phil ginser and mayor ed lee. we are going to make district six the best place for parks in the city. so i just want to thank everyone for their immense involvement. i also want to recognize san francisco police department because if not for their partnership at bodecker park, we would not have been able to maintain the beautiful and safe environment that we have there, so i want to recognize the captains and professionals that have maintained that. we have deputy commander chief mike redman, and david lazar. i again want to thank the entire staff at park and recs, and of course we have our own district six representative on rec and park commission, allen

lowe. thank you for being the d-6 commissioner on the rec and park commission, and i look forward to playing on the park with all of you. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor. so he's not just the district six commissioner, he actually is the vice chair of the rec and park commission, but he does advocate hard for these d-6 parks. we are very, very blessed to have an amazing commission, seven citizens that just serve out the city and love the parks and provide us guidance and love and support, and make sure all voices are heard representing our park and rec commission tonight, and i do want to recognize commissioner anderson who is here, the vice president of the rec and park commission, allen lowe. >> so happy valentine's day, everybody. in the spirit of love, i've got to say i love these parks,

these new playgrounds. it's creative, the design's inspiring. as supervisor kim said, it's very whimsical. it's a message to all of us, just get out and play, and really, just get out and play, emergency, and let's dream again. and on behalf of the recreation and park commission, i want to give special thanks to the trust for public land for their continued generosity in supporting our parks, and i want to give a big thanks to jackie shapeer and dan shapeer for the helen diller foundation. we're lucky to have you supporting the city of san francisco. thank you very much. thank you, and enjoy your parks. [applause]. >> thank you so much,

commissioner. all right. now, you're going to hear from my customers: three youth, pauli pauline, charlie, and shada, three members of the boys and girls club who hangout at bodecker and will now have the opportunity to hangout at city center. we have an elementary school student, a middle school student, and a high school student. we're so pleased to bring them up to say a few words. >> all right. before i begin, the fact that everyone here today, everyone's smile made my heart feel warm and tingly inside to fight the cold weather. i believe that playgrounds are

important because it provides a safe place for children. i remember the park before the renovation. i remember as a child that this area was a danger zone that i should avoid. i remember finding myself repulsed by the smell emitting from the park, and then, it got renovated. i was amazed by how much the park changed. the streets were cleaner than they had been since i was a child. i genuinely fell in love with the beauty of this playground, and how well it's been maintained. i also believe that playgrounds are important because of the influence they have on the community, making it more colorful and livly like at bodecker park. imagine all the kids coming together as they laugh and play together, maybe even making new friends along the way.

as they grow older, they will look back and tell stories how impactful the civic center playground was to their lives. it was a place making ever lasting friendship, the place they looked forward to going to, and the place they call home. thank you so much for this beautiful park. [applause] >> hello. my name is pauline, and i'm in 8th grade. i have been a member of the boys and girls club for eight years now, and i sometimes visit bodecker while at the club. i like to do reading and art in my spare time. i have been living in the tenderloin my entire life, and throughout the years, i had spent a good amount of my time at bodecker, ellis, and also

helen diller civic center playground. i enjoyed the tire swings, regular swings, and other things at these parks, and i often made my mother and brothers push me around. i like being able to spend some time outside with my friends and being able to leave technology behind and be with my friends. i wouthink parks are important because it is a way to spend time with the people around you and wind down. it is a way to be active with your friend and possibly make new friends. parks have a magical ability to be able to bring people together to form a small community. it is a great way to stay active and improve your communication skills, plus, it's always fun to be able to see a new park with brand-new play structures just like this. thank you for giving us this

park. [applause]. >> hello. my name is shada, and i'm in sixth grade, and i have been a member of the san francisco boys and girls club in the tenderloin for six years. i love to read and watch harry potter, and i also love to swim. i lived in the tenderloin for seven years, and in that time, i have really enjoyed going to bodecker park, because it has swings, i climb the web, and it is a place to have fun. i am excited to have this park, because i want to see how people enjoy the new structures. whenever there's a new park, i try to go on everything there. if there's a new slide or monkey bars, i go on them. i am excited to try everything this park has to offer. i think parks are important

