experience. that is my feeling on this issue. çç>> if i might chime in, i wd çto stick to the commission tht this particular situation -- they are clustering. çbut this particular land use, you are going to most likely increase that likelihood due to the limitations that may have. there are specific districts where they can locate. they have to be a certain distance from public school facilities. it is most likely going to increase the chance that you're going to end up with a cluster like this. commissioner moore: the problems do exist because it is, in many people's mind, a controversial use. it has an effect on the cohesiveness of how and neighborhood commercial district

functions. and given the opposition or implied fear of people, people will try to look at this particular use not as a complementary, sympathetic use, but as something you are suspicious of. you are alwaysç looking around out of the corner of your eye. i am concerned, because ofç the 150 foot distance,ç that everybody in between, which is about four or five properties, will be stuck with having toi] o with that. it is for that reason, because we have not had something quite as similar as this, that it becomes, at least for this group, an extraordinary and exceptional situation to judge. we have, over time, expressed our concern, looking ahead, that we would be wanting some support for not clustering, but we have

not found tools not to do that. i am not making any conclusive statement here. i am basically speaking to a very bigw3 problem i have. because for me it becomes exceptional and extraordinary because of the nature of the use, and voiced opposition of the use as part of a neighborhood commercial corridor. for that very reason, i am concerned that the local affect could be neighbor -- could be negative. -- the local effect could be negative. in other situations, i have supported to products -- two projects. ! difficult. commissioner borden: i would say -- i mean, i agree. the challenge is how you choose. we do not have the tools and our tool kit to say this one gets it and this one does not. that is where the challenges.

on the one hand, you canw3 say e is from l.a. and not from here. but they have the actual experience. ççi do not know what this commission is thinking about. but we may want to consider -- i know everyone hates continuance s. it might be worth a conversation. even if we were -- granted, the problem is that it is not a conditional use. this is a discretionary review. it is not the same as a conditional use application. in a conditional use application, you would consider there already were two full- service restaurants, or what ever you were looking at. we do not have the tools to discriminate against one or the other. but i feel like there is definitely a possible impact, just because people -- there is

definitely that residual activity on one side of the street. if theyç were even on different sides of theç street, you know? that is the only thing. i actually really understand that. içó have a lot aroundç me, buty are atçó least blocks away from each other. i think that, you know -- i guess i do not know what continuing would help solve. i do not know that we will get any new tools decision. but there is a concern. and i just do not know how we adequately deal with that, because our toolkit does not really allow us to. presidentç miguel: i do not thk personally, after this length of time, continuances going to achieve anything.

commissioner fong: if a continuance would help bring more information to the table or bring us more tools, i would suggest that might be a possibility. i just do not know what that would be, unless you have ideas about additional information. i do not know what that would be, is my only concern. çcommissioner sugaya: i think e have been -- because these came in exactly, more or less, at the same time, and are on the agenda at the same time, it makes it doubly difficult for the commission. in other cases, if you look at theç map we have of for the otr dispensaries are, there are a lot of them that are close together. there appear to be some that may be as close as these, although the scale of the map is such that you cannot tell that. but there are definitely more existing mcd's clustered in

certain areas of the city. but those all did not come in to gather at the same time. so we were able to consider them çseparately, you might say, one on one. i do not know if we have ever denied one. ççcommissioner antonini: 0 yee have. commissionerq not know if we denied them because they were close. çfor the audience, it just maks the decision a little bit strange. that is why we are having in the problem here. at least with these two. the previous one was down the road a little bit. it is a little bit difference attrition. that said, i don't think i added anything. commissioner fong: just a

technical question. i am not necessarily suggesting it. this is not a conditional use. but we have the ability to control hours and days of operation. for example, rather than picking one over the other, if you let them go alternate days a week of operation. i am just curious. ç>> i do not seeç why not, ife commission chose to take discretionary review and approve for certain dates of operation. it is not usually done. i do not know of any restrictions. you can put a condition on any type of business operation. commissioner fong:ç i would not dare to think to do that if it was a restaurant, controlling their business in that way. commissioner moore:ç i am not going to suggest days. but in the past, when we started doing this a number of years

back, there used to be a large number of users. it was always quite touching and quite supportive to feel that the users themselves were here speaking about why this one particular application. and we do not have that much anymore. those were people who repeatedly came, that talked about the compassionate part of the operations, etc. j always very strong, supportive testimony. i did not quite hear that in the last two cases, to be honest. they looked like well-planned business enterprises, in that the experts were there with various degrees and their success in other parts of the economy. it did not speak as much to the personal caring part. çi paused, thinking i did not

have the strong resonance i have with other cases. commissioner antonini: we have denied two mcd's, and another that went far into the night was approved, but was denied at permit appeals. on another subject, because of the depth of neighborhood disapproval, we did take d.r. and not approved a starbucks on judah many years ago. although i use might be approved, if there is overwhelming neighborhood opposition, we have in the past

not approved. i am impressed with the attempts for security, particularly with the treemed dispensary. i am concerned not only the closeness to the san mateo line, but to balboa high school. this location is right at the center of mission and geneva. huge numbers of young people in their teenage years. while everything may be done completely well at the dispensaries, anyone patient but felt they might want to sell -- any one patient that might want toq i think it is more possible for that to happen and further north on mission street, which is a little more isolated from secondary and middle schools, i think, even though they are technically beyond 1,000 feet. that is my problem with these two.

