in terms of the variance, the rear is fairly insignificant. it's taking in unsafe condition and basically making it safe. if you looked at the plans you can see where that is filled in. the deck on the third floor provides a less invasive condition into the rear yard open space. we are taking away a large stair in that we are adding spring clers -- sprinklers to the building. the sk one is access to the rear yard from the second floor. it was going to be further to the north which is what the right hand original project shows and is going to land in the middle of the property and less invasive design to any adjacent neighbors. >> that concludes my presentation and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. >> is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner antonini? >> i agree with the speaker. i would like to ask the sponsor, there are probably some in laws living in the house from time to time, is that what we are talking about? >> that's correct. susan who should be here shortly, her pare

, the project sponsor did that in 2000 and the building permit to construct the garage and a variance application was filed and the variance was approved and the building permit was approved, and issued, and however, and that was in 2000, and 2001, however, the building permit was canceled, and december in 2004, due to inactivity. the client that work on that case is no longer with the department and it is unclear why exactly that permit was canceled and why no new permit was required or followed up on. and having said that, it is a clear that the conditions that nsr, and the original board decision have not been met. and the planning department will move forward on that as an enforcement action to ensure that the project sponsor regardless of the out come of this appeal will be required to either provide the required off street parking or get a variance to not provide that parking if they can justify that so to that end, the department is mutual to the issue of this appeal and whether it is continued or not continued. and we will deal with this situation, again, as an enforcement of

if that required variances, i can't say for sure that would not have justified and obtained those variances. it is new construction on a usable lot. if it requires some type of hardship. i can say it may not have been highly likely they get a lot of variances on that. if that project would have been approved or if that project would have or not been awarded. >> just to biggy pack on that, if you can say about this a little bit. because the zoning changes the density calculation which used to be based upon a square footage of the site divided by the factors of how many units are allowed there. this one you are allowed as many units as you want with the height limit but some have to be larger units? >> the theory behind is and it not the two districts. it's all the districts across the city. it's beyond just eastern neighborhoods. essentially you are correct, before and other parts of the city based on the per square footage basis so 100 units per 800 square feet per property. in these districts there is no density control, however there is a dwelling unit requirement. 20 percent has to be tw

the project requires a variance for the construction of a stair slash elevator penthouse on the southeast corner of the roof and the parking area to a garden. staff has not received any opposition to the project at this point. if you do decide to approve the project it would be pursuant to the ceqa and san francisco administrative code and you will be adopting the mmrp as well. the department is recommending approval with conditions for an adaptive reuse of a building type that is difficult to adaptive reuse. it would seismically retro fit a building that is red tagged and add four dwellings to this unit. this concludes my presentation and i'm available for any comments. >> thank you. project sponsor? >> ladies and gentlemen, commissioners, i'm from the lighthouse development. i don't have a lot to say beyond what michael smith already told you and we submitted materials. we are taking a beautiful structural and architectural jem. we are going to restore it as much as possible. much of it has been saved. whatever we can preserve and adapt for our project we are doing. we are going to be a

>> and apply for the variance? >> okay, so it is not... >> okay. >> although it is a fairly, long lot, i am not sure. >> okay. >> wait, i didn't ask, if you what to speak to that question. >> we could have built up the house, over the existing house, very easily. >> no i am talking about the in the rear yard, where the trees are. >> well what the trees are we could have done another kind of, yes, we could have done an addition in the back that is not where that one is that could have been 12 feet up. >> would it have to have. >> closer to the existing house and we did look at that option, but decided that was not as good, for, and there are very nice views for everyone around and a lot of the houses are set in different ways and we could tell from doing the last project how important it was to maintain the house pretty compact on the site and so even the initial, design would maintain compactly on the site and that is why this time, again, we thought, okay, if we can go under ground it will really have the minimum

and that will allow that the design to be done in a way that won't require all of these variances in the planning code. and it will not overwhelm the neighborhood and will not threaten the club as much as this one does. and would, provide protection for the rest of the folks that have to live with this monster of a construction right in the middle of a very much residential neighborhood. we hope that you will take it back, and send it back to the planning department. and ask them to scale it back. and ask them to make it comply, and make it compliant with all of the protections that the planning code specifies and even under the eastern neighborhood, and new in the changed scenario, thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. mr. keplyn. >> we, the motion holder has 14 minutes since there are two appeals. >> good evening, commissioners my name is sufy and i was born in san francisco and raised across the street from general hospital, just blocks away from the proposed project. in the potreor hill district. i am one of the owners. along with my mom, dad and brother, and we are pro

