>> the meeting will come to order. welcome to the january 25, 2021 regular meeting of the land use and transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. i am supervisor melgar, chair of the committee joined by the vice chair supervisor presa canario and supervisor peskin. the committee clerk is erica major. and i would like to acknowledge javier at sfgov tv.

and the board of supervisors legislative chamber and committee room are closed. however, members will be participating remotely. this precaution is taken pursuant to the statewide stay at home order. committee members will attend the meeting through video conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. public comment will be available on each item on this agenda either 26, 78, and sfgovtv.org are streaming the public call-in number across the 2013. each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. comments or opportunities to speak are available via phone by calling 415-655-0001. again, that is 415-65 # a-00 # o 1. the meeting i.d. is (146) 590-3676.

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will -- is expected to appear on the february 2 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. madam chair. >> supervisor: thank you, so much, madam clerk. will you mindly call the first item? >> clerk: yes. item 1 is a resolution to approve the official street names for certain unnamed street including dr. maya angelou lane and toni stone crossing akated on san francisco pier commission property with the seawall lot 337 and pier 48 mixed-use project area. members who would like to make comment on item number one should call 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 146 590 3676. and if you have not done sot, press star 3 to line up to speak and the system prompt will indicate you have raised your

hand. wait for public comment and you will be notified that you have been unmeeted and i believe that vice chair preston would like to say a few words before we have the presentation. >> thank you so much, chairman melgar. when this item was before us and presented in land use committee, my office saw an opportunity to name some of the new streets in a more meaningful way and this was at a time when san franciscans were taking to the streets in unprecedented numbers to demand racial justice. we thought it only made sense to take this opportunity to recognize the contributions of trail blazing black san franciscans or all too often marginalized in our city's history. and just amazed by how folks picked up that ball on this. and moved forward. the port of san francisco

working with san francisco giants was very receptive to this suggestion. worked really closely with our colleagues on the board and now president walton, supervisor haney, and really went back and considered alternatives and i am really just proud of the community process that has occurred, the approval from the board commission and that the streets will be named in honor of toni stone and dr. maya angelou and to have played a small part in recognizing the incredible african-american trail blazers is an honor to know the legacy will be enshrined for generations to come by streets that bear their name is wonderful. and i just want to really thank everyone who was part of the process and i know we will be hearing from folks, but i do want to specifically recognize the port of san francisco executive director elaine forbes

and the port's legislative affairs amanager, the commission president of the port. and the san francisco giants and colleagues supervisors haney and walton, as well as at the time my colleagues on the committee supervisor peskin still with us on this committee and previously supervisor safai who both were in strong support of -- and spoke in strong support of the renaming effort. and thank you to the families of toni stone and maya angelou who i understand some who may be joining for public comment today. thank you, chair melgar. >> thank you so much. i want to note, violate chair preston, that i am very grateful that you led this and pushed it forward. aside from recognizing the

contributions of two prominent and important african-american residents of the city, and it's also two women and today director kimberly ellis was in the paper talking about how we're not quite there in terms of the goal of having 30% of the streets and public art being named after prominent women and introduce this item and seeing you at this port of san francisco. if you could start us off. >> a vice chair preston really made all the comments i was going to make so thank you so much. when we came to the committee

some time ago, they would have been named spur and plain street and in a pre-covid world before the issues of systemic racism on the forefront and did not make sense in that context. i am extremely grateful to the giants and express huge gratitude to them and maya angelou and toni stone and to support commission president kimberly brandon, board president wilton, and vice chair presa canario for really giving us leadership, guidance, and support and to the mayor for her support and sponsorship of the item. the two incredible african-american women inspired and liberated so many before and will continue to do so and the naming is a great honor to be in

a neighborhood designed to be diverse and equitable. we couldn't be more pleased to be here with the opportunity to do the right thing and thank you so much for guidance and leadership. with, that i will turn it over to rebecca who will go through the details as she is our acting director of real estate and development. rebecca? >> thank you so much, director forbes. good afternoon. eeverything gave wonderful headline and i am going to give you the fine print, so bear with me for a moment. we will have the slides and to join me for a moment to provide