zvçñr>> i will move to -- i wie to take d.r. and çdisapprove both. çpresident miguel: is there a second? xdcommissionerçç sugaya: the difficulty i have with the nile is coming up with findings. -- denainial is coming up with findings. if the night, i am sure there will immediately appeal to the board of appeals. having sat on the board of appeals, mr. reed came before us

manyç years ago. the board charge is to lookxd at the people and the code and try to apply what is in the code. from that standpoint, i think commissioner wut( is right. thereç is a set of standards tt these have met. if we cannot come up with a good reason, i think it may be likely that the board of appealsç will go against us, so to speak. i am not saying that what happened. but just in terms of having to make findings as to why we are denying it, i think is the rub for me. president miguel: i cannot make aç motion from the chair. i would second the motion. we are stuck. t(çóapproval with the same

conditions that we put on the calendar. but we just heard. if anyone wishes to make that motion. commissioner antonini: there is the difficulty with security concerns, particularly the proximity to middle and secondary schools, and distinct from the earlier approval. çcommissioner fong: i am goingo make a motion to approve the ççproject with theñr same thre condition supervisor avalos laid out and we imparted in our last

boat. -- vote. çthe same conditions. both projects with the same conditions. adequate lighting, parking, contributions to safety and security of the block, contributions to civic appeal by addingok greenery, clean and we- painted facades, and the fourth, which we are going to try to make overarching, is video surveillance systems, actual hardware, is looked over. >> there is also the condition for a community liaison. commissioner fong: correct. thank you very much. president miguel: there is a motion and a second. >> the motion is to take d.r. and approve the project, based on the conditions imposed on the project at 4218 mission street,d

outlined in supervisor avalos's note, çwith the added requiremt for a community liaison. çthe police department will be able to inspect for compliance. on that motion -- commissioner antonini: no. commissioner borden: aye. commissioner fong: aye. commissioner moore: aye. commissioner sugaya: no. commissioner wu: aye. president miguel: aye. >> the motion passes 5-2. [applause] president miguel: i hope both of your organizations and their supporters fullyç understand t, what should i say, conundrum we have to serve under.

i hope if any of the board of supervisors or staff listens or looks at this hearing that they willç understandç that we're asking themçç to deal with th, if they can. >>ç thank you. commissioners, you are now at general public comment. president miguel: is there any public the agenda? if not, public comment is closed and this hearing is finally over. çç5a

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>> thank you, jamie. please welcome back to the stage to the guggenheim. -- judyç guggenheim. >> what a fabulous introduction to the next speaker who is coming up. i want to tell you all of the wonderful city people that support this hospital.

we are very lucky to have them support the hospital and to have had them supported all these years. the honorable willie brown, mayor. çthe honorable frankç jor" mayor. gina mosconi. [applause] district attorney george gascon. city attorney dennis r. vera -- herrerra. [applause] fireç chief and joanne hayes white. police chief gregg sur. [applause] supervisor scott wiener and malia cohen are here today.

[applause] and our very own paul pelosi. i want to invite everybody here to come on a tour of the hospital and the new hospital. i am sure mayor ed lee would total about the new hospital. it is a remarkable project, really remarkable, veryç exciting. i do not even want to say this, ahead of time and ahead of budget. webcpor and all of their people deserve a huge vote of thanks. it is going to be a beautiful hospital. designed specifically to meet community needs.

it is seismically safe, technologically advanced, and green. it is being done right, from the start, and we are proud to have here mayor ed lee to tell us about it. he has been involved with it for years and years. [applause] ç>> thank you, judy. çhello out there. welcome to the heroes and hearts awards ceremony luncheon. i am so happy to be with all of you here at the at&t park the giants. of course, you are all here. you know about our wonderful hospital. i just want to add how appreciative i am to the

organizers that came together today with all of us to increase our capacity. not just by the number of people here. by the way,ç you are twice as g as last year. did you know that? that is wonderful. that just goes to say the hearts in san francisco had the capacity to grow every year. i want to thank you for that, and thank you for the contribution that make our general hospital so special. i begin by saying they did to the organizers for the event today, and most importantly, thank you to the doctors, nurse practitioners, administrators, janitors, a security guard people, everybody at that hospital. sue kern you are doing a fantastic job. thank you for giving us the world class hospital we need in our city. i know that you saw some of the

earlier videos as more examples of how our hospital had reflected the bellies of our city. okyou saw ryan white and how he recovered from that hit and run accident. and then you saw at the very end, this past halloween, where he proudly wore the san francisco giants uniform for halloween. congratulations to ryan for recovering. thank you again to hospital staff. you know, i have been there. some of the most wonderful and hardest days i have had as mayor of the city. i want to let you know, for the firefighters out there, certainly the two i had the chance to be with in their last days, i want to thank you again for the wonderful hospital team we have and how we celebrated their lives by giving them the best we had.

their families know that. on behalf of the city, again, another great example. we have really positive days to look forward to. in 2015,ç women get the most ld gold acute hospital opened up in oakland. we are on our way to that. we're working with contractors and vendors that are spending some $54 million to build the hospital, local dollar is going to local businesses to participate in the $877 million project. on time, in budget. yes, very important to do. we are going to be increasing the capacity of hospital beds. we will almost triple the size of the trauma emergency center. why?

because we love the people here, the residents. we have theç capacity to grow. we have great corporate partners, and all of them that are here today, and there are many more that are not, but they are part of the building of the hospital. i want to say to you, i look forward, with extreme in patients, to opening up those doors in 2015, the brand-new hospital. to get back to the theme of hearts and a final invitation that you have after today and after we sing these songs, i invite all of you next tuesday to join our protocol officer charlotte schultze, me, mayor willie brown, frank jordan, and everyone else, to welcome tony bennett, and to sing along in our favorite song, 50 years old, where were you want to