and either, react ate the variance or get a variance that you do not need parking and the last thing that we want is the committee looking at pieces of the hill, if you want to build a garage, great, but you have to integrate the garage foundation with the retaining wall foundation and you are stuck with the retaining wall we don't like it and we are below it but you got to put it in so let them put it in and we asked the board to take the jurisdiction and continue the case to april and the building department will let them put in a portion of the wall enough to stabilize the hill so that we can get through the winter and pour a section of walt and the planning department is going to step in and let them speak for themselves about dealing with the garage and have you guys force them to coordinate the garage issue with planning, the building, and the hill issue with the building department and the structural advisor committee with a contractor that just does not want to follow the rules that pulling permits when they say that there is no work and so we asked the board to help out and

in fact the building, withdrew their request for the variance. so we made a hundred percent code enforcement. there would be 16 units at that time, it's now 12. this is pretty much the building we have now. i will show you the plan. at this point this has gone through a lot of planning review unfair to building representative. it's been reviewed and the final outcome is modified again from what the planning department approved unanimously at the description review hearing. so i just have maybe just some snapshots of some of the details that we are looking at. this is pretty much again recent changes right after the planning commission hearing. the project is intended to be contemporary like the new building. it's not attempting to be an historic building. the appellant did select photos which is easy to do of the 1 and 2 story buildings that are substantially around that neighborhood and they did not choose the buildings that are not historic and are sprinkled evenly throughout the community. i think that confers -- covers what i was hope to cove

you will see that management does an analysis which is on page 3-9 that goes through the variances over the past three 3 years and the actual statements are on page 10-11 of your report. once again we identify three of the most significant changes in the year. the first is a reserve for claims. this increase by 173 percent which was probably went from $9 million to $26 million. the increase was the blue shield plan from a full plan to a flex plan in midyear. this plan incurred but not reported claims added $18.1 million to the account balance. next we have the premiums payable. it went from approximately $26 million down to $17 million. this is also due to the conversion of the blue shield plan to the flex funded plan. then last we have noted the city health benefit which is on the income statement as an income statement line item. it increased from $62 million down to $45 million. this is due to the movement of enrollment from the city plan to the hmo. according to a statement of audioing standard of no. 114 we are required to make specific communication to this board. our first commun

we use the word exceptional or extraordinary in certain cases whether it's a zoning administrator variance or discretionary view, if you use that word in this way, it's making a judgment that conflicts with our policies and procedures about what cases are exceptional or extraordinary. so i wouldn't use the word exceptional. >> commissioner antonini. >> i agree with commissioner borden on that. but the other thing that commissioner moore was referencing earlier and we frequently see. somewhere in the rules we should mention that project sponsors are required to have their plans approved by the planner assigned in the case in reference to the details required by the commission before submission to the commission. i am saying that often the big projects almost always have extraordinary detail. but sometimes they don't have it. but we even see smaller cases where there is no rendering of what the project is going to look like. and the detail of the architectural plans are real sketchy. and we end up continuing a lot of cases based on the inadequacy of the sponsor to do these basic things. that

but up years with this kind of little complacency in variance is what's so unusual. the presumption is it will foot continue. if you look at the average daily move in the s&p this year, you're talking about 50 basis points per day. and that is a very, very low percentage. typically markets move almost 1% a day. so these peaks you see here, this is the 73, 74 bear market. this is the 87 crash. this is the september 11th event. this of course is the great recession. what happens is after plunges like this in terms of the day to day variance, you get ricochets. and so whether you're bearish or bullish, the presumption is the buy and hold strategy, the number one strategy this year, is not going be to the number one strategy in 2014. so the conclusion is day to day variance in the market will be much greater than 50 basis points per day. >> so it will be a stock picker's market in 2014 as opposed to riding the indices overall? >> i think if you look at this, one of the things the fed does since 2008 is take volatility out of the market and accept that volatility. as they

what types of cigarettes to produce tobacco for people much variance. for. the few that we mainly produce for philip morris. he's the principal buyer. so the tobacco produced by children ends up in cigarettes which belong to philip morris in packets of chesterfield merit among other brands which is sold on the global market. on his website however philip morris claims we do not tolerate the illegal employment of children and we do not tolerate forced labor so we called philip morris to. find out if he was aware of these abuses i'd like to ask you two questions the first one is are you aware of what's happening in bulgaria with so good that using tight labor and if you are. the second one is if you're not aware what are you going to do about it. what this communications representative tries to tell us is that philip morris is financing a foundation against child labor the e.c. l.t. yet the e.c.l. t. is completely financed by tobacco industrialists and while the e.c.l. t. foundation runs its costly programs targeting child labor some of its members continue to

