those that need the straws. hospitals and pharmacies will be able to offer plastic straws if they are needed for people with medical conditions. it's important to us that we're aware of unintended consequences and impacts and we've been working with the mayor's office of disability to ensure this is responsive to people's needs. so, once it's passed, which i'm hopeful and expecting it will be, the job comes to the department of the environment to make sure that everyone is aware of what they need to do, that our residents are aware not to expect straws, and our businesses are aware of what their responsibility is. just like we've done over and over again with the environmental laws that come through the department, we work with businesses very closely, whether it's mailing to them. we do everything in multiple languages. we will use the press and media and social media.

if any affected party, an event, business, school or hospital, is confused and concerned, they need only call us as we will be as responsive as we can to help them with this new law. so effective dates, as i mentioned before, a year from now, little less, july 1, 2019, we'll be plastic-free when it comes to straws and beverage accessories. the food ware will be on request and b.p.i. certification will be required for all compostable food ware. in 2020, six months later, the potential for recycled content regulation goes into effect. fluorinated-free food ware goes into effect. and so we're building in a pretty nice on-ramp for our affected parties to work with us so everyone feels comfortable with what they need to do differently. so this is one of my favorite

pictures. i want to say that this was an incredible event that we did with you supervisors and at that time president breed, now mayor breed. and i think what it shows is that there's tremendous energy for this ordinance, tremendous support. tremendous excitement about the power of local leadership and i'm honored to be a part of your story. so thank you very much. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much, director rafael, your staff, as well as ashley summers, who has worked with so many stake holders addressing their issues. one of the issues that did come up had to to with prepackaged goods, such as juice boxes that come with straws stuck on to the container it. i'm going to ask that the file be duplicated to address that

and not hold this up. so we will address that. don't want to take away juice from kids. any other questions or comments? thank you for entertaining this in land use committee. we don't have a great community to deal with environmental issues. for now, i will open up item 1 to public comment. any members of the public that wish to speak, please come on up. item 1. >> thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. i'm patrick finger, folsom street events. we produce up your alley and folsom street fair. we absolutely support the first part of this legislation, the no straws, plastic plates, cutlery and we've been doing this for many, many years here in the city. it's worked very well. we do not allow our food vendors to use any kind of plastic ware.

and we intend to continue that. the second half of the legislati legislati legislation makes us nervous, about the re-usable cups. we are using water towers. we started using that last year and managed to turn it into a profit center for us. so it's something that we're continuing this year. and we do offer this re-usable water pouch. $3 last year. $4 this year. i guess my question is, will the city, will everyone be working with events that are already in compliance, that are basically doing these things? because it seems like requiring a re-usable cup for alcohol sales, might be heavy-handed, and it brings up concerns about monitoring alcohol being passed off to a minor or people walking

off the event with alcohol. >> supervisor tang: thank you for your questions. if you wouldn't mind staying behind, you can start by chatting with department of environment staff and get through public comment. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm annalisa eklund. i will be presenting on behalf of the executive director of the golden gate restaurant association. we would like to thank you, supervisor tang and staff, as well as the department of the environment for working closely with industry on the litter reduction ordinance. we greatly appreciate that the legislation has been scaled to be more approachable for small business. we share these mutual goals, we

have three primary concerns. first, allowing restaurants to deplete their inventory without penalty. it's possible that with businesses moving to offering straws upon request, straw usage will decline, so the existing inventory could last past the ordinance effective date. secondly, making sure that the b.p.i.-free products are available and affordable. the city could go a long way in leading by example having all departments meet the same standard set for businesses. in doing so, perhaps they could enter into a large procurement project and make it available for small businesses. we ask the city to do due diligence before finalizing the policy and making sure that it

is in compliance with the s.b.a. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. >> good afternoon. jim lazarus, chamber of commerce. thank you for your work on this. we're pleased to support the legislation in principle as we have prior legislation on styrofoam bans and plastic bag bans the board and the supervisors have been understanding for the needs of all types in the compliance process. we're pleased to hear that pharmacies would be able to sell products necessary for those with medical needs. we agree with the restaurant association, that a delay in the absolute operative date for supplies on hand beyond july next year is something that we

