you can see one victorian road to another victorian row which surrounds this project. you won't be after they put up that 65-foot, 70,000 square foot building. the gentleman that just spoke didn't receive notification. this is what he will be looking at. this is what it looks like presently. this is what they will be looking like. this is the public vista and this is the developer's document. this is the public vista from masonic avenue. if that is an aesthetic impact to dozens of residential units, what is? the draft e.i.r. skims over all this and says there's less than significant impact on every one of the land use issues and that's diametrically oppose the staff's first view of this case where it says it's not in conformity with the general plan, specifically the urban design element. they told the developers that they could not have a building of this size, they could support a little more height at the site but that was it. the political pressures and other fallouts, staff has now challenged the view of this project. president miguel: thank you. are there additio

they're all three, four story beautiful victorians. this will be six-story mom trotity -- monstrosity. there's nothing wrong with the programs, i enjoy all the things happening there. i'm completely against making an exception to the zoning for this building. there's no reason for a six-plus story building 70,000 square foot going from 12,000 square foot building in this neighborhood. there's absolutely no reason for it. they can do the same thing within the zoning. they're currently two stories, maybe three, going to four, not a problem. just officially i'm again this -- against this building. thank you. president miguel: thank you. >> i'd like to add that it was mentioned that this project was designed to bring these children into the community to give them a place. this is not a community. >> can you state your name for the record? >> hildie burns. it's a residential community, it's not for gatherings, there aren't coffee shops, there aren't shopping areas, you have to walk a long way to get there. i don't think this is an appropria

if it is a traditional house, edwardian, victorian, certainly. but not just everyday ordinary home depot crown molding. probably something in little bit nicer, more traditional. but i think the contemporary -- in the last 10 or 20 years, you probably want to consult with an interior designer before you slap of a molding. >> i suggest an architect. these are people who are trained to look at the appearance and make decisions. but i have seen it to great advantage, especially in the older buildings, victorian and edwardian period >> i agree with you to go with a professional. but is there a particular group? another list in the yellow pages and all that. for the exterior, you talk about the curb appeal, something like windows. where do i find a list of these people, without having to trouble a realtor who is maybe just interested in selling it? >> i think in that, just to address if different ways, you might want to get a couple different opinions. it does not take long. you might want to get an opinion from a realtor, even though they may just be

it's just assumeed san francisco that everything has to be victorian and that's no longer true. it's impossible, actually. >> great. that's not what i was hearing from what you were saying. that's good news to hear that. i think we should all encourage that. >> good. how we doing on time? >> we have one more question. we're out of time? ten more minutes. it's okay. >> i was wondering if you could expand a little more on getting variation for or variance for example sepgss and things like that? >> variances as i mentioned the planning code has standards for certain heights and widths and off street parking requirements. exposure requirements. open space requirements. rear yard requirements so all of those can be varied the only thing that cannot is height limits so. what you do is submit an application and there's a hearing before the zoning administrator. generally the last month in city hall you argue your case and rally a little support. people that oppose come and speak and the zoning administrator makes a determination and the variance is issued either granting or denying yo

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newer buildings, i could see where this could work, but in san francisco we have all of these old victorian buildings with carpets and all kinds of cornices that have to be roughed up there and it is hard to get up there and do a roof the traditional way with a cattle and from endicott. we say a lot of reputable movers, union roofers, still using a torch. this whole thing does not make sense to me, where we are going with this. that is just my opinion. commissioner? >> the other thing i would follow up on, how does this legislation affect existing groups that use this method? what happens is someone needs to repair it? could that be done? >> i believe that this would ban the use of torch's for repairing roofs. i would have to look into that. i believe that that would be banned as well. i believe that there is the alternative of using the glue approach to putting down new asphalt. >> so easy with the stroke of a pen to add costs on to the construction of it. people sometimes wait 30 years to be able to afford to put a new fund. adding all of this cost on their. >> do you know, this man on th

. >> reporter: believe it or not, the victorians really did play wiff waff in their dining rooms but with books for a net and paddle and wine cork for a ball the game was bound to evolve. this summer, tourists and natives alike are playing the modern version near some of london's most famous landmarks. as for boirs the mayor, well, his wiff waff technique turns out to be far from perfect. >> love-1. >> reporter: but it has put a whole new spin on the term "public service." elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. >> glor: that is the cbs evening news tonight, i'm jeff glor, cbs news in new york. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org who say something needs to be done at this dangerous intersection. a kickback scandal hits apple. the employee under arrest, and the conf >>> a deadly hit and run. what needs to be done at the intersection. >>> employee under arrest, and confidential information allegedly provided for profit. >>> demonstrate. >>> and rallying to keep social security intact, why bay area activists chose today to demonstr

