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>> good morning, supervisors, [inaudible] i think president chu has covered all the points except for one item that i want to cover as part of our due diligence for outreach, and this is nick bovis, the proprietor of the business, we did have an ongoing dialog with the upstairs commercial tenants would was complaining about the possibility of a noise leak from the entertainment from the gold dust lounge, the gold dust lounge at fisherman's bhar f has not commenced build o*ut yet and when it does, there are plans in place to do significant soundproofing and as you well known, an entertainment permit cannot be fully granted until the inspection is given from the
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city, so all the safeguards in place, we've done significant outreach to this particular tenant upstairs and another tenant e-mailed me back and said everything was fine as far as he was concerned so that's about it, this is nick bovis. >> i wanted to thank everybody for your support and help and the cause from [inaudible] downtown to try to stop all the retailers in making san francisco the same, we appreciate all the help and support and i know everybody tried really hard and the next best thing is to move it and we appreciate your support. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, any members of the public wish to comment on the item? seeing none, public -- >> could you pass these in, one for the clerk. my name is michael nulty and
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i'm the executive director of alliance for better district 6, we are a coalition member of the tenant's association coalition which has written a letter of support for the type 48 liquor license at 165 jefferson, the gold dust lounge at fisherman's wharf, we believe the tenant's association coalition supports gold dust lounge at fisherman's what f, requests for resolution for public convenience or necessity. the representatives that had come to one of our meetings and told them about their proposed plan and so we are quite aware of that, we're also very sympathetic about the [inaudible] of specific businesses, there aren't that many left, they're mostly large
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retailers and we like to see small businesses thrive in our downtown area to clean the business corridors, and so it's very important to see that businesses stay, particularly small businesses because they provide more to the economy than these large corporations like cvs, thank you. >> any other members of the public wish to comment? come on up. >> pardon me for being late, there was a two hour commute from nevado, my name is antoine, i'm one of the owners of 165 jefferson, in 1934, my father bought the property and it's still in the family, although scattered amongst children and grandchildren, in 1934, my father bought the property put his hardware store in it in 1968, the [inaudible]
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restaurant burnt down and took my father's hardware store with it, they built two structures, ours was mostly shops, theirs, they had a restaurant and a bar downstairs and offices upstairs. thereafter, this being his, they closed the restaurant downstairs, but they leased upstairs to a bar called the silhouettes, so the premises next to joining us at 155 jefferson has had a liquor license on the first floor and a restaurant and then they had a stand alone restaurant upstairs, the trade upstairs was people that used to work in the area and of course with respect to the situation now, the premises are to be leased
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hopefully to the gdl, gold dust lounge to put a bar just next door so the area is not stranger to a bar in that place and i would consider it that the resolution should pass and that the bar be allowed to continue or to be placed there at 165 jefferson street. >> okay, thank you very much. any other members of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> supervisor olague. >> i wanted to tlang the bovis's for hanging in there and finding a new location and relocating, i think it's to the issue that came up around the gold dust lounge that i think we still need to discuss here as a city, the issue of the c-3 being exempt from any kind of conditional use when it comes to formula retail, i know it has to do with cost of rent and there are a lot of issues,
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perhaps a conversation with boma, but that is one of the few areas of the city where conditional uses where formula retail is allowed as of right, i think, not the only area but one of the few. also we came to the realization that landmark a building only preserves the exterior it doesn't preserve the culture, so i think that we still have that -- we're still in the midst of those conversations about creating cultural heritage districts throughout the city, we're more interested in what's in the building rather than just the building itself, so that's one of the challenges that i think we were struggling with when it came to pursuing the landmark indefinitely and to what end, you know, so anyway, those are -- i just want to thank you again for hanging in there and hopefully we'll be at the opening of the gold dust lounge
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there in fisherman's wharf, so i would like to move this to committee -- move this out of committee. >> president chu? >> this is not a formula retail establishment, this is a one of a kind establishment and i certainly think there are element tos the gold dust lounge which are historic, that being said, given the rules that we have, it wasn't deemed such and needed to move, but i do hope and believe that this is an establishment that will soon become a neighborhood favorite and from my perspective, i think it's important for the fisherman's wharf community that only sees tourist community tho have a handful of places where local residence and is people can go, and this is in part why i support this move, so with that, i appreciate supervisor olague's support and hope the committee will be able to move this in regard with
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recommendation. >> mr. clerk, we'll take supervisor olague's motion to move this in regard. can you please read this. >> hearing to consider that the transfer of a type 48 on-sale general public premises license from 247 pow we will street to a 165 jefferson street. >> good morning, president chu and supervisors, my name is rich, i'm a police inspector with the san francisco police department, the applicant has filed an application with the beverage control [inaudible] for 1201 minnesota street located on the south corner on 23rd street, it is an online order company and is not open to the public, this company has moved to 1201 minnesota street