detail and with the first slide and is not easy and not common. and takes about 12 years to get the properties held in trust. >> can we get the slides up? >> thank you, boris. the next slide will show that timeline and goes back to state legislation. and 12 to 13 years later at the beginning of breaking ground last year. >> i'm sorry you, guys. we can't see the slide. can other people see the slides? >> i can. >> i can. >> they are up, but i can also

send them to you directly. >> just want to make sure people can see them. >> thank you so much. go to the next slide and is a forward phase project from the buildout and commercial partnership and 2.8 million square feet at the site. and 40% inclusionary housing and able to get to the 40% because the fees from the office go to support the residential, so that is one great innovation of the mixed use project. and it will culminate in the office, retail production and the rehab of the wonderful southern end of our embarcadero southern pier district, pier 48. and next will show phase one which we are focused on at the current time. it is the delivery of the site infrastructure to support two office, two apartment buildings

as well as that five acre china base and park. we broke ground or the development team broke ground on infrastructure and two of the buildings, one housing and one offers, so far, and will anticipate in the next two buildings to break ground during this year with estimated completion end of 2022 beginning of 2023 for that first phase. next slide and four are extensions. we are proposed to allow the extensionings and presented to board earlier in the summer and this is a unique opportunity to name the streets and who are meaningful at the time and did the process and name them after two names and that was approved

by the port commission. we paused when we got to the board back in june to look at these again and take the opportunity to seize the moment and do more with the street names. next slide please. and originally proposed spur and plank paused and the board gave us the opportunity to meet the moment and to have a connection and re-engaged the partners and san francisco giants and turn on the cameraened a take us through the process and the two mim came to the forefront. and thank you, chair melgar. and congratulations under election and chair supervisor,

did you want to say something? that is not the chair because you are the chair. >> i just want to say we disappointed the head of spur and alicia jean-baptiste to be the new member of the tjpa, and so i just wanted to state that spur. thank you, supervisor. go ahead. >> thank you. as rebecca mentioned, before the commission came together and collect a number of names and we want to reiterate our gratitude to dr. anglo and toni stone's family and to president brandon, director forbes, president walton, and haney and giving us some giants of these.

we met with the community including the southern bar front advisory committee and the co-chairs and toni levine and had a number of presentations and many personal and conversations and clearly rose to the top of the list. and we decided to not only recommend that we rename one but both street names. it's been an honor to continue on and connect with the families. we have had very warm conversations with them. and they have given us the blessing and they are joining us today to speak more of the history with the loved ones. i wanted to take a moment to recognize the connections in san francisco. and both relocated to san francisco as very young women. and the families will speak and from the first black streetcar

conductor and to receive numerous awards and bless the world with pretty inspired literary genius and guides our hearts and minds. and i am blocking forward to hearing more today. and she was an incredible athlete in many different sports, she insisted on playing baseball with the boys. and part of the west coast negro league and became the first woman and went to play in the negro league for the indianapolis clowns and the kansas city. and retired from baseball and became a nurse in oakland. in 1975 the giants invited they

are to travel for a ceremonial pitch at candlestick park and inducted into the international women's hall of fame and national negro baseball league and last year there was there was a play going to open up the san francisco telling her life story and with the pandemic, and the rest of the city family. the the amazing neighbors. and with the recommendation and the board's approval and called dr. maya angelou and may be one of the few intersections and

particularly black women and we are honored to be here and share in this extraordinary moment in our history. >> i'm sorry. thank you so much. i'm sorry. i'm sorry, director forbes. did you have something to ask? >> chair melgar, it was rebecca speaking just to finalize the last slide, which is requested action. >> thank you so much. >> and just to be clear, we have gone through the process and i want to thank our colleagues at the department of public works and bureau street and mapping have cleared this as compliant and unique identifiers and back in december and requesting the recommendation of the committee and we're here to answer questions and i like to recognize also the mayor's office and the implementation team and helped keep us with the

pieces of legislation and here to answer any questions. thank you so much. >> you are muted, madam chair. >> and do either of my colleagues have any questions or comments? >> with that -- >> i actually do. >> i do have one comment. >> and i really want to thank my then colleagues on the land use committee and supervisor safai and supervisor preston for hearing what led to the changes that we see before us today and i'm sorry if my earlier comments sounded flippant. i have no idea why it took this much time or had to involve this, but with that, i totally support this.

