Planning department. Joseph duffy, representing the building of inspection. The Board Meeting lines in are as follows. The board request that you silence all phones or electronic devicings so they will not disturb the proceedings. Appellants, permitholder and respondents are given three minutes. Members of the public who are not affiliated with the party have up to three minutes to address the board and no rebuttal. Please speak into the microphone. You are asked, but not required to submit a speaker card when you come up to speak. Speaker cards are available on the left side of the podium. The board reserves the right not to call an item after 10 p. M. If you have a question, speak to board staff during a break or after the meeting. Or call the board office. This will be rebroadcast friday. Now we will swear and affirm all those who intend to testify. Please note, any member of the public may speak. If you intend to testify at any of the proceedings tonight and wish to have the board
The boards intern. Im julie rosenberg, the boards executive director. We will also be joined by represents from the city departments that have cases before the board this evening. Scott sanchez, deputy administrator, representing the Planning Department. Joseph duffy, representing the building of inspection. The Board Meeting lines in are as follows. The board request that you silence all phones or electronic devicings so they will not disturb the proceedings. Appellants, permitholder and respondents are given three minutes. Members of the public who are not affiliated with the party have up to three minutes to address the board and no rebuttal. Please speak into the microphone. You are asked, but not required to submit a speaker card when you come up to speak. Speaker cards are available on the left side of the podium. The board reserves the right not to call an item after 10 p. M. If you have a question, speak to board staff during a break or after the meeting. Or call the board offi
Executive director. We will also be joined by represents from the city departments that have cases before the board this evening. Scott sanchez, deputy administrator, representing the Planning Department. Joseph duffy, representing the building of inspection. The Board Meeting lines in are as follows. The board request that you silence all phones or electronic devicings so they will not disturb the proceedings. Appellants, permitholder and respondents are given three minutes. Members of the public who are not affiliated with the party have up to three minutes to address the board and no rebuttal. Please speak into the microphone. You are asked, but not required to submit a speaker card when you come up to speak. Speaker cards are available on the left side of the podium. The board reserves the right not to call an item after 10 p. M. If you have a question, speak to board staff during a break or after the meeting. Or call the board office. This will be rebroadcast friday. Now we will s
Its the only thing we have to fix it because if someone has alleged and shown there is work beyond the scope of permit, i guess what else could we do other than to correct that through the permitting process . But then again, it happens again. And there is mr. Fixit again, which enables it fixes it, but enables. Thats strike two. Right. So in addition to my, you know, dislike of section 317, there is also weaknesses in our enforcement process, whereby generally for assessment of penalties, its only if someone is nonresponsive. So if you speed, you get a ticket. And that ticket is going to cost you something. That does not exist in the planning code. At most, what we do and what the code allows, we can assess its for our enforcement time so time and materials and then 2,000 added onto the cost of the permit. And that is what we have in order to penalize. What i understand, this is happening once or twice, where is the penalty . How do we stop someone from doing this again . I dont have
In the laurel neighborhood of oakland, not far from a chevron station, and this is not quite in the hills. Its in the foothills. Crews are fighting the fire from the westbound lanes of the freeway and along quigley street as well. And now were going to show you the video from about 20 minutes ago when i was talking about the black smoke when the flames were burning quite intensely. You can see okay, so heres the hillside kind of war began and then a spread into the structures. You can see all that area thats been charred. You saw that chevron station we were talking about. So hows was fully involved as well as a fence. We saw that between homes that was also on fire. Pushing a little bit here and you can see some of the charge structure there and some of the trees that have also been touched by flames. And now this is a look from a cow trans camera. You can see the flames and traffic and we understand the traffic is backed up for miles. Past the point of the highway 13 junction. So thi