>> supervisor melgar: good afternoon. this meeting will come to order. welcome to the san francisco land use and transportation committee meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. the clerk today is erica major, and i would also like to acknowledge and thank the sfgovtv for staffing this meeting and bringing it to your homes. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes, madam chair. the minutes will reflect that the committee members participated in this remote meeting through video conference to the same extent as though they were physically

present. public comment will be available in the following methods. sfgovtv, cable channel 26 and 78 are carrying the meeting, and opportunities to offer public comment are available by calling the number streaming across your stream. that's 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 2499-311-1928. again, that number is 2499-311-1928, then press pound and pound again. when connected, you will hear the meeting discussion, but you will be muted and in listening mode only. when your item of interest comes up, press star, three to be added to the speaker line. best practices are to call from

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heard at the october 15, 2021 board of supervisors meeting. >> supervisor melgar: specifically, we must find that it has -- that we have found the circumstances of the state of emergency, and two, that the state of emergency continues to directly impact the ability -- our ability to meet safely in person, and three, that state

and local officials continue to impose and recommend measures to promote social distancing. so tomorrow, the full board will allow a findings motion to allow the board to meet as a whole and continue the state of emergency for the next 30 days, but because we're acting the day before, we need to move on these findings ourselves so that we can proceed with this meeting by teleconference. so i therefore would like to move that we adopt these findings as stated, and before we can vote on that, we have to open this up for public comment. supervisor preston, go ahead. >> supervisor preston: thank you, chair melgar. i just wanted to check, and perhaps you know or with the deputy city attorney -- or check with the deputy city

attorney. are we able to discuss and vote on this without it being agendized? yeah. deputy city attorney. >> supervisor melgar: yeah. city attorney pearson, are you there? >> this is deputy city jensen, and i understand that deputy city attorney pearson had worked it out in advance and it is on the agenda although it's not involved. i know it does show up on the agenda now, that it might be heard today, but my understanding is that you are, in fact, allowed to hear it today. >> supervisor preston: no, and i saw the communication discussing that, but i wasn't sure if we could formally adopt findings without that motion,

but since it is in the agenda, we can do that. >> that's correct. and it's my understanding that the board will be acting in a way tomorrow that will allow it to be enacted for the next 30 days without enacting city legislation. >> supervisor peskin: we met on the rules committee earlier today and adopted the same motion after some scintillating public comment. >> supervisor melgar: okay. if you don't have anything else after that, supervisor preston, let's go to public comment. >> clerk: thank you, madam chair. d.t. is checking to see if there are any callers in the

queue. for those already in the queue, please wait until the system says you are unmuted. kalina is helping us today with public comment. we have nine listeners and one in queue. if you could unmute the caller, please. >> [indiscernible]. >> supervisor melgar: ma'am, i'm so sorry. i'm sorry to interrupt you. this is not the right item. we are voting on something else, but the item that you want to provide comment on is coming up, so stay in the queue, please. >> clerk: madam chair, d.t. has confirmed that there are no more callers in the queue. >> supervisor melgar: thank you very much, madam clerk.

so i have made a role that we adopt these findings. can we take roll on those findings, madam clerk. >> clerk: yes. on the motion as made by chair melgar -- [roll call] >> clerk: you have three ayes. >> chair melgar: thank you, madam clerk. the motion passes. please call item number 1. >> clerk: item number 1 is an ordinance amending the health code, planning code, and police code to extend the sunset date for provisions governing medical khanna dismukes pencearys from december 31, 2021 to december 31, 2022, to extend the sunset date for allowing the conversion of medical cannabis dispensaries with planning commission

approval to [inaudible] meg [inaudible]. >> chair melgar: thank you very much. we have tom temprano,

legislative aid to supervisor mandelman. >> this ordinance will extend cannabis business permits and temporary business permits through december 31, 2022, to convert to medical cannabis use without being subjected to additional use requirements through 2022. i will run through some brief additional information on each of these items. so firstly, this ordinance will allow the health code to allow existing businesses operating under medical cannabis existing permits to continue operating through december 31, 2022. this is necessary to successfully transition or

