>>[non-english speaker] >> merritt arizona is a very bad influence for this community. >>[non-english speaker] >> safety health and environment and kids. >>[non-english speaker] >> for me and many others we are very allergic to smoke and marijuana smell. >>[non-english speaker] >> it's going to affect my respiratory tract and

breathing. >>[non-english speaker] >> i'm very much against opening the shop in our neighborhood. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is [inaudible] on the property owner which is four blocks from here but am i don't receive any notice until now. okay. there's always [inaudible] in the neighborhood especially [inaudible] in front of it and also there's a couple parking issues and just like yesterday i just saw three young kids smoking in front of my porch. when i called the police that already left but small things like this take away our police force. where they can handle something bigger than this and our police force is not controlled by the legal marijuana legalized and san francisco is not ready to

take this type of [inaudible] yet. there's no regulation so we should spend it this project until further notice. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is vicky chen, conservative business owner for next to the proposed mcd. my customer only to me that they would be afraid, to my business if this entity is going to open for business because they're worried about their safety and i can't lose my customers. therefore i would be under no choice but to move out of this neighborhood. not just the i've [inaudible] from all other business owners nearby. who would be responsible for businesses lost? what is this 31 to see? more mcd shops traded in for [inaudible] does art city want to see a ghost town? also i am the [inaudible] with international students from southern china. and i

probably get the majority of this international students are youth. does the city really want to [inaudible] image and impression of san francisco to the international minor students. be please avoid this mcd plan. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm a longtime resident of visitation valley. i'm in support of this. there's a lot of things that are out there. there is killing our people which is cigarettes and they sell those at area liquor store even 711. deeds see that every day all day. second smoke is the number 1 kb public to know if anybody has a statistics on marijuana killing anybody. but it's also it's been a chore-it's been helping people in the community with trauma,

dealing with ptsd and there's also been a study procure for cancer, leukemia, and other things. so i am all for it. thank you. >>[applause] >> thank you. >> excuse me, folks. we don't allow any outburst. >>[inaudible] [off mic] >> thank you. thank you, sheriff. next speaker, please. >> >>[non-english speaker] >> my name is chen. she has asked me to translate her written statement. she won't be speaking to why we speaking on her behalf. i am opposed to opening a cannabis shop because

there are three child care and school and senior centers and on number 15 the [inaudible] a lot of the committee and every week the children, the parents, gather for activities. 66 street has many also activities. there's a real lab report around the proposed site is number nine and number eight public bus stop and that affects the neighborhood good they are not taking the kids to go to school. were to go to chinatown. they have to pass by the cannabis shop. the cannabis shop should be open in the

commercial district not in a residential district and hope that you would consider our thinking, feeling and the next generation's health. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is [inaudible] >> okay she's got a statement. we feel that we are being deceived because only notify us two hours before the public hearing and before that [inaudible] now we know it's a cannabis shop. it's a big difference. >> >>[non-english speaker] >> therefore i'm against opening the cannabis shop in my neighborhood. >> thank you. next speaker, please. after this person if

there's any other >> no ncd. >> thank you, sir. are there any other speakers would like to speak on this item either inside or outside? these, write one up the on the scene summer the rooms >> >> my name is [inaudible] as was the letter you should proceed from [inaudible] that the staff is misquoted in supporting. also, i'm just forwarded a student to you from the [inaudible] housing development. that was the site of the existing medicines they do not receive notice. in addition as a city we need to delay any further mcd approval

until september just like last time. even though they might be an effort to say that mcd not automatically converted adult use but just last week the mayor [inaudible] recommended item number 11 grandfathering provisions should allow existing mcd t [inaudible] of adult use retail at the location and also just last week the mayor and activate interim control on indoor agriculture. therefore nothing is set in stone. before september. we are asking [inaudible]" barring childcare and preschools- >> thank you, ma'am. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening. my name is teresa-with vinton empowerment center. the agenda for today is a total one of 39 pages for 2442 bayshore blvd. it's lying in this reading. the public is

not fair for the non-english speaking community. i also want to the went to the two meetings and i don't see the planning clock [inaudible] present. so i don't think they are doing a good job because they are misleading it and we have 55 [inaudible] and they do not do a good job. we will not spend our whole day here. sitting here listening and you are supposed to have a good dinner and we should have the-a good dinner with the family. thank you so much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. again if there's any additional folks who want to come up these lineup >> hi. my name is sharon hooley. i am kind of very

strongly against opening the mcd at 2442 bayshore because we absolutely wanted to keep our community safe and peaceful and because we don't know methods of deception to our residents. near our neighborhood and the children day care center and children's playground near those areas. especially no bayshore and the raymond avenue. [inaudible] children's activities there. also, you know, we kind of like really are shocked and disappointed for very last disc two meetings >> thank you. appreciate your

comments. next speaker, please. >> good evening. my name is allergen on the social worker. i am here to oppose the mcd that has it 2442 bayshore i've been sitting and listening to about 200 people speaking to you and many of them support the marijuana and many of them oppose them. this is the differences. the people who oppose parents grandparents there think about the future. there probably owners they keep telling you the project owner [inaudible] they don't have the information. the people who supporting it is not coming here to speak. maybe all of them not speaking and also the signature and the public are 139 agenda is misleading the

public could amenity information are not true because visitation valleys happening in business. as people testify to you in here and the federal law still says marijuana is illegal. it's not supported by the [inaudible] and the [inaudible] >> thank you, ma'am. your time is up. >> thank you, ma'am. any additional public comment on items 16? p please, come on up. anyone else like to speak please, line up. >> good evening. no ncd. i'm an educator. i strongly oppose the mcd. the most important point is cannabis is poison to children. it is proved by many

skeptics in many professional researchers. one waders and argue 1000 feet away from school requirements. i believe [inaudible] is for protection and prevention for our children. however, the 1000 feet is based on the vicinity the facility [inaudible] but our children they walk home from home to school. they hang out in the business areas around the school. i demand the city to limit mcd's to be in industrial zones. so avoid our children to expose the marijuana. moreover, on [inaudible] 19th the planning commissioners denied our community members and community leaders request to postpone this hearing. due to the chinese new year tradition.

