creating a unified, usable, and a memorable place for the north beach community. thank you for your consideration. president chiu: let me ask if the project architect has something to say. it will come up in two seconds. >> my name is marcia. i am architect. the site is located at the heart of north beach across roads of the neighborhood. to clarify the location, the playground is located between lombard and greenwich, powell and mason streets, and the site also includes 701 lombard street along columbus avenue, which is currently a parking lot. there is a long history of recreation use at the site. it was established in 1909, just after the earthquake in 1906. this is a photograph prior to the current library been built on top of one of the tennis courts at the sixth and playground -- at the existing playground. this is a photograph of the existing library, which as was mentioned, does not meet the needs of the community, is not accessible, and does not meet requirements of the ada. furthermore, it is not seismically safe. the interior of the library is currently

that once you calculate the maximum permitted building, you have to deduct up to 650 square feet of usable floor area to produce the overall mass that is allowed. that can take place vertically as well. given they haven't done that, they do comply with that because they aren't built out to the maximum envelope that they could vertically. they do comply. i would like to talk about the condition of approval and the process -- it was difficult for me to require the subject condition of approval. i did -- the project was suitable and acceptable without the need of a restricted condition. one of the things that -- the project sponsor was willing to do so and that was a good faith effort on the part of the project sponsor that they want to -- they don't have any intention of building out any time soon and they thought that would be a suitable condition to address the neighbors' concerns and allow the project to move forward. and with that, i added that condition of approval, which addressed the neighbors' concerns, the most vocal opponent who had counsel representing them and had discussions abo

>> that's correct. >> it would be a sliver, probably not usable, but there is potential to go vertical. >> thank you. >> i would hope that the project sponsors would take a building permit to adjust this lot line. whenever these lot line adjustments have been done without a building permit, we aren't able to review without any potential things that would result in terms of fire protection. and also, it would be another way to document planning's requirements in the future on this. any questions? >> you are recommending that they take out a building permit? >> for each lot. it would just be a plot plan to show where the buildingsr the adjusted newly lot lines fall and we can determine from there if there are any issues that come up as a result of the newly established lot lines. >> and those permits would be appealed? >> yes, they would. >> commissioners? >> could i ask a question, madam president. is there any way if this board were to uphold the zoning administrator, that we could make what you just requested part of our findings or is there a way for us to deal with it here? >> you c

administrator, 161-165 newman street, appealing the denial on march 15, 2011, of lot area, rear yard and usable open space variances, reconstruction of an existing stairway. variance case number 201 0.0467 v. we will start with the appellants. you have seven minutes. >> thank you. my name is vicki, and i am one of the cone owners -- i'm one of the co-owners of 161-165 new main -- newman street. neither of these homes really stands out as being unusual or out of place in our neighborhood. the two homes are completely independent structures, with no shared access or open space. because of the corner location, each house has a lot of street frontage, plenty of parking, and a lot of light. our variance request does not involve any structural changes, other than moving and outside staircase about 2 feet to the left. so it will have absolutely no impact on the neighborhood, the open space or rear yard. nothing will change if the variances granted. when we applied for the lot split variants, we were told we needed to request a variance for open space and at the rear yard, but 13 years ago the planning

the subject application seeks variances from the lot area, rear yard, and usable open space to allow the subdivision of the lot into separate, legal bahts, one approximately 25 by 46 and the other 25 by 50, but which are substandard in terms of the lot size, even though it is a corner lot. it still requires a variance. into the findings, the vernal heights special use district does have some smaller than normal lots, but they are still generally 25 by 80 feet. the subject lot as it exists is generally larger than what we would typically find it in vernal heights. however, the property is excessively developed. in 1998, there was a building permit filed to allow the construction of the single- family dwelling at the front of the property, and that was completed in 2000. that maximizes the development potential of the lot as one lot. had there been a subdivision at that time, that front structure would have been smaller. i think that is the key issue. it was built to the proper zoning for the proper restrictions for the property of 25 by 107 feet lot. additionally, this is not dissimil

custodian of the web was to figure out how to make the web less offensive, less threatening, more usable, more pleasant. and if it can do that, google figured, eventually -- i'm using google as if it was an actual person or animal which, actually, my 5-year-old daughter says sometimes, she thinks google's a person. she imagines met this person named google and i go to california to meet this person named google, and apparently google invited me to a party one time. i don't know, there's some story she tells her friends. [laughter] so imagine this, you've got the web that in the late '90s was a scary place and many people were not sure how much interaction they wanted with the web. these were the days when it was hard to convince someone that doing banking was a good idea, and that's probably the end of the list, right? shopping was risky, research was risky, putting your kids down in front of the computer was risky. that sort of activity. it was important for everyone who wanted to make money on the web to make the web a less frightening place. and we didn't even notice this was going on

