as well. trent reimbursed that co-worker for the cost of the d.r. with a check that contained the wording reimburse for d.r. in the memo line the co-worker brought that check to the deposition and the city is in possession of a copy of it. that co-worker testified she didn t know what discretionary review means as well. another tenant stated in his deposition that he was contacted by a representative of the defendants on three occasions that provided him with a list of talking points and asked that they use those talking points to form the basis of the public comments to you all at previous commission hearings regarding this application. in short, they imposed their own application to legalize their properties and attempted to cover it up. when you consider they filled in october, 2016, and it s now november, 2017, they ve been successful delaying this for 13 months. the only plausible reason to do this is to delay enforcement, collect rent, and to conceal their identity. i
architect for the project at 2323 mission. i m here with the business owner. the patio has been in use for 23 years. one of the neighbors complained. that s why we re here today. i will give you an orientation and then ben will speak more specifically about the use. the two-story awning that you see is the project. this is a floorplan and you can see that i ve illustrated there s a red line. that s the existing plan. structure in the rear extends out far to the rear yard. in our meetings with building and fire department staff, to provide a second exit from this space, need to make a larger rear yard so there is space at the back of the property for people to escape to. there is only one way out to the street in the front and unfortunately no way it put a second corridor. so the fire department staff agreed it s an appropriate and safe solution to the problem. by limiting the outdoor space to a maximum of 49 people it s complaint with the building code. it is the area that we
maybe on the inside. who knows. they don t affect us or better us in any way. that s what we care about at the end of the day. we definitely get the worst of it. you did hear a recording from cap street. you should hear it on mission street next door to them. it s literally ridiculous. so i could go on. there are other things that happen as well at the business from customers vomitting in our doorway and they only come from that bar. there are two other bars on the block. never come from them. there are people that do all kinds of stuff and it s only from that bar. i know i m on a time limit here. i hope you consider this. i know they have pros to them, but i hope you consider the cons as well. thank you very much. next speaker, please. good evening, commissioner. nice to see you, and, again, thanks for your services. i m al sharwa, doing business in mission for 35 years. and i m very protective of our mission community. i m about a block away from the bar that they re ta
story, 8 feet, from our patio area. this is a view looking at the section that will be demolished. the area that you see with the blue awning will come off and then you will see there s a covered shed area that will be essentially the new rear wall of the structure and it will not be a shed structure. it will be a full building structure. on the north side here to the right, you can see the wood siding. so that s the north side. there are windows that are on to and face the patio. on the left side, the south-facing side, there s a solid brick wall all the way up, so plenty of sound mitigation. it s a structure that will be demolished as part of the work. these are the only windows in the brick facade that face on to the patio and have faced it for 23 years. based on the location and size we estimate they could be kitchens and bathrooms, but difficult to know. and on the opposite side, because of the fire department requirements, the lowest tier will be the only area where sea
legalization process is there is a legal strategy involved. if they re not involved in the process, they can blame city bureaucracy for the 13-month delay infixing their code violations and say bureaucracy held up the legalization process and that they shouldn t have to pay the penalties that accrue for the code violations. while this d.r. has been pending, wu and zu have made no progress to legalizing the profit and the tenant victims live in substandard, uninspected housing. our office has personally met with tenants along with personnel from the planning department, building department, and the mayor s office, and we re going to continue to provide all the help we can to provide adequate housing in the event that they need to find new housing. thank you. thank you. and i believe ms. cohen from the department of homelessness i m emily cohen, department of homelessness and supportive housing, and i m here to share with you our plan for serving any of the households tha