>> the clerk: san francisco board of appeals. to my left is deputy city

attorney to provide legal advice. to my right will be introduced at the moment and the boards is the legal assistant. i'm cynthia goldstein the board's executive director and joined by the representatives of the city department with cases before the board. is cory tege assistant administrator and will be joined by joseph duffy representing the department of building inspection and the public works for mapping. the board requests you turn off electronic devices and carry on conversations in the hallway. there are seven minutes to present a case and three minutes

for rebuttal. members of the public who are not affiliate with the parties have up to three minutes each to address the board with no rebuttal and ask you speak into the microphone. you are asked but not required to submit a speaker card or business card to board staff when you come up to speak. there's speaker cards on the left side of the podium for your use. the board welcomes your comments and suggestions and we have customer satisfaction survey forms on the podium for your convenience. if you have a question about the hearings please speak to board staff during a break or after the meeting or call or visit the board office at 1650 mission street room 304. this meeting is broadcast live and will be rebroadcast friday at 4:00. there are dvds available for purchase on sf gov tv.

now we will swear in and affirm anyone who wishes to speak. if you intertend intend to testify please stand if you're able and raise your right hand and say i do after you have been sworn in or affirmed. please stand. do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. thank you very much. commissioner fung, commissioners we have item 6, appeal 18-00 an appeal of an alteration permit at 267 green street. that matter will be withdrawn so it will not be heard continue. item 1 is general public comment. it's an opportunity for anyone who would like to speak to the board on a matter within the jurisdiction not on tonight's

calendar. is there any general public comment? >> good evening, commissioners. i work for san francisco public works. i couldn't let ms. goldstein retire without coming to say what a great pleasure it was to work with you over the past 10 years. you have filled the role very ably and have always been the consummate professional, exceedingly helpful when we have questions. we will miss you and i wanted to wish you the best but enjoy very much your well deserved retirement. >> the clerk: are there any

other public comments. >> good evening, commissioners. scott sanchez. i'm here to express my sincere appreciation for director goldstein. i believe the board of appeals is the most respected departments because of the work of the commissioners and board staff. i think there's been a history of excellent leadership with the board of appeals and think ms. goldstein has filled some big shoes and honored the tradition of the board and further advanced the department but making it more publicly accessible. you can go back and see every first decision of the board of appeals. i don't know if commissioner fung was on that but it's impressive what she's done in here nearly 10 years with the board. also, i think she exemplifies

the best characteristic of public servant, patient, pragmatic. she say role mo model. she's been one for me and i will miss working with her but i'm grateful over the past 10 years to do so. i wish her nothing but the best in retirement and the city has a program called prop f though you're retired you can still work for the city and maybe you can consider doing that. >> is that an offer? >> thank you. >> the clerk: thank you very much. any other general public comment? >> i want to congratulate you.

commissioner fung. >> mayor of san francisco. i know i dated back to the human rights commission with mayor ed lee and for your dedicated service especially the last 10 years here at the board. as i've come into the mayor's office i've been often told how this is one of the departments that has run the best for a long time and thank you so much on behalf of the entire city and to let everyone know we're declaring march 21 cynthia goldstein day in the city of san francisco.

>> thank you. >> president fung, vice president swig, executive director goldstein. when i was a high school teacher i taught math. the end of the school year was always bitter sweet. i welcomed the opportunity to enjoy the time that stretched out in front of me. i had fewer responsibilities and more time to read and reflect and travel but there were kids i'd known for nine months that i'd grown deeply about and since i mostly taught seniors i knew i'd never see them again. i know you'll manage your time well and in the sadness over certain meaningful relationships

will be offset by your fond memories of the people and you presided over the meetings -- i'm sorry, i'm mike garcia. you dealt with the public so seamlessly you'll be well remembered and missed terribly. if this were a motion it would pass 4-0. i'm pleased to have known you, cynthia, and glad you know i hold you in the highest regard. thank you. >> the clerk: thank you so much. >> i'd like to take this time to say thank you for your time here, cynthia. i'm not as tenured as the other folks here who have been here almost five years and it's been great working with you. you helped me out through many

situations. it's been a wonderful experience and i wish you the best moving forward. >> >> the clerk: thank you. >> good evening, commissioners, chris bach, urban forest san francisco public works. i come before you as a member of the public to acknowledge cynthia goldstein we've worked together the past few years and i respect the way in which you carried yourself. being a civil servant say great thing for me. it's a proud honorable professional in the way you carry yourself reinforces that for me. you've been incredibly responsive, always picking up your phone and remaining calm when we deal with sensitive issues. we appreciate the work you've but in here and we all wanted to

thank you personally. thank you very much. >> the clerk: thank you. is there any other general public comment? seeing none we'll take a quick moment to thank everyone who's here and how of course for me it makes leaving difficult and has made the last 10 years at the board of appeals an interesting and pleasurable experience. i have the highest regard for the people in the city family and it's you who have kept me here the past three decades. thank you for coming tonight. it means a great deal to me. now we can move on to item number 2, with, commissioners comments and questions. >> i have a few comments.

