as an important symbol for the cure all heritage but also provided a model for other communities to looking for ways to conserve their heritage. the heritage forms developed by the planning did not have highly innovative and will help other communities to preserve their social heritage. we're pleased to fully support the adoption of the h s and look forward to his it's implementation >> thank you, mr. warner and a once again i'm paul. i briefly want to put on my association hat we're been following the japan town organizing committee for the past several years and strongly

supports the proposals. taking off the resident hat and speaking for myself in having been a participant in many of the meetings and with regard to some of the stronger language and so on that's from the evidence the opportunities for that. as also and there's a community activity there are differences. it's a political process. and i certainly felt f it was very important to gather the maximum support possible for that. so for example, lining like the land marking there's some concern imposing land marking would drop the support so what's the balance for the community. and as such we came out with a strong document this does indeed

protections it's important. there was strong consensus in the community. it's unfortunate for example one of the major property owners never showed up for the discussion. i'm not sure why they didn't. it was very broad agreement that we're moving in the right way and those are the right things to do and i strongly encourage support of the process >> thank you, mr. townsend and (calling names). >> thank you, mr. president, and commissioners. once again it's interesting i'm here on those two items on the same day. because what h s it is trying to

do is prevent themselves from having to be here asking you for what we were ask youor on the marcus books issue that you, you stride tried to save the last remindeder that they were every here. it's important this becomes policy and law because the same discussions were held regarding the fillmore during the redevelopment process the same decisions were created the same ideas were there and they were all go forward as development went forward. you have before you what you had before you this morning. this is an outstanding process and bob and others have kept me informed. i couldn't attend that much because it was on the nights of my commission meeting by i was extremely involved by e-mail and

went to my first meeting on the day of the first all-star game so i left early but it was absolutely an important process. i trust that in our good wisdom you'll support this. thank you >> thank you, ms. hill son you voluntary two speaker cards. >> good afternoon director. i i'd like to speak first of all, in relation to the context statement. the san francisco japan statement was in accordance with the secretary of the state office of the manual as outlined in resolution number 29 dauptsd by the previous advisory board

whereas the method doing in the historic publication instruction and further editions of that is based on the register site thereon where's the japan statement was reviewed by the commission for accuracy and adequacy and a public meeting was agenda decided for this purpose whereas the statement will be maintained at the preservation lib whereas the japan statement may be used to evaluate is certain themes and clusters of buildings whereas in the future the historic significance maybe dementsd by the japan town statement whereas

the landmark reports and nominations of merit nomination may should the statements whereas the san francisco planning department will make technical edits to recognize the preservation planning work including the evaluation of districts for local or state agencies and the public resulting of any staff therefore be that moved that the historic commission hereby adopt this and be it further that they hereby directs the clerk to adopt the japan town statement and this motion whatever it will be to the state office to the historic

preservation at so on missouri ma and i'd like to make sure to disseminate to make available for future this staefrment. so far as going back to other folks who spoke i think it's important that the social and cultural histories be includes in the planning >> thank you. >> good afternoon mr. vice president and commissioners i'm steve. you the a good job on my name i appreciate that greatly. i wanted to let you know that i'm the vice president of the fire commission and i'm here to represent the center. it's a nonprofit and was focused

on just a minute citizens that b by in programs we support all the citizens. i stand before you to both entities that are up for adoption this afternoon. i work with a lot of sense in the 43 years the immigrants if came from japan to san francisco san francisco being the first historical landing officially in terms of the recognition of japan into san francisco. and the pioneers were the ones who provided the blood, sweat, and tears. part of it was how to hold up

ownership called marriage of your son's and daughters are born in this soil and guaranteed through the constitution those hopes were invested in 1942 issued by franklin delano roosevelt that forced evaluation of 1 hundred and 44 million japanese-americans. we're trying to say that our historical communities japan town was at the gateway of grand avenue and was forcedly removed and our people had no control. in 1944, 45 the citizens a second generation that build the

foundation of not only their families but had to rebuild the communities and the items and the churches. so this documentation followed by the redevelopment that's the first time we've worked as a community in a 1 hundred year history of japanese-american contribution that we have a designation within the context of those motions to be able to futurely invest our community into in the cult and heritage as well >> thank you, commissioners i appreciate it. >> thank you (calling names). >> good afternoon president harassing. i'm greg gloria i was born in san francisco and a community aid for the task force.

