heights slope guidelines were put into place to restrict the shoe box construction you and the project sponsor keep on looking at making nor modernized homes of the shoe box construction is odd to keep on justifying you thi scombrufts y. >> the neighborhoods i'll be honest can't have that both ways a lot of square footage devoted to parking if we were asked to get rid of of parking the neighborhood would go crazy you're creating space for parking may or may not be something that is noted as we moved with an mta meeting we've talking about different modes of transportation. >> fascinating. >> thank you but commissioner antonini you have everything cut into the fold what appears to be 200

square feet but given the testimony in the 5 or 6 or 7 not gigantic all the issues of parking the other one in my neighborhood a couple of blocks from where i live steep slopes and museums on the way i don't know if you saw the j k article those been bernal you've created a humane wall the fact those homes are fronting pal hat even is take advantage of the what that appears a giant monster home and let's not forget on bernal heights boulevard a 60 for the wall by the property frovnt it and the property behind it awhile i appreciate the amount of 2 homes frovnt the

other two on pro-hat even if it wasn't a triangle last year lot we'll have 6 homes instead of 4 but locating the odd shape unique sterilized circumstances, which is why we're here i think there is still that impact of a wall of fact of the houses that are significantly higher the ones on pro hat even. >> i i get it you can go level with the street and have a 40 foot wall; right? no matter what you'll have a wall that is grounded somewhere in the dirt i look at the buildings next door i see that i think they've loaded the - i don't get much

of the differences. >> let me go back to the parking i didn't like the code or the guidelines the neighbors and i are trying to interpret the guidelines as it relate to this project i can't comment aren't parking but follow the guidelines like guidelines need to be followed and things like that. >> let me ask we have other commissioners on the cow. >> the front yard am the shoe box houses is concrete driveways. >> in part. >> pretty much it is sitting there i think what will they window a setback a few feet or 25 foot setback one i in any neighborhood people park their cars an setbacks. >> that was raised by the planner. >> i'm trying to figure out

where to go a lot of the arguments are ended up kind of in dead-ends. >> i'm not going to prescribe whether someone will live in a 12 it is not necessarily right to suggest that anyone have a front setback will use it as a garage. >> this is a code compliant home. >> but it is not compliant it relates to the adjacent setback and not consistent with the homes that are adjacent the homes adjacent are setback 25 feet and so are 13 out of 18 homes on pro hat even half so typically the homes are setback. >> as i look at the aerial again, i see homes in the next block above bernal i don't know what street but on the sidewalk as well i am not i'm i i get it those homes are setback 25 feet

but you look around it is mix. >> what street are you looking at. >> i'm a dr requester i got off work and teach. >> off bernal they look like front end. >> i'd like to address this question about the setbacks i think that what the group is reilly landmarking for or me anyway some variety in the front of homes so that the garage itself is at least setback for safety and other reasons but to give dimensions to the house the wall yeah, that many homes but not all pretty much flush up against the sidewalk there can be you know should maybe the garage recessed but the stairs go up a lot of ways to make it

look nor interesting and look for compatible with the neighborhood and not like the homes that are next door sure. >> with the- >> sir before i pass the mike to someone we're close you have number one and said something going on and two entrances off carve vera street and do elements and different we're talking about the roof decks that are open on but moving the interesting around the way they sits on the lots how much can we do there. >> in terms of how it meets the street. >> yeah. one gets setback 3 feet i don't want to redesign the building but we've moved everything over one foot. >> we have cut ended but work with the staff continuing to

differentiate and make that yeah. >> i see the pardon going a huge leap forward i don't know what they did green before but willing to do if the staff will directions them what the brerts is asking i'm still open on the roof deck. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you other than the change that was brought up by commissioner vice president richards to move the properties around in the lots and get the 4 point sobriety i've supportive of the project and here are my reasons why i look at the bernal east bernal heights guidelines there are a few things this project does he know this focus on front setback i'll get to that in a minute there are other ways to solve the problem but i look at many

of the other design aspects of the building their marshall you know we talk about the roof deck i'm smotd not supportive because the bernal heights calls for roof decks it says if we don't have a 3i67d roof your roof must be flat and designed if it is a blank roof they have documents that call for usable open space and the other thing people have talked you know some statement in the letter about the entrances not only being uniform but calling them hole in the walls for the hallways all the preferred sxhoefks and different types of entryways involve establishes not- they're not

necessarily for the typography of those lots on the switch back and make the argument if you're trying to build new families and multi family generations don't want to walk up steps to get to our front door what those guidelines with calling a hole in the wall i call a front door if you look at the side setback with the stairway that stairway that was add i'm not going to go i don't know whether that was put in as an actual compromise i don't know i'll not do that back story but part of project it is making the 3 feet setback i can see moving things around make that important the only other thing how things are laid out another part of the

guidelines say private open space has to be assessable from prime living areas we think the way the buildings are situated on the hill actually allows you from the first story out to the backyard and out to the front and again that front setback with the tap grateful you're talking about potentially having stairs and get up to the front door that eliminates that opportunity that is laid out in the guidelines for a lot of reasons i think this project fits with people in bernal were looking at and quite a bit of uniform between the homes and potentially there are other ways to do that other than pushing one building 24 and another 15 and none was suggesting that. >> great then great there is lots of things to work