hope you will consider. and that you will divide the file and have another hearing on amendments that make it clear that prepackaged foods and drinks from outside of san francisco, the same provision in the styrofoam ban, will not be illegal to come and sell. with those changes, we're supportive and thank you for your work on this issue. >> supervisor tang: next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is dr. tracy woodruff, professor in ob-gyn and director of reproductive health and the environment at the university of san francisco. the research program focuses on understanding chemical exposure during pregnancy and how it may affect environmental outcome. today i'm here to speak about the ban that is in the proposed bill on the class of fluorinated

chemica chemicals. it's used in products including food packaging and food service items. these chemicals can migrate out of the food service items and get into the food, water, and also air or soil where food is grown. people are exposed through food they eat or water they drink or air they breathe. our studies at ucsf have shown that every pregnant woman here in san francisco as across the united states have measurable levels of a number of these products in their bodies. we're concerned because of the exposures that occur during the developmental period prenatally can have adverse health effects that can result in early

childhood and even into adulthood. ordinances like this, bans that have happened, have shown that taking them out of the marketplace, results in a reduction in people's bodies and it shows that the evidence may be helpful. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm dawn holiday. i went from for-profit events to non-profit. and non-profits i've been working for are really broke. i've been trying to help with the budgets and trying to get things done for them. and something like this having to have cups for over 100 people and providing cups for that, they don't have the money for it. they just don't. you're making it really hard to

be poor in san francisco. they don't have money to pay a fine. they pick up the glass themselves. they're a mighty group of people that have low budgets. it would be great to find a way to build in a budget aary legislation for nonprofits. their budgets are a joke and they don't have any way to figure out who is in their audience let alone whose cups it is. i don't know the answer to this. i do know that the poor people need to be taken care of here, too. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> i really like this place. my old millionaire aunt would

have loved it. it's beautiful. they're dead and i didn't inherit a cent. i spent a half year in jail a couple years ago and when i got out i lost everything except for some notes. while i was there, i got tripped by one of the police officers and split open my head and had horrible black eyes. i was so traumatized, i almost checked to death and a murderer helped to save my life and a bank robber fed me and said, i will get you out of here. that judge was fired recently. i'm very grateful. i took a job in the streets picking bashing a. i've met ms. tim. so we pick this stuff up and i

took a job at tool works and i sorted this stuff. i can't figure it out. i'm glad you clarified. rich people never had plastic on their table anyway. so i always wondered why there would be so much plastic. it reminds me of permit patty and the poor people will be subjected to anything they could find to eat. but good people in college would probably not like plastics and they do gather in the fields. now my father, he was a merchant engineer, and had a pile of plastic out in the ocean and greenpeace or somebody has to go get it. it's piles, i guess, miles. and there are people that are not concerned with that.

>> supervisor tang: thank you. next speaker. >> i'm miriam gordon, policy director for upstream. we're a leader in international movement to reduce plastics and single-use packaging and pleased to support this ordinance, because the ask-first policy and 10% requirement for reuse at events will reduce single-use packaging. the fluorination ban is excellent to improve health. it's not just plastic we need to break free from. it's all packaging. products used for a minute make no sense. local government spends huge amount of taxpayers dollars dealing with the waste.

we're at a pivotal moment now since china is not taking our dirty, cheap plastics and contaminated paper anymore. we're overwhelmed with disposable crap that has nowhere to go. this crisis should be focusing on how to end the throwaway culture in the united states. food and beverages need to be provided in re-usable and refillable packaging. other cities are taking the lead in kicking the disposables habit, like berkeley, which started charging for takeout containers. similar laws are being passed elsewhere. we thank you for the first step in getting san francisco to become a disposable-free zone. >> supervisor tang: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi there. my name is winnie. i work for the center for environmental health. a nonprofit that strives to protect children and families

from toxic chemicals in the air, food, water and everyday products. we support the ordinance to reduce plastic waste and eliminate toxic chemicals. they've been added to popcorn bags and pastry bags for years. new research has shown that the chemicals can migrate into our groundwater. the substances have been shown to cause kidney and testicular cancer, increase cholesterol level and a variety of the food ware products have been identified. it shows up as an ordinance, if

feasible. it would ignite a citywide ordinance for disposable food ware. the board should seize this opportunity to protect our health and groundwater resources reducing plastic pollution that can linger for thousands of years. we look forward to working with the city to implement the ordinance and to put pressure on the manufactures to end the use of these products. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you. >> we're here today to speak in support of this legislation. once again, san francisco is leading the way and showing how its commitment to achieving zero waste and we're in support of that and want to thank you for your leadership and the examples of the other companies that are getting on board like starbucks and alaska airlines and making

