problems with variances. not all. >> 90%. >> this situation is a little bit unusual. most of those variances occur in a real rear yard. this is between two building on the same lot. i am not sure i view it the same way that the plans is doing it as a variance. i don't know that portion of the code. i don't recall seeing that related to when you have two independent structures on one lot how they deal with that. to me it is really the separation between the two buildings. it is not necessarily a rear yard. it is really take other building. they have a choice which building they pick as the front and which is the rear. it is really take other building on 21st street that has nonconforming and the min mist rear yard. i don't have an issue with the variance. >> make your motion. >> i move to deny the appeal and uphold the variance on the basis it was -- do we have it. it is on the basis it was proper. >> commissioner has a motion to deny the appeal on the issue it was properly issued. presiden(roll call). >> that

the variance is required for that. i have trouble with understanding the extent of the appellant's argument, but the process that they outlined, and yes, i work at the planning department, this is an absurd process that they are putting forward. they would have you somehow obtain the building permit to construct the new building before you get, or are allowed to get the approval to demolish the building. so you would have -- i still don't know how that would work, exactly. and in some cases, the new construction wouldn't even require a planning commission review. they would expect we would send that notification for a new building that goes where an existing building is but no reference of that building to be demolished. whether it sits on top of that building or not, it makes no sense to me. why anyone would want to go through the process of getting a new building without knowing they have some chance of demolishing that building. i agree with the property owne owner's council that what is in the code today reflects a

there's never been a variance for that deck. we have a variance to our deck.i have i -- i know i have no time here. i'm sorry? >> your time is up. >> can we make that deck not enclosed so we can have our -- >> sorry, your time is up. >> evening. this is not about the neighbors. there has been an outstanding stop work order from d.b.i. for two and a half years. there's been a planning enforcement case for a year and a half. that is who their gripe is with. they gauged extreme cereal permitting. they say 15 permits but there is more than 20 if you count the electrical and plumbing permit. they went forward to and a half years without a conditional use application without a variance application and without a single neighborhood outreach meeting. without any engineering or soil testing, without shoring, even though it is on a slope over 20%. without approved plans, without any planning applications or review, and that is how they went forward. no shoring and that is why joe duffy was really worried. they remove the entire rear yard and flooded andy's house. that c

the administrator considering a request for variance. >>> a few more items here for you, thanks. >>> good afternoon, president hillis and members of the planning commission. this item for you is a request for conditional use authorization to allow a buildi building. project site is approximately 1700 square foot. mason street to the north. within an rh3 zoning district. the proposed project would add a fourth story to the existing building with a net additional of approximately 1100 square feet connected to the top third floor which is one dwelling unit. the project does not add or move any existing dwelling units, nor does the project add any off-street parking. with the addition of one floor, the building would reach a height of 44'-6'. even though the underlying bulk and height district for the subject property would allow for a taller structure, the planning code requires approval by the planning commission according to the procedures for conditional use approval. construction impacts attributable to the project. i just handed you additional petition letters. i think those were d

. >> >>clerk: 5c approving a variance. b) authorizing, pursuant to transbay implementation agreemt, a third amendment to the memorandum of understanding with the city and county of san francisco, acting through its department of public works to increase funding in an additional amount not to exceed $17,966,556 for an aggregate total not to exceed $19,079,347 for the transbay folsom street improvemen >> nicki henry will be presenting on this item. >> my name is nicky henry ocii. the requested action before you today is a variance under the mission bay design for development. today we will be going over the site location, the variance background, proposed design for development variance, mission based cac meadback, se qua and next steps. coount equal to 1% the cost of truction for exceeding 25,000 square feet. public art projects shall be subject to approval and review. the redevelopment plan requires the installation and maintenance of works of art costing an amount equal to 1% of the hard costs of initial construction of a

