sent ahead the recommended approval on the mechanical amusement devices because they had them for a hundred years and i think it's a great way for the commission to have a foot in the door to enforce the good neighbor policy. with that being said it was brought to my attention that abc has done several under cover operations where they have bought narcotics from the door person at gestalt haus and served a search warrant on june 19 on gestalt haus and serving a 30 day suspension up and coming, so it's nice to see them coming into compliance. it would nice to see them following all of the laws, and lastly i'm

not quite sure why and i don't know if this is the forum for it but when abc requested that the arrestees employment rerds there -- records there were done. none and i don't know why that happens and with that said i love pin ball and ms. pacman and i challenger any of you and i think it's a great way to keep. > entertainment commission in the threshold to enforce the good neighbor policy. >> thank you. do we have any public comment on this? come on up. >> hello my name is eric wagoncenter. i would like to express my support for gestalt

haus petition to allow pin ball machines. as a competitive player in san francisco i like to see my hobby becoming more pob lar. we had the opportunity to speak before the commission about a month and a half ago and it's going well. the staff and management has been friendly to the pin ball community in san francisco. they welcome us, made a nice space for us in the back so we can have space by ourselves. my wife and i like to go in and enjoy a sandwich and beer on the weekends. we would like to have a tournament there occasionally, maybe four times a year if the permit comes through and if management is amenable to that and we hope the commission looks favorably on their petition. thank you. >> okay. thank you. >> [inaudible]

>> got it. thank you. okay. is there any other public comment on this application? seeing none. [gavel] the matter is with the commission. do i have a motion? >> i would like to make a motion to approve the application. >> i second. >> great. on the motion to approve with the good neighbor policy. commissioner perez. >> aye. >> commissioner akers. joe disbroa. >> aye. >> commissioner lee. >> aye. >> commissioner frost. >> aye. >> vice president hyde. >> aye. >> all right. congratulations. >> okay. so the last permit of the evening would be peter williams doing business as as yoshi's at 1330 fillmore street and a major amendment. yoshi's is some of the same people that's why we're asking for a major amendment to this permit

so with that we will bring them up to tell you more. >> hi everybody. i am peter williams and the artistic director at yoshi's and this is brad one of the managing directors and you probably have questions for us. i don't know. >> so you're taking over the -- are there changes that you're making? are there new formats? there is only one microphone so have to share. >> we're making changes. the name will change. let restaurant will change. there will be no more music in the restaurant. it's a restaurant and there shouldn't be music in the space. we pulled the stage out. that's taken care of hip hop and dj shows no more will continue there. we have a

beautiful music room and that's where the music will be and the focus will be. >> just to add to peter's point we're investing in capital improvements to the ground floor of the level of the restaurant and make it impossible to continue the music events in there since the space is where the stage used to with in regard to the improvements and other arrangements with the restaurant floor that would make it a dedicate restaurant location and make it impossible to continue those operations. >> great. do we have any questions? >> can i ask what you're changing the name to? >> we don't have a name yet. >> you're not affiliated -- is yoshi's in the east bay. you're not affiliated with them anymore? >> we're new owners but i

worked there for years and i opened the san francisco room and spent my time in oakland after that. >> so it's not a major amendment because it's completely new owners? >> no. it's [inaudible] owner and the owner of the space and the developer of the property, michael johnson. he's a part of the operation so that's why we consider it a major amendment. >> got you. can you tell me how you're going to modify your security plan? i mean what are you going to do different this time than the time before? >> in addition to limiting what we call the biggest issue in regards to security being the parties in the front we have advocate door staff. we're actively pursuing a dedicated club manager whose only role is to survey the event space when we have larger shows. in addition when we have the larger

shows we employ services outside security guards to assist us with our internal door staff. >> so you're going to have door staff are your employees and in addition you will hire security? >> on select showses we expect sell outs or a large number of people we will use our discretion to implement other security and we have door staff and looking to hire one more club manager immediately effective the beginning of the month or september. >> got it. so you told us the shows you're not going to v can you give us examples of showings you will have? >> we will do jazz, neno hip hop and african bands and sal swra and those things and i have a list of things we don't do and i mentioned a few.