because they are a place where kids learn to play with other kids, and they help us to be active. also, parks are entertaining. to me, a park is where teams, kids and eve adults can gather up and play. they can share laughs, games, and most importantly friendship. also, what if there were no such things as parks? where would kids gather and hangout? for those reasons, i think parks are important. thank you [applause]. >> weren't they wonderful? all right, guys. for you, for you, and for you. all right. before we -- we get the show on the road and we flip the switch, and i bring up our very special honored guest, let me just offer a few additional thank yous. this effort at civic center, there are a lot of folks who are really investing a lot of love and attention, and i want to thank the downtown street

team, i want to thank hunters.family, i want to thank the civic center ebd, i want to thank our city administrator, naomi kelley, and the very special amy cohen for all of our civic center comments where amy has been very much of a driver in getting numerous city agencies and nonprofit partners to work together to make this a happier and healthier place, and amy, i'd like to recognize you as one of us as well. also, my profound thanks to jorge arias and the whole team from bossman construction, and to the amazing andy cochran for such an inspired design. but our most important guest tonight, and she's so modest, and doesn't like taking credit, and she's sitting in the back.

she's my hero, and my dear, dear, dear friend, jackie. this is for you; and now is the time for us to actually flip the switch. so why don't you and our three friends lead us in a count down. >> right on. >> all right. we're going to count down from ten. all right. here we go. ready, everybody! ten. nine. eight. seven, six. five. four. three. two. one. if everybody can turnaround and look in the square right here, and there's a tv camera. all right. the helen diller playground contains some of the most

innohave ati innovative and interactive lighting programs on any playgrounds. we've designed each to compliment the play found. the first piece connects the two playground with a forest of lighting fixtures spread across each playground. we call them pixel poles. they animate and grow like they have captured fog inside them. when visitors move in front of the poles, they lite up and slash with colors. the pixel poles have custom lighting fixtures created specifically for these playgrounds that exist nowhere else. the second project covers the plaza right in front of you all between the playgrounds. we call it carl. we wanted to ask, what if san francisco's fog settled down in

the plazs to play wi-- plaza th visitors. he likes to connect to different groups of people, so you may see the light forming connections across the plaza. it takes a great and ad venturo adventurous team to make this happen. this is a new combination of public instruction with custom hardware and software. they can grow and aadapt as the city changes. for the next month we'll be watching to see how the public plays and dialing in the project personalities to match. this new combination of

playground building with new technologies will let us adapt to a changing city and kids at play. i would like to introduce the margaret general kins dan-- je dance company, which has adapted movement for this celebration. the dancers are aalex carington, chin

>> four, three, two, one. welcome to the helen diller civic center playground.

[applause].

>> all right. well, first of all, good afternoon everybody, and in case everybody is wondering, today is not only valentine's day, but ash wednesday, hence the marks on my for head. [ inaudible ] in sro here in san francisco are available for every single resident. i am incredibly pround to be standing can supervisor ronen and supervisor sheehy. it is incredibly important for so many of our constituencies here in san francisco, both in terms of gender, our

transgender community, it affects so many people here in san francisco. i think as we continue to see push back from our federal administration in washington d.c., just this week, our department of education announced they're no longer going to be investigating transgender student bathroom complaints, which is a step absolutely in the wrong direction, but in san francisco, we are different. we are not going to allow hatred todom namt, we will continue to standup for our communities here in san francisco. we will be a beacon of hope. i do want to thanks tha severa individuals for being here today, as i mechanicsed, these issues take a lot of leadership

outside of city hall, and this one was led by two incredibly courageous supervisors, and so i want to introduce the first one, supervisor hillary ronen. >> thank you so much for being here. i'm very, very honored and excited to be here. i also want to extend a special thank you to jordan davis who brought this legislation to our office and said, when you were supervisor campos's chief of staff, you forgot sro hotels to include that specifically in this lemggislation, so it was pleasure to correct that mistake, which we would have put in the original legislation but accidently left it out. so thank you, jordan. i just want to say what we've learned about this legislation about making bathrooms all gender bathroom is when the traps gender stands up and

fights for itself, for recognition, for dignity and safety, it ends up benefiting everybody. i don't know about you, but every time i'm out in public, and there's an all gender bathroom, that benefits me as a woman, it helps disabled individuals who might have an opposite gender caretaker. it just makes our society better, safer, and more welcoming to all of us. so i just think we should look to the transgender community fore guidance on all policies that we work on in san francisco, because it always ends up benefiting not just the community but all of us. so my deep, deep thanks to everyone that's here today, to claire, to the mayor who made an unprecedented move of joining us onto the legislation before he even signed it because that's how much he supports this community.

