francisco. so on march 15, a young lady, madam cordiva was struck by a car out for a walk with her mother on john mire drive crossing the crosswalk. madeline and her mother were severely injured. madeline succumbed to -- to her injuries last week.

every collision in her city streets -- sorry. i'll just submit it, madam clerk. >> thank you, mr. president. can we go to our 2:30 item. >> we have submitted by supervisor mendelmam, supervisor ronan. >> i'm sorry, supervisor memdelman. >> thank you, president. daniel birsherack around? come on up, daniel.

this is on completion of his five years of service. since daniel's tenure began in april of 2014, the customer mers have grown to meet changing needs of the neighborhood. under leadership, the membership reached 325 businesses, the highest number ever. over the past five years, the castro merchants have launched the windows for harvey and weekly castro art walk promotions and expanded popular annual holiday promotions to include -- and monthly promotions -- and expanded holiday promotions on market street. each of these have drawn

visitors along to appreciate and celebrate community in the castro. daniel's service goes above and beyond the needs of small service and was active in the creation of this remarkable partnership that brings together the castro me merchants and neighborhood groups or house and unhoused alike. daniel worked tirelessly to foster relationships between city officials, business dealers and other dealers. he's been a tremendous partner to my office in tackling the most important issues providing great expertise and leadership to address commercial vacancies and he's been a champion of innovative approaches to bring people facing mental health off of our streets and into housing and care. i don't know how many neighborhood m merchants would e strong advocates fo for additiol

drop-in centres or resources in the neighborhood but daniel is one and i'm incredibly grateful for you in that regard. in addition to the volunteer service, he has given more of his time to the community as an appointed member as dpw's news rack advisory board and the small business working advisory group and sf police advisory board and a cofounder of the henry brook committee, chair of the castro upper market renewal committee and delegate to the san francisco council of the merchants association. he's a busy guy. his work in entrepreneurship spans two decades and his location in the castro has been open seven yearses and owns three cafes and snack shops and

his business has employed 37 people and sf bay guardian of the bay award and named business time lbgt leader's list. i say how lucky i am to represent a district with engaged and dedicated constituents and daniel is a leader to give his time to make his community better. though he will be stepping down this thursday, i trust he isn't going anywhere and that his commitment to the community will continue. before i invite daniel to say a few word, i want to acknowledge a crew of merchants who have come out today to congratulate him. masude murray is in attendance, along with other merchants, brian springfield and ray connelly from the friends of harveyville plaza and i believe daniel's partner is also here.

i'm looking forward to working with all of you, as well as richard mcgeary, the administrator and all-around important merchants. daniel, thank you for your leadership. >> thank you. >> i invite you to say a few words. >> thank you, and thank you so much for those kind words, r rafael. eight and a half years ago, we were up to our ears in sawdust doing tenant improvements and mayor ed lee came to take a look around and scott weiner looked around and look me looked me ins and realized i'm one of the few people scott can look in the eyes. [ laughter ] >> he looked around for a couple more minutes and looked at me,

really, really? and as rafael will tell you, i'm a follower of rules. i couldn't think there would be another way i could go about doing those tenant improvements and this was my baptism in the san francisco local government. it's been an honour and privilege to serve all of the businesses in the castro upper market neighborhood but especially the small independent ones. i've had the pleasure of working with supervisor weiner, supervisor shihe mendleman. small businesses face challenge, sky-high rent, taxes, regulations, lack of workforce, house, be empty storefront, the homeless and mentally ill that roam or streets. and those are easy to see, but i tend to focus on the positive. the real positive is a miracle that takes place in this town

every single day. thousands of businesses open their doors, barber shops, cafes, hardware stores and yes, dog-grooming shops, dealing with frustration and challenges every single day but we deal with the rewards and the joy and the pride that small business can bring. small business is the heart and soul of our city. small business are the keepers of neighborhood vitality in our neighborhoods. i implore all of you to think about those small business people when you think about a new fee or mandate or regulation that affects us. think about the miracle that inspite of all of the obstacles we face, we persevere. and it's that ser perseverance that makes san francisco the best place on earth. thank you so much for this honour. (applause).