also, on the committee meeting held by the sponsor >> commissioner koppel. >> thank you all the public would came out and show their support for both sides. a couple things about this proposed project popped out in my mind. the lot is currently vacant. as one big thing i'm

looking at. i was impressed with the $50,000 donation to the children's fund also. you have local san francisco residence were very ethnically representing this neighborhood in san francisco. there will be no smoking on site. there will be no cultivation on site which some people may not realize. this project is legal and code compliance. there are 15 security cameras set up to be in this project both in the front and the back. there's going to be more eyes on the street and are currently is. right now. and i don't see any other names on the board so i'll make a motion to approve. >> i will second that. if i can ask a couple questions of the operators. if you can come up? can you tell us is this

the first mcd still operated or two of experience currently operating? >> this is our first. >> can you talk more about the plan for security. especially i think we heard from folks there's no smoking on site but we heard mcd's in the past where complaints from neighbors and we are getting the fear that people will smoke outside around the block or adjacent to the mcd? >> yes. the legal consumption on site and we estimate was capt. mcfadden from angle side police station and he had recommended security plan for us that we are definitely going to implement at this location that he said that works. he has worked with mcd's that use this

plan and these recommended us to use it. >> what types of things are in the plan that you will do-to try to mitigate folks from smoking outside the premises and in the neighborhood? >> so the no smoking the no loitering noting our people stoops were the stairways. no double parking in parking neighbors drivers but we will cost lab security patrolling the area. if we do catch somebody a member of ours that is doing this we are going to put him a six-month suspension in a second time building that will ban them from our dispensary. >> so you will suspend him from using- >> for the first offense, correct >> can you clarify the hours you are planning to- >> so 9 am-7 pm is the hours of operation. >> everyday? >> everyday. >> that's in the condition of approval? >> i have to take a look at the -it is in the conditions of approval. the planning code

allows it to go to 10 pm but they're closing at 7 pm. >> okay. >> i mean it's an enforcement issue because it's in the code >> so commissioner just to clarify, you can at this as a condition of approval. currently it's within the project description but it's not currently in the conditions that are outlined before you. so you have discretion in terms of the hours of operation and see if you can add the condition of approval for the hours of operation as an additional- >> yes. i would propose we add that to the conditional approval if doable to keep those hours what you want,, what we want to keep them but i think those are appropriate hours for a medical use. this facility. i would appreciate of those are also in the conditions of approval. i mean, we hear these a lot and people are very passionate about sides.

-thank you. i appreciate your time.-where you can-you can sit down. thanks. our jurisdiction is the land use. it's not whether marijuana is legal for recreation or medical use. that's been done. we are really hard to decide whether this is appropriate for this site given the fact that it's legal in the city. in my biggest concern is around posturing too many entities in one place and this one is far from others. it's one of the few i have within a mile or even farther ladies. i've got children, to get i live about two blocks from and mcd on grocery. they are young. i think the biggest impact from that mcd is traffic and people double parking is not necessarily negative behavior. people either working or operating the mcd. so i am

generally supportive with change , with the specification of the hours been 9-7. commissioner richards >> yes. project sponsor. so what is your experience in the cannabis industry? >> so we've had a lot of experience in this industry. we are both cultivate cannabis. distribute it to mcd's but we wanted a chance to step in front of the patient and help the patient compassionately on a one-on-one basis. as opposed to just giving it to mcd's to do that for us. we feel like we would touch people more by doing this. >> okay. i was canceled my second question. we heard people say we have delivery -that's what they should get anyone to say you want to get in front of the patient. what you do in front of the patient?

>> education can one thing we are big on this patient education you were going to be able sit down with them not only give them medicine but give them the right medicine. >> so how does that look. know someone on staff it's that unit,? >> we will train all staff >> what is your connection to the neighborhood? so i mean we been tracking these cannabis dispensaries for now 2.5 years and the ones most successful are ingrained in the neighborhood and not somebody who complies in and gets stick support in the ground like a flag. how are you going to be a part of the neighborhood? what are you going to do? so we currently have been doing a lot of outreach in the community. we reach out to different community organizations and we want to embed ourselves in the community. we've been working [inaudible] christmas dinner we been involved in backpack day.

that was with turf. so we have reached out to different organizations like rudy said. he could not be heard but we have an reach out to different organizations that we really hope to build be able to reach out to more organizations and that embed ourselves in the community >> okay. j capt. mcfadden talk about-i saw him out in the hallway and one of the things he indicated is green crosses a good example of a mcd done right and i settled what is it that they do and he said they come to our community meetings but they come to our police meetings with their part of the neighborhood and if you were to be approved tonight my expectation-i can't condition this but you as a [inaudible] you need to be a part of the neighborhood. you need to really [inaudible] try to win over people that don't support you now. >> we totally agree. >> i heard issues around you were notices a restaurant. so somebody people said

[inaudible] no. okay. the other one was people said there were not know for. what was the notification here mr. clark? if you could, but come on up, that would be great. >> the required notification has taken place. the minimum required noticing period is 30 days and 34 days notice was given in terms of the mailing. that set prayer foot radius. so i think that a lot of the confusion may lie around the fact that a lot of people outside of that radius didn't receive that notification because the required notification is within 300 feet but from what i understand about the project sponsor is that they went beyond the minimum requirements to do the door-to-door outreach and they can certainly speak to that

more. >> thank you very much good one other question mr. clark. do you know-this may be on the scope of what we would expect you to know-any crime statistics around and cds that we have already 434-35? is crime worse? is there any statistics you're aware of? >> i don't. i reach out to the police department within the last couple of days in the community reach out to me and mentioned that crime was potential concern. but i have that same question as you. i wasn't able to get that information in such a short amount of time >> okay. i think that something for the future they'll be good for us at least to understand because we on system jaded claims that crime has increased and we don't know what things people are coming into the police about whether it's double parking or its murder. whatever. so i'd love to understand. thank you very much mr. clark. can you tell me about your door-to-door outreach and where you go how far did you go and who did you

talk to? >> so we did door-to-door outreach for a meeting we were going to have. neighborhood meeting and we went about maybe asleep three block radius dropping off flyers and we've gone up and down the corridor talk to business owners. we have also drawn a lot of outreach in sunnydale which is [inaudible] and we've accumulated from [inaudible] over 700 signatures. >> okay. one of the other things that i will [inaudible] on the task force regulations number 11 with somebody called ultima [inaudible] are just [inaudible] adult use cannabis leads underground father and provision should allow existing mcd to apply regardless of future probation. [inaudible]. i just want you to be aware that it would be our expectation and something will be abdicating for and we have the power to do, to make sure

that there isn't another type of review possible. i want that automatic discretionary do we could insist things like that that doesn't expectation of your part that is soon as adult cannabis comes in your in like-your issuing could i just want to make sure you realize that? >> we do realize that. >> thank you very much. i guess question for mr.-it is late. mr. sucre. i'm scratching my head where in the clinic will do we have a donation on the same type of activity or products sold or whatever where we have two different permitting systems? at least twice that being? >> a good corollary would probably be our restaurant controls could probably we have limited restaurants and restaurant could two different definitions and the big difference in the restaurant controls is the sale of

alcohol. in certain zoning districts of for example a full restaurant or is required conditional use in a limited restaurant would be principally permitted. for example. so we have a corollary between recreational use for example don't use marijuana and undergo cannabis as two different uses that are similar. it's only within the commissions: power to create those process. >> thank you. having this memo understanding [inaudible] discretionary use somebody wants to use the values we have a kind of [inaudible] and are packed. i'm inclined this week to support this versus the san bruno project which i had no idea we were looking at. so it makes more sense to me. i feel comfortable doing this. i think somebody said we need to be a commissioner for all and all means people that actually need this as well as the residence.

