it is unlawful to conduct, maintain orpeit to be oncted y place of ntermentor one te event in the city of san francisco without first having obined the required permit from the irector or enterment cosi he fac that mr. chang was notified in augt and octobe atoperatg olatio -- thank you very much. is there any public comment on shabu pub 3809 geary? >> michael nulty. as a eighborhooactivt, i woul either deny this or continue it until the application was filled andth fi ifor all e violatio obviously, he isno

understanding all the business. i would talk to the city attorney about withholding his business license. vice cir joseph: thank you. is there any other public comment? seei none, public comment is closed. tostaff, rificatioof the nile -- when can the applicant apply again? after nine ice ai joseph: 9 months? not a year? >>ithink it is a year. ice aijose ok. commissioners, i am pelexed. if we continue this, we have to hear it at e next meeting. if the applicant conti it would come back to us when the applicanthadurll the defect i am not sure what the address oel if we had akaraok bar on arel

i do not know if it is e same place. i amnot inclin to ask, because we're doing with this location. i entertain a motion on this permit. somebody? >> i make a motion to deny. do you want to continue this or go forward with the motion? do you want to go forward? vice chair joseph: do you understand what he is asking you completely? >> i am a business. i need help. >> i am asking you if youwant to do your application and come back or want us to vote now. vice chair joseph: do you want to continue? >> which one would you like? >> i want to continue. vice chair joseph: you are asking us to continue it. is that right?

>> would you like to come back with a new application, or decide now? vice chair joseph: i am really hesitant because i am not sure he completely understands us. nobody here speaks cantonese, i am sure. guys? there is on one thing i can say in chinese. the building owner -- can you communicate with him correctly? >> he wants to continue. >> he wants a continuance or wants to continue it right now? vice chair joseph: he wants to contue ites voti itow s at wresayi? ok. so you would like to continue and reapply. i am entertaining motion t grt lin's reest to continue this to thealicant's - the next time ealicant notiff so moved.

commissioner tan: aye. commssioner lee:aye commissioner cavellini aye. commissioner perez: aye. vice chair joseph: aye. you cango to staff and they will give you another application so you can get it to us, ok? you can call the office. somebody give him a card. call the office during the day and talked to staff. they will be able to direct you either to someone who not only speaks cantonese so it would help him, but also to manage the process. >we have interpreter vice chair joseph: call nicholas king of our office. do you have a card on you? thank you. next item on the agenda?

thank you for sticki with us. 7e. forgive me if i destroy your name. anzhelika bisesi doing business as playland. >> a new owner taking over the space would like to continue operating with livemusic. >> maha garland, representing the applicant. aelanzhelika. that is jim from e seri company. they, as you know, bought this from kino's. wit it came a few problems. they have been trying to rectify those problems. e inprlemwas a noise issue. they have spent significant

money fixing the soundproofg. they bought it, they inherited a musical lineup they did not realize they had to have a separate permitrom business to business. the canceled all the acts. that included the holidays. hey have done extensive outreach and collectors of support from the merchants and residentshe community leadership alliance which has a representative here tonight to spk t at a letter of support from the lower polkneighbo merchants association, and eight neutral position from the lliance an mid-polik. hey vea ve good security plan. their capacity is 123. they are there fothe lo term. the have put a lot of money into the property. they want it to besuccsful for em

the soundproofing has just about been cplet i will let you hear from them. >> good evening. a ater evening than it started. vice chair joseph: good night now. >> i am one oe new owne listening carefully throughout this hearing, i gleaned a few more thingsthings i was planning to talk about were brought up. erlier,ermentioof welcoming new owners to the area. this is what the ownership is here. i have a historyof over 100 years in san francisco, with my grandparents, my parents, and myself. mygrandmother was going right where the ball park was. my parents were both going in the city. i met wife at the san nciscoalle

i and now vice president and attorney of hewlett-packard. i came backftercolleg. i came back into san francisco in the 80's. me int the south of market area and a bodybuilding on south rkoua ildi on south park, up from the ballpark. vice chair joseph: i was a ster >> ias a champagne and jazz cover club. full entertainment. full restaurant. 1 to 2:00 a.m. at that time obviously, there erwo oer resuran it became the center of the dotcom. we were known as the hon. we ran a successful operation at that time. circling back to sanfrcisco, i look at this place.

it is a challenge. it has a longhistory, a definite checkered but what brings it back to the ownership proper -- staff was ing the place. the owner was running the bands. our ownership has lived in san ncco every single day of his life in san francisco. he knows the city better than anybody i have ever met. anzhelika moved yourself out here and became a citizen just recently. she has been here 13 years giestimore. she has put her hard earned cash. she is going to heri hthamak our place. we have taken steps to outreach to the community. i have sat and talked in front of the lower poke.

