became the first african american to campaign for mayor of san francisco, running on a progressive platform of social justice and racial equality. the bar was a centerpiece of jordan's neighborhood community building activities and he reviedd in the upstairs unit for nearly 50 years. jordan was known locally as the mayor of butcher town, which was the historic name for the area immediately surrounding the bar. his efforts to establish a place of community and legacy within the bayview area continues for which he is known to this day. the bar continues to be operated by the jordan family, who are here today, who support the land mark designation. this concludes my presentation, if you have any questions. >> thank you. supervisor cohen? >> i think that's it. >> let's open this up for public comment. did you want to acknowledge the family

members? >> yes. >> let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> i went to the chase bank to give me a lollipop. >> sam jordan's bar, there's a new bar and it's gonna be a land mark, gonna give it a good big start, gonna have a big lolli pop heart. lollipop, oh, land mark, city landmark. and drink, drink, let the toasts start. drink, drink, to this landmark. drink, drink, drink and we're gonna have a great city landmark and drink, drink

and let the toasts start. we're gonna have a new city landmark. let every city make it and we've got lots of heart. >> next speaker. >> how you doing, my name is clyde, speaking on behalf of the family sam jordan's bar, 4004 third street. this has been a long effort, everybody has been involved in this. we really appreciate what you guys are doing and the efforts being brought forth for this institution because so many people have come through that door. recently i found out legendary mayor jordan used to come and tend bar, move all the bartenders out, it was such a social gathering place, any and everybody was welcome. today we still make those efforts,

feeding the homeless, picking up cards within the community, everybody is welcome there. everybody. we turn away nobody. if you come there you'll see we never turn away anybody. we really just pushing forward and hopefully this thing will come through and we can make the land mark status. i know sam jordan would be very proud, i mean just smiling in his grave to this day to know this legacy continues and we are still prosperous and keeping the efforts in the community alive, the activism, the charity work, the philanthropy, we would appreciate if you would put this through to the committee so we can have this thing done. thank you so much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> prior to sam jordan's being named what it is, it used to be a frank's restaurant. so sam

jordan was well known by the community, was a longshoreman, was a boxer, and as has been stated here, he ran as the first african american for mayor. so i worked for the presidio and i understand the department of interior's standards when it comes to a building. in this case i think the planning department and all of us who are listening and those who have come here to say something about this place is more what happens within the 4 walls of this building. so as has been stated, the compassion, feeding the poor, nobody's turned away, the other thing is that anybody who goes to this place gets large portions of the meals prepared,

well prepared. so sam jordan was well respected. he always encouraged people who wanted to do something because he had the backing, diane feinstein has been there, willy brown has been there, some -- i think sammy davis junior went there once. so it's not famous people haven't visited it and it's not that sam jordan was very well known. i think in this case it's what has been happening and how his spirit has been kept alive by serving the poor. that's what we need,

that's what we need in the bayview. we need people who are compassionate, people who do not forget their roots. people say they represent, if you represent and you know your people, especially the people who came from the south, i'm talking to the people at home, then your representatives should be those that represent the poor, much like phillip burton did, much like other good representatives did that you respect in city hall. so if sam jordan was here i think he would have said that his work was something for the community, that working for the community, that working for uplifting somebody, that would

bring joy to his heart. i think that's what he would have said and i am glad there are a few members, i don't know his family members personally but i do know that there is a woman now who feeds the poor and continues the legacy of sam jordan. sam jordan has left the best legacy in the bayview. thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors and san francisco, my name is ace and i'm here for other business but i just happened to see sam jordan's name here for the histostorial land mark in the valley. i had the honor and luxury of working there employing my company some years ago that i was able to employ people that were there for

security. that is a known spot for our security, the african american, black, negro, however you want to call us, been there for a number of years. there should be more people here, saying more things for the historical situation, i'm here to add my thoughts for this historical spot in san francisco. we need more spots like this. i'm here to support this becoming a historical spot in the southeast of san francisco. >> my name is randell evans and i'm a long time resident of san francisco and i also too support this without a doubt. i just want to bring it to everyone's attention that people forget real easy that san francisco is just one city. it's one city with one black community. when you talk about

