can you tell me the way to ask us house ask us house. turn right. thank you. just in time as preparing for a great festive occasion his youngest son is about to go through the ritual of circumcision the wealthiest man in the gold valley invites guests to his house where conversation inevitably drifts towards the grand occasion and of course gold . and they have been digging up gold here for centuries don't believe those who says it's only been mined for the past fifty. years the technique has been passed down to us from our forefathers but then foreign companies brought their intel still methods in which are damaging the environment my son might end up asking me why we did nothing to prevent this that's what worries me. most of the foreign companies here are chinese and canadian they have actually been mining gold for several years every now and then almost bumps into temporary townships for miners as he continues on his journey every machines grind tons of sand on the river banks foreign business methods irritate local people. some fifteen years ago i don't r

is affordable housing the last priority for the use of funds that were in fact the low mod housing dollars in the first place? i'd ask the board to keep very careful watch on that. * the city is pushing, we're all working together towards the passage of proposition c because there has been a loss of affordable housing dollars throughout the city. i think this would be a very difficult time to say that we should be taking funds away from affordable housing uses. so, i'd ask the board to carefully monitor the ongoing progress of those projects and make sure that funds are available to replenish the low mod dollars in the city. thank you. >> thank you. robin levitt followed by

populations and we hope to develop those to provide for the development of affordable housing for transitional use on parcel u and ultimately in 2020 when our lease with proxy that we hope to do some additional affordable ownership housing on parcel k. in that way, we will have provided sort of a breadth of affordable housing serving, again, a very, very difficult verse need. i'm pleased to report back to the board that not only has our affordable housing been successfully financed, but it's been recognized both by the aia, and most recently the richardson apartment was recognized by not only national organizations, but global organizations in terms of its quality of design, as well as the population it serves. and it really is a reflection of not only the mayor's office of housing, but also the city as a whole because clearly the mayor's office of housing cannot sustain -- we can provide the capital, but in terms of the operation of, say, richardson apartment, that is very dependent on our relationship with both the department of public health and human services agency. so, again, we look forward

in the hope that they don't know if the real was lost by selling the house at a substantial distil all right chris whalen bringing us dirty little secrets and shattering the conventional wisdom on housing really appreciate you being here thanks so much chris whalen you are your manager a lot of rector tangent capital partners. let's wrap up with loose change first major one thing that was sticking out to me when chris whalen was so bearish on housing in the northeast i think they have hurricanes now the furthest profound people are going to live there are actually true when you talk about all the time i was joe i'm joking because one of the los angeles where there's not hurricanes just earthquakes. and they've been saying the big one was coming for a long time in california i should know i've lived there and talking i don't was you know was in the volcano movie there was a volcano you i don't know of a movie reference for everything i told you that was one of his troopers of all. i don't and i don't think that's probably enough but let's move on to an actual story that we don't know about we all know in these econom

use of apartments versus housing, group housing that is triggering the finding that there should be parking. he has said in the 2005 that the parking right for this lot, not for this use, is a substantial property right possessed by others on the property. i'm going to hand it over to mr. nale and then to his other attorney. thank you. >> hello. my name is david nale and i am the owner of the property at 124-128 fillmore. thank you for your consideration in hearing about our proposed garage. i purchased the three-story property in 2004, when it was rented by individuals who then found roommates through roommate services or otherwise. the units were not occupied by families related by blood or friendship. the property now operates in a similar manner, but approved by the city and called in the planning code "group housing." that means that tenants still rent individual rooms, but they have their own lease and they are no longer tied to the lease of a main [ta-epbts/]. tenant and as a result of that, all tenants are protected by rent control because they stay more than 32 days. the ten

us with that. sometimes it's a matter of housing and urban health administers these units for us, it's a matter of talking to marc, talking to margo, this just isn't working out, perhaps you want to take 20 percent off because it isn't working out and let's get the equivalent number of rooms elsewhere. that's the type of bargaining we have to do. in general what the hotel managers will do is make some sort of fix that makes things better. it may not be perfect, but the client says that's fine. and when it doesn't work we have sometimes left hotels and gone on to others. does that make sense? >> public comment? public comment. >> go ahead, walter. >> i always knew (singing) there's a place for us, somewhere a house for us, housing to share in everywhere, out there, everywhere, somewhere, some way we'll find a knew way of living, we'll find a way of forgiving. somewhere, some way, somehow, right now. >> thank you, walter. and with that i think we're ready for our break. thank you. we'll be back in about 10. >> thank you. we are finished with our break and we are now on item no. 8, information item,

, to legalize the group housing use. we were taken to small claims court, but we did win on that. so at that time, as a delay that counted towards them on the variance decision letter. so i think we have, as i said, taken everything that we possibly could into consideration in giving additional time beyond the three years that is typically allowed for the variance. >> we can take public comment. are there any members of the public that wish to speak on this item? please step forward. >> my name is phillip sears and i live across the street from david nale's property and i'm here to oppose the extension of the variance. i am a building contractor and i have been watching david nale renovate his property since he purchased it in 2004. he applied for this permit for the garage in 2005, but the records show he has pulled a number of building permits for repairs and additions to the interior of his building. he added a number of bathrooms and was creating what is now the sro, but at the time was a tourist hotel. during '05-06

is affordable housing the last priority for the use of funds that were in fact the low mod housing dollars in the first place? i'd ask the board to keep very careful watch on that. * the city is pushing, we're all working together towards the passage of proposition c because there has been a loss of affordable housing dollars throughout the city. i think this would be a very difficult time to say that we should be taking funds away from affordable housing uses. so, i'd ask the board to carefully monitor the ongoing progress of those projects and make sure that funds are available to replenish the low mod dollars in the city. thank you. >> thank you. robin levitt followed by sharon colt, william pickle or pickel. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. robin levitt from hayes valley neighborhood association. i'm a long-time resident of hayes valley. i was also the co-chair with the late patricia walk up of the three campaigns to replace central freeway with octavia boulevard. i spent many of my years working on this project and still involved in it. and i just want to point out, and we all heard