so i think denying this location given the fact that it's already a mom half from the next location does create a hardship on patients who need to have that interaction with the person that needs to told him the best kind of medicine to get. so on, to support good >> thank you. commissioner johnson >> thank you very much. i am also inclined to support this project. i understand that we are going to have a new licensing process and new definitions that will probably be added to the planning code toward the end of this year and next year but as of right now you're looking at a project that already has existing planning code definition and existing regulation around how these uses can be cited in our city. at a couple of questions about that but i want to add as a sort of other summary comments, i also appreciate the with this project versus [inaudible] by commissioner richards said, i think it's

much clear where the project is, where it's going. who the clientele is. we really have that much for the representation to be able to make a land-use decision here. i just want everyone to note there is a separate licensing procedure that this operator will have to go through the we don't guarantee approval of. so there may be other circumstances this project that we don't take into account program use decision by impact whether or not this actually goes forward but in terms of land use we have existing rules and i feel like this project gives us a full plate of information to review it. i do have one question. in terms of that, i'm going to ask i guess that first. looking at the semantics i didn't see a clear representation of the frontage. we have rules around transparency and other rules for retail sites that essentially say what it supposed to look like and i know when the big knock seconds and cds in the past has been

that the level of security that the operators try to provide to both combat neighborhood and provide safety for their employees and clients sometimes ends up with the frontage of that has the effect of alienating the space in a neighborhood meeting bars in the windows and having security personnel that are sort of station right outside the door and a small frontage that can seem very imposing. so i do not see any--i didn't get a good representation of how this operator will structure that frontage space. do we have any sense of what they're going to do their? >> so i did ask the applicant to mention if there were any solid alterations of any kind and to my knowledge there are no exterior alterations proposed as part of the

building permit application. in terms of the existing conditions, there's a security gate across the windows and if you want to ask the operator we can touch base to see if they have any future plans but in terms of the building permit application that was submitted to me even after we went through some of the security concerns to improve the security plan it didn't involve any solid alterations. and in terms of storefronts as bouncy, it beats the 60%. >> okay. i would like to ask the operator then to come up. >> good evening i am the architect that i thought maybe could chime in. we talked about this as they mentioned what they want to achieve in their store. so essentially they didn't want it to 10 of the friendly when walking by to look like more like a dentist or a chiropractic institution

weathers a waiting area right at the front of the storefronts. the storefront isn't blocked and if i may just so something on the projector real quick. the way we had in mind to design the actual project display to also help maybe the nervousness of the community [inaudible] these gives that did not have the product on the window. >> so i'm sorry to interrupt you. because it's late. so i run never seen this. this that's from inside. they'll be your view >> about your view >> don 20 façade changes >> no. if you were to look inside the window that we would see. there is no change to the façade but if you were to walk by and look inside the window that we see. >> okay. when i look-thank you. you can have a seat. i think with that couple more-i

don't know. when i look at the way it's currently configured there's security dates on the outside of the windows there appeared to be some bars across the doors or something. so that's something that i'm highly interested in and operating a space that is going to appear sort of menacing to the street level. then finally just a quick question again. notably get into this too too much but on the community outreach i read through the packet and it said you guys had outreach to a number of individuals lead various committee groups but then i was surprised to see others--i will actually named chuck russell marine who came up and a couple others said that they want aware of what was going on and they haven't really been contacted. which is surprising because they run in the same circles as the people that you claim to have been working with in your pack packet and

application of it to fall upon commissioner richard's question ask again, to the project sponsors, what did your outreach look like? wasn't good to me from your other hand we actually had a community meeting and how you're working with some of those community leaders and what really happened there it if you could go over that one more time queen >> so we did reach out to him but we got his phone number and his name kind of late. we weren't aware of him to know-sorry, russell but we were not aware, russell get we did go to 50 raymond and we reach out to the group said 50 raymond has 66 raymond which is aipac. we reach out to them and we went to different organizations that like were visible to us good like this that communities group what's going on talk to them and shake their hands. let them know were all about-there's a few individuals that know me know that her prominence in the community but i mean we were not hiding from that. we just

were unaware that we should be talking to them. >> okay. will depend on how this goes tonight we will see where we need to go with that but i would caution you particularly if you open up the location or others might be watching this hearing just talking to the leaders is not an option i think that you would have found russell if you would've gone to some of the leaders of these community groups and expanded that communication to actually have a community meeting for other group. or >>[cough] not just about saying you met with the executive director of xyz group. you need to be able to say you actually use that connection to meet with people in the community and i don't know that i see that happens here. okay. then i'm going to- the visitation valley committee center is like a block applicant this is for staff-sorry. i mean they

definitely serve youth. so how are we determining whether or not a youth within the thousand foot area primarily serve youth queen can we talk about how we make that determination? >> so i had a conversation with the zoning administrator in november and the letter of determination that also touched upon that i think was from last may. where another planner was assigned to it and work with the zoning and mistress to put that letter together. more recently, i touched base with each facility community facility that ended up being within the 1000 foot radius. to double check and make sure that that letter of determination was still accurate in saying that it's coded compliant in the sense that it doesn't-it's not a majority of youth that is

served by the programs in the community facility. i think i included most of them in the packet but i reach out to each community facility and the program directors to confirm that it is not a majority orientated facility and then touch base with the zoning administrator to confirm that was in line. >> okay. thank you. >> commissioner melgar. >> thank you. so i will not be supporting this project and i wanted to explain why. there was a lot of-[inaudible] from folks in the community and i want to explain that there is a lot of stuff that oh so that i do not agree with. i think that we are living during times when

science can get the short shrift and the scientific evidence is that marijuana does help folks particularly folks with parkinson's, folks with hiv, books with cancer. it is legal in san francisco. and i think that it is a very valuable resource. that being said, i think that even though we had no recommendations from folks who have been looking at this issue so far they are just recommendations. i hear you that folks are most likely going to have to go through a separate process but that is not an and assurance we have today in i am worried because in looking at where mcd's are cited almost exclusively they are cited in places where poor folks live. i

