concern. i don't know if that answers your question. supervisor mar: it does. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am a second-generation san franciscan. i have worked in the restaurant industry for about 15 years. in talking with summer, mali, loving bowling at love in food, logistically thinking that trying to separate a restaurant at a bowling alley, people may be not really understanding why they couldn't bring their beer or glass of wine.

>> why should this place be restricted and my place not? >> where is a lucky star right? >> i believe it is near the park area. we have local people here doing local things, creating a local jobs. let's make it easy for our san franciscans. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am a san francisco resident and a patron of the bar. one like a boat -- when i look

at the restriction, at the giffords sees the possibility of a bowling alley and restaurant existing. for all intents and purposes, the bonafide restaurant exception seems to apply here. if you look at the findings on 781.8, i think it translates pretty succinctly over to the situation, and this is the place where people can go and eat and bowl and drink and people are active throughout the whole time instead of sitting in one place and the sole purpose for drinking. i would say i am a patron of the bar. my husband and i go there regularly. i have not been drinking for the past five months because i am is that you are -- i am pregnant. but because we will be having a child, it is important to have a place that will extend the community we have already and will allow us to have some more we can go with a child, go as a family, and i and have a

glass of wine when i need to. we can continue to be a part of what i feel we're already a part of. so thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. small business commission staff. very briefly, on august 8, 2011, the small business commission voted 5-0 to recommend to your board that you approve this ordinance. the commission did not hear the single screen theater and the men. but inclusion of single screen theaters is consistent with previous commission policy, and the commission staff is recommending that you approve the amendment as well. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors peter i am the director of education and employment at youth services. we're going to have a partnership with the mission

bowling club in which one of my youth training programs will be supporting the mission bowling club and that area by having a crew of young people come in and clean up around the neighborhood, around the mission bowling club. it is one of the entry points to our employment and workforce development team. and these young people -- one, will be helping the community stay clean. two, they will be helping not only the mission bowling club, but it is providing another project by which young people, most of the mine the tenderloin, will get out and see another area of san francisco. this all happened on the morning when the bowling club will not be opened. and a partnership really stems from back a couple of years. we got a challenge grant, and we worked with the the visitor corridor merchants association.

and we did graffiti abatement. the same program of young people went to the corridor and would take care of the graffiti, as well as clean up around the corridor. and we continue to go up there, even after the challenge grant ended. we found that we got to the merchants and we would find out that they need the cleanups. we would help the neighborhoods and residents to paint over graffiti, even getting some painting projects. we look at this project is another way for our young people to experience actually helping the community but also learning more about small businesses. part of our program is teaching them about workforce development and also employment and how we can get to know our young people when we have nonprofits, and they can share their experiences to the part of our teaching program is for young people to learn how careers open up.

we support this program. thank you. >> i just wanted to mention that the department and the commission would encourage an expanded effort in the future to

consider a more broad review of the control of alcohol in the special use district. there are five other alcohol sud's and mission alcohol was the first and most restrictive. it is the only alcohol sud with ways to transfer liquor licenses. therefore, there's no means to add conditions of approval for establishments that are permitted to sell and serve alcohol. but that is not addressed in this ordinance, and i wanted to point out that the department and commission were supportive of expanding the discussion in the future ordinance. thank you very much. i am a available for questions. supervisor mar: supervisor wiener has a question. >> thank you. there is another bowling alley opening as well, lucky strikes

on king street, across from the 18th tee ball park. that was not in the special use district, so there were a lot to come in with a liquor license and restaurant. to address your question on its the roxy theater, i was able to get some answers. what they're proposing for their liquor licenses to serve just beer and wine. no hard liquor, and as for the last show of the night, which will be 21 and over. but they are aware of shows that folks under 21 go to, and they tend to be music documentaries and music festival shows. they will be careful to not sell out of all during those shows. that would be more than happy to hear from your office. they have not applied for a permit yet. supervisor mar: supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: first, i want to thank supervisor kim for taking the lead on this