things that's great like this and then you look at the whole significant things that are happening not for us as a people, we need to really revisit that. i know you guys are going to be talking about is soon. i just get scared and lonely when i hear our folks being mentioned toward historical things because it almost sounds like something that is gone and never to be again. our names on the ground up there in the fillmore and that's supposed to be historical, but it's on the ground. the point i'm making, i think we all as a people need to realize does not know significant black leadership in san francisco and it's time for us to really take a real deep look at what it is going to be for our children's children's children. thank you. >> is there any more for public comment on this item? okay, we'll close public

comment and just in closing i want to say again thank you to the sam jordan family, thank you for your kind words and your hard work. i also want to acknowledge the planning staff that helped make this designation possible, thank you very much. and, colleagues, i'd like to ask for your support on this item today. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor cohen. so, colleagues, can we pass this with a positive recommendation without objection? thank you. >> miss miller, please call item no. 5 or item no. 4. >> item no. 4 is an ordinance designating twin peaks tavern as 401 castro street as a land mark. >> sponsor scott wiener. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. today before us is an ordinance to landmark the twin peaks tavern at 401 castro

street right at the corner of castro and market. twin peaks is truly one of the gems of the castro and of the san francisco lgbt community and has been since it opened 40 years ago in 1972. and perhaps most unique about twin peaks is that it was the very first gay bar with large visible windows so that anyone walking by would see who was inside. until then and in a lot of areas of the world we still have this, you have gay bars with windows that are hidden so people can sneak in because they are not comfortable or even safe doing so. so twin peaks was a trail blazer in that respect. the bar symbolizes the lgbt community's

coming out in san francisco, that our community would no longer be in the shadows and we see since then the great strides we have made as an lgbt community and around the world. i will say on a personal note i recall the very first time i came to the castro, which was in 1993 as a 23-year-old gay man and coming out of castro station and the very first thing i saw was twin peaks, even before i saw the castro theater marquis. so it has personal significance as well. twin peaks also is a bar that caters to a real diversity of ages. we have a challenge sometimes in the lgbt community where young people particularly in bars and cultural representations, there's a real dominance of young people and conceptions of beauty and

sometimes older lgbt people can feel marginalized. twin peaks right at castro market helps reverse that marginalization because it is working with all people, young and old. the planning department, i want to thank staff, particularly mr. barett, who is here, for doing good outreach around this proposed landmarking and for meeting with the property owners and the bar owners, both of -- all of whom support the landmarking and i will say that i was at the 40th birthday party for twin peaks and the owners of the bar actually came up it me to thank us all for doing this. so with that said, mr. chairman, if there are no other remarks, mr. barett from planning can give us an update. >> good afternoon, supervisors

moses barett, planning department. the hpc program looks not only for significance but also underrepresented property types. oral history interviews with several patrons with long associations with the twin peaks were conducted by planning staff. this forms the basis for the research and documentation of the history and importance of the resource. both on the september 19th twebt 12 and the october 17th recommendation hearings, the historic preservation commission voted unanimously

for historic preservation, both the exterior and the interior of the bar based on its significance. the bar first opened in 1975. the bar was opened in 1972 by two lesbians as a fern bar. the twin peaks tavern, housed in an intact 20th century building, the bar retains its expansive windows and other character-defining windows and continues to serve the lgbt community. only two other (inaudible) have been designated based for their association with lgbt history. planning staff has met with

both the owners of the building and the owners of the business and reviewed the process for permanent review and explained the benefits and responsibilities associated with local land mark designation. as supervisor wiener said, both the owners of the property and the bar support this designation. >> is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> i was just talking to somebody about this bar. tom woodell used to go to this bar quite a bit, that's what they told me. yes, we need this land mark, yes, you know it's true. one thing i can say about this bar, no, it's not very new. hold this bar, love it, hold it and we need it, yes, we need it, eight days

twin peaks a week. eight days a week. we need to land mark twin peaks. >> thank you, next speaker. if there's anyone else that would like to speak, please line up along the side of the room. >> my name is douglas yapp and i've lived in san francisco for 60 years. i'm not taking an official position on this ordinance but i would like to take this opportunity to question whether the gay community in supporting this ordinance has even discussed the subject of a dead gay man who died in 1999. i think the time used for this discussion on this ordinance would have been better used to find out why this gay man, who was a city employee at san francisco general hospital, and he worked side by side with me, why the city has actively in my opinion

