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district to make sure it's in the highest use areas and is interested to find a sponsor so thank you all for having this hearing and thanks to the bicycle coalition that helped bring it forward thank you. >> thank you very much. okay we'll now go back to public comment. >> hi madeline -- i wanted to say that i was not able -- i'm a member because i would be a block away anyway polk street is the popular destination it does complete a big cycling loop. many workers commute up polk street to serve the
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establishments in the area and also traversed by many transit lines as well. it would also be a very good transit option for those who do not have places big enough and parking storage in their buildings which we know is going to be an increasing number so equity is served by providing jobs for people on polk street who are working in that entire delta and also i wanted to say that obviously a lot of people in our organization are very excited about the possibility of their being bike share in the polk corridor to witness all the tweets and retweets and re-plies i think i'm not
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allowed to ask questions directly but we'd like to see an effort for crowd funding for some of the stations. people feel much more invested in their civic space when they have had a roll like that thank you. >> thank you very much. >> good evening. afternoon. sorry about the voice but -- anyway, so i wanted to bring up first of all the point that bike share is a great idea. i had some questions that i wanted to talk about real quick like where are they deployed and what are the service areas and in what communities are they posted and number 2, who do they serve? who are the riders? are they tourists,
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community, business persons? 3, what are the local business opportunities ie jobs local hiring etc. and then 4. -- what are the economic balances of like share how will low income folks deal with issues like credit cards and you know inabilities to be able to use those facilities? i want to also add that you know, in connecting to this whole thing is bike education and for neighborhoods and who will do the outreach and who are the local vendors that do the outreach i live in a community that's not even on the map unfortunately like we have places that can attract a lot
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of bike riders and finally i want to just ask regarding safety rules and in relation to schools are the schools being able to use this and such as city college and state college and lastly, i want to know who are the members of the pool. >> thank you miss hodge? >> good afternoon. i'm kate hodge from the san francisco bicycle coalition. i'm going to hand you documents if i'm allowed to do that here sharing some good news very excited about. independent poling found that 2 thirds of san
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francisco ans want bike sharing to expand to san francisco neighborhoods i'm very excited about that finding as we're hearing today many many letters to the mayor have been xhg over different months we're hearing from the marina, the bay view, inner sunset out er sunset richmond and neighborhoods you represent there's tremendous demand and the city has certainly paid attention to move to serve that demand and to extend the benefits of biking to as many people as possible to continue to open up bicycling and benefits to the city in general and thank you i appreciate your ongoing concern
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on this issue and we hope to work with everyone in the city to move this program forward quickly. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon supervisors i'm mike solomon from the mission i'm seeing a lot of folks riding the bicycles there and safety is an issue. there's that much congestion we'll have to figure out ways that bike sharing doesn't delay transit because it's so popular so if you look at things like the richmond golden gate park i doubt i could bike from bay to breakers in 35 minutes and i'm
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any additional public comment. seeing none public comment is closed i really want to thank mta i think it's an exciting program so with that our colleagues get a motion to continue this item. >> first i want to thank our city staff and specifically since there were comments about my district i know we want more bike sharing all over the city but especially in the densist neighborhoods in the city in the north east polk street area and happy to work with folks as you are looking for sites on that and with that i'm happy to make the motion.
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>> i also appreciate one of the comments which is about our schools and i do remember when i sat on the board of education a huge issue for our teachers in particular was a lack of ability to lock their bikes on school sites and the lack of bike parking so i think it does make sense to explore maybe a couple of schools to pilot maybe high schools but i think it would be amazing if we start to see students and teachers able to use it in the morning and bike back to their after school programs in the afternoon. and it makes sense to have them near cultural attract ions and i think our bikes are the best looking it's great being in other city and
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>> so the motion is to call the chair and we will take that without objection. thank you everyone. madam clerk is there listen, your story line, it makes for incredible tv drama. thing is, your drug use is too adult for the kids, so i'm going to have to block you. oh, man. yeah. [inhales] well, have a good one. you're a nice lady. >> everyone, this is the
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tuesday, november the fifth meeting of the entertainment commission. and just a few housekeeping things. turn off your phones and if you wish to speak on any item on the agenda, there are comment cards up here >> we will start with the roll call. >> commissioner camp angnoli. >> here. >> >> acres, tan. >> here. and we have a quorum.
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>> public comment, if there is something that you want to speak to, wait to bring that up, but if you have any other comments that relate to the commission, feel free to. seeing none, that is closed. move to item two, review and approval of the minutes of october 15th, is there any changes, or edits? and if not, let's... no i move to approve. >> second. >> great. >> on the motion, commissioner campagnoli? >> aye. >> commissioner lee? >> aye. >> joseph? >> aye. >> commissioner hyde. >>ite. >> naomi akerses >> aye. >> and tan. >> aye. >> item three, report from the executive director, take it away director kening. king. >> thank you very much, good evening, it has been a little bit and i was on vacation for the last meeting and so hopefully everything went well.
