that places us under item 12 case number 2018-001876pca for obstructions in required setbackst, yards and usable open space. >> audrey beckis. this would allow pay windows that do not meet the standards of section 136. section 136 outlines the type of obstructions that may be permitted over streets and alley. regarding changes to permitted obstructions over the last several years planning staff have increasing number of proposed designs that are innovative and desirable. the intention of this legislation is to allow for more flexible that enhance a build's design. any proposed obstruction would be required to undergo design process. regarding the changes to the bay window design. if it doesn't fit within the standards outlined in section 136, the only option is to seek a variance from section 136 but required findings for variance are difficult to find. generally a bay window's unique result is not the result of exceptional or ordinary circumstance applying to the property but rather a product of architectural design. seek to develop an alternative to bay window design. the department

items seven, eight, and nine under your consent calendar. >> clerk: thank you. under your consent calendar -- [ roll call. ] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 6-0, and places us on item ten under commission matters for the consideration of adoption draft minutes of april 12, 2018 from the joint hearing with the building inspection commission and the draft minutes for the regular hearing of april 12, 2018. >> president hillis: any public comment on the draft minutes? seeing none, we'll close public comment. commissioner richards? >> commissioner richards: move to approve. >> second. >> clerk: thank you, commissioners. on that motion to adopt the minutes on april 12, 2018 for the regular and joint hearings, on that motion -- [ roll call. ] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously, 6-0, and places us on item 11 for commission comments and questions. >> president hillis: commissioner richards? >> commissioner richards: so i don't know if anybody saw the chronicle yesterday, wednesday. the headline is home prices -- if the profit return's not there, nothing's going to get built, so i'll leave that with you. thank you. >> president hillis:

close general public comment, and we can move to the first item on the regular calendar. >> clerk: very good, commissioners. that'll place us under your regular calendar for item 12, case number 2018-003257 pca, reauthorizing section 210.3 c concerning new production distribution and repair space. this is a planning code amendment. >> good afternoon, commissioners, audrey butkus, planning department staff. before i make my presentation, i believe we have representation from supervisor malia cohen's offices and so we're going to have her come up and then susan mah from oewd, and then, i'll give staff's presentation. >> president hillis: i think you're looking for mr. koret, right? >> unless supervisor cohen's office is not here, so if we could have susan mah from oewd come up, thank you. >> president hillis: yeah. >> hello, commissioners. my name is susan mah, and i am the production, distribution and repair sector manager from the office of economic and workforce development. as you all know, pdr is important to san francisco. we want to support this growth in san francisco. developing new pdr space is hard. building is expensive

use authorization is proposed for continuance to july 12th, 2018. item two, at 77 geary street, conditional use authorization is proposed for continuance to october tea, 2018. further, under your regular calendar, we received a request from the project sponsor team for item 15 at 792 cap street a conditional use authorization. the request is for two weeks. that would put it on your canceled hearing of may 31st. we could squeeze it on june 7th, but it is closed as it the remainder of your june calendars. so june 12th would be another available date. >> we will take public comment for the items being proposed for continuance. >> at this time, we're only accepting comments on the matter of continuance, not the project itself. >> i have some speaker cards for cap street. elizabeth bell and michael andrani. >> good afternoon, i'm lucas, i'm the project sponsor for 792 cap here to ask for a continuance. we've continued this a couple of times in october and in december. the commission asked mo me to do outreach. i've done so and i'm continuing to do so. i ask that you give me a little more time. i've had a meaningful conversation recently, you know, people in the community are -

item? if so, please come forward. hearing none, we'll close public comment. >> that will place us under department matters. rector's announcement. >> good afternoon. no formal report from the director this afternoon. eye would be happy to forward any questions you have for the next hearing. >> item two, review of past events of the planning commission and announcements. >> department staff just a few items to share with you this week. one is your recommendations regarding the pending districts for central soma area plan will be heard at the planning commission on may 10th, next week. and as you know, the planning commission evaluates those proposed designations based on several factors related to bay area regional transit, any potential amendments to the general plan that may have to occur, along with a few other sort of broader policy findings, but we will certainly keep you posted on any comments they have and forward them to you before we transmit those recommendations to the board of supervisors with the full package. also, i passed out some -- the section from the budget and finance committee meeting,

