and operated in mexican restaurant for 23 years. and then clear the long list of the group that has been there. it is and the 300 radius. i like to talk about the restaurant at the brick and mortar building. i employ 15 people the play -- that i pay health insurance had salary that will increase on january 1. the monthly rent averages $13,000 a month. i would like to show you this article dated november 27, 2011 in which the owner of the tempest bar is quoted in saying that the lunch crowd is doubt about 75%. but when food trucks continued to the point of serious

concern, this concerns me. a close family friend with a brick and mortar locations. the business was so good, he was making over $1 million a truck. he closed it because it was not beneficial to have those open. not only did affect me and my family, but the employees that i consider my family. we have been serving the financial district for a long time. on behalf of my restaurant, family, and customers, i would ask you to direct to the public department of public works to revoke this permits. >> are you ready for us to hear from the permit older? >> i think someone thinks they have an opportunity to speak. >> are you affiliated with the appellant?

>> my business partner, i am here to represent number one in california. >> that time has already been taken. is that correct? >> how he took four minutes. i can give the seventh three minutes. >> your partner already spoke. >> a cut-appellant spoke. but there is time remaining. >> three minutes remaining. that is fine. >> i have a picture right on the quarter -- on the corner.

we all feel that the trucks being parked right in front is really going to cut into our business. we're holding our own even with these economic times, we are selling vietnamese sandwiches were we are at. have been there for 14 years and doing just fine. we are selling pastries, vietnamese and sandwiches, coffee, everything. customers come from vacations all over the world. in a large majority of them come to our shop for the camaraderie and for the whole some sandwiches that we do have. we have taken them and have to leave. we do get a considerable amount of people coming to our shop. having the truck parked right

there, selling the exact same item is really going to be rough. i will keep it short. please reconsider giving a permit to these trucks. thank you. >> with this gentleman, the appellants all have 43 minutes. >> we can hear from the permit older. >> public comment will be when? >> later, you will be hearing from me. i will try not to be repetitive.

>> i am starting the clock at how much? >> 14 minutes. >> you can request more time at that point. >> there are slides that i don't want to show quite yet. a very interesting conversation being had about the economic vitality of the financial district. i want to look at the legislation does passed unanimously, creating this program and how does the board of supervisors unanimously did something, frankly, out of character for san francisco government. they saw where things were going economically in this city, in this world, and they created a

very carefully crafted piece of legislation to enhance the economy of san francisco and enhance the restaurant environment. i will read from the ordinance. this legislation is an effort to officially regulated and encourage the expansion of st. food in san francisco. it is companion legislation to the similar effort subject to the planning dakota. this is the intent of this legislation. you have been hearing from people telling you that this legislation should never have been passed. someone mentioned that they wanted to put a ballot measure on. if the quality of san francisco want to change this legislation, that is the way it has had -- it

has got to happen. those expressed today were at the table when the legislation was being considered. it was passed by the board of supervisors in december 3, 2010. the golden gate restaurant association was in support of this. they were present in the process. the detailed procedures were created for implementation and no issue the permit is permanent. the insurer for smith and revocation should be process not be observed. the board of supervisors were responding to the situation very much as they did in other aspects of regulation, that the police department could not well handled. there was article 17.2 at 17.3.

the procedures for notification and for application for mobile food vendors and peddlers. i heard this term several times in discussing this with people. it was willy-nilly. it was willy-nilly enforcement. that wasn't a good way to go about a food truck program in san francisco and the ordinance was created and passed by 11 members of the board of supervisors. there is a proven an effective permit infrastructure. i've believe that given the opportunity to try, this program can effectively meet the goals of the legislation. there is demand in the community.

i hadn't eaten at food trucks until recently. my son has been telling me that the best in san for it is is available at a food truck and i was impressed. i tried to have a conversation with him about this industry, food trucks versus the restaurants. he used the term that i did not understand. he said that mobil food is web 3.0. it is a different kind of industry that we are accustomed to and it is serving a different community that the financial district has traditionally been accustomed to. it isn't between my client and the subway or my client and the oasis. it is between san francisco and amsterdam. it is between san francisco and portland, seattle, london, and

every place else in the san francisco is trying to attract and hold. one of the things that we offer is a vital culture that is hard to find in many other places in this country and in this world. there is a cultural evolution going on, the web three. joe really means. we are not really talking about competition between the food trucks and these other locations. domino's might be a good analogy. they are small and sending their food out. they are taking a quick trip out. they are doing something fundamentally different than you or i do when we have lunch. they are twittering, going on

facebook, discussing their experience of yelp and google plus. these are things i don't understand in relation to lunch. the communication that goes on in this web three. of community is the thing that keeps a san francisco vital in the tech world. it keeps all of these restaurants filled, by having these industries attracted to and constant in san francisco. when the san francisco board of supervisors passed of this legislation, they were thinking about the economic vitality of san francisco. how do we stay competitive in global world and in the global economy? i would like to go to the overhead if i could and show you a couple of pictures.

excuse me, to the computer display. i did some research in the history of mobile foods and found a lot of pictures like this, mobile food vendors in chinatown, pictures were credited by children. this one i found particularly interesting on the 1600 block, the oyster loaf. you can of that script. these are a couple of street food vendors. years later, we see the same on the restaurant.