on like the articulation through color, maybe the corner lot has a pitched roof i like the idea of a roof space that might be one way of differentiating the properties take the largest one instead of that having a large roof deck and across the four lots i think and the only other thing i don't know that is against something we don't need to you know write off right here but landscaping as part of master plan as having the tax and getting rid of of that wall whether three or four feet you see green instead of concrete; right? get rid of the landscaping part of open space for the homes that gets to some of the concerned the

neighborhoods have without cutting off floors and making the building substantially smaller if you think they're a good size at least for this project for those reasons i'll be supportive of this project maybe with that one change with the process around the 4 feet side yard. >> and the different materials. >> and articulation we'll craft that that is those are the changes i'll be willing to support. >> commissioner moore. >> working back wards the commissioners observations are interesting i'm pickup on residential design they're the fact their roof deck but the roof deck operate at the edge of the building is a 42 inch grail

it makes did buildings look learn the thirty feet rirtdz height in this district so i would very much caution to pull them significantly into the center of the roof not visible at the edge if the building looks to massive as one building rather than an assembly of 4 buildings that is an important point i don't believe we need seven hundred and 50 square feet roof decks when we just yesterday had the board of supervisors put the minimum of affordable units at three hundred and 50 square feet i have to get that point of sar catching in i believe the factors of the building make them look at a single building

rather than a collection of small, 4 larger buildings and the suggestion to add four feet in between is a very good one i am kind of looking at the neighborhood the push back on the common stair where the stairs are in san francisco i like them, however, if there's a stair nearby permanent there is and experiences in the neighborhoods why not a stair and perhaps not right now we might want to consider the pros and cons of that note happening i don't know what to see or is that about i'll be interested to see the four buildings as the related group of buildings rather than the same factors advertised cost saved and makes the building

cheaper and not single-family homes but a distinct sort of of the materials the architectural questions are different i want to see a richer choice of alternative materials with each other and a way of creating a patchwork of building of similar quality and not savings in mass the one point that is a little bit harder to express the way there project is presented to this commission the requirement for a project of this size there is a survey the requirement is that in subdivision we have to look at the mid point of curve to determine the height of the

building from that particular demarcation at mid point the reproduction that is a interval part of east slope guidelines mr. town i've not seen a verified survey and interpretations of height but that could be a health taken in the middle of the lot for me as a planning department staff commissioner not enough to say that is properly documented maybe a subtle point i think that the gentleman knows my position on that we had other projects we remember asked to provide that and the project had to be continued because that information is important for us mr. town have you seen it and why not in my page. >> that's the same requirement prior to the packet mailing i

apologize if it is not in yours i'll ask the architect to provide that i requested that same thank prior to the packet mailing the other things. >> can you complete that before we go on i want to see a vifrdz site survey how did the department exam the bulk reductions. >> there's a unique interpretation of the bernal normally based on the definition and methodologies that the planning code establishes you know we take it from top of curve to the mid point of the building in bernal a specific interpretation that requires we take is this way. >> specifically for an up sloping lot

so in bernal on an up sloping you take the height parallel to grade the grade definition as you can see the actual upper market most extensive height is a sloping tap grateful that office some kind of confusions this section introduce the mid point of bernal helps clarify the building height in relation to the baseline that that is measured in restriction to show the portion of the building that is above grade. >> you have 3 buildings phasing plans did you take the specific mid point of each the 3 lots. >> it the taken from the top debris through each of mid point slice. >> mid point at curb.

>> mid point fossils the tap grateful. >> the way the rules read mid point at the curb that's where the confusion it the mid point to curb. >> a unique interpretation unique to bernal heights i'll let any colleague comment further. >> so what the code required is that the definition of height be taken from the top of the curb to the top of building if it is a flat roof building the top of the roof and a midway point between the crest of the revolver and the east. >> i think what chris is saying the measurement are different in bernal the different measurement. >> it is a parallel for the

tap grateful different than at the rest the city. >> if i may. >> the first one that concern the neighbors asian pacific islander hat especially has an existing thirty inch retaining wall the neighbors said that was not the original scale we reduced it in order to measure the building from the back of the curb we're not you know we're measuring it from the not measuring from oriental technically we have gotten thirty inch. >> so your clarifying you're doing it correctly could you while you there briefly respond to one of the neighbors indicated there is a vent structure on the property can you speak to that note seeing the survey i don't see a grade

or is that something else. >> the vent pipe that is there they call blow off grades as it sits that had been sitting in the new sidewalk adjacent to any property the water we talked with the water department that waterline turns to the left and groups unimproved roman craft so they'll lose the pipe. >> while you there explain to the commission the parking strategy we have a hard time. >> my park stream. >> yeah. the park for the project is when we looked at this they first one is that you know with the bernal heights eastern neighborhood group they require a minimum of two cars for anything above 2000 secret

