all kinds of things in this town. when we have holidays, our neighborhood becomes a real circus. i am just here to say that to make it any worse is not fair to the people who live in this residential area. i know because i have a residential sticker on my car. i do not think it is a commercial area. if you guys lived there, you would not like that either. if you would like to live in your place and the private -- just the sound of it and the people creates a heck of a promotion. we have enough commotion as it is. we do not need more. 10 people -- 10 chairs is not going to solve the problem. there are a lot of places. he has a place at market street. you have your store on market street. if they stay over there, that is fine. they can make all the noise they want. but this is the place we live. that is all i would like to say about it.

>> good afternoon, commissioners. i am pleased to have this opportunity to speak with you. i live directly adjacent to the previous location of ike's place. my name is pat -- paul quinn. i am pleased to see they have made several changes, primarily the larger space. it was difficult to have him try to operate out of such a small space. i think the planning document that was submitted to you was very wise in saying at one point that the upper market area is not one massive area, but is a conglomeration of a bunch of commercialscattered -- a bunch of commercial nodes scattered

among residential districts. in the evening, i can count the number of people who walk by. ike's place moving in changes the dynamic of the neighborhood dramatically. i have three concerns about the conditional use permit. not about the granting of it, but about the ability of the neighbors and anike's to work ot issues that arose before. one of the things about these images is that they are very flavorful. they create a lot of smell. looking at plans for the ventilation on the building, it appears to bend at a lower -- it appears to vent at a lower floor into an enclosed area. that would need to be looked at over the next six months to see how that plays out. it is adjacent to a schoolyard. there are residences opening on that area where the event

appears -- where the vent appears. the second thing is that the neighbors now without ike's are used to not worrying about a lot of noise. if there is an occasional drunk, they are completely -- there quickly gone. if there is a return to crowds and lots of noise, i think it is important that new expectations be worked out with conversations on both sides. i think it would be appropriate to have some mechanism for holding those conversations, where there is someone in the city who is a engaged in making sure the neighbors understand what is going on. otherwise, there will be lots of random calls to 311 and the police department, and lots of unhappiness. the unhappiness is definitely not on the menu. the experience shows that a lot of the customers come by car.

i think monitoring that situation is something is important to do. when they were open before, there was a lot of double parking. the driveways were always full. people pull up on the sidewalk. it was a very difficult problem. mta parking people were not interested in helping out. there was no coordinated city focus on what to do to make that problem not so onerous for the people around it. i would urge there be some short-term reassessment or city involvement in making sure those issues work out, because there really do affect the quality of life. i am pleased that are coming back to the neighborhood. i look forward to this go around being a lot more fun for everybody. thank you very much for your time. >> vincent blaskovich.

i have noticed in the report that there -- their vent is going to be dispersing the odors out onto the second floor, which is going to be venting right into the schoolyard and into the neighbor's enclosed rear space, which is a residence. it is an elementary school as well. from my experience living above the old location, it would be more appropriate to vent on the roof. that is all i have to say. thank you for your time. >> my name is rick barman. i have several concerns and questions about ike and in. the proposed self service is

defined as a retail use whose primary function is to prepare and provide ready-to-eat specialty foods to a high volume of customers to carry out the food. how do you define high volume of customers? is it especially about food? it also says it is typically open for weekday sales during daytime hours. the sponsor has proposed monday through thursday from 10:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m., friday and saturday from 10 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. may contain no more than 10 seats, including sidewalk seating. there is a 30 foot line inside. i do not know what is going to happen to all the other people queuing up. are they going to end up on the sidewalk? are they going to end up in front of tangerine? are they going to block the doors of the apartment houses next door? i do not know. there is a lot of people that

support ike's and come there. and they stand on the street. please do not grant this conditional use. thank you for your time. president miguel: chris rollerson, kenneth cohen, sam black. >> hello. i am chris rawlinson. i live two blocks from the old location and half a block from the new location. a few years ago, there was a cafe, and they tried to put streets on -- i tried to put seats on the street. we appeal the decision and one to keep the tables and chairs of our street. -- we appealed the decision and