>> next up would be supervisor ronan to honour your honouree. >> thank you so much, president. i would like to call up katie pilot to the front of the room. (applause). it is my -- either one. it is my absolute pleasure today, katie, to recognise you for your extraordinary work for the past few years as the pta president of leonard flynn elementary school. i wanted to take the opportunity to honour you here today because i've gotten to see your work very close up and i can't believe how much you do for one

of our most important elementary schools in district nine. i know my colleague, sandra lee will understand because she started, i think, her political career by being a pta mom so maybe one day you'll find yourself on the board of supervisors. but i had no idea until gettingg an upclose look what a commitment this job entails. we know that our public schools are incredibly underfunded and we know that if we don't have the type of parent involvement and a leader to get parents involved to raise extra money for the schools, to help out to serve as a bridge between families and our incredible teachers and faculty at our schools, that they wouldn't be even half as good as they are here in san francisco. and so i wanted to take a moment to say thank you, thank you for

being at the school almost every single day, for advocating for every single student, for crossing racial and linguistic brown drizzlbrown drivesboundary kid is successful at that school and for doing this working close to full-time, have two children at this school that i know you're intimately involved. i know know your daughter is rosa and eliza and your husband jeff is here to cheer you on, as are many parents from flynn elementary in the crowd. i really don't know how you do it and you've set the standard so high that i know many parents at flynn are biting their fingernails knowing who will be the person that keeps up your extraordinary work.

for those of you that didn't know this, katie also works on projects for the city and county of san francisco. she's a civil engineer who works with the city storm water programme to transform stormwater to recapture and reuse our drain water. she ken went to africa and the e corps and she's a bike commute divote and i know rides her kids all over the city to get to were they need to go. in addition to volunteering at flynn, in an all-women band called making dinner. thank you, katie, for everything that you do. if it is for the type of engaged

parent involvement in our school system, then we would be in trouble. so i just wanted to take a moment to recognise you, to say that you're an inspiration for so many mothers of children in our public school system and to give you a huge round of applause and certificate of honour. (applause). >> thank you, supervisors and thank you supervisor ronan for this honour. i really appreciate it. it has been an honour and a really amazing learning and growing experience for me to be a public school parent and to be a part of the flynn community for the past six years. like you said, i have a fifth grader and second grader, so we've been at this school for

six years and seen it from lots of angles and before i say anything else, i want to thank and acknowledge all of the really hard work and love that gets poured into the school from the teachers, staff and administrators and also from the parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles and other caregivers who are too many to name and if i tried, i would feel bad because i would forget some and many are here today and i appreciate that. and i know this all sounds really cliche but i really do feel it and i really do see it. i'm going to take a page out of our principal's playbook and repeat the guiding principles. keep equity at the centre, number two stay engage and number three be a part of the solution. people a part of flynn has reinforced to me over and over the value of keeping equity at the centre from the day that my

daughter's second grade teacher told me, yes, you can bring tadpoles to the classroom but it would be great to do that for all of the second grade classrooms. two, observing the process our site council went true and making decisions which cuts to make to balance the budget next year, which sadly is true. while staying engaged for better or worse may come too naturally to me, being a part of flynn has helped me to embrace being a part of the solution rather than complaining about the problems. so by being an overinvolved parent at my kid's school, my life has really been enriched by the great family and kids and the staff who do an amazing job not only teaching but caring about all of our kids. last but not least, i want to thank my husband jeff for his support and patience with this second job of mine for the last

two years and to my kids for actually seeming to enjoy me being at school so much. so thank you very much for this honour. (applause). >> i also just wanted to recognise -- give a round of applause tyler woods, the principal of leonard r. flynn who we just noticed in the audience. thank you so much. (applause).

