The letter of determination is properly issued. On that motion. [roll call] that motion passes 40. The appeal is denied. Can we take a seven minute break . We are now one item number 9. Approval. The subject property is 192113 street. Protesting the issuance on may 6 , 2019. No work at the middle unit. This is application 20109. And as a pull them in every matter, the attorney for the permit holder would like to address the board. He would like to state for the record that he is willing the permit holder is willing to cancel the permit. So we will give him three minutes to address the board and then the appellants will have an opportunity to respond to that. This is prior to. So mr. Fisher, if you could please take a seat. Excellent. In the cancellation will have the same effect as if the appellant one this case, correct correct. Well hear from both sides. Lets hear first. Welcome, councillor. I was hired on this case yesterday afternoon. I tried to get up to speed as quickly as possib
Minimum 50 openable of area. You could literally do the top half openable, or you can take a portion of the wall and make that openable. That is what we do. We take a portion of the wall, we slide the door past and now it is wide open, but then you have to take the ventilation requirements for the nested bedroom, which is a 4 of the floor area, and the light and air requirement which is eight of the floor area, and add that to the same four and eight for the in between room, and that tells you the minimum Natural Light and ventilation area you have to provide in the exterior wall, the window. Right. On these nested bedrooms, what percentages are you at . The opening . How would that stack up . Have you provided the minimum . In most cases, we are over the minimum, just to be sure. We are somewhere between 50 to 260 . The units are tight and some of the kitchens run to that wall so we have a drywall partition there, and we make the window a sliding partition as large as we can. We use a
The units are tight and some of the kitchens run to that wall so we have a drywall partition there, and we make the window a sliding partition as large as we can. We use a private firm from San Francisco and we have been doing it for years. I want to get paid for that. I have one of the same doors and my bedrooms. Let let me add to that, you mentioned that the Building Code requires 50 opening. The Building Code allowed that to be like a wall and literally be open. That 50 opening has to be wild walled off in this way. It has to be enclosed so that is why we often see these floortoceiling glass doors that provide an opening for the light and can provide a full enclosure. Versus a pony well. If i might, one last thing. And all of our units, we are bringing in outside air for mechanical ventilation for all the apartments. Because it is on venice, so meet to to meet the sound issues, we are bringing fresh air from the inside, putting that into the bedrooms, but the bedroom does not have t
It for years. I want to get paid for that. I have one of the same doors and my bedrooms. Let let me add to that, you mentioned that the Building Code requires 50 opening. The Building Code allowed that to be like a wall and literally be open. That 50 opening has to be wild walled off in this way. It has to be enclosed so that is why we often see these floortoceiling glass doors that provide an opening for the light and can provide a full enclosure. Versus a pony well. If i might, one last thing. And all of our units, we are bringing in outside air for mechanical ventilation for all the apartments. Because it is on venice, so meet to to meet the sound issues, we are bringing fresh air from the inside, putting that into the bedrooms, but the bedroom does not have to rely upon the sliding glass door to be open to get ventilation. Great. One of the questions with administrator, the apartment requirement, people injured mentioned that there is too much parking. What is allowed on van ness .
The role of the department of building inspection is not following up on violations, i am ready to go on this. You can talk to us. This is really interesting because this has gone on for a year and this is an eviction of longstanding africanamerican tenants. Forty years in this place. Jackie long has mobility problems, her daughter is schizophrenic, her soninlaw has had six surgeries since 2014 due to a workrelated accident and has more coming. These people have no safety mats safety nets and cannot be moved away from their doctors. I went into this because i dont want this on my head. I have been to their weddings, i have been to their funerals. What is going on here, which is really offensive, as i have a report from their engineer from 2018 about what is needed from the respondent about what needs to be done to the building. It is nothing close to what they are doing. They are trying to create luxury housing and climate rehabilitation. They want to put rooms in to make an 11 story f