that's right a single use plastic items sold like of plastic marks but also straws popular for children all of these will have to go under the new e.u. regulations and they will be back to cli bounds that is part of the aim for the e.u. institutions the other aim is to really boost the alternatives so that in the e.u. fan shop here in brussels i found this bottle for instance and that is one option but no worries a lot of plastic items for there which there is no i'll turn it in paper or in storage for instance like this little plastic jug form that you can stay around that's very good to know. what has sparked all of this just briefly a many experts say the fact that so far over a half of the plastic trash from europe has been exported mainly to china but that is one one of the key reasons here is china has stopped those imports and now europe is looking for a new or new places the u.k. for instance is looking where to dump the trash in southeast asia but in the eyes of the european union only a sustainable solution is on the table amazing how china is really changing our world he is on his own thank you gail. business

items. there was also a third robbery case under investigation. >> the public calling in helped us solve twomes and potentially a third. >> i do believe that god will take care of the people who steal. >> reporter: 93-year-old ann pederson under went surgery. she is suffering more than just physical pain. >> she has been suffering from what i think and be best described as posttraumatic stress. she has been live -- reliving the horror, kind of shouting out in the middle of the night. >> reporter: greg petersen says he is grateful to police and the media for the arrest. >> we feel this coverage had a lot to do with apprehending the attacker. >> reporter: he says his mother is a breast cancer survivor. she is legally blind and can't hear too well. she says she will get through this thanks to the community. >> this guy has learned the hard way that he is not just preying on the week and the defenseless. he is up against an entire community. >> reporter: i've learned that the suspect has confessed. they will review the case before deciding whether to file a formal charges. henry lee, ktvu fox 2

under item 10 later in the agenda, asking you to allow us to rely on calpine to support our programs.1,000 accounts. opt-out percentage remains at 3.2%. so, we are retaining 96.8 of the customers that we enroll. the rates continue to exceed the opt-out, over 4,000 businesses receiving 100% renewable through the program. everything is moving smoothly. ahead to the july auto enrollment, mailing the enrollment notices for july 2018 enrollment. that will increase the customer count to about 105,000 accounts. adding mostly commercial accounts. seven customers so far have opted out now that we have begun the enrollment process. we are starting to see some modest opt-outs. regulatory activities, specifically the power charge and difference adjustment or exit fee and the customer choice report. on the power charge and difference adjustment, hearings have concluded at the california public utilities commission and we are working with the city attorney and with our colleagues in the trade association, cal c.c.a., preparing our briefs in the case. those briefs are due in june. we expect a propos

the current laws under article 5.8, which is what public works uses as the basis for reviewing and granting permits. public works has jurisdiction through this legislation and the main items that fall under this, that fall under public work's purview is the permit requirements, meaning who is required to have a permit to operate in the right-of-way, application requirements, location requirements, notification requirements, issuance of permits, and it also talks about violations, fees and suspensions for -- as it relates to public works. ordinance 182101 was also established as part of this, and this was kind of a rider to article 5.8, and it established more specific guidelines for the department. for example, article 5.8 doesn't outline specific application material. the order allows the department to set specific application requirements based on how the department submits -- based on how the department approves and reviews applications. for example, we -- in our order, we establish minimum sidewalk widths, whereas the -- as far as the legislation does not, and we also have more specific application material requirements, whereas article 5.8 does not. in terms of the c

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items. there's also a third robbery case under investigation. >> the public calling in helped us solve two crimes potentially a third, which is now open with another south bay agency that is investigating a similar robbery. >> i think and i do believe that god will take care of the people who steal. >> reporter: 93-year-old ann pederson underwent surgery and is still in the hospital. his son -- her son says she's suffering for more than just physical pain. >> posttraumatic stress. she's been kind of reliving the horror of the attack, kind of shouting out in the middle of the night. >> reporter: greg pederson says he is grateful for police and that media for the arrest. >> we feel the coverage had a lot to do with apprehending the attacker. >> reporter: he says his mother is a breast cancer survivor who works for decades at the federal reserve. she is legally blind and can here throughout. he says she'll get through this thanks to the community. >> this guy has learned the hard way that he is not just preying on the weak and the defenseless. he is up against an entire community. >> reporter: i've

