Access Appeals Commission
DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING INSPECTION
City & County of San Francisco
1660 Mission Street, San Francisco, California 94103-2414
ACCESS
APPEALS COMMISSION
NOTICE
OF REGULAR MEETING
Wednesday,
July 26, 2000
1:00
P.M.
City
Hall
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Way, Room 416
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MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION
AGENDA:
1. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Approval of the minutes for the meeting held Wednesday, May 24, 2000.
3. PUBLIC COMMENT: At this time, members of the public may address the Commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the Commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting with one exception. When the agenda item has already been reviewed in a public hearing at which members of the public were allowed to testify and the Commission has closed the public hearing, your opportunity to address the Commission must be exercised during the Public Comment portion of the calendar. Each member of the public may address the Commission for up to 3 minutes. If it is demonstrated that comments by the public will exceed 15 minutes, the President or Chairperson may continue Public Comment to another time during the meeting.
4. REVIEW OF COMMUNICATIONS ITEMS.
At this time, the Commission may discuss or take possible action to respond to communication items received since the last meeting.
No items received.
5. REHEARINGS:
a. Appeal No. 99-16 (PA #9906616) Mr. John Peterson
1765 California Street On April 12, 2000 a rehearing of this appeal was granted based on new information a request by the appellant to submit a new engineering study. The appellant is appealing several Unreasonable Hardship Requests (UHR) that have been administratively denied by the Department, including non-accessible entrance ramp, vertical access, and parking.
b. Appeal No. 00-03 (PA # 2000208316 Ms. Linda H. Parker
353 Sacramento Street On April 12, 2000 a rehearing of this appeal was granted based on new information. The appellant is requesting a determination of equivalent facilitation for the front transfer accessible toilet stalls on most of floors (2-23) used in conjunction with fully accessible toilet stalls on five floors (4,6,16,17,18).
6. COMMISSIONERS’ AND STAFF’S QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS:
Commissioners’ and Staff’s open discussion to identify new agenda items, as well as current agenda items to be continued to another regular commission meeting, site visit or special meeting. Commission discussion and possible action regarding administrative issues related to access appeals.
7. PUBLIC COMMENT: Comment time is limited to 3 minutes per person. .
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Rafael Torres-Gil, Senior Building Inspector
Department of Building Inspection
Secretary to the Access Appeals Commission
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE SUNSHINE ORDINANCE
(Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code)
The Government’s duty is to serve the public, reaching its decisions in full view of the public.
Commissions, boards, councils and other agencies of the City and County exist to conduct the people’s business. This ordinance assures that deliberations are conducted before the people and that City operations are open to the people’s review.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE SUNSHINE ORDINANCE, TO OBTAIN A COPY OF THE SUNSHINE ORDINANCE, OR TO REPORT A VIOLATION OF THE ORDINANCE, CONTACT DONNA HALL, ADMINISTRATOR, CITY HALL, ROOM 244, 1 DR. CARLTON B. GOODLETT PLACE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102-4683. OFFICE (415) 554-7724, FAX (415) 554-5163, E-MAIL: DONNA HALL @CI.SF.CA.US.
Copies of the Sunshine Ordinance can be obtained from the Clerk of the Sunshine Task Force, the San Francisco Public Library and the City’s website at www.ci.sf.ca.us
In order to assist the City=s efforts to accommodate persons with severe allergies, environmental illnesses, multiple chemical sensitivity or related disabilities, attendees at public meetings are reminded that other attendees may be sensitive to various chemical based products. Please help the City accommodate these individuals.
ACCESSIBLE MEETING INFORMATION POLICY
The meeting will be held at the City Hall Building, located at 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, 4th Floor, Room 416. The closest accessible BART station is the Civic Center Station at 8th (at the United Nations Plaza) and Market Streets.
Accessible MUNI/Metro lines servicing this location are the J-Church, K-Ingleside, L-Taraval, M-Ocean View, and N-Judah at Van Ness and Civic Center Stations; 9-San Bruno, 71-Haight, and 42-Downtown bus lines. For information about MUNI accessible services call (415) 923-6142.