dpw and any possible appeals at the board of supervisors. on that motion to continue to the indefinite calendar, president hwang? >> aye. er >> commissioner hur had dough ?o >> aye. er >> vice-president has rus? >> aye. >> commissioner honda? >> aye. >> that is 5-0. >> i need a five minute break. (meeting is in recess). >> welcome back to the august 14, 2013 meeting. we are calling item number 6, meghan blake versus zoning administrator, this is on at 225 clipper street. this is appealing the denial on june 14, 2013 of the front set setback and screening of off street parking variances. this is v -- variance case 2012 .1328v. >> my name is ian murray, i'm an architect, this is the subject property. the property here, it has no garage. there are about 10 properties like this in a row, all of them have, theirs does not, they were seeking for me to put in a garage. >> can you speak in the microphone. >> you can see the front door is [inaudible] the ground floor is four foot above the sidewalk, so i did a quick sketch of it and determined that t

imposition of penalties and that is in the jurisdiction of the dpw. that wouldn't be in our jurisdiction to impose. dpw would be able to do that with it's own articles under section 16. any other comment? >> i'm probably not going to delve too much further into what might have been the rational and the in terms of what was being proposed. the question that still is in my mind is that from an urban design point of view, across the street is very large pg & e substation building. there are no trees there. there are a number of parking lots on that street. there are also no trees there. here is a huge development and i didn't see a significant integration between the sidewalk and the planting with the design. that's not -- i'm likely to support the department's ability to try to work with the developer hopefully to get as many trees as possible there, at least to soften the nature of the buildings. these are fairly large high rise buildings, they kind of blocky, they go right up to the sidewalk. regardless of my feelings of the motivation as to what occu

once we obtained the information from dpw, we brought the design to the planning department and we worked very closely with the planner, mr. tom wang, and i have great respect for mr. wang, he acted with us all throughout the process, he liked the design, he thought it was a very well thought out design. we're preserving a five foot setback between buildings, we're maintaining the stairs in perp taout, at the planning commission, the commissioners were surprised as to why planning staff hadn't supported this job. they thought it was a great design. commissioner hillis was not in attendance and i would have spoken to him afterwards, he would have voted for it, we would have had a 6-1 vote, but tonight all we're asking is due process. all we're asking is for us to have the ability to bring all the information on a rehearing, nothing else, you don't have to like the project, but i think my client deserves an opportunity of due process and fairness. >> mr. santos, if this letter was just issued, then your research didn't close the loop with them. >> i consulted with mr. stores, he's going to

the city has given us advice, the dpw gave us advice at the outset that there were no open space restrictions. i think we would like a rehearing so we could come back with the benefit of further information from dpw so you could have advice not from me as an advocate for my client but from your own staff to really resolve these issues finally. >> okay. >> okay, thank you, we can hear from the appellants. >> good evening, members of the board, iem donald bait man, co-chair of the east side neighborhood alliance, the request files far short of the standards and rierpt that is would warrant a new hearing under the board's rules, by upholding the conditions and the crepts of the vista san francisco subdivision number 1 approved by the board of supervisors in 1962, that caoe aided the open spaces throughout the development and required their maintenance, the board's decision on july 17th does not create any defact toe easement on any party nor does it constitute any regulatory taking or manifest in judgment, the conditions or crepts of the open green spaces were clearly established not only in the

currently, the dpw, the department of public works is verifying the appropriate number of sixties were taken, also an appeal was filed on the environmental review, i have not concerned confirmation of that at this point, and so what we have here is the letter of legitimization that underlings that cu, i would have to admit that maybe our process here in communicating with the jurisdiction requestor was not the clearest, i would take responsibility for that as has been noted by the jurisdiction requestor, he did request this file, the letter of legitimization file. i had just come back from time away from the office and i did not have that file, it was not given to me, i think staff may have given it to a support staff member, i think at this time, we probably didn't properly respond, there were also concerns raised by the jurisdiction requestor about the noticing for the conditional use authorization hearing. i was interested in this and i did go and visitor the site and confirmed the site didn't have the proper notice for the conditional use authorization, and therefore we had that it

what a great new place for the city of san francisco. i'm mohammed, from the dpw. you think of places that are inviting, welcoming, spacious, contemporary, while maintaining it's heritage. you think of easy access for visitors to enjoy themselves and make plans to come back again. fisherman's wharf is a world class destination spot. today it is even better. there have been lots of hands-on this project, many many hours and meetings to put together. besides the strategies for making it work here, creating an updated top notch public space. these improvement were driven by the fisherman's wharf community. without the support of all the businesses here, we wouldn't be standing here today. today we have the opportunity to recognize the individuals and groups who played a part and then we'll officially reopen this beautiful vibrant new corridor. now, i would like to introduce our first speaker. you know, our mayor has earned a reputation as a leader who brings people together and gets things done. as a former city administrator, he gets it. all the city infrastructure i