we provided that and if you look at the parking on the street they're going to lose possibly two cars off the streets but gain 7 and 5. >> with that, explanation and the suggestions made by the commission i'm inclined to make a motion to take dr and modify the project and allow the perimeters we've discussed the separation of building, the treatment and materials, the potential i'm not sure what to do that that director rahaim perhaps you can help us a larger city planning policy regarding the stairs the opposition duo to be gained or losses something what else would we do with the

larger piece another way to create a public garden i don't have any yesterday, i hear the neighbors are concerned for safety reasons and there are reasons it can be negative. >> generally would support public assess on to public right-of-way this is a public right-of-way so i think we would support the staircase i understand the concerns about safety that come up on these situations that is a situation more eyes on the street because of the houses proposed so, i mean we generally error on the side of having public assess on public right-of-way. >> this is an unimproved street can it be improved and a stair close by. >> not a street for vehicles advertise it would be unlikely

because of the slope i am not we have many streets that are only stairways this is similar to those i guess i would suggest we would support of stairways as a way of public assess through the neighborhood. >> we'll - in principle it creates different feelings and looks like a consumed but something compound with the differentiation and the treatment of the building. >> right. >> a second. >> a second. >> did you finish the motion. >> unless someone wants to

amend it. >> i have a couple of amendments you've mentions before i begin the roof-decks in could we consider them in as 5 feet in you'll dimensions. >> not part of site. >> it has to be definitely concentrated to the center of the room those are large roof surfaces i think they have to come to the center of the roof and hold better late than never back ten or 15 or 20 that feet. >> they're behind a parapet wall. >> they have is not a parapet ethnic it keeps the buildings lower that's why the roof deck

should pull to the center. >> can say that 10 feet in all dimensions and gives them some numeral guidance. >> may make a friendly migrant we have acute angles on the bernal heights side i want to roof decks not to follow the acute angle but stay as square or rectangle forms if you put them parallel to the slanted facades their too much of an impact on homeopath. >> if i could suggest commissioner we're completely in favor the massing towards the center of the roof and without getting into more we'll doesn't the to the 7 foot setback and while also to our intent beyond that new medic but getting it

away from the sides and work with staff to more appropriate design it on roof. >> can we say from the sidewalk across the street you can't see it. >> the railings. >> let's do that for the based you'll allow that amendment. >> yes. >> okay. >> one more. >> work with staff on the. >> minimize the software escaping and different expressions between the buildings and emphasis that the 4 foot separation looks as green and informal as possible and not like 4 feet of a picket fence. >> okay. who would like to recap this motion. >> i can actually, i have a

few notes so the most motion to take dr and include 4 setback and setting back the roof. >> and from across the street. >> so they're not visual from the line of sight. >> on the sidewalk. >> so work with staff on the harrowed escape and maximize the articulation. >> are they the responsibility of the homes further to the east is there anything else we need in terms of lighting, in terms of - you can answer that. commissioner antonini. >> i'm asking the director. >> the question whether or not the department requires the lighting in the stared are built

i think we will make sure that if they were conducted they're built standard i think the public the department of public works will require that we'll make sure that they're built to you know their standards. >> which includes surfaces and railing and maintenance etc., etc. >> that's correct. >> is only other thing. >> commissioner antonini. >> in terms of differentiation we want to differentiate the grammar doors as much as possible if that's okay with the maker the motion. >> i don't understand the can you explain. >> the garage doors i think through of the neighbors the dr requesters brought up i am you may want a uniform door but perhaps alter the colors or

perhaps make them different in each one a style not one completely different style but change the styles a little bit so each of them a lot a little bit different. >> if i may because of the garage doors are a primary facade that's part of the differentiation between the two units. >> even if on the rack on to galileo and look at the same garage doors there are 5 versions horizon panels and the vertical panel whatever? ism applied with the materials. >> i want to clarify with the two second to the late to build a stairs and differentiation of garage material; is that

correct. >> garage door material. >> one other question i guess. >> they all have to be a wooden rope up with anniversary in that case. >> add anything on the roofs. >> no. we're pulling the roof deck off the streets i like the idea of a visual flat we're doing our articulation on the other side. >> okay on that motion there is a motion that has been seconded to take dr and approve the project once again 4 foot setbacks and setting back the

sidewalks and work with staff on hard escape and maximize the targets and built the city stairs to city - >> commissioner moore. >> i'm concerned about the 7 feet are specifically an instructions i think the visibility is a far more important one sometimes that may not be more than 7 feet we have large flat roof to keep them back from the ends enough creativity and surface 7 feet is two close for comfortable. >> eliminate the 7 feet. >> that's the most important. >> and minimize the hard escape. >> okay on that motion commissioner antonini

commissioner johnson. >> commissioner moore commissioner wu commissioner vice president richards commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero. >> okay commission will take a short break a transition in the room and be back in a few

minutes. >> thursday, july 21, 2016, please silence all electronic devices. and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i also want to announce if we have an overflow room 416 again that overflow room 416 anyone that is standing on the ends please make our way if you can't find a seat if we have seats in the audience with bags please fill those or make our way to

