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Good afternoon. Im laurence kornfield chief building inspector with the city of San Franciscos department of building inspection. And this is one of our monthly Brown Bag Lunch meetings which we do every third thursday and the public is invited to come and sit and join us and share their points of view as well. This is not a technical lecture but sort of a point of view. I ask people to come and share points of view with me. And so for todays discussion about retaining walls and fences, we have ...

Can everyone take your seats . We are about to begin the abatement appeals hearing. Good morning. Today is wednesday, november 21st. This is a meeting of the abatement appeals board. I would like to remind everyone to please turn off all electronic devices. The first item on the agenda is roll call. President clinch . Here. Vice president melgar is excused. Commissioner lee . Here. Commissioner mar . Here. Commissioner mccarthy . Here. Commissioner [speaker not understood] . Present. [speaker no...

No. But what will happen is that this is going to be a voluntary for sale after revocation. And that forced sale will allow him to recoup the majority of that money. Minus. Can he sell it prior . He has already been revoked. Okay, i got it. All right. Is there any alternative that we could sell it if, i mean is the mta willing it remove the revoke allowing him to sell it or not at all . Not at all. Okay. So your position is firm. That it is either revoke or we give it to him. That is correct. Ok...

For sale after revocation. And that forced sale will allow him to recoup the majority of that money. Minus. Can he sell it prior . He has already been revoked. Okay, i got it. All right. Is there any alternative that we could sell it if, i mean is the mta willing it remove the revoke allowing him to sell it or not at all . Not at all. Okay. So your position is firm. That it is either revoke or we give it to him. That is correct. Okay. The other medallions that were turned in, were they allowed t...

Good afternoon. Im laurence kornfield chief building inspector with the city of San Franciscos department of building inspection. And this is one of our monthly Brown Bag Lunch meetings which we do every third thursday and the public is invited to come and sit and join us and share their points of view as well. This is not a technical lecture but sort of a point of view. I ask people to come and share points of view with me. And so for todays discussion about retaining walls and fences, we have ...

And do we have our big scissors. Electeds, join me. If you are a kid, come on up. And what i will do with the kids is together we will use the big scissors. Why dont you guys come on in here. All right, hold on, were not there yet. Lets not do it yet. Be careful. All children with scissors, please be careful. All right. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Yeah ladies and gentlemen, Lafayette Park is officially open yea hello and welcome to the department and building inspection lunch program. We are ...

Its already been a firstdegree time of imagination and the use of the planning code which was not intended. So the neighbors want it handled quickly and the securing the site but they also want to page which is now wrapped and strung from the hillside removed. Its ridiculous its still hanging there. Thats the priority for the neighbors is to have the site secured, have it cleared and have the structure removed thank you very much thank you, mr. Williams. Is there any more any Public Comment . Be...

Pig lake. I think thats what the spanish called it. There was a deep ravine. They filled it in with the tunnel muck and they filled in the ravine and built houses. The other area is really interesting, down 18th street. There was a creek coming from eureka. There is a street called pond. Its not a coincidence. Part of what were going too try to do is update this map and give it historical data. There are more significant data. How do you know if your individual lot . One is these lines are very ...

In our budget this year that was approved last year, we have more building inspectors two. And were going to ladder to work with sfoir. Were asking for 4 more bodies that are above and beyond that are permit techs and in the service to help with the customer calls. Were looking for more you assistance with the management position and one with pr. Were looking at part of the add were technically asking for two positions were going to give up two position. Thats to fill 4 more positions. You can s...

Formally redevelopment land gets the agreements that we had that the state has in their infinite wisdom decided to honor and keep in fact, i think we are one of the few redevelopment agencies in the state of california, particularly the governor had appreciated the way we conduct ourselves in all of the redevelopment agencies decisions. Something i know he realized that because we have a lot of things we are doing and doing it correctly. Its also thankful because this project continues to contri...