and to the only out member of the queer community on the board of supervisors, jeff sheehy, who always is the first to standup for and advocate for his community. thank you. [applause] >> so first, i just really want to thank jordan davis. i've been in your chair. that's how i started. i hope i'm still considered an activist, but when someone can come to city hall this change, that's brilliant. thank you for your leadership. i also want to thank mayor farrell for his supporting this and signing this and leadership along the way. i think this is really very important that sro's are brought into the mix. you know, this is where many people live without a lot of resources, who are

marginalized, and making sure that the dignity of our trans and gender nonconforming community is recognized, respected dignity of this community is recognized on all level in our society is absolutely critical. i'm very proud to sponsor this, and i just want to make one other point, since mayor farrell brought up what's going on in washington. we need to, every time we come together, with one of the communities that have been particularly targeted by this administration, they have sought to target the most vulnerable communities in our mix: immigrants, muslims, and the trans community because they think they can get away with it. so even though every time we come together, even though we're making headway and we're leading in san francisco, we have to remember that around the country, people's rights are being taken away, and in this city, immigrants' rights

are being threatened every day. we have to align ourselves with other communities in solidarity, that are particularly targeted in these times. so again, thank you to jordan, supervisor ronen, to mayor farrell. this is great work today. [applause]. >> sorry. claire. i was just supposed to introduce claire who's so great, really doing a tremendous job in filling the shoes and taking on off tereaf teresa sparks, so i'd like to introduce claire farley, who's senior assistant to the mayor. >> good afternoon, everyone. i'm so happy to be here with all of you today in this historic moment, and this would

not be possible without you, mayor farrell, for your continued support of making sure that our city is committed to lgbt folks. also, thank you to supervisor ronen for your incredible leadership on this, as well as your office, and specifically, also to supervisor sheehy, and all the cosponsors on this important legislation. i also want to take a moment to thank joerd on and the -- jordan and all the members on the sro task force. this victory really does belong to all of you, so thank you. [applause]. >> as trans and gender nonconforming people, we are all to familiar with the stress, the violence that comes with trying to use the bathroom that match our gender identity and expression. as our rights continue to be attack in the country and under

the federal administration, it is important now more than ever that san francisco continues to be a leader in the movement towards fair and quality rights for all. no one should have to worry about facing the stress of going to the bathroom in the place that they call home, so all gender sro ordinaryians will extend our existing protections and will ensure that our rights are extended to the full community. furthermore, it will increase access for people with disabilities, residents who have caretakers. this resolution is important to make san francisco better. of course we know there's more time to be done, and together we will continue to advance the initiatives, the policies and programs that support a thriving trans and gnc community here in san

francisco. we will work to implement policies like this, future policies and programs that help sustain the livelihoods of our communities. let's make sure that san francisco continues to be the beacon of hope and change that the rest of the country desperately needs right now. depend, thank y again, thank you so much for being here today and for this amazing step forward. i hope you will join us in the work ahead. thank you. [applause]. >> all right. we're going to get to the signing here.

all right. here we go. [applause].

[gavel] >> welcome, everyone, to our land use committee meeting of february 12, 2018, monday. i am katie tang, chair of this committee, and we're joined by supervisor safai and supervisor aaron peskin is filling in today. we're joined by supervisor catherine stefani. any announcements? >> yes. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. items acted upon today will appear on the february 27 board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. >> is thank you very much. can you please call item one? >> item number one, ordinance amending the planning dozed establish the geary-masonic special use district in the area generally bounded by geary boulevard to the south, masonic avenue to the east and

assessor's parcel's block number 1071, lots one and four to the north and west respectively. >> thank you. i will defer to supervisor stefani first since this is in her district. >> thank you. you heard this project last week. most important, it allows the number of affordable housing units in the project to go from three to 22. that is more affordable units than the total number of units in the original project. again, these amendments raised the inclusionary from 18% to 23% and broken down as 10% at 55% of the a.m.i., 4% at 80% a.m.i., 4% at 110% a.m.i. and 5% at 120% of a.m.i. and the appropriate a.m.i. bans will apply. the second recommendation is around car share spaces and the