the people in the drafty victorian houses. >> i know that there are a lot of people like that. another person wants to know if the funding can be used and paid off early? can you pay down alone, completely? >> absolutely. >> i love your answers. what about this? is the $300 -- can this go into the project? >> they are referring to the application fees. >> why are you doing this? >> there are two reasons to do this. if i did not go online i can still pay this? >> you also have -- they are trying to cover the costs. >> and there is the energy audit that is coming on? >> we can sometimes see this as a second cost. the other thing is that this becomes a little bit more serious. many of the people who apply are not very serious about the project. this is not deductible. >> are you able to finance this? >> i do not think that you can do this at the end. >> that is the one thing that you cannot finance. >> when you have been approved, the financing is essentially reserved for you. there may be people who are on the fence about this, and we do not want to take away the advantage of the

talked to a fire chief and he said you know san francisco is like a timber box with all these old victorians and they are right next to each other. if one goes, they are all going to go, because they are all wood. now you're saying what am i going to do now? we're going to help you, because there are things you can do around your property that don't cost a lot of money. some things do cost, but other things are that can keep you safe, relatively safe when we return. >>> welcome back. and this is the magazine you'll be looking for. this is the september issue of sunset magazine. this is pettle ter fish who did a terrific piece in here on wildfire survival guide and it has a lot of good stuff in here. we're kind of touching the surface here a little bit today, but in terms of how to protect your home. if you bought something in the last two years, some are doing i don't have money to do a new roof. i am sweating my job with the recession. this man heard. let's talk about things you can do. try to make your home a defensible space meaning -- we talked to a lot of fire people and asked exactly t

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i refer to the sunset richmond houses if you have a victorian there could be a crawl space and that space may be harder to do the work. i'm not saying you shouldn't do it but it may be a different approach on how to get access to the area. i want to talk about installing the anchor boltses. i have done quite a few of them in san francisco. if you are handing with tools or construction equipment this is something you could accomplish. my estimate for installing an anchor bolt is 30-75 a bolt. so the it's better, the easiest place to do the work is in that typical open garage basement where the walls where there is no sheet rock or wall covering on the walls. good to create a good working area around the perimeter approximately 3 feet. that will enable you to move around with materials, with tools, et cetera. you want to mark the locations of the holes with a mud sill. that's the mud sill or the plates. you want to mark the locations around the perimeter on the mud sill. and you would then note where the joints are on the mud sill these are 14-16 feet long. you don't want to put the holes c

the philanthropic legacy of a cigar-chomping, card-playing, fire engine chasing, cross-dressing victorian but lily coit is the original queen of san francisco values. so i want to -- thank you -- present a little bit of love from the california state assembly. one of the last times i'll be able to do this from the asemplifment i'm about to be turned out. recounting the wonderful history of coit tower. i'll spare you the witty and wonderful whereases but the resolved clause, thanks the pioneer park project, all the leader of the telegraph hill community, vetica and all your leadership and hard work. it really does a -- take a lot of commitment and effort and tenacity to do all that you do to make coit tower that which it is. congratulations on your 75th. >> ok. we also have with us today the district supervisor for this supervisorial district, number three. who is also the president of the san francisco board of supervisors, mr. aaron peskin. >> thank you, rose. madame speaker, mr. mayor, assemblyman leno, our fire and police chiefs to the commissioners from the recreation and parks commis

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she had an old victorian with an old brick foundation. she was absolutely convinced that the foundation had to be concrete and had to be concrete tomorrow. it was the first thing she did. she had different people, and look at the way she could do it. someone convinced her she should really be fit up and do it to the degree that she could add another unit or another living space down the line it see -- if she so chose. against my advice, she probably spent over $100,000 on pouring concrete down there. it sits there as an empty shell of a basement, which is sort of useless, really. i think you can get expert opinions from many different people, and the value question is a different question than an expert opinion on a particular subject. the value question is a question of the value of the property. is it over-improving? sometimes the contractor will tell you otherwise. the value is probably for a salesperson. >> that is something john wrote out. what value? value to you? value to the appraiser who comes in in one month? value is certainly

and the loss of an entire victorian neighborhood in the western edition and the loss of the cultural values of the many, many square acres, square miles of this city for really economic reasons and not for societal or cultural benefits. i know that working, having been on the heritage board and having had been on the review committee for many years, that preservation and development and economics are not at odds. that many developmenters who came before the issues committee were often very amazed that we could find solutions that actually benefited them but were also very beneficial to the preservation as well. with sustainability now becoming a very common commissioner veronese: badge in planning and preservation -- verbiage in planning and preservation, the building is the one that exists. president miguel: thank you. >> i'm going to give some introducery remarks for my client. i've had a lively exchange with the department of d.b.i. around a issue that you don't even know about as commissioners. and that is the difficulty the public faces in getting copies that are real copies for

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with an entire victorian which means victory so i think when we come in from before . i think everything will be all right we've got enough help on our life has just started we've been hit way continuing and fires still burning throughout central russia many towns villages and homes remain. emergency services have been battling to gain control of the. situation at the pump now the situation is under control at least eighty houses have burned down during the fire at least one person died in this village probably when the man desperately trying to leave his burning house was struck by falling wires the electric shock killed him well so many have lost their houses to the fire commissioner and alexander remain great knowing that like they could have lost a lot more so if. for anus. and the heat is set to stay with the record breaking temperatures like russia roasting into the middle of august at least and blankets the small goals to choking many cities including here in moscow while aussies riven is in the center of the capital fourth now i'm rid of this seemed to be some

