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unit to meet the demands we've heard about that exist in san francisco. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much great project real quick question i think one street is not a good ratio what's the opportunity to add more car sharing spaces? >> curling we have 29 unit so the demand is not greater than one we have alternated parking spaces but with the 2 to 1 ratio we've tried to maintain the number of private spaces to what is available for a car share right you i disagreeing disagree due to each of one of the unit. >> my only comment is given the real the location of where we
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are and the lack of transit in that particular location it makes it very difficult to access the site otherwise. >> right that's why we need more car sharing than less so people can use those cars the way to get around and the amenity to be able to get back and forth i'll see what my fellow commissioners have to say but i have a suggestion. >> steve a land use attorney one point that you can offer the ride share parking spaces but for 29 unit it will be a challenge to get a car share company interested in that but we can accommodate them but unlivable with 29 spaces more than a car share company would be interested in users. >> pardon me before we beat this to death the infrastructure
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in the parking garage is the same spaces it is such an interest in demand we'll manifest accommodating. >> that's what's the opportunity there how are you running the space okay. thank you. >> commissioner we have lots of space the parking space opportunity with the reduction is actually on additional almost additional 7 spaces i believe under the podium so we have this. >> okay. thank you. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i'm going to move to approve that project i think that is very good done. >> i'll second it i was out there on a wet day happy to see you'll worked out did smoirdz with the neighbors so congratulations or precongratulations. >> if it is amenable to the
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maker of the motion to approve with conditions as automated with the finding read into the record by staff. >> yes. thank you. >> it is amenable to me. >> thank you on that motion commissioners to approve that matter with conditions as amended with the finding roared by staff par commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you under our discretionary review calendar for item 12 at ocean avenue a mandatory discretionary review. >> good afternoon, commissioners marseille with the planning department staff we have a request for a mandatory discretionary review to review the conditions by previous imperfectly doing business as as
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leaned billboards hall has been operating under other entertainment use it was filed in 2011 for bar use in 2011 during the section public notice period two discretionary reviews were filed and following the discretionary review hearing on january 12th conditions were placed including the restrictions on alcohol sales they've been operating since 2012 during a six months review period the establishment has been code compliant the code is requesting to remove the alcohol prohibition the business will not be allowed to operate as food but snacks must be available that will be a bar use
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fltsz planning code the operating are from 2:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. the pardon has provided support letters in our packets from the ocean avenue association and one signed support letter from the o m i project they've provided letters from the small businesses the department has received one phone call in opposition to the bar use and one e-mail and phone call to the bar use since the project was filed one opposition of lower and one restriction of alcohol sales this group was one of the dr opposition filers the department asked for a discretionary review be approved from the action in 2012 which
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curling disallows the alcohol at the establishment additional the department asks for more departmental review will retain in effect that concludes my presentation. i'll be happy to answer any questions thanks. >> project sponsor please. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm marja i'm here to introduce the 3 partners of lengthened blue shield hall johnson is american born and winning shell and kim are immigrants they have worked
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full-time at other jobs to keep that business going johnson works at san francisco general and winning shell works in a financial service at the chinese hospital and kim worked two restaurant jobs those are not high paying jobs and the legend hall is a dream of having a better future they have spent a lot of two years of going through red tape to going could before you today it is taken 22 months to get here they've done adequate outreach and the opposition it stating that beer like professor harold hill in the music man states in mockery that beer is leading on the road to the death of degradation this think an
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overreaction and an alarm it appoint especially with the checkbooks in place their accountability to the police department and the planning department and various neighborhood association the abc and the entertainment commission plus to each other they've they've worked hard to establish that business they do not want to screw up if those men make a mistake they'll be found out i i'm going to turn it over to johnson. >> hello commission i'm one the owners of the legend billboards we've come 22 months of standing in front of you and hope to move forward with the conditional use to get a type 40 beer licenses all of us worked extremely hard to keep up with the expenditures
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of the business? our first bus we were new to the area and told to keep the business running before addressing other components we thought that will attract a significant amount of people we were wrong and have within paying a high price of adjusting our model we're hard working individuals coming to america my parents said hard work pays off we refuse to give you our business we've build builds from the bottom up we ask for your support to not close the door and walk away from our dream thank you, commissioners. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is stefanone consulted working on the project well basically, the venue itself