>> thank you so much, supervisor peskin. and madam clerk, do we have any public comment on this item? >> thank you, madam chair. we have 19 callers and two in queue. please unmute the first caller. and you may begin your comments. welcome to the land use committee. >> go ahead. >> caller: good afternoon and thank you for extending the opportunity to join today's hearing. my name is samiya and i serve as the executive director of the dr. maya angelou foundation. born in st. louis, missouri, and raised in arkansas, dr. maya angelou was a writing, poet,

performer, and teacher. paragraph and in 1969, with the publication of the ground breaking literary autobiography "i know why the caged bird sings" and rose to international prominence and caged bird is an intelligent and sophisticated story of how angelou transformed herself from a victim of racism to inferiority complex and with the civil activists. dr. angelou has published five books of poetry and including "i shall not be moved." and letter to my daughter, a number of children's books and six longform poems including mother and on the post of morning which she read at the 1992 inauguration of president william jefferson clinton. angelou's reading marked the first time that an african-american woman and at the presidential inauguration.

in 2013 at the age of 35, angelou published the seventh autobiography, "mom and me and mom." the list of her published verse, non-fiction and fiction and includes 30 best selling titles. the remarkable career encompasses dance, theater, journalism, and activism and appeared in broadway including cabaret for freedom. at the request of dr. martin luther king jr. and served as the northern coordinator and the southern leadership christian conference during the heights of the civil rights demonstration. and malcolm x asked her to work with him upon his return in mecca. and angelou spent considerable time abroad and worked as the associate editor of the arab

observer and then as features editor and writer for the ghanan times. she was the national book award judge for biography and autobiography and dr. angelou has received more than 30 honary degrees and inducted into the wake forest university hall of fake for writers. and 2010 president barack obama awarded her the presidential medal of freedom and the highest -- and literary award. and honorary contribution for the community and she passed away in may 2014. hon behalf of dr. angelou's family, it is with embracing love, joy, and support we thank you for honoring dr. angelou in an innovative and impactful way. >> thank you so much. >> next speaker please.

>> welcome to the land use committee. go ahead, please. >> this is maria barton from toni stone's family. >> hello. welcome. go ahead, please. >> caller: i just wanted to say thank you. her family is so proud of her and to have the street named after her is really fantastic. she loves san francisco and she lived in san francisco, and she played ball in san francisco. and i know it was such an honor for her to have a street named after her and especially where it's located.

and the area is fantastic and are glad she's going to represent in a way the street. and i wanted to tell everybody and we really appreciate everything you have done to see that the area the named after her. and playing baseball and playing baseball with the men. and she fought to do this. she believed in and testimony like an addiction to her. and the lowest paid person on the teams and she did it because she loved the game. and when she came to san francisco, her sister was living here. and they talked about the game and talked about playing for san francisco. and a lot of the contracts were done in san francisco while she was there.

the odd jobs and the finest houses in san francisco at the time. and loved talking to the children about the game and showed them different ways at different schools about how to play the game. and she was really well aboved by the children. and she loved them and wanted to see them go ahead and do what they wanted to do. and especially the young women. she gave them all prize as to believe what you are doing and you have to believe in yourself to do that. that was fantastic. as her niece, i lived with her for a long time and she would tell me these things, but growing up with her i really didn't pay that much attention to it. and it wasn't until i had gotten older that i really instill in mee and install in other women.

>> thank you so much. thank you for coming. what a blessing. thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. my name is david and i am calling in to talk in support of the eagle. am i in the right place? >> no, that is item number 3, so we will unmute you when we get to item number three, and then you press star 3. right now we are item number 1. >> caller: thank you. >> thank you so much. >> do we have another commenter for item number one?