won to keep the tables and chairs of our street, so our street was quiet. that changed after ike's opened. on weekends, we had people sprawled on the sidewalk eating food. i have had people sit on my window sill. it is ridiculous. now they will be a half block from where i live. i do not know if they realize how much business comes there. it is not from the neighborhood. there is no parking. our street is just an alleyway. there will be double parking constantly. it is a great business, but this neighborhood is too small for such a huge volume of people coming there. there is no parking. it is going to be a repeat of what happened before with people sitting on the sidewalk at all hours. it is just too much for the small neighborhood. we are not market street. we are a few blocks away. it was a quiet neighborhood. now it is going to happen again

if they open up. please do not allow this to happen again. >> good afternoon. my name is kenneth cohen. i live a 246 sanchez street, just around the corner down the block. in my opinion, ike's was not a good neighbor at its past location on 16th street. i question whether he would change his behavior now and become a good neighbor. look at his past behavior. listen to what he said. watch what he does. look at his behavior. he has already men on record on violating the conditional use permit and his lack of an operating permit at the old location. his track record is not a good one. even if a conditional use permit

is granted with conditions to ameliorate the issues, i am not convinced that he will comply with the conditions based on my observation of past behavior. likewise, i am concerned about the traffic in the entire block. what he does affects not just in front of his building, but the entire block. repeatedly, i have come out of my front door to find cars parked in my driveway, and also the double parking in front of the business. with the extreme volume from the bridge and tunnel traffic, many people who go far from across the bay. they are not even from the immediate area. they need to find a place to park.

this raises a major issue for the neighborhood and for how we want to conduct a business that is beneficial to the neighborhood and not just to his pocketbook. thank you. >> i am sam black. i am speaking today to officially protest the proposed conditional use permit. i have been a resident of the area for 10 years and have firsthand experience with mr. ike. a live directly above the prior location. the proposed location is 300 feet from my apartment and i can see it from my front window. ike's place opened in 2007. while was happy in encouraging the business when it first opened, 4 million problems

camrose. the garbage is problematic. the crowd is unruly. i often had to call after 10:00 for noise concerns. i had to call dbi regularly for obstruction issues. if you look at the permit violations, it is a laundry list. living above the place was very difficult for me. i was subjected to insults and had difficulty coming and going with the crowd. i do not look forward to the return. i can attest to the lack of cleaning and the vomit. if you look at all the permit violations, there is a ton. there will be a new location with many nightmares. thanks. president miguel: alimila welindez, ellen parker.

>> i am the general manager of iike's place. i worked there two years. we have made a lot of changes. i will just touch on them. it seems a lot of people have issues with the crowds and the line in general. the previous of them was about three minutes for is a much. we are one minute 5 seconds. it is a third of the time. in the office building, we have no lines. people pick up their some of his incredibly fast. i do not think there will be issues with people on the sidewalk. we have done a good job of that. thank you. >> i appreciate this chance to speak on behalf of ike's place as being a fabulous never.

as the library campaign organizer for the library campaign, we reopened the eureka valley branch after a renovation in october 2009. as a nonprofit, we always seek the most cost-efficient way to feed the large crowds we see at these events. we solicit donations and discounted food from our neighbors. we saw a lot of generosity in this neighborhood, but not as much as from ike's place. with just a phone call, we had 100 sandwiches with which we were able to feed 1000 people. that must cost at least $1,000 for ike, for which he sought no recognition. he was just happy to provide that to the neighborhood on what is an extremely important and exciting neighborhood celebration. i am just here to speak on behalf of ike's as a wonderful neighbor and a community member.

