i brought this up tax twitter and fine google buses and fund the healthy program free advise no charge (clapping.) thank you. next speake thank you. next speaker. hello, i'm a native san franciscan i live in the glen park neighborhood. i'm a mother and a grandmother i would like to say that i know it's up to families to educate their children and let them know that sodas with not good for your. in my house i don't buy sodas but i'm sure my kids drink them but this take into consideration is not a way to stop people from drinking sodas and curve obesity. that's not the only thing that

contributes to obesity we're already paying for the containers those sodas come in and i feel like what's going to be next their taxes sodas what else will they tax so, please don't tax that. thank you. thank you, ma'am >> next speaker i'm going to call one more name michael is the last card i have if anyone else wants to speak please step forward. >> hi, i'm brittany i'm the government relations director for the american heart association i'm here to support in legislation there are strong things e links between sugar sweetened beverages and obesity and a rectangle disfunction the premature deaths and the list

goes on consumers are not aware that one sugary drink a day can lead towards obesity i applaud you because through introducing this you've begun a conversation of what people are impacting their body i hope this leads to a passage but greater understanding of the links between sugar sweetened beverages and type 2 diabetes. >> good afternoon. i'm michael and thank you for letting me speak. really quickly kevin and i are on opposite side of the issue i think we're not trying to band soda but i've said this the same

argument in you look at 25 years ago you've heard about cigarette machines in lou gehrig's disease stores it's cheaper to buy sodas then water i brought up the example to a v8 people don't realize how much sugar is in it and it's billed as a health drink a i applaud you >> is there any public comment? so mr. chairman we can close it. >> seeing none, public comment is closed supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. chairman i want to thank everyone on both sides who come out there's a lot of views that's healthy that's what a democracy is about our

debate and decision of the board is no to the enact the tax but to ask the voters if 2/3rd's of them wants to generate $38 million a year and there will be a vigorous discussion but in the end the voters is weigh in. i thought that was a helpful hearing on both sides i've heard interesting things i want to respond or comment on a few of the themes. first we've heard a number of times this is a regressive tax on protecting contingence. well you know what i will say people should look at the map that the department of public health put out the low income

families will have the highest rates of diabetes and if you talk to anyone in general hospital they'll tell you the epidemic of people with cubes and people getting amputations and people going blind its hard that's a regressive takes into consideration tax in terms of health. a number of the opponents made some interesting argument that support the legislation. and there was a reference to a sugar sweetened beverage as quote/unquote as unsafe products and we've heard don't tax it put a warning label on that it was one in the state legislation and the american beverage legislator

killed it so we hear don't tax it only give people information but at the same time they're trying to prevent the information through a basic warning label. we have heard about choice that's an important discussion to have one of the last public condemners really addressed that we're not banning anything there are people saying we should band it we're not banning it we're saying this artifical cheap beverage should not be cheap when people make a purchasing decision it's not a choice for the corner syrup those drinks are artificially chapel it's not

a choice when money is spent toward lawyers toward kids and protecting communities their drizzle marketing to get kids hooked and to make sure those are lifetime drinkers and people really don't know how many teaspoons of sugar in the drinks when i tell people they have 10 teaspoons of sugar in it but the bench industry has stopped the information we'll help people to make healthier choices and not have drinks that are highly subsidize and finally in terms of the governments roll and we

all everyday we make choices about what is the government's roll brown whether it's an alcohol tax or helmets requiring people to wear helmets the government frequently helps to make sure that we have a healthyer society when we move towards 1 in 3 people having diabetes that's catastrophic it effects us as insurance watts rates goes up and our tax dollars taking care of people that don't have insurance we have a orange county as a community to have those discussions and take steps to have a healthier community so colleagues with that, i'll make a motion to adapt the technical clean up amendments we've mentioned at the beginning and thank you for your time and

support >> thank you supervisor wiener we have a motion and a second do i want to comment. >> yeah. thank the supervisors and jeff and i want to say thank you so much for the perspectives that were presented and we're helping to increase the education on the impacts of sugar sweetened beverages and other harmful foods and beverages. i wanted to say from the coalition of true soda tax coalition it's allowing the young people that are engaging many merchant also the pedestri pedestrian s and others i believe that science is on our side like the soda tax and public tax experts and

researchers on our side on our the other side are profits and the american beverage association may not have bought kevin but they've started lawyers earlier but don't believe their lies they're trying to protect their profits science is on the side of the folks looking at our children my child was born in 2000 they say that one in 3 people will have diabetes if we do nothing that is a better future for our generation. i think this is not an overreach but a reasonable measure i believe that big soda and the american beverage association

have been marketing with tv and print all over the place that's on overreach that harms young people that's why the generations have tripled in the last thirty to 40 years since coca-colas have bloomed to the big gulp sizes and very large with the high fruk to say corn syrup are the ad itself off to the energy drinks we need to look at the offer reach of the big soda especially to younger and encourage which were in our community. lastly i want to say that is an important measure for the health not only of san francisco but other cities and jurisdictions around the world that are looking at what we do to protect

the public health and the future of the children my hope with the coalition we'll pass this measure in november and make history in san francisco 3 will spread to other cities and hold hold big soda accountability so thank you to supervisor wiener and also supervisor avalos and supervisor cohen and supervisor chiu and supervisor campos >> thank you, supervisor wiener. >> in addition to our staff and offices jeff and peter and in supervisor mar's office i want to thank. >> city attorney for our expertise into the legislation. >> thank you, supervisor wiener so colleagues, we have a motion on the floor can i have a second can we take that without

objection? so moved and colleagues, we need to let that sit for a week so continue in one week we'll take that without objection. as well. okay madam clerk, any other business before this commission? >> there's no further business. >> thank you everyone we're

