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The monday, january 14, 2013 meeting of the land use committee. Our clerk is mr. Derek evans. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. All documents included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will be acted upon in the january 29, 2013 board of supervisors meeting unless otherwise stated. We only have two items on this agenda. Item 1 is an ordinance amending the San FranciscoBusiness Code to permit permit expirations and extensions and to modify various fees. We have from the department of building inspection Pamela Levitt good afternoon, pamela levin, Deputy Director administrative services, department of building inspection. The legislation before you is designed it achieve the following objective ....
And id like to think that that is certainly not the case. And im hoping that you will reconsider and keep your approval of course to the original project okay, thank you, maam. Your time is up. And thank you. Thank you. Next speakers, if i called your name in addition, robert her and tom harte. President fong, commissioners, director ram, im here representing 45 fremont associates as they are the building directly to the north on fremont street, 350 mission. And our very acute problem is that we did not receive notice of this proceeding or that there was a contemplation an increase of 100 feet in height, six stories, 25 increase in the building adjacent to our building, and in particular, adjacent to our public plaza area. We respectfully request a postponement of a month so that we can review the voluminous staff report and its attachments and determine the impact of an increase in height of that magnitude on our public plazas, on the adjacent streets, wind effect, wind impact, all of ....
Years. It would construct a hotel a ground floor lobby and restaurants and excessive meeting rooms. The project was originally approved in 2001 and given extensions in 20034 and 10. It has not been gone forward because of the economy. Those down turns were precipitated by the terrorist attacks and the Global Economic recession. However, the sponsor wants a 3 years extension. The staff believes that an extension is appropriate since it was beyond the control of the sponsor. Its ideally located for an hotel and the attractions around union square. And its contemporary but is reasonably designed for the skefrment you districts. However, because of the current economic climate the staff asked for 1 year extension. This includes my presentation im available for questions. Thank you project sponsor. Good afternoon president s fong and members of the commission, director ram im jim rubin this time representing the hotels and partnership ....