dispensaries to medical and adult use businesses. for these medical cannabis dispensaries, this ordinance will also extend the date by which these businesses can convert to a cannabis retail use without being subject to an additional cannabis operating license or restrictions to january 31, 2023. the businesses operating under these temporary cannabis business permits are part of the amnesty program that san francisco initiated to allow existing, illegal, nonretail cannabis business operators to come forward, make themselves and their activities known to the city, and to come into compliance with our laws. i will note that this is the second time that supervisor mandelman has introduced

legislation to extend these medical cannabis dispensary and temporary cannabis business permits, and we hope that this is the last time that we have to extend these licenses. the second time this does is extend the cannabis event permit pilot program through december 31, 2023 to allow legal cannabis sales and consumption at temporary events. this allows the office of cannabis to permit for regulated events while ensuring businesses were supplying safe products and were not allowing consumption by underage youth. the ordinance created a pilot phase for the program to allow the city to ramp up cannabis

permits slowly and thoughtfully. due to the covid-19 pandemic, only one permit was issued, and that was for the 2020 grasslands event. so supervisors, thank you again for your consideration of this ordinance. i'm happy to answer any questions, and i am also joined by john pierce and ray law from the office of cannabis who can answer any questions, as well. >> chair melgar: thank you so much, mr. temprano. i did have a couple of questions. i don't see my colleagues on

the roster, so i have a couple of questions for mr. law. are you there, mr. law? there you are. welcome to the meeting. have you had any feedback to update cannabis offices to retail? is there anything that your office is doing to support this? and then, my second question -- and i'll just get it out of the way -- is that requirement of complying with the equity program, and i'm wondering what specific things the -- you know, the businesses are doing as they shift into a new business mode to also comply with the equity program? >> sure. thank you for all the questions. those are good questions, with your first questions about the m.c.d. pipelines, converting

them from dispensaries to article 16 operators, right? so i think it kind of pauses to confer with this group. we had a huge backlog since 2019, with 160 equity applications coming into your pipeline, and that was way beyond most of our expectations, and we created that backlog in late last year, and we start processing existing operator applications

in may of last year. so this pause is a very significant step for our existing operators to confer into the article 16 bill, and we are making some progress, but we just don't see that we are [indiscernible] to convert all of them by the end of this year, which is why we worked with supervisor mandelman to come forward to ask for another year of extension, to ask for this work and continue the momentum and work all of them from the temporary status to permanent status. >> chair melgar: so i'm sorry. if i can just recap it, mr. law, there's been no challenges on the operational side, it's

more the regulatory infrastructure that has led to this being slowed down in terms of the rollout, is that what you're saying? >> that's right. >> chair melgar: okay. >> and those operators have been patiently waiting. and in april of this year, when we knew we were about to process this group of applicants, we host a kind of meeting to kind of walk them through the process, so when the applications are being picked up, they can hit the ground running and go through all the steps associated with this process. >> chair melgar: mr. law, is it your sense that it has affected this in any way or they have just been able to roll out what they needed to when processing the applications? >> sure.

i would say largely this won't impact their ability to do business in san francisco because we do have a temporary authorization for them to sell cannabis at the same time, but that's actually a perfect segue to move to your second question. within 30 days, they're required to submit their report to support the city's equity goal. some of them would [indiscernible] kind of section to demonstrate to equity applicants how to run a business, how to apply for business permit [indiscernible] manufacture or cultivated by

equity applicants across jurisdictions. >> chair melgar: great. thank you so much, mr. law. colleagues, do we have any questions for these folks? okay. so with that, madam clerk, let's take public comment on this item. >> clerk: thank you, madam chair. d.t. is checking to see if we have any callers on hold. if you have not already done so, press star, three to enter the queue. if you have already done so, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. and it looks like we don't have any callers in the queue. >> chair melgar: okay. with that, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we have a motion to send this out of committee with a positive recommendation? >> supervisor peskin: so moved. >> chair melgar: thank you, supervisor peskin.