> they won't come in and purchase the rest of the items that make up those single cash purchases that keep us open. >> reporter: they have a no one undersign. electronic - - electronic cigarette use has doubled, san francisco school officials have seen an epidemic of vape use. but the use has actually declined by 6% over the last few years. >> there are students that learn about tobacco, and tobacco products. they teach their peers. and they teach different lessons about why they are dangerous. >> reporter: juul labs is donating millions to education campaigns. >> they are so freely available. i think making it so that on the way to school, they are not constantly encountering these products. >> reporter: voters will decide on the fifth of june. rob ross reporting with fox news. >>> the state supreme court has approved new guidelines to start banning lawyers from having sex with clients. the rules now extend to consensual sex unless they are very or have had prior relationships. >>> mother's day is this sunday. are you looking for ways to spend quality time with mom? we have a host of activities and the weekend watch. here are some thi

under criminal investigation. tell us about that. >> well, i think that as has been widely reported, mr. cohen's various business interests have come under scrutiny. there are -- the search warrant writer, the list of items sought in the warrant was quite long. they were seeking materials related to some of the business associates, an accountant, a number of business ventures as well as monies that were paid to the porn actress stormy daniels. so the government seemed to be casting a pretty wide net. and they -- the reaction by both mr. cohen's lawyers and mr. trump's lawyers in court with regard to their concerns about privilege would indicate that it was all being taken quite seriously. >> and as you report in this new york times article, william, mr. freedman was disbarred earlier this month, and he had been accused and i'm reading from the article of failing to pay more than $5 million in taxes. he faced four counts of criminal tax fraud, one of grand larceny, all b felonies carrying a maximum prison sentence of up to 25 years in prison and in exchange for corporation he -- to his cooperation he will plead to evading only $50,000 worth of taxes and faces five years of problems -- of probation and tha

us end your regular calendar. item 3 was pulled off consent and it will be considered now. this is a conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon president hillis and members of the planning commission. i'm quite under the weather and i have no voice. i apologize. i'll keep my comments brief. this is to allow a surface parking lot to continue operating for two additional years to may 17th of 2019. there is a current entitlement for residential tower containing dwelling units. it's clearly the highest and best use for that project. they run until november of 2019. so we are very, very hopeful this entitlement goes forward and we have a residential tower project built on this property. department is recommending approval and i'm available for any questions you might have. >> makes you sound cooler, your voice. project sponsor. >> we'll give you 3 minutes here. >> i'm the project sponsor. i'm getting that kind of voice with age, too. [ laughter ] >> cooler also. >> this is a drawing. there's no changes being proposed from what you approved several years ago. this will be the third time we've asked for this. the conditional use permit will not hold up the large scale project that mr. foster just mention

items. there is a third case under investigation. >> the public calling in actually helped us solve two crimes and potentially a third which is now open with another south bay agency that's investigating a similar robbery. >> i think and i do believe that god will take care of this, people who steal. >> reporter: 93-year-old ann peterson had surgery for a broken hip and is still hospitalized. her son says she is suffering more than just physical pain. >> she has been suffering from what i think can be best described as post-traumatic stress releaving the horror of the attack, shouting -- reliving the horror of the attack shouting out in the night. >> reporter: greg peterson is grateful to the media for the arrest. >> we feel this coverage had a lot do with catching the attacker. >> reporter: he said his mother is a breast cancer survivor who worked for decades at the federal reserve. she is legally blind and can't hear too well. in her ninth decade of life, he says she will get through this thanks to the community. >> this guy has learned the hard way that he is not just preying on the weak an

neighborhood under strict watch a strict timeline and under police supervision to grab their items and they get back out maybe you could to tell us a little bit about the volunteerism of the community members and others that you've seen the big island of hawaii is is full of great people and they have had their share tsunamis hurricanes earthquakes and now lava flows. in two thousand and fourteen and today what the public is doing to help their neighbors is they're bringing shocks and larger vehicles to assist those who live in the lonny estates to have small vehicles and they're not able to take out as many personal items as they need and these trucks are volunteering in so they can take out more of their personal items to keep great things thank you very much major vick minute reprieve sheet that update so that is the latest on the situation here the eruption of mt killer way at thirty five homes destroyed and about two thousand people displaced made refugees in hawaii and we will of course have further updates on this situation as things develop for now laurent back to you over those thank you very much indeed. for having me p