(applause). >> for our last commendation, supervisor hainey. >> thank you, president. colleagues i'm honoured to stand here today, continuing the beautiful commendations by all of you at our last board meeting to offer a post commendation, shire ron hewitt. i wanted to ask for many of those here to for sharon, can yu please stand? thank you for being here. i appreciate it. so there are many things that we could say about sharon. she was known to many of us as san francisco's own grandmother for social change. she was the cofounder of the

tenderer loin people's congress and the founder and executive director of the community leadership came and emergency response project, which offered peer to peer empowerment and civic engagement programmes for victims of violence. she's had an impact on every neighborhood in our city from the bayview where she did most of her early work to ingleside, to the western addition and she stood up against violence, against guns and against hate and for diversity, love and peace. she was a quintessential peace-healer and maker and if she knew if she did that successfully, she had to be an organizer and irritator. where there was pain, suffering, fear of hate, she didn't look away or ignore it, she went directly toward it and would use whatever means necessary to make sure we did the same.

she didn't care who you were. we know that. she didn't care what your title was, whether you were the supervisor or mayor, what your age was, whether she spookier languagspoke yourlanguage or no. she knew you could be better than you are and knew you could do more than what you were doing and she would remind you of it. in the street, on the elevator, at the park and here at city hall, on sundays, she would call me 12 times a day, i would get missed calls from her and i would call her back and i would tell her, grandmother, i had a long day, i'm tired, you know, can i get this tomorrow? and she would say, you don't get to rest. my people are dying out here. get up and do something about it. you know, she was an organizer who was relentless.

she would use every piece of power that she had in her body, all of her talents of persuasion, connection, charm, pressure to get you to care more and she cared about the people that our society has often tried to give up on, the victims and perpetrators of violence, the incarcerated and formerly immigrants and refugees. she understood the need to build power. in the 2012 election, she somehow commandeered a school bus and would drive around to housing projects to, to the jail, registering people to vote and called it the freedom bus. she loved san francisco. she once said we have to raise the bar here everyday because as the richest city, state in the world, san francisco should be

littled in its capacity to serve. she had many grandkids. i was one of hers. many people served were considered her grandkid and she knew that she had to impart her wisdom during her time on earth to all of us so that her work would continue. i can say i would not be here as a supervisor if it wasn't for her mentorship, friendship and support. the last thing i want to say is that she believed in diversity and the power of diversity as much as anybody as i ever met. i look here and see incredible full support from the community and some people who speak a different language, but were able to connect with sharon because she knew that -- they knew she cared. she loved the tenderloin neighborhood because she believed it represented the best of who we are and our greatest

possibility. possibilities. i want to end by reading an email from sharon herself. she would often demand things from people in power and people on the elevator, people in her building. and i often go back and read texts that she sent me an e-mails and she sent an email that myself and supervisor jane kim were cced on but is addressed to president obama and hillary clinton. this is from sharon. i hope this message finds you well. there is something going on in san francisco. , a unique challenge an opportunity to maintain as community residents. invite you to join us soon. as a long time sf resident in the community, please accept my invitation to visit current house, a tenderloin neighborhood, development, corporation, residential

building two blocks from glibe. next time either of you is in town, please take a tour of the strong and most neighborhood would be energized by your presence. give the base a reason to engage and continue hope. while i understand both are tremendously busy with national and international affairs, i would gently remind you to show love and tendererness to a group of supporters that exists here in need of genuine concern and authentic leadership. together we hold a special responsibility and bold opportunity to realize our collective dream of diversity and includ inclusion. we strive to be a part of a society of privilege for all. in community, sharon hewitt, co-share. i want to thank you, grandmother, sharon. we miss you but know you aren't gone. we're doing what we can.

although i'm sure we're not doing enough, to continue your work. so if her daughter has made it up, i don't see her yet, this award will be presented to her when she comes in. she has a baby with her and had to leave work. but i want to also present this commendation to the many people whose lives she's touched, the folks who, especially hear from the tenderloin and i think i see dee-de coming in now. and i want to thank you dee-dee foefor sharing your mother with. this is a roomful of people whose lives she had touched. (applause). (applause. >> i wouldn't be standing here if it weren't for her and your

family so i want to say thank you. >> i'm sorry, i couldn't hear if you were finished. >> supervisor walton. >> thank you, president. i want to say, you know, i want to thank supervisor hain earthquakes for doiney fordoing. very few people have the capacity to provide leadership in several communities here in san francisco and sharon goes back to her days when she was working hard in sunnydale. i had the opportunity and i did not know she moved to the tenderloin and i started work wig tndc on a nondevelopment project and we would meet in current house. as soon as she saw me there, my life began to change again, because she does not allow you and did not allow you to be passive in your leadership and so, although most of my work was in the southeast sector of san francisco, she immediately made it clear to me that now i would