>> unmute the next speaker. we have three in queue. >> caller: hello. i believe my line has been unmuted. >> yes. >> caller: i am reverend arnold townsend. i just wanted to speak briefly in support of this naming proposal. i'm one of those people like toni stone who didn't play as well as she did, but who was bitten by the baseball bug very early in life. and because i was in los angeles with no big league team, i picked the giants in 1951 and the dodgers moving to l.a. and didn't change that and increased my hatred toward them. i am especially excited to have the streets named after two african-american women and

especially in this era. and when we know the difficulty that so many have had trying to play baseball evidence recently by the passing of hank ar ron and with his story of what he has to endure. i can't even imagine what it must have been like as a black woman trying to play baseball when you were getting discrimination from so many sides. i am glad she persevered and we know the story and had the pleasure and honor of personally meeting dr. maya angelou and so to have these streets named after them so that young folk and then young women of all colors can understand the importance of pursuing what you love. it's been said by someone and never work a day in your life.

>> this is especially important to us. want to thank the board of supervisors for sending this back and asking the giants to be more creative and i am so glad and grateful for the creativity that the giants showed in the big and beautiful women that will forever be a part of san francisco history and baseball history. thank you so much. god bless you all. >> do we have any other public comment for this item, madam clerk? >> we have two in the queue. and good afternoon. i am the executive director of the bayview hunters point ymca and calling in favor and really excited about the naming of these two streets after dr. maya angelou and toni stone. having been a resident and

working in san francisco for many, many years, i am just very much so excited as many have already shared about this unique opportunity to name the streets after two amazing trailblazing women and we see children, youth, and families coming through the doors at the facility and schools and other programs offsite and getting to read stories and dr. angelou and learning about toni stone with the images on the screen. and the children in the great city, particularly children in district 10 will be able to literally walk the street of dr. maya angelou and dr. toni stone and i am truly grateful for the committee who have worked tirelessly and named after two amazing individuals. truly excited about the generational impact this is going to have on our children,

particularly not only in san francisco and certainly african-american children in the city and calling in favor of support of the project and really excited about the impact you're going to have. >> thank you so much. next speaker please. is there another speaker? unmute the last speaker please. >> hello. my name is daniel banks. can you hear me? >> you may begin your comments. >> i am the managing director of project level based in the

western addition of san francisco. and i am in support of the naming of the street. as a san francisco native, being born and raised here, i have had the privilege to meet dr. angelou, and it was as a young lady, it was so inspiring. i felt like i could be able to achieve so many amazing things in working with young people today. and it is a privilege and an honor to be able to see that san francisco continues to move forward and acknowledging and honoring black women in the city who have made a tremendous impact. i am fully in support of this naming. both women have accomplished many things and i heard other speakers say the impact about young women and young people today.

i would appreciate your support in pushing this through. thank you. >> thank you, ms. banks. mat am clerk, are there anymore public commenters? >> thank you, madam chair. i am just confirming with our staff. >> and we have no other callers. >> thank you so much and with that, public comment is closed. is there a motion to send this forward with a positive recommendation? >> so moved. awe thank you, madam clerk. call the role please. >> on the motion as stated by supervisor preston. supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> oh ya. >> melgar, aye. >> you have three aye's.

>> thank you. without objection t resolution is approved. and madam clerk, can you call the next item. that item is recommended to the full board. item two is resolution approving the official street names for certain unnamed streets low t kayed on treasure island and yerba buena island based on historic references to the island and the san francisco golden gate international exposition of 1939. members should call 415-655-00 # o 1. the meeting i.d. is 146 590 3676. press pound and pound again. if you have not done so already, please press star 3 to line up to speak. madam chair? >> thank you so much. i believe we have director bob beck from the treasure island development agency here today

for a brief presentation. welcome, director beck. >> thank you, chair melgar. bob beck with the treasure island development authority. i will share my screen here.

