thank you we have a motion from commissioner fung to grant the request. commissioner fung. commissioner president lazarus and commissioner honda. okay. great so with that request granted i don't know if there's additional comments the parties need to make on the rehearing of this matter anything futuristic from the zoning administer >> the only thing to note our understanding is this permit entitled the surveillance and resolve a life safety prior condition that is the result of parking in house and restoring the curb cut. >> public comment is closed.. any public comment on that item? >> it's being overruled the denial do we need to put the curb cuts in this. >> so you want to condition mr. sanchez you want the board to issue the offer turning of the addressing of the curb. >> that's correct. >> i'll move to grant the appeal and overrule the denial of the building permit on the basis that a surveillance has been successfully applied for and received. and condition the permit upon the removal of the curb cut. >> okay. so we have a motion from commissioner fung to grant the a

on that motion >> commissioner fung. president is absent. commissioner president lazarus and commissioner honda so that motion carries again my apologizes for the prior item that motion carries >> a short break. >> welcome back the wednesday, may 7, 2014, of the san francisco board of appeals we're now calling items 9 through 16 the item the 9 as the coordinators transcript for the preceding for items 10 through 16 and commissioner pursuant to the rules of the board of appeals article for the appellant at&t requested that the board inspect a coordinators transcript as the official record a letter to this effect was submitted to the report and at&t has compiled with the certified transcript to no cost and dpw passing has agreed to to designation we need a vote of the board, however. >> so moved. >> okay. any public comment on the designation of creditor and commissioner fung and commissioner hwang and commissioner president lazarus and commissioner honda we'll use the civil rights transcript for the preceding and items 10 and 11 will not be h

thank you commissioner fung mr. packing check call the roll. on that motion to reschedule item 7 to july 16th. commissioner hwang. commissioner hurtado. commissioner president lazarus. commissioner honda thank you. the vote it 5 to zero it is rescheduled to july 16th interest similarly this item protesting the building permitted on ethel streets the parties have reached a settlement scoring for a new reschedule. we need another motion and vote that i public comment on this item seeing none. >> on that motion from commissioner honda appeal to june 4th. commissioner fung. commissioner hwang. commissioner hurtado. commissioner president lazarus. thank you. the vote is 5 to zero that motivator is rescheduled to june 4th and please go over the meeting board guidelines and enact the swearing in process please. please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices please carry open conversation in the hallway appellants and permit holder and department representatives each have 7 minutes to pres

on that motion from commissioner fung. commissioner president lazarus and commissioner honda >> okay. that motion carries. on to item 14 this is again at&t california vs. the public works on balboa street on the excavation permit to evade in the public right-of-way for a surface mounted facility. mr. johnson >> so i'm going to be endeavoring to be brief. so again, there's more than 2 hundred days between the date it at&t filed it's implemented application and the date of the denial. as with many permits i've previous argued at&t had a box walk and there were other locations and the base of the denial if there's more preferable locations at&t was asked to start the process over again. i want to ask mr. blackman come up and make a few comments about the relationship between the 60 day issue between the box walks and the interim between giving notice and getting a hearing >> good evening. so when we scheduled the hearings the hearing is not a requisite we were faced numerous times we'll hold the box walk immediately after the

commissioner fung. >> we do have the adaptation. is there any public comment call the roll >> so we have a motion from commissioner fung for the minutes commissioner fung. commissioner hurtado. commissioner president hwang commissioner honda >> thank you. the vote is 5 to zero those minutes are adapted. >> thank you. we have with the president's content going to call item out even if order 6. mike vs. the code for the planning department this is on katrero avenue to the permit to erect a building 77 unit with a mixed be building with ground floor area. so we'll start with the appellant >> excuse me. i have a conflict recuse me, please. >> so you have 7 minutes to present our case. >> before my time spoke i believe you spoke to commissioner lazarus about a continuance she e-mailed me and everyone two members but not the former appellants can't make it by 515 to jean and another person can't be here. so juan was coming from a water commission in sacramento and flying out later this evening and jean had an

