Representatives from the city departments with cases before the board this evening. We have the administrator planning the Planning Commission and joseph duffy, senior building inspector. The Board Meeting guidelines are follows. The boards turnoff and silence electronic devices. Appellants and Department Respondents have 7 minutes to present the case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. People affiliated must include the comments within this period. Members of the public not affiliated with the parties have three minutes each to address the board and no rebuttal. If you have questions about requesting a rehearing, please email the board staff at board of appeals at sfgovtv. This is broadcast live on sfgovtv cable channel 78 and will be rebroadcast on friday. It is available on the website and downloaded from sfgovtv. Org. We will swear in or affirm those who will testify. I will admit two people to the meeting. Please note any member of the public may speak without taking an oath pursuant to r
Attorney who will provide legal advice this evening. At the controls is the boards Legal Process clerk and i am julie, the boards executive director. We will be joined by representatives from the city departments with cases before the board this evening. We have the administrator planning the Planning Commission and joseph duffy, senior building inspector. The Board Meeting guidelines are follows. The boards turnoff and silence electronic devices. Appellants and Department Respondents have 7 minutes to present the case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. People affiliated must include the comments within this period. Members of the public not affiliated with the parties have three minutes each to address the board and no rebuttal. If you have questions about requesting a rehearing, please email the board staff at board of appeals at sfgovtv. This is broadcast live on sfgovtv cable channel 78 and will be rebroadcast on friday. It is available on the website and downloaded from sfgovtv. Org. We
Were proposing two things. As the addition was pitched to us as a green room or garden room, a place to get direct sun light and do some light gardening, if that is the case, why not keep this front area open and make it sort of a green roof or terrace with plants . This would be more practical and intent for its intents and purposes. This solution would eliminate all concern about the new mass and the topography of the street. This would be a large green area, sunny and exposed, where they could take care of plants. If this solution seems too radical, we would like the project to get a larger set back from the street. Maybe this should be revisited. Also, the height of the building, while under the 35foot limit, should be adjusted on either side. Simply being in line and simply being in line with current roof from the previously addition seems to make a lot of sense and be less disruptive to the street. We do have four other neighbors on our side of the street who feel similarly to us
Host what do you do for a living . Guest i am a ghost writer. Host what is a ghost writer . Guest a ghost writer is an author who writes in the first person of another person. Host how did you get into that business . Guest its a long story. The short end of the story is i was an advertising guy after college and after graduate school and i made up my mind i was going to go meet ray charles and talking into letting me do an authorized biography of the because wanted to win the Pulitzer Prize and nobel prize advantage of a think about ghostwriting. So i had hard time introducing myself to him, sort of getting to the i was able to do it through my tenacity. And when i did this agent i had told me you want to do his autobiography. And i said no i dont. And he said yesterday. I said i dont know how to do that. I dont know what a ghost writer does. He says, well you will earn a lot more money if you do it, if you do a ghost written book because its a much larger market for a ray charles boo
coming up next, booktv presents after words, an hourlong program where we invite guest hosts to interview authors. this week wall street veteran william cohan s latest, money and power, the follow up to his best-selling book house of cards is an inside story of the rise and continued strength of investment bank goldman sachs. mr. cohan had access to several current and former high-level goldman employees including ceo lloyd blankfein, and he shares his discoveries with chief economics correspondent for the washington times, patrice hill. host: mr. cohan, thank you for coming for this interview. guest: thank you for having me. host: and this is a man who works and lives in new york, works on wall street and is very steeped in the world of wall street, knows what he s talking about. he s written a book money and power: how goldman sachs came to rule the world. extremely well written and readable. extremely well researched with more than 100 interviews with the