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8.A <br /> Page 55 <br /> PLG-Blake Lyon <br /> Subject: FW : Follow-up to My Request for a Continuance � <br /> From: ATTY-Pamela Thompson <br /> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 2:13 PM <br /> To: 'Marc Warsowe'; Council-]eff Ira; Council-Alicia Aguirre; Council-Ian Bain; Council-Rosanne Foust; Council-]eff Gee; <br /> Council-Barbara Pierce; Council-]ohn Seybert; MGR-Peter Ingram; PLG-Jill Ekas; PLG-Charles Jany; PLG-Christopher <br /> Rogers; Robert Carroll; CLK-Silvia Vonderlinden <br /> Subject: RE: Follow-up to My Request for a Continuance <br /> i <br /> Dear Mr. Warsowe: i <br /> I am replying on behalf of the City Council. The City Council appreciates and understands your concem about the hearing I <br /> date. The purpose of a noticed hearing is to allow both parties to be present and offer their respective views. <br /> Accordingly, the City Council will take up your request for a continuance as part of your appeal on November 22, 2010. <br /> �a�rre�a 7�iocrv�ao.a <br /> Pamela Thompson <br /> City Attorney <br /> 1017 Middlefield Road <br /> Redwood City, CA 94063 <br /> Phone: (650) 780-7200 <br /> Fax: (650) 780-5963 <br /> From: Marc Warsowe [mailto:mwarsowe@sbcglobal.net] <br /> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 1:55 PM <br /> To: Council-Jeff Ira; Council-Alicia Aguirre; Council-Ian Bain; Council-Rosanne Foust; Council-Jeff Gee; Council-Barbara <br /> Pierce; Council-John Seybert; ATTY-Pamela Thompson; MGR-Peter Ingram; PLG-Jill Ekas; PLG-Charles Jany; PLG- <br /> Christopher Rogers; Robert Carroll; CLK-Silvia Vonderlinden <br /> Subject: Follow-up to My Request for a Continuance <br /> Importance: High <br /> Dear Council Members, <br /> I want to thank you all for your kind reception of our request for a continuance of the Appeal Hearing of the <br /> approved Architectural Permit for 448 Saint Francis, scheduled for November 22nd. <br /> I made several references in that very short presentation, to which I would now like to provide documentation <br /> and some additional detail. <br /> • First and foremost, there is no statutory basis for denying our request for a continuance. To the contrary, <br /> there is statutory support for granting our request: <br /> o Sections 48.5 and 48.6 of Article 48 of the Zoning Ordinance, Action on Appeal and Public <br /> Hearing, respectively, make no provision, one way or the other, with respect to establishing rules <br /> and procedures to grant or deny a request for a continuance. Neither, for that matter, does <br /> Section 2.126.B. and C., Appeals From Denial of Building Permit, of Chapter 2, Article IX, <br /> Division 3, Board of Building Review, of the Code of Ordinances. <br /> o Indeed, the only time the Council has spoken on this subject and set rules and procedures is in <br /> Chapter l, Article II, Section 1.20.6.F.3 of the Code of Ordinances, Appeal of Administrative <br /> Citation, which specifies with particularity hearing rules and procedure with respect to granting <br /> an automatic continuance for the appeal of an administrative citation: <br /> i <br />