Good afternoon. And welcome to the Land Use Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors im scott wiener im the vice chair of the committee our Committee Chair supervisor cowen will not be able to attend todays meagerly to my left is supervisor jane kim to my right is mark farrell pointed out to sit in the committee 2, 3, 4 place of supervisor cowen i want to thank probation officer sfgovtv for broadcasting todays he or she phil jackson and jim smith madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. Electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the january 26, 2016, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you very much and before we start could i have a motion to k350us supervisor cowen well take that without objection. Supervisor cowen is excused to me one. Grandfathering prediction to stanford chain to occupy a portion of the public rightofway between phil to
Driveway altercation that should be taken of he agree. Commissioners, the matter is submitted. I havent changed any mind i still dont agree what the variance however, this technical issue under a very large wellstaffed department the department of building inspection they can deal with this im not prepared to add any further constraints on the permit holder. I second that i think those challenges are premature this permit was properly issued. Im not going to be so nice after 3 years on the board we have a thank call serial permit this is serial this family has been bullied i mean, i it is a gross misuse of progress and the city resources so i strongly feel that. Make a motion to motion to deny the appeal uphold the permit it was prove or disprove issued. On that motion then from the president to deny the appeal and you would it was properly issued by commissioner president fong e commissioner Vice President fung commissioner lazarus commissioner wilson commissioner swig okay. That that
Nominees get a vote that person is elected and no other nomination mr. Clerk can you please call this item. Item 5 election of chair. Okay nominations are now in order for the office of the chair any nomination on the floor. Commissioner yee i nominate the current chair continue to be the chair. Thank you, commissioner. Supervisor kim. Thank you commission any other nominations . More than happy to take other nominations okay seeing none, nominations are closed oh, im sorry is there a second to commissioner yees if noting no further well open up for Public Comment on this item any Public Comment on this item seeing none, Public Comment is closed excuse me. . Okay. Mr. Clerk call that same house, same call . Well do that same house, same call . At this time we will take nominations for the office of vice chair. Commissioner campos. Id like to nominate commissioner avalos a nomination for commissioner avalos are there a second seconded by commissioner farrell colleagues by further nomina
Until march further from the discretion calendar important item 11 im pleased to notify you on green street one of the of the two drs has been withdrawn one is withdrawn thats all i have i have no speaker card. Any Public Comment on the continuance calendar seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner wu move to continue item one thank you, commissioners to continue item one. Commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero and places you under our consent calendar consent calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. I know the one item number 2 for c
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