they were located in the former naval station. they used street names like second and third street as well as california street. names that were not suitable to the similarity and duplication with other streets in san francisco. so we set about back in 2015 to develop the street naming convention for treasure island and we worked with the treasure island museum and master developer for treasure island and community development to draw inspiration from the 1939 golden gate international gate exposition for street naming convention for treasure island. and we drew names of artist, architects and place names

within the fair exposition grounds. and as our inspiration for naming the streets on treasure island. the names have been reviewed with public works to ensure they don't duplicate others found elsewhere in the city and recommended in june 10 of 2020 by public works director's order. proposing to bring the island wide framework to the board today to solidify the frame work and facilitate addressing for building, permitting and to expedite project imp littleation. this is the street names as they were identified in the planning documents and the design for development documents for treasure island. you can see they were placeholder names. avenue i, avenue h, avenue g,

etc. and numbered streets 4th, 5th, 6th. and and took the name of the existing street on the island. and what we bring you to today and is drawn from the 1939 golden gate international exposition held on the island shortly after it was constructed. and is part of the works progress association. and administrations and thank you supervisor. the major arterials on the island and the main streets draw names from place names within the fairgrounds. and they are named as avenues to facilitate the way finding for the island. and clipper clove avenue and clipper cove. and where the pan-am clippers

flew out of the cove during the exposition and seven seas avenue and other major north-south arterial. and trade winds and avenue of the palms. avenue of the palms did run along the waterfront and title of the exposition. and the clipper cove was called the port of the trade winds during the exposition and there was clipper way and the court of prominent location within the fair exposition grounds. other north-south streets include pasa flora way. peacemaker street and siesta way and garden walk and pacifica street and highlight garden walk is shared public ways which are

intended to be bike pad locations. and they provide emergency vehicle access as well. they draw place names from the garden walk and the siesta pools, the peacemaker mural in the court of pacifica. other east-west streets on the eastern neighborhood include portway passage, blossom lane, garden bell way, fairlawn street and again, these draw the inspiration from place names within the fairgrounds including indy's place, blossom way, fairlawn avenue and courtway passage. the east-west streets on the west side of the island and the north-south streets on the east side all draw their names from artists and architects and

personalities that were part of the exposition and the streets on the west side of the island are named streets and the east side that are all lanes. so again, to ease in way finding for visitors to the island and then they are arranged alphabetically south to north and west to east. some of the personalities include the burden sisters and -- the bruing sisters and the peacemaker's mural and in pacifica court. and designed the unity sculptures and these two sculptures are are in the collection and unity fountain and we have a total of 14 sculptures that survived from

that fountain and in the titles collection. each artist involved in that fountain designed two sculptures for the fountain and these two were the work of -- and sergeant johnson designed two of the sculptures for the unity fountain. sergeant johnson was a preimminent african-american artist from the west coast at this time. and was a leader in african-american art from this side of the country. >> madam chair, some of the work cans be seen at maritime museum at aquatic park. >> george tellum was a prominent architect with the overall plan for the exhibition and designed several of the courts as well as the administration building

which survives on the island today. he also designed the palace hotel on market street and the asian art museum in the original incarnation as the public library. and bernard mayberg, renowned architect and landscape was one of the chief expositions primary planners. and other notable work in san francisco includes the palace of pine art and the surrounding gardens that still exist today. antonio sotomayor, bo livian artist and bo livian born artist and which is shown here on the right and the terra-cotta pieces

and other work he did in san francisco included a number of murals and cathedral and ball las hotel and has works in san francisco and new york and museum of modern art. designed the path of darkness mural. here at the -- the grounds in the court of pacifica. and also taught at the kra arts and crafts and spent her career in the bay area.

and donald mackey is also a bay area architect in design the elephant towers and abstract sculpture and the prominent piece within the art of the grounds and also design several buildings with the oxford track on the. uc. berkley campus. and design some of the sculptures that were part of the part of the the unity pacific sculpture. and in the museum of modern art and foundation of fine arts and

san francisco. and designed the yerba buena club and fairly modern sculpture that looked over the clipper cove in the fairgrounds. he was the dean of the college -- went on to become the dean of college of environmental design at u.c. berkley. and also worked on the reuse plan and the design of the bank of america building and the former bank of america building. and finally, lantit nutter was the spokesperson for the golden gate international exposition and went on to have a career as an aviation advocate becoming the first female president aviation hall of fame museum in