as proposed the project requires a variance which was heard by the zoning administrator in 2016. leading up to and during that hearing, the dr requester and members of the commission raised concerns relative to the protection of a tree located on the subject property and eligibility for landmarking status. in deference to the project, the administrator closed public comment but took the item under vise my. the project was on hold for over a year pending movement relative to the tree landmarking. at the beginning of this year, 2018, planning staff inquired as to the nomination status and found that it had never moved forward after the variance hearing. having received a revision that would retain the tree, the department decided to move forward with the 311 notification process. during that time, a discretionary review was received and is before you today. the dr requester resides in a single-family dwelling west of the subject property. this building is a city landmark, 31. the concern listed in the dr application include the removal of the tree, privacy afforded to 3 bedrooms in

you need a variance for that. they are code complying and consistent with the residential design guidelines. and they're very much prevalent throughout our city's lower density neighborhoods. in higher density areas like soma, north beach and the mission, lot sizes are often smaller precluding these from being built without a variance or full lot coverage is already the case. in conclusion, i'm going to leave up a summary of the ordinance and jacob from planing is here to discuss the planning commission's recommendations. >> thank you. i'd like to quickly go over a number of modifications proposed by the planning commission at their meeting on thursday, june 7. first of these is to trefrns urban design guidelines in section 315 for the administrative approval for the 100% affording housing. secondly a number of amendments related to the notification requirements, the first to restore language that the zoning administrator can give staff more clear direction for specific sites for the poster requirements when the r

it really is in the end more about politics than principles key to know about this is that this variance sister party of the chancellor that is the party of the interior minister who essentially has given the chancellor an ultimatum. they have a major regional election coming up in september and they are very concerned about losing their absolute majority not least because the rise of the far right party in bavaria the a.f.d. that party is very very concerned about migration and about the huge influx of refugees that we've had in germany starting in two thousand and fifteen with the chancellor's open door policy now that policy has been a bone of contention with her variances to party since then. basically it's one of the reasons the coalition to go she took so long to finally form a government but it's coming to a head now very much because there this party to be variances to party wants to look really tough on migration and therefore says this has to be resolved now and essentially the knives are out for uncle americal there's a sense that her power is waning and they have decided to g

if you are requesting a variance, you get a 20-day notice.f you are doing a code-compliant process, it is a 30-day process. 10-day notice is currently required for d.r. hearings, large downtown projects and eastern neighborhoods projects. many forms of notification do not reach tenants. they are not provided in multiple languages and not access tonight the general public. notification requirements for retained scopes of work today the planning department review backlog. anners hav40 to pr ects assigned to them and keeping track of various notice requirements creates room for error and delays. this ordinance proposes a simplified notice that becomes operative january 1, 2019. consistent notification requirements for all application hearings, including a 20-dil notices to 150-foot radius of te nanls and property owners. one poster every 25 feet and 20-day period of online notice which will be more accessible to the public than the newspaper notice. plans would no longer be mailed, saving three tonnes of paper annually. instead, neighbors will r

and he said any "variances" at the irish border would be open to exploitation. going to be, any variance will be open to exploitation between both organised criminals between violent dissident republicans and potentially even the challenges of a porous, open, frictionless border in terms of a route into the uk for an international terrorist threat, something that we can't overlook. but the simple assumption that we are asking people to agree on is that any variances will be exploited by those who wish to cause harm to communities and to nations either uk or ireland. there's a consequence, there's an impact of us leaving the eu on something that everybody said would be sorted and it is looking increasingly fragmented. so, european arrest warrants, exchange of biometric data, all of that needs fixed and there is a real operational impact for us if we don't have either a transitional period, a continuance of the current arrangements or some parallel bilateral mechanism to deliver the same thing. chief constable, you said that finding the appropriate authority to pr

that has not been subject to this eu or the variance. i would like to state i also did a site visit and almost all of the interior original foundation walls, studs and there is -- original floor plates are, for the most part, intact and have not been altered. there is been public outreach from the community throughout the life of this case. there has been much contact with the adjacent neighbors to the west. and since the publication of a case report i've received four letters, also in opposition from the project from adjacent neighbors to the east and south. we also received a letter in opposition from the corbett heights neighborhood association. with that being said, the department finds a project is on balance consistent with the objective and policies of the plan and we recommend approval as proposed. thank you. >> thank you. project sponsor? >> welcome. hello. thank you for your time today, commissioners. my name is mark cruise. i came on as project architect in june of 2017. i've been working on behalf of this family to bring the