commission recommended four of the spaces be reserved for car share. on the advice of the city attorney, the amendments increased the findings requiring car share and the 16 spaces to be reserved for car share use. again, i want to thank the laurel heights improvement association for being forward-thinking and the developers working so well with the neighbours. this project in a neighbourhood that hasn't seen any new housing is very welcomed. and i just want to thank everyone for their hard work on seeing this across the finish line. i was aid to supervisor farrell when this started over two years ago and to see it now is just incredible. so i'm happy to bring this uniquely dense neighbourhood and project forward. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor. any other colleagues? supervisor safai? >> no. i'll reserve. >> all right. and if we don't have any questions for planning staff as well, then i will open this item up to public comment.

i have two speaker cards. kathy and richard and anyone else who would like to come up to speak. please line up. >> good afternoon, supervisors tang, safai, stefani and peskin. i'm from the laurel heights improvement association and i'm very happy to support the project before you today. because this project is on a small 12,000-foot irregular sized lot, the density increase through the special use district would allow the housing units to be increased from 21 to 95 units. which would serve the city's need for more housing. i think this density accommodation is reasonable because the building would conform with the applicable height limb and this would strike a reasonable balance. and the 95 housing units would be better than commercial use

in the majority of the building that was the first it ration proposed. although we sorted that out, too. long time residents there were commission ago shadow study before the project was revised. and we worked with them and we appreciate that the developers worked with the neighbours on the issues of the project design in the height and the nature of the roof screenings and this is not talls case. but we had a free flow of information with these developers because they were willing to work with the neighbourhood so we thanked them for that. we support the building, it's within the height limit and the affordable housing increase because it will provide 5% more for the middle income group,

which is so needed because we're losing the middle class in san francisco. the developers responded to our information in a timely fashion and agreed to our request for a condition of approval that, to the extent allowed by [inaudible], that any roof screen be transparent in order to minimize impacts on the neighbourhood so we had a collaborative process and we thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisor and staff. i'm richard frisbee, laurel heights improvement association. i would just like to thank the four parties involved in this planning department. christopher may, the developers, supervisors past and present now supervisor stefani. and also the neighbourhoods of people who got involved in that. i think that the open, transparent process worked well. we didn't always agree but we always agreed to discuss and have an open dialogue and from

that came what we believe is a productive, useful development in our neighbourhood. so thank you very much. >> thank you. any other members of the public? seeing none, public comment on this item is closed. supervisor peskin. >> thank you, madame chair. first of all, i just want to acknowledge the mould work that the developers and the community have done here. and i think it is a sign that neighbourhoods that some might think are resist tanlts to more housing and dense housing is untrue and i was pleased to hear her speak about her support for raising what would have been 100 development unit to [inaudible]. and i wanted full recommendation that i wanted to speak is because there is a bill that's been introduced in the state senate, senate bill

827, that would really take away some of the zoning powers that local municipalities like san francisco have had now since the beginning of time and here's proof positive that we don't need an sb-827, we know how to hand it locally and i'll be introducing a measure at the board of supervisors tomorrow and hope to get the support of my colleagues in opposing sb-827 as the league of cities has already done and as l.a. is preparing to do. and with that, i would like to make a motion to send this item to the full board with recommendation. >> thank you. and before we do that, supervisor safai? >> i was just going to make a motion to congratulate supervisor stefani on one of the first pieces of legislation that she's able to lead on and something she started on when she was an aide. that's pretty great. and also to have neighbourhood support to take something that

was diminuitive in the overall context of what's needed in san francisco to make it an impactful project without having negative impacts on the neighbourhood is commendable. i commend the neighbourhood leaders and developer and our new supervisor on a wonderful project to begin her term on the board with. >> thank you very much. >> i'll second that motion. >> ok. and i mean, personally i'm a little bummed that it wasn'ted home s.f. that we were using. but this is a better project for the neighbourhood. there was a motion to send forth with positive recommendation to the full board. we'll do that without objection. before we move on to item two, i neglected to ask if we could have a motion to excuse supervisor kim or do we need to do that? >> yes. >> motion to excuse supervisor kim from committee and supervisor peskin is replacing her. motion, someone. >> so moved. >> we'll do that without objection. [laughter] all right. item two, please.