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has a capacity of 49 people it is a ground floor use that has 8 tables and level that has two tables so what we did we realized that there's no way this venue in its form could morph into anything other than a blue shield hall they've put in vanes cameras in the interior and exterior they've gone through leads training abc leads train to service education like might not over power beer and things of the nature that'll they've got professional security with their own guard cards they're taking steps to
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present skfgd and saying they're responsible and manage the place well, they are on the 19 hundred block corridor that needs stabilization this business will stabilize itself and the corridor in a ocean off corridor that wants more pedestrian traffic so they're to be consistent commissioners they're part of the solution on ocean avenue not part of the problem. >> okay opening it up for public comment if there is any? >> hi commissioners my name is blake i would love to read this letter from the english home
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association from the president of the association on behalf of the engel side i'm writing to talk about the removal of the restriction on alcohol sales on ocean avenue this restriction religious was requested in part by us in the discretionary review in 2012 since that time the owners demonstrated consideration and responsibility to the needs of the neighborhood we have also received clean periodic reports from 81 rely station and representatives the san francisco police department to our monthly meeting the owners attended a number of our monthly meeting and in january of this year made a presentation they'll have installed a full compliment of security cameras to monitor the drinking and
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assure us we have successfully implemented the california state license training program and finally assured us black and brown alliance will be the focus of the business and minors will be welcomed in our opposition the occur at an restriction for the alcohol it removed to allow the objecting of 0 type 40 license beer only awhile maintaining and remaining condition imposed by the planning commission in our discretionary review i own adjacent business across the street from legend billboards i was here before you in november we spent time here and we spent time at the board of appeals it is a long process i give it to these guys many making the business work and please give
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them a chance they'll help us have a syncy in the corridor that block needs a lot of help and the businesses can stabilize tshths. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm dan whatever e weaver the executive director of the ocean avenue association when which is a san francisco cb d and here to enclosure this project legend billboards owners have accepted a whole series the requirement and limits that they do the right thing they haven't done anything wrong these limits were supposed to be on for 2 years now, it's more than 2 years it points out to us on ocean avenue the planning department knows us as a mixed
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or mix of chance businesses and small individually owned businesses or family owned the chances are going to win because it is so simple and easy and mechanize in his and the banks opened their doors it an extraordinary challenges we'll to keep a balance that's why we try to especially support small businesses that want to start i'll recommend that you do that also thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm ronald shaw a resident not area going to city college for the last 10 years i've been to legend billboards it is kind of an unusual aspects
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of people on the tables awhile no other activity going on i've been a patron for almost the last decade i've been going there since i was in high school they've served alcohol low trouble 90 percent of the tables are mookd out all day long very have a great the local pd i've seen pd come through there ocean avenue lacks night time after 10 o'clock it is dead almost to the point it actually scary it will bring in a lot more customer base and visible people a lot more ability to -
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as of right now it seems enterprise so without something like that of action like the bar down the street they'll have a whole bunch of changes to the building that is one more with less entertainment open ocean avenue we require this type of entertainment to get the synergy going to get the area to have a stay aspect where people are not coming through and taking something and leaving thank you for your time. >> thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi commissioners good afternoon. i'm mike hip i'm also a resident near the project on ocean i do want to bring up a couple of things like ocean avenue didn't have any designation points either for the school or
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get into another avenue or go by being a building insult it should be a designation point for people that love the pool halls and family billboards is a place i frequent with my friends but with legends being there i've only been there a couple of times my friends like to bring or drink beer and it like a popcorn in a in the matter not asking you to sell whiskey or vodka it is beer in a meadow where people want to enjoy it watch a game and having fun with their friends that's something that ocean avenue desperately needs they needs entertainment people needs to be there my friends don't want to go to
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legends with no beer they want to know how to shoot pool without beer i've worked with them we're like i've been there and talked be them on ocean avenue i've met those guys 3 guys working full-time jobs trying to cover overhead no one starts a business so they can work if you remember someplace else it is not unities so i feel like kcmo prosecute an immigrant family we're all trying to get the american dream not to open a place somewhere else and work someplace he will let them have
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their beer license. >> any other additional public comment that being said. >> commissioner richards interestingly enough continuously tuesday night i was shooting pool and drinking beer i get the relationship a question for staff if we approve this we will restrict it to a type 40 license. >> to that's correct commission that is a type 40 bore only allowed to sell on premises and minors are allowed to enter a type 40 license. >> what's the dissension of beer some beers i drink contain 12 percent alcohol of the content in beer. >> i think that various from state to state i'm not sure what the maximum content for beer is.
