mrs. dearman and i think we have the other microphone there that you can move lower. >> this one? >> yeah, right there. >> i love it when i am on opposite side. in support and i am against it. we do not need anything on the waterfront. you're too young child. are you 20 years old yet? oh you're a woman after my own heart, but you know we got to -- we just can't have any -- don't let the warriors put -- i just don't want you to change the waterfront because i mean -- but i'm an old lady. i have virgin

hair though. for those that don't know what virgins are undyed or -- and i don't want you to change the waterfront because the warriors -- let them play in oakland because oakland wants them; right? but they want you to change the waterfront for them, so please don't do that. you see i can't even walk but my heart is in the right place. right jim? >> you bet. >> okay. >> thank you mrs. dearman. okay. mr. lazarus and let me call -- i an additional card. go ahead. >> thank you supervisors and congratulations on supervisor chiu's engagement. the

chambers work closely with members of the board, with supervisor wiener, with the department on a variety of revenue ideas to move forward mta's mission to provide effective transit for the city. as was mentioned earlier today the chamber is a co-sponsor with the labor council allowing the state law to move forward next year with the vehicle license fee and we concur with the comments from supervisors today that need tos focused on transportation and transscpitd our own polling says the only way it passes it's tied to other charter amendment or ballot that directing the funding to transportation. whether we look at general obligation bonds, whether we look at the transit fare system that we use and the commitments both in new money and items such as moving expenses away from muni and its share of the current general

fund, the cal train dollars that we need to put in with the counties and are there county solutions to get muni money back to miewn and he fund cal train in a different way and the subsidy it needs and lastly don't forget the expense side. we worked hard on management of muni and employee relations a couple years ago and i don't think we have seen the fruit of that process either yet so together i think there are a lot of ways on revenues and expenses to solve some of the shortcomings in transit. thank you. >> thank you mr. lazarus. so the other speaker card thases i called. [calling speaker names] >> good afternoon. i am mr. shakuda and comments in regard to the transportation needs so first of all i follow the one bay area plan which is

the regional plan in regards to housing needs for the whole region, and i think one of the problems is that the city keeps on volunteering for excess of housing location to get the transportation money, and i believe our volunteer numbers -- we're volunteering -- they want 90,000 units up until i think 2040 and while the problem is as shown in the eastern neighborhood plan which ken rich was in charge of i think he or some of the others said that the increase in property taxes -- that type of thing is no where near the cost of the infrastructure that new development causes, so but the

city asking and more housing and we're so far behind in the hole in regards to muni funding it's a deeper hole to get into. the more housing the more maintenance that we need. we're just falling deeper, deeper, deeper, so i can't understand why we would allow auto planning department is doing a great job in planning housing units but in the meantime muni is falling behind and we shouldn't have more housing until we have transportation and we're no where near that so please fix muni first before we get more housing. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is

is ms. tarbox and i am speaking on behalf of the san francisco water alliance and we're concerned about the whole corridor and from the embarcadero station to pier 70. as we have heard today the funding problems with muni already exist and in the arena is built on piers 30-32 transit problems on the water corridor will increase. in order to provide services for the estimated 2 million extra people coming into the south beach area and 250 new events a year in addition to the already 80 plus giant games the city will have to add additional vehicles and expand the over capacity platforms at the embarcadero station, brannan, and king street. it's already inadequate to cover existing service needs and the capital and incremental costs in provides service for the warrior's arena will

literally crimel muni. the owners should be made to pay for the cost caused by the developments and the demand to service. these funds should be front ended and not paid over time and the board of supervisors should seek guarantee of payments in the upcoming term sheet. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> my name is john parish and the vice president of 200 grant homeowners association. we're 240 homeowners in the south beach neighborhood in supervisor kim's district. i would like to talk about three of the more egregious problems with how muni is not functioning in our neighborhood now and the problem that we don't see coming. first is capacity. you mentioned capacity at the start. i think you covered it l i would like to comment on the previous people talking about the importance of walking. we walk. we have no

