hundred and 70 feet away doing business as as tree medicaid medical cannabis on february 16, 2012, a third mcd was approved through the same process and to date the department has hundreds and one letters in support and additional calls and letters in opposition to the project since the case was pushed and the department has received 15 calls and 31 letters of opposition brown about concerned of the approximate to the childcare and a public utilities how it impacts and crimes and another mcd the outer- in addition the

department has been notified of a couple of petitions one in opposition that reviewed one hundred and 70 signatures as another one in support of october 8th the department was made aware of 3 hundred and 9 signatures 2, 3, 4 support of the project as the commissioner is unaware the medical cannabis was approved by the health department the planning department is generally limited to the location of the characteristic of the mcd we recommend you take the mandatory discretionary review the project meets all the planning code requirements and as well as additional criteria within the miths pursuant to the planning code mcd has addressed parking and

transportation by proibt double parking and has suggested that this will be strictly monitored by staff the project is well serviced been the bart station and that rinses along mission and the project sponsor has developed a safety and security plan reaching to the police department and operates between the hours of operation and other contrary directly recommend to the mandatory discretionary review is required as non-applicable to the case it is one thousand feet from any school or recreational building and will provide only provide a medical cannabis to patient with proper identification cards mcd employees 0 thirty to 50

full-time and are paramount employees to reduce the impact the following conditions are recommended the operators should maintain the main sdrans and all situations and the project sponsor had maintain all significant ordered from escaping the premises and all garbage containers shall be kept within the building until pickup that concludes my presentation. thank you. >> we'll have a presentation fwlt project sponsor i understand in the public comment there are two members of the public that require interpretation so we'll accommodate those first; is that correct. >> there's a general question for the interpreters they'll be accommodated during the public comment period. >> thank you project sponsor.

>> thank you commissioner president wu and commissioners staff and for your work on our police station for mission street i'm happy to be here and looking forward to hearing about the concerns great from the neighbors that filled the discretionary review i'm looking forward to - i'm the mayor and the executive director of san francisco patient and resource center as long as spark 8 years

ago i formed a community-based nonprofit organization nearly 3 inquires i was krultd to lead spark as the executive director and i now, it's fifth year of operation let me talk about what sets spark apart we provided ourselves in proven in addition to what you see we were the first dispensary we were based on the american products association and like to talk about safety first there's product safety many patients have accommodated immune systems we test outline products for mold and sun die and other constraints containments and there's people safety we've not

had one instance at our selma location spark goes beyond basic standards to provide from the cannabis we provide on site xhiemgs another our 9th and on the facility which in a planning commission report dated march 202014 we provide a safe place for people with deblilt ills perhaps the most important thing that sets park apart is our commitment to the community we contribute to many nonprofit organizations with funds and employee volunteers some some of the organizations are hospice

and equality san francisco and equality california and aids life cycle a list of many, many more but building community it is not only informed and gave me members of the community and incorporate the feedback into the 5420 mission street location we work to engagement the stakeholders via snail mail and in person building just yesterday, we hosted two meeting who has chosen to not oppose this application those are the many factors that sets spark apart and the san francisco platt agrees in its report evaluating the medical cannabis spark is specifically referenced as the example of a dispensary

that - we bring the quality to the outer mission and people asked why we choose 5420 location offering 12 hundred members live in the area code we're opening in and over 71 hundred members live nearby t this location reduced green house gas emissions to folks that travel to the closer locates and not have to come into our location at fifth and mission finally we've got a lot of folks that came out today so all the sparks supporters to please stand up if you can raise our hands high and a and i hope

that everyone doesn't have to

speak here today, if you speak you don't have to take the full 3 minutes take one minute the planning commission is smart at the know how to hear what you're saying there's an sf giant game happening thank you. i hope you'll are supportive. >> i believe i say mr. pollack from the supervisors office weigh like to speak.