-- po we have had almost universal acceptance. we have hired a security team. ware liproofi we are cleaning that corner up. we have taken great steps to improve the neighborhood already. here were td a lo of transients in front of the building. we chose not to be open between 6:00.m. and 2:00 a.m. we are going to be a respectable clean bar. entertainment is an important part of what we do. the entertainmentas rmuch differentl e are not planning to do seven nights a week, three bands. vice chair joseph: wrap it your life story is very interesting, but how does it apply to this permit? >> responsibleowners make good neighbors, make good club owners. the that is what i am trying to get across.

vice chair joseph:you ve hired a security company? what is their name? can i -- what is your experience with nightclubs? >> we havebeen iusiness since 1995 we have done nightclubs along the creek area, san francisco east bay, oakland. ice chaijose telle e name of two in san francisco. >> gold dust and [unintelligible] vice chai joseph: he told me two. that is all i asked for. any questions? >> it sayshour of operation 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. do you mean 2:00 a.m.? but entertainment willberom 7: in the evening until 2:00 a.m.? the pm's and am' are all mixed

up. you would want entertainment to be able topea wenot pl oningentertaien but we are not looking to get conditions on our license for entertainment. >> we are open right now only until4:00 >> are you talking about deejays, live music, or all of the above? live music? vice chair jepatid do to sounroof i >> we got double hung windows upstairs, and the same downstairs also. vice chairjoseph: wha else did you do besides double pane windows? did you do anything to the ceiling, the walls between the windows? the you do any other sounroofin

>> there is soundproofing on the sides of the building already. tri tdres tt with some quiet rock and some resilience channels. our ceiling will be sound tiles for acoustic. vice chair joseph: you have not done thisyet butyou inte to do tha or are you just investigating and maybe won't do it? >> we plan on doing it. e eel it already was soundproofed. vice chair joseph: we used to get a bunch of sound complaints. so maybe not so much sounroofed. anything else? >> does the windows open? >> we put in a soundproof when a company. at is what they have done. it is behind the existing window 3 inches to 6 inches inside

ourbuilding, to create a sound barrie >> they basically cannot open anymore? vice chair joseph: that is actually a really good wayto soroof. >> it what they do or snd studios. it works better keeping the sound in the room. it is far superior to what they had. vice chair joseph:any other questions? why don't you have a seat. i open the floor to public comment on playland 1351 polk street. hank you forbeing patient. it has been a long night. >> our organization was approachedreg is project and subsequent to that the project sponsors did contact us to schedule community outreach prior to thatmeet

-- outrage. prior to that meeting, we did extensive e-mail outrage -- out of reach. folks did time in we did get two who complained about previous noise issues. but the project sponsors, i think we sat for weller a hourdiscussillointof heafety plan, as well as noise abatement issues. there was an individual who during the meeting, was looking at a livefeed. he was watching the inside of the restaurant while we were having the meeting, making sure they were doing what they were supposed to do. ice chaih: technology is cool. >> exactly. our organization facilitates a new liquor licensing live

entertainment peitin or nob hill an polk corner. we have had three meetings at the public library so far, none of which mr. king attended. wtomake iclea at alth the fol who have been attending -- we have had 12 people attending regularly, along with the city attorney for our area. i want to make it clear that although someof thoseol ve chimed with ei suort of thi project, our organization's support is city- wide. we aspire to represent all city districts. our support is comingrom ou organitis ole, and not the committee for the area. i want to make that clear. at the conclusion of our meeting, we requested one condition that the exterior surveillance technology -- which they agreed to. ase oncoitiowe nt to se having said that, we support this project. vice chair joseph: thank you

very much. is there any other public comment? i am glad to see you back in the room. did you have something to say earlier? >> l can ice chaijose never mind. >> linda chapman, representing some individual members of the community. i am a member of thatc. our objective, as david villalobos said, was not toav a meeting on this board, but to stop what is happening on polk street. it is out of control. the residenmager roperowner caot come, because it raises his blood pressure too much. he gave me what he took into the meeting that david villa lobos had in our neighborhood. statementlieso al of these. he says absolutely and

