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entertainment commission we're going to start with a role call. >> do you want to do a announcement about develops. >> if you have cell phones leave them on vibrate if you wish to speak fill out the speaker cards and come as you are called and thank you to sfgovtv and the 3 to 4 services for presenting this live to the public. >> thank you very much commissioner . commissioner joseph >> here. . commissioner lee. commissioner campagnoli. >> here. . president tan we have a quorum and commissioner perez is out of the country i'm not sure about commissioner akers we probably will expect her.

the first is. this is for any comment that is not agendized if you feel you have something that's relevant to our work looks like we have one person standing. please introduce yourself into the microphone >> good afternoon, commissioners is the overhead working. i'm jordan i've appeared before you i'm trying to open a new lounge on broadway. i wanted to show you this article in regards to the liquor moratorium it's a hot issue and there's a lot of debate in the neighborhood. i want to leave this with the clerk just want to mention one thing about the article in the article

it refers to my project as a night club we're a lounge i want to make sure we're defined we're not going to be a night club like party buses and promoters we're trying to go for a lounge atmosphere >> any other any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. we'll move on to review and approval the minutes from february 4th >> commissioners any changes or comments on the minutes. >> i move to approve. >> second. >> great can we take to vote. >> sure. commissioner campagnoli. commissioner lee. commissioner joseph >> i. . president tan i. moving to the report from the executive director ms. king >> thank you very much.

i'm sorry today, we had a holiday so i didn't get anything into the binders the report is short. i want to let the commission know as of march one have a new city attorney assignment and so we were happy with our last city attorney a deny their shuffling things around like they do every year or so, so our new city attorney been francesco can i don't see here today but hopefully, she'll attend in the near future so you'll welcome her. we use the city attorney has sparely as possible but she has experience with the board of appeals so that's important.

i think she'll be a great asset she worked with us on the america's cup appeal the hearing on late night transportation i brought up previously that was called by supervisor wiener. i have a file number now if you want it was just the request for hearing. it will be at land use on march 24th to until that agenda is finally published it can be changed and it's for the mta and bart and ac transit and all the transportation network company from the taxi industry. i know we had spoken about having a hearing here and

implicit that's at your pleasure but i'll ask the commission to wait until that hearing is done to see what issues come up at this point, because i've asked supervisor wiener's office to be at the beginning the discussion so i hope to continue to talk about whatever items come up and the more general hearing >> should the industry attend that hearing at land use? >> that's open right now and with supervisor wiener's office, i.e.. leaving it to him to tell us whether or not that would be beneficial. >> he'll let you know so you can let the industry know. >> that's correct. i want to remind you that the retreat is march 29 i hope y'all

got the e-mail. we've secured some space at the battery that's actually going to be interesting. those of you remember we issued a permit it's entirely opened up to the public it will be an interesting meeting. we're working on catering for this but basically your whole morning. and the submit is april will 7 so i know that's a little bit into the future but again want you guys to put that on calendar if you plan to attend. i don't have any corrective actions to report, however, one item that came up today that i wanted to see if you guys would

be so kind as to entertain a short presentation by sf heritage they called us today it ask if we would basically nominate the legacy barn program for a national award. are you here. . the are you the director >> director. >> will tell you about that and see if you feel this project is worthy and maybe direct staff. >> good evening. i'm mike the executive director of the san francisco heritage we're a 43-year-old preservation organization in san francisco. tonight thank you for the opportunity to speak that tonight as mentioned we're planning to submit a honor award

for the national preservation for the legacy bars and restaurants project. i don't know if you all are familiar with the project but background we launched this initiative in january of 2013. the current threats to those types of legacy establishments have been in operation for 40 years or more and have significance cultural to the industry we've seen many typical tools like landmark designation proved insight to raise the awareness of those businesses. we've had a successful year including partnership with the entertainment commission and the mayor's office in announcing our

third round at the event in pseudo beach. we have printing of a self guided walking tour map and a book with hay day and we've it's been a tremendously popular initiative it's been suggested we should apply for the honor awards and it should come from the entertainment commission. it was my request to jocelyn today and she suggested i come down here and answer any questions you might have >> so it's not the building but the business? >> that's right. >> and though side this help or save the business we all know what happened to the gold dust.

>> that's a great question. our initial goals were to raise the significance of this industry and to create tools to market themselves as special you hear about new restaurants and bars opening all the time but to a lesser degree. so more than any other project we've been involved in trying to actually save buildings this project has garden everyday widespread recognize you've familiar with the peed piper being removed that was the third year and we're able to mobilize an online petition for people to

talk about their dismay >> but the hotel didn't have to change their mind. >> that's right. >> any building be owner can evict someone. >> this project is entirely saving we have no role whatsoever. >> and in getting f this award get you what. >> this for historic preservation organization is a groundbreaking advocate strategic and my hope is to slating it and have it embraced by national organizations will help. the national historic preservation has received a grant to launch its own counterpart to the legacy project. there's a lot of support within

the organization for that >> any other questions or comments. >> the question for me i remember r i mean, i see sam in there i personally am attached to the project. first, i kind of heard about you know what you've done, you know, and it's a great thing. but it's ongoing we found the site pretty sure but how can you help it's all new to me i know you're having the issues but the bottom line is the landlord we lost the original building of it >> eventually and we've discussed f this eventually this will lead to the creation of incentives to extend the leases as an example of those types of

heritage businesses. one thing we've done in the first year is to identify case studies really around the world in the new york times efforts to save the british pubs and we've cataloged success stories like the r s program which is slarp to what we've been trying to do is identify those heritage businesses for them to qualify for small business grants. sam low we've been working with the family and also obviously, we're aware of the current state of that issue. there are things beyond the legacy project to help to bring resources to that project >> are you going to be able to walk through the kitchen that

was the whole thing. >> maybe the new kitchen. >> i'd like to talk about that afterwards what you think we can be doing. >> any final thoughts. do we need to vote on this as a directive >> this is an action item i'm not sure you need to take action but you have in the past and easily could direct staff to work with this and look around at your fellow commissioners i'm not really sure. >> that would be a great idea. >> i don't want to create any sunshine but the timing was crucial this is due on march one that's why this all