nonprofit oxygen and pro tem's health and safety and wellness and my family and i appreciate they've reached out to us we support sparks and their mission to open the disperformance in our neighborhood the negative behaviors grouping in the neighborhoods have existed and the hope that my family and i have is that spark and their organization will actually raise the bar in how a dispensaries will be operated. >> next speaker i'll call more names (calling names). >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, i'm susan i come from the

excelsior home of my husband who suffers with p t s d and my father-in-law on london street as a punishment caregiver for mire 94-year-old faurnl i've become a member of several ms. curls i've let my membership lapse and sad to say many collectives are more like head shops spark is oppose it is patient and medicine driven the staff is knowledgeable and sparks has acupuncture and support groups this past tuesday the new york times highlighted the toil of the catastrophic

obtaining medicine for one of my patient a benchmark dispretty soon is one that is well-staffed and clean and come impartiality it experience is what the medical cannabis people deserve that's spark they've set the highest standard and mites sincere hope and my patients hope you'll approve this in a neighborhood that is lacking in a reputable resources thank you very much. >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, i'm paul handsburg when i was raised i was taught the difference between right and wrong raised to see what i could achieve in life a few decades ago i sue it wasn't about right

and wrong but legal it of matter what you achieved but what you could get away with it is cynical but it is true by and large we have in san francisco probably it's not perfect but the best set of regulations for mcds in the state there are things that slip through the cracks there are people that come up that have applied for mcds talking the talk until after they get the permit but now, it's about the money like the previous speaker i've let it lapse spark is about the medicine it also cvs hearsay been former supervisor investment it and it set the bar for what a medical cannabis

should be i know that expanding to the excelsior would benefit the entire medical cannabis community with the densely populated city thank you very much. >> thank you. >> hi there i'm anna i'm a current card member i live in the outer mission and also have and born i think it is a great benefit it is better to have it be close and be thirty or 40 minutes away to deal with a long road that is not only safe. >> a really clean and they're really friendly and i feel safe in their environment a lot of the other disperformance it will help them to be at the level of the

sparks community i welcome them with open armors like i said i've lived there forever i've never felt threatened i care about it such as a they do and hopefully sparks comes into the neighborhood it will change yes. i have well, that's about it so i'm all for this and i feel like only good things can come i agree it is a lot but they really set the bar high and they have so much to offer i'd like to see this in the community. >> hi, i'm diana sands i want to start by recruiting that the

rising tides desires all boats spark is bringing the mcds to the excelsior my experience with spark my mother who is the center of my word and closest friend i've seen her suffer with cancer sometimes, it's not even here tumor but the medical treatments that make her sick this i never thought to consider medical cannabis as a resources as we made a decision to give medical cannabis the try we went to spark at first my mom was a.d. meant may not she explicit know how to smoke anything it was completely understood they offered tactical containments

and give us clear instructions this was what sets spark approved or disapproved they actually work the harder to help people mom has enjoyed the critical improvements in here appetite my mom who enforces the highest standards in all she does can get the medicine she needs to feel better that's why i'm here when i think of the people in and around the neighborhood that will soon have access to this disperformance monk others in the community spark will help sick moms and to the people that love them. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> yes, i'm deli moved here in

1969 about ten years ago, i had complications i was put in my tree and spark really saved my life i had to go to hospice and they delivered my medication and still deliver to me now, when i was there i weighed 87 pound now 86 so anyone that needs the medication should be able to get it i hope you all can help us. >> thank you. next speaker, please and i'll call nor names (calling names) if the next speaker is ready approach the podium

(calling names). >> thank you for your time commissioners i'm ian i'm a california licenses acupuncture person i treat the people at spark i was born and raised in san francisco and i'm i was a little bit dubious when i was approached like bringing acupuncture back to spark but when i walked in i was amazed the place like people said it's e make last night and beautiful and it is friendly i'm honored to be part find an organization that actually provides healing services to the community free of charge there are many integrated and healing centers in name but i am

amazed at sparks ability to actually provide those services instead of talk about them since the beginning of this year i've personally motivator over 6 hundred acupuncture treatments if you combine that with massage over 2 thousand individual treatments given serving over seven hundred and 50 different people spark is an educate to the sf community and allowing the second location the proposed location will allow us to serve more people in the san francisco community i said the concerns and the emotion along with the people in the neighborhood and i find it basically spark is a what you