be working on behalf of the tinderloin community as well and consistently stayed in contact with me through phone calls, text messages, through meetings, through walks through the tl so as we worked and campaigned and got prepared to certainly on the board of supervisors that i understood what was needed across san francisco and if the communities like the tinderloin. she will be remembered for her amazing work and worked and fought hard for the community until the very day she left this earth and i want to thank everyone for coming out. i look out in the consequenc tho see people she worked with and thank you for being here to honour miss hewitt and i want to say to the supervisor, this is a reflection of understanding what true leadership is and the

people who have come before us and laid the path because i know i would not be sitting hear i if it was not for sharon. the work we did together on that freedom bus, two years later and run for board of supervisors, she was there, not just to support you but to hold you accountable and to let you know you work for the people. thank you. >> supervisor brown. >> thank you, supervisor hainey for honouring her. i knew sharon years ago and she was very involved in the western edition. when i was an aide and there was a lot of violence, ten, 12 years ago, sharon would give me that call and i actually learned to take it because if you didn't, she would call you over and over and the next morning, she would be really pissed at you. i don't care if it was 10:30,

11, i had a hard day, i would take her call and listen to her. and there was no excuse. you had to step up and do what you needed to do. if you made excuses, that would make her mad. so i learned very quickly never to make excuses, say yes, miss hewitt and she kept you accountable, as supervisor had said but she was with you when you were going through the hard times, especially when it was so sad with families and the community that was experiencing violence and all kinds of things making the community to move forward. so thank you very much for honouring her. i'm happy the board of supervisors is houring her because she is truly a gem in san francisco. thank you.

>> supervisor safayi. >> thank you, supervisor hainey. i spoke before when we honoured sharon's life commitment but i wanted to say a few more words today. i couldn't pass on the opportunity. shay ron was onsharon was one ot people i met in san francisco at the housing authority on my first day of work. she zeroed in on me and said, you're going to be my mentee. laugh. [ laughter ] >> and she was right and she took me around for two years talking to me about the housing authority, about the politics of the city, about how you get elected as mayor. she told me about her work that she did in public housing, getting people registered to vote and helping to elect mayor willie brown and for awhile, i would think that sharon was an exaggerator. i did. i really did. but i came to realize she wasn't

expert rating abouexaggerating . she was involved in so many aspects of so many people's lives and she was telling the truth and used that truth in such a way to make positive change. the work that i was able to do with her was we built the first recording studio in sunnydale. we worked to turn around and name that centre after mayor willie brown. it's a little tiny safehaven. she went on to do so many things and left the clear project and went to the tinderloin and she brought me and sharon as others have said, she would call you up and ask you things, she would tell you what you were going to do. she called me and said, i started this programme where you'll sponsor someone for

christmas. this is a family who doesn't have the money to buy their child a charges present. christmas present. i said, ok, tell me where to show up and that's what i did and that's what i did for a few years working for him. i have come to see what an impact it's made just having a present on christmas day. sharon was involved in so many things, you could go on and on for hours but the fact she dedicated herself and truly gave her life. she gave her life to this city and to the people that she was committed to. so it was a blessing. it was a true blessing to know sharon hewitt and i'm just honoured and i want to say that to her daughter and all of the people that came out to support her today. she was a true san francisco warrior. she really what's. was. may she rest in peace. >> thank you, supervisor hainey. i want to share something brief.

i've known sharon for a long time, whe. i approached her one year and said, hey, i want to serve on the sunnydale residence, because i just received a gran grant fre federal government to do a early head start and i have enough slots to go beyond what we're serving. there's a centre there. no, but there's an empty lot. i said, great, i need a centre. i said find the money and build it. i think she was just joking but about three or four months later, it's said ok, i have the money, you're going to help me build it. it only took a year to build a centre there and every time we got bogged down, the reason why it was built so quickly was

every time i got bogged down one i would go to sharon and say, sharon, it's slowing down again and the next day, all of a sudden, things got done again. so within a year, we were able to build a centre and it was really her effort that made it happen. i'm so ga glad i had the opportunity to work so closely with sharon on that project and make it happen for residents in sunnydale. ok, all yours, supervisor. >> thank you, president and thank you, colleagues for your comments. i want to ask dee-dee, if you want to say a few words and i want to thank everybody who is here for this. i know we were connected from grandmother sharon and i see joe wilson and del seymour and so many leaders in our community are here and all of us really have been connected through