we wish her the best and sure she'll be welcomed in our after meeting drinks if she so chooses. i do want to make public a little discussion on the process. when cynthia first announced she was going to retire, she and hr department of the city were quite helpful in preparing the process and taking the process through its fruition.

we received 23 applications and interviewed competent applicants. out of that at our february 21st meeting in closed session the commission decided we'd offer the position of executive director to our new director, julie rosenberg sitting to cynthia's right. we expect the best of her and sure she'll do a great job. she has come from a position where she handled a hearing group and managed it and led it

to it's mission. and we expect she will do the same here. >> a few weeks ago i attended a board of supervisors meet wherein a resolution was given to cynthia and i was hoping it would be an ordinance to prevent her from retiring but they weren't willing to go that far. i just want to say, it's a privilege to serve the city in the role and a pleasure to work with somebody of the caliber of cynthia -- i'm getting choked up. >> commissioner: i too was at the board of supervisors where they honored and gave her a certificate. i've been on boards and cynthia's performance as a director, colleague and friend

has been outstanding. there's not much more i can say. i'm getting choked up as well. love you. >> >> commissioner: first, thank you for your service. i want to make sure the public understands how elegantly you have served on this particular commission. i want to make sure the public appreciates what you contribute. it's not only are you herding the cats and the way you show compassion with the public and where you can't provide everybody with the positive answer they want is really

tremendous and i hope the public will appreciate that elegance with which you have dealt with them. i've appreciated how you helped people onto the commission and prepared me to come out here every week or so and julie. almost welcome. the formal welcome comes when you start the job but needless to say the appreciation of your predecessor is tremendous. good luck filling those shoes. we know you'll do it, but thank you cynthia, for everything. >> the clerk: thank you

commissioners. it's been an honor to work with you and the opportunity to work with people who do their homework and thoughtful in their deliberations has made this work feel valuable to me so it's truly been an honor and thank you for the comments. and i know the city attorney will say i have to ask for public comment on this. >> commissioner: with the permission of the president, on behalf of the city attorney's office i want to thank you for your years of service. bury took over the role about a year and a half ago i heard from all my colleagues you were one of the best clients to have among clients we advise and that's definitely been our experience. i wish you luck in your retirement. >> the clerk: is there any public comment on item 2. seeing none we'll move to item 3, the consideration of the minutes, commissioners. the minutes of the march 7, 2018 meeting. >> commissioner: any additions or corrections? >> move to adopt.

>> the clerk: any public comment on the minutes? seeing none we have a motion from commissioner lazarus to adopt the motion. commissioner fung. >> commissioner: aye. >> the clerk: the vote passes with a vote of 4-0. we'll move onto items 4a and 4b the property is at subject property at 2650-2652 hyde street. ellen tsang, appellant, is requesting a rehearing of appeal no. 17-187, tsang vs. dbi, pda, decided february 07, 2018. at that time, the board voted 4-0-1 (commissioner lazarus absent) to uphold the permit on the basis that it was properly issued. permit holders: craig & marina greenwood. project: remodel upper unit of two-unit building; change rear portion of existing gable roof to flat roof

with roof deck above; interior remodel of third floor below roof, including remodeled bathroom; new stair to roof; remodel interior stair; new small deck at level three. we will start with the requesters. three minutes to each -- >> may i relay i have read the materials. >> the clerk: thank you. >> you ask him and he lie about his garage he did not know the plan by his professional team and when he knew he fired them. starting in 2006, they issued writing and the claim was existing but the first floor is unexcavated. since 2005 he used the same team for many years. the testimony given after our

rebuttal after the original hearing for the state agency therefore we were not able to produce this new evidence at original hearings. before i the hearing he refused to provide the information. he testified greenwood refused to provide and the state agency provided the code. in greenwood's opposition the said he was not aware. he could not find a code to support his claims. they are relevant because they violated the code that must be done by licensed civil engineer. this architect not.

