something that every other owner's wanted to do. part of the reason the corner is safe is because these guys don't make the dark corner accessible for [inaudible] and the police know about this. they rely on these guys cob substantiately to make sure the neighborhood is comfortable. there are no bars once the bar closes down -- there will be no bars on this street between hyde and jones and gearr and south /erpbl. i want to make sure you take the concerns of people who live in the neighborhood because of what it offers at least in as high regard as those who live in the neighborhood despite. this is what makes this neighborhood

special to all of us who live here and a lot more. so keep that in mind, thank you very much. >> /tpha*pbg thank you. next speaker. >> my name is rick, i've lived across the street at 775 post street since 1988, well before the cafe royal. i'd like to second everything that the speakers before me just said. i'm a local musician and they are correct, some of the best musicians in this city have performed here. it holds maybe 50 people. it is a cornerstone of our neighborhood. a transplant of sweden told me that when he came to cafe royal

i felt safe and that sums it up as how i feel about this. i would suggest that everybody catch a show of any kind here. it's a place you can bring your family, parents, grand parents and they will have a good time. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name's les, i used to be an owner of the cafe royal. i just want to point out that people at the cafe -- it's a community. my theme is the cafe is a community. people don't just meet at the cafe. they do things outside of the cafe together because they have gone from being individual people who happen to live in

the neighborhood to being out in the community together. they go to monthly dining club together, they go on trips to wine country together -- all kind of things -- because the cafe has transformed people from individuals into part of a community and i think that's very good for a healthy city. you've heard about the arts, et cetera some of the people who have performed there together are also teachers in the schools and they have brought their students to play for friends and family. you can see these kids glow with that opportunity. again, community. this is a part of community. i bought cafe in 2006 -- let me tell you one story. there was

a night, all of a sudden policemen with guns drawn were swarming outside the cafe, one of the customers noticed the fugitive hiding under a car and drew the police's attention and they arrested the fugitive. i think these guys deserve to be awarded with approval. >> i'm a resident and property manage of the community. i've actively worked with /tkp*rb the general consensus is that

it's a good thing for the neighborhood. i reside in 500 hyde street right across the street from the night cap that has a liquor license and i frequent the cafe royal regardless. i travel two blocks to go there due to the atmosphere and the people and everything it has to offer. i'll keep it short. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is tracy. i will keep it short because most of what i believe has already been said. i know there's been concerns raised that sudden these guys are going to turn this bar into a nightclub or something like that. i've lived in this city for seven years and i never felt like i had a community before. i moved to this neighborhood and now i have a community. i know

everyone that i walk past on the street and i know them because of this bar. that really shows the support of the neighborhood and it shows the dedication that the owners have to their customers. there's just no reason to believe they it would change it and i think it speaks to how dedicated the community is that this many people shows up, but the opposers are not. i want to highlight how incredible this place is and how it's changed my view on how san francisco is a place you can have a community. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is [inaudible] and it was actually the first establishment i walked into upon moving into the

neighborhood. i'm from a small town and royal actually offered me a sense of a small town within a huge city. i feel absolutely safe walking home late at night. i work and go to school in /tkpoupb downtown and knowing that their vast windows within their venue offers such a great sense of protection for me personally. also i want to say that it's probably the best -- i hate saying bar -- it's probably the best venue i've been to in san francisco. >> thank you. >> i am also a resident. i can see cafe royal from my front door. i want to second everything that's been said today, but i want to speak to the concern over crime and this

being high crime area. it's true. we have crime in our neighborhood, but i am of the belief that having a mixture of businesses open during the daytime and night time hour brings safety to the neighborhood. there are no other businesses open as late as cafe royal. i think there is benefit to having a business open at a later hour. it provides safety. as a woman that is something i think about. thank you for your time and consideration. >> i'm an active member of the theater arts here in san francisco. i want to speak a few words in favor of cafe royal. i've been a patron and neighbor of the cafe royal for a decade now and ever since

[inaudible] expanded its impact past the visual arts community by providing ago small use as you will area in their bar. [inaudible] new work. while the city cuts grant funding for independent artists to provide new work, the royal [inaudible] /aud /kwrepbls members but also to the artists. they're not only community oriented, but they do this all response ibly to make sure all noises are done by 10:00 pm.

>> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, my name's christy. i've gotten to know the owners over the years and i've known them ever since they started this whole venture. these guys are great guys. as far as the complaint about the noise in the area. let's be honest, it's not a quiet part of town. cafe royal is providing a community to the people who live in that area so that they don't have to walk three or four blocks down the street in a sketchy part of town depending on the night and direction they go. and they can walk half a block together have a communality community and friends to see. the liquor

license will bring in more people from union square and these guys won't let it get rowdy. they're not like that. i wish i had more to say, but i truly support them and i'm so proud of how far they've come in the last year. they've changed so much and they've really done a great job and they're constantly learning and wanting to make this place a better place for the community. thanks. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> thank you for your time. i'd like to voice my support for the folks at cafe royal. my father was an artist so with other establishments

supporting arts and humanities is what makes san francisco san francisco. this is something we need to embrace in our town. i'm a local small business owner and the way they support other local small businesses is something that makes this city unique, diverse and what makes me want to live here. so for these reasons and the other reasons that the previous speakers have said i voice my support for them and their 48 license. thank you. >> thank you. >> my name's peter. i have lived on the 800 block of post street for the past eight years. i've been going to cafe royal since i moved in. i can say everyone that works at my work place would like to see these guys succeed. i think that a liquor license would be something that would be very beneficial for them. there is

a lack in the area of night life and has been said before, it's something that's much needed as far as safety, security and just general well being of the neighborhood. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> morning. my name is [inaudible] i'm the owner of a business around cafe royal, i'm a part-time resident near cafe royal. i had a whole speech prepared, but there's something that hasn't been said. on thanksgiving cafe always throws a party for people who has no family. somebody asked why are you supporting cafe royal and i

said if you watched cheers, that's my cheers. you have many people that go everyday and they don't go there to get drunk, they don't go to get rowdy, but they go there to find friends and family. i'm here to voice my support. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good morning. i'm lil may and i have been doing a popup barbecue for the past two years. it's a sophisticated place [inaudible] showcase their ability to an audience that ranges from 25 to 75 years. not only is this a

staple to the community, it is also an inviting place where grandmas come and feel safe while watching live shows directed by the great san francisco talented san francisco theater. this is a bar that improves the environment and gives san francisco citizens a first chance to stardom. it is a gem in the community, and a tourist attraction for the city of is san francisco that show cases phenomenal talent. our community respectfully asks that you willingly grant their request because they deserve it. they should be rewarded

for such an outstanding service and heart throb entertainment that they provide to the knob hill community. thank you. >> thank you. good morning, my name is nick palm and i run a monthly stand up comedy showcase at cafe royal. this has become one of the favorite places for the community to come and watch live comedy for free. being a san francisco native, i was born and raised here, i've worked in the bar and /r*s /raupblt industry for the past seven years, i can say for the character of these four gentlemen, i've never worked for more responsible and energetic group of people than these guys right here.

>> i live in knob hill. i'm an attorney so i think everybody probably knows i've done a lot of attendance at bars over the course of my life. i learned to do any drinking in chicago and boston and one of the things you find in cities like that that you don't find in san francisco is the quintessential neighborhood bar and one thing that's always impressed me about this place is that it has that quality. i think you've heard that today. the people that walk in the door, they know the guys behind the bar, they say hello, ask about their families. it's not a place where a bunch of people that don't know each other drink. it's a community bar, it's part of that community and i think you've heard it here today the impact they're having and i think that's something that's missing in san francisco as it become more an more wealthy

upscale type of city. that place of community is lost and places like this are important to support. . >> thank you. >> my name is chris, i'm the property manager of 930 post street and i'm also the [inaudible] i'm gonna speak on behalf of my job. i work with at risk youth and families and we do therapeutic services. cafe royal has offered their services to come help with the kids and families and would like to help raise money to help the kids, et cetera they allow the kids and families to

come in and get educated on different arts and music. >> next speaker. >> i'm a small business owner here in san francisco and these gentlemen here at cafe royal actually gave us the platform to start our business. we serve sushi there every tuesday and really just gave us that opportunity to start. we've grown our business to two other different popups that we do now.