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i wanted to update you and i did not have a chance to printout the memo about the legislation, introduced, by supervisor weiner and i am not sure if it is in your package or not and implying to the e-mail that you got the digital copy and it is fairly short and what it does is adds to the definition of what is called a bone fide eating place in the planning code and introduced on october 29th. and the 30 days of a wait period right now, and i think that the idea is that it will go to land use and economic development, and probably it may, and it may go before the holiday break, or it may end up early in the year, so there is plenty of time to review it and it is actually pretty simple
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tamends the planning code to extend the definition based on food sales per occupant, as currently they are measured by the percentage of the gross rereceipt and that has caught the restaurant as well as the permitees that serve the food and based on the way that amount of food sales is measured. and so, it is simply a new way to think about how to define what a bone fide eating place is for the city relative to also how the state does it for the dc license and as well as opens up the conversation presenting that we talked about in the past and so without going much further into it and expect some of that conversation to come forward and i will let you guys know when it gets scheduled for the board committee because i do think that it is important as we discuss the flexibility and as we discuss how the businesses change and morf over
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time and you know, based on the business plan when they open and verses as they go forward and that conversation, around, they say that there are restaurant but they are really a nightclub, it is that conversation that i think that we can have when we get to the right place for it. so, again, i will, tomorrow, first thing that i will send you a digital copy and you will have plenty of time to review it and really a simple piece of legislation. >> and as you have all noticed, we have our annual report, and it is super snazzy this year, it is for fiscal year 2013 and thanks to perez and black stone, it is cool and we have distributed to all of the elected in this building and sent it to the department heads of whom we work. and if there is anyone else that you folks think that we should forward it to, let us know. because, it is pretty cool. all right.
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and a digital copy is on the website, and it has been up there for a couple of weeks. which is actually much better for the environment and so we only printed a small number of them, and so, you can also direct people to the website to the pdf download. look who is back. say hi. >> hi. >> and who is back from maternity leave and we wanted to welcome here. as october the 21st, she has been back in the office and i wanted to thank megar very much for the work while crystal was gone, and so, that is for the record. the update on commissioner perez, who if you look around is not here. is that we expected him to be here tonight, he was approved, the appointment was approved at the rules committee last week. and we expected him to be appointed fully by the board
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today, but, there was an over site, and i think that maybe there was a clerk or some sort of technical oversight, with the agenda and therefore, his appointment was not on the agenda for the board today. and so, we expect that final appointment on november 19th. if he is able to be swore in that day and sit and we will see him then and if he isn't which we have a notion that he might have a conflict on that date in particular, we will see him on the first day of november. sthaoe so that is the update. sf heritage and so i am not sure if you knew about this, i think that this has been about a year or so that they launched it and the non-profit called sf heritage is the group in san francisco that works to appreciate you know, the landmarks and architectal heritage and they started this
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bar and restaurant project and on the website is a list of legacy bars and restaurants who meet the criteria and i think that it is at least 40 years old, and i don't remember, all of it, but i do have the documentation here, if anyone is interested in seeing it. but, they came to this city and they came through our offices as well as the mayor's office to talk about how we might work together to help them with the third round of additions to the legacy bar and restaurant project. and it is primarily a marketing kind of effort, but it really is kind of cool. because while these places are not necessarily like, architectly important, they are important to the city for the work that we do as well as the tourists and the economic benefit and so the third round of them, is coming and november 18th, is going to be an event
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that we will co-sponsor, and with the heritage folks as well as the mayor's office ed dusuvio, who will be a happy hour event, primarily for the press and marketing and i invite you all to come from like 6:00 to 8:00 in north beach. >> could you e-mail us that? >> sure. we are working on this. november 18th, this is a monday. and it is my birthday as well. and so if you want to come to my birthday party, please do. we will obviously be putting that out on-line and you know, i can hand this out if anyone is interested in this, but it is super fun. so that is the good news. under the heading of what i call corrective actions i wanted to update the commission relative to a meeting that i went to on treasure island recently and regarding the oasis event venue, some of you
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may remember this venue, which is odd to have an entertainment permit on treasure island but we do have one there and it was originally called the fca, artist and now it is called the oasis event and it is used for public events and at one fairly recently there was a shooting outside of the venue that was related and had an exit to the event that was going on and the entertainment commission, the treasure island development authority, and southern station, captain and permit officer met with the venue rntion and made it very clear, that things have to change and so that there is a lot more scrutiny that we are expecting and the additional security plan and there was no need at that, or at this time to do a director's order. but, we are watching very carefully what they are booking and how they are going forward in terms of you know, not repeating some mistakes i guess.