>> it was built without a permit, it needed a variance in '69 and it needed a fire wall. there was a notice violation. they have submitted drawings showing the existing walkway as of last month. and then a permit to remove it. and here is a close-up of removing it. i'm concerned with their family. they need to have access to the backyard. they have a fundamental problem i don't think they quite figured out they have a notice of violation. the last thing you want to do is resolve a notice of violation with a major house remodel. notice of violation should be resolved with a stand-alone permit because if you do it the way they are doing, they will be resolving this two years from now and it will be an administrative nightmare. my suggestion would be they file a stand alone permit that would correct the notice of violation, since they agreed with planning to remove it. planning said you could have 2-3 items but you can't have them all and they agreed to remove this but the smart deal would be to file a stand alone permit to resolve it as part of it building temporary stairs

and then the other portion is the front -- the back variance. and so apologies, it's hard to see but our neighbor to the left is actually at max 130 feet from the street. they have a kind of a bizarre walkway out. so to have a code performing setback would be 15 feet which in this scenario we think that it's more important to have most of the massing on the corner. that's where we're at, thank you. and i wanted to have a few more words... >> commissioners, my name is paul. i'm the project sponsor. before i go any further i want to make clarification. nursing care is for people who stay there with medical staff. and there's housing of elderly that need help. and there's elderly care or senior care, and so everybody knows what's going on. but, unfortunately, under the current code they put a lot of burden on the people waiting for the care home. they don't classify them as housing. amazing, they treat them as office. i'm very frustrated. nowadays currently the city only has 3,000 beds, the whole city. and half of it is the so-called higher up, whe

notices won't go away because there won't be any variance for some of these things. i suggest you look at these documents on theann plg website. i leave this outlined for inclusion into the minutes for sunshine 6716. >> president hillis: thank yo you. >> good afternoon commissioners. i am the cochair of affordability. i am in agreement with the coalition of san francisco neighborhood and some of the other speakers speaking on behalf of community organizations with not enough neighbourhood outreach that was done on this proposal. i believe you guys heard it last week, and now you are proposing to push it is a big mistake. i can give you three examples where, you know, i'm glad we're talking about the preapplication meeting, because we would like to have more notice on preapplication meetings, not less. when we formed the community plan, we asked for 60 days. doubling the notice requirement, not bringing it down to 20. and the reason being, when we have major proposals, for example, on to visit darrow, it is not the immediate neighbours, it is not just the neighborhood

fifteen with the chances open door policy now that policy has been a bone of contention with her variances to party since then. basically it's one of the reasons the coalition to go she took so long to finally form a government but it's coming to a head now very much because they're this party the variances to party wants to look really tough on migration and therefore says this has to be resolved now and essentially the knives are out for uncle americal there's a sense that her power is waning and they have decided to go head to head with her on this and it could indeed it could bring the government down it could bring the chancellor down angela merkel but it also could bring down this interior minister i don't see any winners frankly coming out of this ok this is really about power at the end of the day but let's drill down a little bit deeper into the policy because this is also an interesting element of all this you know given the failure of the rest of europe to formulate a viable response to the migration crisis does the interior minister fundamentally have a point. not in my view we