1988. and was a regular visitor to the island throughout her life and only passed away a couple of years ago at the age of 105. but was a regular visitor and advocate from the island. and on yerba buena island, and the street grid is staying more to the historical alignment and with the street name on yerba buena island including treasure island road which connects from the bay bridge and down to the island and hillcrest and backside of the island and yerba buena road which circles the top of the island and mccullough road which is the east-west

access on the north side of the island. and north gate road which goes from mccullough down through the historic officers quarters to access the coast guard facilities that are on the south side of the yerba buena island. so that addresses the names that are proposed. and i would be happy to take any questions from board members about the individuals, the exposition and the recommendations. >> thank you very much. thank you, director beck. do my colleagues have any questions for director beck? okay. so seeing that as we have no questions from my colleagues, we will go to public comment on this item. madam clerk? >> thank you, madam chair. we are checking to see if we have any callers in queue.

it looks like we have 15 listener rs and no callers in queue. and since we have no public comment on this item and does someone want to make a motion? >> so moved. >> with recommendation. >> thank you so much. thank you so much, supervisor peskin. will you take role, please, madam clerk? >> yes. on the motion as stated by supervisor peskin -- >> did i close public comment? >> yes. we took it. >> no worries. on the motion to recommend item number two, supervisor peskin, aye. supervisor preston. >> an aye. and supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> we have three aye's. >> the motion passes. thank you so much. >> so pardon, and we had with

the proposed amendment of the language and we need to have thank you so much for reminding me. and would you like to send the vote? >> sorry. we proposed a substitution to correct a couple of misspellings in the original resolution and exhibit. >> okay. do do we call the amended resolution now then, colleagues? >> and supervisor preston who made the motion. peskin. >> and make the amended motion. and withdrawn the previous motion and i will make a motion to amend. as so stated. >> thank you. >> madam clerk, please call the

role. >> on the motion to update the street names as submitted by tida, i move vice supervisor peskin. peskin, aye. >> supervisor me melgar. >> aye. >> you have three aye's. and thank you so much and the motion passes. madam clerk, will you call the next item please? >> madam chair on the remaining balance to move the item forward, would you like to make a motion? >> so moved as amended. >> and the motion stated by supervisor peskin, supervisor peskin? >> aye. >> peskin, aye.

>> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. and you have three aye's. and the motion passes. >> thank you, madam clerk. now call the next item please. >> item 3 is a resolution initiating a landmark designation under article 10 of the planning code for the san francisco eagle bar, situated with the leather and lesbian, gay, transgender and queer cultural district. call 415-and if you have not done so already, press star 3 to line up to speak. the system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. madam chair? >> thank you so much. i believe we have honey mahogany

here from supervisor haney's office to prevent on this item. >> thank you, madam chair. good afternoon, chair melgar. and on behalf of supervisor haney, i wanted to provide a brief resolution introducing landmark designation for the san francisco eagle bar which is the historic night life and within the soma and provided under planning code 104.11. and the sf eagle has been operating at the current location since opening in february 1981 and 396 and 398 12th street and the name sake of public plaza that pays homage to historic lgbtq and the leather community has played an integral role and western soma is considered by many to be the epicenter of leather culture.