blunted any inquiry into his death. and i would urge that the owners of this bar do the public service by asking why any supervisor for this district so far has refuetzd to step forward and ask what happened to joseph malison, why was this gay man in my opinion bullied and forced to die a gruesome death while a city employee. it's been 13 years and some people i know down in new orleans said that there's such a thing as a curse and maybe the curse of joe might be one of the reasons why the gay community has not been flourishing during the last 13 years. thank you. >> next speaker, is there anyone else who would like to speak? seeing none, public

comment is closed. colleagues, can we move this forward without objection? >> item 5 is an ordinance amending the health code to prohibit smoking at certain outdoor events. >> thank you, colleagues, i am the sponsor of this item. i am urging your support for this legislation that would make our outdoor fairs and events on city property smoke free. san francisco is a mecca for exciting diverse free street events and festivals from the cherry blossom festival to carnival and the haight street festival to the fillmore jazz festival. our city offers an amazing array of opportunities for city residents and tourists to enjoy themselves on public streets but though they are open to everyone, including youth and families, in 2010 there were about 350 different street events in san francisco but this effort is to try to

create more smoke free environments at these festivals. many of you already know that exposure to secondhand smoke kills over 73,000 non-smokers each year in the u.s., so it's definitely second hand smoke is a toxic substance that leads to death of many non-smokers in the u.s. and at outdoor events it may exacerbate people's health issues, especially if you have asthma or other respiratory ailments and especially harmful for youth and elderly as well as individuals with these types of illnesses. according to the u.s. surgeon general, there's no safe level of exposure to second hand smoke and it's a cancer (inaudible) as well. outdoors second hand smoke that reach the same levels as indoughs so it's really not safe. for many months breathe

california , as an institution working to create this ordinance that would require that a no smoking sign be posted on all street events, that several announcements be made to indicate that events are smoke free and that all promotional materials and advertising materials in events include information that the event is smoke free and in case of a violation, the director of transportation and iscad, which is kind of our coordinating agency in the city, will consider any prior violations of this ordinance on all permit applications for outdoor events requiring their review and approval. this proposed ordinance is endorsed by quite a few community organizations including the san francisco asthma task force, the tobacco free coalition, the african american tobacco control leadership council, philipino american leadership council, freedom from tobacco, girls

afterschool academy and sunset russian tobacco education project and many more. i also will be introducing a couple minor amendments that i will mention kind of towards the end, but i wanted to say that we're not going to have a formal presentation but i wanted to thank karen nikovoli and rosalee from breathe california for their great work in crafting this legislation and working with many event coordinators as well. miss labasee and miss shanban are here as well. let's open this up for public comment. i know we have a number of speaks from breathe california and other organizations as well. if you would like to speak, please come forward. is karen

nikoboli in the audience? if anyone else would like to speak, please line up on the side of the room if you can. >> good afternoon, my name is ernestine weiss and first of all, eric, i want to congratulate you on this legislation. it is so needed i cannot tell you enough. it is incredible that we have to be exposed to smoke that leads to cancer. you walk along the sidewalk and people puff right into your face. it's awful. you really have to walk with a mask on it's so prefl leapt. i yell at all these young people with cigarettes in their hands, throw it away, it's poison. some thank me and some look at me askapbs like what do i know. my father and brother died from this, unnecessarily, my father at 41 and i was only 6

years old and i never forgot it because it deprived me of his love and caring all my life. and my brother luckily lived to be 72 because he quit at one time and then he went back and all of a sudden he had a headache, they found that he had brain cancer and it started in his lungs. so it was from all the accumulation of those years that he did smoke, so stopping doesn't guarantee that you will be free of disease. so please do everything you can to stop smoking everywhere in this city, not just at events, everywhere. i can't say it enough. it kills more people than automobiles, than any other illness listed. thank you. >> thank you, miss nikobali, thank you for 144 years of breathe california. >> thank you very much, my name is karen nicoboli, i'm

with breathe california and this is my 20 years. this legislation is indicative of your efforts from concerned board members that has historical significance as well. i urge you to support this legislation. it's a win-win for the city. there's no financial burden. we expect this to be a self-enforcing legislation like other legislation that the board has passed in the past so that people will become familiar with the fact there's, coming to san francisco events is smoke free and they'll know what to expect and also gives people who are smokers so that they are also empowered to take public health into their hands. i want to thank you very much, supervisor mar, you are a great

non-smoking champion and i want to thank you for supporting this legislation. thank you this legislation. thank you very much (brief pause in captioning).