the commitment not just locally but nationally and globally to reduce plastics. it's been very heartening and great to see. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you for your partnership. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is andrea ventura. i'm the toxic program manager for clean water action and fund. we're here today to support this. on behalf of our recent disposable program, we applaud the reduction of the materials. i want to address the ban and say why this is so important. i spend 80% of-time on these chemicals, trying to eradicate them because of the effects they have on humans and the environment. i won't repeat the health effects. we've heard those already. but human exposure comes primarily through drinking water or contaminated food from

packaging or compost. so taking this step is incredibly important in protecting the people of san francisco and beyond that where the compost is used. this is an environmental problem as well. these chemicals are forever chemicals. they don't break down. they're being found in the arctic because when they end up in trash and in our environmental, they're travelling to our environment and staying there. one of the unique problems that san francisco has, we know these chemicals exist in san francisco bay. there are several reasons for that. it's not just food packaging, but it can be a contributing factor. what is happening is these things affect the fish. and subsistence fishers are most at need. this is incredibly important. our national office asks me to thank you.

my colleagues from other states ask me to thank you for taking this measure. it's a very important step in protecting the public from these dangerous chemicals. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello, supervisors. i'm from waste busters. and thanks to the legislation put forth by the department of the environment and the supervisors mandating composting and recycling, we've been able to provide that service and expose millions of attendees to a zero-waste program since 2010. and through that process, i cannot tell you how many hundreds of thousands or millions of disposable cups we've had to sort because they went in the wrong bin, recyclables in compost and so on and so on. so this legislation will open a door and allow us to begin offering our re-usable cup

rental program again, which we've offered to large events in remote areas, but even just the work so far has put us in touch with companies that are doing dishwashing and allowing us to design a program that could work for events in san francisco. and one thing we've done with that program has split some of the revenue with event producers. i appreciate this effort. and it's a cultural change that we're going for as we go to zero waste and events are a great place to do that, as we've been able to culture people to composting and recycling. we've seen a reduction in the amount of work we do, as people sort properly and compost correctly, but hopefully we can work together to culture of

re-usabl re-usables. >> supervisor tang: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. i'm john b0rg, eagle drink ware. we're in the dog patch neighborhood. i wanted to speak in favor of the ordinance and frame it as a local supplier that's been very involved in reducing single-use plastic ware. we minimize society's use of disposable goods. we're not a retail brand. we focus on selling product to the food industry, bars, restaurants, events, specialties, independent retailers and amazon sellers, corporate campuses, educational institutio

institutions. we've sold a million re-usable cups and crowing in on a million re-usable straws. we're among the first to develop re-usable items, we have a lot of experience in this area. it may seem daunting, but providing education outreach with the stake holders, i'm here to tell you that it will be very doable. i'm hearing pushback on people that are disabled. and there are programs that can address that. we're willing to work with stake holders to address those problems. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello. i'm jackie nunez, founder of

last plastic straw. pollution cannot be prevented or recycled, then it should be treated in a environmentally safe manner. that is a quote from 1990. as an activist, we're engaging in a real and sometimes difficult conversations in allowing the rampant extraction and production of this being transferred to our communities. in this case, the single-use plastic food ware and straws and products as well. at a time when we're fighting to protect or coastlines, we're actively participating in the farm of an oil spill from land and that's in single-use plastics. we need to manage change and take responsibilities.

it's time we grow up so our future generations can. when our future generations ask us, what did you do in the dark days of plastics? we can tell them with conviction, we addressed it head-on. i want to thank you, san francisco, for being the adults in the room. and putting forth this measure. i applaud you. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello. can you hear me? i'm nicole koblowski and i'm super nervous and really sweaty. i'm the vice-lead of ride above plastics. i want to thank the board of supervisors and the city of san francisco for setting such an amazing example. i want to talk about the diversion discounts that are

available to small business owners. after switching to paper straws, we're able to save $900. the amount of waste and garnishes that were ending up in landfill because of the attachment to the plastic straw was staggering. i believe it was over 2,000 pound a month. so we traded in our landfill bin and now we compost everything. so i encourage you to call up recology and see how you can save money on your trash bill. there is just no need for single-use plastic and it's costly in so many ways. and that's all i have to say and rest in peace, my friend, ollie