legislation. i think it is perfect. i am extremely supportive. i also want to talk about my jealousy about all this polling all is going into district 6. we will love to have one in other neighborhoods, and we would wholeheartedly patronize it. so i am very supportive of this legislation. however, i have been very vocal about this, but i believe that the mission alcohol and beverage special use district should be repealed. i think it is -- it is legislation that while i understand why it was enacted at the time, to address alcohol blight in the mission, it is so rigid and so broad that, in my view, it is now undermining the mission in a number of ways. this prohibits new liquor licenses or new businesses

obtaining liquor licenses, except for bonafide restaurants. that means that takeout has to be incidental. so takeout restaurants, you cannot get a liquor license. if the food is prepared offsite and brought in as opposed to prepared in the kitchen onsite, you cannot get a liquor license. this makes absolutely no sense. grocery store is like valencia wholefoods, if they want to sell organic beer or wine, they cannot do it because of the sud. it also undermines job creation by bringing in new businesses. honestly, it is great that we're doing this, but this bowling alley should not have had to gone through this process to begin with and making a special exemption from the sud. a gesture not have had to do

that. it undermines entertainment and nightlife. it undermines bringing new, creative uses and to the mission and, new kinds of businesses that we did not anticipate in 1996 when we passed this brought and inflexible sud. it also encourages and freezes in time some very bad uses, some of the corner package liquor stores better their, and no one else can make use of this liquor licenses, so those stores remain there. so some of the liquor light that folks were trying to get rid of are now perversely encouraged. this is a good start, and i am very supportive, but i will continue to advocate for a repeal of the sud, and a look forward to the continuing conversations. supervisor cohen: thank you.

he took a couple of my talking points. i just wanted to share that if there is anyone else there who would like to open up appallingly in district 10, i am willing and available to work with you to make that happen. i want to encourage whoever is listening who may be looking to make another business venture to venture a little bit further south. the dog patch never had this up- and-coming, thriving, and beautiful. so i just wanted to put that out there. if things do not work out and stick, i want to to know that i am here to help as well. i would also like to echo some of the concerns that scott wiener articulated. i think he invented a new word called liquor polite. i have never heard that before, but i like it. i have a lot in my own district. i am always looking for a way to look at that blight. supervisor mar: i wanted to thank supervisor kim and

supervisor wiener as well. i cannot wait to challenge some of you in bowling. since i was 11 years old, it was kind of my passion. supervisor wiener: i grew up in new jersey, so be careful. supervisor mar: i looked at reviews, and i am often around little star and other places around there, but a promise to come in sometime. nothing but tremendous reviews and knowledge of how small the place is, but hopefully some expansion into other neighborhoods is really important for our business sector as well. i hate to acknowledge that the planning commission kind of split is unanimously. it was acknowledged that the small business commission as well unanimously supports this. so i look forward to being supported. i look to be added as a co- sponsor as well. supervisor kim: thank you to the land use committee for sharing this item.

we're also very happy to have the support of the planning commission and the small business commission. it is really exciting to have not just the small business but women-owned small business coming to the district. they will be very close to daggar package, but i am -- they will not be very close to dog patch. i am big fan of polling also. there was j the closure of j- town bowling several years ago. and many families spend their evenings there. it was an alternate to other types of entertainment venues. it was an incredible community space as well. i do encourage more bowling alleys throughout the city. especially in districts tan and 11th with many families who do not have a lot of been used to go to peter i am excited about this moving forward. thank you so much to peterson and ms. bradshaw for all your work, and also with meeting with

neighbors and community-based organizations. i look for to working with roxie theater as well. one thing i forgot to mention in the beginning is that we're also building a new park next to mission bowling club. this is something we heard at least two weeks ago. it is on 17 and fall some, across from the odc theater. that corner of the mission district is very exciting. we will be building affordable living in the future in that never had, too. supervisor cohen: i also wanted to abolish the small business owners. thank you for stepping out there. -- i also wanted to say thank you to the small business owners. i am tired of going to daly city to spend my bowling dollars. so thank you very much. and good luck. supervisor mar: thank you. colleagues, on the amendments without objection?