unequivocally and no to any further licenses. thisclespeits,until e existing late night street mobs noise nuisance is eliminated. there needs to be a total moratorium on any further licenses orliorsale icenses tie problem is fixed. that is in total his statement. he asked me to bring in his list. this is from five monthsfrom one residentmageover 5 calls. this is at the corner. the intersection -- that are in the inteectiofusa pine. at the intersection of pine, i was contacted by some people who called me up there. i was told tonight by david the lobos villalobos that they would just be talking about conditions. so i did not encourage anybody to try to come. e cot s benoise.

in this neighborhood, people live in studios one-bedroom apartments, andsro' henogeafrom the street. one man had to move his bed away from the kitchen. in the senior housing, they filed for the protestsbout one at wanted tomove in steps away from where they are. this is the center of activity at this intersection, where they have allowedfigh every we you heard e soof bush street side. that goes on from 11:30 until 2:30, or sometimes three inth moin it is no just bar turnout. it is massive crowds of people. the state senator askedhow a neorhon beso andoned by city hall. goo doomethi about it, but it is going to take time. we do not need to add any more.

vice chair joseph:thank you very much. >> here is a letter to your agency, asking for help. vice chair joseph: nicholas, grab it. ok. never mind. >> about another 50 signatures have been filed. >> i will just add to the pile. our land use chair as well as our sick the chair has reviewed the safety plan. we got it yesterday. he was not about to write a

letter. that is why maintained a neutl on thi i just gave you a picture. you have no oveea i it is not working. >> that is whyi ve it to ice chaijoseph: there it went. doubt it is working. --noitwoin at the e oereopldinot get e chance? i love the special treatment. vice cirjosest foryou, miae >> ilw bring this kind of stuff. my brother took a pictureof ' heve had the liquor license since november ive beeto the epresentates- doouve te seei vice chair joseph: mycreen is stad i got it. theeiboood, one tactic, and it grows to many tax. the olell is full. it has been remedbefore thi meetin

that is what i needa busin owner too,is respo co k neerst what their responsibilities are. i was tohearat there rede to eibooo co i was amazed nobody else had said it to them. they have been operating for two mont. you have to do walk buys, and everything else. we would also like to see the no loitering signs go up. it is part ofe securipl and they are not up yet. they need to be part of the conditions. and i guessemde that the need to keep clear the litter 50 feet from the door. hother inise en to have a bus stop in front of their business my concern is if they are having 100 customers how they are going

to deal with the bus stop. and the overflow capacity. vice chair joseph: thank you. any other public comment? >> hello, commissioners. i knoweverybody wan t et out of here. i was hired with garland mic to deal with outreach in the community -- i was hired with garland p.r.o deal with the community. the concerns about how to deal with crowd control outside yvie-- initially, when they file the application, they did not commit to a security compan wedv them to hire somebody that was more professional who could keep the linemovi flowg. the company knows how to do that. in additionif therear smokis or ings

of that issue, the happen to be on polk and pine. we are asking people to go to the corner if that becomes something else. we are keeping the sidewalks an streets fe there has been a long tradition of having music. we want to maintain that. theseeoplve stepp bac to engage with this community. you know the organizations they talked to. heave people whoook over their shoulders. they have watchdogs. they have to be good owners and peto, oryou will hear about it. there is a dynamite security plan. i just ask that you approve the project and welcome them to the community. vice chair joseph: thank you.

nyotherblic commen eenoneblic comment is closed. i have anotherestireally quickly. ade coent deal wioise. would you say that again? veeen woing with no. station. is atatre talki ab vice chair joseph: i justwanted you to rept atfor who left theoom ouaid that. they are working on it. iust wanttoow i no falling on deaf ears. i entertain a motion. i will get aotion and a second. mr. king? >> commissioners? vice chair joseph: next item on

theagen commissioners comments and questions. anybody? moving on new business or requests for future agenda item i move to adjourn.

commissioner miguel: debt afternoon. welcome to san francisco's planning commission regular meeting for thursday february 23 2020 published 2012. the commission does not tolerate any discussion or outbursts out of time, clapping, yelling, are cheering. please turn off any mobile devices during proceedings. when speaking, speak directly to the microphone and state your name for the record. at this time, i would like to call roll.