preservation of other important policy goals in the city like creating affordable housing, having usable parks and libraries, etc. i want to look at how those different policies interact with each other. those are a few things i am working on. >> we are out of time. we will have to wrap this up. thank you so much for joining us. we have been talking to supervisor wiener from district 8. watch for the next episode of "need your supervisor." we will be back with one of our 11 city supervisors. ♪ [older man speaking foreign language] richie! richie! [speaking foreign language] yo, tye! what-up? richie! what-up, player? how ya doing, son? all right, man. i'm chillin', of course. you gonna be there, right? click freedomcenter.org to find yours. >> i work with the department of environment and we are recycling oil. thank you. we can go into a refinery and we can use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal>> to you have something you want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other pro

to replace an outdated and inaccessible structure with a beautiful, usable, and accessible new library to create much needed open space, any community would embraces project. -- would embrace the project. in all due respect, a group has stymied the project. we have seen the broad support this has in the community. we have seen the p. unanimous support from the board, the planning commission, but, and for some, opposition has continued. i respect the opposition, but at some time, you come to the end of the road. we are at the end of the road, and it is time to move forward. i was disappointed to see that this was attempted to be landmarked at the national level. this does not hamper our ability to move forward today, and it should not. this building is not working preserving of the risk of this amazing project, and i think the arguments we of heard around preservation do not advance the ball for historic preservation that we all support, protect and the best of our city's history, so i am supporting this motion and do so privately and hope you will as well, colleagues. >> the motion, ag

preservation of other important policy goals in the city like creating affordable housing, having usable parks and libraries, etc. i want to look at how those different policies interact with each other. those are a few things i am working on. >> we are out of time. we will have to wrap this up. thank you so much for joining us. we have been talking to supervisor wiener from district 8. watch for the next episode of "need your supervisor." we will be back with one of our 11 city supervisors. ♪ [older man speaking foreign language] richie! richie! [speaking foreign language] yo, tye! what-up? richie! what-up, player? how ya doing, son? all right, man. i'm chillin', of course. you gonna be there, right? click freedomcenter.org to find yours. >> i have been a cable car grip for 21 years. i am a third generation. my grand farther and my dad worked over in green division for 27. i guess you could say it's blood. >> come on in. have a seat. hold on. i like it because i am standing up. i am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. >> you catch up to people you know fro

the zoning rules that would apply to this proposed project, including exception to height, bulk, usable open space, some light, and dwelling unit exposure, and density standard. the proposal to lump all of these exceptions in to a special use district constitutes spot zoning, granting preference to this parcel not granted to other parcels in the block. we understand the project would extend 30 feet into the required of barrier yard. this would adversely impact neighbors by relieving mid blocked open space that benefits all properties on the block and conflicts with provisions of the residential design guidelines that impact light and privacy to adjacent structures be mitigated and the structure designed to be compatible with the neighboring structures. in addition, the modern facade of the building conflicts with the older architectural character of the area and fails to comply with the requirements of the residential design guidelines that the architectural features of the building be compatible to those commonly found in the neighborhood. in the appeal to the conditional use permit, w

and i want my building to be repairable and usable and fully occupiable after the expected earthquake and you might with no interpretatiointerruption and om willing to 2 $20 million. >> and there is the building behind and used by the u.s. marine corp and sure wall building and this is base isolated and i would speculate the difference in the cost is -- but i mean if you're puttin -- and this is what an interesting point is the building might be worth 50 mil u have all that high-tech communication inside or if the telecommunication goes down for one hour you lose a billion dollars and some of these buildings get to the super high levels or they require double and triple redundancy. >> question in the back. >> base isolated to what intensity earthquake? >> we design for the maximum - well, the code looks at design base earthquake which is 500 year event and that is 1906 and the code looks at the maximum credible earthquake and which is a thousand year and looking at these people and what they did and i suspect they did to maximum credible which is 40 percent higher than the base or 190

building code has a number a provision that makes traditional elevators usable by people with disabilities, but destination elevators presented challenges, particularly with cited. how do you know to get from this keypad to your our corporate car? >> we had a terrific program where we develop and administer the bulletin, which your help, elevator companies, involvement from the public, and you can tell us the outcome of that. >> what is amazing about the process is we had both government and private industry, as well as people with disabilities at the table for three years creating these accessibility standards. what we are doing here is being looked at by the department of justice access board and state architect's office. that is how good our standards are. would you like to see? i am going to push the access key which will activate the voice. i want to go to floor 24. ok, to the left. >> elevator j has arrived. >> that was smooth. >> i am getting a text message. it is amazing, these destination elevators. pretty soon, the signal that changes the system will be able to be routed through