hernandez. >> supervisor tang: thank you for sharing that. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is riley. i'm here testifying on behalf of lonely whale 580-519 and to address that it's approved by the organizations and community at large. it's a key step to be actions that will set an important precedent for all proposed policy nationally, limiting the distribution of plastic straws. straws are just one of many sipping -- single-use plastics. in early 2017, my team and i

launched an initiative. this was designed to create awareness about the impact that plastic pollution has on the marine eco systems, life, and to provide with a voluntary probability of using single-use plastic straws. we've had support from around the world from officials, government officials, alaska airlines and live nation. we're here to reflect on the policy proposed by the city of san francisco to address plastic solution through policy change. we recognize that as an organization we must also encourage proposed policy for the rights of all people,

including those with disabilities. this is one of the strictest policies in the united states, which is wonderful. i'm pleased that we've heard from katy tang. >> supervisor tang: thank you. sorry. everyone has 2 minutes. thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. i'm eva holman, volunteer for surf rider foundation, rise above plastics. i'm excited to be up here cheerleading this legislation along with all of these people in the room. i'm also a nonprofit event producer and fundraising person. so i know how difficult it can be to have an event without using plastic. i welcome the opportunity to work with other planners. i want to share you some numbers

from the neighborhood cleanup in north beach. we decided to take to the streets and see how much garbage we would pick up in six blocks. i will put it here. >> sfgov tv, the overhead. >> we spent two hours cleaning up six blocks in north beach. we're talking about straws today, but i have to say, i'm equally or more excited about this, limiting the to-go ware that comes in every bag and meal that you get in san francisco. i can't wait until we see a huge impact of this and go into a neighborhood and not find pieces of cutlery and straws and bash garbage that's unnecessary for a takeout experience. we have in san francisco, 80 restaurants who have gone plastic straw-free. and would like to be a resource to support the board of

supervisors and make it easy for everyone making the change. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you. any other members of the public that wish to comment on item 1, seeing none, public comment is closed. as i said earlier, i do plan on duplicating the file and keeping one version back here in land use committee so we can deal with the issue around the prepackaged goods that contain plastic straws. >> supervisor kim: i wanted to add my name as a co-sponsor to this item because my name hasn't been added yet and want to thank supervisor tang for all of your work in bringing this forward. i'm very excited about this ordinance. i think it's a major step forward. i was embarrassed and put my drink with a straw away as we were going through the power point presentation. it is an incredibly important step forward. as someone who spent a lot of

time thinking about my garbage and trash and reducing consumption and not being good about composting and recycling. i think this will really support the city moving forward and hopefully will be a leader for the country. so want to thank the team at the department of the environment, too. >> supervisor tang: many thanks. colleagues, if we can make a motion to duplicate the file. okay. and one version -- one version out to the full board with positive recommendation. so moved. i guess we'll do that without objection with the two of us here. okay. thank you very much. item 2, please. >> clerk: just for clarity, item was duplicated, with one staying in committee for the straws for disposable straws and one is

recommended -- >> supervisor tang: both versions look the same. at some point, we'll deal with a version to deal with prepackaged goods. no changes we're making today. >> clerk: item 2, abolishing a 9-foot setback on 19th between quintara and rivera and appropriate findings. >> supervisor tang: i will ask that we continue this item because we discovered at planning that environmental review may be needed on this event. opening public comment. no comments. >> supervisor safai: motion to continue. >> supervisor tang: to july 30. without objection. ok. rescind on item 1, can we do that without objection? okay. want to make a motion?

