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Okay, i think that we are ready to convene the meeting. And we are going to start today, with the open session. Roll call, commissioner wo oho . Here. Brandon . Here. Aid ams . Here. Katz. Here. Murphy. Here. Item two, approval of the minutes for the september 10, 2013 meeting. So moved. Second. All in favor . Aye. Pledge of allegiance. Please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones and pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting and be advi...

Do you swear that the testimony you are about to give is the truth to the best of your knowledge . Yes. Thank you. Item number c is approval of the minutes, discussion and possible action to adopt the minutes for the meeting held on september 19th, 2012. Move to approve. Second. Okay. All those in favor . Aye. Okay. Im sorry, do we have any Public Comment on these minutes . Did someone have any Public Comment on the minutes . Okay. The minutes are approved. We can now move on to item d, new appe...

Cannot stand there anymore and it fell. This slide is a long sansome street, where the city chose to protect sansome street and the cars, and they built this catchment wall. The sole purpose of this wall is to catch rocked that falls from private property. And every year or two, we get a call saying that rocks have fallen down the road and spilled over. This is the famous slide where we had a building at the top fall down this hill. This is the 22 street building. This was a watercolor done in 1...

The buildings, not over night and not without financial help or incentive, but a phased program over time that is reasonable so we can fix those buildings, and for the smaller soft story buildings and especially in San Francisco and the houses over garages we need information and incentives and coaxing the people along and each of the owners want their house to be safe enough. We want the system and not just mandate everybody. Thats right. I hear about people talking about this concept of resili...

Crane, not bolted down. About all of these big concrete waits . 160 pounds of concrete is the ballast week. Did you have to pour a Big Foundation under that . This is a construction method that we get to, we work with the contractor. We get a load from the crane manufacturer, figure out the downward load and the overturn load. We then make sure that the foundation can take that load. Also, all the anchors on the floor are adequate. Why would you do this instead of fastening it to a fixed base . ...

Of the 2010 San Francisco building code. I sympathize with the fact that the owner was getting water in their house, and, you know, any of us would want to remedy that situation. My thoughts are that it would have been probably better had been would bei, and i, for glad to go out there and look at the situation, give them advice regarding waterproofing or what permits would be necessary. And its really unfortunate to see this structure that was taken down. So i leave it in your hands for decisio...

Does involve means and methods or personaliation grouting and tunneling, shoring, having to do with creating this additional basement space. So i did visit the site yesterday just to get an idea of what the was and what everything looked like, and reviewed the drawings. And i did note that the drawings showed the personaliation grouting to be within the property at 2865 vil ahoe and didnt show an encroach onto 2875 vallejo. No work was going on to this permit which was suspended anyway. Today, i...

Are we done . Ladies and gentlemen, we actually have further business to take care of on the agenda today. So, if you can wrap up conversations can take them outside, that would be great. Okay. Before staff starts, i have a protocol question. When is the appropriate time or how, when, can a make a motion to continue . Can i make a motion to continue . You can do that at any point. I mean, weve called the item into the record. You might want to let staff give its presentation. And when you get to...

Close the gap. A Detailed Analysis which was mentioned and i want to say that there were other sites that are lower preference but because they were 150ur7bd by higher buildings it wouldnt be useful for our needs thank you. Thank you Planning Commission meetings there was a design issue. As shown in the photographs that were provided to you at t has submitted 9 different designs and working with the Planning Department to bring a proposal that has the staffs support. Weve considered alternative ...

Up and say, yes, you lie within a particular zone i am the manager of a large condo minnium project. It was built in 1963. Its steel and concrete theres a difference between structural steel and rebarb. Its steel columns. Thank you goodness. 19 stories and i live across the street in a building that was built i believe in 1920 and i brought my staff here because we want to, as a team, be prepared with our building and the owners who live there. So her question is, how can someone find out what t...