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>> i'll leave to abc it is a local owned small business there was neighborhood opposition not a lot going on in the way of things happening the neighbors are pulling together to make this happen it needs to be a designation place there are down side from the std but i went out there to visit blake his business was not opened often it is a block that meetings needs to find itself and serving beer will be a great way to keep the business open i'll see what my fellow commissioners have to say. >> commissioner antonini. >> i remember the approval process if three years ago, i didn't went remember a timeframe of restriction on alcohol i think we pads it without alcohol
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with neighborhood concerns maybe i'm wrong i cannot remember the details. >> you're correct the conditional use alcohol sales that didn't have a timeframe. >> just a review that's the first one and this in and of itself is not a problem but this is not before us today but there is is an mcd very close by and the voice of pen cost school i'm not sure how those things got approved together i thought hospital insurance a 5 hundred foot radius maybe it's not a public but private. >> out of curiosity because a lot of the discussion which we went through it the first one centered open the fact it is so close to an mcd one of the things we're not supposed to do is put mcds close to where there
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is alcohol serving facilities this is the reverse i'm occurs how it came to be. >> because it is not a public commissioner i believe the restriction is within a certain zoning districts of a public. >> i wasn't aware that was the code but i really don't know why it makes a difference that didn't concern the full the billboards hall commissioner moore. >> i'm prepared to support this application on the condition there is a periodic reporting back to us we supported this as a small business with the particular emphasis beyond we are trying to kind of make it
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and while contaminate there was a stronger statement they thought they could do without alcohol i'm prepared given the limited scope of the application to approve it with the condition that it comes back from periodic reporting to us. >> second. >> that's a motion. >> that's a motion yeah. >> commissioner moore periodically in the past group 6 months. >> it can be a staff report we have not heard anything that's got the paragraph. >> periodically. >> i'd like to see a full year of going through the reporting. >> two updates every 6 months. >> i'm okay with the second on that. >> a quick question do you know if there is a police or crime
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problem since 2012. >> no report from the terry very well station. >> okay. thank you. >> commissioners there's a motion and second in front of you to take dr and approve that with conditions as amended to include two updates over the next year every 6 months. >> on that motion arrest commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you on item 13 eding beggar street a discretionary use authorization and commissioners i want to introduce you to nancy tran a
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commissioner with the - she served as a senior planner n during her time she helped to staff 5 commissioners preservation and license commissions x commissions she received her master in urban planning from ucla and her batches from uc davis. >> hi commissioners item before you is a mandatory discretionary review for ed everything beggar street. >> can you pull the mike down a little bit the project proposed to demolish a fwrnl from fire damage to constrict a single-family unit on the ground floor existing building is one thousand square feet one bedroom
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the proposed construction is 14 hundred square feet with rh1 with an the neighborhood and located with the architecture style sets back the project was previously handled by another planner thomas has retired and the notification was in 2014 with no public concerns or outside dr that's been reviewed by the planning code to date the department has not comments for the proposal the staff recommends the approval the demolition as proposed that concludes my presentation. i'm available to answer any questions. >> dr requester. >> i'm sure project sponsor please
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please. >> hi this is my husband kevin harry i'm one the owners the property that got burned in 2002 that's where i would and my parents when the house caught on fire luckily they're okay now i'm applying inform rebuilding this property because it's been like a nuisance for 13 years and every time i swing by there my neighbors want to know with when i'm going to build this burnt house since 2002 when i first approached them for rebuilding the house i had a problem with both my neighbors they didn't like my design they said they filed a dr on me i decided that
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all the application i had because we don't want me to extend the back and not block the view in front of why don't you build up instead of all the way to the back so i was thinking of building it next to the properties i will call it deck and keep on ref it several times he have to change the plan and then after that, they kind of like i got sick i didn't pay attention to this property so and then in 2012 i applied for a demolition permit and have it redesigned and accommodated i even put like a 3 foot set back on the right hand side of the property because those are the one, if
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you extend it all the way if front i'll complain so i said i'll give a 3 foot clearance that way it wouldn't be any views blocked that's all i can say. >> we might have questions opening it up for public comment not seeing any that being said commissioner moore. >> hi that's a good replacement building i'm glad this issues the neighbors is resolved he want to ask mr. washington we don't need a fire escape since the construction is sprinkled that means the rear yard and the reevaluation will be better by not having this flag i wanted to say
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