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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
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opened up 1/3rd of the area to provide entertainment far more in district 8 or 9. but because of pressure from the entertainment lobby and those behypothetical to it supervisor kim felt compelled to a shoe horn this essential zone into the neighborhood florida the western selma plan would have been implemented all clubs would have been grandfathered in and no buffer zones to worry about this is predicted on the need for everyone to be a good neighbor the court: surely. there has to be rules when it it easy to open a club but tough rules for the neighborhood whether in pacific heights or south of market we're bound by one big
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idea everyone is entitled to the quiet use of their home and if you don't respect it every neighborhood has a right to haul your butt into small clams court where neither the facebook friends or scott wiener can help you it was our desire is welcome new forms of entertainment 0 into the neighborhood so i hope our lady to be part of the community step one be a good neighbor. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you talk about this as a planning code night life entertainment at one time an entertainer a restaurant but the following day they were singing songs of elvis presley so i can
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sing 3 songs its only restaurant we like to go to the theatre and no movie happening now days see we shawl my bell someday down to get some hey, i love i love you i love so i love you to the death universal passes away see i can sing some songs but restaurants is chinatown and the richmond oh, fillmore just restaurants it's hard for people to move if they don't realize they'll spend hours flofbtd screen moving things see so theatre no, we can
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enjoy beetle or to my point it is restaurants should be the promotion for the night life yeah. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi i want to thank you for putting forth this amendment to supports our schools that are growing rapid 40 years a year and we'll be good neighbors and happy our two causes are joined. >> together that's a nice juxtaposition have san francisco (laughter) thank you very much >> thank you very much is there any additional public comment on item number one? seeing none, public comment is closed supervisor kim >> thank you i want thank everyone that came out for public comment and i agree with als it is a nice pain and
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suffering it speaks to the difficult balance in the community plan so many eyes want to be in silver whether presidio manufacturers and schools and office i think that's why the plan had just layers of zoning throughout the neighborhoods really to be able to we had the mixed use neighborhood that western selma is known for i want to address the lovinglyth street corridor we spent a lot of time and the change it is is it true we were going to grandfather the used including the oasis club but worried about the zoning with potential residential coming to 11 street and not every relationship is a nightmare but the one resident that lived across from flynn
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that was shutting down the club every other night but not inviting more residents for the corridor that had been there so the change was to make sure we were allowing office that is more long with entertainment we connected to fulsome actually, the large large mbdz particle but it was important for the buffer in the entertainment corridor we had a long, long history and it was really a mix-up with the wonderful and the zoning change also our intention for it to continue the is entertainment use very excited about the shop turning
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2081 and lard to becoming legal and for the growth of presidio and knowles history they need another school in the south of market neighborhood i hear it amendment from the residents i'm glad to include you in the first name so colleagues again ask for your positive recommendation and move this to the full board of supervisors. >> is that a motion. >> yeah. >> the motion to move item to the full board is that a committee report. >> yes. >> so the motion is to forward item one to the full board of supervisors with with a positive recommendation as a committee report we'll take that without objection. >> yes. >> that will be the order okay madam clerk call item 2. >> item 2 is an ordinance for the administration code for the film production fees with no requirement.