items at the cash register. there is a third case under investigation. >> so the public calling in actually helped us solve two crimes and potentially a third which is now opened with another south bay agency that's investigating a similar robbery. >> i think and i do believe that god will take care of this. >> reporter: the 93-year-old woman had surgery for a broken hip and is still in the hospital. her son says she is suffering more than just physical pain. >> she has been suffering from what i think can be described as post-traumatic stress. she has been reliving the horror of the attack kind of shouting out in the middle of the night. >> reporter: gregg peater son says he is grateful to police and the meet yeah for the arrest. >> we feel this coverage had a lot to do with apprehending the attacker. >> reporter: he said his mother is a breast cancer survivor who worked for decades at the federal reserve. she is legally blind and can't hear well. in her ninth decade of life he says she will get through this thanks to the community. >> this guy has learned the hard way that he is not just preying on the weak and the

come in and buy, you know, the rest of the items that make up those, you know, single cash purchases that keep us open. >> reporter: the market has a no one undersign on the door, and the owners say minors rarely try to buy "vaping" products. but ecigarette use by high school students has increased by 21%. a recent survey of san francisco high school students done by the school district shows that ecigarette use actually declined by 6% over the past two years. >> we have youth outreach workers and they are students in the middle and high school that learn about tobacco, tobacco products, and then they teach their peers. they go into the classrooms and they teach them different lessons about "vaping" or ecigarettes and why they are dangerous. >> reporter: juul says it is committed to combating underaged use and that it's donating millions to education campaigns. still, supporters of proposition e will make it harder for minors to start down a dangerous road. >> so freely available, i think at least making it so that on the way to school when kids are walking to school, they're not constantly encountering these products. >> reporter: the voters w

come in and buy, you know, the rest of the items that make up those, you know, single cash purchases that keep us open. >> reporter: the market has a no one under and the owners say minors rarely try to buy "vaping" products. but ecigarette use by high school students has increased by 21%. a recent survey of san francisco high school students done by the school district shows that ecigarette use actually declined by 6% over the past two years. >> we have youth outreach workers and they are students in the middle and high school that learn about tobacco, tobacco products, and then they teach their peers. they go into the classrooms and they teach them different lessons about "vaping" or ecigarettes and why they are dangerous. >> reporter: juul says it is committed to combating underaged use and that it's donating millions to education campaigns. still, supporters of proposition e will make it harder for minors to start down a dangerous road. >> so freely available, i think at least making it so that on the way to school when kids are walking to school, they're not constantly encountering these products. >> reporter: the voters will decide on jun

for a special to figure out whether items taken from michael cohen in the raid fall under attorney client privilege kristin welker is at the white house. talk to us about some of the payments to michael cohen here. >> reporter: first to the argument that michael cohen, his attorney are making. they point to the fact that some of the camps that he uses in that document that he revealed earlier this week are related to the wrong michael cohen, someone who lives in canada. avenatti is saying that is not dealing with 99% of what we raise in this document. here are some of the big ticket payments. one from novartis which paid $1.2 million to michael cohen's company for insights into u.s. health care policy matters. columbus which paid $500,000 for potential investments in real estate. that company, of course, linked to the russian oligarch deposited funds into the same account used to pay stormy daniels. michael avenatti indicating that may have been reimbursement. at&t paying at least $200,000. it's important to point out it is not illegal to do that sort of thing, to pay for access, to pay for insights. it could be legally problematic if he failed t

under the consent calendar with the exception of item c? okay. being none, this item is closed now. i do need another motion. >> motion to approve consent calendar. >> all us in favor. >> aye. >> okay. so we are now on item 6, which is the san francisco zoo. this is a discussion only item. >> thank you. good morning, tanya peterson, director of the san francisco zoo. our march attendance was below budget because of rain falling on the weekend. we love rain, but we would like it to come in the evenings and weekdays. on the good news, year-to-date is still above attendance budgets with over 670,000 visitors total. that's 30,000 more than we had at this time last year. i want to touch base on community programs. we are proud to host recently the third annual bay area teen science event. here's where we collaborate with uc berkeley and the high schools of the san francisco unified school district to inspire teens to have careers in science. not only did our staff speak, but planet.com to get kids enthusiastic about careers in science. then we hosted for our 12th annual wild about art and science children from the san francisco public district schools from elem

