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Do you see these city streets out here . This is a small section of the city. This has all been filled. If you look at this map was recently adopted by the state, as their hazhard map. Thats what these green areas are. Just enormous mission area. This is an interesting tid bit. Most people dont realize. There was a creek that flowed out of a lake in the mission. The lake was three city blocks large. It was at 17th and valencia. Theres a plaque out there. You could sail a boat up the creek that f...

Buildings, 95 percent of the population can expect to shelter in place within 12 hours of an earthquake. Thats where a group of us feel we should be designing towards. Whos going to benefit . These are details of what were trying to figure out and address. As a general contractor, i see hundred year Old Buildings and they have Brick Foundation or inadequate foundation. Minimal concrete. Everything is done with stainless steel and granite. But the next door neighbor could have brandnew. You are s...

Shed as long as its not over 100 square feet of projected roof area. California code says 120 square feet. San francisco says 100. Fire escapes need lots of maintainence. This requires a fire escape person or contractor to test it, lube it, maintain it. You have to keep it painted and scrubbed. Wire brush. This is one of those folding ladders, which we used to approve. We still approve other folding ladders. What do you have to do . If any of you have a ladder you are depending on for eggress, y...

Commissioners the matter is submitted. I just will start out, because he it is significantly egregious conduct in my mind, but impart of it is that it is the population that is being served here. And a para Transit Community and i think that the evidence establishes the fraud and the abuse on this community. And in the public. And it has been admitted to at least on two occasions i would not question the extent to which the investigation established a pattern of problematic behavior. I would sup...

Picnic blankets. Carina, youve been our playground champion, Lafayette Park playground sign. Thank you. applause why dont you guys say a few words right now. Okay. The only thing that i want to do is to thank all of you who have been hundreds, it took literally hundreds of people to do this. And i have a couple of names to we want to make sure we mention these names. But im leaving out hundreds of people and i know it. So, and theres plenty more chances. Were going to continue our cleaning and g...

Clapping now the rest of you can get doing our work as we make introductions. First of all, thing to the 2kri6b8 microscopic nor out and beyond and please welcome to help us opening the morning with prayer and remarks. The description ofal programs for methodist coordinator roger brooks. Thank you and again everyone for being here. To many people are meeting friends or hoping fliebt arent scald or preparing meals for their thanksgiving families. Youve here standing side by side preparing meals f...

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 a couple people joining us. Pat buscovich, Structural Engineer who is one of the people who has seen more failed retaining walls in San Francisco than anybody el...

Which are spiders that exclusively kill and eat other spiders. They are under the microscope here. Research done and the california academys i rhinology lab suggests that the assassin spiders have been doing this for over 150 million years. This glassed in room is a real scientific laboratory, and the people in that room are preparing specimens of vertebrate, that is mammals and birds. The way they do this is to remove the skin, sew it together in a relatively lifelike pose, and ensure that it d...

Talk on the code enforcement. And for code enforcement, and we took 62 building and electricity and plumbing cases to the directors hearing of those 18 of abasement issues, and 7 were held under advisement. And for the month, we abaited a total of 159 cases that concludes our report, thanks. Okay, thank you. Thank you, commissioners. Thank you, tom. Is there any Public Comment on item 4, the directors report for athrough e . I would like the commissioner walker and i also forgot to mention the c...

Notice, or even to start this job and so forth, by looking in the backlog. Yeah. Indeed, in the pac meeting, i called the planning, and like you mentioned two weeks, but they never come back to me, when can they stop . Yeah. And they promised two weeks, but never this week. And i dont, i might be a little bit off topic but it is relevant to time, have we ever got a conclusion with the last conversation that we had where editing that must be and it has a change and it has to go back to planning i...