Greater San Francisco would exist, and so we ask again, commissioners, that you focus something on not just the structures that are San Francisco but the members of our community that need your assistance. The developers would be more than happy to do that, we ask that the majority of those would be san franciscans. This is where you can make a difference. Happy new year, commissioners, i wish you well in your deliberations. Thank you. calling speakers . Linda chapman, im going to bring you again a prayer from the methodist congregation and inherited assisted st. Johns whose administrator you heard from and for months, theyve been remembering you in their prayers, from the methodist emission, from activists working for compassionate youth, for conference leaders as they seek a positive solution, and i think that their prayers are beginning to be answered, some is being revitalized right now and the woman whom you met is apparently a candidate to be added to that board that actually is
Letter within that 30 days t has to go to public hearing. It goes to public hearing at the department of public works. Thats right. The hearing officer makes a decision and the director issues an order to remove and that decision and the order are both appealable to the board of appeals and i go to the board of appeals and i see carla there every couple of weeks and people often appeal three permits, anytime you need a permit to replace a tree, remove a tree, anytime you need a permit, theyre appealable, it turns out that trees like fences are some of the most contentious issue that is come to the board of appeals, theyre there every three or four weeks, we see a big tree case. I dont want palm trees on my treat. I want a sixfoot box. Everybody is very strongly felt about trees, i think. It happens constantly. It really brings out peoples passions, which, as an as a forester, im always gratified to see. Youre passionate. But this are also a oftentimes conflicts between trees and proper
Slippery and the fruits themselves are rolling. We generally dont encourage fruiting trees in the right of way. There are nonfruiting trees, we ask people to consider that, if theyre interested in this tree. We have all sorts of stuff happening here. And none of it good. Does anyone know about this . Yes it is, thats an olive, for whoever doesnt have a mike. If you look across the street, you can see what this tree probably used to look like. Unfortunately, this is an example of what i described earlier, where you top the tree, you cut the top off it. A lot of times, when people see a tree there is really overpruned and you see new growth, and you see the tree is coming back, it is recovering. But actually, this is a sign of stress growth, the tree is trying to get as much leaf can nappy as it can. It is producing these sprouts. These wont be healthy or well attached to the main trunk, what they mean, if it ever gets big enough, theyre going to start breaking off and theyre going to fa
Other things, i appreciated commissioner bordens comments, you commented on a project by a former Planning Commissioner which people dont realize that roger was on the Planning Commission and additionally on the maps, that site is still for demolition. I think it should be looked at because when the board Planning Commission was doing the marker, they did [inaudible] study, they were hot to demolish that site. Number 2, the aeu later that went to the commissioners directly, i have tried everywhere to find the letter in the Planning Department files and when a letter comes directly to Planning Commissioners, please ask if the commissions secretary and the files have it and its something that attorneys know they have to give to other people, but you are the enforcement mechanism and i would hope that it would not happen again from the academy of art university, that one is not in any file. The part about item 10, there is a letter in the file from the Mayors Office, and extensive documen
Is that this Public Comment is to the Environmental Impact report, not to the project itself. We put our cards in on this but we want to talk later. Ill hold it for 11a. Any additional general Public Comment . Okay, seeing none, general Public Comment is closed. Next item please item 9, fiscal year 20132015 proposed department budget, this is an informational item and requires no action. Good afternoon, commissioner, john ram with the Planning Department, i want to briefly introduce, this will be the first of multiple hearings on the coming years budget, which is a two year budget, as you recall, we do a two year budget every year, so this is the second year of last years budget but we have to do a budget from fiscal year 1315, i wanted to remind you that as you heard last week through the supplemental appropriation, our fee revenues are anticipated to be much higher than we budgeted for this fiscal year and we will see that 3 volume increase in our applications, we are anticipating vo