let's take roll, madam clerk. >> clerk: on the motion to approve item 1 made by supervisor peskin -- [roll call] blal. >> clerk: you have three ayes. >> chair melgar: thank you. the motion passes. madam clerk, please call item 2. >> clerk: item 2 is a motion declaring the board of supervisors to -- [indiscernible]. >> clerk: madam clerk, this is john carroll, back up clerk. item 2 is resolution declaring the intention of the board of

supervisors to real estate name the stairwell at sonora lane between o'farrell street and terra anza avenue, which runs parallel to anza vista and st. joseph's avenues to vicha ratanpakdee way. >> chair melgar: thank you, mr. carroll. joining us is supervisor stefani. supervisor stefani, the floor is yours. >> supervisor stefani: thank you. vicha was well known in his community for his hour long walks every morning, who kept

him healthy and moving this year. earlier this year, he was violently shoved to the ground, causing him to hit his head. the video went viral and was very shocking and hard to see. the crime was just one of many committed against the asian and pacific islander community. when i introduced this back in july at our last meeting, the resolution actually says 7,000 on page 1, on-line 20, so perhaps we can amendment that

at committee, that it's actually 9,000 hate incidents. and just over 13% of these reported incidents involve a physical assault. since his passing, his daughter has worked tirelessly to amplify the voices of those not only in the thai community but those in the pacific islander community and asians to ensure what happened to her father will not happen to anyone else. it's so tragic when we put this type of advocacy on victims, who continue to suffer and mourn the loss of loved ones, and yet, they bear this enormous burden. i was so honored to meet [indiscernible] over the pandemic to discuss what happened -- honored and very sad. it's one of those situations where you don't know what to say, and the fact that she

entrusted me to work on her request, to name the public stairwell after her father is a great honor and feels like i can at least do something. naming the stairwell to vicha ratanapakdee way would show a measure of solidarity with the asian and pacific islander community. i want to thank you again, and for all the work that you are doing and have done to support our aapi neighbors in san francisco. i just want to say one last thing, too. i've obviously been following this. my heart goes out to his daughter and the entire family and her children. and i listen to the new york times, the daily podcast, and on sunday, i think, september

26, they had one, and it was titled, why was vicha ratanapakdee killed, and when i saw that, i immediately listened to it. to [indiscernible], the strength that you showed that i found out about on that podcast, it's just unfathomable to me what you've had to deal with after your father's death. as someone who's very close to your father, i cannot tell you how it feels when you don't know what to say and don't know what to do, and i hope that this gesture shows that we are with you and with the aapi community, and this is

something that we will continue to work onto stop aapi hate, so thank you for entrusting me to carry forward this resolution and i'm hoping my colleagues will support it, as well. thank you. >> chair melgar: thank you very much, supervisor stefani, and thank you for the support that you have provided for the family. if there are no comments or questions, colleagues, please, let's take public comment on this item. i know that there are a number of callers that are waiting to provide public comment. madam clerk? >> clerk: thank you, madam chair. d.t. is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. if you have not done so already, please press star,

three to be added to the queue. for those that have already done so, please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. we have 12 listeners and five in queue. kalina, if you could unmute the first listener. >> hi, can you guys hear me? >> clerk: yes, please begin. >> okay. i just want to say that i am in support of renaming the stairwell at sonora lane to

vicha ratanapakdee way. there's no question that vicha was targeted because of the color of his skin, and he was murdered because of the color of his skin. >> clerk: thank you so much. next caller, please. we have 11 listeners with seven in the queue. >> hi. hello, can you hear me? >> clerk: yes, please begin. >> okay. hi. my name is vinita lui, and i