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>> supervisor cohen the author. >> thank you all right. everyone thank you colleagues for hearing this the legislation before us today will require filming companies to provide notification to neighboring businesses and residents within one hundred and 50 foot radius should their filming production activity be expecting to obstruct traffic or close streets or tapping take up partially it adds web schedules to the production you, you should have received in front of you a fee technical amendments it increases the lead time from twenty-four hours to 72 hours when i understand green from the city attorney are non-substantive we've seen an increase in the film productions across the entire city it's a great thing with when we're seen
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around the world it is equally important we provide alp notice to residents and the businesses that might be impacted by the flom so it is involving streets that are closing that cause unnecessary disruption in people's everyday lives i've heard from many of my constituents and many of yours from eight and 6 about concerns about the lack of outreach and notification to the businesses and residents when film production is footprint in the neighborhood while finalizing the legislation we've dealt with the removal of parking garages in the katrero neighborhood first floor for the duration of 3 months with no advanced outreach to the recipe or
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businesses just yesterday, my staff received a parking garage removal and limited streets in mission in the mission neighborhood tomorrow without requiring the 72 hours parking sign it's my hope this legislation will bridge this communication gap and provide the residents and businesses the information that they need to consider bely prepare for disruptions caused by the film production companies ze we have a representative from the film commission that's hear if you have any questions oh, you're here oh. >> scoping commission meeting we have a meeting going on simultaneously. >> u but thank you for being here. >> we've been working with supervisor cohen's office i understand the desire for
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notification to the neighborhoods and the richmond residents about filming which is done i have to say most of the time under our general guidelines i understand supervisor cohen's to have this written into the code however, i would request that we consider reverting back to the oriental twenty-four hour notice as opposed to 72 the reasons why are that very often with future films with more lead time for a production they come into town a month in advance haven't had take more time to actually set up their shoots because we have commercial shoots very often they're coming in with less than a week time of actually looking for a location confirming their
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locations and negotiating the contract and shooting the location and sometimes that location manager is working with one set of locations and the director comes in two days before and says it's not going to work and so forth so that might cause a change in the 72 advance notice another thing that effect the productions ability to invite 72 hours in advance is that an actor is not available suddenly because their ill or another scheduling problem so the production has to cancel what at the intent and because they've hired the staff very often they'll shoot another sweeney screening with an actor that is available and come back to the schedule for the day
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a flight can be cancelled and weather whether it's raining not that we've had rain it does happen it effects the productions ability to shoot so they have to push to the next day and even construction which all the construction in the city construction going on nearby that the production had not anticipated can cause noise issues they can't get sound i unfortunately, sometimes both the construction project and our program have been given approval for no parks in the same spot and suddenly the luxury i production can't shoot there so my request would be that we continue with the 24-hour notice because i think then we're more
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likely to meet the deadline with more accuracy and percentage number and people will generally be more happy if we stay 72 hours then the 72 how notice is not met i want to point out about the notice for no parking restrictions and areas in there is posted with no meters we need to post a no parking the general transportation code is 72 hours in advance, however, there is a clause in the transportation code section 3.4 that gives the film commission the ability to post twenty-four hours in advance of the parking restrictions so it seem like this would be in line with that expectation to the transportation code. >> okay. can i ask a couple of
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questions so the way i read the line the phone company when feasible have the 72 hours in advance that reads to me if it's not feasible the flight is cancelled or flight cancelled that means gift the affectionate to the commission it's not feasible give them 72 hours. >> when feasible which we appreciate that but i think we'll have i would think you'd be disappointed in the amount of productions that would not been able to do the the 72 hours visitations due to unexpected
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changes that is why i ask we agree to meet more often than not with the twenty-four hours window. >> i mean, we do encourage productions to do notification more than twenty-four hours in advance but i just feel like it is important not to set a bar that wouldn't be choufd well. >> is that another question what do other cities do that have robust filming do we know. >> what their other visitations policies are and yeah. >> i'm sad to say i don't have. >> it's educate in the parking challenges, of course, and then so have we i've not heard this in my district
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happening but are people getting towed. >> we discourage towing and there have been occasions when people are towed but there's an expectation to the rolling rule and the officer will run the plates and call the owner if it's nearby they make every attempt to find find the owner before towing and very often the location manages will work around it with the production. >> i ask because obviously you know there's the inconvenience factor if those spots are unviable but if someone gets towed it's a whole level of frustration i could see with twenty-four hours notice someone would easily miss that if their
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away or not driving their cars and all of a sudden it's twenty-four hours and they get towed or if their away they might not be available to move the car i guess the benefit of 72 hours is because you're not able to leave the car in one spot you shouldn't be doing that to begin with so maybe another question for the author i noticed in the original version it was 72 hours and changed to twenty-four hours talk about the rational and in terms of the one feasible language in terms of your exceptions author because there will be circumstances we can't do 72 hours it reads like the possibility but we want to make sure that the neighbors don't see the sfusd's hours and
