HomeMy WebLinkAboutPermit Miscellaneous 1986-02-25STRUCTURAL INSPECTION REPORT
JoB ADDRESS ^29O N, /?4 ? 7'e
OI.JNER
DATE
PHONE
ADDRESS
TENANT OR OCCUPANT
TYPE OF INSPECTION:HOUS I NG OCCUPANCY COMPLAINT FIRE DAMAGE
t
Ii,ISPECTOR
Por,
Dnn* A? / {<a /r .4.yyrz.r>.,, /s Vtstzz€
f*€ oarc(?E- /r,eC ,ka/s lary71yqaR lrG q.r 7a-
3-? t --ga
hoTn
Gay
TIME: 2;'n
DATE: 2 'S
t' ,r, di noT-
_ Engineering
_ Traffic
_ Maintenance
_ Bldg. Attendant
J-Ff ,,/, / ?r uADDRESS OF COMPLAINT:
V IOLAT I ON/COMPLA I NT:
COMPLAINANT:
ADDRESS OF
-=U-a- a-bga,<-.
cL +/-d +kz_
L*-
5t
S/"a.
IiT:
PHOI{E:1rl
TAKEN BY:
2- l?q0
PUBLiC WORKS GENERAL COMPLAINT FORM
-
\
G//t/?Z
&2** k), /7 87, Slft t O)( , q7/77
a7E//6 ws U/r*< fiDTttte) fffi-
/+E hr+s T,DD 0/ZA)S U)tfr ftrtler 7D ftD
', tlW9ry bDru6 Srucfil,qE (fA:f) wtc# d&tt
ErzfeTA f 77+E '+fif€ AoDRrr,s,
FI 77/fr<,.,l, fuoqf ca"-1ne7 d/ fi,ee @6 ?+< A,fu/ fd)7.*. frQ** rzaat{Z At ft<efleooT8, Smrc/i lb Be brffA za, ftu, */c
/wayery lwxc, QoE0tias ftn do7/azzn E*b p 4t
b' /,0 DE
b,tnusT lwc frfre *V*vuryfi,zE, €tt*K Dof E€ ul b4he fruu lUry?
/D 4firf 17. ptatuTft Ffual,z, rzlusl aW// d/ aLDa @e *r * 7bil
T/7r/crufr
,r+, Pl.tVH)e/?j To t+*/€ freurw ptdtya,)
B, Plltrrtxlo,' Tb Be aCs/zarrO O"F pffis,
Truilta O< QuUr,&:/ r4ff7<-r*7.,
C, ZZAzATz,NE p a€ Dau-qas1 da< ptfr-
tu)7,
(e*r**, %t @,+y 4,0) s,#a 7v*r7hE SruilL4.<e att4l'Ae .fuayry urffird7)ys.)
oR
,- --l
ftdf lc s*rde
zz'
0t
(l 7///'),.L).'
\
N
.r,r.,.f1
(lffi
X tfuse
1W
dtu
/ #&'7 t
/
{\
l4
fifir-W8
Aulopoietic Gaia to replace
neoda' tnian nechanics
Aur.foiesis, a term invented by Ilarura-
na and Varela (1980) and elaborated b1'
other authors (Fleischaker, I988) re['ers rt.r
the Iiving nalure of marerial systems. \\'t:ll
within the materialist vierv that recognizes
the physical-chemical composition of
organisms, autopoiesis refers to the sell-
making and self-maintaining properries of
living systems relative to their dead courr-
terparts. Autopoietic, unlike mechanical,
systems produce and maintain their orvn
boundaries (plasma membranes, skin,
exoskeltons, bark, etc.). Autopoietic sys-
tems incessantly modulate their ionic com-
position and macromolecular sequences
(i.e., amino acid and nucleotide residues in
their proteins and nucleic acids). Some eve,n
.l: s s I i] ! : t.[ej . i.l : :'.1 d. t : apjl1,_l::' *q
a u topo retrc en trty capa b-l: 91..:p,:ggyg,9i(i e., cells, organisins, cbh6iivE'gfou'p3-of
organisms) is subject to iihtural sclection-
fbi.rhe simple rerion that all the potential'
products o"f reproductien can Jlever-sur
vive. The smallest autopoietic systems,
sphtirical and less than a micrometer in
diameter, are bacterial cells. (Viruses, plas-
mids and other replicons are too simple
and small to be auiopoieric.) The la;g;af:
autdboietic svsrem. lo fa. 'iritdtiibleY irf'r
,.p.td,.,ctionl ir. tn. iriodulati'8iil.r^tt irr I
rhl Earth which Lovelock (1988) has riamed '
Gaia. r -.- '
For rhe purposes of this paper Gaia is
defined as lhe large self-maintaining, self-
producing system extending rvithin about
20 kilometers of the surface of the Earth.