>> okay. thank you. >> commissioner lee. >> on your application you say four security guards. so the restaurant is just a restaurant but let's say it's new year's eve and the whole place is rented or usable and the capacity is 760. i don't see the police conditions either. >> [inaudible] >> i think we're not really going by what you're writing for security if it's adequate and have for example new eve -- new years eve event. >> in that case we would pass along the responsibility on the purchaser of the venue to provide security upon approval all or in conjunction with that

sum plement with our own staff, but security is our number one priority, our number one issue and we will definitely work with them to implement our plan and have a good relationship with outside security companies. >> but i should add that the restaurant is just a restaurant. there is no music, dance events anymore because we don't want that. >> i understand. just there's food and whatever and there's still drinking in the restaurant during the activities even though there is no dancing there is still people. >> right. >> i have -- >> commissioner joseph. >> i have a question for staff. so when we permi permitting yoshis we're doing the whole place. >> you could. i'm not sure it's advisable as a business

proposition but we haven't done it historically in this commission. what we have done is allow a business to operate hopefully responsibly and then have them use their space as they see fit. >> i wasn't suggesting that we do that. i was curious to see if we could. thank you. >> if i could also just in terms of community outreach i know in the past yoshis was not big on community outreach. we have a person working with us to make sure we're reaching into the community. we're actually for a lot of the renovations we're been doing we're hiring local people out of the fillmore people to paint and plumbers and important to work with the community. we will do fundraising events and we're committed to

that in this venture. >> and we have some things with the westerneld igz and pac. is that correct? >> i'm sorry. i don't know what that is. >> it says here neighborhood contacts. have you met with neighborhoods or groups and proposed use of premise disps if so list the groups. you have three listed here. is it true and saying this is what we're doing? >> we reached out to those people and identified other key stakeholders we connected i have at community outreach consultant who is a fillmore resident. >> because the concern is not really like often with say a hotel. they went out and planted flowers and stuff like that which doesn't talk about

the idea of what the face is going to be used for and what this permit applies to and we want to make sure that the applicant goes out and talks about what the permit is about. have you done that? >> with those members listed on the application they're fully aware of what we're proposing. >> great. are there other questions? okay great. you can have a seat. >> thank you. >> do we have a member of -- >> northern station did submit conditions. it should be in your packet. >> i don't have any. >> it looks like this. it's kind of unusual for a police commission. >> in the back? >> yes. >> i don't see them. >> would you pliend -- >> no, i can read it to you. northern station has no problem with the application and by the

security listed and maintain good neighbor policy. no dj or miewivelg in the restaurant space and all in the performance venue only as stated in the application. >> okay. and you have seen those? okay. great. so do we have any public comment on this application? >> this is more than just a public comment. i am part of the community. let me start by stating i am in support of this and under conditions and i understand that's what you're all about and i observed yourself and i have several parallels asserted but two minutes i'm not going to do that so you count me as a community and give me enough time to make my presentation -- no, hold on soldier -- excuse me. listen e here you have demonstrated and i recorded here. first of all you

went out of contents and slide on the situation by not asking these people who i call perpetrators because neither one of the people are owners, stock owners and the guy that said he's going to [inaudible] i never seen him before want i know peter when he bought it the first time and stop them in the track because of a racial situation at yoshis and the 20th anniversary and no blacks there and i stopped them cold and redevelopment and i'm getting emotional. i in support of this but i request that you delay it now because there is a meeting in city hall. i call it silly hall on friday with michael johnson, the owner and some of the investments there, the real shakers and movers. i don't know what is going on there. i don't know what is in the police report and nobody from the police department and check the