>> good afternoon jeremy legislation aid the supervisor asked me to deliver the memorandum and i'll reading a few portions district 11 experience with the medical cannabis has been demonstrating discretionary in and they review the applications for mcd and wanted to diminish between good and bad operators the 3 mcds that were approved on february 2012 we have those 3 december pens make an effort to, work with the neighborhood and it shows how a glycoclothes could contribute and they put out pedestrian signs and kathy has received no compliments and the dispensaries on the 2 had had one hundred and 70 block have not been good neighbors we hope to hold this as a high bar for beneficial services. >> supervisor avalos i'll leave it to your discretionary to approve those applications and i appreciate the work to engagement in the outer mission neighborhoods we'll not welcome any more dispenses that don't offer a a lot of benefits and reflecting reject the medical cannabis within a mcd one thousand foot district in developing the outer commercial district where we put in the anti cluster my my mcd that attempts to relocate will have to get a permit and much debate between preventing clustering of mcds and we settled on the 5 hundred foot provision as a good balance and i think with consideration of expanding that to one thousand feet and supervisor avalos was concerned we'll be using that as a precedence and find out it was

inconsistent with expanding the green zone and one thousand foot will not allow it to expand n and it's outlined in the mcd report lastly it is important to think of the dynamics of marijuana in 2016 we're likely to see recreational value on the ballot and i think with my need need to look at colorado and washington and be before the accident happened to adapt what the new regulatory regime is going to be recycle i'll continue to read we need to prepare for the marijuana landscape and i believe the first step to draft an ordinance based on the recommendations of our recreational reports open the mcd requirements we need to revisit the medical cannabis and critique the pressure of oversaturation like the excelsior but we need to provide

additional career to approve the mcds will be be good neighbors and make sure they're living up to their commitments to the neighborhood and to the reform of the medical cannabis act will start with the political will and the current regulations supervisor avalos is willing to introduce reforms by needs the planning commission to help develop and pass the ordinance if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. >> commissioners, if i may for you who came in and may not have heard me, please turn off our mobile devises if i don't know how to turn them off they're a

disruption. >> there's a request for both spanish and chinese interpreters for those persons that made the requests please came forward first. >> so mr. secretary we'll limit public comment to public comment only for interpretation. >> so is - >> there's. >> wonderful why don't i come up to speak. >> it is your time to submit our public comment. >> okay and was there also a request for a spanish interpretation? >> please come forward when making those are requests for interpreters to be present

this coyotes of the city's dime if you request an interpreter you actually submit our comment. >> good afternoon i'm going to try to speak a little bit in english but i can't he's going to help me i live across the street from the place they want to approve this thing this dispen i'm sorry we have in order to place this very close my kids they grew up in this neighborhood and right now it oh, it's terrible that place right now is my kids one of my kids a a paramedic saves lives

you can see my daughter she goes to the university sometimes she come around 12 o'clock and it's very hard for her to find parking and also too many people they block driveways we have two places very close n and kids kids oh, it is terrible so, please don't let it stay close to our neighborhood we love that neighborhood and i respect the opinions i respect the people there need that things to for medicine but our neighborhood at this time thank you, thank you, very much. >> okay. so i'll call names for public comment if i call our name, please line up on the

screen side of the room and for those who are blocking did door those are a fire hazard make all efforts not to do that (calling names) i'm sorry - i took the wrong pile (calling names). >> good afternoon, everybody i'm e.r. win rosen at age 78 i'm the single dad of an autistic especially less than boy and a thanks to spark we've been sleeping better i have one kidney meaning the one kidney i have does the work for two i get up three and four times a night to pee i took western

medications forget it they're not working i take a tonnage of a cigar two takes before i go to sleepy go to sleep and i'm alive and not sleeping and falling apart i get a good nights sleep and especially for my child he started having seizure we went through medications from sfaifrt and the side effects were bad so all the side effects one time 83 he came home his face was wloen up issue i didn't took four days to go to the hospital till he

got off it he's now on it's fourth work of medical cannabis no side effects and also he used to get 20 or 40 seizure once every four weeks and one seizure a day no side effects and also let me make one more comment if i may he is you autistic and when he goes to school he's alert thanks to sparks thank you for hearing me out. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is erie live a few plain clothes from where the proposed

