. last friday the chronicle indicated that several thousand apartments are in the pipeline for delivery over the next three years. less than 10% of these will be available to be converted to condos. while many of the apartments will be outrageously priced there will be some move-up renters which should open some apartments. only about a third of san franciscans own their homes and two-thirds nationally own their home. this indicates a backlog of demand for home ownership. trying to address the co

you know what kind of message is the united states sending the world. well it's not a good message at all i mean some people really approve off and some people don't really care less than those love the confusion about it but certainly i find in europe that there's a lot of descend a lot of complaints about what the united states is doing with what the cia is doing and i think is one of my real worries really is what's going on in the united states know this seems to be a change in presidential powers in the seemed to be not you know who seemed to be limitless of the moment and one example was when the libyan war would if you want to call it a war when when the libyan when the obama sent drones into libya. he didn't go back to congress under sixty days as he should have done under the war powers resolution and hurrell co his chief lawyer said well there was no commitment to american troops on the ground so we didn't need to does this mean the president can just go off killing people go to war war powers resolution all those sort of constraints that are

it will boost the local economy and add 34 housing units with a good mix of studios, one and two units with over half suitable for families. it will add 4 bmr units on site to better housing into the community and will limit parking to 0.5 spaces per unit to promote public transportation over vehicles. it will have at least 25 bikes stall to promote modes of transportation and will add a dramatic restaurant space to a prominent corner to activate the pedestrian realm as well as close an empty stretch of retail. it will be environmentally sensitive by integrating the storm water capbility into the landscape feature of the building. it will create high density housing in a transit rich location that has more than a dozen cities and regional mass transit lines nearby. in terms of out reach, the project enjoys broad support. we have strong letters of support from the neighborhood association and the housing action coalition, and we have the support of our neighbors at 300 across the street. we ask for your support of this project today as recommended by the planning department. we believe

well i mean there's an old line you know when writing a dead horse dismount and in the united states we continue to print this money and let's not forget the united states is the largest economy in the world if you take the number two three and four which is china germany japan and adam together they add up to the size of the u.s. economy so as the u.s. economy goes goes the rest of the world we just know that to be a fact in the united states is absolutely just i don't know money investing a lot of signs and you don't understand how for china it is martin go ahead go ahead finish your point ok but we're going to have the same time as i do with the economy ok all right ed then we'll go back to martin well the facts are that that's what it is i just want to say sorry saw it. denby and again i just want to say we just got the news that china eclipsed the u.s. in trade so if you're looking at the total number of exports and imports of goods in the united states last year that was three point eight two trillion china right eight seven trillion and if you're looking at the g.d.p. statisti

united states can't just pack up and walk away. but are we able to convince the people there, our local hosts and potential allies, that we need to be there? that is the question. and that is where i believe there has been a failure. >> host: but we are -- our footprint is going to be much smaller after 2014. >> guest: that's a choice we're making and i'm not entirely happy. i would like a different kind of footprint. if you had conditionals like the one i went to, which is a university now, and they open -- if you had ten of these, throughout the tribal areas, think of the impact. think of the future generation, in one stroke you're changing the direction of a nation. if we value education, knowledge, law, a compassionate civil society, we must understand, peter so do the irans and pakistanis. we must try to convey this to them. not to suggest that soldiers and guns and missiles and drones because that will immediately have locals resisting. so the paradigm has to be thought out and that can only be thought out if the debate begin

in 2005 306 units were converted to condominiums, in 2006, it was over double, 727 units.ow, when we have a lottery process of 200, plus a number of two-unit t.i.c.s that converted every year i mean that spike was really alarming to me and it peaked at 845 units in 2008. and i'm just curious as to how that happened the patterns around that, what you have seen at dpw. >> frankly, that's my fault. i made the process a lot more efficient. my staff made the process a lot more efficient. i was hired in 2005 and there was a horrendous backlog and we made the process more efficient. it doesn't reflect any change in the number of applicants. actually, the number of applicants were probably three or four years has declined for a two-unit bypasses. the 200 unit cap on the condo lottery is the same every year. but the decline has been in the two-unit bypasses. >> co-chair kim: and so these spikes really were just in the two-unit condominiums. that were maybe backlogged over the last several years. but thanks to efficiencies that you had put in place in dpw were able to kind of fast t