sharon and so her work absolutely lives on in all of us and you, as well. so thank you for being here. >> hi, than thank you, board of supervisors, members, members of the police department, activists and all of you have come out to support my mother. it's hard not to be teary eyed right now. i am dee-dee hewitt, i am her daughter and i watched my mother pour her blood, sweat and tears in this city and telling me not to cry and insisting we carry on her legacy because there's no much work to be done. thank you for those who came out, but my mother her blood, sweat and tears in every community in this city, from voting rights and getting voting machines out to education.

some of you may not know she was adjunct staff and many students landed there that didn't know they would be students. everybody from healthcare, from new york city in 1980, she worked with the health department and she worked doing all kinds of things in the community regarding health, regarding political organizing, community organizing, you name it, she did it. i remember thinking, gosh, mom, when are you going to rest? she said when i die. so now she's finally at rest and i will be doing work to carry on her legacy and i encourage all of you to reach out to me, because i want to continue her body of work. it's really important in this city. we have a very valuable city she loved. she was endeared to. she called all of us all hours of the night, by the way. [ laughter ] >> so her heart and soul is in the city. i implore you and thank you, supervisors and carry that torch

and please feel free to call on me and i may be calling on you all hours as well. thank you so pitch. we love and appreciate you from the hewitt family and thank you again. (applause).

>> ok, madam clerk, let's go to our 3:00 p.m. sperm order. items 27 to 30. >> items 27 through 30 comprise the public hearing of persons ised in the determination of review under the california act issued as a categorical exemption for the amendment to the city's youth permit with another planet entertainment for the three-day festival in golden gate park, known as outside lands to extend the term for an additional ten years and to update certain provisions related to rents and costs of reimbursements on cost ofl costd other increases. item 28 is the motion to affirm the department's determination that the proposed outside land's festival use permit is ca

categorically exempt and item 29 reverses the exemption for further review, written findings and item 30 is the motion to direct the preparation of findings. >> colleagues, we will have before us an appeal on the determination of exemption for the outside land's festival used permit. for this hearing, we will be considering the adequacy and sufficiency of the planning departments environmental review, determination for the outside land's festival. we will proceed as follows. up to ten minutes for a presentation by the appellants or appellant's representative. up to two minutes per speaker in support of the pews, up to ten minutes for a presentation from the planning department and up

to ten minutes from the project sponsor and in two minutes in opposition to the appeal, and finally, up to three minutes for a rebuttal by the appellants or appellant's representative. colleagues, any objection to proceeding in this way? the hearing is now open. >> i would like to thank all of the parties for meeting with me in my office over the past week and for the parties coming together to discuss the matter at hand. this is an important and comly kateecomplicated issue and i'm d to hear from all parties today, thank you.

>> we're supported by the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. first, i want to make it clear, we are not opposed to outside lands. we think outside lands is freight. great. we just think it's too damn loud and so there ought to be a numericanumerical decible noise recipient. there'limit.they have held greas like now and then, and there, in seer rosharon meadows, there's 96 decibelses or 10 102 decibel.

another planet measures its own noise and then they have to adjust the noise, quote, as required. that's not a limit. imagine if there were a speed limit that you have to adjust your speed as required. it's not enforceable. it's not workable and it's not working. in fact, in 2018, there was a 400% spike in noise complaints from an average, prior average of about 40 to 50 noise complaints per year to -- trying to get here, to over 200 noise complaints. that's from over 190 individuals. so repeat complainers, but from