need those other places are ruining the name for cannabis disperformance. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm happy to talk about the training as well as the people that work with with us truly set spark apart we currently employ folks our minimum wage is $15 an hour we provide every full-time employee with outstanding benefits spark on asks folks to contribute 10 percent and spark covers one hundred percent of

the dental and vision we'll create 40 plus jobs in the excelsior and the community and the employees will have those terrific benefits our hiring process we want to recruit the best of the best and want to discuss some of the expensive training but i'll skip that we're professionals another spark you've heard several times we raise the bar for dispensaries that's try we hold ourselves to the professionalism and we expect nothing less from our employees we excited to change the communities that he seismic of the mcd and he look forward to working with with sharp professionals and i know the excelsior community will be

excited by the benefits and the community itself. >> thanks. >> next speaker. >> and hello, i'm mr. daniels i've never worked in an organization that is committed to its organization like spark today, i oversee a policy that qualifies and unholds he distract of indicates safety codes to the medical cannabis is very important to me additionally i manage the one and off site sites with dpildz and work with michael oswald depreciate delivering the medication this is very important to me on a daily basis

and the people i work with are grateful spark is condominium to providing medication regardless of diagnoses and the district i can thrill personally the demonstrations we've made i'm going to read a letter on michael's on behalf of dear san francisco planning commission i'm a co-owner of the spark i'm writing to urge tour approval on mgsz spark offices a clean facility which one a new york times award we have a spectacular service not currently in the neighborhood not to compete with the neighborhoods but to augment them my job to deliver free drugs and help with the monitoring problems for folks it

is our services serving 80 patients please participation to my comments and mary the program director at my tree thank you very much fewer consideration i appreciate it. >> thank you i'll call more names (calling names). >> members of the planning commission i'm michael a member of spark i am here to deliver a message on behalf of of matthew hernandez the member that lives in the neighborhood 49 ocean avenue dear san francisco mraegs i've lived here for seven years in my time spark is one of the most welcoming businesses i've within a consumer since their location opened up they've provided me with medical

marijuana and information how to use most effectively little or no cost in a community i feel part of and board nights and jazzy think spark will be a wonderful addition i'll be proud to have it in the excelsior i love my neighborhood it's quiet and assessable to the transportation we have everything we need numerous businesses are shurld on every block and staples are having trouble i think that a new spark locates will draw people into the neighborhood and bring livelihood to the area it may make people weary but spark may encourage other similar businesses to take on similar practices their current location is not in the best of area but

inside their security guards and cameras make everyone feel welcome i felt the people were compact about the things they do over the past years they've kept the level of quality and want the best for the business and the folks in the community thank you, matthew hernandez. >> thank you. next speaker. hello, i'm here to read a mess from a neighborhood boyer huey from the dog patch neighborhood i've known spooshg from one year and in dog patch the team members from spark are pro-active neighbors we continue to have spark involved in many neighborhood projects including four street

park andnychia and the latest initiatives on 25th and pennsylvania spark a considered a valuable member engaging proactive and supports neighborhood enhancements i ask you support the obligation it spark has today. >> thank you. next speaker. . >> good afternoon. i'm al dreary a public professional and a cannabis i earned mine masters from the n y u i listened to the community asking for resources for economics and sustainable development and safety and height i see that spark is here to answer the call we want to

provide everybody with a safe place to medicate so the negative effects we'll hear about add up to resources in the long run we're a resource to the county and provide safe access to save medication we make sure that our medications is free if from pesticides and other things we hope to do this for the intensify community and provide resources for health and basically above and beyond we we thank y thank you for the opportunity. >> (calling names). >> hello i am zach i work to

sparks and it is this well behaved babying is my son it allows me to support my family i'm passionate about sparks some of the people have families it's very, very fulfilling and rare to have satisfaction around ones professionalism i was born in san francisco and proud to raise nay my family i saw marijuana in the hate and sophisticated and delivery program spark is different a responsible dispensaries so show that pharmaceutical drugs can't do they are the kind of dispensaries i support