my name is mary aubler, friends of the san francisco public library. thanks. >> i am alan parker. i worked in the office of economic workforce development. i have been working closely with ike and his business manager to make sure they are aware of the concerns they had before and that they take active space -- active steps in their next vacation to make sure they do address all the issues with being a good neighbor. they should get an android application so they can be a good neighbor. we support them in our office to make sure they can move forward to retain the jobs they have of what is only a temporary location but has become a successful business in the city. we can make sure san francisco is a good and friendly place to do business.

we know that they have worked really hard to look at all of the concerns the neighbors have laid out to make sure they are walking into this new location fully aware of all those issues and making sure they are going to address them very well. >president miguel: jimmy young, stephan atomdams, donald sambuk. >> my name is steve adams. i am the president of the merchants of castro. we're the largest merchant organization in the city, with 300 members. i just want to sit with police support -- i just want to say we fully support ike's. he contributes to organizations in the neighborhood. some neighbors had some concerns. i get phone calls all day long in my voice mailbox.

when i addressed those, i went down there. i personally saw people picking up trash. the community benefits district between -- they were cleaning the sidewalk. he is a good neighbor. to address the issues, he was on top of it. we support this conditional use permit. >> i would like to indicate the castro location in that general area is a internationally recognized landmark. yesterday, i was at ike's place and touched base with him to find out what this new transition is going to be, moving from market street into a more familiar location from 16th and sanchez. ike was really responsive about

the issues with the wind. he said was going to be bringing the people from the outside inside instead of standing them on the street. the reason that happened is because there were so many people coming in there. there was not a lot of opportunity for people to go into the shop. this provided an opportunity to expand ike's place and become a better neighbor than they were before. but providing a new location that is bigger than before, we are now offering an opportunity for ike's place to be able to modify that. previously, there were limited to constraints that were physical constraints. -- previously, they were limited to constraints that or

actual physical constraints. on the business model, and when to -- i went to ike's place a few years back. it was a good so much, but i thought nothing of it. there are plenty of sandwiches around. this is san francisco. we have a lot of variety in foods, cultures, and socioeconomic development. then it came to me. i thought to myself -- what is the hubbub about ike's place? what is so fantastic about it? it did not occur to me until i was over at city college. it was during finals. we were stressed out. we were trying to figure out the best places to eat and unwind and be able to relax from all the stresses of the day. somebody says, "i have got the best place. ike's place."

i was like, "that sounds familiar." he said, "i am going to take you over there." we grabbed one of the menus, one of these images that was off the menu. it was called the change. the change was in some which that was not developed -- was a sandwich which was not developed commercially. it was developed by somebody in the neighborhood, a testament to the people of the community of the castro district. these were sandwiches that were made by the community for the community, for the people that not only lived there, but for the people who come in and experience a little bit about what san francisco and our internationally recognized landmark is about. my personal experience then became phenomenal. it became phenomenal because i

had an opportunity to check out the online reviews and experiences people were experiencing. president miguel: thank you. >> with that, my time is up. i hope i was able to share a little bit of experience. president miguel: thank you. donald sambuke, mick lee, star child. >> good afternoon. my name is starke child. i am out which director of the local chapter of the -- my name is star child. i am out reach director of the local chapter of the libertarian party. i live across the street. in this crazy system of

regulations we have, that makes me a stakeholder in this issue, although i would stand for the right of a business to do business in any case. in the case of ike's, i have to say it saddens me to see a business become so unexpectedly successful. when it first opened, i was going in there because i had seen several different businesses in that location fail. i thought, "great. a sandwich shop. they make good sandwiches." i tried to patronize them in the hopes they would stay open. i did not expect the would stay open. two months later, the word started getting out. pretty soon, i could not get a sandwich everytime. there was a line down the block. personal inconvenience of not being able to enjoy the sandwiches as readily is just terrific. i am sorry that a number of my neighbors seem to be so

