>> thank you. we are now back in session for the march 3 regular meeting of the planning commission and we are on item 11, case 2010.0628c and is a request for conditional use authorization at 23rd and 24th street. >> i recommend the approval with conditions to allow the establishment of a full-service

restaurant doing business as pollo campero and is including an outdoor activity area that is not contiguous to the front property line. this project is being proposed between the mission street and commercial transit district and the planning department recommends approval with conditions at 2740 on the west side of mission street between 23rd and 24th street if proposed project is found to be necessary and desirable because it will occupy a currently vacant store front and create 70 new employment in the mission district which will be open to workers of lesser skill set. it is found necessary and desirable because the project is the neighborhood serving use and more importantly a use that will serve the expanding latin american imgrant community and add to the diverse at this time of the latin american fare in an area known for the heart of latino life and is necessary and desirable to meet all the requirements of the planning code and meets the criteria for the formula retail and outdoor

activity areas requirement and the opportunity on with respect to the formula retail criteria and the opportunity to locate on mission street are plentiful as there are a significant number of vacant store fronts and in general within the mission street and the proposal no not add another formula retail and use and aplace an existing and now gone or since gone formula retail use which was payless shoe stores. the project will implement measures to implement sound and odor which have the chief concerns with the neighbors in the surroundings. the staff has received multiple letters and phone calls and i would like to present you with

additional letters that came in after the submission of the case report. commissioners, those in opposition such as the potential impact of the outdoor activity area upon adjacent residents and the added noise and odor from the restaurant use. those in support cite the need for employment opportunities and the desire for specialized cuisine that is currently absent. commissioners, regarding hours of operation, pollo campero will operate between 10:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. and the department is open to adding this restriction as a conditional of approval. given the findings discussed, they recommend approval use authorization and this concludes my presentation and i am here to answer questions and provide any clarification. thank you. president olague: thank you. project sponsor? >> commissioners, i am the architect who has assisted with

this project. i would like, first of all, to introduce the retail piece who is the president of the restaurant and the owners of this restaurant. >> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you very much for having us here. i wanted to give you a little bit of flavor and a little color of camp eastboundingro is. -- of what campero is. i hope you can see me well. move it? there you go. okay. campero start about 40 years ago in guatemala and el salvador as a small neighborhood restaurant

and was by the part of the community they were in, they were a success and they truly became the pride of the guatemalan and salvatoran people. they're iconic. actually, if you talk to any person from guatemala, they will tell you there are people that go to guatemala and el salvador and care r back with them boxes of campero chicken so when they get here, they share wit their family. this is an amazing thing. nobody carries mcdonald's hamburgers from here to anywhere else. so they build the campero as part of a neighborhood as a prize of the country, and now we are bringing this concept to the center of the central latin american community in san

francisco and that is the mission district. when somebody from central american background comes to eat at a campero, it reminds them of home. but the restaurant is not only for latin americans. the restaurant is for everybody that wants to live through a multiethnic experience. anybody that wants to participate and celebrate the latin flavors, the authentic latin flavors. as a community-based restaurant, it is in our interest to be woven and to interact with the community. we work in los angeles and we have other locations with community-based opportunities and organizations we participate in festivals. we donate money to local

charities. we work with nonprofit organizations that help disabled people gain an avenue to employment. we do a lot of community. based changes because by being an integral part of the community, we know we are always going to be successful. we're bringing to the district a brand-new location in a place that's currently closed and by the way, there are, i think, something like 20 vacant properties obmission currently. we're bringing 60 to 70 new jobs and many of those going to those with less skills.

we want to be a good neighbor. we have instructed everybody that works for us, employees, architects, consultants to try to comply with every single requireme requirement. that we may be have to abide by. and to try to work with the neighborhoods and to get the support of the community. and i think that the plan of the current motion comply in every single respect with all the requirement that are imposed upon us. and with that in mind, i would like to turn it over the mr. ron wallis who is our local san francisco architect to perhaps explain in more detail what we

have done to attenuate and mitigate any issues that the neighbors have brought up. >> ron wallis. i would like to, first of all, turn in 1,035 signatures and 137 people who aspire to have jobs and letters and communications that were submitted. i wanted to say that we have spent only a week, approximately a week accumulating these signatures from people who are supportive of this restaurant. the restaurant -- let me move this a little bit. it sits on the site and this is there and there is a patio at the back.

this plan shows you the dining area up front right there. it also shows a patio use to the rear. also at this rear property line, there is a row of trees that partially shades the patio plus also has a visual barrier for the people who live behind.

this is probably familiar that the previous use of the building which was a payless shoe store that had a very austere front and working with the planning department we were able to make in re restaurant facade meet the planning code environmental requirements and with turrets at the top and you have the canopies and the awning with the sign op the outside. we have made the windows wider so that there is more transparency inside through the building.

in terms of the patio, as you can see in this segment of the building at this end, there is a rear patio which is recessed from the rear property by about 5 feet. you can see in the larger draw ing from the near property and then in accordance with consultant on sound, we installed a 6-foot high wall, a sound attenuating wall around the property and we put material on the surface of the wall and

also on the wall of the building. we have installed this so soften the height of the tall wall and add a little bit of flowers. some of the key concerns of the neighbors has been the sound that might be generated from the patio. we have the issues and we also had some questions about air conditioning equipment.

we have shown all the -- president olague: some of us may have questions for you during our discussion up here, so thank you. like to open it up for public comment. we have quite a few speaker cards and are limiting public comment to two minutes. [calling of names] >> thank you for the opportunity to speak. i am a community organizer in the mission on mission and chavez and i have come here simply to request for a delay of granting this permit because there is some concern in the community and there is some

concern about, first of all, this is coming in and there is a lot of people who haven't really found out about it. and the representative for campero spoke about they are involved in the community, but ironically enough a lot of people don't know about it. and so with that said, we just want for them to allow the opportunity to for us to come together with them and let them know about certain concerns regarding this local merchants and others that come up and is a corporation at this point. i am here to oppose the granting of the permit and ask for a delay. president olague: thank you. >> [speaking spanish] aayou are translating for her?

>> i am represent iing. [speaking spanish] >> we're looking not to change the community and we try to affect that change on a daily basis. >> translator: the big part of the work is to have families have better choys xhu nu trigsally and -- to have better choices nutritionally and that is what we have been trying to get people to look for.

[saking spanish] >> translator: so with bringing that change to the community is what does pollo campero offering to the food they will serve themselves and we want to see the healthy alternative. [speaking spanish] >> translator: so i am here to say we oppose with the premise of wanting to know what they actually offer and wanting to see what nutritional changes or type of nutritionle thar things they can bring. [speaking spanish]