want to say hello to chair melgar and supervisors stefani, preston, and peskin. vicha ratanapakdee way is not a street, it's a set of stairs that's a shortcut into our neighborhood. we're not considering naming an alley or a whole street. it's a set of stairs, and i live in this neighborhood, and i still can't believe what happened to this grandpa. so i am in favor of naming sonora lane, a set of stairs, and our neighborhood is only about five blocks circumference to commemorate his name and for

his grand kids to hear his name and to talk about and tell his story. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. hello, caller. you're on the line. >> hello. this is [indiscernible] and i am calling in support of changing sonora way to vicha ratanapakdee, and i need some sort of story for my future and children's future.

i think this is a good move and one that needs to be in full support of. thank you. i'm done. >> clerk: thank you. next caller, please. >> yes, i'm here. can you hear me? >> clerk: yes, go ahead. >> hello? yeah, yeah. my name is baird fong. i'm a native san francisco, and born and raised and raised my three kids as well as with my wife. i want to support the renaming of this stairs in honor of mr.

vicha, and the reason being is not only do i salute, and we should salute the stop of the hate again asian and aapi elders as well as individuals, i think that this could be an honorable step in the right direction to build alliances and coalitions with all of our neighbors -- black, latino, everyone -- to make a better san francisco. so hope all of you on our board of supervisors can use this as a marker to build a brotherhood and sisterhood in san francisco that we all can be proud of and have been in the past. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker? we have five in queue. >> hi.

my name is forest. i'd like to thank chair melgar, supervisor peskin, supervisor preston, for hearing me out today, and i'd like to especially thank supervisor stefani for hearing this today. earlier this year, i was just a regular joe, and the death of vicha inspired me to leave my career and become an activist in the fight against hate against the asian and pacific islander community. he made me want to do what i do every day, which is to forward our issues. it would mean so much to the organization that i represent, community safety chinatown, and the community, if we could

change the name to vicha ratanapakdee way. thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. we have nine listeners and five in queue. >> hi. i'm [indiscernible] and i'm calling in expressing support for the renaming of this stairwell in honor of vicha's memory, as well. i'm calling because i'm the child of immigrants, and the story of immigrants is the story of struggle. my own family faced racism growing up in the community, but i see a glimmer of hope in the movement that's galvanized a call for justice, and i believe the best way to call for justice is to rename the

stairway in honor of vicha. thank you so much, and i yield my time. >> clerk: thank you. we have nine listeners and three in the queue. >> hello? >> clerk: hello. go ahead. >> hi. my name is will, and i'm a s.f. native, and i support the renaming of the sonora lane to the vicha ratanapakdee. i echo a lot of what the previous callers have said, that grandpa vicha has been a catalyst for the community and the stop asian hate movement,

and i am in support of this. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comment. next caller. >> hi. i'm [indiscernible] i am also an anza vista resident, and i think that we as a community can heal from all of the aapi hate that's plagued our country. it's been so scary, knowing that that's what's going on. this happened across the street from my house, so please, i support this wholeheartedly. thank you very much. bye. >> clerk: thank you. madam chair, d.t. has confirmed that was the last caller in queue. >> chair melgar: thanks very much, madam clerk. thank you, supervisor stefani, for bringing this to the

committee. i hope that if this goes up with a positive recommendation, that there can be a small step of healing for the family of vicha ratanapakdee and remembering. colleagues, can we have -- >> supervisor stefani: chair melgar, can i say one more thing? >> chair melgar: yes. >> supervisor stefani: i just want to thank commissioner lui and everybody who called in. this street is called sonora lane, but it is a stairwell, so so -- you can pull it up, and it's there. if you could amend the