>> ordinance amending the planning code to regulate restaurant and bar uses in the jackson square special use district, broadway neighbourhood commercial district, north beach neighbourhood commercial district and the north beach special use district aming the jackson square special use district to require a conditional use permit for office uses, business services and institutional uses fronting on pacific avenue. >> thank you. we'll turn it over to our sponsor, supervisor peskin. >> thank you, madame chair. supervisor safai. this is an ordinance that contains a number of nonsubstantial clean-up amendments to the broadway, north beach n.c.d.s and north beach s.u.d. zoning tables. principally the ordinance contains amendments to the jackson square special use district relative to a increasing number of rest rhawns, limited restaurants and bar uses in the area. this limited control on bars and restaurants already exists in other parts of the northeast corner of the city. particularly in the north beach

n.c.d. which saw a huge number of additional restaurants and bar answer oversaturation within its bound ris and in north beach in particular, those controls have helped to minimize speculative commercial rent practices in the neighbourhood and cultivate and maintain a diverse array of retail and other community services. so the folks in jackson square wanted the same thing. jackson square has the largest number of pre-1870 commercial buildings in the city. it's a very small discrete geography that encompass about five blocks and has an increasing number of residential units within it. and in that small geography, currently there are 17 bars and restaurants sprinkled among an array of unique and thriving ground floor commercial uses.

it includes architectural philip morrisser and antique stores and emerging community of tailors and retail clothing establishments. i'm very happy to say around the conversation of the amazon effect and what's happening in retail in general, the vacancy rate in jackson square as well as north beach remained quite healthy as set forth in the planning department's staff report. so long story short, we don't have a -- we have a healthy vacancy rate and it's the threat of restaurants and bars that can afford higher rents and are displacing the mix of art gallery and retail spaces that this legislation addresses also the legislative file for this matter didn't include several letters of support, most of which went to the

planning commission when they heard and recommended this without modification on january 11. and i've included those colleagues in hand-outs i've given you and they are now part of the board packet. you will see letters there, including from the small business commission, that unanimously voighteded in favour of the legislation without modification as well as letters from the jackson square historic district association, which is a combination of businesses and residential letters as well as from homeowners associations in the area asking for our support. and with, that colleague, i respectfully request your support for this item. >> thank you. supervisor safai. >> just to clarify -- i know you said this pretty clearly but i want to understand -- this is to protect the area from additional restaurant and bars coming in and displacing existing restaurant bars and other uses or to ensure that existing retail that is nonrestaurant bars and uses are

-- >> why don't we have diego sanchez come up and give the staff report. i just wanted to note, madame chair, that our former board member, bevan duffty is in the chambers. >> welcome. >> supervise so as mentioned, the planning commission heard this ordinance on january 11 of this year. they voted 6-1 in support of the ordinance without any modification so as proposed by supervisor peskin. the commission believes that the existing retail conditions in jackson square are working. it is an interesting and historic place with attractive retail and sufficient eating and drinking places as well as the voe vacancy rate. the ordinance will help keep what's working, working. and supervisor, if you could repeat -- did you have a question -- >> my question was, so i understand the use that you are trying to -- the existing uses -- do you want to jump in,

aaron? >> sure. >> if you look to page four, which is section 249.25, this is one about intensification and increase in square footage and, two, you'll see that section two subb, which is conditional uses says restaurant, limited restaurants and bars uses may be permitted as a conditional use on the first story through the procedures set forth in section 303, which is the conditional use section of the code. only if the zoning administrator first determines that the proposed new restaurant, limited restaurant or bar would occupy a space as currently or last legally occupied by one of the uses described below and those uses are a bar, a restaurant, a limited restaurant. so, bottom line, the answer to

your question is that bars and restaurants may replace bars and restaurants but may not displace retail uses. >> got it. ok. so i can i make something for -- any of the rest raufnls, bars or other use similar to that, that can't locate here, they're welcomed to come to my district. because we're encouraging those. [laughter] >> and the sunset. outter sunset. >> because we have a higher vacancy rate ands are a little bit more in demand, i made this joke during cannabis and i think it is a nice lead-in because we talked about it limiting the uses and the amount of licenses around the city. but type 47 licenses, i think we have five in our district and maybe one of those is really being used in the appropriate manner. so, anyone just for the record that wants to use their type 47 license, come to the excelsior district 11 and i fully support this piece of legislation. >> and supervisor safai will offer a finder's fee. >> and by the way, i wish we