50 complaints to over 200. so there was a massive spike, but outside lands didn't violate anything because there's nothing to violate. so all we're saying is, there has to be a number. now maybe the sharon meadows number is too low and maybe it should be something higher. for example, the shoreline amphitheater has a limit at shoreline and that was a result of a sequel lawsuit. but there has to be a number. at 165decibels your eardrums explode. so we are augusterring the the o

analyze the concert's noise, hire a respected noise consultant and develop a noise plan that will handle the noise and have a numerical noise limit measured either at the fence line or soundboard for instantaneous and five-minute average, just like at sharon meadows. despite ourests for the last three months, i've been asking city staff, why do we have noise numerical limits at sharon meadow and not outside lands. it's the same park. the sharon meadows seems to have worked, it's gotten them down under control. a few people complained but not a lot. outside lands, there's none and no one can explain why is it appropriate to do it at sharon meadow and not at the polo fields. it's the same park. it's just the other end. getting to the sequel exemption,

they issued a categorical exemption under class 4. and the city calls this the temporary exemption. i urge you to read class 4. it's not the temporary exemption. it's the exemption for quote, minor alterations of land. outside lands is not a minor alteration of land. it's a concert. it does include in subsection e, temporary events such as christmas tree lots. well, outside lands is a far cry from a christmas tree lot. a quarter million people come to the event and certainly not minor. so it doesn't fall into the category for exemption. the cat for exemption says it doesn't apply if the event, quote, may impact the coastal zone. well, here is a map from the city's own staff.

the highlighted line is the coastal zone. part of outside lands is within the coastal zone. therefore the cat 4 exemption doesn't apply for the matter of law, according to the city's own map. just last week despite having posted a notice of exemption claiming cat 4, months ago, last week, the city says, oh, it's really category 23, another planet's lawyer suggested 23, which is for normal operations for facilities of public gatherings. that's a better thing but the city has not invoked it. so at the very least, the city should go back to the drawing board, do a notice of exemption for cat 23 and give the public a chance to comment on that. assuming they don't do that, cat 23 doesn't apply either because class 23 exemptions like

all exemptions are subject to the exemption if there's an environment impact. very recently, the supreme court held environment circumstances include when the project will undisputably have impacts. there can be no dispute, this has significant noise impacts, traffic impacts, litter impacts and it has exhibit impacts on historic resources within the park. so it does have significant impacts. therefore, it cannot be exempted from sequa. another planet's lawyer argues now because it's subject to a cat exemption, even if it has significant impacts, it's exempt. that's just wrong on the law. i think they're conflating categorical exemptions, but it's just wrong. now, we have submitted comments from derick watry of wilson

irig, and he is a certified noise engineer with 35 years of experience, saying the concert does have noise impact on the surrounding neighbors, in the resources the park. we've submitted chens from traffic engineer daniel t. smith, a certified traffic engineer, 30 years of experience, master's degree, yale university and concludes the project has significant traffic impact. and the city admits in their own report, under the highlighted section here that the noise from the festival, quote, creates an annoyance throughout the three-day annual event but not within the range that would cause hearing loss. i mean, is that really the standard you will have, you have

to cause people to lose their hearing before you do sequel review? that's an absurd standard and not the standard under seqa. ambient noise is a significant effect. there are countless cases that have held that noise from events like this, for instance in the keep our mountains quiet, a 150 person wedding requiring the review and we cite other cases. the city argues because the noise is temporary, it can't be significant. that's a circular argument. it's exempt under the temporary exemption but any impact cannot be significant because they're temporary. no impact could ever be exhibit for a temporary project. (please stand by).

they'd make a measurement, say it's fine. that's an hour or two later. that's not really a good program to manage it. i just want to emphasize, and again, mr. drury said this. appellants are not asking you to shut this down. they are asking you to turn it down, and to turn it down you need to manage it and to manage it i think you should use the ceqa process to establish a reasonable mitigation monitoring method with some limits with a well thought out monitoring plan and use that to feedback and hopefully cut down on the 192 people or households that complained last year. thank you. >> president yee: okay, thank you. next speaker. come on up. >> good afternoon, president yee and members of the board of supervisors. thank you for letting me speak today. my name is jean parrish, a

long-time resident of the richmond district. i live at 27th avenue near balboa, less than a mile from the outside lands concert. during the past few years during a warm summer weekend i've been a victim of a home invasion. no, men with ski masks didn't break down my door and terrorize me. it was an invasion from another planet. from friday through sunday, i was assaulted by unbearable, endless loud noise, including a ceaselessly thumping bass that made it difficult to do anything inside my home. in a word, it was awful. even more frustrating, when i called another planet's hotline pleading to lower the volume, i got no relief. that was because there was no permitted noise festival. at outside lands, anything goes. article 29 of the city's code states that there is scientific evidence accepted by the world