paperwork to reflect 9,000 instead of 7,000, and again, thank you to everyone who called in, and i look forward to your support. >> chair melgar: thank you, supervisor stefani. i saw supervisor peskin raise his hand. are you making a motion to amend? yes, thank you. madam clerk, let's take the motion to amend ad stated onto the record by supervisor stefani and made by supervisor peskin. >> clerk: on the motion as stated on page 1, line 20, updating 7,000 to 9,000 -- [roll call] >> clerk: chair melgar, you have three ayes. >> chair melgar: thank you. supervisor peskin, did you also move as amended? >> supervisor peskin: i will make a motion to send the item

as amended with positive recommendation. >> supervisor melgar: thank you. madam clerk? >> clerk: on the motion as stated -- [roll call] >> clerk: you have three ayes. >> supervisor melgar: thank you so much, madam clerk. the motion passes. will you please call the next item? >> clerk: yes. item 3 is an ordinance amending the planning code to allow neighborhood serving social service and philanthropic facility uses in chinatown mixed use districts with conditional use authorization, change the provision for abandonment of a use that exceeds a use size maximum in chinatown mixed use districts, change the use size limit and use size maximum in the chinatown community business district, exempt institutional community uses and legacy basis

restaurants in chinatown mixed use districts from use size limits, and making the appropriate findings. for those of you listening who would like to make public comment, dial 415-655-0001 and enter meeting i.d. 2499-311-1928. press pound and pound again, and then star, three to enter the queue. >> chair melgar: thank you. we continued this from last year to allow time for substantive amendments. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: thank you, chair melgar, for

continuing this not once, not twice, but three times, and hopefully, we can send this to the full board with recommendation after public comment. >> supervisor melgar: thank you, supervisor peskin. with that, madam clerk, let's take public comment if there are any. >> clerk: thank you, madam chair. for those in the queue, please wait until the system indicated you have been unmuted, and for those who have not already done so, press star, three to enter the queue. and it looks like there are no callers in the queue. >> chair melgar: thank you so much. so colleagues, do we have a motion to send this out of committee with a positive recommendation? >> supervisor peskin: so moved. >> chair melgar: madam clerk, can we have a roll call on the item, please. >> clerk: on the motion as

stated -- [roll call] >> clerk: you have three ayes. >> chair melgar: thank you. that motion passes. madam clerk, will you please call the next item. >> clerk: yes. item 4 -- actually, there's no item 4. that completes the business for today. >> chair melgar: thank you. as a friendly reminder, the land use and transportation committee will not be meeting next monday, october 11, 2021, in honor of indigenous peoples day. have a good week, everyone, and we will return to our regular meeting on october 18.

.>> i'm blanking out on her last name. i think she is on the cannabis oversight committee as well. i think it would be great to follow the tradition. that would be great. >> excellent. we are of one mind.

is that a motion to send the committee the report to the board of supervisors. >> yes. thank you. moving the motion. >> all right. mr. clerk, roll call, please. >> on that motion. (roll call). the motion passes without objection. mr. milley will be recommended to the committee. next on the agenda is permitting travel who have adopted laws on or before october 21, 2021.

work on the contract prescriptive abortion laws. we're still seeing states today

discriminate against the lgbtq community as well as suppress the women's right to choose. since the 2020 presidential election, nine states including arizona, arkansas, florida, georgia, texas, and wyoming have enacted laws that restrict rights to vote. an active voter list by removing those who have not voted in prior elections, ending voter registration. banning elector ballots. many of these states are already on the states travel ban list.

this list will most likely include arizona. an active voter list. many thousands of voters could be removed from the list. arizona have expanded ballot requirements from a democratic secretary of state. institute a voter i.d. provision for in person vote. throughout history there have been restrictive law it prohibit persons of color and women from voting in this vote. they have made it clear to make it harder for black voters and women to vote. this threatens our democracy as a whole.