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at their previous location of jarrold avenue. [inaudible] as far as police calls for services, there's been no reported police calls for service from july 2011 to july 2012, no regard of police reports from the same type period of july 2011 to 2012, this premise located in plot 314, the high crime area defined at 300 or more [inaudible] this has 109 reported incidents recorded from the year 2010, this is under the high crime area definition by 106 incidents. the applicant premises is not located in a high crime area. the premises is located in census track 226, population for this track is 1534, active
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off-sale licenses are 4, applicant premise is located in an undue concentration area, there are no record of protests with with the california department of alcohol beverage control and there are no records of support with the california department of alcohol beverage control. there's no opposition from bay view station, the police department recommends approval, the following conditions have been recommended to the california department of beverage control, number 1, sales of alcoholic beverages shall be permitted between the hours of 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. monday through friday, the petitioner that be responsible from maintaining free of litter adjacent to the premises as to where they have control, number 3, sales of alcoholic beverages
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shall be restricted to alcoholic beverages that are included in a gift basket, number 4, graffiti has be removed from the premises within 72 hours of application. if the graffiti occurs on a friday or weekend day or on a holiday, the licensee shall remove the graffiti within 72 hours following the beginning of the next work day, number 5, loiter, loitering is defined as to stand without lawful business, it is prohibited on any sidewalks or properties adjacent to the license premise, number 6, there shall be no exterior advertising or any sign or type including advertising directed to the exterior from within, promoting or indicating the availability of alcoholic beverages, interior displays of alcoholic b*efrnl beverages or signs shall constitute a violation of
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this condition and number 7, no retail sales of alcoholic beverages to consumers shall be permitted at this location, all sales of alcoholic beverages should be made via carrier to the customer off-site. thank you. >> is the project sponsor here? no? any members of the public that would like to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i'd like to move it. >> move it forward with recommendation, mr. clerk, that will be the order. can you please read item number 5. >> item number 5, hearing to consider the issuance of a type 64 special on-sale general theatre liquor license to jason seifer for the american conservatory. >> the applicant has put in an application with the department of alcoholic beverage alcohol
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seeking an alcoholic beverage license type 64, this is an on-sale general, from the location of 1115-1117 street, for the purposes of this hear, the california department of beverage control seeks a determination pr the board of supervisors as to the approval or denial of this license. from the time period july 2011 through july 2012, there were reportedly 72 police calls for service, in that same time period, there was only one police report. this premise is located in plot 208, the high crime area is defined as 215 or more reported incidents, this mot had 2183 incidents recorded for the
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calendar year 2010, this is over the high crime area definition by 1968 incidents. the applicant premise is located in a high crime area. the premise is located in census track 176.01, population for this practice is 7630, active on-sale licenses are 75. off-sale license authorized by census track is 7, active off-sale is 10, active premise is located in an undue concentration area, as far as letters of protest, there are no records of protest with the california department of alcoholic beverage and there is also no record of support with the california alcoholic beverage control. no opposition from southern police station, the police department does recommend approval, the following conditions have been recommended to the kol foreign
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ya department of alcoholic beverage control, number one, sales, service and consumption of alcoholic b*efrnls shall be premed only between 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. sunday through thursday and 4 p.m. and mid night friday and saturday evenings. number two, the sale in serving of alcoholic beverages shall be limited to ticket holders only during and two hours prior to a bonafide theatre performance of the theatre company, the bonafide theatre performance is defined that the licensee must [inaudible] other performers for the purpose of putting on performances, number 3, sales, s*frs and consumption of alcoholic beverages should be made from stationery bar, reportable bars and waiter/waitresses service and shall not be sold, served or delivered to customers by individual ambulatory vendors, number 4, the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption off the premises is strictly
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prohibited, alcoholic beverages should be served in containers clearly distinguishable from non-alcoholic beverage containers, number 6, the sale of alcoholic beverages shall be limited to two or more than -- excuse me, shall be limited to no more than two beverages per person per sale, number 7, the petitioner shall post signs measuring no less than 2 by 2 inches with no lettering of two inches that height that read "no alcoholic benches beyond this point" at all permitted entrances, stair we wills and entrances to the theatre seating area as depicted on the abc form, an employee or security guard shall be ensured the possibility of ensuring all alcoholic benches be within the permitted area when they are being exercised, number 9, at any time, the licensee utilizes a third party promoter, the
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licensee shall retain staffing of the business and shall approve all marketing, loitering is to stand idly about without lawful business is prohibited on any sidewalks or property adjacent to the license premises under the control of the licensee as depicted on abc form 257, number 11, the petitioner shall be responsible for maintaining free of litter the area adjacent to the premises over which they have control, and the exterior of the premises..[reading].. be made discernable the appearance and conduct of all persons on or about the premises. >> is the project sponsor available for any comments? >> good morning, my name is jais sore seifer, i'm the