it is the brick and mortar that accrue from this. this is not a new idea, but change is constant in the restaurant world. right now, 35 at the corner is replaced by, i believe, a 12- story building. that is good, with the overhead we can go back. this legislation was not put in place to support one launcher option over another. it was to create a viable and exciting environment overall. like any ecosystem, a diverse environment is a stable environment. it is a strong environment and

an attractive environment. diversity is a good thing here, and it will encourage dining out and restaurants. these trucks are not going to be at these locations every day of the week. some of the locations are for two days a week or three days a week. the trucks are not there everyday. we have chipotle grill moving in. that is a large chain of restaurants, we are concerned about 7-eleven and the subway. these aren't actually competing with casa. it is a different kind of food and a different kind of experience being offered. the idea that they would be overrun by a day or two a week that these trucks will be there just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. in actuality, they will be

enhancing the economic environment overall. there will be many days that people come down the street that don't know that it is not there that day and they're going to decide for the first time to try the brick and mortar down the block. this legislation encourages the expansion of food in san francisco. that is what this food is tailored to do. i don't think this board wants to go in to the territory of hearing this legislation. did the department of public works effectively apply this legislation? and is the department of public works and setting up an adequate program to monitor it? are they hearing is properly? are the public hearings properly noticed?

they came to the department of public works and admitted -- stated directly in opposition and how many communications they received. all of these issues were considered, and given this program, the fact that these permits to do not go on forever and can be easily revoked or suspended, we have the first programs for you. regarding suspension and revocation of the permits, i will go to the overhead.

if it finds after a public hearing that such a permit holders engaged or have been found guilty of the following x, it lists the good neighbor policy and lists all of the conditions that keeps this as an orderly and clean undertaking. nobody wants this to create a trash problem for a traffic problem. we want a vital downtown. we want to enhance down town, not detract from it. that is why this legislation built these things in. this was clearly developed as an idea. it was developed with what the government should be doing, what is best for the entirety of san

francisco. only to look at the audience that is here, and i don't think it will take a big stretch to understand what interests there are here. this is a young the idea. these people are young people and they are coming in, serving the young economy. serving a growing of the economy. i think it is essentially vital to the continuing economic well- being of our city. it is what they had in mind when the legislation was passed unanimously. i encourage you to hear from him as he describes the process by which they will enforce these permits and the process by which they decide whether to grant these permits or not. what we want to do is serve an

economy for the entire city, keeping it all vital. coming to the financial district for lunch. thank you. >> i have a question. this was touched on earlier. was wondering if for the location, if you do have the certificates of sanitation? >> thank you for the question. we do have a certificate for dph. the important point to keep in mind, the permit that is before you is dph the -- is not the dph restroom permit. president goh: that's understood. and you have those for each of those locations? >> yes.

commissioner garcia: we have seen the one for the next case, can you furnished the one for this case? >> we don't have the restroom form, and before they would operate, they would be required to have that forms signed atdph. -- at dph. so this is the global food facility permit issued by the department of public health. there is a separate document that supports this, that we don't have to provide to you today.

>> we can hear from the department now. >> of the department has submitted a brief to you earlier. i don't want, necessarily, to go back and repeat those items. there is testimony that the department would be to respond to. one of the appellants question to the environmental review as it relates. we had checked with the planning department, have the environmental review officer

stated that each permit in this specific case does not require ceqa review. the program itself went through that during the legislative process. there were questions by the various appellants specifically as it relates to the battle. the issue as it relates to a parking, let's talk about the bathroom tissue. the bathroom requirement is a requirement by the department of health through the california health and safety code section of the law. the bathroom needs to be within 200 feet of a mobile food facility. it is helpful for an applicant

to receive a certificate. if that is not satisfactory, the health department will notify the department and the department will suspend any proof met -- permits. it is established by the department of health. if the department received notification from the san francisco fire department, if it is invalid, it will suspend the mobile food facilities and will not be allowed to operate. the department would then continue into the various agencies -- and given some reasonable time, they will revoke the permit at that point. there is a question as it relates to the enforcement of

the health code. the health code and administrative codes beyond the jurisdiction of the department, in the beginning of the mobile food program, parking and traffic, receiving confirmation stating that they would continue for a second time and received a response. our understanding is that traffic regulations will be enforced. the permit provides a time frame. it doesn't mean the public and that receives a permit will be there on those days. there are no parking spaces

available. they need to move on in those specific cases. and the department as it relates to like foods, specifically. i will provide that in the second briefing to the commissioners that under the department order, like foods is very specific as it relates to the ethnicity of the food. the comments from oasis of real , that is my recollection. it was not present at the directors hearing in the testimony. i have no knowledge in this

case. there are many questions in this specific case. and how the department is processing. the law is very specific, it is executing that policy by the supervisors and the mayor.

it will be the appropriate permits and evaluation. as it relates to these executions of the program. in the department does not believe in following the process that we provided notification to the public in an inappropriate manner. that we evaluated the objections and concerns by the various stakeholders and processed to the permit correctly. in many cases, as you can see from the decisions by the

director, some of patients were approved, some were denied, and others were conditioned for six months with a hearing possibility. and additional information can be provided at a potentially a new decision will be rendered based upon additional information. the department would urge the board, in this case, to uphold the decision. i am here to answer any questions that you may have. president goh: i hear you talking about parking, but the specifics of overstaying the meter, for example, the construction question, can you address those specifically?

>> as it relates to construction, the legislation is very specific to that. if there is a construction site or a street event, the department can temporarily suspend the mobile food facilities permit to operate at that location. as it relates to the parking concerns, the department of public works to continue to reach out at the mta. they have informed us that they will be enforced. president goh: how much has to go to each