organisms. >> everything or everybody on the sides go to room overflow room 416 before we start. >> you'll have plenty of time to come and speak won't forget anybody. >> i think the folks that need to sit in the disabled chairs should have that assess are they okay okay. >> thank you. >> commissioners, we left off on item 10 record number 2015 plus at the sickles a mandatory discretionary review. >> good afternoon, commissioners every single can department staff the the item

before you is an application for the mandatory discretionary review for the property on sickles after the proposal to establish a new medical cannabis dispensary doing business as as green embodies imposition compassionate to replace a vacate empowering space previously occupied by a small corner grocery stores seven hundred and thirty square feet in size with that on entrance an sickles avenue no parking is required and no physical expansion the proposed mcd will operate between 8 and 8:00 p.m. on the weekday and dispense medical cannabis will not permit onsite vaping the planning department has received communications in support and opposition to the projected o

proposed since the distribution 7 letters of opposition and 3 letters of support have been received by the planning code those are available if you wish to have one the project is before you in require the mandatory discretionary review 3r7b8 permitted it is located more than 5 hundred feet from other mcd and not requiring a conditional use authorization per the act approved in 2005 by the board of supervisors and the mayor the department of health is the lead agency for permitting mcds the planning department review is generally limited to the location and the physical characteristics of the mcd in in question and prach approve for the following reasons they've performed outreach and more than one

thousand feet from public schools and any permitted community centers serve the youth apparently the proposed project not allow smoking to be more compatible to the surrounding area and project sponsor has a safety and security plan that is well served by the public transit one mile from the closet mcd and meets all the planning code and consistent with the general plan thank you that concludes my presentation. i'm available to answer any questions jerry i didn't say here from the supervise office to read a letter. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners jessie legislative aide to supervisor avalos i have another letter from may 24th i'll be brief it says because of the opposition from district 11 the planning commission denied this application in 2014 in

neighborhoods opposition mcd is strong and while i support mcds in district 11 this is a growing voice for the clustering and an over saturation and ask you to please disapprove this the massive turn out is is a distrust amongst the neighborhood and we think we'll ask you 80 be consistent with sparks and disapprove this. >> okay project sponsor please. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm ceo of green gods examination i'll present and succeed my time the only things

that mcds has in common a deep, deep desire to help people heal i've met with many san franciscans and left hand in the concerns and questions i'll address before you most of the concerns about another mcd in the district this is vastly different than all the mcds in the city in the just district 11 our clients our seniors and veterans not yet comfortable visiting other mcd and benchmarking and oakland and to manage pain following those success models creating a space where veterans feel safe it will operate a healing interest we've provided services yoga and more and includes seniors and veterans

that provides the peers with advice on available option for their ailments it will be a well light wellness center where folks talk what staff the delivery services will be appreciated and 45 to 50 percent health and 10 percent eatable and 40 percent flowers no congestion that have any product parking will be available at the auto body as from the owner included in the pathway our security team will have been one of duty police officer and provide a comfortable waiting area for any caregivers not having the entry to the treatment hours of operation 9 to 8 and sadder and sunday 8 to

10 patients will meet monthly to address any issues and address the emotionally and working with the developers like 4r50eg9 warriors to help our heroes and it exists to help the seniors and developers this is why we're unique the oils and creams from arthritis and other issues limits vicodin and other drugs with side effects with lavrj complications we will be our industries leader in urban in a service in san francisco health centers is open in benchmarking and around the country and the boobs matured we provide the design and mcds are not pot clubs we're places of healing it is not another mcd in

the district we're a wellness center for seniors and veterans that want a better life thank you for your time i'm available to answer any questions. >> (clapping.) >> hello commissioners shelly as i was presenting to come here one of the things that was thursday, july 21, 2016, when i sat on this commission we looked at administrative code the legislation for mcds and a lot of conversation at that time, and i've heard you all have since it the model of an mcd now the cafe concept that exists is making it easy for people to turn that into pot clubs but they're not their peel dispensaries if you take out cannabis and put in al vera it is an herb that is helping to heal people people need to understand the stigma attached

from the 60s and the san jose no longer exists the federal government is real estate some of the controls the state as you know from alma is looking at how it will change and one of the things we've looked at 10 years ago was how we make those look like pharmacies we talked about how their some that could be opened twenty-four hours for patients what an urgent need for care by the way, they're the pharmaceutical in nature and talked about how he's a model mcd we don't have that but every mcd is painful to say called a pot club the polling people that access that be fighting with with depreciation and diabetes and all the elements revved by those dispensaries again, the

lady will not be on site congestion of this the environment will be they didn't hear me say clubs it is attractive to seminars they'll want to come in and not have the stigma of their peers you're in a pot club those are wellness centers we should look at as the cleaving expect or concept it is important no matter what the setup is we have all of those medical cannabis dispensaries are helping people and the ladies project will not have people in and out having products work with seniors, the whole idea behind others professional uniform so seniors are comfortable from other examples out here in the world