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director to have finance at act, so we've been at this location for ten years already, it's where we produce our costumes for all of our productions, about a year ago, we made a performance space with the black box theatre, we think it's beneficial for the neighborhood to continue to activate the neighborhood especially in the evening, we purchased the [inaudible] on that same block, we're hoping to renovate it and turn it into a 199 seat theatre, to activate that particular block, so i'm basically here if you have any questions about this particular liquor license, obviously it's pretty restricted and we always have a security guard at the site and, yeah, if there's any particular questions you have, i'd be happy to answer them. >> you agree with all the recommendations? >> yes, not a problem. >> any other members of the public wish to comment on this item? >> my name is michael nulty,
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i'm the executive director of district 6, our land use committee did send in a letter of support to the project sponsor, i guess abc did not get it but we do support the license and we believe that having this venue will serve the convenience and necessity of san francisco, and will obviously benefit the market street corridor and will make everybody happy and maybe party some. thank you. >> thank you. >> any other members of the public who would wish to testify, please line up. >> good morning, supervisors, i would like to speak in support of this idea, i'm familiar with the strand theatre when i was a little kid and i think act is going to show a lot better productions than the strand used to, so i think having a
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legitimate business in this area is going to try to uplift it eventually. now, like supervisor chu and a couple of previous speakers had mentioned, today's program so to speak had all liquor licenses, i thought that was kind of interesting considering that this is supposed to be city operations and neighborhood services, i'd like to make two suggestions as reported in the examiner, first one is titled fraud hot line for elections and the second one is cancer rate for female firefighters in san francisco, and my last comment, protect the four supervisors, thank you. >> any other members of the public wish to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we send this item forward with recommendation? that will be the order. mr. clerk, any other items in front of the committee. >> there are no more items, mr. chair. >> then with that, we are
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adjourned.
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>> welcome to culture wire. we will look at the latest and greatest public art project. recently, the airport unveiled the new state of the art terminal. let's take a look.
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the new terminal service and american airlines and virgin america was designed by a world- renowned architecture's firm. originally built in 1954, the building underwent massive renovation to become the first registered terminal and one of the must modern and sustainable terminals and the united states. the public art program continues its 30-year legacy of integrating art into the airport environment with the addition of five new commissions that are as bold and dynamic as the new building. >> this project was completed in record time, and we were able to integrate the artist's early enough in the process that they could work with the architect said that the work that is completed is the work that really helps complement and
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instill the space as opposed to being tucked away in a corner. >> be experience begins with the glass facades that was designed with over 120 laminated glass panels. it captures the experience of being under or over clouds when flying in a plane. depending on the distance or point of view, it can appear clear for more abstract and atmospheric. the subtle colors change gradually depending on the light and the time of day. >> i wanted to create an art work that looks over time as well as working on in the first glance. the first time you come here, you may not see a. but you may be able to see one side over the other. it features a couple of
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suspended sculptures. each was created out of a series of flat plains run parallel to each other and constructed of steel tubing. >> it is made up of these strata. as the light starts to shift, there is a real sense that there is a dynamism. >> it gives the illusion that this cultures might be fragments of a larger, mysterious mass. >> the environmental artwork livens it with color, light, and the movement. three large woven soldiers are suspended. these are activated by custom air flow program. >> i channeled air flow into
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each of these forms that makes it move ever so slightly. and it is beating like a heart. if-0 when as of the forces of nature moving around us every second. >> shadow patterns reflect the shapes of the hanging sculptures. the new terminal also features a children's play areas. both of the market the exploratory n.y. -- exploratorium. the offer travelers of all ages a playful oasis. using high quality plywood, they created henches shaped like a bird wings that double as musical instruments. serving as a backdrop is a mural featuring images of local birds
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and san francisco's famous skyline. >> in the line between that is so natural, you can see birds and be in complete wilderness. i really like that about this. you could maybe get a little snapshot of what they are expecting. >> it is an interactive, keck sculpture that is interacted with by the visitor. >> they are a lot about and they fall down the belt. it moves the belt up, and if you turn that faster, the butterflies fall in the move of words. >> the art reflect the commission's commitment to acquiring the best work from the
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bay area and beyond. in addition to the five new commissions, 20 artworks that were already in the airport collection were reinstalled. some of which were historically cited in the terminal. it includes major sculptures by the international artists. as a collection, these art works tell the story of the vibrant arts scene in the early 1960's through the mid-1980s's. the illustrate san francisco's cultural center and a place of innovation that is recognized and the love throughout the world. one of the highlights is a series of three left tapestries. they are on view after being in storage for 20 years. these tapestries representing various gardens. from his years of living in san francisco.
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hydrangeas, chrysanthemums, and whilst dahlias in rich, deep shades as they make their way to the baggage area. they can access behind-the- scenes information and interviews with the artist through an audio to work. it features archival audio as well as interviews with living artists. he can be accessed on site by dialing the telephone numbers located near the artwork or by visiting the commission's web site. the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culture. for more information, visit