the fullsome and corridors comprise an area historical and historical mile and bars, club, and leather shops and bathhouses in the 70s and 80s. the sf eagle and holds much significance and supervisor haney and acknowledge the significance and in the original part of soma being erased due to ongoing development as the space is of vital importance to the weekend. and we received dozens of letters extolling the profound importance of the san francisco to the queer community and a petition created last week has garnered over 1,000 signatures in the landmarking effort. and the san francisco eagle bar is a corner stone of the leather

and lgbt cultural district and the community anchor that deserve the protections to provide. supervisor haney, and thanks to the committee for the consideration and hopes that the resolution will lend the support to the effort. and at this time i would also like to introduce ms. shane watson who is a historic preservationists on the contact statement for lgbtq history in san francisco and in collaboration with donna graves and arts and heritage consulting in 2015 and is also a well known historian and san francisco and supervisor haney has provided so provide expert comments on this item. and welcome, ms. watson. >> good afternoon, chair melgar. and i from the presidential planner in lgbtq heritage

preservation in san francisco. as honey mentioned, i am the co-author of the san francisco lgbtq historical context statement and the san francisco statement and nationwide and lgbtq america. and currently working with the lgbt leather and consulting district and as we all know, san francisco is known worldwide as the birthplace of lgbtq culture and designated for associations with the history. and none of those landmarks that represent south of market neighborhood. and the historic queer enclaves and lgbtq and leather history and queer district in the castro and south of market in the pioneer and lgbt social justice

movement, publishing and the arts. the nation's first gay community center and south of market at 83 6 street. and two of the nation east earliest organizations have the first offices in the south of market in the williams building on mission street. and the services of eagle opened in 1981 and is one of the longest continually operating leather and queer bars in san francisco. landmarking the eagle would bring much needed attention to the neighborhood's importance as a queer center of international significance. additionally and perhaps most importantly and the eagle is very much alive and beloved and the long-standing patrons from around the world. and thank you for considering adding this site to san francisco's small but growing list of lgbtq landmarks.

>> thank you so much, ms. watson and ms. mahogany. do we have any comments or questions? >> no questions, chair melgar. i just want to thank supervisor haney, honey mahogany, the d6 team and all the activists who came together to make this happen. really important. looking forward to hoping all our colleagues do as well. >> and supervisor peskin to be added as a co-sponsor please. and me, too, if i am not already. >> and i would, too. thank you so much. >> awe no further questions and can we go to public comment please? >> and we have 16 listeners with

12 in queue. unmute the first caller. the system will notify that we have been unmuted and begin your comments. >> my name is david and with the f wonderful cause and landmark status and a 72-year-old gay man who lives alone since my husband died and is my habit to go every sunday almost religiously to the eagle beer by sunday afternoon. and to feel it is such a wonderful opportunity for socialization, ar fe, the staff, and ownership and people there are friendly and welcoming. and it's really home for me on sunday.

i hope this will pass and that the eagle will continue on and on. and do such good work for the community. i am really in awe of all that they do. and it is a fun place. >> thank you for your comment, david. >> next speaker, please. >> caller: i am lex and owner and operator of the san francisco eagle bar and took it on to the mission to save the place and back in 2011 when it closed an then finally got it working on march 2013 and partnership with the late business partner and we have endured through hard times and bringing the community back

together. but i like to recommend as a person, as a san franciscan, and the mission and continue the traditions of community and provide a safe space for everybody in san francisco and from every part of the world that comes from the worldment and transmit our mission throughout the whole world. and please consider the designation and thank the members of the supervisor's board consideration. very much. >> and if i may interject, and sorry for our mutual friend mike's untimely passing. >> thank you so much,

supervisor. next speaker please. >> hi. this is donald kelly. i am a native san franciscan. i was born and raised here. i just want to say that i fully support this and the good things that the eagle bar does for the community in san francisco and i am not a public speaker, but i wanted to say my support. thank you. s a thank you. next speaker please. >> next speaker please.

awe an i have been a patron of the eagle for 30 years and substantial donor to eagle plaza and board member of the archives, though i am not calling in that official capacity right now. and in the letter of support that will come in san francisco

and is a safe haven and was hosting thousands of charity events and is very much part of the fabric of the soma neighborhood. the san francisco eagle is an international beacon for the leather community, but i also want to add in appreciation of ms. watson's comments that it is shocking that as many lgbtq businesses that have been in the city over the last 70 or 80 years and landmark designations and none are in the soma district. and take that seriously and lost so many lgbtq icons and businesses and the eagle could use that support right now.

and thank you for your comment, ben. next speaker please. >> hi, my name is tammy martin. i am the first and current miss san francisco eagle. and i would just like to say that i am giving my support in this and among not only the land mart and safe haven and fundraising and numerous fundraisings and nonprofits and organizations throughout san francisco. and i just feel that the eagle contributed so much to the lgbt and leather community to make this still safe and welcomed and loved.