of our project which are these units here. we strongly feel that the glass proposed in the design at the bedrooms on the taller part of the building is not an adequate response to the bulkness of the project in the northwest corner and interest that they step back the top two floors as shown in the sketch here. in the past few weeks we have had discussions with the developer and we would like to ask for a continuance so that we can continue to have a dialogue and reach a mutually agreeable conclusion. so we can whole heartedly endorse this project which we think otherwise is an accident addition to the neighborhood. >> thank you. >> next speaker? >> good afternoon, commissioners, robin weather here i am a long time resident of haze valley and a member of the neighborhood association. i'm pleased to be here today to support this project. it fully complies with the market octavia plan and has minimum parking and provide the units on site and it is a beautiful building that will come mrement the neighborhood. i come mend them for

we suspect it wasn't this unit not the unit we wrote about, a different group. we suspect that they were looking for sources of stories that david, one of my colleagues wrote about the chinese. we don't know that for a fact but just looking at the patterns -- right. series of pieces about the former prime minister and his family fortune, very sensitive issue in china. but there have been other cases in recent times where they have gone after foreign policy elite of the united states. there was a fascinating attack on the council and foreign relations here in new york where the attack wasn't really aimed at getting material out of the counsel's computer systems, most of what's in there is opening available. probably be perfectly delayed if the chinese went and read it all. but instead it's what's called a water hole attack. think of animals coming to the watering hole. in this case the animals of the foreign policy elite, they see who is coming and they follow them back home to their home computers. a fascinating element. there were aspects of the -- institute an

i think -- i'm not the ambassador of the united states. i'm not going to speak for any american administration. but i do think that the american intervention in iraq gave the people of iraq a certain opportunity, whether they're going to take that opportunity and use it for the betterment for the country is up to them now. >> there's no question that saddam hussein's departure from his position and leadership in iraq has been beneficial to iraq, but the question is whether the current leadership situation in iraq is sustainable going moderate with the americans reducing their involvement in their presence. >> i think it's a ge that's up to the iraqis. >> to the israels have a point of view? is there an official point of view that israel has with regard to america's involvement in iraq? >> no, but we do hope that a peace loving and democratic government persists in iraq, that it adheres and that it enters into a peace process with us. we have no animosity, toward the iraqi people. we'd like to have peace with them. a great number of people,

and so this is a new challenge, a rst impreson f the united states that the united states has to deal with islamic governments, right, who have been democratically elected and in countries where there are a multitude of stakeholders. and this is a new circumstances for the united statesment now the united states in north africa including in egypt but in north africa generally faces a security situation which is something, mike rogers, the chairman of the house intelligence community wrote a piece in plirtco today calling for a comprehensive strategy and he's rit to deal with the countertrorismssuethat are arising in north africa, what do they arise from, after at rab revolutions and we had multiple simultaneous revolutions rooted in the histories of these countries, different country to country, but at the core rooted in three things, i think, governments that weren't performing, that letdown their people, a communications revolution both internally and externally, people could communicate internally and organize themselves but they also knew what was going on in the outside world. yo

and the future unit. please help my family and other trapped t.i.c. owners in the city. and i have to add that this is the first time, after many, many years, that i feel there is some likelihood of this very long tunnel. thank you for your time. >> chair wiener: thank you. i will call more names. josephine -josephine --y, shirl, shirley, christina, chin, ingles, jim inglings, jake block, chi, jane, susan, kay walker, deborah -- brian blake, iris, martis, gran, stacy, kevin, rose, and beth palmer. next speaker. >> thank you. my name is -- i'm a district 8 t.i.c. owner. i purchased a three unit t.i.c. in 2007, with a 20% downpayment. i lived with my wife and two children. since the peak of the market there's been a dynamic change in the financial lending practices of banks in the bay area that i believe is quite unfair. right now, we have tried to sell one of the three units in our building twice, with no success, due to the inability to refinance. additionally, my partner and i have tried to refinance our

and it is these units here and there is one unit that faces directly north. we are looking. >> number 6? >> that is number 6. >> that is not my number 6. >> exhibit 6. it is not the exact same, but it is close, it has arrows pointing. >> no. >> okay. >> thanks. >> yeah. >> and both of the buildings on either side of this building are substan hally shorter so this is going to stick up and be as i said blocking those windows, it is not about views, it is strictly about light. >> okay. thank you. >> okay, we can hear from the permit holder. >> did you rule on whether you wanted to see the industrial design? >> i am okay. >> not everybody wants it so. just forget it. >> good evening, board members my name is nick polter and i am the architect for the project. according to the board's published special instructions for parties, the standard of review, the board shall use in deciding a case such as this, shall only be in the case of error or abuse of the zoning administrator. that has not been shown. all of the technical procedures were followed correctly as will b

