Commissioner president lazarus and shes joined by commissioner fung commissioner honda and were pleased to welcome bobby wilson the Vice President will be absent to my left is deputy City Attorney robert bryan for legal advice and victor is the legal have an opportunity im Cynthia Goldstein were joined by representatives from the department that have matter before the board socioskoonlz is the Zoning Administrator representing the Planning Commission and jeff is the senior building representing the department of building inspection jean is from the department of public works and joined by sherry categorizing from the City Attorneys office to advise the department of the Public Health mr. Pacheco go over the board meetings guidelines and swear in. The board requests you turn off the cell phones and pager please carry on conversation in the halfway appellants and Department Representatives have 7 minutes to present their cases and 3 minutes for rebuttal participant affiliated must comple
Department of building inspection jean is from the department of public works and joined by sherry categorizing from the City Attorneys Office to advise the department of the Public Health mr. Pacheco go over the board meetings guidelines and swear in. The board requests you turn off the cell phones and pager please carry on conversation in the halfway appellants and Department Representatives have 7 minutes to present their cases and 3 minutes for rebuttal participant affiliated must complete their opinion and to assist the Board Members of the public are asked not required to submit a speaker card or Business Card to board staff when you come up to the appointed pens are available on the left side of the pronounced customer staefgs survey forms on the left side of the podium if you need questions answered please speak to the board staff or call the board office tomorrow morning located pats 1650 anyone o on Mission Street broadcast live on sfgovtv cable 78 and dvds are available for
President and supervisors i was hoping to get out of talking but do i have 7 and a half minutes . You have 3 minutes remaining. Theres a long history to this project im looking forward to it being over. I think its very unfortunately its come back to this body and that the appellant continues to persist after so many complaints all of which have been addressed its very frustrating for me as the architect for this project that i have to get up here and defend defend that its okay to have lowered the door 18 inches. Really i think everybody has missed that including the Planning Department the focus of this sequa is about lowering the front door and the front porch thats visible from the street because those things are visible from the street. The dorm ers in the back are behind the roof; they are not visible from the street. Everything else the appellant has brought up are subject to permitting issues and all of those permitting issues are being handled now with the building department.
We know that tobacco and cigarettes use is the leading cause of preventible death in San Francisco and thanks so much for the department of Public Health leadership for emphasising that along with communitybased organizations. I wanted to give and nearly 4 hundred 400 million a year is spent on health costs related to cigarettes and tobacco. Also ucsf and stanford researchers gave us recently their up to date research and premature death in low income communities and also tobacco density the higher concentrations of tobacco permits and sales that density results in increased Youth Smoking rates as well so this is about limiting access access but also reducing big tobaccos efforts to hook young people on cigarettes and also the e cigarettes as well and this over time as i said will cut our tobacco permits in half according to our estimates through attrition and reducing the number of tobacco licenses. Creating a cap of 45 licenses per district and that cap was calculated by looking at t
Including the Affordable Housing requirement that would be enforced really travel and run with the land. We expect the bridge loan to be repaid in approximately 1 year after the boards consideration of this transaction the state department of finance will review it and the bridge loan is expected to close in january. So with that that concludes my presentation. Members of the tjpa as well as claudia gorum are also here with any questions you have. Do we have anymore questions or comments for the staff present here today . Supervisor kim . No. Okay with that then we have items 41 and 42 before us. And wed like to take Public Comment on those two items. Any members of the public if you wish to speak you have 2 minutes to speak. Seeing none Public Comment is closed for this item. Any further discussion . All right. All right. So hour hearing has been held and closed and now 41 and 42 if we could so we could take that same house same call without objection. Oh, im sorry. Our house has chan