their medications. they can cause more car accidents, then people in the neighborhood is not safe. consider not to allow that drug in that neighborhood. we have plenty of hospitals, they can go to the hospital. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm bryan and ix i would like to address some of the fears that keep coming up in the opposition. first of all, i was kevin's neighbor for two and a half years, a year and a half, i had no clue that he was running an mcd, i was living right next door, he does run a clean-cut operation and very professional, safety in the neighborhood, he has cameras everywhere, if anything happens, if there is any crime going on, he will have it

recorded and there were several cases that happened while i was living there, thirdly, mcd's are not playground, kids aren't going to flock to these things, when done correctly, they are like a bar or a pharmacy when people don't think of walking their children into rite aid, so urge you to get this approved and get the ball rolling. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is lin tom, i would like to request that construction be denied. they don't have the permit to operate the cannabis marijuana in the facility and it would make sense for them to start construction when they have the permit to operate the

facilitate, i live right next door, i hear hammering even on saturdays and sundays, i'm resting in my building and they can start construction when they have their permit, that's my request. >> thank you, is there any other public comment. then we will move into rebuttal, starting with the appellant, mr. chow. >> board members, i really don't have much to add except that we understand the interior and the exterior that i do request that to wait until the

exterior comes out and combine it together to reschedule, i make the reschedule request, but mr. kevin read disagreed and the board decided to go through these hearings and whatever the outcome it is, i'm sure that once the exterior permit comes out, that the people of the neighborhood probably will make their right to act. so, i'm not quite sure if i want to continue on the arguments that is definite for the mcd themselves, so that's mine. >> thank you. >> good evening, board members, i guess i would like to extend

the olive branch to everybody who came out here tonight, you have many patients representing the green cross and you have many concerned members of the neighborhood, i assure you that mr. read has been diligently paying attention to all of the concerns expressed by folks would were opposed to the mcd in that neighborhood and i can assure you that mr. read will do everything in his power to demonstrate to the neighbors that all these will be taken care of, i want to address two issues, there's been contentions that there's been construction going on for which there is ant permit to allow for that construction, that's entirely unfounded. there was a complaint made to that fact that the building department my understanding has inspected that contention and determined it was completely unfounded so there is no construction going on outside of the necessary permits, but there was also various contentions about the smell of

smoke and various concerns about people not wanting their children or themselves to smell marijuana smoke. the green cross if it does get the permits will not allow ~&% iyfñn>oç,nxwhhr=site of tha facility at all, so i want to a ensure the neighbors in that community that there will be no smoking of marijuana at the green cross when it does ultimately own their doors. >> thank you. is there any other departmental comments? okay, commissioners, the matter is submitted. er >> i'm going to move to deny the appeal on the basis that there's been no supporting everyday on this permit for me to deem it unwarranted. >> i think we're ready for a vote. >> can you call the roll.

>> we have a motion from the president to deny the appeal and uphold this permit. i believe president hwang, you said on the basis that there was no supporting evidence related to this, the permit before the board. >> that's correct. >> on that motion to deny the appeal and uphold the permit on that basis, the vice-president is absent, commissioner hurtado? >> aye. >> commissioner lazarus? >> aye. >> thank you, the vote is 3-0, this permit is upheld on that basis. >> so, item number 8 has been continued to october 24th and there's no further business. >> 0

meeting in quite awhile. we are excited. first will be called to order and roll call. [roll-call]

>> we have a quorum. that takes care of it. >> time for public comment. this is the time to address seen commission who -- to address the commission. members of the public may address the public for up to three ministers -- who three minutes. if you wish to speak to something that is not on the agenda, this is the time to do it. >> i want to say i attended the summit yesterday of the entertainment commission. i think it was very successful.