other choice. all other modes of transportation and clogged and on game days and try to go through the streets while carrying groceries or bringing small children home or dry cleaning, that type of thing. beyond the capacity problems if you look at the interface of muni with cal train muni is blocking the access to the freeway of people trying to get off of the embarcadero whether by king or fourth street because of the pedestrians trying to get to the platform in the center of the boulevard. this will get much worse if we do the entertainment complex out on the bay because a lot of the game day pedestrians walk to the stadium. they will be flooding across to get to the platform. oops, i am out of time, so

lastly it's time of day. these events are going to happen at night and in the evenings when the system is already overburdend and special events that run late at night, so we're talking about adding a demand on the system where muni has the least available assets to add at the time it's completely buried and i hope that you consider this carefully in considering that. >> thank you very much. is there any additional public comment on item number two? ms. hester. >> sue hester. i would hope that you would ask for a map that shows where the transit fee was paid and the same map in the same time probably 30 years where development has happened. you will find the problems when you had the map. i have it in my head. no one funded the pand and -- expansion that

was called for in the mission direct or in the massive development there. we had a really rawkrous discussion for years by the m mta and the planning commission and prop 13 passed we started to lose money for transit, and one of the things that came out of that was a transportation impact development fee, and fees were put on downtown development. i am not as sang quinn as others that the eastern developments solved the problem. the eastern developments process kicked the can down the road. do we have a solution for folsom street? no. was it a priority for everyone in the process eastern and western soma? yes. then 14 is an abomination down mission

street. nothing moved. mission street doesn't have decent service. additionally the one thing missing from every transportation seen that i have ever seen is a map of the hills of san francisco. until you grasp the fact they're limited ways to get around the city because the mountains are in the way and the east is bay fill you have a transit system and mind set that everything is flat and everything is walkable and bikable and it's not true and the transit system needs to be adjusted for that. thank you. >> thank you very much. is there any additional public comment on item two? yes, please come forward. >> hi thank you very much. i am alice rogers, a resident in south park, and i want to thank you so much for holding this hearing. it's long over due,

and all of the salient points have been made. i just want to support the need and the rincon south beach mission bay south park central corridor neighborhoods, the need, the absolute need to solve these problems. so far it seems like our neighborhoods have been looked at revenue stream and density bonus and not considered as people. we really need this. thank you. >> thank you very much. is there any additional public comment on item number two? seeing none public comment is closed. colleagues thank you for participating in today's hearing and to all members of the public who came forward and the departments that presented. this is an ongoing conversation about the future of transportation in san francisco, and how we're going to insure

that our transportation system meets the needs of our growing city so with that supervisor kim i would like to continue this item to the call of the chair. >> i will make that motion to continue the item to the call of the chair. >> okay. we can take that without objection. thank you. madam clerk can you please call item three. >> item three is amending the mission alcoholic beverage special use district and transfer of liquor licenses and cell alcohol for off sight consumption and grocery stores and certain uses in the valencia street controls and restrict conversion of ground floor retail to restaurants. >> thank you. supervisor campos and i are the co-authors of item three so i would like to turn it over to supervisor camp campos for additional remarks. >> great. thank you very much mr. chairman. first let me

thank you and your staff and andre powers and my legislative aide nathan and we have been working on this for quite some time and i appreciate the very collaborative nature of this under taking. as some folks maybe aware the mission currently has the oldest special use district, specifically a special use district the mission called special use district which was originally established back in the early 1990's to address the issue of proliferation and clustering of businesses serving alcohol throughout the mission. the special use district that was created was in response to community efforts to address that problem and calls by the community that we in city government do something. the special use district that has

been in place this whole time covers all of the mission as well as the neighborhoods of lawinga and it has been for the last 17 years unchanged, and in the last few years -- in fact since i was elected to my office and supervisor wiener since you have been elected as well, we have heard from a number of community folks, not only businesses, residents, for us to look -- to take a look back at what the special use district is and whether or not there is a need to tweak it. let me actually note that it's only fitting that supervisor zane jane is also in committee because for a time when she was -- when her district, district 6, include the north mission, this is an issue that we also talked to her about from both offices, so a while back my