. >> commissioner fung two things one because the board is the last decision making body for this and it's subject to my attention measures you have to uphold it a draft is permitted and it's entered into the record. >> you want to do that. >> why don't you read it. >> i'll read it then and i was wondering if there's a basis for which you want to state the upholding of the permit. >> well more myself i've read it therefore concur with it. >> not basis for the denying of the appeal under our normal procedures we have to have a stated for the denial of the appeal. >> okay. that's two simple but i will say then that based on the fact that the project is co- off and on and gone through a tremendous you amount of review and approval. >> okay. all right. so the draft environmental finding are one on august 8, 2013, by the motion found that the constructions of the new 6 story mishgd or mixed use had ground floor area the project and didn't have an effect on the environment by motion number one. and approved the project authorization and decided there was no substantial evidence the project

so when commissioner fung asked the architect in the last hearing well, can i see some of the drawings you looked for the step down presuming to help you come up with conditions for approval the architect said i only looked at the one for the previous project that's not before you tonight so commissioner fung came up with verbal quantifiable standards for the set back that reflected the small-scale of the building for hill street. so we have a neighborhood group you're going the project sponsor to refine the mass we have the planning department do the same thing we have the planner asks for accident refinement but the project sponsor never acted. no deeds only word. commissioners the marsh asks you deny the request and uphold our approval on february 24th keeping in mind the latin phrase deeds not words >> ms. gallagher i see a lot of supports of the marsh with the tags are they intending to speak tonight. >> they are commissioner fung. >> i would never mind. i can ask them to stand and for all those who want to stand and opposite the request for the rehearing on behalf of the marsh th

understand. >> commissioner fung. vice president is absent. commissioner president lazarus and commissioner honda >> so that motions carries 4 to zero and the denial of that permit is upheld. >> next item is item 13 at&t california vs. department of california the subject property on carl street again appealing lets excavation excavate in a surface mounted facility this is application mr. johnson. >> thank you, ms. goldstein. a few points will this specifics of the permit application this application was irrational submitted in july of 2013 i'm going to put the original application up on the overhead those are the city's check list no requirement that at&t submit multiple location at the beginning of the process. despite the fact it at&t submitted it's application in july it couldn't get a hearing newly january 28th of 2014 is is in visitation of the publics code this department didn't deny the application until march 52013 that is that 2 hundred and 50 days after at&t submitted it's application are the box walk was c

uphold it's code compliant. >> optometry formulation the president to uphold the permit commissioner fung. commissioner hwang commissioner hurtado. commissioner honda >> thank you. vote is 5 to zero this permit is upheld on that basis >> commissioner hwang there's no further business. >> we're

commissioner fung. commissioner hwang is absent. commissioner president lazarus and commissioner honda. okay. that motions carries four to zero thank you. before we move on to group two i wonder if there's anyone in the audience for thorton avenue. since there's a commissioner conflict on that address and with that commissioner leaving for the conflict we'll only have 3 board members present i wanted to ask the appellant to have that matter continued so we'll have four board members here or have that hearing tonight with 3 board members. just fill out the picture. if there are 3 votes we'll automately hold it over >> step forward. >> at&t will leave this to the discretion of the board we'll be happy to have this appeal heard by the 3 members who aren't recused this evening and we'll be fine to come back, however, the board feels most appropriate. >> so i think we'll just leave it and precede with group two this is the 1205 i don't work street and 1201 york street and 79 lions street we'll start with the appellant with 5 minutes to a

uphold it's code compliant. >> optometry formulation the president to uphold the permit commissioner fung. commissioner hwang commissioner hurtado. commissioner honda >> thank you. vote is 5 to zero this permit is upheld on that basis >> commissioner hwang there's no further business. >> we're . >> welcome to the san francisco local agency formation commission. my name is john avalos the chair of the commission. joined to my right by commissioner london breed and to my left eric mar. the clerk of the committee is alyssa miller. thank you for your work and broadcast by sfgtv staff. thank you for your work. i would like to make a motion to excuse commissioner campos who couldn't make it here today. do we have a motion? okay. we will take that without objection . madam clerk can you call the next item. >> item two is approval of the lafco minutes from the date regular meeting. >> colleagues you have reviewed the minutes. any questions? i see know none. we will go to members of the public. there are no members here and we will close public comment. >> i move approval. >> moved and seconded wi

as well as you have been hearing from cynthia fung talking about the enterprise resource planning system and this is modernizing our software systems and allowing for better integration across our systems which will benefit our operations but also our partners both on the agency side when we pay the invoices more timely as well as our vendors. so moving toward the strategic view going forward again started with the goals that you all help us set. we looked at internal operations where we might be more effective and these new directions i hope reflect your guidance for us as well as we're excited to work on each of them. the neighborhood transportation improvement program is the first role going forward that we see as a main stay of the next five years. this is the idea to ensure planning and studies and activities in each district over the five years supported by our staff and consultants but also with the direct involvement of other agencies as well as two neighborhood scale projects in each district. this would ensure there would be a pipeline of capital projects in every part of the c