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so, that was that. the other event that happened when i was out of town, was the treasure island music festival, which some of you may have heard about and some of you may have heard, which is the point. and this is the 7th year, of this really accessible and it is very large and it is 10,000, that i think for days on treasure island it is a variety of musical acts, but that is on treasure island and the people in tell graph hill and vernal heard it with a problem this year in a much bigger way than we have had in the past and so today we had a meeting with three of the people who when the production from another planet and treasure island development authority who are the land authority there, and me and cami spoke to them about specifically what things can change and how we will move
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forward to consider approval of a permit for next year. and so expect that conversation, probably early in the new year. as they have chosen the potential dates, next october, and so we have plenty of time to figure out from a production standpoint and or, atmospheric conditions or whatever it was that seem to be very different this year from last 6 years. and how we make if any changes. and so we will be scheduling that on the agenda and i will ask the president to do that and then, we will communicate with all of those who communicated with us to attend that hearing. and when that happens. the nike run that some you may have, and it is some for the cop and hub that you asked about at the last meeting. and the nike marathon and it is
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enjoyed for thousands and thousands of people, of 30,000 people, brought in this event and it is great for the city in a lot of ways, but this particular time, and a dozen complaints in our office but there were many more that went to the police stations and through 311, and mostly because they began amplifying loud speakers at 5:30 in the morning, and what this got. and they were going to only do it at the union square and kind of corral the people and actually they were going four blocks out from the union square along post street and woke up a lot of people beginning at 5:30 in the morning, and it turns out that they never got the loud speaker permits and so they did receive a citation from us and we are having a discuss that with some of the other rules that they
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have bent. and so, to let them know what is happening. and then, in last week, and the last meeting, we spoke with david bill who had this idea to activate it for 30 days in november, we gave them a permit for 7 days and we are now in day five. and so, after 6 days, we are going to talk with the southern station and see if that is fine to extend that for the remainder of the month and i do want to say so far so good. and david did reach out to the people in the apartments and he had a great conversation with them, and there is one person who is unhappy. and however, he is in constant communication with her and is notifying her every time they do use the amplified sound and so far only a few times they did have a band on friday night and a band on sunday afternoon, as far as the coming week, if their permit is extending they will show vertico on friday note. and they will show all san
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francisco based movies. supervisor kim did receive the one complaint and they are following all of the rules and baring anything crazy happening it will be extended through november. >> and you know what the submit a calendar of what kind of events that her tolding? >> yeah. so it is kind of a work in progress, because the programming is informed by the community. and they did have the one, last night and someone broke into their shed that has all of their equipment and it looks like nothing pa major was stolen they don't have their
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sound equipment stored there, other than that it has been positive. >> great. >> commissioners? go ahead. >> the oasis is that the permit that we gave sam when he was alive? >> that is it. >> did it change hands? >> it did. as well. yeah. i didn't realize it was coming back. >> it didn't change hands because of a death, it was some change in ownership, like percentage and whatnot. it did not have to go back... >> the same group? >> yeah. >> okay. and then so i just wanted to make sure so that i know, okay. and the treasure island music festival, were you able to determine what was different about it this year? >> so the only thing that we could determine that was different was, they raised the stage height a bit, to accommodate the video,
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production, from a headliner, and which meant that the speaker array was a little higher, but, according to another planet, when the complaints began, on saturday, they shut those top, like top speakers off. and redirected it down and so according to them, and again, this is part of the process that we have and i explained to her that you were going to be very interested in hearing, maybe bring someone from sound on stage, to talk about this. and there really was nothing substantially different from the set up from the previous years, there was two stages, one faces down the lawn and one towards the residents on the island and the back to the city. and the weather was, i guess p and i was not here again, but i think that it was very warm on saturday. and then, not, and then it was cool on sunday. >> was it clear? >> it was very clear. so, again, we are trying to
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investigate, it is a tough one to nail down, necessary, but we did determine that the complaints primarily came from not only the people on hills, but people in towers on hills. and so, when, another planet representative drove into the city, to see what they could hear, they were low, they were not in towers or on hills so they could not hear a lot. so it was very intriguing because the reports were base, pounding noises and rattling windows but high up which is odd. >> they were unusual. >> right. >> so we don't know exactly, and we will just have to work on it and there may be a discussion on hours on the permit. and length of time. because, again, the complaint just simply i can hear it but i heard it for ten hours. >> how about just modifying the frequencies? >> so, in the complaints raised as far as vernal?
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