>> supervisor safai: to send item 1 to the full board with positive recommendation. >> supervisor tang: okay. without objection. thank you. item 3, please. >> clerk: amending the planning code to create a two-year pilot program removing public notice and review for certain uses neighborhood districts in 4 and 11, modifying zoning controls for certain controls in 4 and 11 and appropriate findings. >> supervisor tang: this is a piece of legislation that i'm very excited about, as well as supervisor safai. it's our way to attract small businesses to open up in both of our districts, which historically has been very challenging. myself, even as a legislative aide, working with many, many small business owners that want to open and expand in our districts and often are caught up with challenges.

so this legislation, i really want to thank monica mohan from my office on how to craft this and if there is a use that's permitted under a planning code and it's switching to another permitted use in our district, so take, for example, former restaurant going into selling retail clothing that they they should not have to go through change of use. i'm hoping to shave off three to six months or more. in all of my time at the board

or district 4 office, i've never seen a change of use permit denied, but we're presidenter advantage conditional use for cannabis, which was newly instituted by the board for formula retail. those might have impact on neighbors, as well as bars, that require a liquor license. for the rest, i do think that it's important to eliminate a lot of obstacles. it's further from the center of the city and transportation may not be as easy. i hope that maybe if other district supervisors see this, they may want to adopt it

because it's adaptable legislation that can be custom-tailored for each district. again, thank you to my staff for working on this and with that, i will turn it over to co-sponsor safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you. very excited about this again. similar it the environmental legislation that we worked on regarding straws and single-use plastic items, this is something that we worked on in parallel. this is something that we put together as a pilot for our neighborhoods, rather than an extensive, city-wide conversation, though we're happy to have that. we wanted to move fore barred with this pilot. each district has a list that is permitted, not permitted or need conditional use. each of us have our own tables

and there are some uses that were not permitted when we began this conversation, one of which was important in our neighborhood that were activities. these were not permitted in my district. there's an application pending that will allow for an arts activity along with artist space. so we're excited about that. it's a space that's been dormant for over 10 years. the approach we had in this legislation was among mission street and other areas has one of the highest rates of vacancies and empty storefronts. we're trying to encourage and facilitate the expansion of small business at the same time, cleaning up land use controls that allow for uses to be permitted or not permitted or conditional use authorization. so we're super excited. i gave you the case of the arts

activity and organization. we were motivated by this, not just about the vacancies but also one of the businesses that came to us was the cafe. and they wanted to occupy a space that had been a women's clothing store, at least on the surface. it wasn't technically ands with an illegal gambling den, but on record, women's clothing store. we've gone through over a year and added about nine months additional time to the cafe to open up. they're just about to open up now. we're super excited. this allows for clarification. we're trying to drive uses that we've heard from our outreach and planning process that we've done for over a year. so there are some uses that we want to drive to the second floor and want to encourage more on the first floor.

i want to thank my staff and supervisor tang's staff in working together on this along with the planning department. we're super excited about the ability to open up, expand, revitalize and to free up staff time to focus on other areas of the economy and department, particularly our housing crisis. it frees up staff time to focus on areas of need. so it's also part and parcel to the streamlining conversation that we've been having in the city. thank you, supervisor tang. >> supervisor tang: thank you for mentioning that it's a pilot program. if it works out well, would love for whoever comes up after me to continue this. i hope that it challenges us all to think about how we permit and the barriers that people go through and if we want businesses to open up in san francisco, it's some of the things we need to do.

with that, i would like to bring up diego sanchez from the planning department. >> good afternoon. diego sanchez, san francisco planning. we heard this on july 12. the commission was very much in support in the ordinance and sees it as a common sense way to attract new business activities. the planning commission voted unanimously and did so with the following recommendations, to permit arts uses and conditional use at the second story and above in the named neighborhood commercial districts in district 4, which is to permit the following institutional uses in the excelsiear, religious

institutions and social service use. the third modification was to include a reporting requirement to track the changes of house to the use types accepted from the notification and planning commission review request within districts 4 and 11. and the final modification to reconcile this with the streamlining ordinance, and that's because that profoundly changes some of the language that is supporting the change. so we want them to mesh correctly and well. this concludes my presentation. i'm available for questions. >> supervisor tang: at this time, i do want to make two of those changes that -- three really. one was what mr. sanchez mentioned about arts activities, allowing it in district 4, named

commercial district. so definitely want to do that. that is somehow i neglected to see in our tables. and the second amendment, 20 months after the effective date of the ordinance, we're asking the planning department and mayor's office of economic and work force environmental to submit a report to the board, describing permit applications in the ordinance and evaluate the impact of this. and then i will ask to reconcile this legislation with the improvement ordinance. deputy city attorney, does that mean that this has to be continued for a week? >> yes. we can make the first two amendments today. that will trigger a continuance for one week. next week, we suggest that you amend to line up section 312 with the process improvement ordinance. you can send it out to the full board as a committee report.

