>> one lot is being subdivided into two lots. >> there's a motion and a second (calling names) so moved 3, 4, 5 that passes unanimously and places you on item on columbus avenue. >> good afternoon kate planning staff. you have before you a conditional request to establish a 25 hundred square feet business restaurants. previously they were solely a bar use but to convert it within the broadway commercial district. costa mesa a has been operating for 94 years in this location.

it was established as a bar and was quickly changed into a restaurant. the kitchen has remained operable but that not for the public. the proposal is for any reason improvements to the kitchen area but the commercial space wouldn't be enlarged. the project retains an exist historic resource and doesn't contain any construction. the planning starch surveyed the property within 3 hundred feet and the total amount of footage that was given to the eating starnt was 41 percent although this exceeds the conversion both

are counted toward the transmission. as of this writing there has been 9 letters of support 8 are excluded in your packets. the project is individually antidepressant and is compatible with the neighborhood. this that includes may presentation and any public comment oh, project sponsor, please >> hello good afternoon. i'm jamie i'm the general manager the cost can cafe. my boss has the tennis of keeping the history alive and hopefully opened o open for another one hundred years.

we've been working closely with the previous owner to maintain it's integrity. our goal is not to change this restaurants but to enhance to honor history and part of that is food services. however, food has not been served to the public 19 since the 1950s. it's our intention to convert it 80 from a bar to an eating establishment. at permit does not hinder our ability to serve the public but it includes certain population like under 21. all citizens of san francisco and all visitors will be able to

enjoy the cafe. thank you >> thank you. any public comment on this item? >> good afternoon. i am janet the former previous whatever owner. of the cafe and i'm here to support the new owners. and to ask you to approve conditional use 48 to 47. ; is that right? and i think transferring the liquor license to a restaurant benefits the neighborhood.

and families and patrons of all ages are going to be able to come there. and what? let's see. oh, jobs. jobs. because with the kitchen you're going to have more jobs. and i have to tell you it's an amazing kitchen the state of the arc. so thank you for listening to me >> hope you do this because i love that bar. it's been the neighborhood bar for the city and it's the entire city. thank you.

thank you >> and thank you for running that establishment for all those years. >> okay. thank you. any additional public comment. okay public comment is closed >> i hope you'll extend our wisdom as this moves into the next generation of management. it's been written in the paper a lot including the negotiations of the give and takes i'm extremely comfortable to support this and i hope the historic california community will support this >> i want to thank you for maintaining a wonderful place and welcoming the owners and

i've had many fond memories and i think the addition of the food will be a great thing for the neighborhood. >> i'm supportive so long as you keep the jukebox. >> i like the history of this and this lady was responsible for keeping it from being closed before. i read the story here >> i am interested in are there any plans is there a vacancies it's not part of todd's but does missouri any of the staff know where the loose thank you lady was vacant and a i'm not aware of anything.

>> all right. it won't have any bearing on that it's close to the cafe and a valuable place to be. >> commissioners there's a motion and a second to approve this. on that motion (calling names) so moved commissioners that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and will place you on the next item 17. request for conditional use. good afternoon sharon young department staff. the authorization to legal lists the floor aerospace with the merger of two commercial based on clement street currently

occupied by another business within the clemente commercial district. the two commercial districts was approximately 3 thousand 5 hundred feet of floor area and it was murder in the third degree with the exterior wall without the permit changes and the space currently contains 17 thousand square feet of the area. no commercial changes are prepared for the building. the existing store is individually owned. and the tenant spaces will have 15 parking spaces. and the project sponsor has requested that the off street parking by having the parking

reduction request for the project. the merger of the ground floor commercial space is about commercial use authorization has been part of the planning staff review for a number of years with the property owners with the commercial space. previously it was also a supermarket and a gift store. so far as clarification in 2004 there was a building permit for the internal he modifications for the opening but commercial use authorization was not sought for the merger. if the - and also a consideration was from the previous tenants to close the opening and possible apply for it later with the conditional use authorization but since then

there's been a number of tenant occupancy changes so they're seeking approval of the spaces. so the commercial space will be closed and to date the planning department has not received any letters in opposition or approvals. so the conditions are there and this concludes my presentation >> project sponsor, please. >> good afternoon. i'm joyce khan. i'm the project sponsor for this project. in 20045 to the building

department the owner sent me there and the building vice president approved the plan. they murder in the third degree the two stores together and the plan was approved and the construction was finished, you know, and business had been opened almost 10 years and all of a sudden we received a letter from the building person say they get a letter from the city and we need to apply the conditional use to legal lists the use. so i hope you - approve the project and we don't close our business >> any public comment on this item. okay public comment is closed

>> i've bought stuffro there so i move for approval. >> at summer with 3 kids i like this place better than the restaurants (laughter). >> it looks like a proximity street sale is there any plans to clean up the front of that so it's more presentable (laughter). >> commissioners if there's nothing further there's a motion to approve (calling names) so moved commissioners that motion passes unanimously and places you on item 18. at 1285 sutter street

>> good afternoon from the department staff. the item before you is to stash a form of retail use on a ground floor of a newly constructed building and for it to be operated 24 hours, 7 days a week. at the time of the permit it contains 1 hundred and 7 units. it contained 1 thousand square feet of pharmaceutical property. it will be dedicated to acholic beverages. in 2008 the hours of operation were from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. this limitation was strashd because those with are the operating hours of trader joe's.