>> good afternoon and welcome to the board of supervisors land use committee i'm scott wiener the chairman to my right it supervisor kim our vice chair and supervisor cohen. our clerk is andrea and thank you sfgovtv for broadcasting jessie larson and jonathan madam clerk, any announcements? phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please file all indulgence to

the clerk and items on today's agenda will be on the next meeting. >> i believe madam clerk we're attempting to identify on overflow room. >> that's correct. >> so we'll have an overflow room we have blue cards in the front if you're interested please fill out a blue card and note the number on the agenda you wish to address. madam clerk cail item one >> it's a resolution for the vail controls in the castro neighborhood district. >> thank my co-sponsors supervisor campos and supervisor mar. those are interim zoning controls to address a specific issue in terms of projects that

are determined by planning department staff to constitute fvrl and those projects make a change to one or two aspects to try to remove the project from formulating in the castro and other parts of the city as well there's i'm sure you're aware of colleagues sensitivity around the formula retail how it fits into our neighborhood. i have been a strong supporter of the conditional use detail as laid down out rather than banning formula retail have a good cuffing e conditional use controls is the best way to appear before the planning commission to express views

about the formula retail use a appropriate we'll have conditions in the castro district where a formula retail use has made a change to some aspects of the issue the planning commission determined it would have to go through the formula retail process and the planning department ultimately determined it didn't those are place where the project is formula retail if a chance to this and that aspect is made the project nevertheless, will have to go through the formula retail process and closing the loophole in our law. i want to note we have a larger process take place within the

planning department and supervisor mar to update our formula retail controls i'm hoping those are move forward r with one measure and their ultimately will be legislation but this will bridge the way and they'll become mute once the larger formula retail moves forward and becomes law with that, i'll ask for your support we'll open this up for. is there any public comment? item one i do have some cards i'll call out (calling names) i apologize for mispronouncing your names.

(calling names) and you don't have to testify in the order i'm called you. cannibis dispensary. thank you, supervisor wiener supervisor cohen and supervisor kim i was contacted by the health foundation to make sense of a planning process that was opening a pharmacy and incline first, the planning department told the aids health care foundation they didn't need a formula retail permit then the planning department said the conditional use was for the square footage of the project

and two because of formula retail issues and the suspended work on the project then the board of appeals said the planning department was wrong but had to work out the aids issues they wanted to know what the do and the work was done with the planning department and the zoning administrator said the suspense on the work could stop this is with back before the formula retail issue this is a process that has been going on for many, many months a it unfairly targets this health care clinic and pharmacy this is not where we consider a formula retail use this won't change the mixed use in the neighborhood moving one pharmacy to another location and certainly not

walgreens or cvs but a health care foundation for service to the patients. to derail this with the legislation we're almost through the process of the broiling i think it's bad public policy and bad because the health care agency wants to serve the people in the city thank you very much >> next speaker >> hello adam for the aids health care foundation. aids health care is a nonprofit health care provider for over 12 years serving uninsured includes and the employment over 45

hundred people in san francisco we sponsored and participate in pride street festivals and other events giving money to a lot of the other agencies that is done with our own money not funded by san francisco government we've put in a lot of money. those intermediate control measures are simply moving the existing services in the castro are details and time is money, money means test and treatment and medical care the more time we have to deal with that this means jobs and people often the most marginalized in the city of people getting sicker

>> thank you. next speaker. >> hi dale with the aids health care foundation the opposition is political and has nothing to do with land use. the owns and other aids groups have opposition to how to treat this this is a lack of argument how the impact is impacting the use use not castro and there's an existing operation they're using this process and it's improper even if one sympathies one people are harmed that have aids and the testing and prevention is unable to be provided because of the costs it shouldn't be in the mid of this thank you, thank you

>> next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors ryan on behalf of the aids health care foundation. we have a number of concerns you've heard i want to flag a couple of legal concerns this project has so far received a designation by the planning department for not the sequa this is incorrect this will likely result in the per was of the blight by creating or maintaining vacant front in the castro. to the extending stent this project is being targeting by this proposed control we believe it may constitute impermissible zoning as well. the purpose is to validate the approvals that have been obtained by this project and that concerns the due process. as a matter of concrete impacts

i'll note the tenants of this noticed that a homeless person is taking up residence in a doorway and there's are impacts in the neighborhood as a legal matter it is very clearly impermissible and should be given a few sequa review if this is not done prior to the legislation the h f is prepared to take legal action to take the necessary steps for the purposes. thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you very much i represent san francisco aids foundation we're the larger provider of the services we'll serve more than 15 thousand san franciscan and identify himself- positive people.

your includes are along the margin in his in the city. as you know we're in the process of co- locating 3 which our programs in the castro in a single-space and despite the large deserve ability we sought and got an authorization bus because it was the right thing to do the process took longer and was difficult but in the end the feedback we've received from the community resulted in a project that is more desirable to the neighborhood i'm strongly supportive to show that all uses are considered in a hearing that accident planning commission will listen to the public and decide whether the proposed uses whether or not this is a

desirable program regardless of the castro location aids health care foundation is a los angeles based global foundation that recorded more than $770 million in revenue. should that be allowed to expand in the castro that's a question for the people in the community. i urge you to weigh in on this, please for the legislation >> next speaker >> as an hiv positive activist in the community i've been involved and throughout the process there is different governmental organizations that have tried to engage this process and the puck was interested in what their vision for the castro