records on how many times they were called and you the see about 15 times and ace on the case been arrested and falsely charged. i am emotional here. i came to support this and michael johnson is not here and why i came. i am appalled. i use that in all my -- i am appalled where the people feel confident and cocky that they can run through the system and not going through it like everybody else. not with ace on the case. >> thank you. i'm sorry you have two minutes just like everyone else. >> [inaudible] >> i'm going to ask you to have a seat right now. >> i'm not an individual. i'm not an ordinary. i am extra ordinary and my name is ace. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. no, no ace listen here. >> is there other public comment available? come on up. >> [inaudible] ask you respectfully to speak to you all because the procedure is beyond

the pail. >> we're not allowed. >> [inaudible] >> ace, we are not allowed. >> [inaudible] >> okay. ace, we are prohibited to give anyone more time than we give anyone else. >> [inaudible] >> but thank you so much and -- >> [inaudible] come and make -- the first guy first one and whoever and go on and on -- >> okay. public comment -- >> [inaudible] >> no, no, no -- [inaudible] is going on here. i call it silly hall and i am witnessing right now. [inaudible] how can this man come here and these are not the owners. i can show you the owners. this is michael johnson here and happens to be a black man and you're going tell me [inaudible] in our community. they're going to close up --

[inaudible] know nothing about that. now i am meeting with them on friday and i am totally appalled. [inaudible] call the chief. you don't have to put your hands on me. next thing you will put a gung on me because i'm a black man. jesus christ. i was here calm and waiting to speak for two minutes. >> [inaudible] >> hold on. back up. on a police hot dog? my name is ace. i have been on this case. i was born and raced in the [inaudible] and these people came to our community and ripped us off. you don't even ask about the outreach. i am the outreach of the community and now you're going to do this to me. i ask you respectfully don't have no kind -- give a permit. excuse me. what are you doing? don't do that to

me. you act silly. [inaudible] you know what? this is a new era -- [inaudible]. what are you going to do arrest me? what are you going to do shoot me? [inaudible] don't touch me. go back to training. you're the type of person -- all wrong. it's wrong. [inaudible] >> turn his mic off. you

can't? >> it's off. >> oh it is? >> [inaudible] >> whose glasses are those? >> i don't have no idea. >> great thank you. hi. >> hi, how are you? >> hi. i am jonah lamb and

behalf of the [inaudible] (low audio). with the yoshi's unit, and i think i only want to address one thing which is to have better sound proofing because with the previous management over at yoshis we received over 20 plus complaints with the lower residential units feeling the vibration and in their homes and that's about it. that's the only thing. >> may i ask a point of reference information. do you know if the sound was coming from like the restaurant area where they had that stage or if it was from inside? do you have an idea? >> that i'm not sure but they had club events there that we had numerous issues. i think

there were three violent incidents reported and one was a stabbing and one where 20 officers were present to control everything. i think it was mainly from the club events over the weekend. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there other public comment? >> good evening commissioners. my am step fan and a consultant in the city but i would like to speak as a patron and lover of yoshis in the fillmore. first i would like to say as long as the applicant meets all of the codes and requirements which seems to be i would ask you to approve this. part of the problems may be from the other ownership was the music from the frontage which probably leaked and that's why there were noise complaints. the music space itself which is

dedicated for music, built for music and the sound is contained in the room. i have been to many shows, spinners, natalie cole, stylistics. we need to keep that detroit, san francisco sound alive in the area in an area deemed for live music and i urge you to support this with any conditions that the police department has and obviously after you review them but keep music alive in the fillmore. thank you. >> thank you. all right. well, the matter is now with the commission. and the police conditions again -- i am wondering if you could read those quickly. >> yeah, i will read them and hand them to you. i'm sorry they're not in the binder. basically approve with the good neighbor policy and no dj music promoter in the music space and

