Anthonys, who is here in force today. Raise your hands and thank them. [ applause ] a couple of other grantors to st. Anthonys, thanking jack fitzpatrick, who is here. Stephanie and the koretfolks that have already been mentioned. Were actually going to do a groundbreaking. So i would ask those involved on that, that is everybody on the stage pretty much to start moving into the pit. So if you can stand up and start moving. Good evening and welcome to the january 16th, 2013 meeting of the San Francisco board of appeals. The presiding officer this evening is board president chris hwang joined by Vice President frank fung, commissioner lazarus and commissioner darryl honda. Commissioner hurtado is absent this evening. The deputy City Attorney will provide the board with any legal advice im Cynthia Goldstein the boards executive director. Were joined from representatives from the city departments with the cases before us. Scott sanchez is here, he is representing the Planning Department a
Plans tonight. Obviously thats too high if you are not going to provide egress, so something has to be done about that. We will have an opportunity at dbi but im not sure how i would get that done from our end of things. Im not involved in the plan check process so maybe some condition within an hr2 district. It went through section 311 neighborhood notice at the beginning of this year, 5 discretionary views were filed on the application, the matter was heard in may of this year and not take discretionary review. The Planning Department does not have any complaints on file for the subject file. The appellant has raised concerns regarding section 181 of the planning code that would not apply here. The building is not, it doesnt contain any nonconforming uses. They are allowed to contain two dwelling units, thats what the property contains. A further note, even if the property did contain a nonconforming use, its not a prohibition on an expansion of the building. The Building Code does a
Numerousity of issues that were brought does create a certain level of complexity that for those of us who arent as trained in these issues, it was helpful it hear more discussion of it today. Like Vice President fung, i agree that the permit should be upheld for many of the reasons he stated. I didnt find, i found at this point the position of the permit holder persuasive. Make a motion . Move to uphold the department and the permit. You need grounds . If you care to articulate. On the grounds it is code compliant. Thank you. We have a motion from the Vice President to deny both appeals, uphold this permit on the basis that it is code compliant. On that motion. roll called . Thank you, the vote is 40, this permit is upheld. Okay, thank you. President wong wong, hwang, would you like me to call the next item. I think we should take a short break. He welcome back to the october 17 meeting of the San Francisco board of appeals. We are now calling ate a through 8d, appeal numbers 12105 th
Good evening and welcome to the january 9, 2013 meeting of the San Francisco board of appeals. The residing officer this evening is frank fung and joining him is darryl honda and ann lazarus and we expect ms. Hurtado with us and chris hwang is absent this evening and i am christine grold the executive director. We are joined by the departments that have cases before the board tonight. Scott sanchez is here. Hes the Zoning Administrator and representing the Planning Commission and patrick rearon is here and i think that joseph duffy will be here as well and john qan is here for public works and street mapping. If you would go over the guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. The board requests that you turn off owl good evening and welcome to the january 16th, 2013 meeting of the San Francisco board of appeals. The presiding officer this evening is board president chris hwang joined by Vice President frank fung, commissioner lazarus and commissioner darryl honda. Commissioner hur
Inspector representing the department of building inspection. John kwong is here and im not sure if they are in the room, but im expecting representatives from the Environmental Health section of the department of health. If you could conduct the swearingin process. The board requests that you turn off all phones and pagers so they will not disturb the proceedings. Please carry on conversations in the hallways. The boards rules of presentation are as follows, appellants, permit holders and Department Representatives each have seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttals. People affiliated with these parties must include their comments within the 7 or 3minute periods. Members of the public, who are not affiliated with the partis have up to 3 minutes each to address the board, but no rebuttals. To assist the board in the accurate preparation of minutes, the members of public who wish to speak on an item are asked, but not required to submit a speaker card or Busin