think there is an inequity in where these things are cited across the city and i think that is all man use and a social justice issue. so i do think our [inaudible] to mcd's especially when they don't meet those design guidelines that you touched upon and i'm worried that those externalities right now are [inaudible] that live in lower income neighborhoods. so until we have guidelines that are-and more study about what those externalities are and what we are doing with this new world of retail i'm now going to support these projects and seems like i'm the odd person out but that's how i'm feeling. >> thank you. commissioner fong >> thank you. these things are always difficult to appreciate the public and neighbors for coming out. i too am concerned about the use of san francisco and our kids and the next

generation of san francisco. i will support commissioner johnson's concern about the exterior and what these look like from the exterior and how welcoming the art to the neighborhood. i don't know-did you worry about the exterior design? >> i'm sorry i was. we are then update the billboard knock and adding new physical [inaudible] that's how i defined >> go to the overhead, please? >> that's improving the socket we were not going to add anything but we were going to give the building a nice paint job. >> okay. thank you. so that is better than the existing condition and i think there's certain examples like harvest on gary boulevard the clean and the [inaudible] store office tour of dispensary. i would ask you guys to describe to that. i feel citywide we have so many dispensaries now that is beyond the experiments

and i don't know. i don't think very within our purview but i would love to see the crime report a police report on all of the dispensaries. how because of and disturbances? some calls from neighbors, calls from the public but whether it's about orders or traffic or double parking but i think we have enough sampling to create that report citywide. i know as represent a from the health about it but i'd like to hear from the health department on the existing cannabis dispensaries and there's a lot of conflicting facts about these uses. i would like to try to get that all into one page did appreciate that apartment up putting a letter letter together and the conversion or lack of good conversion from medical to adults. i think it really differentiates this particular hearing today from two weeks ago good in my mind. and i will more than likely be supportive of this. >> thank you. mr. moore

>> looking back for the last 10 years this commission has approved 51 mcd's within the wools that also make it possible to approve this one given the wools as they stand and is particularly applies to medical marijuana dispensaries and nothing which will transfer automatically into how we deal with recreational marijuana under prop 64. and while this site does follow all the criteria the ongoing developing regulations with the task force and the still pending final say on what it will be makes me somewhat hesitant to wait on the [inaudible] on any of them until september and it just more

uncertainty because 51 is already a large number and what is abnormal about 51 is that you can see it from there, it's these orange dots are totally concentrated in one long band primarily along the 101 corridor. i am concerned that original idea by this the import of the larger [inaudible] fabric has basically been not achieved at all. it isn't like that that i am kind of feeling that i need to take time out to continue current trends. that is basically just sitting them by old definition they just flopped into away from schools and some neighborhoods just

don't have enough schools for the rules to applies to they have literally all nested them in already seriously clustering pattern. while this one is in -- there's out applications pending on nearby and i would rather have firm rules sorted out together with the ones which are pending and then take a very [inaudible] never opposed the 51 we approved and i personally at this moment to feel quite ready to support this one. >> thank you commissioner moore. i share some of your i think i think we've got a lot of work to do on how we locate and come up with the regulations on where the creation of use are located. because i think we've heard testimony that engender similar populations there's over 200 recreational retail outlets for marijuana. so we can expect this number to grow

substantially. we box ourselves in with this green zone and schools and the result is not good because they tend to be clustered together. so i think it's a key point. we've got to look out when the revelations come. i would echo the point was made, too, that we see different operators. we hear a lot of testimony about the type of operators. some were kind of immersed in the community and they communicate well with neighbors and they do a good job. others who don't. perhaps, people do want to convert from medical to recreational use. that's a good opportunity to us to stop evaluating operators and how they work with you may send you ever want to [inaudible] faced with that kind of view and analysis. so i encourage if this passes, whether you're after recreational use or not, it measures ultimately and communicate because recently find those are the ones that

operate better and i think the captain has experienced this and shared it and can make good recommendations and introductions and facilitator. commissioner richards >> i guess a couple more points. one, thank you for the due diligence. looks really astounding. it's nice to know we really know what were doing on the pop this and down [inaudible] and we know we got a right. the other one is i guess to ask a question, this is an and nz three district so the ncd controls on transparency apply or don't apply queen >> they would apply. >> okay. thank you. >> commissioners, >> sorry. >> commissioner johnson >> okay. is triggered by a couple things to let you guys

know we don't make up our minds before we show up. necessarily before a hearings it's all the conversation. so i must we started to be a little more concerned could i have concerns and was asked about that. i'm sorry to be more concerned about this location because having gone up and down that strip of bayshore there's not a whole lot that's happening and i feel like other mcd's that we have approved many of them have been areas where you can talk whether or not it was community support or not but there are plenty of other uses whether restaurants were other retail uses. this one is pretty barren and so that makes me concerned from the perspective of people talking about safety and community involvement because it's not an adult use. it's not people going to recreation in go there. it's essentially a clinic. one where people are concerned that there may be

potential issues associated with the product that the clinic is offering as people go out and i don't necessarily know that i see sort of the background safety mechanism in the neighborhood as people go up. i'm just wondering if other commissioners thought about that or see that or have we seen them in other areas? his iq we have approved other mcd's that other eyes in the street or have more things: on the makes the way less concerned that people are going to go out and anything could potentially happen and i normally don't think about it but it's something that's triggering me for this location. >> commissioner richards >> so that's a really good question. i asked ofc. mcfadden should were the types of things are seen on the floor dispensaries you have in this station valley? the main one i guess we'll probably ask projects on to collaborate more to commissioner johnson's concern. they said that there's a radius where there's a security zone words monitored.

cameras. item of your security plan your summary walking the block could be said with the real issue is when somebody gets gone that security zone and they go sit on somebody's front steps and they harass some orchids walk by in the smoking interface i think it's really what the neighborhoods concerned about. all these things that they've said. it does happen. what you think about that? >> i think we were really professional security team. and security is the utmost importance to us. so it's primary that we keep the neighborhood safe and people feel safe coming and going from the dispensary and we have a positive impact on the community and positive impact on the safety of ache in the.. so there's a lot of things that come along with mcd's and security that goes along with it. you guys were talking about san francisco and mcd's in san francisco. but there's a [inaudible] crimes to maj. crimes since january 6 started

popping up. in the city. one was a national [inaudible] robbie where they got caught right away. another happened outside of an mcd where somebody got there to very taken. so it security. it's actually enhanced by mcd's. >> so in the green cross security plan the capt. mcfadden [inaudible] that you do and agree to do with this attorney plan on the perimeter? to commissioner johnson's concerns, how what you do, what happens beyond it? anything? >> so we are going to the perimeter of the block so the one block perimeter that were going to be patrolling and what happens beyond it, it's a big block. that were going to be patrolling so we can follow people miles.

