probably about a month ago requested staff go back and analyze all the restaurant definitions because we have a later ordinance coming before you sponsored again to make restaurant tweaks and we have a working group and we are asse assessing the restaurant definition and we recommend we hold off and wait for the restaurant definitions. president olague: commissioner moore? commissioner moore: did anybody second the motion? commissioner moore: is there anybody from business development who could start examining whot out there and interested in the new uses of the billmore and the department it prepared to have a smaller, business oriented sign for that area. and if it happens, this would not result in a large time of

the vacant store front. president olague: just a clarification. commissioner antonini: on the paperwork it says the movie theaters would not be allowed. is that correct? >> that is correct. it would not be considered around the supervisor's proposal. commissioner antonini: i'm going to support this, but it might got to the supervisor for modification after this. >> your recommendation is transmitted to the full board and the spoon sorg supervisor indicates to the city attorney if they would like to accept your modifications regardless of whether the sponsor or supervisor accepts them, the department staff presents your recommendations to the land use

committee and that committee makes a final decision on what should be sent to the full board. commissioner antonini: i am going to be supportive sthub noted and he seemed to think it was and apparently not as written and i am not saying there will be that use, but it's possible there could be and i don't see a problem with that. the other thing ai am not clear about is we know financial services are allowed but how about a realtor? would that be considered a business use or would that be an allowable use? >> i believe that is office use. >> again, that may be something that normally would be more comfortable on the ground floor where they have visibility and commercial streets and it might be beneficial. and to recommend that we at least i would like the supervisors to take a look at it and allow office use and

neighborhoods serving offices as the realtor would be. president olague: it doesn't seem like that we're getting a consensus among the commissioners. and i don't know how we would address that and that would be something added to the motion we wouldn't move forward to the supervisor and if there is a will of the commissioners to accept the amendments to the motion at this time. commissioner borden? commissioner borden: i would say the past 40 years to locate in the district if they wanted to in realtors and if they haven't, they probably don't intend to do it and i would say that not a real fear and same thing with the movie theater and don't see a fear that they are dying in there and if one was to come about, aim sure they would be supportive in finding a way to do that. and to create a more hospitalable environment and

feels like a neighborhood with restaurants and shops and more attractive in the space overall. and with the neighborhood coming back and even hayes street and the transformations have happened to create uses on the ground floor and more susceptible to a neighborhood feel. that is really what we're trying to do here in the long run and will help in the ability to lease up the space. and i wanted to mention there is an organization and i asked the supervisor about urban solutions which is a nonprofit organization on sixth street and fillmore. and they help to work with small businesses and to help them locate the corridors and work on the facade improvements and help them learn how to negotiate with the landlords and a number of merchants in the corridor now

with the urban and i sit on the advisory board so i know about the organization and there are organizations working to improve the corridors in the legislation that will go a long way in helping them in that regard. president olague: it would be great to hear from mowd in the redevelopment areas with a later hearing or something with a memo from staff. commissioner amount ant? commissioner antonini: i'm going to be supportive but generally believe that the resieshl uses and restrict t it more might have a desirable effect and things that have happened under the scenario and pointed out

that the restaurants that are drawing people in there and certainly people drawn in and other businesses and people see it might be desirable and think maybe we're going to want to live there and to some degree along fillmore and that is what' going to drive it and i don't see any harm with this as long as it isn't restrictive it that excludes the businesses or uses that might end up adding vitality to the neighborhood and as a supervisor pointed out, many of the upper floor uses. and if it's something that requires a ground floor use and take a close look to make sure you don't exclude something that could be desirable. president olague: commissioner

moore? >> on the motion to approve the resolution in the packet. [roll call vote] president olague: we're going to take a 10-minute recess. >> 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.

[speaking 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]

>> translator: we would like to see what will be part of that change and bring that positive nutritional change to the community. [speaking spanish] >> translator: so i ask that this will delayed to allow time to promote this nutritional improvement in the community. that is all. thank you. president olague: thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am an organizer in the mission district and like some of my y neighbors over here, i have some of that smell of the chicken on the plane and i know about the

underground catmpero network an people don't bring it up and i also get it, but we need to look at this in a principal manner and if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, and this is the mcdonald's of central america. and i think that the conditional use process and the formula retail that disallows community members the opportunity to discuss and to propose conditions to a more global corporation like poll, campero and 325-plus restaurants and 16 countries and is a facet of a much larger corporation that is involved in the poultry industry in guatemala, in the wheat building and hydroelectric energy and banking, financial services, this is a huge corporation in central america aside from the nostalgia, and we

need to look at that in terms of the giving the community the opportunity to place substantial conditions on this restaurant if it does come through. and i think that that is the power that you hold to delay this vote so the community can consider those. we're really the impact of it will have on other locally mom and pop restaurants in our community. people keep talking about the store front empty and there is a vibrant business community that would be impacted and we also need to look at our own local latino multi-ethnic flavor we have established for decades. so i say just lay your vote and hold the community meeting through supervisor campos' office to give those ideas and place those conditions. president olague: thank you. next speakers.

>> commissioners, i am david gladys, one of the owners of the property. this property has been in our family for over 50 years and there's eight members of the family that supports and i have grown up in the division and has been part of my life and we welcome this tenant and hope that the vacant store and we understand the neighbors in the back of us are concerned about their rear yards and the enjoyment of their yards and i did want to point out in this

diagram showing our property that our neighbors are using our yard gratis for their enjoyment and we have not complained about it and let them do it. and so this piece of property behind that belongs to us behind us is something that's very nice and we would like them to be able to use it and is part of the yard. and we not tried to wall it off in the past. and so we hope that this promotes the better feel iing i hope you grant us permission to proceed. [speaking spanish]