ramp requires a variance, believe it or not. the required variance is $4500 they don't have. i'm not charging him. he's building it himself. the planning department is preventing someone to go see the sun. thank you. >> president hillis: all right. thank you. >> clerk: commissioners, if there's nothing further -- >> president hillis: commissioner moore? >> commissioner moore: is it possible we discuss an item like it in our a.d.u. discussion? >> president hillis: i think we can ask the director to look into this and to kind of bring us back a solution if he can, or the zoning administrator. i think we can ask staff and the director to kind of -- to look at this. >> we'll definitely do this. just so you know, the unfortunate reality a few years ago is that the board took away any discretion i had to reduce fees, but we need to figure something out here, obviously. we will do our best to get back to you on that. >> president hillis: okay. thank you. >> clerk: commissioners, that'll place us on your regular calendar for items 9-a and b. [agenda item read]construction approximate

remember, a variance is noncode-complying and gets 20 days notice and the other 30 days. it can feel like the notice is being reduced going from 20 days to 30 days, it's being expanded by going to tenants where it wasn't previously. it will be multilingual and on-line for broader reach. 20-day notice will be more meaningful. preapplication is required as well as notices from the building department. the proposal to remove neighborhood notice for pop-outs is a significant part of the legislation that we think will be heard today. pop-outs at 300 to 350 living space, a bedroom and a little extra living space, usually to accommodate growing families. they're code-complaint, because they're part of the neighborhood character in all of the residential neighborhoods. it's the expansion encouraged by the department. they never enroach into mid clock open space or required rear yards. of the 250 permits filed for rear additions, only 5 of them get a d.r. filed and only two or three are modified by the commission. we have to think of neighborhood notice as a way to deter similar d

we consider ourselves under obligation to our custom is to work towards a situation in which the variance of their telecommunications only takes place in a legal manner democrats see data protection is one of the most important aspects and no security agency is able to catch all data from the so called d.c. its security agency can call out data in a mess of way it's not only state or of single persons or due to one single aspect there is no restriction to cakes the b. and d. have gone head to head before back in twenty thirty revelations from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden exposed the german intelligence service and shared data with the american agency at the time it was said the information was filtered in that german citizens data was not included but the internet exchange insisted no that it was impossible but then to be so selective is martindale's or again there is no restriction due to sharing this state and there is little for exam a parliamentary control there have been some cases already where it's been a huge amount had been transferred. from india to n.s.a. and so it's not

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 did receive two written submissions after the publishing of the packet. the department recommends -- [. [reading] ing] this concludes staff presentation and i am available for question. >> thank you. public comment on this item? >> mike bueller president of san francisco heritage. the proposed amendments before you are presented innocuously but from our view they raise more questions than they answer at this point and differ cult to understand the prokedde broadert op thescontextof these amendnt. the existing guidelines are intended to mediate impacts of contemporary new construction was existing or historic setting, the proposed amendments eliminate existing controls and delegate broad discretion to unspecified staff as what does qualify as highest cal

so those are the drivers in the variance. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. do you have any questions for the controller? all right. thank you i have much. -- thank you very much. let's take public comment on item 7. any member of the public that would like to comment on item 7, controller's nine-month budget status report. seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for your presentation. is there an action on this? can i get a motion to -- supervisor yee or stefani. supervisor stefani made a hearing to file this hearing as heard, seconded by yee. we're taking it without action. is there any other business before this body? >> clerk: that completes the agenda for today. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. we are adjourned. >> i came to san francisco in 1969. i fell in love with this city and and this is where i raised my family at. my name is bobbie cochran. i've been a holly court resident for 32 years. i wouldn't give up this neighborhood for nothing. i moved into this apartment one year ago. my favorite thing is my kitchen. i love these clean walls. befo