>> i think to the point i made before if you are ingrained with the captain and work with them you would understand with the calls were made outside the parameter. it's really getting immersed in the community and understand what's going on and that includes how product plays into [inaudible] >> what we are going to do is set up security security advisory canceled members of the community and never can be reaching out to people. so for the first year were going to be meeting with them orderly and i were going to be reaching out to buy yearly. to see see what they have to say about how security is going and what they think we should tweak just be an open forum where we can talk about that. >> if i'm may make a suggestion during the first six months or year you may want to a monthly just to make sure that you're not missing anything. because a quarter is a big three months. >> okay. >> friendly suggest could spew >> okay. >> thank you good commissioner

johnson's question is a good one should brings up. one thing that gives me a little more comfort on this is the hours get their closing at 7 pm. because i think we've seen other mcd's open later. they tend to be more vibrant commercial corridor whether other things openly but i think 7 pm is more consistent with the medical clinical use than a retail use. i think some of these we've seen later hours per consistent with mortar retail use. commissioner johnson >> i won't belabor it it will get 1202. like i said i don't know i feel comfortable now good just think about it and putting it all together, i disagree with a lot of the public commons. people say things like we want strangers in our neighborhood of that nonsense. uncommented nonsense is ridiculous. i'm just again i'm a little bit concerned about

how this land use will impact that neighborhood and sort of a nuisance level. i think there were live in a retail resort: on even within one block radius i been up the street and i looked at the google map because it is when you're driving you don't see it. there's a bank of america. i think a restaurant or something and then that's it. for like 4-5 really long blocks. that doesn't give me comfort that they're going to be up to control the nuisance there because they said they can only patrol so far. i think this were closer to downtown were closer into the mission or more populated [inaudible] me more comfortable with it because the new factors mitigated by all the things going on in the neighborhood. so i don't know i can supported in this area but hopefully it will go through [inaudible] >> if there's nothing further commissioners there's a motion seconded to take dr and approve this matter with conditions.

the maker of the motion want to incorporate the hours of operation as part of the conditions is recommended? >> yes. >> so the amount amenable to the second >> yes. >> so the motion on the floor is to take dr and approve this matter with conditions as amended to include hours of operation imminent to 9 am and 7 pm seven days a week. on a motion or fung aye johnson melgar nay moore nay richards aye hillis aye so moved that motion passes 4-3 with johnson, melgar and trent moore planning commission regular hearing for thursday january 26, 2017. commissioners, we left off under your regular - excuse me - discretionary review counter on item 17 m 2016 5312 dr 3185 mission st. this

is a mandatory discretionary review. >> good evening president and fellow commissioners. the apartments that. the item before it was mandatory discretionary view for the pose project at 3185 mission st. the project requires mandatory discretionary appeals pursuant to client code section 90 two establish a new medical cannabis dispensary at 31 85 mission st. doing business as bernal heights cooperative. the ground floor previous used as a gunshot. it will be open to the public for on-site sales and on-site consumption. security guards will system monitoring the new area to keep mission street clean and safe. no parking is required and no physical expansion is proposed by the structure. since the publication of the commission

packet department has received 76 letters of support and three letters in opposition. in addition the project sponsors committed an agreement with the us local 648 union and i provide a copy that in your pocket as well. [inaudible] provide patients and increase level of safe access to medication for their illness the security plans to address safety loitering and [inaudible] on mission street ale filter system to reduce on-site alders and also well served by transit the department finds project to be compatible with the intent of the district complied with the criteria established in 790.41 and advance for the objectives and policy of the general plan. the department recommends the commission to approved with conditions. also we are tonight is mr.-from their partner public out to answer the questions related to dph's review of the proposed project. that concludes my product presentation i'm available for questions. >> thank you mr. spears. project sponsor, you have 5 min. >> good evening >>[inaudible] [off mic]

>> if you're part of the time you're 5 min. for your presentation. >> >>[inaudible] [off mic] >> you 5 min. you need to work out how you want to-if you're part of the project team how you work out that 5 min. >> i don't think he is. >> not part of the project team. >> we will have public comment. everybody will have- >>[inaudible] [off mic] >> we will call public testimony after this. thank you. >> thanks for your time and consideration. especially after last one this one will try to be as concise as possible to mine and sean cohen president bernal heights cooperative did i been involved with cooperative since 2015 it personally to include a very poor transition of leadership for the organization could do

it with the termination of the lease location of beauty occupied since 2005. however i stand here today as a representative of the people who made bhc a trusted community institution the last 11 years. but a film you see actually behind your tonight. i represent the employees who been displaced from their jobs we sought approval on this new location and thousands of patients who lost their longtime access to give me focus medical cannabis and apartment open and welcoming to all of san francisco. bhc is known in san francisco for comedy patient base with a largely underserved by other mcd's in the city. patient base skewed more towards seniors disabled patients minority groups and frankly every day working speak san franciscans who can afford the medical cannabis to be a luxury expense. i talk what this application the reapplication because unlike most other mcd's we been actively serving our community for the last 10 years. he served strictly the medical cannabis community under the articles without an article 3 long before voters passed prop 64. we are looking

to relocate a short 3 min. walk from our previous location aside of all children and cluster zones in our ownership is 1% local is all talk about in a moment we neared our commitment to our patients by making what i believe an unprecedented commitment to our workers. i think jeffrey spears in the planning staff for recommending approval today. after you're working through to reopen it safe to say today could not come any sooner for us at bhc either financially or for the patient to come to our door every day asking for going to reopen. after more than a decade in bernal heights we understand what it means to be an upstanding and contributing member of our local community. the committee outreach regarding this application began in late 2015 that i personally spoken to the neighborhood groups and all were supportive of c&s reopen

to continue our service to the community. over the course of the last year spoken two neighborhood businesses and residents in the feedback is always been the same. everybody is supportive and in fact somewhat frustrated we haven't managed to open back up again. i have with me 133 letters of support. i apologize for the mapping of packets you have 76 of them were signed in person. 55 and were signed digitally and naturally two e-mails when of whom is from annette rowe was the owner of 78 café 78 and they were neighbors on 3329 street did i just want to take one quick second to read that to you. i'm a business owner in the neighborhood [inaudible] great addition to our block on 29th st. and aspartame opening another business and the neighbor did she's also represent that he st., association. having operated for over a decade in bernal heights winner stan the seamless integration in our community. winter semi points of the security and that security been visible and approachable community service. not presence of intimidation we

