Steen, the boards director. Chris buck is here in the front row, hes a forester with the department of public works. And at the table in the front corner here is corey tigue, representing the Planning Department and commission; and senior building instructor whos representing the department of building inspection. If you would please go oefrz the Board Meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. The board requests you turn off all phones and pagers so they will not disturb proceedings. Please carry on conversations in the holeway. The boards each has senl minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttals. People affiliated with these parties must conclude their comments within the seven minutes period. To assist the board in the accurate preparation of minutes, members of the public who wish to speak on an item are asked but not required to submit a speaker or Business Card to board staff when you come to the podium. Speaker cards and pin rs available on the le
Public works website. Were in the process of relinquishing maintenance to Property Owners to try to give the public a sense of what it costs to maintain an average street tree. I believe weve put in 500 every year or two so if you multiply that by four trees that would be 2,000. However, realistically i would currently estimate it would be a few hundred dollars to have someone snip off the lower prawns. What would be the big deal about removing them . The departments policy is typically if a tree is relatively healthy and sustainable to keep the tree in place. The smaller palm is less concerning, its unusual. Theyre not creating a problem, not impeding the public right of way. The trees are young so dont have required clearance over the tree. We dont expect a young treel to have 14 feet of clearance, but eventually theyll have required clearance over the sidewalk so our reluctance to approve stems from the fact that if we let everyone remove their trees now and start over with new tree
Bruce wolf said and that should be included in the legislation and then for on future agenda items when you do have your next joint meeting with the sf puc this is just kind of a point of information especially i think the supervisors might be clued in on this but the public members i want to make sure you know about it. In the scott wiener london breed legislation that cleared authorizes the puc to sell express hetch hetchy power in the city to make money and Bring Clean Energy to the city. Originally when that legislation was drafted in july it did not include making cleanpowersf a priority customer of that power, and thankfully advocates approached supervisor wieners aid and they graciously included an amendment that makes it clear that yes cleanpowersf is in the queue by that power and that is very important. Even if cleanpowersf buys that power at full retail rate there are benefits from that because it helps we were discussing the wind power, solar power doesnt happen to be worki
Azarus good evening and welcome to the december 17 2014 meeting of the San Francisco board of appeals. There is one seat vacant ton on the board this evening, when a vacancy exist it is board may overrule the action of the department on appeal by a vote of three members, four votes are not required. To my left is deputy city attorney, and im cynthia gold steen, the boards director. Chris buck is here in the front row, hes a forester with the department of public works. And at the table in the front corner here is corey tigue, representing the Planning Department and commission; and senior building instructor whos representing the department of building inspection. If you would please go oefrz the Board Meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. The board requests you turn off all phones and pagers so they will not disturb proceedings. Please carry on conversations in the holeway. The boards each has senl minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttals. Peopl
Good evening and happy thanksgiving. Im kate snow in for brian tonight. And in a week that brought a lot of news, n much of it good news, it seemed as if america paused today to give thanks, take a breath and reflect a moment. There were those who celebrated quietly with family, and those who chose to hit the stores. Yes, even on thanksgiving day. Well get to the shopping and what americans are most thankful for on this night, but lets begin with the festivities and National Correspondent peter alexander. Reporter no rain on this parade, but in new york more than 3 million fans braved the cold as those massive balloons floated through manhattan streets. Similar thanksgiving celebrations in chicago, houston, and here in the Nations Capital where runners tried to keep up with the rest of those turkeys. Along l. A. s skid row volunteers continued a 70yearold tradition feeding more than 2,500 homeless. From the white house the president worked the phone to thank americas troops. To our Ser