which we especially appreciate in the various public opinion shows that almost sixty percent of the variance actually support the move but when we spoke to people on the streets of nuremberg opinion was more finely balanced i don't think it's a good idea. because it has nothing to do with security the government is separate then the church so why should we do the same i don't think it's a good idea it's correct because it's a tradition and why not i comment on the one hand we see people wanting to ban the headscarf on the other they're forcing people to shoulder cross that seems the dots to me and mr sisson i don't think are very an identity depends on process it is stronger in other ways beer gardens and local traditions not gone it's gone across this part of everyday life for us but we respect every phrase not just christianity and the bavarian president became the target of more than a few online jokes when he announced this idea however those who are charged with actually hanging crucifixes in public buildings all day are on side with the plan. this is not a defensive reaction that a pos

which we especially appreciate in the various public opinion shows that almost sixty percent of the variance actually support the move but when we spoke to people on the streets of nuremberg opinion was more finely balanced i don't think it's a good idea. because it has nothing to do with security the government to separate them to church so why should we do the same i don't think it's a good idea it's correct because it's a tradition and why not i comment on the one hand we see people wanting to ban the headscarf and the other they're forcing people to shoulder the cross and it seems the dots to me. and i don't think they're in a danger to depends on the process it is stronger in other ways gardens and local tradition but it's a belief gone it's gone with the cross sparked off every day life for us but we respect every phrase. just christianity and the varian president became the target of more than a few online jokes when he announced this idea however those who are charged with actually hanging crucifixes in public buildings all day are on side with the plan. this is not a defense or.

her government over migration policy interior minister holds they hope for from the chances but variances to party the c.s.u. have been threatening to close germany's borders to illegal migrants who been registered elsewhere in the e.u. the chancellor has been resisting saying that such a move goes against european principles and after today's talks the chancellor merkel said her part of the c.d.u. supports whole say hoffa's initiative to present a migration master plan but only in cooperation with a few partners zehava has agreed to wait for a comprehensive solution to come out of the next e.u. summit in two weeks otherwise he says he will act alone is chancellor merkel putting her case. this of course in the image when you thought that we don't want to act unilaterally in an uncoordinated way or at the expense of third parties. that corresponds with what i said on thursday that in the future we will no longer accept those refugees who have already been sent back to the country they were registered in according to the dublin agreement and that's months luke of we voted for them and more

solution in the future that is the best that she can she can get at the moment and whether her of the variances to party will be satisfied with that that is a decision that is going to be made not in brussels not in berlin but in munich i'm afraid barbara thank you so much your correspondent barbara faisal there in luxembourg. turkey is facing severe economic woes as the country's voters head to the polls on sunday for a general election the country's currency is losing value fast driving up inflation this week the lira hit a new historic low against the us dollar is you leon is tracking the story for us in istanbul. machines are still rattling away in this istanbul printing house takin bhalo has been in charge here for over thirty years but he says business hasn't been this bad in a long time. paper ink most of the raw materials we have to be imported. and because the lira is getting weaker and weaker against the dollar. cost of increased a lot. the only thing we can do is struggle to survive. so. many turkish people share bowels frustration prices are rising because the lira is worth less and

was there were for heads the variances to party off macas christian democrats with fierce fighting that the deadlock could bring down the german government he says he has no intention to split the conservative block while this is what he said to the bid i'm sontag newspaper nobody in the c.s.u. was interested in a toppling the chancellor dissolving the conservative parliamentary group breaking up that coalition. and i'm joined now by she finished school correspondent melinda crane to unpick this for us melinda what appears to be a softer tone potentially now from the interior minister who will say who for he states the beginning of a compromise between the interior minister and chancellor merkel what do you think possibly that same newspaper the builds on sunday is now reporting that mr say hope his party the c.s.u. the bavarian conservatives will give the chancellor another two weeks essentially that's what she's been asking for to try to come up with a european solution to essentially fix the broken system for refugee and migration policy within the e.u. we have a very important use s