are sending back of our visible presence on the street were committed to holding a medical first approach to discretionary frontage and signage. you saw the examiner this morning you may of heard over the first san francisco mcd proposed to sign an agreement with the united food and commercial workers local 640. we are very excited about this but it allows us to deliver our commitment to write a living wage and benefits workers good it calls will also gives an opportunity to be the first mcd to be committed to the usc w to propose cannabis partnership program. [inaudible] honored to be the first mcd commit hiring local premises under this program. [inaudible] independent of new rules for reparation is a prop 64. during this time we sought to be innovative collaborative

and thoughtful in presenting what we think is a new equitable model for mcd's. we face an uncertain future frankly if a petition is an approved today with your support and approval we can expand our history of service and do a lot of great things for patients for workers and for the community. i think you very much for your time and your consideration. i have these letters if you like to see them. >> thank you you can pass them to join us. we will open this up to public comment. i only have a few speaker cards but there's a lot more people and on. just to get a sense of the room, and just by show of hands how many people are here to sport of the project? opposed? so recognizes there's nobody here opposed. so it's been a long evening. >> very long. >> we cannot represent us or you can keep your comments brief. we will limit public test 22 2 min. and i will call the speakers but we don't have to reiterate what others are saying. images call these names

of people want to come >> okay. the two particular -jennifer local six word it resume for you to also susan from loving legally which is a medically focused distributor of products must only medical in the city and were the only one secure. >> all the people self select. >>[calling public comment cards] if you want to line up on the screen side of the room that would be helpful. jo had. >> good evening. susan kevin. thank you for the privilege of addressing the commission. it's been a while because is palliative and as a good base medical cannabis farmers this countries with and we work which are truly medicine based a really very few. while we have no issues with the recreational cannabis is a medical nature of our medicine that we advocate for. the applicant, his family and colleagues are notable exception

to the wink and the not promulgated by many supposedly medical he need-based cannabis dispensaries. the applicant is family and colleagues and employees have gone the extra mile in reaching out to neighbors from staying the course over the last 15 months of delay, they have signed off on 88 fire and attended agencies prior to the whole hope for approval. although there will be no soaking there is a complete air filtration system in place. the applicant has continued to deliver to their bernal patient base with palliative and adjunct cannabis-based medicine on their own dime. pending up hope for permit. the applicant has a history of walking severely ill patients get has a history of reasonable prices, compassion program, patient education, and most importantly, a patient centered medically centered space clean and welcoming safe food compliant. there is no $150

club fee as is the case at the recently opened harvest chain. the applicants patient based with whom we work is a true cross-section of san francisco african-american people, hispanic patients, chinese patient on occasions samoans, our neighbors. san francisco's san franciscans who will truly benefit from medical cannabis-based dispensary as our patients at cmpc and [inaudible] will attest to. we as neighbors and myself and my partner as farmers are interested in locally owned medically >> thank you, man. your time is up. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening commissioner. thank you. my name is jennifer

garcia. i'm a us city debbie local 648. i'm speaking as an advocate for workers in the cannabis industry and on behalf of bernal heights quadrant. the cw local 648 and bernal heights quadrant has recently signed labor peace agreement allowing their workers the freedom to choose a union without employer interference. in addition to that new neutrality agreement bernal heights cooperative has also signed a contingent agreement committing to superior labor standards. this agreement states that if their employees choose the union has a collective-bargaining representative the they would've nearly begin parking a purse contract. this contract would include paid health insurance defined pension plan, paid sick leave, family leave and a living wage of $20 an hour to start. this agreement would give workers the stability and job security they need in today's economy. bernal heights quadrant of those that

worksite benefit when workers have standardized training and education. with this understanding from bhc will participate in a training programs implement it to ensure their workers have and maintain the knowledge necessary to provide safe medicines to their patients. bernal heights cooperative's has long been an integral part of the community with serving the patient compassionately by not just talking about doing the right thing but by signing a contingent agreement laying out high road principles, the economic benefit of their workers, and the community, we believe that bhc has demonstrated their commitment to the workers. local 648 looks forward to working with bernal heights quadrant of good we strongly encourage the planning commission to grant or re-issue a permit to the bernal heights quadrant of and allow them to be at their employer once again to a san francisco where workers and a good citizen to the community. local 648 thank you for your time and consideration. >> thank you ms. garcia. is there any additional public comment we did you want to speak we >>[inaudible] [off

mic] >> is a board member bhc i decided not to talk it just is been long day for everybody. >> >> thank you. any additional public comment? >> hi. i'm scott baker enema patient and him ms. bernal heights. please broken it open it back up. i miss going out to the community helping clean it up and doing other things and it's very helpful with my depression. thank you and much >> thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner moore >> you moved from 3329 two the new address given that you had such a strong follow-up and support in the community?? >> so our move is driven by

eviction. the building that we had resided for 10 years was purchased by the harvest group that i think some of you are aware of it. they had made it clear that not one to renew our lease and they were going to take our place over for their own. not really much we can do about that we did everything in our power, a new location that we found[inaudible] java work already in compliance and everything that started in basically november of 2015 and him standing in front of you right now. it's been a limo the entire done. none of us supporting this have known what will be the future holds for us so that's really it. it wasn't something that we selected to do. something we were forced to >> could you did exactly intelligent in terms of distance apart the new location is way from the old one? >> is right about 1000 feet. probably a little more. i don't actually know. we are about