and now on to the amended ordinance. can we do this with a positive recommendation without objection? >> excuse me in, a diversion in the file was originally introduced in june and does not include the new proposal to extend this to the single screen movie theaters which has been blessed by planning. it does not need to go back to planning, but it needs an additional notice and opportunity for public comment. >> ok, so this will come back to the next meeting. we will continue this item to our next land use committee meeting. ok, without objection? thank you. thank you, everyone. thank you, supervisor camp. can we call the next item? >> item number two, resolution authorizing a street name change on that portion of la playa to great highway. >> thank you.

we have a member from supervisor chu's district. >> i am from supervisor carmen chu's office. i wanted to give some history as to why this legislation has come about. back in 2008, supervisor chu's office was first alerted by residents of the discrepancy in the street name for the 1500 block lawton and kirkum. the question was whether it should be called great highway or la playa. it was for that one block. a lot of residents used great highway as their addresses, but a number of folks used la playa. this led to problems with mail delivery, signing up for credit cards, and other issues. we worked with the u.s. postal service to allow for a dual names in their computer system, to allow for the mail delivery

for both la playa anne craig highway. we also checked with the emergency services to make sure that 911 or any fire services were not be disrupted with the dual street names. we thought that that would solve the problem. so over the years, we had not heard much until recently. we found out it was still problematic for residents applying for credit cards or who had just moved to that lot. due to the looming problems, supervisor to sponsor legislation to officially change the street name to great highway. actually, i have -- i apologize that there is not a better map, but we have a google map here. the streets in question actually split off into la playa about three-quarters of a way into the block. some of the neighbors here will share with you some history as

to why they think this discrepancy happened many, many years ago. prior to the street name change, we're required to seek approval from mta, our department, and police department, and those departments have sent their approval to the clerk's office. that is some background. if you have further questions, barbara is here from the department of public works. supervisor cohen: i want to quickly direct my question to you. i am curious to know the thought process between -- behind supervisor chu and how she came to determine great highway as the name change as opposed to la playa. >> we had consultations with the department of public works. its stems very far back. i think there was a lot of testimony from the public, and we will shed more light on that during public comment. there are two signs on the street. once the great highway and

pointed to the block in question. then another one says la playa. at some point in time, a sign was in stock that accidentally showed that the street actually had both the street names. but if you look in at the sidewalk, it actually says great highway. i think maybe the department of public works might be able to better answer that question. we did in formal surveys with property owners and tenants. dpw did a formal survey as well. there was mixed reaction, but the general consensus from the folks living there for the longer amount of time is that they have great highway on their property deeds. supervisor mar: thank you. would you like to add anything, ms. moi? maybe address supervisor cohen's question. >> it certainly was a mystery for us. we had to do a lot of research.

we cannot find any thing that pointed to the segment of the street being great highway. but because there was a median adjacent to it, i think that is for the discrepancy occurred. records show that the street is called la playa, but over the course of decades, people have called these three great highway. it made some sense to us as the department, not from a policy perspective, but more of a use perspective and as long as emergency services and police and fire and mtsa every to identify the street properly, it certainly did not seem to be a problem. as long as the property runners and residents can have something definitive now, which is either a very clear statement by this board that it is called great highway, i.t. that will solve the problem. -- i think that will solve the

problem. i will answer any questions. supervisor mar: i did want to complement the residents and dpw for the street vacation around the area. it is tremendous. i used to go to ensure the beach quite a bit, and the persian the residents' efforts to make it a more livable community. i have a number of cards here. three minutes per person. i will call them and people can come up as you want. jeffrey salmon, ray stewart, sheila gants, frank mitchell, gordon, and ruth mitchell. >> my name is jeffrey salmon and i have been a resident on the block for about 15 or 20 years. for some history and why there is confusion, upon some of my research, i discovered that the first error is a computer error in the tax assessor. there was a condo converted from