absolute majority there hovering more near the forty percent mark here which is unacceptable by the variance standards for the conservative c.s.u. well their slogan in just over a week's time will be a vote for the original so clearly there's a sense that the f.t. was copied by angela merkel sister party and that simply is not working for the c.s.u. party. and the a conference is just getting underway have buoyant our party nambour as would you say going into is giving all the problems i suppose in the government at the moment. will this give you a sense of satisfaction that the f.t. has been able to push the political agenda beyond the brink here in the very a particularly. at the same time there's a sense that this still is an anti anger machall party they don't just want to see a change of course on migration policy they want to see uncle americal leave office now the signs or the notable silence that we're hearing from this use you need to believe that it will not come to the crunch at this weekend that both sides will try and find a way to climb down from this very high tree that they'v

so those are the drivers in the variance. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. do you have any questions for the controller? all right. thank you i have much. -- thank you very much. let's take public comment on item 7. uld like to comment on item 7, controller's nine-month budget status report. seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for your presentation. is there an action on this? can i get a motion to -- supervisor yee or stefani. supervisor stefani made a hearing to file this hearing as heard, seconded by yee. we're taking it without action. is there any otherusin befohis? >> clerk: that completes the agenda for today. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. we are adjourned. >> i'm rebecca and i'm a violinist and violin teacher. i w b her in ss to a family of cellists, professional cellists, so i grew surrounded by a bunch of musical rehearsals an lessons. all types of activities happened in my house. i began playing piano when i was 4. i reallyedical activities in general. so when i was 10, i began studying violin in san scocind from there, i pretty muc

i think it bears repeating, this project requires no variances, seamlessly aligns with the roof lineevation slope to neighboring buildings, and the project scope includes enhancing and upgrading the building's exterior design and curb appeal. again, thank you for your consideration, commissioners. >> hard act to follow, my adorable husband. good evening, commissioners, and happy pride, by the way. it's been nearly four years since we brought 89 roosevelt way. we saved as much as we could to actually make 89 a reality for us, and our dream finally came true. sacrifices were made, but we pulled it off. we have a vision for the property that is shared and encouraged by eight immediate neighbors and many others on adjacent blocks. it is important to note that the two buildings that actually connect ours, 85 and 75 roosevelt, all six of those units are in favor and support this project. it is also important to note that the homes directly across from us who will be looking at our finished project also strongly support us. letters from all of them have been submitted. we are not merely her

is coming to an end but i still have an appointment with norbert he teaches jordan a lot of the variance know how to your daughter but i don't so i want to give it a try. no but all but what is your link anyhow your doing this i mean yodeling is a way of communicating at a long distances in the open air like in the hours. message from above to down below or from below to the top. one goal might mean the livestock is now in the band the theaters a form of long distance communication a communicate through one form so can everyone do it could i you wouldn't. yes if you can talk in a single you can yodel thing even if you don't realize it was either myself. or used two different registers. one is quite easy and normal registers like when you speak of course. but you can train it for instance when you do this. do it out is there exactly that's your normal chest voice when you order it's right there you can use that for your basic yodel sound the second register can be harder for a man it's higher. imagine you could fly and you're heading towards a cliff then you take off. where you thought i

. >>> right w, atno dc, with a lhtig andlo you know, feelin of aik variance there, as far a that tes.ake a look at radar, keeping an eye on ,this we've had a fewt showers have poppeded up down to the southeastern portion near 95 a little bit to thenorth, not too much. a sprinkle or two. but i'm not anticipating this becoming any kind ofin widespre fall at all. in fact, some ofhis moisture will actually develop intoog in the overnight hours. reand your cur temperatures, 77 at dulles, 78 at baltimore, 78 at gaithersburg. we do have a code orange air quality for tomorrow, and that's with all the heat and humidity. so do be careful, if you're in one of the sensitive groups, here ap quick peak what to expect next couple day, thunderstorms by the time we get totuesday. no shortage of sunshine, dry and hot as we start your money. that seven-day forecast coming a little bit later. lindsay?>> thanks, gwen. >>> the road to recovery for ellicott city is a long one, but we're s ingprogress. earlier, the city took a big step after the devastating floodspe reong a parking lot that willh provide nee