please support the united negro college fund. because a mind is a terrible thing to waste. >> welcomed to the meeting of tuesday, september 28, 2010. supervisor alioto-pier: here. supervisor avalos: here. supervisor campos: present. president chiu: present. supervisor chu: present. supervisor elsbernd: present. supervisor mar: present. supervisor maxwell: present. president chiu: can we have a motion to excuse m toirkar -- supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor dufty has just joined us. please join in the pledge of allegiance. are there any communications? >> we have received a letter communicating the mere's vet -- mayor's veto on an alcohol mitigation fee. president chiu: can you call the consent agenda? >> these items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote. the matter shall be removed and considered separate if requested. president chiu: roll-call vote on the consent agenda? supervisor chu: aye. supervisor daly: aye. supervisor dufty: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor maxwell: aye. supervisor alio

please support the united negro college fund. because a mind is a terrible thing to waste. >> good evening and welcome to the october 13th, 2010 meeting of the board of appeals. the presiding officer is president peterson. to my left is the legal counsel for the board and we also have the legal assistance. i am the executive director. in the front row, we have representatives from a couple of city departments that we will be hearing from. on the far right is the department of building inspections presentive and also be zoning administrator. please go over the board meeting guidelines. >> the board request that you turn off all phones and pagers so they will not disturb their proceedings. please carry on conversations in the hallway. the appellants, permit holders and respondents each have seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttal. people must complete their comments with an seven and three minutes. members of the public not affiliated have up to three minuteseach to address the board. to assist the board

please support the united negro college fund. because a mind is a terrible thing to waste. chairperson maxwell: welcome to land use. i am joined by david chiu, and eric mar will be joining us. i want to thank the clerk and the folks at channel 26 for bringing us live. >> please turn off any cellular phones or pagers. any documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. the mets will appear on october 2. chairperson maxwell: will you read items one, too, and three together? >> item 1, ordinance accepting public infrastructure improvements along fourth street, channel street, and third street, including sidewalks. item two, public infrastructure improvements for mission bay south blocks 10 through 10 and a. item 3, at mission bay south storm water. pump # 6. >> all of these a been approved by the department of city planning, which has determined that the improvements put in place are in conformity with the city's general plan. the director of public works has issued a completion for each agency and has determined that the construction was done in accordance with mis

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