in the retail world if our not comfortable in the environment you'll not going to that place to frequent so the concern that neighbors have about people come in and out all hours will in the exist 65 are veterans of any age looking for health and ways to relieve paper it is important to know that has we develop the whole concept of this center is it so around her father that was a veteran and mother who is ill this is not set up so that there's a switch and bait here this is for seniors that she's learned through the family 12 thousand seniors right now in district 11 according to the san francisco department of aging & adult services and 10 thousands of you all get aged out to do 65

by the year 2030 one hundred thousand seniors in the san francisco according to the daumg those are the kind of folks like myself 61 i don't want to be on vicodin i want to go to paris and travel and live is an independent life this center this wellness center and the concept designed is being designed to make sure our seniors have a place that helps them heal it will be our seniors we're here and available to answer any questions he know there are a lot of neighborhood opposition organized this is representative of people's concerns for sure remember 12 thousand seniors in the community and all not recommended here today so thank

you thank you for your time and we're here for the evening. >> thank you. >> those are compelling predictions no applause booze or anything to keep this going if you have cell phones to turn off i'll go ahead and call speaker cards for public comment. >> please be advised the allotted time will be 2 minutes and also, we received requests for spanish area cantonese can

we have those two interprets if anyone wants to provide public comment in spanish or cantonese approach the interprets. >> i'm an spanish interpreter so. >> (speaking spanish.) >> i'm david a complains interpreter i will make an announcement now to the folks that speak sxhanz so you can be able to help them.

>> (clapping.) >> again, no applause good evening. i'm captain of the inigleside district 11 primarily covers 6.5 square miles of the district i have over one hundred officers been there two years and before this commissions go fighting back sparks when that came up and the same thing for the people that are there the problem so not necessarily what has been offered by but the clustering and the problems brought with that ms. workers' comp is very good. >> thank you for your outreach coming out to community meetings and everything else she's con a lot of the ground work, however, the problems are clustering that's the main issue as a police department it takes a lot of the resources to deal with the complaint on a daily basis

with the mcd and battled these on top of assaults and robberies based on the initiatives clients that go through we've seen an increase in assaults and robberies but most of complaints are e-mails sent directly to me those entail most people from district 11 are effected by the loitering and the smoeshg of the product and sitting on stairs not in front of the establishment the ones around the corner the double parking and traffic on a upper mission there is a lot of daily city traffic a 30 fair with pedestrian assess i've done sting operations and things like that the complaint in the e-mails are simply that a lot of the neighbors effected one was a young latin woman bringing a

stockholder into her house she wanted to get by and didn't as a result her but couldn't get into her own house that's the problems from a lot of the mksdz when i asked for control of that i'm trying to get this commission to understand this is why my friends and neighbors that i've worked for in the district are here with a vocal voice they will there i don't you don't they do thank you for your time. >> (clapping.) >> a reminder not to applaud and whistle or his can i ask the interpreter to explain the

applause. >> (speaking spanish.) >> good afternoon commissioner and side audience i'm in an awkward position i'm here about half the people are on one side i come here with two strong or strong statements the medical cannabis club the new industry has a medical marijuana industry as an african-american man here in the city and i'm one of the people we encounter 68 percent unemployment with the construction western left out when the tech community came to san francisco we were left out i don't want to be left out i'm tried tired of being african-american in the city and left out this business

opportunity has a chance to employ a couple of do so african-american folks in a business in the neighborhood where we have 12 block radius not one african-american business we want to go to work too this is a way to go to work and addresses some of the concerns i happen sunday is my favorite place the am/pm market this is thirty feet from the facility i watch the drug castles in the a.m. per diem p.m. market let's take the gun sales off the streets this is a way to take the drug gun the african-american young men are poisoned with the drug and put the people in a facility to

serve seniors and vets thank you very much. >> thank you. >> richard good afternoon commissioner president fong as a former commissioner, in fact, during my tenure your truly can you carry the resolution back then all we know and the argument we're not in the event the opposition came back to labor and supports the decision in 2006 a modification of guidelines which we're still the opportunities is there for you as regulators to look at the

zoning and - no massing and typography a vacate building you can approve this project and i want to say there are good people i have enough friends great people i've worked with that have come before you we worked on different projects and as an african-american woman yes. i building in equal opportunity for support small businesses you regulated in such miff you can do that with this you can mash your rules and regulations you put together for this project are can you think in other projects but no excuse for not pga in legislation i'll hear in support and i believe

that the opposition have leaders the gentleman is a good man and he has proven he can pull the community together please approve with conditions and let's live together peacefully in the city and county of san francisco and i'm john jones i live in the neighborhood you'll hear from the people they're hoping against this facility i'm a child of 60s i went through the summer of love i does not have a grief against marijuana i speak

with the 52 hundred block of mission street their run like jails if you it says something burglary the incline he will you look at the treatment facility they have barbiturates jail keep bars inside of the facility that's what they need to control their consumers i can't stand outside of those facilities without being husband landline by an armed gaudy have an interest in how the facilities are run i'm standing outside of tree medicaid address a security guard says i can't stand there this is a public sidewalk who are you what is that we don't need that anymore in the district in san francisco