and we having ask that planning code section it says the hours are not limited. since the packet last week we've received 5 letters in support one from the community leadership alliance and 4 from the community. opposition letters have long been from the cathedral hill organization. at this time the department recommends approval and the change of operating hours so they comply with the plan as articulated in our motions. that concludes my presentation and i'm available for any questions or comments. >> thank you project sponsor, please. >> thank you, john on behalf of

the project sponsor. it proposes the new retail space on sutter street. for those of you who have not been by yet if we could get the proernl. as you know this is the site of the former galaxy that is right. originally the approval was to include a 17 thousand foot tape recorder jose by trader joe's has passed on this space and the developer has reduced the size of the retail spaces to 95 hundred secret. much smaller. the promise is a form of retail cbs would replace a former

trader joe's. they have similar products but the cvs would be providing a pharmacy which is a benefit to the neighborhood. so i want to focus on the fact this is extremely an appropriate location for cvs. within - 2010 within a half-mile radius there were many resident but it's a fast growing neighborhood. it's one block north of the future c nshlgs mc hill place so it's going to provide a great opportunity for the folks who will be going into the hospital there. it fills a space that is hard to

occupy by others evidenced by a large number of the vacancies this is a block away on van ness and this one is 12 hundred van ness the old circuit city. it's going to be the only 24 hour pharmacy in the neighborhood so that's a benefit especially with the c mc campus. so it won't significantly alter the balance. we have the outreach for the neighborhood i'd like to have our colleague say a if you words about that >> good afternoon president fong and members of the board.

i had the opportunity to work with cvs gathering support for their project. over the last 8 months cvs has reached it out to the merchant and other organizations surrounding the project on sutter. in february we invited over 6 hundred neighbors and other businesses and associations to you're open house for the project. that open house had one attend he. shortly after that we presented the project and in june we showed the project to alliance at their request. we sent out many, many flyers providing them contract information should they have

additional questions. we've conducted several walks throughout the neighborhood providing yipts. we've maintained a regular presence this summer is he farmer's market discussing this project. we've worked closely with the newly opened business on sutter. since july introducing the new projects to the community and participating in a know your neighborhood social at sf in august to help acquaint the new merchants of the neighborhood. throughout this process our results are over 2 hundred and thirty active supportser see including mrpt and businesses. and over half of the current

residents of sf. you should have copies of those in your packet for review. in conclusion the feedback from the community for this location has been overwhelmingly positive and the consensus is this is a great fit for van ness and the neighborhood is looking forward to our opening. unfortunately we were to have the manager of this sf to speak to the partnership and his support for the promise and the support of the other residents but he was unable to attend. feinstein i'd like to introduce my colleague who is the manager for the workforce in san francisco

>> hi. the court: sustained. steven. we're tieftd of excited to be here. it's important for us to work cloels closely with the city in terms of hiring locallyly working with the mayor's office and staff. we participated with the mayor's office of workforce development and this has resulted in a number of citywide projects including san francisco university and the j v s strictly business. in july of this year we hired 1 hundred local residents. also recently, we signed other documents for businesses. in addition to cvs has worked on

several nonprofit programs and one is the veterans assistance the strategy submit and we've worked with the larkin services and this is something donates important with the outreach in the different neighborhoods. i also want to make myself available this is the first time i've addressed you so thank you very much >> john again. i want to speak about a couple of issues about the letters that you have received. specifically with the alcohol stalz. we've been aware there are concerns in the community about alcohol sales so we've been reaching out to folks trying to

workout a community benefit. that we've obey talking about participating in a community benefits district but there are a number of others things we're talking about with them. we've worked with you sdmirgsz or commissioner chu's office and cvs agreed to buy 3 acholic beverage licenses and retire one. so just an example of the benefits that could come through the conversation. and to add any alcohol it's going to - another heather and conversation by the board of supervisors >> we're asking you not to prohibit alcohol sales and come

to a resolution that could add benefits to the community. we don't except to get it approved without the boards consent and an agreement with the neighborhood. just to talk about the acholic beverage sales only a one hundred square feet of the floor area is proposed to be dedicated to acholic beverage sales. i want to mention the fact that this issue came up and the city said in a district that they permitted the sales it wasn't permitted for the acholic beverage sales there but clearly the cities position has changed then and we become aware of it.

if i could finish this last point. we're going to ask the neighborhood we believe that the act i - we're concerned about any precedent this will be in the districts that permit alcohol sales. there have long been a number of sales that have long been played on the conditions. thank you for the extra time >> opening is it up for public comment on this item. >> i do have a couple of cards here. zach and marilyn

>> thank you and good afternoon. i'm exacting i'm from the larkin services we're located down the site. we're a nonprofit agency that provides services to homeless youth at this particular time in that neighborhood we provide housing services and mental and health services as well as case management. cvs reached out to us to create intirpz for our youth. those are the best type of services we can provide because underlines unless the training promising programs they can be on the resume and there hands on services. we believe that cvs giving us

those internships will benefit the community >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm mary from the cathedral neighborhood i neighbors. first on community outreach i think this is the third time in a month saying cathedral neighbors doesn't know anything about the new projects the project claims they contacted us we didn't hear from them. i think it would be great if a project sponsor could talk to the folks in the neighborhood rather than having a meeting in a empty room where nobody shows up. regarding the outreach and the

questions on the survey if you look at the postcards and all of the pay attention what the project sponsor is asking gentlemen, yes i support a cvs pharmacy that's the request being made in all the documents to the community. secondly regarded equal fair treatment we just had a meeting will be a month ago and in response to a request from for the neighborhood said early closings and no open over 9:00 o'clock at night and providing for security and being involved in more neighborhood safety. i think it's unfair to allow this arrangement to sell alcohol until 2:00 a.m. when we're

across the street from them. one the things that's happened you know you've harder a lot about the corn issueser e issues is tobacco and alcohol sales. the retailer are going into the side streets and opening tobacco sales on van ness with more alcohol sales. you know the neighborhood has been talking to the project sponsor for 5 or 6 years there have been conversations and every single time the neighborhood has emphasized we need fresh food. if urge a to a grinning bring in cvs we need food.