your worst case scenario missile it comes to that which i think my worst case scenario is that the united states. starts another war in the middle east to disarm another middle eastern country weapons of mass destruction that it does not know. and that the damage that the backlash to this does to the american position. makes. how much damage was done in position by you variation of the law makes that will quite trivial by comparison that's my worst case i want to ask you about the new face of the pentagon chuck hagel he allowed himself to say right attacking iran is a stupid idea and i believe you also called for direct negotiations do you think we could see direct negotiations any time soon with chuck hagel in ministration well i think that that former senator hagel has taken courageous positions on iran on a range of issues and i admire them and respect them and the concern i have is that he is being nominated for the wrong job to carry out those positions his defense secretary if he is a if he is if he's approved to be as defense secretary he will not be the person in charge of creatin

or selling the unit. before it could be sold. but many people are going to condo convert and then flip it. my friend actually owns a t.i.c. he bought it for 260,000. his t.i.c. owner upstairs just sold their unit for 450. that was five years ago. so clearly you can sell your t.i.c. unit for some money. they knew what they were getting into when they bought the unit. there's a lottery. the lottery didn't start last week. my dad pays two-thirds of his income in rent. his building just sold. i'm really scared. >> chair wiener: thank you. next speaker. >> i have my card here. my name's jennifer grant, i've lived in san francisco for 25 years. i've worked at nonprofits that entire time, nonprofits funded by the san francisco. i ran two of the battered women's shelter for 17 years. currently i work at one of the family resource centers. as a single woman i saved for many years, i borrowed from my family, and was able to purchase my own home after renting for many years through the san francisco first time home

, the united nations, that the u.s. will feel comfortable in using some military force. >> but when our interests and values are at stake we have a responsibility to act. that's what's happened in libya over the course of these last six weeks. >> but the intervention in libya ruffled feathers in russia and china. both nations accused nato of pursuing a political agenda rather than a humanitarian one. >> it's been a very divisive issue. you have the europeans and the united states seeing it as a very clear-cut victory for the u.n. the russians, the chinese, the south africans, even though the south africans supported intervention, but, uh, the brazilians, the indians, have been much less, uh, supportive of, of the whole outcome that they have ceded as a sort of a, as a violation of the principle of responsibility to protect. >> both, uh, russia and china have used that not to go along with tougher u.n. sanctions on, on syria. uh, you clever fellows tricked us on the libyan thing. you didn't talk about regime change, you

you know what kind of message is the united states sending the world. well it's not a good message at all i mean some people really approve off and some people don't really care less and there's a lot of confusion of by to but certainly i find in europe that there's a lot of to send a lot of complaints about what the united states is doing with what the cia is doing and i think is one of my real worries really is what's going on in the united states know this seems to be a change in presidential powers and the seem to be not you know who seem to be limitless of the moment and one example was when the libyan war would if you want to call it a war when when the libyan when the obama sent drones into libya. he didn't go back to congress under sixty days as he should have done under the war powers resolution and hurrell co his chief lawyer said well there was no commitment to american troops on the ground so we didn't need to does this mean the president can just go off killing people who to war war powers resolution all those sort of constraints that are i

a run ins to engage in drone strikes in the united states against their political opponents by the united states has done in yemen and in pakistan and elsewhere let us hope not but the signs are pointing in that direction. to go before we had the contents of that address thank you very much indeed gerald hall for joining us live to talk about what could well be spoken by obama a little later today thank you very much indeed thank you some of the news in brief for you this from around the world in india at least eleven people have been killed and the police shot at tribal and great ongoing local elections in the tribes men and women from surrounding villages descended on polling stations with swords and locals reject government rule and say it undermines the laws of their villages. the media rights group reporters without borders has condemned the detention of french journalists by french troops in the city of bar macko they were taken while filming an assault in the city and released only when their equipment and footage of been confiscated journalists say they have faced huge obstacles g

explain this has nothing to this has nothing to do with the united states the united states has made loud and clear that it really wants to take a neutral position regarding think islands the u.s. pivot the rebalancing towards the asia pacific as one issue and say could die you dispute as another what the united states has declared is that whilst they are a neutral party in these in these tense disputes if japan feels obliged to take some kind of military action or react in some way the u.s. japan alliance kicks in and then the united states which would. align itself with japan ok manas let me go get a that ok but the u.s. is involved then ok very much involving let's go to philadelphia what do you think here we got to the pivot real early in this program i'm glad go ahead lynn go ahead well i would respectfully disagree with that assessment because i think u.s. is really behind this dispute the u.s. is playing off japan's fear of falling behind china or losing is primacy in asia and is also playing off the feel about in the asian nations towards a resurgent china so just vietnam the