had these problems in district 11. [laughter] did toe. all right. any members of the public who wish to speak on item number two, please come up. ok. seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor p/esskin? >> i'd like to make a motion to send this item to the full board with recommendation. >> all right. we'll do that without objection. thank you. item three, please. >> ordinance amending the planning code by revising zoning map sheet zn06 to rezone assessor's parcel block number ab-2719c lot number 23 located at burnette avenue and burnette avenue north from public to residential mixed district, low dense tiff rm-1, rezoning a portion of burnette avenue north, generally bounded by ab-2745 lot number 36 and ab-2719c, lot number 023 to rm-1. >> thank you very much.

supervisor peskin? >> i see supervisor sheehy's staff. i spoke to him earlier and understand that they would like this item continued. >> we'll let holden couple and speak to that. >> hi, good afternoon, chair tang and members of the confirm i'm here on behalf of supervisor sheehy's office and we would like to continue this item at the call of the chair. and john gibner, the city deputy attorney is here to answer any questions that you might have. >> how about explain why we have to continue this item. >> sure. deputy city attorney john gibner. this item is part of a package of legislation that's connected to a litigation that's pending in the oversight committee. the plan is to have that settlement ordinance move forward along with this

ordinance and additional piece of legislation that's not yet been introduced to vacate the street. so, once that piece of shesing introduced, we'll work with the clerk's office and supervisor sheehy's office and your office to get everything schedule sod they move together. >> great. thank you for that. let's open up item number three to public comments, then. seeing none, public comment is closed. a motion to continue to call the chair for item three. ok. thank you. we'll do that without objection. item four, please. >> hearing on the year two report of the cannabis state legalization task force to report. >> thank you very much. this item was sponsored by -- or is sponsored by supervisor cohen. i don't know if someone was going to come and make opening remarks or just call on mr. allen here. ok. mr. terrence allen. >> thank you, madame chair. i have copies at the request of

the clerk ofpt presentation that i would like to make available to the committee members. if we could have the slide, please. thank you. i would like the begin with some introduction, if i may. my name is terrence allen. i'm pleased to be the chair of the committee, but i'm actually one of three co-chairs and i would like to introduce now my two co-chairs who sit behind me. sarah payen, who sits at the seat for two years of cannabis legislative advocacy and jen garcia, our labour advocate.

we're also joined by nicole elliott in the box as i'm inclined to call it. [laughter] nicole is now the director of the office of cannabis and, as the task force will be moving from its facilitation role with the department of public health to the office of cannabis, this is the perfect time for this marriage to be introduced to you, the board as it was your idea to come up with this task force. in doing this, the department of public health and their role shifts. they are now deeply involved in all the regulatory framework, but it would be a mistake not to recognize israel rivera and gretchen poly who worked within the department for over two-years to bring these issues forward in a comprehensive way. and in concluding my

introductions, michelle and janine from harter company have been instrumenttal in bring us forward in a legal fashion so the continuety of each topic item can be brought forward to its conclusion and they're joined by tim morrison who will be part of the team for this year. with, that those are my thank yous. and if i get the right buttton. ok. i had one too many buttness to pushed. we have to begin by taking a look at what is the task force, what did it do in year two and what is its vision in year three.

so, the task force had in its purpose the early job of facile tating a conversation between the community, the department heads and the city. this was prior to understanding that we were going to have any legislation, let alone a valid proposal passed. this was to set up the mayor and supervise source and city departments. as we refined this over time, we're now proposing that the year three goal be that the task force recommend and review policy in three main topic areas, regulatory, land use and social justice inequity and we'll get to that. we friended on year one. you are now being presented on year two. and let's look at year two in review. so year two in review builds on year one. year one we had no legal framework in which to work. we decided as a task force that

public safety and social environment were key as well as land use and social justice and regulation and city agency framework. as this process evolved, they became more formalized and you'll note they followed the legislation that you ultimately passed this past year. retail, licensing, actually here in the city we're calling it permiting. so retail permiting. nonretail permiting. what impact it has on land use, what changes you need to make and of course the all-important equity and social justice component. that was our year one and year two framework. out of those framework documents came 98 recommendations and about two thirds of those recommendations made it into your legislative and law making process. we thank you for those tours and thank you for participating in all thes work that was required to be able to get months and months of input from