the measurement is wrong. greenwood claimed they extended the practice. [indiscernible]. greenwood claimed the data was from the engineer because the state issued the license to individuals not to a company. he provide no document to prove it and claimed the code is not material. they are because we learn the code violation after the hearing. we talked to the state agency after the hearing and they

provide the code. he was not authorized to practi practice. and [indiscernible] they violated many codes. thank you. >> the clerk: mr. brinket. are you hear for public comment? it's not time for that yet. >> good evening. the owner's opposition are filled with immaterial facts. first, i had no idea why they did not provide the survey but after the rebuttal the owner's

architect testified he and the owner decided not to release the survey drawing and information. with this new material fact i learn from the california board of professional engineers and land surveyors hereafter called state agency their act in violation of the codes. the code violations are new material facts. the architect testified he interpret interpreted them into the cad file and he cannot cite one code to support the claims. the architect was practicing survey work for california business and professionals called called b.p.c. and the sections include performing electronic or computerized data activities. after the hearings we were

informed the section 8761 required a land surveyor's signature and to be on the document and plan. and california code of business contact section 21g1 requires a land survey document shall be signed and sealed. they vie owe lated the codes -- violated the codes. they even practice engineer work without age engineer's license. the own ser misinterpreting and twisting the fact to achieve his goals. they have violated many coats. d.b.i. and planning are authorized to enforce the code not waive the code. these have arisen after our rebuttals or the hearing. if no one could have affected

the outcome pop the architect's measurements and elevation wrong. thank you. >> the clerk: we can hear from the permit holder next. you have six minutes. >> good evening. president fung. i'm the holder. they have not provided new facts which on the board meeting march 7 could have affected. i ask the appeal be denied. >> the clerk: is there departmental questions?

>> planning department start. briefly, again, i don't see any new information being provided. the issue related to the survey was discussed. and to clarify the planning code did not require a survey to be conducted or provide for this permit. generally it's only required for new construction for a building code and not planning code but i'm available for any questions you may have. >> the clerk: thank you. now we'll take public comment, sir, if you'd like to speak, you can. >> public comment on this topic or any -- >> the clerk: on this topic. the appeal. >> thank you very much. peter alexander. so this say place where we speak about permits and appeals. so i submit to those in frond of me and behind me let us permit ourselves to think and let aus

peel to our higher nature. our spiritual being. there's some very serious things going on not being discussed by the media that we hear in meetings like this. no one talks about the human transports train cars are in richmond and where fema is picking up people chained and shackle and all going to fema camps where there's 1.5 million people already there. there was a character at santa rosa city council and gave a statement the fires would begin in california after the full moon. and i am now telling you it's been commanded from on high the first of two earthquakes will be felt within the breadth of full moon and make feel 1989 feel like a walk in the park and one

will take down the bay bridge. with the most powerful people and country in the planet run by lawyers. i say we reach higher and start acting like americans instead of taking everything and reacting to everything. people are not thinking or looking things up. the fbi person said they'll know when they look it up. we've been lied to about everything especially about our power and why is it we've not been told and not been sufficiently bold to strike the system into submission. why are we submitting when they're just leeches and parasites and we are all the power. we are the power of the ports,

of the students, of the truckers, of the farm workers of everything. have we forgotten this somehow? it's time when this strike happens with this full moon of the earthquake all within the sound of my voice will shut down all labors in school and show d.c. and the world we are no longer their fools. i'm peter. i have said it. it is done. >> the clerk: thank you. is there any other public comment on this item? on this item. >> i want to order the previous speaker did not speak on this item. >> the clerk: seeing no other public comment, commissioners the hearing request is submitted. >> commissioner: commissioners. >> i'm prepared to deny the rehearing request.

>> on the basis of no new information? or manifest injustice. >> the clerk: set a motion. there's been a motion from commissioner lazarus to deny the request on the basis of no new evidence or manifest injustice. on that motion, president fung. >> commissioner: aye. >> the clerk: commissioner swig. >> commissioner: aye. >> the clerk: item five. appeal number san francisco public works bureau of street use and mapping, respondent 2990 24th street. appealing the issuance on december 29, 2017, to red table management

dba "son's addition," of a sidewalk table and chairs permit (for five tables and ten chairs occupying approximately 224sf in the public right-of-way at the subject property on sunday through saturday between the hours of 11am and 10:00 p.m. you have seven minutes to present your case. >> thank you. i'm the founder and current president of the latino cultural district. we're asking to hold up the organization. it was designated as a latino cultural district in collaboration with mayor ed lee and the san francisco heritage. we have been active since the late '90s and designated as the latino cultural district by the state of california. the goals forms by the communities to enhance the community from continued displacement and gentrification and communities of color continue to call the l.c.d. home