office working with supervisor wiener developed a year long community and stakeholders process that basically brought people together from the entire neighborhood and got community input whether or not changes should be made, and i think that it's fair to say there was a wide range of opinions from people who feel and felt that special use districts should remain as is to people that believe that special use district should be eliminated and what we have here in this piece of legislation is an ordinance that strikes a balance between the different comments we received. it doesn't eliminate the special use district but it does update it in such a way it allows new community based entrepreneurship while at the same time continuing to regulate alcohol because we know that the issue of proliferation of alcohol remains an issue in the

mission. without going into the specifics of the legislation some of the points that are included that it allows for neighborhood grocery stores to sell limited amounts of beer and wine. it improves the ability of current business owners to make repairs, renovations and become ada compliant. it allows transfers within the special use district so those are some of the changes this makes and i think that this is another example of how it is appropriate from time to time to revisit some of the changes -- some of the laws that are passed and see whether or not changes are needed. we believe this piece of legislation strikes the right balance based on the different feedback that we received. i am very proud of the legislation. i want to thank also the members of the community who have been involved in this process throughout the

neighborhood including the valencia corridor, 24th street, the mission corridor, people from all over the neighborhood have commented, and lastly once again thank nadal from my office and supervisor wiener and your staff for your work. >> thank you supervisor campos and also i had a few remarks. i'm actually very excited that we're here today with this legislation. it has been years over due, and i think i'm going to have some real positive changes for the mission. shortly after i took office supervisor kim and i started tag teaming on one off exemptions to the mission alcohol special use district because while -- this isn't just my view -- that this special use district served an important purpose when it was first enacted 20 years ago in

terms of combating alcohol blight in the mission. over time in my view out lived its usefulness, and we saw a few years ago at the bowling alley that went on at 17th and south van ness that project was going to fall apart because they weren't going to be able to serve beer so did did a one off exemption for movie theaters. when the roxy theater which is a treasure of community institution wanted to serve wine and beer to help survive such a unique san francisco mission institution they were prohibited and we did another exemption for that and each time i gave the standard speech while it's great to do the one off exemptions it's not good policy and we need to fundamentally address of the problems that were caused and

that valencia whole foods can't get a license but a large store can and a lounge has trouble becoming ada compliant and if they do so they're going to lose the license and a store may close down and not reopen again because the special use district would cause the liquor license to be forfeited so over time the district was starting to stifle positive change and innovation in the neighborhood and it was time to take action, and i really want to thank supervisor campos because for me i have always been -- i have clear and public view about this district. supervisor i know this is a real challenging for you and there are a lot of different views in the neighborhood and i am appreciate of the subtle and thoughtful approach that you took to this, and it a pleasure

to collaborate together on it. i think this is going to be a very positive thing. i want to note that we do have a few amendments today, and i just want to briefly describe them. i understand none of them would require a continue scpans we could act today. there are three sets of amendments. one is clerical and organization amendments suggested by planning department staff contained in the planning commission motion. one is a clarification of what was intended from the beginning and specifically that the controls of the district only apply within the district and not did you ever zone surrounding the. >> >> district and also a clarification that came up during the process to ensure that we don't inadvertently change the existing controls for large grocery stores so i do have those amendments and we

will ask they're adopted after we take public comment, and finally i want to note that we -- one additional aspect of this is relating to valencia street and specifically there has been a wonderful increase in very interesting and great restaurantos valencia street and we want to foster that and we want valencia street to be a cutting edge food destination. we also want to ensure that we don't ruse retail spaces through conversion of retail spaces to restaurants without there being additional scrutiny through the conditional use process so that is an additional aspect of the legislation so with that if there are no additional comments colleagues we will go to the planning department. sophie hayward from the department. >> good afternoon chair wiener and members of the committee. planning staff. i will note that the planning commission

considering the amendments last week thursday at the regularly scheduled hearing. they passed the resolution in support of the proposal and the vote was 6-0. the commission did as you noted make a association of proposed modifications and those were intended to clarify implementation for planning. the overall proposal was supported by the commission and i am available for questions if you have any. >> thank you ms. hayward. seeing no questions we will open it up to public comment. is there any public comment on item number three? yes please come forward. >> i am not seeing resistance on this, just to support it. i am herman [inaudible] and own the elixir and owned the property for 10 years and the property and a commercial condominium and i own both of those so i have

