the project sponsors and the potash family are honest people who are committed to providing resource for local families that help to enrich and strengthen the fabric of our shared community and i ask you on behalf of my own city and approve this project. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> hilly bloom and i am a happy parent, my second child is currently enrolled and my daughter started five years ago. this school has not only offered us a good sperps but the true community but the people touched on this school and how important it is and what a valuable resource it is because it provides us with a space that we can walk to and we live in the vernal heights and it is just down the heights from us. i know the families in the mission and all of the thriving

area that really take advantage of the school because it is essentially located. and provides us with the real opportunity to walk as well. and also a teacher, and i want to talk about the value of the teaching staff thatvy been impressed with the teachers and my children have come out really happy and provided us with the opportunity to stay in the city and we did not have many options in the neighborhood. and the third piece is the school really touches on the jewish values that are so important to me and my family. and we don't have other options in the southern part of the city for jewish preschools and so it would be a real shame and tragic if the school was not able to operate there and so i encourage you to please pass this permit through. >> thank you so much. >> i will call a few more names. >> ran dal zulensky and vicki

rosen and paul adler, janice miller and william laguna, lisa dugos. >> good evening, commissioners and thank you for giving me a platform. i would actually like to take a different approach and i would like to speak as an ex-home daycare provider. i used to have my own and i would like to tell you why it was not sustain able and why the opportunity to change the home preschool would make all of the difference. and when i was running my daycare i saw that the parents wanted to keep their children in the same program and the parents don't like to send from one year and to another year and they want the kids in one program and well with the home daycare policies you are stuck with 12 kids, that does not allow for allowing parents to go from the beginning of when the kid is two up to kindergarten. stuff is really huge issue and

another real issue with the home daycare is that the licensee has to actually live in the home where there was a daycare and we called the incredible stress and now your entire home has to look like a daycare where the locks has to go and the knives have to be kept. and what kind of shampoo you can have in the house and where it has to be kept and it turns your home into a public domain and when you have children of your own they recent that. i think that this is a really wonderful opportunity to change again from this home daycare and put it into a preschool which would make it a sustainable option and not something that like me have to close down because i could not make it work out thank you. >> it means that the glbqt

parents have a place to send the children that are not made to feel like out casts the spouses respect for diversity and i see no alternative but for approval of the conditional use permit thank you. >> good evening. my name is vicky rosen and i am the president of upper valley neighbors and a 25-year-old group in the valley. and our group is in support of the project for a number of reasons, first and foremost, we believe that it is a first class facility that is greatly needed in our neighborhood. we are familiar with the organization through personal experience and an understanding of how the organization is run, and from information we have

gotten, from parents whose children attend school there. and over the course of our group's existence, we have worked with neighbors to resolve many disputes and especially those regarding planning issues. our goal has always been to protect the interest of our neighborhood and city and try to reach compromises with all parties. and we believe that the folks who run this have the best interest of their neighbors and the greatest community at heart and will work cooperatively with everyone as a personal supporter of the organization, i know first hand that the potashes walk the talk and as a neighborhood leader, i have seen all kinds of manipulations that call to question, how honestly people really intend to work together. and that is not the case here. upper neighbors ask that the commission fully support the project as a example and how the organization such as this will work well and create a healthy mix in the neighborhood

thank you. >> my name is paul adler thank you commissioners i am really quick, i wanted to say that this valley brings the full community together and gives us the opportunity to share our religion and our backgrounds thank you very much and i am not going to take any more of your time >> thank you. >> good evening, my name is janice miller my husband and i brought our home in 2004, because of the community. we had our son joshua there in 2009 and stayed because of the community. we are still? the valley now because of the community and because of the school. and we are so unbelievably blessed that we found it, and the potashes. and my son has thrived beyond our wildest dreams there and comes home from school every

day so happy. i know all of stuft that was talked about today can be worked out. because the children and all that matter here. we have got so many kids, and we can make such a difference with this school, so please vote in favor, thanks. >> hello, my name is billy and i went to guy noey daycare. i am a graduate and that school really helped me in life and i really enjoyed it. and enjoyed it. >> that is it. >> a few more names.

>> naomi, carly cap len, jacob brian, cliff man, and andrei klie man and jackson and yaka tota, paul let sha. >> good evening, commissioners, and community, they told me to keep my remarks very short and brief and i plan to do that, it is not so easy for a rabi to keep the remarks short and sweet. >> i have developed this motto i found it in san francisco, and there are nine rabis and their wives working in the community in different neighborhoods throughout san francisco and when potash moved to the city they were life ng a

small apartment in the valley. and later came to work for the school the shalome school in the richmond district and as a community grew, they wanted to provide a daycare program for their children that are part of this growing community. and you have to understand that the model of habad having different and having habad programs and synagogs and daycare, and the adult education, a jewish community center in a different neighborhoods in the town is something that is essential for our lifestyle because we are not allowed to walk to school i mean that we are not allowed to drive to school and the

