to the san francisco board of supervisors land use commission i'm scott wiener the chairman of the committee to my right is supervisor jane kim and to my left is supervisor cohen our clerk is ash debris i know to

thank sfgovtv for broadcasting today'ser here e hearing specifically jessie larson and others. >> madam clerk, any announcements? yes part of the file should be spimentd to the clerk and the agenda today will be on the september you 24 agenda. >> madam clerk call item one. >> item one is an ordinance amending the ninth amendment entertainment greater than 25 thousand jooet square feet in western sylmar. >> supervisor jane kim i'm a co-chairs wall. >> thank you colleagues for your consideration and supervisor wiener and supervisor campos for your co-sponsoring this legislation was recommended by the planning commission is a set of clean up legislation meant to honor the original it

is not of the western selma plan to allow communities while supported a difference character in the western selma plan when was passed last year and, of course, had begun through a 7 year process in the clean up legislation we made two primary changes one is to allow elementary secondary childcare use beyond the 25 thousand square feet use site restriction and this restriction was put in place to insure we had a diversity have used along that two corridors with freeway to make sure there was a diversity of ground floor activation how have in our discussions prior to planning the silver plan we already considered a k through 89 school in the neighborhood we have a need for elementary and

secondary school in the western selma area we have one major school serving the neighborhood and want to make sure that others can specifically the pre k through 8 that has already started their school on this corridor we want to allow to continue to grow, and, secondly, the western selma plan in the legislation and fks in the neighborhood has recognized as a cultural place for the lgbt community we want to support the night life that provides jobs and entertainment too was our original idea to allow entertainment but a slight overview on a parcel that was entertainment we wanted to continue the. >> but had to put in 0 clean up language and in particular this

site appreciatively had the 2r5er789 in keeping with the area i think it is so important for us to continue the work especially the day after the 31st anniversary of the fulsome street fair my understanding the largest fulsome street fairy know i was there on fulsome street address great to see so many friends and die-hard registries we topped the 40 average mark of visitors maintaining the mudding character can be a challenge as we residential groebl growth and i want to thank the planning staff to make the changes and preserve the integrity of the plan i also want to thank presidio knoll community i jeff for prior training shop for their continued outreach to the neighborhood and the community

and want to recognize ann marie rogers that be here to answer questions if any thank you, ms. roger. >> thank you, mr. rogers hold on i mean, i'll ask for opening remarks thank you supervisor kim to correct the problem in the western selma plan to let the night life use move forward were there should be night life i had a lot of respect for the work that supervisor kim and her office and members of the community did in moving in western selma plan forward i ultimately did not vote for that plan that was a 10 to one so obviously i was think the losing side even though there's a lot of good in the plan in my view it was not support of night life in a neighborhood that is one

the epic centers of lgbt night life in our city we know that night life in san francisco is incredibly important as part the cultural heart of the city it is what makes our city what it is in so many ways all too often night life is a problem to be tolerated or a thorn in the side to be dealt with we know that's not the case so one of the first things i requested our city visits do a night life plan it was was a $2. million industry and those 53 thousand jobs i think it is those jobs tend to

be jobs that are very accessible to people you don't have to have an advanced degree a maigd and working class job for people that all ages one of the challenges that we've had with night life in san francisco is zoning are and i'm a believer in zoning there are areas in night life is appropriate and where it is but there are times our zoning becomes r50i6b8g or r50i6b9 it is hard to have night life in areas where everyone will agree that night life should be this area is certainly one of those areas where night life is completely appropriate and a good important thing i know that supervisor kim and i went through a multiply year and supervisor campos as well as stiletto mission alcoholic

controls that are riveting that was was undermining all sorts of cultural used whether the 0 bowling alleys and so on and so forth we finally addressed that i'm glad we're addressing this here today as i said i know the proprietors of this future endeavor at the site it's. >> wonderful thing for the community i am a lot of people have been waiting with abated breath and jeff and everyone for this project to move forward we've spent a number of years looking for a suitable site and it's challenging to find one i think you've found one i'm glad to be able to make the zoning change

and thank you supervisor kim and her staff for moving forward with that, ms. rogers. >> thank you very much supervisors emily rogers with the plaintiff i think it's been described and it is a very exciting your honor, and forward-looking neighborhood that welcomes schools for the district and the district felt this legislation will further the goals and recommended approvals with modifications that were incorporated we know the supervisor for that sue thank you. >> thank you, ms. rogers if no comments we'll open this up for public comment i have a few comment cards. >> (inaudible). >> i'll call the comment cards

(calling names) i'm sorry i'm going to mispronounce this name sorry. (calling names). come on up. >> i'm sorry i'm not dressed up i want to thank all the supervisors for their support and we are all up here we're partners this is darcy and jeff and jason i'm excited about the prospective of having a home basis for entertainment it is my dream to not just have a venue where we just serve alcohol to people and kick them to the curve but provide a genuine entertainment and night life so i've been doing shows in san

francisco for almost 20 years i'm really, really so honored and thankful you guys are helping us to provide this class entertainment. >> yeah. i want to thank supervisor kim and supervisor wiener and particularly april supervisor kim was incredibly helpful and supervisor wiener i really want to appreciated your acknowledging how difficult and supervisor kim how championing to open up a new venue and how brave we have to be and your support it helpful and meaningful we closed on the building today snungs with this meeting so, so i just got that message and are you going to -

did that mean shut up. >> when the light fell. >> oh, we get to hug. >> the golden hug my name is meg murray i'm a fellow artist and performer here in the city i've come to speak in favor of the proposed change i'm very excited for the supportive you've given. >> this is unnecessary zoning control had negative ramifications that needed to be rectified and outside the castro the entertainment is vicarious and we have a change to make this win the existing corridor it is a well-organized area this buffer inclusion was designed in fear of potential conflict in

the 11 street venue and the grandfathering is two broad of zoning control and sets the property at risk for housing development with the zoning change the stewardship is placed into the hands of the folks that make this district and the culture and revenue to the city this is a project that's with good neighbors so bring this site to life today thank you. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm nancy stage name nancy french so thank you, supervisors i lived in santa fe san francisco since 193 and i've been an actor and event producer and representing lee at least one dozen families members and friends that couldn't come

including my brother in fulsome and 11 and a friend that owns a condo across the street from the da of west west silver i moved here because of the space so far the performing artists and the lgbt community san francisco oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light is going through another change and the tech boom has attracted other folks that define the culture in this zoning question part of what attracts the residents to the silver strict is the vibrate art but ironicly those are the reason for people losing their homes i've worked at the theatres and we've built inclusive clubs this club is a much needed permanent venue so far the local artists i feel

it's important to stabilize the art and there's strong support among the neighbors supporting this club to preserve the culture we've supported and folks live lessor because of the energy not despite of it i'm glad i can live here and without those folks san francisco wouldn't be san francisco thank you. >> thank you very much mr. meek 0. >> thank you, supervisors jim medicare so, so. lies have been spoken about the silver project ward to entertainment i'm going to. >> mice e my two years the plan was two years for those who work and lived and played south of market the western selma plan opened up 1/3rd