and the average latino family of four runs from $35,000 to $38,000 a year. we're working towards create brand of a latino community and culture like third street is producing an african american culture and other districts. it's to protect us from over saturation of restaurants and ensure they fit within the vision of the community and have open space that reflects the culture of the latino community and its brand. the brand includes bikes, parks and boutiques and store fronts

and businesses. the brand includes murals that draw people in the neighborhood and work class and street vendors and children and latin american flags. the new outdoor seating will be the first full-service outdoor dining with beer to wine including brunch on the weekends. it ties into the style and they'll serve breakfast and lunch. sunrise cafe serve breakfast and lunch and ray restaurant. these are places with outdoor seattling. and there's a coffee shop.

and one across the street which is a coffee shop. and one is an ice cream shop. when they open the business it's important to research the community and learn what's important to the community and its issues. some laws do not address the economic, social or cultural issues in the neighborhood. and by appeal you'll give it a chance to protect the work and protect the community process with nonprofits, youth, artists and the latino cultural district and help protect communities of color. it has many heritage businesses. culture is a win-win for all. outreach is documented and available on our web page.

today we are willing to negotiate and ask that they reduce the tables from five to two and to change the hours from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. and that falls in line with the rest of the businesses along 24th street which are casual breakfast and lunch. and it's a way to create art or mural that ties in. this will help fit into the model of 24th street. it's casual, morning and lunch. the rest of the businesses close around 8:30 or 9:00 and will not disrupt the neighbors at night and we received letters submitted in the first hearing with d.p.w. and another 20 e-mails have you received and i have pictures of the restaurant and the outdoor dining area.

>> commissioner: thank you. >> the clerk: we can hear from the permit holder. >> good evening. first of all, thank you for the hearing. my name's nick. i'm the permit holder with my wife. we submitted our brief in paper form so you can follow along. i mostly wanted to reiterate points we made so far. when i say we are an addition it's literal. this is my wife and i. we work the restaurant ourself. manager, chef. we don't represent a corporation. there's no big money behind us. we do this not because it's the easiest way to make money but this is what we've done, 18 years cooking in a kitchen. scars to prove it and my wife 20 years always for somebody else

so when the opportunity came along it was our shot. it wasn't a quick decision, we have a couple million bucks, let's open a restaurant. it's 18 years of raising funds and friends that helped and we take this seriously. this is our dream and livelihood. we took money from family, mother-in-law, sister, we were short in the end and had to secure a loan from working solutions in the city that helps get small loans for business. they liked our story because they believed in what we do and understood we'd create jobs and that was a great thing for the district. it's important know the push we got was from guests. it wasn't something we were striving for but guest come in with families with dogs when want to sit outside, in my

opinion, the best districts in the cities and outdoors is a draw. so we secured the lease on the lone and reached out to calle 24 and tried to address each point they made. first was jobs and hiring locals. we would have done anyway. we now created 29 jobs. 19 of the 29 live in the area and i can grab my dishwasher if i need to because he lives down

the street. they wanted people to speak spanish. we created a spanish version of our menu. i speak spanish and my kitchen guy speaks spanish. we've been sensitive to that and understand our host has to be welcoming and speaking spanish. keeping pricing low. i dare anybody to find a restaurant of comparable size and value. we've done a tremendous job to keep prices low without bankrupting ourselves. being part of the community. we've only been open five months but we plan to do an event in may and have done events with a place in the commission helping immigrant women. we worked with a local business and hope to continue. we've reached out to the community. we feel like we've received

already. before i got to the hearing portion i met with concerned citizens. we limited our seats to 20. originally our dividers were larger. there was concern about people getting by. we limited those. we're willing to listen to -- i don't know if the city will allow us to do murals on the dividers but we've conceded the number of seats and in the second hearing in november we made further concessions when calle 24 said the festival days were important to them and we said have you a point. we'll take away all tables and chairs during the festival. a, it's a financial thing for us. we need the seats. restaurant margins are super tiny. we need the seats to keep prices low to make covers and pay employees and hire people and it creates more jobs. five or six more jobs are created by adding seats at

nighttime and brunch. it keeps the corner clean. we have to change the tables out every night, bring them in clean. it keeps trash and homelessness away and makes the corner which has been dark over two years lively. it signifies openness, these are chairs. come down. this is our food. others in the neighborhood have gotten tables and chairs. nine within a five-block radius of us. table and chairs all around you. why are the standards -- one of our -- we met with the c conditions. why are we be target? i have theories but i don't know. it's bullying at the very best. it's intimidation.