potashes are a congregations unto themselves they are a growing family of ten. we have a potash build a home underneath the center but i ka not imagine a family living in such a space but like they said for economics you have to make things work and i think that the need for a center, that enables the children to grow and to be able to walk to the synagog with their families for their parents to pray together and to play together is really an important factor in jewish life and like, it has been said that this was the only program of its kind jewish program that enables the families to live

this type of lifestyle, thank you very much. >> i'm lisa doug las and i am a parent of two grd you ate and my husband commute and if it were not for them we would have moved out of the city. it has been an incredible experience in terms of drop off, in all of the years that we have been there and that we know that there never been any accidents. and with the families, and it has been a very safe environment and drop off and pick up. and i also want to say that my sons have enjoyed it immensely and i don't think that they would have ever gotten an education like this anywhere else in the city thank you. >> hi, i am another mom, and i have two sons that graduated from there and i have three quick points and i know that the opposition had two really

strong concerns and one is that it is an urban trafficky area. i am not sure where we should put preschools if we are not going to put them in the trafficky area in san francisco we would all have to move out of san francisco to achieve that really. my son goes to a public elementary school on 14th street and just take a look at that school unloading with 375 students. and it looks like beirut compared to what they have to deal with. number two the everybody was concerning about the noise and i could find it concerning and offensive that the neighbors are comparing the children's invoiceses to a vacuum cleaner, these problems are visible especially with the way of the potash's points about the financial up grades if you do have a proper license on a home daycare license, those are fixable, what is not fixable is to create a jewish community again this family has worked extremely hard and provided something that no one else in san francisco including the north side of the city with the

synagogs none of them are doing what they are doing in terms of having ininclusive jewish environment in san francisco. thank you. >> high name is jacob ryan, and i go to the (inaudible) and i am going into the third grade. and guy noey did for me, it kept me safe and i believe that they helped me. and i got... (inaudible) and so my first day at guy noey and i went and saw this kid crying and we i asked him are you feeling okay? and he said, no i just miss my mom. and she is at work. and then i asked him if he wanted to be friends and he said okay. and then a few days later, or a

few minutes later, we saw a kid named billy and he asked what he was doing and we said, we are playing and we played until that the other day and then we... (inaudible) asked him to be friends and he said okay and a few days later, this girl asked what are you doing? and we were playing basketball. and we said, we are playing basketball and playing. and she was playing with us for a long time and yeah. and now, i am still friends with them even if we go to different kiepds of schools, i still believe in them.

>> first thank you so much. i know that it is really late, i thank the commission for being here and being tolerant of all of this. my name is (inaudible) and in addition to being his mother i am a child psychologist and i worked in san francisco for 45 years, when i had a child i realize that i may not be able to stay? san francisco that i may have to move because there was no sense of family or jewish community in the valley area that i lived. i started a spread sheet to compare the schools the best ones that i can find and i went through this and i walked into guy noey if and in ten minutes had my child registered and i walked into the gates of a very busy street and i walked into the gates and the gates closed on the garden, the children are not unsafe they are in the garden, you walk in and it is like being in a beautiful environment.

the potashes are the warmest people and they made my child feel welcome, psychologically they have made that confident kid that you see there and the number one fund-raiser for the american heart association this year, they made him that child. they made him that confident, they made him that secure, i have supported that and i work full time and he spent every single day there from 22 months until he went on to (inaudible). and this school and what they are able to do and i worked in school and i have been an expert witness in court and worked with many, many different educators and what they are able to do this preschool daycare is so different than what others can do. and yes it is noise we live in an urban environment. it is a loud street and kids are loud. but if you want us to have access to preschools in san francisco and you don't want this children leaving the city and you don't want the families leaving the city you have to

put these preschools in this environment and growing this is growing a really positive, really positive high school and a positive environment for the children to grow and our families to grow. and so i recommend as a professional and as a parent to really approve this and think it through and the problems can be worked out. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> my name is dr. carly cap len and i am a psychologist and i am not a child psychologist. in terms of psychological health of the city, i work on 24th street and we live three blocks away and a lot of the things in that neighborhood are not working but this is one thing that really is. and i think that the school has

a strong moral compass and has given the children a strong moral compass and i have a lot of schools and i have said it in a lot of places and i chose this school because of the quality of the education and the children and the teachers. it is a busy street >> i hope that you vote in favor of this. >> thank you. >> next speaker and i have a few more names. david dephonfans. and katherine rodriguez and kathleen ken tra and martha lynch man and cilia sumner.