i've been involved through outreach meetings with community groups and institutions and even the academic group from japan. i appreciate you know, i think we reflect among ourselves and the road has been tough over the last 13 years but we feel the implementation with will be tough. i appreciate the city's involvement to date. i think we can't do this without it so i urge you to pass resolutions as set before you and support japan town in the future >> thank you. good afternoon chair harassing and i'm richard. i'm the president of the japan

town merchants associations. we sent you a letter. i'm also the corporate manager the centers garage corporation and the board of directors sent the letter approving the plan too. i was one of the residents that was wrongfully evicted during the reneutral plan. i think it's about time we come up with this plan and urge you to fully support this plan that it took us 13 years to get to this point let's see if we carton get this approved in 2013 (calling names) >> good afternoon, commissioners

i'm here i'm the representative to the g h s program and it's an acronym for the japan religious organization. i want to thank director ram for this process to point. it's been a long process to the overwhelming japan neighborhood plan started in 2007 and well, we had some problems under with the goals of that program. and director ram allowed us to revisit this process. i want to thank the gentleman who retired he put us on the right track. it was a very unique program. i've been involved in those

types of issues i've nevereen a stakeholder it's really good to be a stakeholder. i want to thank the planning department and shelly and; is that right? my personal history is japan town i was born in my house by a mid wife and my whole life i've lived in san francisco. except for 6 years i was taken away and incarcerated first of all, on top of as then my family was moved to department of the justice camp in the city and we were honored to be one of the last ones to be released in 1947

my father was an activist and he observed the geneva congestion and the department wanted to deport him. japan town is very important i have spent my whole life there. and next the city government took a miss step but i hope this b will correct everything for the future that we want preserved in japan town and this certainly is the right step. so thank you. i hope you endorse this.

>> thank you thank you good afternoon. i'm robert and my families as would and worked in japan town since 1906. we also-ran a grocery store but i've continued in the capacity of working with the neighborhood plan before and i'm here today to ask you for your support to adopt the resolutions before you. i think those tools are crucial to law school e allowing the community to protect japan town and encourage it's he growth and revitalization. thank you >> thank you. good afternoon, commissioners i'm ryan i'm the director of

programs and community foyers at the japanese community affairs arrest today, i ask you to endorse the h s. number one solutions. solutions concerns surrounding the cultural community many of those solutions will come with the help of the city so you'll see us again. this h s helps to provide essentially stools to moving forward. is it represents power. i mean this document here brought together our community. for something positive for future generations and number 3 beauty. i put it down because it's the beauty that can come down for

something we can use to insure our community is around. and number 4 i put down awesome. we're strategizeing how to have the events in the buildings and we all know those events and activities such as a is cherry bloom festivity to the cultural classes that happen in our community that brings people there. when you don't have people in the community you have nothing. and lastly number 5 it's the beginning. really i think all of us on the organizing committee we're so thankful to be here and saying thank god it's over and done

it's really is beginning. and we realize that it's all of our jobs to transform this into making sure the japan community doesn't only thrive but survive >> i was one of the people to e-mail you at 6:30 at the night. i brought 6 children there and we did hours and hours of research. i had them stand in line so their ancestors where they stood to get their papers to where whatever interim camp there were

to go to >> thank you and followed by (calling names). >> good afternoon, commissioners. >> thank you for hearing us i'm mary. i'm a property owner in japan town. i also am a businesswoman required but still doing business and i also am on the board of several nonprofits in japan town area and have long been a long term volunteer. by you represent myself today is a property owner and a citizen of this city i was born here. san francisco is a very special place. it's already been a place of

neighborhoods and ethnic histories what we we really need to look at what we're doing. i think j h s is a good document to go forward to be able to protect and help the growth of and to be able to sustain japan town. so everyone else has elegantly given their reasons those are mine >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> hello commissioners and wanting harassing. i'm here today, i'm representing supervisor breed i'm here aid. and supervisor breed couldn't make it here so she sent me to read some of her thoughts.