The Gaia hypothesis states: the surface sed-
iments and troposphere o[ the Earth are
activelv regulated bl' the biota (the sum of
the live organisms) rvith respecr to the
chemical composition of the reactive ele-
ments (r.9.,H, C, N, O, S), acidity (".9.,H',
OH-, COr--, HCOs-), the oxid,a_tion-
reduction state and the temperature.'Gaian-
regu'lation, like the physio-lqg/''tt.f iJ,' )embryo. 'is moie homeorrhetic r'than j
homeostatic in that thel int'#ila-lly-6iga-,
rrized svstem regulares around mqylng,
rather'than fixe-d-from-the-outside, set-'
points. (8.g., the values of temperature,'
atmospheric gas composition and others
lrround r*hich there is gaian regulation do
< hange rvith time.) Gaia, a single enormous
svsIcm deriving from a 3,500 million year
old common ancestor is connected through
time (b1' ancestry)-as Darr.'in realized-
and rhrough space (bv allelochemics, atmo-
spheric and oceanic currents and the like,
as .\'. I. Vernadskl' I I 988] -reali,ed). The
gaiarr svstem persists in the face of changes
(a.g., population expansions and extinc-
tion. rise and fall of sea level and so forth).-fhe tendcncv of all organisms to inject
their genes into the next generation is one
of these changes.
The validirl, of the Gaia idea, the self-
regulating biosphere, has been forcefully
argued bv Lovelock (1979, l9BB). The Gaia
hypothesis has e'.,en been called a "grand
unified theory,''of biology; it has also been
recognized as more a point-of-view than a
scientific hy pothesis (Sagan, 1988). In
autopoietic language, Gaia is the largest
unit that displals the properties in Table
l. Probably' the best rva\' [o think about
Gaia is._to contemplate the assertion thal
ihe atmoiohere and stxface sediments of
ihe Earth i.. pr.t of t[e living system. Life
does not "adapt" to a passive physico-
chemical environment as most neodarrvin-
ians assume, instead life actively produces
and modifies its surroundings. The oxygen
we breathe, the humid atmosphere inside
of which rve live and the mildly alkaline
ocean rvalers in rvhich rhe rvhales are bathed
are not determined bv a physical universe
run by mechanical "larvs." In stark con-
trast to a mechanical, physics-centered ;
_world, the metabo!izing biosphere is phys- 'i
i,ologically sel f-con troltEa. f he breathable
oxygen, the humid air and mildly alkaline
oceans result lrom the grorvth and metab-
olism of uncountable and alrvays changing
numbers of bacteria, plants and algae which
produce ox)'gen using solar energy. Water
transportation is driven b1' the activities of
great forests, primarily' of neotropical trees;
and the neutralization o[ the acid tenden-
cies of the planet is accomplished by the
production o[ alkaline substances such as
ammonia br ml riads o[ organisms, for
example b', urination and gas release. Many
other exanlples exist of gaian Earth-sur-
face regulatory activities (Lovelock, 1988;
Margulis and Sagan, l986a).
The gaian worldvierv is an autopoietic
one; the surface of this planet is alive with
a connected megametabolism which leads
to temperature and chemical modulation
systens in r.'hich man plays a {mall and
epiphenomenal part. (Afrer all, man as
Homo sapietts sapietts evolved only some
40,000 years ago, long after the gaian sys-
tem, which is over 3,000 million years old,
rvas completely, in place.)
Y
J...