so that a developer that builds a mixed use residential and student housing project is able to have the flexibility granted by the legislation to change the use from student housing to residential use within the same development, but that the city is also able to then come in and monitor what are the requirements and the fees that they need to then pay. i think that we want to get this right. we are supportive of the recommendation of the planning staff. we have also heard from community members that there might need to be more time for discussion. this is clearly in your hands now, commissioners. i would say that we want to get it right. and if what is needed is a little bit more time, i think that the intent of the legislation as presented by myself today is pretty clear. we want reporting to be for new development exclusively to take advantage of these f.a.r. bonuses, [speaker not understood], and that is what the legislation wants to accomplish. as with every legislation drafting process, there were some additional things that made it into the legislation, but that is our goal and i

should have known better so why people let the terrorists use them why people let the terrorists use their houses for rockets and for firing what do you want us to do you for tomorrow any terrorists will fire on your children from any house what would you do see we call before every strike i repeat before every strike we drop letters and we speak on the radio and we call upon civilians to get through to leave the places that can be. that can be targeted and that's what happens if the terrorists use the civilian so if civilians don't want us to use them let police not let them use them lead the combust control gaza if he really doesn't don't want to be heard that's the only reason and lead them pressure from us not to fire rockets on israel enough to use them for firing these rockets we have to provide safety for our children and we target only but if. around but didn't leave the place yet we will do everything not to hurt them but unfortunately sometimes it happens because there are civilians but doesn't listen or just use them we call upon everybody to stop firing rockets and we call upon all th

call upon civilians they will be around that they will not let the terrorists to use them to use their houses to use this schools so believe me we do know that civilians but hamas targets civilians they see a victory in hurting civilians we're really sorry for any casualty but if hamas doesn't want casualties in gaza stop firing rockets in stop hiding in using their own civilians but alex i mean you say they are targeting terrorists how do you legitimize that statement when the democratically elected leadership is hamas i mean when that make all public areas hamas affiliated where are people supposed to go to me it seems like it's just a way to justify bombing any building in sight and say well they should have known better so why people let the terrorists use them why people there the terrorists use their houses for rockets and for firing what do you want us to do you for tomorrow any terrorists will fire on your children from any house what would you do see we call before every strike i repeat before every strike we drop letters and we speak on the radio and we call upon civilians to get th

they're put into the city's affordable housing fund along with things like the inclusionary housing fees. and then we use those funds through the mayor's office of housing to support the construction of new affordable housing units. the actual amendment before you today would authorize mo and the port to actually enter into an alternative method to meet those particular obligations on port property. as said we would be entering into an m-o-u specifically. this ordinance change would be consistent with state law that was authorized the port land for affordable housing. that would be in exchange for the fees that they would be otherwise paying on port property. and it would be essentially a credit to the fees that would be paid in equivalencies. and the land that would be suitable for affordable housing, we would be provided to us at below market rates so that we would be able to use it, then, for future development. and then i'll turn it next to trisha. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors, trisha, port staff accompanied by the special projects manager. i'd like to just start by thanking superviso

housing be the antidote to the fiscal cliff it has been suggested as more and more seem to believe us housing is in a recovery our guest is here. for a reality check and bloated bureaucracy we complain about it when it comes to the government but does the problems bill over to public universities the numbers seem to say yes and some professors are revolting we'll tell you about in this change let's get to today's capital account. as you well know everyone is obsessing over the fiscal cliff from the press to politicians working on a deal to this seventy three percent of conference participants at the wall street journal's c.e.o. council in washington who reportedly said it is their primary concern now while everyone is focusing on how to avert a recession and have their eyes on president obama's press conference today for clues about averting the proverbial cliff was there another hearing on capitol hill that was far more under the radar but dealing with another issue entirely they could give us an indication of where the economy is headed the stronger capital standards in our proposal would s

but, you know, second floor uses for office and other type uses, not at the expense of housing, is often a very appropriate use. and when it's quite successful. i would hope if we did pass this , these earmarked uses, it could be modified at such time as the city might allow for more general uses in all of these named ncd districts. is that what you're telling me? >> yeah, i think the intention is to allow offices on the second floor. it just is a matter of getting that legislation, drafting it, introducing it and bringing it forward. >> what i'm hearing is if we were to pass this today and then this would be done in more of a blanket way, then it would apply to any of the named ncds if this legislation was passed through. we wouldn't have to revisit each one of them and pass, and see if they would be willing to accept that? >> commissioners, if i could, emory rodgers, planning department staff. the director asked us to look into the issue of office and neighborhood commercial districts. it could be a little bit controversial because it was originally purposely excluded from neighborhood

be the point and another speaker talked about using it as hotels for illegal use, well if it's zones for individual housings and they are using it as hotels then they are in violation, and therefore, that can be dealt with and the laws can be passed in such a way that this can be police and had keep people from using this as hotels. the other thing, i wanted to mention is see, the size of the unit. i know there has been some suggestion, i think, i believe correct me if i'm wrong but it is one 50 square feet for main living space and kitchen and bathroom is in addition, to that with a total size of 225? . >> the building code amendment reduce the living area to one 50 square feet and the bathroom has to be separate and the total including the separate bathroom and any closets can be 220 square feet and the existing building code allows for a living space of 220. >> okay so we are going to one 50 to 25020 and i'm not sure about the kitchen is it included in the main space. >> it's included in the main space, okay that may be one thing that i would like to suggest to the respond cor if there is a way that we m