the result of that meeting are going to bear fruit in the future. i was very encouraged. >> thank you. thank you to the staff that made it such a success. item number two, on review and approve the menace -- minutes of july 24. >> i approve. >> call the roll. [calling votes] >> one of the highlights of the evening, the reports of the executive director. >> i do not have a lot to report, because we did spend

time on the summit, and i want to update the commission on that. i felt it was i huge success as well. are you ok. >> the video on screen goes in and out. >> we had approximately 200 people, and many of us were the new owners of all different sizes, lots of security personnel as we witness, so that was great, so it was great to hear from managers and their expectations. hopefully they were not super board and got something good out of it as well. i hope anybody who did attend

found something valuable, and we will have some solid outcomes. we are thinking about what happened and who met humana -- whom, networking, having the ability of owners and operators who never get to go anywhere to meet other operators and talk to them and even to know who they are and to put a name to a face, so that happened, and we laughed a lot of time for that. i do plan another one next year. it takes awhile to get them together. we are not going to do it anytime soon, but it should be around this time next year. switching gears a little bit, the new position we achieved for

initial enforcement will likely be hired around mid october, possibly early november, and we are looking on an announcement, and as soon as i can get a process going, we will higher as soon as we can. that is the time frame. i will see if we can do something creative with the money, and lastly, the entertainment commission's annual party, which normally is in july, for a number of reasons got pushed forward, and now it is scheduled for september 18, and there will be a proper meeting. there will not be a lot on the

agenda at c. lounge -- key lounge. it was formerly known as an nie's. we will certainly be posting a proper agenda as well as invitations. the party is open and free to the public, and we encourage anyone at all to meet the commissioners and come and heartache, and it is usually a good time when -- to come and partake, and it is usually a good time. i think that is all i have to report.

>> commissioners. you will see in your binders' my report on some of the complaints we have been looking at. we have been looking at 1077 mission street. this has been brought to our attention before. we had interactions with people in control of the venue. they shut down for approximately three weeks and then reopen. we will be working on that particular issue. valencia's 16th street corridor, we have been increasing our presence there. i was there last weekend, and i am happy to report we are seeing not only an increase in the venues that are doing a better overall security, controlling the front of their venues. it was nice to walk around, and everyone was happy to report they are working through their

process. the venues have responded positively and are continuing to work in that area of. we have had a few incidents of violence in the last few weeks, and we are working on that particular issue. moving down the line, you will see two citations c'mo, and if o to the bottom, one incident that was not listed on your sheet for number six, we also had an incident of a fight this last weekend, and we are waiting for the report on about one as well as the report on atmosphere, so we are still waiting for a few reports from this last weekend, but broadway was pretty and is the common so i talked to officers that night, and also

to central station, and they said this was a particularly busy. any questions? no? >> i was wondering, do we know why it was a particularly busy weekend on broadway? >> i think summer. we have had some busy weekends, but we always see a lot more people on broadway. the area seems to be more active in august and july. >> i want to say on your report for the summit, and we did something that was so positive. it was not all about security. i was in the owners' management

group, and we talked about permit stocks. -- permits. we talked about creative content. we were lucky to have dimmed heaters talk about how you treat your patrons -- we were lucky to have jim peters talk about how you treat your patrons. the difference i think about this summit was that it had a lot more good information about how to be successful in your business, and i want to say thank you very much. you did a great job. >> these concealed weapons, these are strip clubs. is that stockton and broadway as well?

>> i am not sure of the cross street. >> are these in the venues? >> they were out in front of the venue. >> basically loitering around. >> they have ours, but they are not permitted by ross -- they have bars, but they are not permitted by us. >> i was there. we appreciate how they come together and cross fertilize ideas, so for you to be able to do that is wonderful. there was a breakout for open street entertainment and outdoor

entertainment. do you know what kinds of ideas came out of that? was there anything interesting? >> between all of them it was basically a breakout of outdoor events producers, and i know there were some challenges. i do not know if they came up with anything groundbreaking. >> i would sum it up like this. people are frustrated with the city putting on the events. they are frustrated with dealing with multiple departments, so we may have requirements, police, fire, etc., so i think from their perspective it can be frustrating to deal with the city. there are land use challenges with san francisco.