an apartment to a condo. that was the first error clinically in my research. later on in 1997-1990, the street was repaved. at that time, the company did not do a good job of replacing the line that used to be on the street the other used to be an additional stop line at the media and so that you have to have a double stop line to go at the end of kirkum, crossing across to the end of la playa, stopping there, and in making a left onto great highway. that was not repaid in three areas were diagonally put down. also at the end of la playa, there used to be at butterflied arrow where you had to turn left or right and you cannot story. that painting was also not placed down. lastly, there was a sign that says end of la playa at the stop

line that was not repainted. a few years later, google earth accidentally put it on a there's as la playa. that is when it started to steamrolled. after that, vandals stole the sign that said end of la playa. when the sign was replaced, it was replaced with la playa 1500 block, directly across from the great highway 1500 block and is etched in the concrete on the sidewalk. for years, water has said great highway. voter registries as great talent. pg&e says great highway. after things that digitized in 1998, things started to change. we were told that either address would work. but in the past year or so, some residents have gotten letters from the postal department, a federal agency, that this great highway would not be accepted on the federal level. so more people raised a voice to have this correctly relabeled as

great highway. supervisor mar: thank you so much for the history, mr. salmon. please just come forward your name has been called. it is not apt to be in the same order. >> hello, supervisors. i am glad that you're having this hearing. my name is sheila. i have lived on the great highway since 1991. this is part of what i wrote in my letter was first put out about the problem. in march of this year, i ordered a new cell phone. everything went through. then the next day i received an e-mail telling me that my order was cancelled. there was no specific reason given, so i call. it took me an hour-and-a-half of being on hold and talking to five different people before i was given a reason my order was cancelled. and because of security reasons, nobody would actually tell me the reason. the reason was, finally someone give me the secret, that i had

the wrong street address. so the person who originally took that order did not say that. eventually i had to go down to the office of the company and get my new cell phone, because i cannot do it over the phone because i cannot give the correct address. if i had known to say la playa, i would have. so that is a little bit of confusion over the years. i have not got all of my mail. most recently, it was my birthday in september and my mother sent me a birthday card and a little check. she wrote to the address correctly with 94122, and then when i got it almost two weeks later, at the bottom or the post office prince sunday, it actually says 94133 at the four- digit code. another friend of mine sent me a card from east bay, an hour and 50 minutes away from where i

live. it took me 12 days to get this car. and again at the bottom, is that printed from the post office 94133. and my friend even put the last four digits and that still did not give it to me any sooner. i would really appreciate clearing this up. because it causes a lot of problems. there are a couple other cards and never received, and i suppose they're floating around there someplace. it would be great to have this straightened out. thank you. >> to get afternoon, supervisors. my name is ray stewart. i live on the great highway and have been there since september 1989. briefly, i want to run through six items that i hope will help you make a decision to go forward with the change to great highway. there is a long-term precedent that has been established by the

u.s. postal service in terms of delivering mail their. up until 2008, all of my mail was delivered to me at the great highway address. after that, the post office spent me a notice about changing and started this whole process. so the u.s. ps has established a precedent already, and they're the ones initiating the change at this point to update their computer services. i believe that changing the address and the confusion that comes to be because of the east -- because of the change, for example, is because it makes the situation very ripe for identity theft when there is confusion like this. i think for that reason, we should go forward in change to the great highway as well. city and county also has identified that street as the

great highway by road signs and the concrete embossed name on the sidewalk indicating that that blog is in fact the great highway. i understand that some old maps do indicate that that street is called la playa, but because of the precedent, the city i did find the street, the postal service, all of that reinforces the fact that that is the great highway. given that, i think it would be very helpful for all of the residents on that street to maintain the name as a great highway by officially changing it on at the maps. thank you very much. supervisor mar: and thank you for writing this down as well and for sending it to us. the next speaker. >> hello. i live at 1576 great highway. i have lived