should have accounted for the slight variance in trajectory when the bullet grazed your arm. six degrees. we were looking on the wrong floor. there it is. what? gsr cone. when a gun like this is fired, the escaping gasses settle. ( gunshot ) so memmo was definitely here. well, they took their gun back to the safe house, but not everything. what is it? lo mas dulce de la cana. it's two boutique-sized bottles of yarmy rum. memmo must have tried to calm his nerves. only one hotel in miami that uses these as a guest perk. that's the marano. that must be where he's staying. i imagine that you and horatio are gonna want to take it from here. yeah. ( cell phone ringing ) h. okay. i am so sorry. we got memmo fierro. mm. tripp picked him up at the marano hotel, just like we thought. let's go. fierro: hey, let me out of here! fierro ( muffled ): hey, let me out! let me out of here! hey, i confessed already! caine: come on, let's go. memmo, in the unlikely event that i haven't made myself clear, you deserve to know that this is your last chance. hey, i already confessed. i shot her. who

>> if i may add, the thought of eventually looking for a variance on less parking for gaining additional square footage is a possibility including where the unit is located and reopening as a diagram for this commission to really see where some of the critical triggers are. in addition to that, mr. washington, if i may, as you you are kindly looking for operables, will you look at that type of victorian flat and see what we have especially when we are dealing with an elevator and what structural engineering problems that causes and what opportunities it opens? >> we'll do our best to try to find similar layout, similar building designs with this same type of request. >> thank you. >> thank you. please call the question. >> on the motion to continue to february 6, 2014. commissioner antonini, hillis, moore, sugaya, commissioner chair wu. that motion passes 6-0. and places you on public comment. i have no speaker cards. >> any general public comment? seeing none, public comment is close. meeting adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> >> on december 28, 1912, san francisco mayor stare

not a lot of microclimate variance between the daytime highs. that's going to be the case for the next move days. 52 degrees in mill valley, 50 in fremont, about 48 degrees today in san ramon. i'm forecasting about 49 degrees in san francisco. let's get to the next weathermaker because that moves in as early as 9:00 p.m. tonight. you see the showers coming into the north bay. we continue this, stop the clock into tomorrow morning when the cold blast comes through. that's when we have a slight chance of seeing low level snow, that could be the case in gilroy and morgan hill. that's looking the most promising in addition to the eastern foothills around san jose. we could see a little bit of this activity in the east bay, especially the higher elevations. we'll see a mix down to 500 feet. that could make for hazardous driving conditions tomorrow morning. you want to make sure to stick with us. i'll be in tomorrow morning, i want to make sure everybody is safe. we'll track this, having live reporters across the bay area. this is a rare opportunity f

is where the variance application for the rear generated is approximately 14 feet by 22. because of the odd shape of the lot we're asking for lot permission on this area above the pompous we comply with the rear yard conditions. again as we come into the project there's a commercial space as described by the staff report we have parking behind that and bicycle parking in the endanger that complies with the bicycle codes. we have 7 unit per floor. 18, two bedroom and 3 bedroom units. we have worked with the staff to come up with details which we have here. one the major concerns was the quality of the space and we're working with the staff we get input from the neighbors about the roof-deck. not doing much justice to the elevation is in your packet. this is why we the staff asked us to generate a rendering your rendering in the packet doesn't have the trees we put the stresses in here to have some scale. again, the two conspiracy an open the right and the endanger entries are on the left. we worked with the staff to get the details to emphasize the entry. we're using a kid

. >> can we continue a variance b? >> it will be renoticed recalls. >> okay. i. >> commissioner wu president fong. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero. commissioners that and places you under your consent calendar they maybe acted upon a single roll call and no discussion unless the public or staff should request and it will be reformed from the consent calendar and item 3 case at the enterprise street request request for authorization and the next one at the 21 through 25 condominium subdivision and the next case at the 2715 through 19 be sacramento street request for condominium conversion and the next at the 3104 request for continual use authorization the next one at the 2200 market street and the next case at 850 brannan street known as 88 street there are no speaker cards. is there any public comment on those items on the consent calendar. okay be smooenz >> commissioner borden. commissioner antonini. commissioner sugaya >> and president fong. >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and mrs. you