the task force and combine it down into a few sentences that you could use in your process. we're proud to have been part of that and the success has shown in that slide. now we go into the meat and potatoes of what we're doing. we start with nonretail licensing and i'm going to introduce sarah, my co-chair, and will talk about nonretail licensing and what that permiting system looks like here in the city. >> thank you, terrence. in year two, the task force discussed nonretail licensing and made 29 recommendations. number five, priority licensing. we recommend that existing permit holders in good staj or have been displaced as a result of federal intervention to receive priority processing and licensing status in the city and county of san francisco. mm-hmm. this recommendation should not conflict with social justice prioritized permiting processing recommendations.

number two, new local licensing. we agreed that in addition to state defined license types, the following local license type should be created. a virtually dispensary which would be a physical location use for delivery with no walk-in retail, manufacturing 6b special cook license, consumption lounge where one can bring their own products, whether that be entertainment, restaurants, yoga studio or gym and temporary event that include cannabis cups, cultural venezuelas and farmer's market examples. it should be noted the above licenses will not include retail activity except in the case of micro businesses. consumption lounges and temporary event should be allowed in san francisco. the city should look into whether a license is necessary in these cases. from an advocacy stand point and social justice stand point and also compassion, consumption lounges support safe access for patients using cannabis who might use their housing if they medicate on the premise.

as we've seen on the dispensary side, safe access to cannabis lowers usage rates of opiats of which use is epidemic in our country. whoops. excuse me. for social equity, workforce development and business ownership, 26 states -- >> excuse me for one second. i'm sorry. excuse me. are you moving the slides? because the slides aren't moving. >> oh, my slides aren't moving there. we go. >> just so -- >> thank you so much. >> we can follow along, but the viewers will not be. >> sorry about that. social equity, workforce development and business ownership. so, for retail licensing -- i'm sorry. in our discussion on retail licensing, we made 44 recommendations. i'm sorry. i think i really did -- no, i'm sorry. we are actually back in the old slide.

we were talking about consumption under that as well. because that is talk about temporary event and farmer's markets, for example. they should be allowed. i'm sorry about that. here we go. so woe are talk about consumption lounges in both of these areas, the nonretailz and the retail because the nonretail would be a lounge where you are able to bring your own cannabis to consume. so, there wouldn't be any purchasing involved in that when we are looking at people living in section eight housing, low-income individual, they shouldn't have to be pressured to purchase merchandise in other words to have a safe consumption area. and then we're going to 11. license portability. san francisco should issue local nonretail license toss the operate tors and take steps to ensure that the licenses are portable so that we may close a loophole allowing takovers of already-established cannabis business locations. and then number seven, information and the federal government security of information and local government.

local licensing agencies should do everything within their legal power to prevent disclosure of personal information to federal agencies to reduce the risk of thefts, local licensing agencies should keep nonretail facility, physical addresses discrete with mailing addresses as an appropriate way of providing information. now we'll go to the next slide for not for retail licensing. the task force made 44 recommendations. on-site consumption. so we're going back to that. 19. san francisco should allow on-site consumption at cannabis retail locations and these locations must include proper ventilation systems. as we go on to social equity, which includes workforce development and business ownership, san francisco should engage community members in the target populations people of colour and former will incars rated pencer ands in these groups, traditional age use, 21 to 24 and lgbtq people along

with development organisations, community-based organisations and other key stakeholders to develop the strategis to reduce economic barriers to enter the cannabis industry as workforce or entrepreneurs. san francisco should reduce annual permiting fees according to target populations. 25 pkz off for 25% employment of target populations. 50% off or 50% of target populations. the task force encourages legislation to address compassion programmes and supportive services that may fall outside the permiting system currently adopted. as a seat representing advocacy, i feel it is important to note the industry began the compassionate cannabis programme by providing cannabis to those who didn't have financial means to purchase at retail. the compassion programme has a history of improving patient's quality of liefz and we firmly believe that our current permiting system should make permanent the practice of compassion. as many of our critically ill patients live on fixed income