states with laws that don't include voting at a polling place. satisfying an identification requirement. laws limiting or prohibiting local election departments absentee ballots. prepaid postage or mail in ballots and restriction of voting hours. under this legislation, the city will not be required or pay for any of its employees or officers to travel to a state on the list. on a more positive note, i do want to commend the 17 states that have passed laws for voters. we should not be putting city

funds towards travel to make it harder to vote. by adopting these amendments san francisco is taking a stand against voter restriction in this country. thank you. >> thank you. any comments from committee members. supervisor mandleman. >> thank you for bringing up this legislation which i'll be supporting today. what the states are trying to do is abhorrent, offensive, unamerican, given san franciscan have already taken these steps for states discriminating queer folks and women, laws and

prohibitions that are designed to keep people of color from voting to weigh in. i absolutely support the travel ban. i have some concerns, i'm maining looking at this in the state that's have passed laws that are targeting lgbt people and in particular trans folks, senator weiner enacted. i believe it's right for san francisco to put their money where their mouth is. i'm also cognizant that there are queer people and people of color and lots of women in these states. in some cases there are businesses that are owned by or doing their best to lift up women and people of color and queer folks in these states.

although i believe we need to pass this legislation, i also hope that folks be willing to engage with me as we move forward thinking about particular around queer people if there's some ways to recognize companies that are doing good work in these states, that are doing the work of change in those states. if there's a business that's being led by an african american lesbian in louisiana, i would support that legislation. i'll be reaching out to all of you to think about potential offerings in the future. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor. why don't we go to public comment -- i'm sorry.

i can't deal with this. can we have in person meetings again, mr. president. go ahead president walton. >> i believe we left in person meetings up to the chair. >> i'm all for it. >> i would love to work with you on that. it puts us in a conundrum. as we look at the history of the united states, there are things that are positive for black people. we have black colleges and ufts. universities. we want to promote legislation

for black people. they continue to push laws that discriminate against people of color. i'm all for looking to support the people want to help them in positive ways. i'm with you and definitely would love to work with you. >> thank you. why don't we go to public item on this item. any members of the public here for item two. >> yes. member of the public wishing to make comment on item number two. if you haven't already done so please press star three to line towp speak. up to speak. we currently have one person on

the line for public comment. >> first speaker, please. >> no objection to the legislation. makes total sense. we should not be doing business with those states. i appreciate president walton bringing this. i do note this section 12x point 24 there's a covered state list. under subsection c there, it shall be posted on the city administrators website. i think that's very helpful. i'm just wondering if there is or could be a more comprehensive list either on the oca or controller or city administrator somewhere that's comprehensive

and lists all of the states and places and types of businesses that san francisco does not travel to or do business with for all the various reasons. those are codifies in various places, i'm not aware there's a comprehensive list. i think that would be helpful. it's great to see tom owens name. it's nice to see him doing some work. thank you very much for listening. >> are there any other nebs fors of the public for this item. >> no other members from the public on this item. >> public comment is closed. thank you for bringing this

change to the rules committee. i would love to add my name as a cosponsor and send this to the full board with positive recommendation on that motion, a roll call please. >> on that motion, (roll call). the motion passes without objection. >> thank you. could you please read the next item. item no. 3, appointing six members, terms ending 2022, advisory committee. >> thank you, mr. young. colleagues and welcome supervisepreston. as a threshold i was going

through 13 applicants for six seats. i was rather startled that there was only one tenant applicant for the tenant seat. i found that would be rather odd and took it upon myself to call supervisor preston over the weekend and found out how that could be. i think a lot of the folks interested go to the panning department's website. as they ought to in so far as the planning department is staffed for this advisory committee under the law. if you go to that web page, it actually did not list seat one

as being open. it listed other seats but not seat one. what i would like to do is a threshold matter is continue seat one so that we can have a better public process relative to making that available to interested parties and proceed with seats two through six having said that, i will turn it over to supervisor preston for some opening remarks. if you want to do it now or later and go to the applicants in the order they appear. however, i have received notification that mr. henderson has to go teach a class at san francisco state.