it's like mafia style thinking and i don't understand why it's us but somebody has to be made the example and i guess that's us. so -- but we don't hold it against them. we still support calle 24 and the idea they stand for and we feel they're hiding behind the abuse but we still want to outreach we understand i have to shop and pass people opposing me. we're not trying to bring a bunch of people here to cause an are you ruckus. we want to work with everybody. in summation, we have met the legal obligation set forth by the city and met calle 24 more than halfway. please, we can't wait longer. this say financial situation for us. we've been burdened by the

process and ask you to uphold the permit. thank you. >> thank you. we can hear from the department now. >> my name is brent coen. i want to thank you for all your support and being such a good leader good evening commissioner. i aren't the department of public works. this is locked at 2990, 24th street.

the permit applicant applied for the table and chairs permit with the following proposal and there's five tables on harrison street approximately 224 square feet and public works reviewed the proposed layout plan and determined it to be in compliance with the public works code. public notice was posted at the site for 10 days beginning october 28, 2017. during the 10-day notification period public works received 50

objections. 29 of which were signed letters. provided in exhibit e. public works scheduled a public hearings held on november 22, 2017. there were five testimonies in opposition. following the hearing on december 28, 2017 the director of public works approved the application with the d.p.w. order 186-49 exhibit c. the permit was approved december 29, 2017 with the following condition from the hearing. the applicant shall not occupy the permitted area with any sidewalk cafe elements during street fairs, parades and

similar events. following the hearing, public works believes the permit was appropriately reviewed and conditioned in accordance with the applicable codes and request the board uphold the permit for the sidewalk cafe on the frontage of 2990, 24th street. thank you. and also public works has received approximately 20 e-mails/letters of support today for the application. i'll be available for any questions. >> the clerk: thank you. may i see with a show of hand how many people plan to speak on

this item? if you wouldn't mind lining up on the far side of the room. if you could fill out a speaker card before or after you come up to speak and hand it mr. cantera. the first person can come to the microphone and you'll have three minutes. >> good evening, commissioners. i'm carlos bocanegra with a commission of over 15 missions that seek to preserve the culture and community that exists. permit holder said previously that he spent 19 years invested in making his dream come true and working hard to receive the business he's duely -- dually owned and there was a battle for them to fight for the livelihood and preservation of their community and have continued to preserve within the 20 years and they've done so without pay or profit but for the love of their

friends, family, community and everything they hold special. this permit is the first full service outdoor seatings you'll find in the latino cultural district. they're open at hours no other restaurant along that corridor since it became a district and they're hours are much longer than anybody is out there. i would say this permit seeks to undermine the exact design guidelines coming forward for the district that would prohibit these find of things. it's not the seating but the hours in which they are going to be open not only monday through thursday but they're extended hours on friday and saturday as well. these actions serve to undermine the design guidelines and undermine an entire community that's fought hard to preserve the cultural nature along that

district. we see a lot of what's happening to mission street down to valencia street is a perfect argument for a slippery slope. what you're doing by this one action is inviting others to seek other permits, utilizing this as a precedent. i would say after hearing what i heard at the beginning of this hearing there is a lot of speak about legacy and civic duty. we have to ask ourselves what is the bottom line. the bottom line can't always be about the individual and his business and the right to run it. the bottom line has to be about the citizens and the community that exists in the city. what we're asking today is not that much to limit some of their hours and seating. at the very least regardless of the seating, this say full service outdoor seating that should have similar and

comparable hours to every other business that's put itself within the cultural district. doing so will not bankrupt the owner. in thinking about a legacy and what we do for the citizens i ask you deny this permit or at the least shorten the hours soit falls in line with the rest of the latino cultural district. thank you very much. >> the clerk: next speaker, please. >> hi there. i'm a born and raised child of the mission. i've seen a lot of change. i used to work with the executive director and to be honest the change on valencia street was incredible. the way it impacted our clients and movement and the way it impacted the culture already there. the soul of that corridor is decimated. now when we look at valencia further down that's what's happening there. you can no longer drive in the areas because of the impact of