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focus on that and anytime there's deviation people become unhappy and they violate the 72 hours can you talk about the rational for this. >> how we came to decide on the hours noichgs that was organic it came from the community we met with the film production and they suggested 72 hours but upon further review from a lot of the constituents they're the ones that are impacted and a it as well as the filming and they asked the question which which was a valid one why twoirz when other parts of city is 72 that's a really very real and universal requirement the space
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is 72 hours of evaporates for the authorized permit this is no different it's unfair to think people can leave their car in the street and maybe they're on vacation which is permitted by city law but can find their car towed because of filming notification did that makes sense i gave an example in i opening remarks one person gait got a notice of parking not available and another example in front of of the world give him signs are designated as the parking is urban available the issue has to do with notification i've heard from the departments themselves they've got an internal policy all i'm doing is codifying it this piece
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of legislation will go a long way with clear - clearly impressed standards what is legal notification and what is not and again, this notification is based on what we use across the whole city and in terms of the phrase feasible will you talk about that your intentions obviously providing some flexibility and providing flexibility because i understand from the film commission things change and but i don't think it's fair that constituents should face the brunt of the changing because an actor is sick as an example given he earlier. >> i'm sorry can you repeat
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that i hear a hearing aid. >> it was feasible when it was draft to provide flaeblt but the 72 hours should be in good faith. >> i think it seems like that 72 hours is reasonable for the reason you've described but i want to make sure that knowing that i think we want going to happen in the city and knowing that things happen i obviously want people to not say it was feasible wheelbarrow it clearly was there are times i can't get 71 hours that will give the film commission the flexibility to do. >> sure. the court: what you're saying is the current policy you can deviate from it when there's a reason to do that which
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typically is one of the many reasons why you know a change in location weather cancellation and for the i read this is providing the film company the flexibility you know forcing them to make the adjustment in the 72 hours didn't work. >> i've given my arguments so thank you for hearing my request. >> okay thank you okay. if there's no another comments we'll open this up for public comment on item 2 two cards (calling names) i haven't called our name. >> contemplation. >> sir, you should step backfill out a card or wait for them to speak mr. johnson.
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>> great. thank you very much. >> i'll be back there to meet quorum as soon as possible i served in susan nasal roll as the director of the inform film commission i'm not gag to challenge the wisdom of cod fizzing something that's a best practice i get the drift of where the panel it going i wanted to say there's a streak in the city that sometimes runs through the community through the body politics and into city hall as well as a relates to filming in the city you're a little bit damned if you do and damned in you don't as a matter of public policy we support filming in san francisco but we tend to focus on real high
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profile things like disney movies or godzilla but frankly are not the real issue in this case they shoot for a few days and have big operations and do most of their stuff open the we understand which is quiet but we have a thriving independent film and still affirmative it is important we should support them but not only the neighbors and constituents who want to have a partially on the public street of san francisco but the constituents most affected by the constituents are the working people in the film industry the locals the people forget about this is a working class community of workers in san
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francisco that depends on this filmmaking industry and while we've seen an uptick in the last couple of years we're no where near where we were. >> if i can ask you along the same links as my questions just before about the you know how i read this i want to be very, very clear the way i read this as one of the people that will be voting on this this gives the film commission a broad discretion to reduce the 72 hours and supervisor cohen has to be in good faith and i know it will but to provide significant discretion. >> one as our executive
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director powders it acceptance up expectations we're concerned about being afford by practical realty we don't have pg&e and who little is lighting the street are imperfect in favor so we going come into conflict we can invoke the discretion so i'm not going to august but in practice in the city is quite a bit of constituent work that goes on in this town anything this casts a shadow on the importance of filmmaking in san francisco makes that interaction with the community that itch harder i would caution that we want to
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support this industry and yet the reputation of san francisco fights every day as it relates to the entertainment industry as a difficult or expensive place to shoot or stay or union town we have a high maintenance population i'm just making my case i think we as a body politic certainly us we commissioners do our best to invoke the importance of this industry and so that's the point i want to make. >> so right now can you i know you're not you're a commissioner but you've been at this for a long time in terms of the process right now i know from enacting with the constituents but it's a larger production
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with a lead time how much notice i apologize if you mentioned this supervisor. >> i don't have data but certainly with the larger production it's going to use 50 spaces in front of a give him that's when it's in the works foyer a lopthd and a one hundred and 50 zone my shift and come into place at the end but we're talking about the smaller shoots the ones that have to deal with competing elements like construction or whether i actually don't think it's a great example the actor getting sick we picture you know merryl streptococcus or woody allen that has the instill he lives bus the real life things that come up and the smaller shoots
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the more vulnerable it is. >> yeah. i would i agree the bigger ones it's an issue you know a lot of the capacity to deal with it. >> actually, i need to jump in supervisor wiener when you're done. >> sure in terms of the smaller shoots we need to make sure that could be a significant thing to say you this have to people the entire shoot i'm sorry, i am seeing the feasibility language is huge. >> supervisor cohen. >> in the example you referenced mr. johnson that 50 spots let's be clear that would have been in the works for weeks but the reality is it
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