use freight services because oversized items are bogging down regular shipping facilities. the new prices start june 4th. >>> a live look at the new york stock exchange as trading gets under wayhis morning. we are down 132 points. investors keeping a close eye on president trump today. yesterday he announced considering tariffs on cars, trucks and parts imports. the tariffs could be as high as 25%. >>> here is a polarizing debate that has split families since the dawn of time. >> who makts a better navigator? a man or a woman. according to a study from uc santa barbara, men in general are more efficient navigators. researchers found that when navigating in a known environment men prefer to take shortcuts to reach their designation more quickly. women tend to use the route they know. keep in mind these are differences in average performance. there were outliers, some women were just as efficient as the best male performers. the study also suggests future research is needed to determine whether the results would be the same in a real life environment rather than a virtual world because men tend to spend more time playing video games than women, so they might just have been bett

items right under the victim's noses. the suspects usually comminucate with each other using hand-held radios...as opposed to cell phones...to communicate with each other and avoid detection. ( robin )in the south bay... san jose police announced this week.... that they have arrested 16- people in connection with a series of robberies, carjackings and residential burglaries. kron 4's... charles clifford... talked with a victim, who had more than 20-thousand- dollars worth of his belongings stolen. sunnyvale residents nick brown and tara residents nick sunnyvale sunnyvale residents nick brown and tara clark say that this past weekend someone ransacked the storage lockers at thier apartment complex. tara estimates that the thieves made off with thousands of dollars worth of items like tvs and bikes. the thieves also stole nick's prized collection of musical instruments.soti noticed my saxaphone, my flute my guitar, on monday ,the san jose police department announced that they had arrested 16 people. . 11 juveniles and 5 adults. . who had allegedly been working as a gang to commit car jackings, robberies and residential burg

used in the murders. then investigators executed a search warrant at sampson's home in palmyra. among the items seized, from underhe bed, that 12 gauge bore ode from his grandfather, and a pair of blue jeans, examined by csi chief david kofoed's team. >> we had a pair of pants. it look like it had blood on it. we tested that with phenolphthalein and that tested positive. >> reporter: then there was more. remember that car seen by the newspaper carrier parked a mile from the farmhouse the night of the murders? detectives had found it, they believed. a 1997 ford contour owned by nick sampson's brother. and it had been cleaned and detailed actually at 5:30 easter monday morning just hours after it had apparently been used in the murders. who details a car at 5:30 in the morning? >> that's exactly why the detectives thought it was pretty suspicious. >> reporter: but wait, it gets even better. the car had been searched for evidence once and nothing was found, but then csi chief kofoed got a lead from one of the investigators. >> when matt confessed, he said he threw the shotgun in the backseat of the ford contour. he

under federal -- >> is it eligible or ineligible? >> if you'd like to go through each line item, -- >> this is a simple question, is it gym membership payment a permissible use of these funds from your point of view. >> all i can tell you is the federal cost principles are followed -- >> if permissible, apparently he doesn't want to answer a reasonable question. >> thank you so much, that is called cleared of english. useful when we are trying to get to the bottom of problems. can you elaborate since he wants to gives us -- >> the treasury send me a letter in april saying that they think gym memberships were allowed in the federal cost principles. number 1 of the federal cost principles it has to be necessary to a congress authorizes. >> the only way i can reach an agreement with the homeowner is at the gym, it wouldn't be permissible. >> i think that poses a danger. >> in his answer, right here right now, i have more concerns than i had going into this because we are not clear and no wonder states are approving expenditures that clearly show a commonsense witness would not be allowable because of this type of guidance. the treasury department -- since he wi

is even under the slightest scrutiny evenio if that was the concern, the cia could call the case for the officers faces blacked out and only then destroy the originals. all of us see news item and others with the faces of certain witnesses and others blanked o out. now, i recognize and i must say i appreciate these haspel's is committed to not resurrect the torture if confirmed. i also realize that commitment wasn't optional. torture is illegal. that is simply what the wall demands. but what about the next thing the president might ask her to commit. should we trust she will have the moral compass to stand up and say no? so the world is watching closely today. her allies and our enemies, our own future generation will view this out as nothing less than a referendum on torture. in the senate in this body that i cherish gives blessing to a nominee synonymous with the interrogation program, the demons of the past to the cia black sites, i do not believe this history represents who we are or what we stand for. i really do not believe that this is the soul of america. but it is a terrible mistake. i believe we must clarify we are capable of moving from and beyond our darker chap