1000 feet. about two blocks spews the reason why i'm saying the use stays with the land so there is another mcd which moved into the previous address and there is another onewhat is compelling about this one is its great reputation including the support you got forget the particular additional medicinal quality of the mcd which is a big factor. there used to be a much in the past, there used to be a much [inaudible] >>[calling public comment cards] spoken voice for compassionate care and for the medicinal aspects of what mcd's are supposed to do. that's kind of a little bit vanished in the last three or four years and i hear very strongly today. i just wanted to ask that question for clarification because with this particular location comes a strong clustering which raises all the old questions i mentioned half

an hour 45 min. ago. ice would like to see with the other commissioners say. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner fong >> commissioner moore brings up a good point and import it for clarity of the was in mcd [inaudible] down the street what happens to that previous existing if it goes with the land? what happens to that location and is that right taken away once the business is closed or moved on? >> from a planning perspective and mcd is allowed to be there. i think from dbh's perspective they still have to file for the appropriate permits. with the department of public health basically operated the mcd there. >> okay. even here on. anything to mention? >> douglas obama environment: specter san francisco department of public health. i can speak on that aspect, if

facility is in this case a bernal heights leaves a location the land use from a planning perspective is able to be a mcd for three years even if [inaudible] so for another facility reapplies at that same location they do not to come to the hearing. it's artie been declared use for medical cannabis dispensary but they still have to conform to all the other requirements through the department of public health. if you meet all our applications and it's the buildout and swells the permit of public health [inaudible] >> thank you. thank you for coming to this hearing. this is the first mcd hearing you been to which i think would be helpful and useful in the future to attend the series. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner richards >> but one quick question before i make a motion to take er and approve. the harvest sounds like another [inaudible] event you? harvest group

another cannabis dispensary? >> correct. that should purchase the first building we do abag center on geary which you know was hardest on geary. and they did the same thing there in july of 2014 paid [inaudible] we know they're looking at a couple of locations as well. >> in picking another mcd is like, >> well,. well-i make a motion to approve the project and help them out. be seconds >> commissioner [inaudible] >> the fact that you were a local displaced business is tough so i'm glad to see you making the best efforts to stick around and say in the neighborhood.i'm ridiculously impressed with the agreement

does meet with local 640. workers can always use square representation get paid a living wage and have benefits could and potential health and welfare that we deserve and this is a even though this industry is been around for a while and its obviously growing we are not sure where it's going to go after the first of the year next year now is a better time than ever to start getting organized within this industry and protecting the workers and even though were not cultivating were actually running the flowers or plants in these buildings, we are still going to be workers at the [inaudible] people installing the security cameras. that's just a small portion of this entire industry. that's were doing was right now here in the city and i applaud the fact that you're getting yourself and your workers organize. to a place where everyone is going to benefit. >> thank you. commissioners

>> commissioners if there's nothing further >> sorry. commissioner melgar >> so, i went over the packet before coming i actually had not thought about the issue you raised commissioner moore about the clustering. i was actually ready to support this one because i didn't think this was a new business. it's a business that's been around for 10 years and it's a business i know is pretty deeply embedded in the community and the prop 64 issues ,, i don't think that you are going there with and i to spend too retail. i think that you have already established a clientele that embedded. so that doesn't worry me but more because of the hardest folks. it's kind of a >> weird >> yes. is a pretty [inaudible] move there. nevertheless i do think this is an existing business. i know it

says new in the packet but i think i will support. >> thank you commissioner moore >> director i would like to ask a question. on a critical use like this can be-could we ever detach that the use goes with the land? we are moving away from this being a use but being a retail function. while this now becomes more like to be specialized pharmacy for particular product-now talking in cds-i have a hard time looking at 51 and cds who could potentially all picked up and come in easily because-you know what i'm saying i would like you to help us in a policy discussion. talk about that? it as an element of land speculation that some of those

spirit goes counter to the humanitarian and compassionate aspect of this type of business. >> clearly what were saying there larger entities that are operating many and cds which is kind of what's happening here. from a use standpoint we can't-the use always goes with the land but the planning code finds with the uses. the distinction between uses. so weekend as we were saying recreational cannabis versus medical cannabis, we can find was a separate uses which i think is our intent therefore each one would need a separate approval. but if they are defined within the same cluster of uses in the code the use goes with the land and you can't-it doesn't matter who owns it. >> commissioner richards >> i thought that was a state issue. in the past we try to it was tried-and mine up in of us

to do a permit with an operator and we went to court i think [inaudible] but it's non-not unlike the bar. [inaudible] is there at least for three years if it's not used >> thank you call the question >> yes. commissioners is a motion to approve this matter with conditions on a motion fong aye johnson aye koppel aye melgar aye moore aye richard aye hillis aye so moved that motion passes 7-0. the thank you. >> >>[applause] >> if you know my with one item. if there's any general public on the ipo speaker cards. >> any general public comment we seeing none, the meeting is adjourned. thank you to the deputy sheriff to helping us out.

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cal the cameras show up they're all here mayor ed lee it seems like always one thousand seven hundred and two days ago that we were together on pow announcing this project the amazing part we had everything right existing where we are going and when; right? but we all live here; right? we know if anything is important as what we're celebrating it takes time to get it done a lot of time and patience if you know about the two guys from the middle the patience is not the first one you think of; right? but you also know from the time we committed getting this project done it would be done

right and the same approach with the warriors over the last 6 and a half years their passionate their occasionally grumpy but really care and what he see today is really the culmination of those efforts we'll build one of the world's biggest gathering a place world-class multi purpose sport and venue this place will think transformed into the court and that is where budget committee united airlines will be family shows and conferences and graduations will take place creating memories for the lifetime up the road those 11 acres we stand with the weeds unlimited potential is very high price tag once we did that we

commit to a 3 year open and collaborative process that's been as public as any process with the help of so much of that in the room we left hand and revised and collaborated is not not our day but really it is our day as long as we can thank every person in the you don't room i say first especially grateful to you mayor ed lee you extend your hand and supported us every step of the way >> (clapping.) >> we are absolutely in. >> of the hard working people in the mayor's office the office of economic workforce development, especially adam and ken thanks. >> (clapping.) >> so many other city agencies

are critically important but none than the investment and infrastructure ocii and it's tireless you leaders tiffany bohe tiffany thank you. >> (clapping.) >> ocii is the guardian of this redevelopment area as mission bay a simultaneous room for revitalizing this meeting neighborhood and closer to home the warriors and the mission bay advisory committee led by a no nonsense chair corinne woods thank you that they've spent months with the details of the plan to make that better and safer and make that right corin i learned a lot of from you and i can tell you i was only occasionally afraid of you (laughter) just kidding kind of citizens

radical to make that 0 warriors novices like the united playaz and the mission bay merchant associations, the fans that make up sf and the residents that live in dog patch and potrero hill and mission bay. >> (clapping.) >> >> we thank you you all and assure you the warriors are going to be great neighbors speaking of neighbors i need to thank the san francisco giants and the usf. >> (clapping.) >> early on we had our issues but we all committed to a great outcome that is what we really appreciate about usual work the giants are one of the biggest champions in support thank you for being here today larry and setting the bar incredibly high

for us it shaped us usf with charter school is education and innovation leader sam couldn't be here he was going to be in switzerland another is an economic femur your invitation got lost in the mailed we're truly proud to be your neighbors when it comes to fighting disease and save lives and treating e treating the sick you're the warriors thank you. >> (clapping.) >> the economic is doing a project financed completely privately i mentioned did i mention few minutes ago completely privately is daunting our partners another j.p. morgan chase share our vision of a transformtional project from our