san francisco japan town is the oldest japan town in the united states and only 3 left in the country. it's a very important community with its unique history it's so important we the city and county of san francisco needs to protect the cultural and economic health of japan town. for over a decade the japan community has crafted this resolution with the assistance of san francisco planning department departments and the mayor's office of economic and workforce he development. all have worked hard to make sure we keep a significant japan town in san francisco. keeping in mind the historic of the japanese-american it's important we work and protect this by endorsing this resolution. supervisor breed is in full

support of the dhs resolution >> thank you. any other member wishing to speak on those items? good afternoon historic preservation. i was born on kaiser hospital on gary street. did you know that bryce lee was asian but before we he was famous he had his karate street right in there looked like to know where that studio is and be sure to fix it up all around the historic japan town sits utilities such is a great place p and we've got to keep it a historic space. and i'd like to fix it up historic round all around japan town and we're going to make it

such a historic place and a we're going to visit the fillmore space. and we're going to have a great place and we're going to visit other places too. and we're going to make it a place it's going to be a great japan town, fix it up all around >> thank you. any other member of the public? >> good afternoon commissioner again. i'm the karen and i'm here to speak to ask you to reject the recommendation that was added to add the two historic buildings to the resolution. i worked for 6 years as a pro bono attorney to bring one into

community protection. i wrote historic texts for the historic walk about both of them. i know their owners those owners are working at the thereby pass what their own bodies and with the japan town organizing committee to landmark their building eventually but they need time and space and respect. and what angers me about the suggestion it was made by one of our organizing committee members who had copies of the resolution well in advance of his e-mail. he did not choose to talk to the organizations or to circulate his ideas among it's fellow organizing committee members. this is destructive and counter

productive to what we're built in the organization peculiar we're worked not only to make recommends and study but to use this as an opportunity and process to build community not to do end runs and disrespect people and coerce them. this is not what the committee wants to or intends to do. i urge you to trust j h s process to trust our organizing committee. they want to protect and preserve their buildings to hand them down and save their stores. please work with us. thank you >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm robert i'm a member of the japan town

organizing committee and i'm here to speak in favor of the resolutions as presented. i would echo the thanks that everyone else has given to steve and shelly and paul and director ram and the planning department as a whole for the support given to this process it's not been an easy process it's viewing over time because it's pa ground breaking precedent. and like any process it learners as it goes along. the j h s document and resolutions represents the product of a many year process in the 4 years since the planning commission returned the

m public works to the community for review. - the m p for review. the process of the committee refugee can't begin to count the small and large community and subcommittee meetings that were all open to the public and consumed a great deal of my life and especially over the last 6 months the resolution began to take form. because it looks not just to the buildings bricks and motor but to perpetuity the living life in this case a very important san

francisco community. could h s b be proved it could be and as taken up by other communities that will be but as a it stands it represents a product of the community process and i want to emphasize this process is important. the process is not just a road to an end that can be discarded but an important community building tool and it's valuable in itself it gringz together the people. the proposal that came in at the last minute for substantial modifications to the resolution particular items - >> thank you.

>> i would - >> thank you. any other member of the public wish to speak on the item. seeing none, public comment is closed and bring it back to commission. commissioner >> i was wondering if there's a way to bif indicate those and to possibly entertain a way to move forward with what and possibly have the second one come back. here are my thoughts. i have long been an observer through this process and one of the first ones to going get involved and that's the reason i'm here on this commission i believe