health organization that persistent exposure to elevated levels of community noise is responsible for public health problems such as stress, sleep disturbances and feelings of helplessness. imagine if our city was exposed to a noxious gas for three days. i don't think it would be tolerated. noise pollution should get the same attention. please grant the appeal so the noise from outside lands will no longer batter our neighborhoods. there are ways to mitigate the noise and reduce the impact without disturbing the quality of the concert. the city belongs to all of us, not just those that attend this event. thank you for your consideration. >> president yee: thank you. next -- next speaker. >> i put something down here, but nothing happened.

well, i could do it with a flash drive, but it's going to take a while. let's just give a little speech. my name is andrew solo. i have been employed as a california private investigator for 19 years, and i've been living on the back side of mt. davidson west of twin peaks since 2002. the use permit extension you are considering today does not include quantitative numerical noise limits, so if you approved as written, no matter how loud the music is, the affected residents will have no right to object. during the three-day august 2018 outside lands festival, 190 different residents called in 249 noise complaints. some of the complaints came from residents who live more than three miles from golden gate park. unfortunately, the map doesn't look very good here, but that's life. even though i live on mt. davidson, more than two miles

from the golden gate park polo fields, the noise inside my home office was frequently overwhelming, and i had all of my windows and doors shut. though i support the annual outside lands festival, the proposed outside lands use permit has no noise limit and it does not specify what acoustical standards must be met or what testing protocols must be used to control noise levels at the festival and in the surrounding neighborhoods. it only requires outside lands to monitor noise levels and adjust them as required. and as required is not defined. it's a meaningless standard. san francisco previously adopted numerical noise standards with decibel limits for events at sharon meadow and golden gate park, and there are numerous other examples that have adopted numerical noise limits, including shoreline amphitheater in mountain view and st. james park in san jose. before approving the outside lands use permit, i request that

the board and staff take the following actions, establish quantitative noise limits for the outside lands festival using standard acoustical measurement metrics that may be readily monitored, independently checked, and unambiguously used to -- >> president yee: thank you. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> my name is steve summerstein. i live a block away from golden gate park at 33rd avenue. the good of the people of san francisco, the city's government has in recent times turned its attention to plastic bags and the affect on fish and sea life in the ocean, as well as health effects of the ingestion of sugary drinks. now it's time to address the hearing health of young people attending outside lands

concerts. in the majestic feat of inverted logic, the san francisco parks department claims that the federal government's national institute for occupational safety and health, niosh, safety standards does not apply to outdoor concerts in the park with their enormously powerful amplified music, because the parks department says outdoor concerts are not a workplace. obviously, millions of dollars are being spent on concert tickets and hundreds of paid employees and paid musicians does constitute a true workplace. the city's contract with outside lands must contain some audio health regulations on maximum momentary and average sound levels. the present effort by the parks department to remove all audio safety regulations is a blatant and irresponsible failure to protect the hearing of our residents and the young people who attend these concerts. the safety regulations we ask

for are already exist for concerts in sharon meadow and the other end of golden gate park. the city of mountain view has sound requirements for rock concerts at shoreline amphitheater. why can't san francisco equally promote healthy audio safety standards? why does this contract conspicuously not have any hearing safety guidelines? thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker, please. >> martin mcintyre, founder of the san francisco neighborhoods and second founder of par. all laws should be obeyed. that indicates no sound 250 feet from the event. you forbid phone rings from

disturbing this hearing, so how could you possibly consider allowing incessant boom, boom, boom from outside lands' gigantic speakers heard four miles away inside cal mart and laurel village and homes all over districts 1, 2, 4, 5, and 7? for over 20 years, rec and park has allowed money to trump the laws and sold our right to peace and quiet in our homes. rec and park sold the authority for loud speaker permits from the entertainment commission to avoid the board of appeals. loud amplified sounds, events, make a mockery of golden gate park's mission to be a peaceful refuge in a noisy city. rec and park permitted profitable amplified events at sharon meadow that force the nonprofit shakespeare in the park to leave the quiet glen next to the quite conservatory of flowers. under duress, rec and park moved the loudest events to the polo field, but then let t