. >> optometry formulation the president to uphold the permit commissioner fung. commissioner hwang commissioner hurtado. commissioner honda >> thank you. vote is 5 to zero this permit is upheld on that basis >> commissioner hwang there's no further business. >> we're >> on december 28, 1912, san francisco mayor stared into a sea of 60,000 of constituents that gathered at geary. the berth of the first publicly owned transit system in the city, the san francisco municipal railway. come and experience lafayette park and enjoy the people, picnic and sunshine. this is a lovely place to take an afternoon stroll with your loved one hand in hand. located at got and sacramento street in the middle of pacific heights on top of the city's steep rolling hills, lafayette park offers a great place, peaceful beauty. comfortably spaced tables and benches, a playground, rest rooms and tips at the end of the park. plenty of flat areas for football, frisbee, and picnic. lafayette is very much a couples park. this wonderful hilltop park is the place you can share with someone you ch

. >> joined that i commissioner fung and is commissioner honda and to my left is deputy city attorney ryan he'll provide the legal advice i'm cynthia and we're joined by the department that have cases before the bystander board and we have a representative of the planning board and the

for months the si of irwin dale california has been fighting hi fung foods. the company that produces the hot sauce. tonight things are changing. let's go to stephanie stanton with more on that. >> well it has been months of back and forth between the city of irwin dale and the maker of sorocha. the city called the company a public nuisance and filed a lawsuit to halt production. the heated battle has come to an end. the city council deciding to drop its lawsuit and work hand in hand with the company to keep the air clear. >> reporter: sorota is a vietnamese hot sauce put on everything from asian dishes to eggs, hot docks and hamburgers. -- hot dogs and hamburgers. the red paste has a cult following, there's a documentary dedicated to its popularity. a group of irwin dale residents living near the plant don't share the same feelings. they complained about fumes during chili harvesting season, some say they are so strong they can't go outdoors. >> my eyes are watery, my nose, all the way down itches to here and there's swelling. >> the city took action, filing

. >> on that motion communicating commissioner fung. commissioner hwang. commissioner president lazarus commissioner honda. thank you. this vote is 5 to zero this permit is upheld take. medical cannabis of the san francisco board of appeals i'm calling the next item 10 is neighbors of the green street garage the property as 1776 green street protesting the ownerships to larry of an alternative process for the heat detergent we should wait for the fifth commissioner to return to the seat. >> mr. patterson ask i consultation the second swearing in. >> you can do that. anyone else >> do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> i do. >> thank you. >> good to see you. >> so with the communicating in the room we'll begin with the appellant. you have 7 minutes >> thank you commissioner president lazarus and commissioners ryan patterson for the neighbors of the green street garage. this is one of most interesting appeals but i represent a group of 25 neighbors that live around the green s

on that motion made that i commissioner fung. commissioner hwang absent. commissioner hurtado. commissioner president lazarus and commissioner honda >> that motion carries 4 to zero we'll move ton to item 21 on scott street. mr. johnson. >> i don't believe there's anything particularly unusual about this appeal i'll try to be very, very brief there's an 11 most gap and ms. fong again found that at&t complieltd with the requirements of the s m f. during the sidewalk as the hearing director reported two members of the community attend the box walk and at&t walked the neighborhood and found another site - my apologizes i'm reading from 100 furton street. what happened was about at&t offered to walk the site to review alternative site locations, however, the obtain terrors found no suitable area and that's one of the difficulties that at&t faces because the way this process is supposed to work at&t works with the community to find the least impacted loeshgs but if the community won't identify any location then at&t appeal the specific denial was that the hearing officer saw the pro

. >> reporter: despite the investigations, fung sue never gave up the names of students he stood with. after that he was released and found his way to america and got a job at a financial firm. >> i feel fortunate to be here in this line of freedom. to be alive while so many people died. >> reporter: he spends his off hours working for a free china telling the story of tiananmen square and why it was important. in san francisco, bob mackenzie. >>> on this 25th anniversary of the tiananmen square, one man sits behind bars one year after he was given the noble prize for his call for reform in china. lowe was arrested in 2008 for calling for democratic reforms in china. the charge insighting subversion of state power. >>> when we come back on a second look. cheap guns on california streets. how they exported the guns back to the united states. >>> and the soldiers who drove their tanks into the tiananmen square. [♪] >>> tonight on a second look, 25 years after the massacre at tiananmen square, pign gave the order to crack down on the protesters at tiananmen square. john fowler reported

