Access Appeals Commission
ACCESS APPEALS COMMISSION
NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETING
Wednesday, January 23, 2002
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. ELECTION OF OFFICERS: (ACTION)
Rule 3 (b) governing Access Appeals Commission elections is as follows:
Rule 3. Officers and Staff
(b) Elections. The President and Vice-President are elected at the first regular meeting of the Commission after the first day of November of the year. Incumbents may not succeed themselves in office. The office of President and Vice-President shall be rotated among the Commission members, with the Vice-President succeeding to the office of President the following year. If the Vice-President declines to accept the nomination as President, the president shall be elected from among the other members excluding the incumbent.
3. PUBLIC COMMENT: (DISCUSSION)
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. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: (ACTION)
Approval of minutes for the meeting held Wednesday, November 14, 2001.
5. REVIEW OF COMMUNICATIONS ITEMS: (DISCUSSION)
At this time, the Commission may discuss or acknowledge communication items received since the last meeting.
a) Letter from Supervisor Mark Leno dated December 19, 2001 regarding the property at 590 Bosworth Street (Appeal # 01-06), requesting consideration of the fact that the proposed dental office will be more accessible than the current one.
6. NEW APPEAL: (ACTION)
a) Appeal No. 02-01 (PA #200112185480) Jeffrey Feldman 50 California Street
The appellant is requesting ratification of the Unreasonable Hardship Request granted by DBI for legal and physical constraints associated with the lack of 8'-2" vertical clearance in the parking garage with equivalent facilitation. The building permit involves a $120,000 tenant improvement in the 23rd floor of a 36 story building. The applicant is also requesting that the decision be recognized for future permit applications within certain limits.
7. COMMISSIONER TRAINING (ACTION)
Training presentation regarding elevators, and wheelchairs lifts presented by Richard Skaff, Deputy Director of the Mayor's Office on Disability, and Jim Whipple, Building Inspector, Disabled Access Section. The training will include site review of wheelchair lifts in the Civic Center area.
8. COMMISSIONERS' AND STAFF'S QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS: (DISCUSSION)
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.
9. PUBLIC COMMENT: (DISCUSSION)
Comment time is limited to 3 minutes per person.
10. ADJOURNMENT: (ACTION)
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Rafael Torres-Gil, Senior Building Inspector
Department of Building Inspection
Secretary to the Access Appeals Commission
Outstanding Items
Appeal No. 01-05, 201 Turk Street
The appellant has been requested to provide a written verification that they wish to have this item agendized.
Appeal No. 01-06, 590 Bosworth Street
The rehearing of this appeal is scheduled for a Special Meeting of the AAC to be held on January 29, 2001 at 10:00 AM
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 sfgov.org
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.
The Commission meeting room is wheelchair accessible. Accessible curbside parking spaces have been designated on the Van Ness Avenue and McAllister Street perimeters of City Hall for mobility-impaired persons. There is accessible parking available within the Civic Center Underground Parking Garage at the corner of McAllister and Polk Streets, and within the Performing Arts Parking Garage at Grove and Franklin Streets.
Accessible seating for persons with disabilities (including those using wheelchairs) will be available. Assistive Listening devices will be available at the meeting. A sign language interpreter will be available upon request. Agendas and Minutes of the meeting are available in large print/tape form and/or readers upon request. Please contact the AAC Secretary, Rafael Torres-Gil (415) 558-6010 at least 72 hours in advance of the meeting to request for these services.
Individuals with severe allergies, environmental illness, multiple chemical sensitivity or related disabilities should call (415) 558-6014 to discuss meeting accessibility. In order to assist the City=s efforts to accommodate such persons, attendees at public meetings are reminded that other attendees may be sensitive to various chemical based products. Please help the City to accommodate these individuals.
POLICY STATEMENT OF PUBLIC HEARING OR MEETING
Pursuant to Section 67.7-1(c) of the San Francisco Administrative Code, members of the public who are unable to attend the public meeting or hearing may submit written comments regarding a calendared item to the AAC Secretary, Rafael Torres-Gil, at 1660 Mission Street 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94103 or at the place of the scheduled hearing before the proceedings begin. These written comments shall be made a part of the official public record and these comments will be brought to the attention of the members of the Access Appeals Commission. [Twenty copies are necessary.]
POLICY STATEMENT OF PUBLIC COMMENT
Pursuant to Section 67.16 of the San Francisco Administrative Code, each member of the public may address the Commission once for up to three minutes on any agenda item.
SAN FRANCISCO LOBBYIST ORDINANCE
Individuals and entities that influence or attempt to influence local legislative or administrative action may be required by the San Francisco Lobbyist Ordinance [SF Administrative Code Sec. 16.520-16.534] to register and report lobbying activity. For more information about the Lobbyist Ordinance, please contact the Ethics Commission at 1390Market St. #701, SF, CA 94102 or (415) 554-9510 voice, or (415) 703-0121 fax, or http://sfgov.org/ethics web
SUMMARY OF RULES OF EVIDENCE AND TESTIMONY
Access Appeals Commission Rules will be available at each meeting. For an advance copy, please contact Ms. Susan Pangilinan at 558-6014.
All persons testifying in any matter on the Commission Agenda will first be sworn in by the Official Reporter.
The Director's staff representative shall make the first presentation of each appeal, followed by the appellant, each for up to seven minutes. The Director's representative and the appellant then each have three minutes for rebuttal. Any interested persons not affiliated with the principal who wishes to speak on the item may then be heard once for up to three minutes. Additional time may only be granted at the discretion of the President or Chairperson.
Acceptance of additional documentary evidence at the hearing is at the discretion of the President or Chairperson. In general, all written information pertaining to the appeal provided by the appellant shall be submitted to the Secretary nineteen days in advance of the hearing date.
If an appeal is denied by the Commission, the appellant has the right to request a rehearing if he or she may demonstrate that they have substantially new information for the Commission's consideration. A request for a rehearing must be made within ten days of the meeting date at which the appeal was denied. Such a request shall be made by letter and addressed to the Secretary of the Commission. The letter should state the reasons for the request and should present the new information. The filing fee for a rehearing request is $100.00.