>> supervisor tang: the last was about reconciling with process improvement ordinance, because the structure is different now. any other questions, comments? i will open up this item to public comment. any members of the public that wish to speak. seeing none, public comment is closed. i want to thank the small business commission. i will act committee members if they will adopt two amendments. >> supervisor safai: move amendments as proposed. >> supervisor tang: we'll do that without objection. and i believe you have some district 11-specific amendments? >> supervisor safai: yes. just a moment. a lot of paper here today.

sorry, folks. [laughter] oh, boy. i can't seem to find it right now. hold on one second. can we come back to that? >> supervisor tang: i believe it has to do with institutional uses. >> supervisor safai: i don't know. i'm looking for it. here it is. oh, here it is. give me of one second. i'm sorry. there is so much stuff piling up. i can't find it.

that's the recommendations. yeah. >> supervisor tang: mr. sanchez, maybe we could restate the recommendation. >> supervisor safai: yeah. i need to have a conversation about that. >> diego sanchez, planning department staff. the second recommendation was to permit a set of institutional uses that are being proposed in the ordinance to require canal use authorizization or prohibit them and that list was community facilities, private community

facilities, job training uses, religious institutions, social service uses. >> supervisor safai: and the recommendation from the planning department was -- >> from the planning commission, to permit uses on all floors like they were before. >> supervisor safai: i know we had some back and forth with staff. we're not ameanable to those. that's probably why i didn't have them. we want to see the -- we want to drive certain uses that are there. we have a significant number of those. some of which have popped up without any authorizization in the areas that we have to revitalize. we will not accept those amendments at this time, but we'll look at it if it's a problem going forward. >> supervisor tang: great. so we just have the amendments i proposed and we adopted those. can we get a motion to continue

it to the next land use meeting? we'll do that without objection. madam clerk, item 4, please. >> ordinance amending the planning code to allow catering as an act'sry use to restaurants and neighborhood under certain conditions and appropriate findings. >> supervisor tang: i will turn it over to supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: i promise i will not shuffle through my papers. we are excited about this legislation. we have another piece of legislation that will work in partnership with this. at this point, what we're putting forward is a legislation that will allow for limited use restaurants, cafes, bakeries, to use their rich -- kitchens and their spaces when they're not utilized for primary use to allow them for catering.

we have owners in our neighborhood that have these facilities around the city. they came to us. we started a conversation with them, thinking about the cost of doing business in san francisco. many of them are legacy businesses or would fall under the legacy business category. a lot of them are women and owned by many different immigrant -- people that hail from different communities. they're people of color. they've been here for a long time. they're feeling extreme pressure from the market. we need to figure out a way to use their spaces. if you think about a bakery and how they operate, the hours of operation, of doing their main work is very earlier in the morning and then their large kitchen will sit dormant the rest of the day. so a lot of those limited restaurants and cafes and

bakeries, use or have been or have beenen couraged or would like to, use their kitchens and rent them out as an accessory use or catering would be the accessory use. so we believe that this would be a way to encourage and enhance thes businesses as well as open up the city for this type of use. the planning commission, i believe, was 100% in support, in fact, they wanted us to expand it beyond neighborhood commercial districts. so we feel it's a good piece of legislation at the right time. we feel that it will encourage small businesses to get into this line of work. this is a pathway to restaurants and small businesses to get off the ground. they don't have to worry about overhead. they can prepare their food and use that facility on a rental

basis. so we're super excited about this. it's a way to expand and enhance existing businesses and businesses that want to get into the catering business in san francisco colleagues, i ask for your support. anyone from the planning department? >> supervisor tang: yes. we have geno from the planning department. >> good afternoon, supervisors. gina saulsiton. it would allow catering as an accessory use under certain conditions. as it stands now, catering use is not permitted september to be an accessory use. catering must also provide products for retail sales. this would allow educacatering

without the retail sale requirement under the following two conditions. one, that the catering use does not operate more than 75% of the total time within restaurant hours of operations within any given day. or that they don't distribute to customers directly from the lot. the planning commission heard this meeting on june 21 and approved the ordinance with modifications. the proposed was to apply the catering use provision city-wide. the ordinance applies only to commercial use districts in neighborhoods, but we understand that the supervisors are amending to incorporate the commission recommendation and want to thank them for that consideration. that's my presentation. i'm available for questions. >> supervisor safai: one of the points that we wanted to make,