>> thank you. next speaker, please. i am a queer event organizer in san francisco and 31 years old and appreciate everything the soma neighborhood does between the coronavirus and the beloved institution and start two blocks away and strongly in support of giving the eagle whatever designation from the clear cultures and through the pandemic and to express support. >> thank you, toby. next speaker please. >> caller: is that me? >> and my name is douglas. i am calling to give my support for historical landmark status for the sf eagle to reiterate what everyone else has said and just -- the charity fundraising

that happens on a weekly basis raised millions of dollars for all sorts of nonprofits and ensure the historical status that the eagle never goes away in this age, that will be a great thing for the city. i support this legislation. from organizing and with the very strong support and thank you very much. >> next speaker please.

>> thank you, madam clerk. do we have anymore speakers in the queue? >> we do. and this speaker is currently unmuted. so they can begin their comments. >> i am on the board of directors of the leather and lgbtq cultural district and the sentences of the bay area leather alliance and i believe that the eagle and sf eagle has imminently qualified an appropriate historic designation. and i thank the commission for the enthusiastic support for it. thank you. >> thank you, david. >> next speaker please. >> hello, caller. you have been unmuted. you may begin your comment.

>> next speaker. >> i already spoke. >> good afternoon, supervisors melgar, preston and peskin. i am president of the leather and lgbtq cultural district and i am also president of the friends of eagle plaza. and i am here to express our support for this resolution and the leather and lgbtq community and has been for decades. and it is also a pillar of community fundraising and a lot of the small grass roots groups depending on fundraising that takes place from domestically

and internationally to preserve the icon for the future and i urge the support. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> hello. my name is gauge fisher. i am an employee of the sf eagle bar. first off, i want to thank the supervisor haney for the sponsorship and honey mahogany and shane watson for the words and incite. and holding the space and time for this. and ever back to the first time and walked into disney land and that is the kind of expression i have gotten to see working at the eagle on a fullsome sunday

and is like a weekend. and to see the joy on the faces of people who have gotten to experience sf eagle for the first time. and we are known the world over for the parties that we put on and the space that we hold for everybody. that has been held for decades and be it just trying to create a safe space for the fundraising that has already been mentioned before and the previous bar title myself and able to begin fundraising effort for sf suicide prevention. the amount of work that goes into this place. you would think it is not just a bar. and we are merely the current facet of what has been existing there for decades. i wholeheartedly support this

initiative to make this designation happen and thank you for your time. >> next caller please, madam clerk. >> i am just calling in order to to support sf eagle. and so many of myself and my friends have found ourselves a home at the sf eagle and would not be the same without it and is so much of a part of our identity and our pride. i would love nothing more to show this than to be able to stay around forever. it is important to preserve our history and thank you so much for allowing me to speak. >> next speaker please.

>> do we have mr. speakers? >> they have been unmuted. they may begin. >> hello, caller. you are on the line. you may begin your comments. >> they decided they are -- we will take the next speaker, which is the last speaker. >> actually, that was our last speaker, madam chair. >> thank you so much. >> it looks like no more caller, so public comment is now closed. is there a motion to send this out with a positive recommendation, colleagues? >> so moved. >> madam clerk, supervisor preston moved. can you call role please? >> i have added supervisor peskin and chair melgar as

co-sponsors. on the motion to recommend item three, moved by supervisor preston, we have -- moved by supervisor preston, on the roll call. supervisor peskin? peskin. >> supervisor preston? >> aye. and i think you missed me as or me too on the co-sponsor. >> you were already were. >> i was, thank you. aye. >> preston, aye. and supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> melgar, aye. it would have aye's. thank you. the motion passes unanimously with positive recommendations. madam clerk, are there any other items before us today? >> that concludes the business for today.