good work good afternoon. i appreciate the opportunity to speak for the compassion for the planning commission today, i'm a private attorney i'm also a mother of 3 sons mile oldest was a city college and employed in

korea and maybe to afghan i'm concerned i anticipate he'll are physical and psychological damage from the service part find gods compassion they're focused focused on serving veterans my son currently is- with the education and the opportunity available through c g ti think they can reduce the stigma and serve the veterans i'm concerned with his ability him coming home and addicted to the military there i'm sorry i'm nervous the ma independent benefits will surplus any of the drugs all kinds of depreciation

medicines they're given to our serve people please support this proposition thank you i don't want to take any more time. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i'm pastor from the christian center on mission about six or seven hundred feet from the proposed business we know those that are coming to the table we know they're great folks on both sides we're just to let you know we serve people from all ages in the community for a over 60 years we serve the adults and increasing unto serve the children's from ages of 5 to 17 years old so we have program

and skwooech after-school program we serve youth during the week so constantly our place we're serving children and youth wednesday and fridays as well all over the place recreation and invaluable we're a religious institution we're constantly serving young people and target the young people that's our concern kids are on buses they're walking the streets and so we are concerned for them and what they are perhaps exposed to tie in the area that we are so that's a real concern we're concerned about our sons and daughters and the children in the community and most of all we're in close proximity so that's really bad our concern with this whole matter that we want everybody to look at

so thank you for your time and attention ♪ matter thank you >> thank you. i represent our kids first and after-school programs that serves the majority of longfellow elementary school students that is two blocks north i'm chair and member of the organization m i a collaborative of nonprofits and neighborhood advocating for the services in district 11 approximately 25 members and i'm also a member of san francisco christian center been there 15 years a mother of one and 49 students 75 in the

after-school programs we have services during the week monday through friday twouksz so 6 o'clock and summer is 7:30 to 6:00 p.m. the discretionary review analysis considers the christian center but neglects my housing buildings of the christian center on mission street although we don't finance from the street and don't see children playing or doing homework and precipitating in activities we're here and been there 29 years and continue to work with the community that we serve we are clearly 6 hundred feet within the establishment we're not urban known we get dcyf funding and licensed to operate we partner with the schools and

support other nonprofits in the neighborhood we're in a population that is low income serving the highest amount of youth and seniors in the policies we're committed to prepare meals for homework and enrichment this dispensary is inconsistent with the goals of the city it is contrary to the new tickets for quality of life. >> your time is up. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. i'm richard dickinson

i'm the northern california deputy director for the congress of racial quality california joining hand in hand with the end of naacp to support this project and get away from the apocalyptic loss against cannabis i heard a recent testimony from members of players in the nfl i oppose to the prescription medication that they are using to keep them playing and in favor of cannabis this is a widely known fact and well needed medication for seniors developers to help them overcome some of the things they need to overcome it can be regulated just like alcohol or any other project we

support this and if you in los angeles we sponsor the martin luther king prayed every january we invite you to come do support this get out of the dark understandably come into the new age and be in the forefront to help medicate people thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is annette i'm here today, i'm actually a san francisco nature i take it a long time resident of san francisco and been in my current residence with my family and i'm here to speak in opposition to the proposal i'm a left hand clinical working my most

important job is a mom the reason i'm someone being a social worker said the healing properties of medical cannabis and a strong supporter of medical cannabis in fact a legislative aide for supervisor campos in 2008, and 9 a legislative aid that coordinated the task force not an easy task getting tool know all the folks running the medical cannabis dispensary and little rules to be permitted, however, in this case i'm actually opposed to this item today, the reason i'm opposed at this point in our district 11 too many drerngz that are in existence and also some of the issues that the officer had discussed with you earlier the clustering and i'm very deeply concerned where the locations is where the dispensary if it is allowed

because of the children and the pathway of children yeah. i mean i think that's my time is up okay. >> 30 seconds. >> basically that's what i wanted to put forth okay. thank you very much i urge you to vote no, thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners long time resident in district 11 been here 10 years with the family and a a long time supporter of medical cannabis in my work with tom ammiano for 6 years i got to work on statewide issues around cannabis i'll agree with my wife we have 3 grave concerns about the density of mcds in the district i believe that if we're going to have quality at any level that will be for economic development in our neighborhood

that really bad focuses on small businesses and really bad supporting working families in our district thank you very much. >> hello my name is lee a resident of the neighborhood i am here in support of project as someone mass t d s d the wellness centers are greatly needs if we have something like a wellness center instead of jail dispensaries i think i wouldn't go into that sloopd to get on a crowded bus i'll get medication he need but i have 6 years experience in oncology hospice care in a state

with no legal cannabis and knowing the quality of life would be greatly improved by the patients i saw it will help the lives and families knowing they were having a better care than on the hash opiates that can effect someone's life i've seen people overdose there could have been other treatment options and owned by minoritys to me is important it will bring more diversities into a neighborhood that needs it and having those are important then we can it will - having a place that is owned by someone who can bring in diversity that will bring better jobs and i would much rather this board approve this