. >> commissioner fung to the best of my ability i'll try to answer the question my understanding is the effective radius is still, you know, 5 to 16 years later 3 hundred feet theirs serious landlines their signal strength problems and this equipment only works in this kind of input radius. i apologize i don't have more technical information. i talked with miracle blackman from at&t this evening about this but that's what he told me the technology in the case of those utility cabinets has not dramatically changing changed. one more technical question do those things operate serially in other words do you have a have a series of boxess to connect up for the service in the area or - >> with our permission i think i know what the answer is but hang on. so my understanding is this is it's a distribution network you know the fiber goes out and connects with the rest of the network. and but that does not softly solve the cabinet one limits on where those utility cabinets can be pleased they have to be placed within 3 hundred feet of the utility cabinets that are already there. you know th

commissioner fung arrest commissioner hwang. commissioner president lazarus and commissioner honda >> thank you. the vote is 5 to zero the jurisdiction is grand and she now has a 5 day appeal period and this ends this coming monday. >> thank you. >> this coming monday. >> okay. we'll move on to item 67 the next stacey versus the urban forestry protesting the issuance on march 6 to the orthodox of a tree removal permit to receptionist two privately maintained trees. starting with the appellant you have 7 minutes >> hi i'm stacey we're representing in response 10 homeland security on the street at the 299 valencia street as concerned folks post of the case orthodox foundation we ask the board it the destruction of those trees is not necessary for the fruittion the church wants to see this done to reduce their costs this has nothing to do with the safety of the community and we shouldn't have to have the loss of those trees. the first argument the trees presented choke places for the mrufrm it's the trees if they're preserved they'

. >> commissioner fung. >> i'm a member of that group as well. >> commissioner antonini. >> seeing. >> we need to take public comment. >> then i move to. >> having is there any public comment on the consent calendar seeing none, public comment is closed. >> move to approve item 5. >> second. >> on that motion to approve item 5. commissioner antonini. commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong. commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, and places you under commission matters consideration of the draft minute for this meeting >> any public comment on draft seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner sugaya. move to approve the minutes of april 24th. on that motion commissioner antonini. commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong. commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously and places you on item 7 commissions comments and questions >> commissioner antonini. yeah. interesting article in the examiner the author said it was about the title suburbs keys to hav

a minimum 60 feet side and the kidnapping work on the placement of the third tree and commissioner fung. commissioner hwang. no commissioner hurtado. commissioner president lazarus. the vote is four to one the permit it upheld with those conditions. >> thank you. >> okay. so we've already voted to move item 7 and 8 now to item 4 which is the appeal janet curry vs. the city and county of san francisco protesting the issuance on march 12 to k f and development inc. to rereck a single-family dwelling with ground floor area. we'll start with the appellant 7 minutes >> commissioner president lazarus i'm jan curry on live on circle last year avenue adjacent to the subject property i filled the appeal. i outlined accident brief it's out of character with my neighborhood and will cause harm to me and my neighborhood it's important to state my objective has never been to stop the construction. since moving here my desire is to have a neighbor detection t door not dying rose bushes i've lived next to but a nice house that is the size of neighboring homes will be a welcomed edition. my neighbors a

. >> so as commissioner fung has stated i'm troubled with the fact you don't have a brief yet our professionals were able to do their homework. >> yes. we had decided to withdraw the appeal looking at this particular permit being a fire safety permit we don't have that problem but it was entitled for the spray booth. >> yet our professionals have oounl done the homework but you're not able to have a brief because it leafs one party at a huge disadvantage. >> we started to dig through the records how to intiefl a spray booth. >> so basically, they had time to go their briefing but you are company didn't have time. >> our briefing would have been duplicate if we went through with the appeal at this point we got the true process of the permit. >> that be it. thank you very much >> mr. sanchez and mr. duffey anything further. >> thank you scott sanchez i'll brief provide context bp about the photos of the booth at the end of the brief on the overhead we have a day have the overhead please. all right. so this is the entire of the booth it shows the sprinklers and the side windows noted in the appell