. >> traditionally in san francisco with victorian and edwardian, we had split bathrooms. a separate room for a toilet, and a second room for a tub. i have done literally dozens of projects where we try to combine them. the difference in today's baffin's is there is a lot more stuff. double vanities, soaking tub, showers, toilets, bedets, a lot more things going on. >> has this economic decline at the moment -- has that affected people's desire for complexity in stuff? have you seen a short-term move toward simplicity? >> yes and no. people still love their bathrooms. people think of them as an important room, as an investment for their home. yes, there is the gamut. some people are really just for function and utilitarian. some of them are large and lavish and everything in between. >> we are going to start looking at a couple of little vignettes of bathrooms. we can talk about fixtures and use that as a springboard for questions for our audience and discussions from some of the manufacturers we have here. let's start by looking at one right back here. this is a really in

i had a lady who bought a couple of units and it was an old victorian with a brick foundation and she was absolutely convinced that that foundation had to be concrete and had to be concrete tomorrow morning. so, she did that and she had all of these different people look at the different ways she could do it and someone convinced her she should really beef it up and do it to the degree she could add another living space down the line if she chose. this is 10 years later and against my advice she probably spent $100,000 plus on pouring all kinds of concrete and to this day it sits there as an empty shell of a basement that is sort of useless. so i think often you can get expert opinions from many different people and the value question is a different question than an expert opinion on a particular subject. the value question is a question of just that, the value of the property and is it over improving. sometimes the contractor will tell you otherwise when the value is a question for probably a salesperson. >> i think that was something john brought out. what value. is it value to you?

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and they sort of tricked it out with all the victorian fill debris they could cox up -- filigri they could come up with, japanese fans, curtains, cushions it became sort of a fashionable, bohemian thing to do that other people took up the idea, rented these clubhouses from sutro, and many of them were -- there were superior court judges, clerks who rented these. it was sort of a weekend get away. there were all sorts of cars lined up on the great highway. again, these people were renting. so they can't do too much to the cars. they can kind of fix up the inside. but the outside pretty much has to stay the same so they do look like old horse cars or street cars on the great highway. this car in the center was mrs. gun's. mrs. gun ran a restaurant there with permission. she was sort of like the soup nazi on "seinfeld." she kind of served you if she liked you. if she didn't like your face, you were out and banned from the place for life. she was a character that everybody kind of had a soft spot for. she was there until the 1920's when she passed away. now, the other thing that's kind o

. >> the cultural center is a 17 room queen anne victorian.gh now for tech talk with a slight. >> great new gadgets to show you that a been released on the market. let's start with the back part. what does it so loud i had to be outside to show you. just in time for back-to-school gear. it's a regular backpack with the safety feature to protect kids or women walking alone tonight made you want to be protected. under the spell " lott is an emergency panel. cut like a grenade. pulled the pan about pat sounds along alarm. that's check out when i pulled the pan. wow, that's really loud and very annoying. just the same to scare off would-be attacker. this backpack $50 next out this jacket is also an odd pock pad accessory. it's kinda hard to travel out about a world with dry pad. it's not convenient to take. will this jacket called a spotty that jacket. made with the ad had in mind. as a giant inside pocket. we could ziploc in-store your i pad. it's designed to distribute the weight. it's convenient to carry around. several different models. prices

. >> the culture senator is a 79 queen anne victorian mansion in offers free jurors and your dear.s an interesting story and there were two very unusual whittier's and is sacramento never this weekend they were moving fast. people could hardly believe what they're seeing really an issue of the six lanes. >> for all of you are wondering yes this was a zebra you sought and yes there was a happy ending. (laughter) (laughter) after a tense trees around town l ended that is our camino avenue apartment where these a friend of the zebra into a trailer but earlier tonight people watched as a zebra galloped along sidecars and visited the roads. that is that they finally got things under control of this, gomel's until it decided they wanted to leave coming straight out toward the photographer. after falling around town a little more debbie's got a corner of the apartment complex in tried once again to break free but changed its mind after seeing the patrollers in its files. then it ended up in the swimming pool these deputies could not have guessed as they get dressed for work or there would

all the houses are victorian.ent swimming. i didn't care about -- >> the satellites in the sky? >> we came back from 4 and 5-mile walks. it looks so clean and you can see the water. it's freshwater. you ride along, walk along, and there's little fountains, and it's the water from the springs. so it's the first time in my life i'm swimming. i'm swimming around and i want a drink in the water. it is gorgeous! and everybody said -- some people said don't tell anybody about this area because it's so beautiful. we don't want it spoiled. >> that's up near canada up at the top. >> yes. i have a little gift from you. this is from a shop called american spoon. it's all the products, everything. it's got your mittens and everything is made from michigan product. >> i love that. barbecue sauce. >> i'm going back as soon as i can. >> that is beautiful. thank you. >> we'll talk about chelsea and mel and who sneelse? >> chelsea was a big wedding. i thought she looked absolutely beautiful. it was an interfaith wedding. in additi