for the people in the neighborhood and i don't think that it is more harmful than children walking by liquor store so people are walking by more harmful things that cannabis thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners i am come here to speak in opposition to the project we were before you about a year and a half ago speaking in the same vein with the same argument and many of the same people and here 5 years no 4 nature years ago when sxeerld and extreme circumstances you approved 3 more than clubs in the same night under the land use rules and under the rules that's my

theme i'm kidding you didn't have any reason to deny the application but now based on last year's argument you have a precedent it is cluster weird here today, there is 3r0e7b8 probably will one and 50 of us wiener enough is enough stooeshl our main argument we have two at the corner ever geneva and mission and one at the mission and silver over the last 5 years worked together to bring two more in front of you and spoke last time 5 win a mile nature radius at the end of the day you're a well served neighborhood has nothing to do with with ms. wong those are eloquent arguments at the end of the day if this is really bad about december pensz this in a neighborhood our neighborhood is

well served and as reverend said it as community serving facility if not for a technicality in the land use under their cu application their religious application that skwoovpz and community facility within one thousand feet so we strongly urge you to reject this application tonight and stand with the community thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is a carol and i've residential design guidelines in san francisco since 1955 a mother a grandmother and a great grandmother i have an auto immune condition lupus and

arthritis and someone finally convinced me of the benefit of the use of the medicinal marijuana not to smoke or put anything in my lungs but some of the ointments and products to be used i believe what i've heard today is people who are concerned about describe as clustering as well as the quality of business practices in the neighborhood. >> i worked on third street for many many, many years the same argument with liquor stores owned by the kennedy didn't practice the business the way

that the other liquor stores did not having people hang around the business not disturbances around the i business it was because of their business model i urge you to i'm not goings-on to hurt children people going in there like children not hurt anyone's child and other people like me veterans or other seniors i urge you to look at this from all angles and support this medicinal model.

>> i've lived in the community all my life a i'm a homeowner and worked in the city as pay takes for the great city i live in i sits on less merchant association and work hard to make this community thrive and be safety for the residents are commented in a positive way only our community knows what is best for us another mcd is not best for us i stand before you for the third time and can't count how many times oppose another mcd in the community we ask that you and others communities

member take the discretionary review we don't want another mcd in the community 1 on third street opted with an operator that never ran an mcd before due to the inexperience there was a business that changed ownership and not anyone what open up a mcd if green is opened - this community doesn't need to be untested and untried by a operator and if things don't go well the neighborhoods suffer why should the taxpayers in the communities have to suffer not right we shouldn't have to find out again ask you to oppose this project thank you.

>> good evening. i'm may. >> can you speak up, please. >> speak into the microphone. >> we don't support gnp examination i understand that acupuncture and massage will help the people j.j. c we educate them and for cannabis my daughter helped me in healing the kidney disease and educate me and my family with cannabis within our family i would like you in support of g nc thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon to the planning commission i am keating adam i'm a strong advocate for women of color and the founding president of one of the black

women chapters chapters on the memdz and in support and good afternoon the women through the san francisco bay area i stand firm of gods green compassion laquisha has volunteered for the orientation over 15 years we support women and girdles and advocated for the scholarship fund and a strong level of commitment and dedication in making a deference in the lives of youth cannabis like flowers we have healing powers and order dandelion tea and unfair stigma on mcd people call them pot includes their medical cannabis dispensary that provide healing

products without the side effects of prescription g d c has created a space for patient that want to assess healing and a therapeutic life i hope you overlook the mcds as club and support of wellness in the community i urge the planning commission to support green god compassion lowest lakisha not be - it impacts the lessons for others and makes a difference a travesty not to do that at the end of the day, we all gods children and deserve to have equal rights thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> again day commission

my name is interfere not lawrence a man of health professional i resigned from any job from the premise of the prescription that were being used and the neglects that it caused and the theory pubic effects it caused one of the things that drew me to this project the project was the focus on the contracannabis towards side therapeutic process and the model used and so with that, i say i hope that you approve this application thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm tyler smith i believe my name was called around 4 o'clock i'm a civil rights attorney a criminal rights attorney i hear one main

reason in opposition to ms. wong mcd that is because of clusters there are too much mcds in the area i want to point out through is 2 distinct reasons two things that distinguish or would distinguish her dispensary with an is that she's hopefully to specifically help our veterans and elderly and designed in a way it is a welcoming environment and not a intimately environment and secondly, she's a woman of color this is important, you know, san francisco is long been a way of proving thinking and the appreciation of the diversity the commission permitting ms. wong combotdz embodies that regression we're stronger in san francisco then people in other

cities lakisha is smart and dedicated to a good cause and benefits the community the fact this business was founded by the woman a woman of color and this business is the first of its kind of own and operateed is an exciting opportunity to continue the city's aggressive position and understand the support of brothers and sisters of color when a good helpful idea i wholeheartedly believe and this commission feels the same thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm raymond i live at the heron and probably the second or the first most impacted person if you allow this to happen the reason any