inhospitable. frankly, i have not seen these problems people are talking about. i live right there. the only issue i can see is the traffic. the cars, yes. people sitting around on the sidewalk, sure. vomit? i have never seen that. i do not know who would be crazy enough to vomit up these good sandwiches. you live in a city. this is the middle of a city. it is this kind of vibrant business that makes or neighborhood more workable and lovable. you go to europe, the streets are smaller. it is more compact. there are more different activities going on, and noise and so forth. people love these areas. this is the kind of thing people come to san francisco for. we should be glad people are coming across bridges and through tunnels to patronize the businesses we have in the neighborhood. this kind of thing improves our city. i will tell you. it is not just the food. it is friendliness of not just

bike but his whole staff. -- not just ike but his whole staff. his employees know me by name, and i do not even remember their names. they let me put up fliers and stuff even though they have very little when the space. when i said, "can i put up a flare for the community? -- flier for the community?" the answer is always, "sure. go ahead." i do not know why people are so objectionable -- so objecting to what is simply a successful business. if you say no to this, you're punishing a successful business. that is the bottom line. president miguel: is there additional public comment on this item? please step up. >> i am dr. mick lee.

i happen to live in the heart of my opposition. i wish i could simply say ditto to what the previous speaker said. i stand behind everything he said as well. i stand here unfortunately in a little bit of fear that i am about to jeopardize my relationship with my neighbors, because i stand in full support of ike's place. if i had a commercial space available, i would read to this gentleman. he has been a good neighbor. every time there has been an opposition to this business, he jumps on it immediately. he is a hands-on business man. he lives in the building to which he is trying to move into. he is not going to be an absentee owner. any time there has been any concern whatsoever with his business, his customers, he addresses issues immediately. we have a neighborhood annual party that he attended this last year. he handed out free sandwich coupons to all the neighbors. the constantly impresses me.

i have a dog can walk past his business three or four times a day. i have not witnessed the things my opposition unfortunately has said. i have seen him send up people to clean up the trash. i have seen him play power steam washer to wash the sidewalks in front of the business. i see him of trying to put upper -- trying to put up movie theater roping to try to control the line. we have businesses near our location at all have alcohol licenses. he is offering a service to try to help sober some of those people up. those are the people who are vomiting on the sidewalks, the people coming out of these bars. he is giving an opportunity to sober these people up. i wholeheartedly support ike's place.

[laughter] >> i am in full support of ike's coming in and am looking forward to it. president miguel: thank you. >> i only building two doors down from ike's previous location and i am strongly against it. i like the business, but i feel it is too high volume to be in our small neighborhood. i feel like it makes more sense for him to be where it is all commercial shops. i am especially concerned about parking and traffic. in the old location, there were two lanes. there were always people double parked. if there are delivery trucks, no one can get around. i am also pearly certain people end up eating the sandwiches on my doorstep. the other issue -- i do not know how he is classifying himself as

a self service specialty food business. i am not sure what it was just a fast food restaurant, but i do not know a lot about that. i know he probably has a lot more people coming into his business than a lot of fast food restaurants in san francisco and that would not be allowed in this location because within 500 walking feet of an elementary school. -- because it is within 500 walking the of an elementary school. i do not think this is suitable for our neighborhood. president miguel: thank you. >> mining is -- my name is lori erickson. i and the architect to submit to the drawings that you have viewed. -- i am the architect who submitted the drawings for this project to have you. they have made a couple of changes since the drawings that were submitted. one is the flue currently shown

on the first floor roof is now going all the way up to the third floor roof and above. it will be venting above the building. second, they have suggested that in line fans in the exhaust flue -- having them in the building as opposed to outside will reduce noise. those items will help with the odor and noise at the location and the fluing, the way the air is pushed out. i also want to make a point that in the old location they did not have this could there will have in the new one, nor did they have the ovens they are going to use. the hood takes out and exhausts the odors. really, the odor is going to be eliminated from the space. that was not in the old location. location. the new equipment triples the