please step forward. good evening, commissioners. my name is peter roth well. i am one of the neighbors. i live next door to their current residents, four doors away from the proposed house. i am just here to support their bid to build the house they have been planning for many years. i think they are well within their rights, and the conditions in this situation are no different than many conditions in the city where you have neighbors close by. in fact, the neighborhood has very deep lots. i think the privacy issues are being overblown here. i just want to put my 2 cents in and support the project. president peterson: thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none, we will move to the rebuttal phase. do you care to use it? michael levinson. i will probably use less than a minute. i want to show you the project was completed by the architect. in the upper floor changes the type of the building. at that point, it was a beautiful building in our neighborhood. th
den? patrick o reardon, senior building inspector and. commissioner garcia: i think my question was satisfied. if there is indeed a need to get an emergency permit for the foundation, that is separate from any of our process. generally speaking, the way that works if there is a compromise of the structure, they would submit to us a structural engineering report showing what the emergency work for repair, mitigation of that condition, would need to be. there would need to have one of our engineering staff go and evaluate at the site based on the report. the permit would be issued based upon our engineering staff concurring with their engineer s report showing an unsafe foundation that would be grounds for possibly issuing an emergency order and a permit for the repair of the foundation. commissioner garcia: thank you. commissioner hwang: typically, what is the turnaround time for such a permit? if it is thought to be an emergency, we generally get our stuff out immedi
quickly found a complaint with the residential site guidelines, which is our guidelines for dealing with all the privacy and nuisance issues. we looked at the guidelines and found the design applies with that complies with that. privacy is met. we agree with that decision. vice president goh: you said if they are not listed the pecan tree, a street tree, or a landmark tree, that you did not need a permit? that is not a planning issue. i do not know if you need a permit to cut down a tree in your rear yard. that would be nothing the planning a program would be involved with. vice president goh: nothing the planning department would be involved with. vice president goh: thank you. president peterson: is there any public comment on this item? please step forward. good evening, commissioners. my name is peter roth well. i am one of the neighbors. i live next door to their current residents, four doors away from the proposed house. i am just here to support their bid to bu
den? patrick o reardon, senior building inspector and. commissioner garcia: i think my question was satisfied. if there is indeed a need to get an emergency permit for the foundation, that is separate from any of our process. generally speaking, the way that works if there is a compromise of the structure, they would submit to us a structural engineering report showing what the emergency work for repair, mitigation of that condition, would need to be. there would need to have one of our engineering staff go and evaluate at the site based on the report. the permit would be issued based upon our engineering staff concurring with their engineer s report showing an unsafe foundation that would be grounds for possibly issuing an emergency order and a permit for the repair of the foundation. commissioner garcia: thank you. commissioner hwang: typically, what is the turnaround time for such a permit? if it is thought to be an emergency, we generally get our stuff out immed
den? patrick o reardon, senior building inspector and. commissioner garcia: i think my question was satisfied. if there is indeed a need to get an emergency permit for the foundation, that is separate from any of our process. generally speaking, the way that works if there is a compromise of the structure, they would submit to us a structural engineering report showing what the emergency work for repair, mitigation of that condition, would need to be. there would need to have one of our engineering staff go and evaluate at the site based on the report. the permit would be issued based upon our engineering staff concurring with their engineer s report showing an unsafe foundation that would be grounds for possibly issuing an emergency order and a permit for the repair of the foundation. commissioner garcia: thank you. commissioner hwang: typically, what is the turnaround time for such a permit? if it is thought to be an emergency, we generally get our stuff