driveway will be everyone's parking spot i don't know any driveway should be anyone's parking spot it is hard enough let alone those coming there she is has a plan unfortunately, the body shop shows leaving parking spaces from they park 4 and 5 days on the walk if you're mother was walking on any heron street she'll have to go around cars that's where we park the cars the body shop leaves the cars not signed to go to work they leave them on the street, in fact, she'll block someone's derivative and accountable you and not acknowledge you i say to you if we have enough problems with the am/pm arco

implication i'm not against her he say do it but unfortunately in this neighborhood there's a parking issue and we have a lot of little kids i'm older my wife is older we're nature san franciscans my wife group in this house notice the the best thing for our neighborhood thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners stephen it's been a while past president of the outer mission residents association i was wanting when we opted the initial 3 mcd in our neighborhood and unfortunately, this body pushed the two in the 5200 block and we've got the green cross near silver and mission or mission and silver and now the issue we've been

dealing with not only with our supervisor but the commissioners is the clustering of mcd in our neighborhood that is our probably number one issue and i'll agree with the previous speaker on parking it is cycler a car congested neighborhood a lot of a lot of cars with no parking in for a little hindsight on the one of the mcds in the 51922 hundred block that he double park the captain is right they double park park illegally across the street car share designated for them it constantly parking and going into tree medicaid or the other mcd i want to say that in the years that i was president of my neighborhood association that was over 15 years we tried our

damn it to get the businesses to come in we have storefront closed and wanted a pet store or routine and anything that we can support and a lot of it we can't support and a lot of people in our neighborhood cannot support the mcd we're soot ratdz and urge you to vote no on that discretionary review. >> he's much turn around i am. >> allow me to introduce myself and retires cornell of the u.s. arm army for 26 years service all the justification the people have been saying that is newly and void i'm there are

for 26 years and seen this all of a sudden medication they're saying how can you call this god green compassion is it so marijuana if this is really bad true the federal government will approve that right now you know whether when was not world war in the san jose i seen kids that were kicked out of the service they can't read or write and when they get to the chaplain for across town they were on marijuana and follow-up on this one this area i live on sickles find the house to the so-called place used to live on top of sickles this is only approximately 10 by 10 feet

coming over here and sneak in and see a current this place has a permit to do that? >> i hope not okay. this place i'm talking about were surrounded by school christian 8 to 12 high school, and the other side of sickles they have a 6 or 7 schools and churches you can't writing right a wrong by voting for this place i've been in that place for practical 50 years i used this watch the kids but this it is wrong no matter can you say.

>> i taught elementary school at longfellow and living in the district for 40 years i've been a teacher for 44 years and i'm here to talk about the environmental racism the placement of environment hazardous with materials as much as toxic water and pollution and urging decay and liquor and medical cannabis dispensaries, etc. i'm here to ask you to implement the environmental just the fair involvement of all people regards of the race or origin and enforcement of environmental laws the problem with racial profiling is america is more than police brutality race plays a determining role no are environmental policies with land use and zoning as a result the

third world will live next to freeways and body shops and nail slalgz and morph those communities had a diminished respondent or responsibility to fight back that's what this permitted business is hoping for that's the reason we're here to disenfranchise communicated ever color we have empowered ourselves to get involved in the decision making we're not against marijuana clubs we're begin the fact none in naomi kelly and lakeshore all over the place foifshg and castro coal valley and golden gate park and nob hill and assess cliff and hayes valley we want it to be in all the neighborhoods before that he they come back to our neighborhood thank you. >> good afternoon,

commissioners my name is a tom murphy grew up in the excelsior and have family there i took time away from any the advantage in santa cruz to make a trip up here i want to speak in opposition of the project we were here about a year and a half ago for spark and we have 5 mcds within a mile and and a half the district is definitely served for those of you who don't know it is the highest served in the district and basically champions testimony and i'll stop with that testimony is basically what i have to say i strongly urge you guys to oppose this project. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i'll call a coup more

names. (calling names) good evening. i'm ricky a born and raised san francisco in district 11 and this mcd will effect my life entirely because i live on to dead end street around the corner of sickle and it is a dead end a neighborhood park where those guys will come and pick up and go up high street and park and smoke their whatever into their ointments and whatever i'm not against anyone making a buck not in my neighborhood we have more than enough mcd in our district i urge this commission not to go

forward with that project it will effect children's lives in this neighborhood i have an 8-year-old not able to ride her bike because of guards sitting out front but not a jail but still the same thing and not only that but at the same time the older people in the area trust me are not in there to smoke marijuana and trying to make this sounds like a senior citizen is that a i urge the commission to think about it and not let the project glow the gentleman said put it in another district we have 5 i see your rolling your eyes.

>> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. commissioners my name is bonnie born and raised in san francisco i currently live in district 11 as a most of the 2 i'm here to oppose green gods compassion one of the biggest worries my children as parents guardian and maybe aunt. >> uncles how comfortable raising our quiz in a district saturated with mcds we can't walk to a park without psa a mcd or people smoke in their car on the sidewalk though not open their premises it definitely dispersed in the neighborhood i ask you commissioners take into consideration the children and the effect it will have on their innocence in district 11 your district deserves a