dpw as a rule does not do the abatement. so, whether they are or aren't using the correct materials to remove it off of brick, it's based on who they hire or who they get to do the work. we are aware for the time when we did do t we have several different products based on the type of surface. and staff was trained at that time, but that's when we were doing abatement on private property. >> i can just help a little bit. again, from the historic building perspective, of course, private property can be historic, too. but there's a difference between, of course, when it's a public owned building or private owned building. perhaps some of it is an awareness or an education about resource he he that are available. there's a whole gamut of people available to remove graffiti, people who have never done it before, maybe they're painters but they just have access to materials and they are used to taking paint off. i guess farther down the spectrum of people that have never done it before and just want to be good citizens to remove

the former head of the transportation authority and head of dpw went to meet with the head of caltrans late last year to ensure their support and helping to move this along, so i don't want us to throwing them under the bus. it's their road and they have been pretty good to work with. the schedule hasn't really slipped much i don't think in the last year, or the record of decision we were hoping would be earlier this year. as peter said should be around september, and the way it works is the environmental will be certified by the transportation authority commission. that will really kind of lock inue were talking about the hard decisions and mostly about travel lanes and parking. when they do that -- i mean to some extent you have both done that, their commission and this board, and the approval of the locally preferred alternative. presuming they certify the environmental and maybe it will change based on the comments and nonetheless it will come here for approval. the parking changes are well defined. with your approval of those that's the main trade off decisions that we typically f

proper use of our library bonds program from beginning from the year 2000 with the great partnership of dpw and so forth. there are more great partnerships to be guilt because guess what we're doing with the bonds that publicly improves, we're honoring these kids' future. this is a place where there is going to be invent, sharing, yes, exploring, meeting, oh, gosh, what else did we miss? >> meeting. >> instructor: yes, meeting and sharing and exploring and inventing and reading. of course. we're just going to have so much of this and i'm so happy to be working with the supervisors who also know this. because we're working together on things that you believe in. and i'm waiting for the chance, when board president chiu and scott wiener have their kids and when they come to north beach branch library, they will remember this day, when they bring their kids up to the front and say mayor lee and luis herrera and everybody worked together to get this done. and, by the way, more is to come when we all work together. because today is about a confirmation, the biggest thanks goes to the pare

fund-raising for the friends of the park, and folks at dpw mohammed nuru, phil, your team. it's a thrill to be with my colleagues on the board of supervisors who lead the charge every day to make san francisco a better place. i've got proclamations for all the folks i just mentioned. thanks again for being here and celebrate this beautiful day here at lafayette park. (applause) >> so, mark, we have a little parting gift for you to commemorate this great day. and to encourage you to get out here and take this and play with us. we have a lafayette playground sign and a rec and park picnic blanket for you to enjoy. congratulations. (applause) >> thank you. next time we need a park bond. while you go to the voters, i'm going to call sean parker. [laughter] >> thank you, mark. all right. i mentioned there are a variety of city departments here. i want to give a shout ought to battalion chief williams from station 38. where are you, chief? there she is. (applause) >> and i think we have some activities going on over there. i also want to give a big thank you to fire commissioner

i'm proud for munis and the commission and they are working with dpw. speaking about dpw, muhammad and i worked together and we literally saw people who realized the second the bus arrives they can't eat on the bus. so where do they toss it? if they weren't looking or realized there was a trash can next to them as most bus stops do have them. they were irresponsible. we literally saw people tossing things as they got on boarding the buses. that's not good behavior. obviously we need to do a lot more education. we need to end that practice and we need to keep and attitude, a very spirit of keeping our public assets clean and beautiful as you see them today. this is what these buses ought to look like a few years from now. we know they won't, but we need to keep that attitude in the city, not only with our youth but everybody in the city of all ages we see them discarding waste material onto the streets. we have a crew of people picking these up and reminding folks. we wanted to change things. that is part of using the giant sweep in the world ferries tha

so, what i'm saying is i think dpw does a great job on giving referrals on contractors, by the way, and a wealth of information about products. but the bottom line is that property owner is only going to spend so much money over and over and over and get to a point that it's just too much money. so, ghosting i think to me is dear to my heart because of this. if it stays there it's going to attract more vandalism. >> great point, thank you. jan, do you want to read another question? >> yes, this is in regards to abatement and it's something that as a city we have issues with, too, so i would like an answer. is there a product that would clean [speaker not understood] without damaging reflective coating? i've used different brands with no luck and i end up replacing the sign. so, in your experience [speaker not understood]? oh, okay. >> [speaker not understood]. i've got a sign outside my house at home. somebody tagged my sign. so, i went out there and when i got done, there was no red paint left, just a big shiny reflective piece. so, i called up the city of highland and i said, my sign