i ask you to please approve this for my family and families like mine in san francisco thank you thank you. >> hello my name is mr. rooney a little bit more than 2 years ago i registered as a member what attracted we me wasn't only the medication but a safe location i was stunned by the detail of the interior detail i ultimately released how little i campground you medical cannabis it was that day i wanted to work for sfashg i manage their inventory and quality control is important because the two years i've been with spark we've doubled the production like many perceived

thoughts they fit the needs of our entry industry we lead test our medication to safely have folks access their medication a they've not been in touch with pesticides we practice safe and pursuits we eye hair nets and patrons working with the medications my wife works for spark we had our first baby girl we don't think the answer the question in order to raise our daughter this spark will make a great opportunity for people to be a good model and install a

comfortable place for people's needs thank you for your time. >> good afternoon. i'm march jordan i'm a homeowner in the excelsior about 5 years ago i spent my entire life saturations in the excelsior i had a lot of people for the neighborhood i thought it was on a good path and really well located on a neighborhood that had potential one of the things that attracted me to the neighborhood a lot of diverse and many schools and nurses facilities and sfoeshth love the neighborhood but i've seen a decline and much the reason is what our caption mentions to you when he spoke i actually have been involved in the neighborhood in your packets association you've got petition

with the various interests i've got 3 hundred signatures from a petition and 15 copies for you they were 2k3w5g9d online i've submitted in the passage all in opposition to another mcd opening in the neighborhood the question is not about mcds in general but not about the validity of the medical marijuana as a legitimate medication i personally building in it but the sat down ration and fairness in the neighborhood we've got 3 existing and 4 that will be existing if spark is allowed to come in and yet another application for a use permitful from lucky dragon i ask you commissioners would you want 3 mcds within one mile the other thing spark have nots been

saying a rising tide of boats if you do the same thing and except different results that's the distinction of insanity (clapping) and no interruptions please. i have a slithering different perspective a former mayor up in sonoma county i'm here to say how great that dispensaries ordinances has served our community and robert jacob the executive director of spark has done robert is an exemplar person not about making things i heard a speaker talk about wal-mart it's about being small and kwient and about community relationships and i've seen that first hand

i've seen how well, they reach out and give back to the community and making sure that elected officials that learn that this and policymakers have a chance to tour and discuss what's happening truly the times are changing legalization is literally around the corner in livelihood it is be legal i want to encourage to establish a model dispresence so when, in fact, it comes down we know what we need to do we're just starting to scratch the surface what was happening in cannabis and once it goes legal we'll need the models i think you guys are doing a great job listening and all the

speakers that's not easy to speak in sub especially, if you're a neighborhood i'll say that up north with robert jacobs leadership it is safer and a and cleaner and more respectable theirs openness and transparency with mac our place a better place thank you. >> thank you. >> i don't know if you hear me i have and a homeowner of the excelsior district and on the board of the residents association who've heard today about the merits of spark and i don't think this is what our objections are about it's not how well, they do their job and

on the other hand, an asset to the community but caption called it saturation we call it clustering the preponderance of a medical cannabis folks in our neighborhood perhaps if all the fault lines lie in the green zones but there's too many in this neighborhood it's not about cannabis per say i've had too close friends use cannabis one died last month unfortunately, she used it for stage four lung cancer and helped her to swallow i'm not debating the merits of ensuing cannabis another friend had breast cancer it's not about

cannabis or spark but the effect on our neighborhoods and we are getting the respiration of a pot center offering the excelsior our the pot center aren't you thought city this is not the kind of reputation we want thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please good afternoon. i'm lilly i'm a resident of the outer excelsior also an employee at alm downtown i'm here to express my he concern about the proposed project of the medical cannabis at 5420 mission street i've spoken to 35 any neighbors we feel this business is not appropriate in fitting in our neighborhood we're accidental poptdz with families and children's and local businesses and many chichz

a community that is not bend from the proposed project with two other dispensaries locked one block away our neighborhood is experiencing high crowding of traffic and alterations and crime a decreasing in local businesses medical cannabis is - it is maybe near a pharmacy or hospital is dispensaries are not allot to be located within one thousand feet of the school and it is one thousand 5 hundred foot from the local schools and it the near the parish school the two dispensaries and the proposed dispresence are