first meeting with chase their commitment to the bay area is a possible list of reasons to be involved you'll hear more about that shortly but thank you to shawn duh for being here today. >> (clapping.) >> also with us representatives from two other companies that have been announced the united airlines i thank you to our brothers and sisters in organized labor that stood by us and chase will bring thousands of job and agreements we've entered into once once again, we'll do this right. >> (clapping.) >> this has been an unbelievable undertaking for the warriors our staff is with us names like david kelly and marty

and steve and peter and chip and others they don't show up but i can tell you the kevin duran's for this project thank you. >> (clapping.) >> to jesse and clark and those folks that helped us navigate this crazy city by the bay and t.j. johnson and not everybody started is going to be able to is a finish by from the city in two sections. >> (clapping.) >> we lost jim in 2014 but the spirit remains with us we'll feel her steady hand on the shovels people are standing there because of their

incredible work we passed the board and regulatory and political body the planning committee the board of supervisors almost all of them unanimous yes i said that in the same sentence san francisco unanimously all right. >> (clapping.) >> the plan was challenged in the superior court we won there now we won at the california court of appeals unanimously and in case i haven't checked our phone i have news this morning the california superior court annunciates declined to accept the case it is over. >> (clapping.) >> so here we are on this 70 year for the warriors to call the bay area their home today we

literally break the ground now the term groundbreaking is a noun refers to turning the earth to begin construction but websters has another definition meaning initiative or unprecedented that's going to be chase center and this is warriors ground groundbreaking in every sense thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, mayor brown for making a big entrance thank you. >> now my pleasure to introduce a man the man that reached out to us we're here to welcome the warriors stuck with us through thick and thin has things got rocky edwin m lee is the 43rd mayor he

started at a housing rights attorney with an activist heart in 2010 he was chosen by the boarding to take over when lieutenant governor's gavin newsom left from the beginning championed this was one of the main reasons we're able to broub ladies and gentlemen, our point number 43 mayor ed lee. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, rick what a wonderful day i know every one of you see existed to be here today and finally welcoming the golden state warriors home to san francisco. >> (clapping.) >> you know, i tend to find moments of having fun with owners and rick and want to

share with you some ways in which any corn i didn't jokes will have an impact the first time i met him, i introduced myself as the journey man of mayors and honored to help mark to end a four and a half year journey to celebrate the years of construction what become san francisco's 4r5sh9 state of the art chase center. >> (clapping.) >> i'm happy to say that no longer will san francisco stand alone as the only america city without an inside venue of 10 thousand seats when that opened in 2019 the chase center will make history not only as a home for the gooirdz but as the only

100 percent privately financed arena in the entire country of the united states. >> (clapping.) >> this no, this is no small feat as every at mba in public land includes the taxpayer money in its construction not here in san francisco the warriors are paying for this venue they reprimand remind me of that constantly on the land they perturbed is an accomplishment and speaks volumes to the commitments of ownership and sets the bar in our city what we're all about and speaking of what we're all about how about what is this team all about isn't that great yeah. >> (clapping.) >> what a game last night as

was pointed out most all the greatest things we saw last night in that game coach let me help you and all of us define a infrastructure grant foul i think a infrastructure grant foul is any delay in opening the chase center in san francisco that's a infrastructure grant foul of those warriors have the best record in the mba leading in the league in almost every category have the best starting rotation in the mba and, of course, they captured the imagination of the most casual of basketball fa (calling names) waits not to love. >> (clapping.) >> so the real question is

coach how far will you go? and, of course, (laughter) all the way; right? ? >> and, of course, the chases center will not only play host to basketball games but a prime designation for world-class companies family shows and convention activities generate over thousand of good paying construction and permanent jobs that jobs that contribute more than enough money to pay for the extended transit service and new light rail vehicles and launch the covering the transportation and sculpture costs that serve the entire neighborhood on days without the feptsdz the project will add vitality amenity to mission bay neighborhoods along with a much needed office space

and, of course, the warriors are going to be great partners to all our kids in the education system this venue will be a model sustainable design that will include over 3 acres of open space and trigger the development of a 5 and a half acres of public parks right on the waterfront none of this would have been possible without the dedicated commitment of my dear colleague jennifer the former head of the city's office of economic workforce development who tragically passed away from cancer over 2 years ago and spent much of her diminished career in the city running it's trail and in many ways the park across the street from the eastern

jennifer helped to plan a symbol of her commitment to san francisco so today i'm honored to commemorate her legacy with a trail in the park so future neighbors runners and visitor will know her impact in the city thank you jennifer. >> (clapping.) >> i'm also excited to announce that speaking of really deep broach j.p. morgan chase are generously sponsoring a brand new warriors citibuild program in cooperation with the office of office of economic workforce development what's the citibuild program this is a new 9 week construction training private program will be called the chase center works

and that will equip local trainees in the low income and underserved community chase center will help us to address the shortage of labor in the city but equip people with the education and skill necessarily to be successful in the construction industry and, of course, in life itself thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you working with labor. >> (clapping.) >> this dense active trade training will start in march and provided masonry and iron work and carpentry thank you chase morgan son and all the unions and trades who helped to make that a reality and finally i want to thank joe and peter for your vision commitment to getting us here

today, the university of san francisco state their neighbors in the biotech destroy the entire community all of our elected officials working to expedite even four and a half years is incredibly expeditious; right? yes (laughter) for a better integrating this event center in mission bay and the entire san francisco community everyone resident, kids, all the neighborhoods we thank you for your thoughtful input your patience and help in refinancing our platoons i can't wait to be back here in four and a half years to cut the ribbon on the greatest attraction center and the new home for golden state warriors in san francisco bay area let's go

warriors. >> (clapping.) >> congratulations mr. mayor on our work and you know what i was watching the parade after the warriors won you may remember the mayor said he's favorite player was steve occurring whyy you think that was bad in the 90s i'm governing and up you know, i come to a hole there is dell and his kids what play wow, you guys are the governor and i look at dell your crazy if you let that kid play basketball over golf. (laughter) that kid is stephanie curry plays a little bit of basketball i told you we started with the

choir and heard about a ball boy that is no changing the game and this next speaker he started out selling peanuts at anaheim stadium he really did i i mean the guy is one of the top have you ever gone capitalist and good in building things in the ground up you want to talk about gold he went to playing in the stadium to ownership an mba team if i can quote the poet and mba awry combraim start from the bottom and the owner and cso of the golden state warriors joe lockout >> (clapping.) >> thank you very much kevin a