and i think it was a recommendation of the planning department, was that if a limited restaurant applies for the ability to have accessory use, we didn't want them to be discourage the primary reason. so we wanted to limit that. if you are a baker and bakery, you wouldn't want to decrease your hours of doing that to get into the -- to become a space for catering. so that's why the limit on the time. i appreciate you bringing up that point. other than that, i would say we would like to make an amendment to expand this to outside of just the neighborhood commercial districts and we would expand this to the entire city. anything else i need to say? do i need to highlight the specifics? okay. >> supervisor tang: okay. do you want to go to public

comment first? >> supervisor safai: sure. >> supervisor tang: any members of the public -- come on up. >> hello, supervisors. i'm william ortiz cartegna, i'm an officer of a small business. as a small business owner myself, these are the legislations that we need, especially in a city where there are so many artificial barriers of entry to business, such as trying to develop a brick and mortar or the financing for a brick and mortar. so these creative options encourage business. by having planning on board, once you hear planning, you get scared, no offense, but just having this legislation, i think

it's very receptive to small business owners and speaks their language. so thank you. thank you for this. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. a lot of planners here today. [laughter] any members of the public that wish to comment on item 4? seeing none. i also agree this is one of those unique ways that we can really try to help, again, be more creative around spaces and, in fact, our office is working on legislation that we'll introduce soon about more flex space in units. i think the amendment is great. i would want to support that. >> supervisor safai: thank you. i appreciate the commissioner coming. the way i found out about this and we also are adding supervisor ronen. supervisor ronen and i met in the mission on 24th street a few

years ago. invited us down to see what they were trying to do. this bakery had been -- has been in existence since the '60s. they've been using that space, their kitchen, as a space for folks that are caterers for that many years. and more recently, the last four or five years, the planning department had gotten into a situation where they said, your business is not zoned for catering and public health saying, you don't have the right facilities for catering. so we tried to dark being on the ground, tried to see how we could facilitate this. the original solution was, if you have a catering business, you have it have the catering products, put them in the front, sell them on site. it became -- it's a burden for a business. if you are a bakery, why would you have any of the other -- and

no one understands why they're there. it's hard to implement. it's an attempt to have a solution on the ground to works for everyone. and now that we're in this crisis, crisis of displacement, of rents going up at a higher rate, and businesses that have been there for a long time, we wanted to be creative of the commissioner said it more eloquently than i did. it's about trying to be flexible. trying to help businesses start off that need a foot in the door when they cannot afford a brick and mortar space in the city. i appreciate you coming here today and appreciate the planning department working with us as well as the department of public health and commission and staff that recommend we go further even than m.c.d.s. i would like to see this considered citywide. >> supervisor tang: great. shall we take a motion on

amendment? >> supervisor safai: yeah. >> supervisor tang: and without objection. and the underlying item, as amended. supervisor, want to make a motion? >> supervisor safai: motion to approve with -- >> this triggers a one-week continuance, so it can come out of committee next week. so you -- >> supervisor safai: motion to amend and continue one week. >> supervisor tang: we will make a motion to the next land use meeting, without objection. thank you. item 5. >> clerk: ordinance amending planning code to designate 6301 3rd street a landmark under article 10 of the planning code and affirm appropriate findings. >> supervisor tang: thank you. i know we don't have a representative here from district 10, however, they've expressed support of this

legislation, but we have desiree smith here, believe. >> good afternoon, supervisors. desiree smith, planning staff. this is a consideration of landmark at 6301 3rd street. the property was nominated for landmark designation by dr. auerelis walker through a land mark designation application. the historic preservation commission initiated it and voted unanimously to approve this to the board of supervisors. 6301 3rd street is significant for the association with dr. coleman, influential healthcare and civil rights advocate. dr. coleman came here from

philadelphia in 1948 to establish a medical practice in the hunter's point area, which had become a black enclave when 27,000 african-americans moved to the city to look for wartime employees. dr. coleman was one of the first african-american physicians in san francisco. in 1959, he constructed 6301 3rd street for a medical clinic. the original team of physicians known as san francisco medical associates, is pictured here with dr. coleman, who is in the bottom, left-hand corner. opening in 1960,