all events held in the performance venue as stated in the application. >> great. all right. do we have a motion? >> i move to approve. >> okay. do we have -- >> second. >> great. so i would like to make a friendly amendment to add the police conditions to that approval if it's okay with you? >> yes. the police conditions says that there should be no performances in the restaurant and i think we have to strike that one. >> strike the one without performance in the -- >> okay. >> do we have to strike that? >> my question is it says no dj club promoter events in the music space and all held in the performance venue so you can

strike one or both. >>i would like to keep both personally. >> we talked about it and you said we don't normally do that. >> no. i said don't separate physicality and for the entire space. i understand your unease if you will but in the police conditions is a reiteration of what is in the application and a reminder any of the conscience if they need to be. >> >> conditions and need to be amended they can come back to the commission for amendment. >> all right. so i withdraw that. >> great. >> what about the number of security staff? was there a issue with that. >> we're going with the old and they have one for every 50 in here. it's all right with me. >> so for every 50 of the total occupancy of seven 60.

>> whatever the event requires. and one every 50. if you feel that is too much. >> so if we say there is no entertainment in the restaurant whether it's outside promoters or any entertainment. >> just the show room. they only need in the show room. >> only need security in the performance room and that occupancy is 400. >> again it doesn't stop them from having a large new years -- some kind of festival and people are dining and drinking in the restaurant there should be a couple of security guards in there. that's totally up to them. >> okay. >> possible. >> it says 400 in the performance space so you can go ahead and do it that way. >> i am just clarifying.

>> okay. so we have a something going on here so we have a motion and a second on the table adding the police conditions, so cammy blackstone. >> no, i just want to make a clarification so we are issuing -- are we issuing an entirely new permit with the police conditions or are we amending the current permit and adding on the police conditions? >> that's the question. >> that is my question. >> do we have the original police conditions? >> it's in the permit that is in the packet. >> so i want you to understand with respect to what you're looking at in the packet and says permit and amended really big on it. those conditions were placed on there because of problems reiterate by the

community member and primarily because of the shows that were taking place in the restaurant area. those conditions were imposed on the previous operator s via an action by the director in 1060. they don't necessarily have to be applied to and i don't know that they make any sense frankly being applied to the new operation, but you can do as we said many times -- >> let me ask you a question -- >> any of the things -- >> so this major amendment is based on ownership and have they requested amendment to the previous conditions as well? >> i don't believe they made that direct request. however, logically what we intended to do is take like the obvious intention of the commission if you can be clear and make the proper amendments to the permit

so they're not living with conditions that don't make sense based on the conversation you're having. >> but the point is they didn't ask for that. they're asked for it based on ownership. they didn't can for any other amendment. so is it -- >> then i would like to say that i think we should take a vote on the old one and then discuss a new way to look at this permit so that we can get passed -- >> [inaudible] >> vice president hyde what you can do and this an amendment you can amend the old permit by losing the conditions that no longer apply and substituting the conscience that northern station hassing suggested along with the good neighbor policy. >> then what i would like to do. >> [inaudible] can we withdraw the motion? >> no. we're going to amend

the motion to say to remove the old conditions on the permit, and apply the good neighbor policy and the new police commission -- police conditions instead which would mean that the one in 50 that was applied because there were so many problems before will no longer apply, but it will be as a good neighbor policy states one for every hundred. is that correct? yeah. >> okay. >> all right. >> northern station isn't here to talk about this, but did they only put the conditions, the new conditions because they knew the old conscience were in place? >> >> officer we went over this a couple of times and he agreed

that the problems had to do with having the performance in the club and having the promoters in the restaurant space and he was satisfied now that the restaurant space has been taken out and the performance space has been sound proofed he was comfortable with the performance area. >> and going with the new conditions? >> and commissioner frost should there be problems we can have them come back in and recondition their permit but because it's a new grounds that's -- yeah, we're giving them a chance before restricting them to one to every 50 which say bit much. >> okay. so we have a motion and a second to approve the permit removing the conscience on the previous. >> conditions on the previous permit and adding permits from negotiation station. >>