because this was a board requirement, dpw doesn't have the done wave that condition. in some cases if a developer is not required to plant a required tree, we look at alternatives like additional landscaping to mitigating the loss of that tree. that is something that is available to us. what we are here is to get

because this was a board requirement, dpw doesn't have the done wave that condition. in some cases if a developer is not required to plant a required tree, we look at alternatives like additional landscaping to mitigating the loss of that tree. that is something that is available to us. what we are here is to get guidance from the board to pursue this. frankly

different departments that include pc, dpw and the department of environment. there's a variety of non profits who are in this pace and the idea is to have an appoint person to help the community understand the opportunities that are out there. we're blessed with 27 gardens and we're going to have the community park gate gardening and we're working on other projects as well. so this person will be supported by the department and will work with the community to continue to create urban agricultural opportunities for san francisco. >> thank you. commissioner bonim. >> phil, i wanted to -- and the public, i just wanted to express my great appreciation for the giants gift for the renovation of ralph park. many years ago it seems like the giants played at candle stick park and during that they hosted so many hundreds of baseball clinics that were all part and we got to see everybody, all the players there many times and it's just so fitting that now they're acknowledging that relationship and that they have a special relationship that they have with ralph park and t

different departments that include pc, dpw and the department of environment. there's a variety of non profits who are in this pace and the idea is to have an appoint person to help the community understand the opportunities that are out there. we're blessed with 27 gardens and we're going to have the community park gate gardening and we're working on her projects as well. so this person will be supported by the department and will work with the community to continue to create urban agricultural opportunities for san francisco. >> thank you. commissioner bonim. >> phil, i wanted to -- and the public, i just wanted to express my great appreciation for the giants gift for the renovation of ralph park. many years ago it seems like the giants played at candle stick park and during that they hosted so many hundreds of baseball clinics that were all part and we got to see everybody, all the players there many times and it's just so fitting that now they're acknowledging that relationship and that they have a special relationship that they have with ralph park and tha

, dpw, which also played a vital role in the conversions is expecting 60 to 100 applications on july 29th, and in fact they received 15. and dpw also stated that all existing tenants and condo conversion buildings are to be authored the lifetime lease as outlined in these legislation. finally, for those of you using a source of media, tools, dbi is now actively using twitter, and daily tweets are being sent to remind the customers about the dbi professional services as well as to alert the customers and the media and the general public to important events. take a look at the twitter and see for yourself and see for yourself, how many voluntariers that dbi already have. and that is the end of my president announcements. madam secretary. >> is there any public comment on the president's announcements? >> seeing none, general public comment will take the public comment on matters in the commission jurisdiction. >> the members of the public may aaddress for a period of time not-to-exceed, 3 minutes, and they may address to commission as a whole and not to the individual commissions or de

very proud of our partnership with dpw. we exceeded the local workforce standards significantly. so, again, we're very proud of the local hire that we've had there. we are now beginning to ask in our budget for investing in post occupancy of these facilities. we want to make sure that those libraries that were completed early on in the program will have some dollars to replace everything from carpeting to hvac system as they're needed. we're also investing in custodial and security services and certainly the sustainability efforts through purchasing, recycling and managing our facilities through efficiencies is a key priority. in terms of overtime, it represents less than one-10th of 1%. so, it's a very small number. so 60,000 over our $92 million. most of these are associated with maintenance that has to happen during the closed hours. so, really it's a very small dollar amount and we're trying to be as efficient as possible at reducing overtime costs and we'll continue to do that. then we move on to another key initiative

, dpw, which also played a vital role in the conversions is expecting 60 to 100 applications on july 29th, and in fact they received 15. and dpw also stated that all existing tenants and condo conversion buildings are to be authored the lifetime lease as outlined in these legislation. finally, for those of you using a source of media, tools, dbi is now actively using twitter, and daily tweets are being sent to remind the customers about the dbi professional services as well as to alert the customers and the media and the neto impnt events. take a look at the twitter and see for yourself and see for yourself, how many voluntariers that dbi already have. and that is the end of my president announcements. madam secretary. >> is there any public comment on the president's announcements? >> seeing none, general public comment will take the public comment on matters in the commission jurisdiction. >> the members of the public may aaddress for a period of time not-to-exceed, 3 minutes, and they may address to commission as a whole and not to the individual commissions or department personne