cannabis i've lived in the area for 40 years and have about six or seven first names in the neighborhood they couldn't be here for this important hearing so i'm going to convey what they asked me to tell you we oppose the opening of another dispen in the neighborhood two similar businesses were opened about two or three years ago we have experienced the change in the neighborhood unfortunately is a change for the worst they have been a long time family oriented community businesses are open for family oriented and the local restaurants and businesses have been saved for people living in the area, however, because of

the particular businesses opened their operations the fabric of the neighborhood has changed it's decongratulated and for one to go to the existing places because of the change that's come to our neighborhood a couple of months ago i took my family to have dinner in this area and as we walked in front of the businesses my granddaughter asked me how come we have guards in the city this is a 6-year-old baby noticing the changes we're asking you to please reconsider the opening of that that business thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, commissioners

i have lived in the neighborhood for 50 years and i've watched the neighborhood change in many ways mostly for the better but since the cannabis dispersons have been there it's changed in a negative way this group are worthy but the two businesses there now like the other have said their security guards standing outside and medical marijuana i'm not against it i know it helps a lot of people but for some reason something has happened anybody can get a card now people are getting cards and getting their pot and smoking it out in the street and in the neighborhood hanging on the side streets and hanging anti in

front of people's homes and coming home at night is frightening so on the 52 block two dispenses and on the 54th block where they want to put their dispen two many in a small area thank you, thank you for your consideration. >> thank you. next speaker. and good afternoon, commissioners i'm dan rush i'm the national director for the medical cannabis in the helm distributions of the united international union a one-hundred 3 million member unit in north america that works

in human production and retail and enterprise or cannabis falls into that those workers jobs are in danger by medical cannabis dispenses in the area if they're not playing on a lovely playing field workers in the room here today we've been talking about u to that fortunately can't aspect because they're afraid they'll be fired if they speak up we've had communications with the management of spark and thinks there's one small sliver the workers are as if not more vulnerable to this substance i'm

confused by supervisor avalos opposing another medical cannabis that is color to our dysentery the thing we want to do is ask this commission please push off the date and let us talk to the manager i think they're fair minded and if we give them an opportunity to hear the workers that are struggling there maybe a difference so thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. i'll call for names

(calling names) if i called our name you can come to the podium. >> if your name's been calls feel free to come up and i'm with the united local local 5 we represent 35 thousand retail workers right here in the bay area if san francisco it's macy's and walgreens and we have other on the 52 hundred block i'm here to speak against this the project on the 54 hundred block spark opening up a second

dispen if the excelsior district i'm confused i don't know what the plan is what the deal is when we we had the first medical cannabis in the neighborhood they're a great actor they have a security guard it's the safest block in the neighborhood when we asked for a second dispen supervisor avalos said in the neighbors are against it there's too many in the neighborhood he's on record from the city council and newspaper he's going to adjust the laws to keep lucky he out and now spark is wanting to open up a second go dispen it doesn't matter whether it's one hundred and one thousand feet

it's two blocks away from our union shop in the neighborhood so we're doing the best we can to keep the union jobs in san francisco and establish a dedicated regulated industry in san francisco we want to know what the plan is what's the deal it is changing and not a leveling playing field or at this point so thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. next speaker. >> if i've called our name, please come to the podium i'll call for names (calling names). >> hi, i'm joshua the safety management as spark so spark the security of the community and employees is the major concerns one of the major goal is the ability and expectation to work and community with the

surrounding neighbors and law enforcement by developing the open relationships with the community our safety team better protects the area our facilities is monitored twenty-four hours by dedicated safety people and fire alarm companies and outside patrols during the hours of operations we have three to four safety staff inside and outside our facility we develop a safety plan and manual that sets the policies and procedures including the emergency situations we've seen is medical cannabis bring down bad situations we help to gather video evidence recently our safety team helped to identify a

burglar we have helped to gather the information about hit and run subject our external left to right helps our safety team works to have a comprehensive code of conduct and enforce issues before they become large issues issues that i deal with includes double parking and other things we work closely with the neighborhood and the neighborhood group like the market group we help with the homeless abatement and home in our new locations we'll work with the folks. >> commissioners that maybe a good time to hear in the sfpd. >> my name is caption i cover