Space and our park system and large amazing parks are critical it is also important to have those smaller neighborhood gaeshth spaces whether a park let or plaza whatever having terrific you public space in the middle of a neighborhood can have positive benefits and add to the vibrancy of the neighborhood we want to insure that the program succeeds youve called for the hearing today and id like to with the chairs permission ask the gentleman from the Planning Department to provide an update from the department on the program. Great, thank you welcome we appreciate our presentation. Thank you, supervisor for hearing us today, were very excited about the opportunity to present 0 you today an update on the Parks Program im here with another clearing up from the department from the Planning Department and we should be joined by public works cal and the mta staff so im sure youre aware of were an Intelligence Agency group we Work Together on this program die id like to give you an update on
Commissioners might have about the design. Thank you. Well take Public Comment first if we have questions well bring you back up any Public Comment on that item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed commissioner antonini. Yeah. Thank you. I was the one that brought it off consent i think it is a wonderful project im a health care person im very, very supportive but im trying to establish our policy is in regards to medical for office uses on upper floors of commercial districts weve been through a lot of discussions and items were there were conversions often from housing to that use or maybe sometimes, it was not a housing use it might not another use but there were situations weve been reticent to grant this situation were allowing under is a difference between new construction and conversion the results are the same youre having medical officers o offices on the upper floors it makes sense to be able to have enough space it have our entire operations on different floors that was a
So again, a motion from commissioner fung to grant this appeal and deny the permit and again, with the finding the permit didnt come ply with the new smf ordinance on that motion commissioner president lazarus. The president is recused commissioner honda thank you. The vote is 3 to zero this permit is denied with that finding thank you. Okay. So we have two items remaining that is 9 ab appeal. And both at t california versus the department of public works use and mapping 1411 is the denial of the utility excavation permit for the public rightofway relate to a mount facility and the next appealing the denial on may 28, 2014, of the utility excavation in the public rightofway with a mounted facility since those are denials weve started with at t mr. Johnson youll start and have up to 14 minutes to present our case. Your case. Thank you, commissioners. Can i request that the exhibit be placed on the overhead id like to begin by addressing the departments brief and correct a few things for
That driveway was two dangerous because its an active driveway so it seems like it was not a good location. When we looked at the surrounding neighborhood the problem that came once we couldnt put it across the street this was the only location in the neighborhood that satisfied all of the objectives criteria that the department has. So we contacted the department in the fall of 2013 and had a conversation with jerry and lynn fong who agreed with us that is what ive been told by the two individuals who were on the call that the location on burr restraining order street was, in fact, the best location in that neighborhood. Its also not true this is simply about money it is simply all 3 of you know there are technical locations were limited by the fact it has to be within 3 hundred feet of the cabinet and were limit by the dozens of guidelines that the city has for where those boxes can and cant go. The department acknowledges and its own brief at least under the older ordinance the prop
Walk around and see the bus shelter thats a Clear Channel installation theyre not subject to the requirement of this ordinance. And you can use definitions in which the city did who else. J. D. Cause is exempt. Thank you. What did they did you the bathrooms they install advertising keeping you informed us and installed them on the public rightofway. And the city is exempt okay. So i can use words. No, i asked specifically. Thank you very much ms. Short rebuttal. Thank you, carl Short Department of public works i want to address one point mr. Johnson kugd what dpw could have been done is to hold the hearing open and allow for the time to review the additional sites at t could have submitted more than one site at the outset there was nothing in the process that prevented at t from submitting more than one and it the language used the plural in addition the sites that were identified as the box walk if at t would have allowed the populations the time to review what was being proposed we m