Rafael Mandelman
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24,802 appearances
85 recordings
4 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 1 Sep
Rafael Mandelman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For the last eighteen years, Sam and Marr have made daily use of a meditation room in their backyard.
They built the room in uh twenty eighteen to anchor their Buddhist practice.
Its long sloped eaves and lantern style roof follow centuries old Japanese Buddhist architectural tradition meant to mark the passage into a spiritual space.
Although Sam and Marr were told by their designer that a permit wouldn't be required for it, the structure narrowly exceeds the size limits for rear yard structures set in the planning code.
In twenty nineteen, a disgruntled neighbor, denied a permit of their own and in the process of selling their home filed an anonymous complaint.
No one else on the block has ever complained about the structure and letters of support for uh f for Sam and Marr have come from every adjacent or abutting property.
Last year, recognizing the prevalence of longstanding unpermitted rear yard structures in neighborhoods across San Francisco, this board passed legislation to legalize nonconforming rear yard structures built before 2003.
This legislation would change that date to 2010 to accommodate Salmon Mars meditation space and other similar nonconforming structures constructed before 2010.
I want to thank Lisa Gluckstein and Elizabeth Wadi for helping us in the first time.
from the planning department for helping us find uh this solution.
I want to thank Rob Kaplan for the city attorney's office for his work and my aid.
uh Renel Bajoy uh for his work and the rest I submit.
Thank you, Mr.
President.
Supervisor Melgar.
Submit, thank you.
Supervisor Sauter.
Thank you, Madam Clerk.
Um, colleagues, at the beginning of this year, I asked the budget and legislative analysts to inventory and report on opportunities for using vacant or surplus city and public properties for housing and other public purposes.
And at my request, the BLA has spent the past several months conducting a review of publicly owned properties across the city with the goal of identifying properties with potential.
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