Brown bag lunch meetings which we do every third thursday and the public is invited to come and sit and join us and share their points of view as well. This is not a technical lecture but sort of a point of view. I ask people to come and share points of view with me. And so for todays discussion about retaining walls and fences, we have a couple people joining us. Pat buscovich, Structural Engineer who is one of the people who has seen more failed retaining walls in San Francisco than anybody else. And he owns a few actually. And Jim Mccormick from the mr. Planning department. Hes been here 20, over 20 years. Jim mccormick runs the planning information counter on the first floor at 1660 mission street. The signing information counter, by the way, is one of your primary sources for information in the city regarding what you can do, where you can do it, how you can do it. And if you want to reach the planning information counter, what do you do . You call, right . Call. What is the phone
Lee here with activities worth buzzing about. There is much to do and see in sfrangs San Francisco and we like to do it in the cheap. We like to enjoy the arts. Join us for the korean culture festival from 114 00 p. M. And features dance and activities and fun feast of foods. Welcome aboard the Rainbow Warrior this sunday. This vessel is the newest generation of green peace historic fleet and the most environmentally Sail Technology available. Get ready to swing this sunday in the park. A free weekly event at the museum when Golden Gate Park closes to traffic and the dancers take over. You can get a fun lesson at noon and practice with the whole group. Thats the weekly buzz. For more information on any of these events, visit us at good afternoon. Im laurence kornfield chief building inspector with the city of San Franciscos department of building inspection. And this is one of our monthly Brown Bag Lunch meetings which we do every third thursday and the public is invited to come and si
Terms of developing a two car garage which everyone is in favor of. That takes another car or two off the street but thats not the purpose of this thing. Its adding extensive amount of Square Footage and affect the Property Owners who are here to tell you their thing. I would like to call upon our architect to respond to the technical aspects of the process because thats not my role. Thank you. Good evening. I am the principal of fractured nine. We are a small Architect Firm practicing in San Francisco. I would talk about how the setbacks were ascertaind and what is typically allowed in the city by the Planning Department. When we go for permits we have to follow the same you know, from what is allowed and what is the average and exhibit a. Im showing if you draw the line from the Adjoining Properties and you establish the setback for the second floor which was not followed in this. Like mr. Wall stated this project takes the full intent of what is allowed and not the residential guide
The assumption that the project sponsor has to return to them. I am sure they could. Looking at the project further west on portolla and i dont know if that is the term a hit roof and gabble and has a flat portion and im not sure if that can be done and im not sure of the amount of the gaibl on it and able to shave a couple of feet off and more into conformity of what was represented but i will see what the other commissioners have to say. Commissioner moore. I would like the commissioners to look at the parcel map to see that the dr requesters map is south from the proposed subject property. The reason i am saying this is its about views and not light but about views and as much as i like to protect it the house in front of us today has made concessions that comes out of the San Francisco neighborhood discussions [inaudible] portolla drive and you have stately homes and setback from the street and individually designed homes on large lots speak for themselves, kind of stately neighbor
A long time. Yeah, i do the same thing out the bedroom window and the sun moves across the sky in Different Directions in the seasons and one blocks off the sun in the extreme winder months and the rest of the year, so i am trying to figure out. This might come and go depending on the blockage of this particular house. I could show you the pictures again. Where her house is its going to block 100 of my shot of the horizon and the sun from that direction. [inaudible], when it gets the last probably the last couple of hours, or hour of setting sun. Okay. And portolla was widened in 1959, 1960. Im the Third Generation living there and i have photos of them doing that. My dads photos, not mine. I would be interested in that another day. Well with that being said i guess i am talking to staff about the discrepancy. We had a discrepancy and there was a measurement taken and now its changed and how much discretion are we allowed to give . I guess we talked about a difference of 6inch of about