some is court, some is rec and park, a lot of different land owners, so from our perspective we get familiar with rules and it becomes second nature, so especially for an outdoor event it can be challenging, so there was a lot of frustration expressed and a general suggestion we have more carrots and sticks, but we have not thought of good terrorist -- good carrots. it is hard to save money. that was the main take away. >> i know our stuff is limited, but to the degree we can help streamline the process, it would be profitable. there were different land use issues.

i would be interested to craft together a one stop shop so you can get all the permits you need to know. >> that would be awesome. >> more outdoor events. >> on the owners and breakout session, most of the issue has been we do not want to be hitching -- bitching about things anymore, but i thought maybe next year we should have a table, one for social media, one for live musicians looking for gigs, and the other one for hospitality and also for tips. we can sign up people, so it is becoming for the industry, kind of like las vegas.

>> you can go to las vegas. 5 i understand what you are saying, and i certainly could think of how to do that. it is a little tough for agencies and city government to say yes, you can sign people up for this, and it is a profit- making business. it is a little difficult, but it does not mean we cannot do it. what we do is say, here is a table. it is open to anyone, and put your information down so there is quite a bit of information, an interesting tredrink app, whatever, and we can certainly work on that because we have a good year to plan. >> any further questions?

any public comment on the executive director and sound technicians report? no public comment? we will move to item 24 -- now on to item #4. >> i want to start by saying a lot of officers attended the summit. it was nice to be able to network and talk about problem- solving. it was very well organized, and we got a lot out of ipsit/ i am not going to go into a lot of things as far as what is going on. there was a lot of activity. we are happy are violence

reduction teams came and really assisted. there were fights all over the place. i am not going to go down a laundry list of all the different things. i am going to talk about one thing specifically, and that is jones, and i know we are coming off the summit. it is a feel-good thinning. i have gotten so many phone calls and e-mails regarding the venue from last week where they had a one-night entertainment permit, and i had one lady who was not happy, and she was definitely venting. she was furious because her whole neighborhood was completely disturbed, and one of the things i talk about was a onetime entertainment permit,

and i likened it to the fact -- the fact that you had any news, it was exceeded. i did get numerous females, and it's basically amounted to a rock concert, -- i did get numerous e-mails, and it basically amounted to a rock concert. i want staff to get an idea of what it looked like. i am not going to read verbatim all the different e-mails are received, but one of them was from a local hotel asking what

can we do. "the noise is getting ridiculous. it is getting difficult to run a hotel with all this racket going on. what exactly can be done about all this? i have to say when we have issues they can be receptive. there are things we tried to improve, but this was so over the top. they had another e-mailed. some people did not want their names to be given out. some people did not have a problem with eighit. this was a description. good where was a major noise disturbances do till -- there was a major noise disturbances.

my residence is crown towers. the music was at such an extremely high level i cannot hear my television at normal sound level. because the neighborhood has a kenyan-like sound context to to the high rise in -- a canyon- like sound context due to high rises, i notice my glasses and vibrating. i told the police this was not emanating from an apartment, but that it was like an open-air concert. i made another phone call to inquire about the status of the investigation. she had already received many phone calls regarding this disturbance. the music continued, and i

phoned the police yet again. i was asked if i was complaining about the noise disturbances. this meant they were receiving many other inquiries. i was informed it was under permit and would shut down at 9:00. it did not shut down at 9:00. the music could still be heard as late as 9:30. i was disturbed to learn that a permit had been given for a rock concert in a residential neighborhood. i asked for whom this was granted. i was told she did not have this information but i could forward the inquiry to an officer. they talk about how it was unacceptable, which i completely agree with. >> i am looking at the pictures, and one of the pictures says this is a private event and it is going to end at9