what the businesses are doing. i understand the manhattanization sounds sexy but what is sexy is preserving culture and what brings people to the understood. it has culture and music and festivals. this will start going away. once we start changing the fabric of what it is it no longer belongs the same class. and i want to address this whole thing about bullying. to me it sounds like we're being called gang members and stuff and i find that derogatory. i think when we talk about issues like this gentrification and appropriation of culture we have to be sensitive how we label the people advocating and lobbying and fighting for the community they live in. that's me and i'm not in the mafia. i just want to put it in that context because that's very not only does respectful to the work

that the organization has done and people who live there does respectful and it indicates the type of mentality and usage and treatment people are going to get. if that's clearly hour we're being seen and we're trying to advocate and fight for our community then that's clearly how it will play out in the neighborhood as well. we need to preserve the mission district as a latino cultural district. changing the fabric of it changes it. i fought all my life to stay in this neighborhood and the fact i can no longer walk in areas because of the fact -- excuse me, drive because of the red lanes or park and go to a mom-and-pop shop i've gone to my whole life is no longer the soul of the area. we're battling for it and that's what i hope you think of when you think of one business like carlos just said, opening that door is a scary thing for people

who live there. i respect business owners but i don't respect coming into a community and not hearing the beat of the drum they're trying to explain to you. it's a cultural business. it's not because we don't want businesses there. we want businesses to be respectful of our community and cultural identity. >> the clerk: do you want to state your name for the record. >> maria castro. >> the clerk: thank you, next speaker. >> i'm pamela del rio. my grandparents fled from spain. i have lived a half block from harrison for 14 years. there's been two shoot and two murders and calls to the police over fights near my house. the mission grove corner diagonally is pitch black at night.

at any given night there's discarded homeless thing and this is the corner where the city had services. and there are place to eat and affordable food on 24th is not hard to come by. think of the months the appeal has been going on and the money and energy spent. i read it was $8,000. during this time, more hours, more pay, more training could have taken place for the employees they use at the restaurant. imagine if it was put into businesses to invest in the quality of life of the neighbors and neighborhood. maybe there will be a few that will break away and open their own place. calle 24, take some of your energy for the poor souls that have been on 24th street for years in the vacant door ways

and storefront. i would work with you on programs to get them off the street. stop putting your knowledge of city hall and passion for the neighborhood to make it difficult for new business to survive on 24th. thank you. >> the clerk: thank you, next speaker, please. >> hi there, i'm ernie and i'm latino and know a lot of about latino culture. i've lived on 25th and harris for the last five and a half years. i think the way the organizations have been described is inaccurate. i think 24th street has been very dark and lot of people walk around the streets. there is no place to go.

so basically what latino culture represents is being out later and sit outside and be happy. this is the opposite of that and the people i work with all agree with that. we live in a community now that is dangerous. we are afraid a lot of times of going out because there's no life outside. everything is shut down because it hasn't been allowed to be nice many years past. so i hope you all make the right

decision for us. thank you. >> the clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. >> i didn't know 24th street was dangerous. that's new to me. i moved to the mission in '96. i noticed the sidewalks rolled up at about 9:00 p.m., the groceries, hair salons close between 6:00 and 7:00 the restaurants later. this say residential neighborhood with shops and service cater to the residents. this say working-class neighborhood. due to valencia's high rent we're getting the pricey restaurants on our street. the addition is the most

expensive restaurant so if he's telling you it's cheap, it's not. now they want to add outdoor seating. the people on the street will have noise until 11:00 at night. it's ridiculous and they say five tables with four chairs, it's going to be five chairs. they're going to jam as many people outside as they can. once you approve outdoor seating, everybody else will follow and we will become the valencia extension. the street will lose its flavor. already rents are doubling, landlords are getting the greed

and the neighborhood -- we're trying to preserve the neighborhood. gosh, i had something else to say and now i can't remember. anyway, i know you will approve it but i hope you don't and if you do, can you at least make them close early? people get up early to go to work. why should now people that have lived there for years have to suffer through somebody who gets a permit to sit outside and quite frankly, if his business model relies on outdoor seating, it's a pretty crappy business model and i've been through the meetings with him. i'd say about 50% of what he says is true. please deny it. >> the clerk: would you like to state your name for the record, ma'am?

[off mic] . >> the clerk: next speaker, please. >> i'm john men dough john mendoza the co-founder of calle 24. i've been on this street since 1997. i know all the merchants and all the merchants stand with us. this say business that is gentrification. it's too expensive for the neighborhood. i ask you to uphold the appeal and deny the permit. i'll go one further, eric aguillo said let's close earlier and g