not been able to expand my bar to complete. meanwhile this law allowed all the new restaurants to open in the mission with full liquor licenses and have cocktail bars and steal business from the other bars in the neighborhood. "steal" maybe rough. the business is vibrant and we get lots of attention for that which is great and it's fun but the pie is spread thinner and in order to compete with that this will help to expand into that space as well as allow me to make ada adjustments for the property and give me an ada entrance, build an ada bar, and other improvements that will keep me from being shaken down like i have been from so-called aba based complaints and my bar is historic and i don't want to make the changes to the bar and

ruin that aspect in order to do that and if you for putting this together. it's been a long time coming and i appreciate it. >> thank you very much. is there any commercial public comment on item number three? seeing none public comment is closed. well, that was a -- i think a year ago we would have three hours of public comment. it shows what a good process we had leading up to the legislation. supervisor kim. >> thank you. i just wanted to acknowledge the immense work of the co-sponsors and supervisor wiener and campos on this and it shows when there are things that are applicability there is the ability to revisit t my office was familiar with it representing a portion of the area and mission bowling alley

was interested in opening and a part of the mission that would welcome this type of small business but was unfortunately restricted in obtaining a liquor license and reading the legislation i mentioned to supervisor wiener it's amazing how carefully crafted this is and taking the concerns. the mission is incredibly diverse. we have the valencia corridor and has the stores and organic beer and wine sales but liquor stores persist in other parts of the mission and a concern for the youth and families that want to live in a safe and healthy neighborhood and i appreciate this and the good neighborhood requirements established for new and expanding liquor stores. i think this is all going to be a positive change for this area so i want to thank both the co-sponsors. >> thank you supervisor.

supervisor campos. >> thank you mr. chair. i wanted to echo the comments that when we started the process we would be here and in the mission with as diverse as it is and gjd people are and there is some consensus. one thing that became clear the more people spoke and talked to each other they realized there was more common ground. that was one of the things that became clear in the many community meetings we had and i want to acknowledge supervisor wiener's willingness to also have an open mind having indicated a desire perhaps to consider limiting the sud, your willingness to really engage my constituents, your constituents how we found that common ground. i ulc want to acknowledge the planning department and they came to many of the meetings and i think it's again a testament to the fact that the community

was willing to listen to each other and i am very proud of that. >> great. thank you supervisor campos. if there are no additional comments colleagues the amendments that i described before could we have a motion to adopt those amendments? >> so moved. >> okay. and can we take that without objection? okay. those amendments are adopted and could we have a motion to forward item three with a positive recommendation to the full board as a committee report? >> so moved. >> okay. and can we take that without objection? that will be the order. thank you colleagues. madam clerk can we take -- we're going to do item five and then item four so can you please call item five. >> item five is an ordinance changing theode for a healthy food retailer incentive program. >> and supervisor mar is the author of item five. >> thank you supervisor wiener. i know that people have been

waiting for a long time in this marathon land use committee meeting that we're less than halfway through so i will get through this as quickly as possible but still paying great respect to the grass-roots leaders with us and the coalition that come together to promote the healthy food retailer program. i want to say first my co-sponsors supervisor zane jane and malia cohen and our president david chiu have seened on as co-sponsors so the speakers we will have in the formal part of this supervisor co-sponsor supervisor zane jane are the office of economic and workforce development jorge reebace and one of the experts with [inaudible] associates larry rusha, also the co-chair

for the southeast work group which houses the food guardians and other great programs and mike janice who is the wholesale produce manager or the manager for the whole access produce market. also three grass-roots leaders kenneth hill from the food guardians. jessica estrada from dy dc and ryan thier and both coordinating the great work of the tenderloin coalition and there is a number of youth and other leaders that are speaking in public comment. i wanted to say first off that this process to develop this legislation has taken several years looking at best practice in efforts in the bay view hunter's point area and philadelphia and new york and brooklyn and east bay for models of communities struggling to