. >> optometry formulation the president to uphold the permit commissioner fung. commissioner hwang commissioner hurtado. commissioner honda >> thank you. vote is 5 to zero this permit is upheld on that basis >> commissioner hwang there's no further business. >> we're >> on december 28, 1912, san francisco mayor stared into a sea of 60,000 of constituents that gathered at geary. the berth of the first publicly owned transit system in the city, the san francisco municipal railway. >> mr. president you have a quorum. we have the director of office of citizens complaint. joyce hicks. >> thank you very much and ladies and gentlemen welcome to the may 14, 2014 san francisco police commission meeting. we have an agenda to deal with close session matters and we have a report from ccoc tonight. i want to thank you for allowing the young students to go forward. thank you. >> thank you very much. it was my absolute pleasure to hear from the young people. they were amazing. they were more than amazing. it was really incredible. >> please mention the consent calendar. >> occ

commissioner fung. congressmen. commissioner president hwang commissioner honda. thank you. the vote is 5 to zero and the rehearing requests are denied >> 5 minute break. >> welcome back to the san francisco budget & finance committee we're ready to call group one for the at&t public works this is item 1 ralph street and item 121257 church street and appeal next is 1503 jones street. which is 31530th avenue and 17 toil next is 752 aaron district attorney street and the next is balboa street and as an carlos street and item next is 121 as an carlos street and the next is 305 elsie street and the next is 415 germany rad street we'll start with at&t. mr. johnson you have 5 minutes to present your case >> so the fact patterns for those eight or nine appeals i'm going to talk about ralph street. so in this particular application was submitted in may 2013 there wasn't another hearing for 8 most in january 2014. at the hearing lynn fong adhered and said at&t applications was in corners with the public works code. at the hearing it was discussed and the hearing officer was told duri

. >> so there's a motion that i commissioner fung to deny the appeal so the permits were correct. >> commissioner hwang is absent. >> commissioner honda and commissioner honda that motion carries four to zero we're we'll move on to group be 3, 194 randall street and the next at the 210 randall street and next on ralph street and next on buchanan street we'll once again begin with the appellant you have 5 more minutes. >> i'm just going to briefly walk through the basis denies. the basis of the hearing officer denial for 194 on randall street he ordered at&t to consultation additional outreach after it was reported it the only site that would meet the technical requirements is the only location. after the appeal the hearing officer did understand on the basis that at&t did not full f fully comply that at&t work with the community the only finding in the record that he used to support that was at&t if provide the names of the attendee did he see prosecute the additional box walk that the department itself attended. and finally on 620 buchanan the hearing officer recommended the denial

commissioner fung. commissioner hwang is absent. commissioner president lazarus and the commissioner honda is reused and there's no further business. before the board this evening we are >> thursday, may 1, 2014 and i would like to remind the members of audience, that the commission does not tolerate any outbursts of any kind and please silence any devices and if you care to state your name for the record, would i like to take roll. commissioner president wu? >> here. >> commission vice president fong? >> here. >> commissioner antonini? >> here. >> commission borden? >> here. >> commission moore? >> here. >> commissioner sugaya. >> here. >> first is considering for items proposed for continuiation yawn item no. 1, 2013-1 166t amendment to the planning code sections 303i formula retail and is proposed to continuance to june 5 2014. item 2, case no. 2010.0726x at 20 a1 third street, request for large project authorization is proposed for continuance. and item 2013.0465d at 2479 francisco street has been withdrawn. >> any public commen

. >> joined that i commissioner fung and is commissioner honda and to my left is deputy city attorney ryan he'll provide the legal advice i'm

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the militias, they want a strong army, a strong police force, and they just want a government that fungs which is something that maz provide add real challenge here at the moment. we have two prime ministers two governments and we are waiting on a legal reaction, to see how to proceed, but there's elections in less than a month, and that is certainly making it much more difficult here to move forward. >> yeah, i wanted to ask you about that next, because you have these elections in this current state of affairs. to deal with that. >> it's incredibly difficult, we spoke to the head of the election commission here, and he said to mow, you know, i am not speaking the the government yet, there's no coordination, especially when it comes to security, and that is a huge issue, he says we know there are elements of society here, and regions that will try and disrupt these elections, he said they handed over security plans and they haven't heard anything back, and he said basically which government do i speak to, he said we are on our own, and this is a concern, because these elections are in le