>> the owners came and made a presentation, which is very good. i have been in that cafe. it is a community center and it's /skaoeupbld kind of like almost a self organizing community. and i think there might be some people that are frightened by organic communities that come together and i think that that might be

possibly they look -- they don't really look at the individual community and the people that commit crimes are not members of communities. i just want to say we support their desire to have the license because they are going to need the resources to continue. i belonged years ago to one of those self organized communities called the blue unicorn coffee house on hays and it was a life changer for me and it was the same kind of thing. they didn't serve beer and wine, but they were a

wonderful place to listen to the poetry readings. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> can i have the overhead? >> sfgtv overhead. >> my name is [inaudible] and we're only here for one reason and that's for type 48. we're not here for all the possible other concerns that people want to bring up. this is a posting, i did a site visit, take a picture of the actual posting of the requesting alcohol license -- the type 48. and they did their community outreach which is one of the things that the committee has always asked the community to

do. as the reck recommendation right now is a denial and i would like to see a continuance so abc could

come back so they could get their permit today or a future meeting. >> thank you. >> is there any other member of the public who has not spoken who'd like to speak? if you do want to come up, /phraoelz line up. please line up. >> i'm the attorney for cafe royal. we are always open to discuss conditions with alu and the abc and i'm sure we'll be going through that process. we're quite familiar with the standard conditions alu has proposed and we've gone over those with the owners and we're prepared to cover those in our abc license. they volunteer to end their entertainment at 11:00 pm out of respect for the residents that reside in the

same business and will continue to do that as part of their ongoing business. >> public comment is closed. >> one of the last speakers asked for continuance on this. i generally might consider a continuance, however, i have think we could -- because of all the support that came out and i could see there was community outreach and just looking at cafe royal's we believe site i could see the building's very full and [inaudible] and that you do have a menu there. so for me,

if we were to continue this, to put conditions on here, that would necessitate probably another session where we have all these people come out again. and i don't feel like i need to hear it again and waste everybody's time on this. so i'd like to suggest that through the district supervisor that you work out before it comes to the full board some conditions that people could live with and that [inaudible] upon so that we could -- i could personally feel like i could stand up and support the

overturning the decision by abc or -- what is it -- the recommendation. so i'd like to take it out of committee with no recommendation at this point and with the caveat that the district supervisor will work with cafe royal to see what kind of additions are necessary to get this license 48. >> thank you. so we have a motion to move this item out of committee, to move this forward for a vote at the full board of supervisor without a recommendation. let me just make a couple of points. first of all, i want to thank all of you who have taken time out of your schedules to come to city hall and any time that a resident of any neighborhood

comes down here to speak about a license application it tells you that they feel passionate and it's a testimony to the level of engagement they have with the establishment. we don't take the concerns lightly. we have to consider the public safety and other implications, but i believe that the record here is a pretty clear in terms of where i think the city should go and i'm disappointed that the alu has /phot not come to this body with a set of recommendations that would allow for us to move this license forward. i think that what should have happened is that they should have been a discussion about how do we approve this license and

address the concerns that have been raised through conditions. it's something we do all the time in this committee. we continue to say that the one thing we want from any license application is community outreach. what i have seen here is probably the best community outreach that i've seen since we've been having these hearings. i personally would be ready to support granting the license today, but given that we don't have the conditions right now, and i know that the district supervisor wants to be a part of that discussion, i think supervisor yee's recommendation makes sense so we can vote it at the board of supervisor. and my hope would be that between now and the time it gets to the full board, that there will be an opportunity for the police department, the

applicant and the district supervisor to work out a set of conditions that makes sense. and i haven't been to cafe royal, but i certainly plan to be there. so with that, if we can take that motion without objection. thank you very much. and colleagues, i'd like to move on to item number 3. i know that a number of people have to leave so if we can take item number three out of order. >> thank you mr. chair. also quick correction. the items acted upon today will appear on the june 4 meeting. item number 3 is an [inaudible] that includes all families, /eupbl colluding same sex couples. >> thank you very much. i know that there