>> hello, my name is (inaudible) and i was raised in san francisco since i was four and a half years old. i have had lived on this block in question for 27 years. and in that time i have seen numerous accidents, i have been involved in a couple. traffic flies down this street people don't want to let you out of your driveway. they continually cross the line into on coming traffic and honk their horn forcing you to stop even though it is a perfectly well spot the speed on this block is at least 35 miles an hour. that is the average speed, okay? >> i was able to gather 36 signatures from 26 addresses who are in the effected area. these are people that live here. they know how dangerous this street is. because they live it every day.

and five of these people have initially find the rabi potash's notice. many felt that they were misled as to the nature and the amount of children involved and one gentleman that was livid about the number quoted to him something like about five kids and then maybe 14. on my petition there are at least 6 young couples two with preschool aged children who live on this block and realize how dangerous it is. people don't leave san francisco for preschool. this will protect your children at home when they were young when people live san francisco is when they get older and have to walk around these streets. that is when they start feeling the pinch and it is time to move someplace not quite as busy. these proposals are in violation of the master plan, it results in the loss of

family housing and elimination of off street parking and elimination of on street parking with the white zone and precious parking is going to be taken away and it will generate for a business at least one to 200 people a day on this block. the traffic studies that they are showing here i saw they were doing it this summer, most people are away and i could have gotten more signatures that at least five of those houses were on vacation. we were looking at 24/7 facility. >> if you deny this project no harm adone. if you allow this petition and the harm will be committed against most of the abuting properties and all for the two blocks. i realize that there is a dream here. but this dream is my

neighborhood's nightmare. thank you. >> next speaker please? >> commissioners, president and commissioner vice president, my name is paulett shaw and i live at 3748 cesar chavez and i am a new home owner and i lived at this property for less than six months and i was thrilled to be able to buy and historically residential neighborhood and i have done the research looking back at the maps from the company and more than 100 years old that shows that the residential character of this neighborhood is long standing and so first i would like to say that i am in opposition to this request for the conditional use permit but to be clear that i am not in opposition to the preschool i want to point out that a lot of

the folks here that have spoken in support of this request are talking about the quality of the preschool and not about its appropriateness for this particular block, i would ask you please not to conflict those two issues, this sounds like a wonderful institution and one that is direly needed in the city of san francisco. that does not make it right for this particular part of the valley. and as i mentioned briefly a historically residential street and i think that this will change the character of the neighborhood and also would like to point out that i have done some internet research and found that some of the descriptions that the valley has given to their own supporters have been quite different from what has been described in the conditional use permit request. i have a couple of examples. >> okay, so this is quite small and i don't know if you are able to make it out, but this

is from the website and it is retrieved on july 9th of this year. and here there say frequently asked questions in which it says how many students can guy noey be able to accommodate and rather than focus on the 42, i am a bit concerned that it says that they have got licensing that we will be able to have 60, which is... you know it is almost 50 percent more than what is being requested and what is being stated as the goal here today. sorry about that. >> and additionally, it is not just going to be a preschool but in fact it will also serve as a synagog and a community center and the education center. so i do have some concerns that this does not fit with the character of this block and i ask you not to approve this request for conditional use. >> thank you. >> thank you.

>> my name is andrew climan and a home owner since 2005 and i am a member of the valley for the past 12 years and i am here to say myself and my nam family have benefited and i urge you to approve this project. >> good evening commissioners i would like to point out a few things that i thought were some what interesting, you have heard a lot of people speak in support of this preschool. and the application, what you didn't hear was any of the supporters dispute any of the claims about the violation that this preschool has had. i also don't like vacant buildings, this will be another

building that is vacant in the residential street and we have two that are already vacant on our lot. the first is a large samoan church and another church that is down the street. and they were talking about parking and how the parking would not be a problem. and i have noticed several times pretty much every day, that i walked passed this and that there are parents or staff or something, some people, that are parking throughout the sidewalk and if i could have the projector. here, they are parking off on the sidewalk, and you drop the children off. it is on the 26th again and they are blocking the street parking. and up on the sidewalk parking and the public right-of-way. and again on the 25th. i stopped and drew pictures

because it seemed like sufficient. and all of this after they had submitted the request for conditional use, for the parents knew that there is community opposition and they are continuing to do this i feel that this shows that the parents basically don't respect the community.

they are expanding, and they are expanding the hospital which is just down the street. i think that adding that will overwhelm things, in addition, all of the concerns parents have said that they have not seen the problems yet. they have not seen the problems yet with the current number of students but talking about doubling the number of students and these are the different questions and no one is trying to stop the current preschool we just think that it should not get bigger >> next speak and her i have one more card, cherry lumna? >> good evening, commissioners. my name is silvia and i live at 3787 right beside guy noey and i object to the plan to expand

because this location disrupts our ability to live in our home. this location causes excruciating amounts of noise that negatively effects our well-being and my health. and i understand the need for daycare in this city, but this need should not override our basic rights to live in our home. as a university student and writer, i sfend a large percentage of my time writing and studying at our home. one day i was writing a final essay and it was hot so i opened up the windows, i could not write a coherent sentence because of the loud noises funneling from next door. i became very frustrated at not being able to concentrate on writing not being able to have clear thoughts. the most important reason for my grievance, however, is that

i was diagnosed and suffered from migraines. and during this time with my head throbs it feels as if two hammers are hitting each side of my head. the pain worsens from the chanting of over 20 children and many instructers yelling from below. i tried to lie down but can't block out the noise. because our bedroom is located right above the activity area. i lie down for a moment hoping that the noise will stop. that it goes on and on. i have not been able to rest in these rooms during the recess area. we have complained about the noise many times. i considerate neighbor would instruct the workers to decrease the noise and m