standards that the city has adopt todd make sure housing is safe, healthy is appropriately comfort and usable. it's an interesting change that has taken place in the code in the last 20 years or so. where standards have gone from safety and fire resistiveness and health to include a broader range of issues much and in many cases the department of building inspection now enforces the american with disabilities act the way it's translate todd california accessibility laws we enforce disabled access. a civil rights issue. we support the new mailbox legislation. the new requirements about door bells are now in the code. there are other issues that are coming into the codes. habitability is no longer health and safety. habitability includes how warm you are and other stuff. dcht building inspection has standards the owner of a building is required to meet all of the standards of the building code and the housing code. the owner's responsibility to meet those standards. we do not always go out and say, your rainwater is leaking, fix it. it's the owner's responsibility to pay attention and fix stuff

that once you calculate the maximum permitted building, you have to deduct up to 650 square feet of usable floor area to produce the overall mass that is allowed. that can take place vertically as well. given they haven't done that, they do comply with that because they aren't built out to the maximum envelope

let me say first the streetscape, bicycle, and other improvements are about having streets that are usable by everybody. we have found that there are a lot of people who are very concerned about pedestrian bicycle safety, the livability of our streets. my next slide will show this is really the only funding source available for those improvements, and they are part of st. safety. and this is not just a resurfacing bond, but a safety bond. we also believe when we are going into the streets and improving them, muni, because it carries so many passengers, is a key part of our transportation system, that women are making these improvements in the street -- when we are making these improvements in the street, improvements to muni should also be made. with the st. transit signal infrastructure, the mta does not have any other identify the source of funding. >>supervisor chu: i'd think many of us recognize the need to have transit improvement work, whether it is the signals we are talking about in this situation, among other things, for muni. the question is why this comes forward with a street r

this case than the reno lead they received where local police gave investigators what he said was usable information. reporting live, jade hernandez, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> an east bay teenager buried at life at a santa cruise county beach remains in critical condition but ryan buchanan's family had some hopeful news. his doctors have weekend him off the drugs that kept him sedated and the 17-year-old is now functioning on his own. last saturday the teenager got trapped under 7 feet of sand for 15 minutes after a cave he had been digging with friends collapsed. nightly prayer vigils continue at the teen aiminger's church in alamo. >>> the city of alameda has brought in a retired state fire marshal to investigate the controversial drowning of a suicidal man at crown beach. ruben grahalva has a web site offering public safety reports. he will issue a report on the much criticized responses in the case of the suicidal man. crews did not go into the water because they are not properly trained in water res cues due to budget cuts. >>> tonight the oakland city council will try again to pass

now the prices have dropped the technology to convert solar electricity to usable household electricity has taken great leaps and bounds. there are a lot of folks doing it now. there is a process you can go through that the building department will assess your design and make sure it's sound and attached properly. we put a lot of these. usually they are bigger than this, on your roof. then; we run that back into our electric panel and will, if you are away during the day or not using electricity at home your meter will spin backwards. when you come home and you turn on the power, then, it will spin forward. you are crediting you are treeth pg and e like a gient battery. i had a question about the integrated systems that go on roofs ones built in roof system. >> with the stuff what we refer to as a thin film the ahead of the future of solar where you hear talk about nano solar where impr put materials. it's half it's the same price per watt. you need twice the surface area. oftentimes the person will call us and say i would like to have this because this is a preferred item and we show t

preservation of other important policy goals in the city like creating affordable housing, having usable parks and libraries, etc. i want to look at how those different policies interact with each other. those are a few things i am working on. >> we are out of time. we will have to wrap this up. thank you so much for joining us. we have been talking to supervisor wiener from district 8. watch for the next episode of "need your supervisor." we will be back with one of our 11 city supervisors. ♪ supervisor chu: thank you very much, president chiu. i wanted to emphasize what supervisor cohen, and this is the same conversation we have had with the nominee, and i look forward to seeing mr. ramos and the conversations and the balance he has expressed to me, and also recognizing some of the challenges that different neighborhoods might have with having accessible transportation, usage of cars and how is he would balance that, given multiple demands there might be, such as large families among other things. so i look forward to that conversation. my parents immigrated to the united states about