i'll call him first out of order so he can teach that class and accommodate that request. >> thank you. it sounds like there may be something time sensitive for one of the applicants, i'm happy to defer remarks. i'm happy to defer for seat one. we didn't know until the agenda came out that seat one was open for applicants. that concurs with your statement for making sure that's open for folks to be aware of before making decisions on that. i'm happy to defer remarks. >> all right. if there are no other remarks from committee members. let's start with mr. henderson and we'll go to speakers in

order that they appear on the agenda. good morning. is mr. henderson there. mr. clerk? >> we are checking. it does not appear that he is currently logged in at the moment. >> so much for that special request. we'll go to daniel for seat one. i'll be making a motion to sever seat one and making a call back to the chair. would you like to wait until a future meeting. all right. let's go to eric -- i don't know if i pronounced that

correctly. >> good morning supervisors. thank you for the opportunity to speak. thank you for the clarification. i would have applied under seat one because i am a tenant. seat two seems to be a resident, homenner. homeowner. i definitely don't own my home. >> i noted that on your application. seat two which are you not qualified for because you are not a homeowner. at any rate, we can't appoint you to seat two. you may want to fill that form out again. however, the floor is yours for

no longer than two minutes. >> i would like to build my statement in the hub area. the market street plan and found it to be incredibly illuminating. i primarily focused on sections five and seven. my apartment faces market street between goth and franklin. i understand the jack hammering. we're right around the corner from each other. that said, i think this section of the plan area faces some really specific challenges that the plan does go onto address

really thoroughly especially in section seven, whereas the transit portion in section five does go onto expand the plan area all the way to the hayes valley. there are parts of it described in the plan as a no human plan due to asphalt and congestioned traffic. plan goods onto recommend that rate and sustained plan elements needs to be a part of the plan coming to fruition. one of my qualifications as stake holders is to see this plan come to fruition. a more liveable, walkable transition.

that was the crux of my analysis was this continued and sustained pressure needs to be continuously applied to ensure plans are enacted. >> two minutes is up. >> thank you. >> sorry. i just want to note that mr. henderson just logged in. >> okay. the floor is yours. i understand you have a class that is to proceed shortly. not to exceed two minutes. you are on mute. >> good morning supervisors. thank you for the opportunity to speak. i do have to teach a class in a few minutes. it's actually a urban

transportation class. i've been involved with mark and octavia for quite some time. worked on the innovative progressive parking standards that the plan spear headed. i would lake to continue my involvement with this plan because there are some huge multiple moving pieces that are going to impact this part of the city. the circulation patterns and traffic issues have not been finished. we have a will the more work to do to really address the bigger issues of thousands if not over a hundred thousand vehicles a day coming through there. transit capacity is woefully

inadequate. dove tailing with the need to reduce the bus service before the pandemic. you couldn't even get on a bus. we need to pick up where we left up on the prepandemic period. transit capacity was really a mess. this area has great potential as a bicycle oriented area. also delivery. this area is severely impacted by the gig economy, delivery, the uber's, and lyft's. none of that was approved. we need more housing in the center of the city but it needs to be affordable housing.

i may have gone over a few seconds. i do apologize. >> thank you. the next applicant mr. sterns has withdrawn. we go to francis. the floor is yours.

let's go to tracy jacks who i know has joined us. tracy, you're on mute. >> apologize. good morning and thank you for the opportunity and for considering me for this seat. as someone who has been part of the neighborhood association and the transportation and planning committee and someone who has been active in the community since i purchased by condo here, i'm very interested -- i have a vested interest and the goings on in the market area because it

impacts my daily life. i would be honored to have a voice on this committee when it's making decisions and advising the board of supervisors. thank you. >> thank you mrs. jacks. now we'll go to benjamin. >> i've been a homeowner for seven years. i worked on the transportation planning committee and related projects the whole time. i'm one of the defacto historians and writer of history. most of the time is volunteering the rfp perfects he is for the

90's and 2000s. i'd like to be more formerly involved. i have personal experience on doing work on my home. i think just a healthy affirmative vision of what the future should look like. inclusive and increased housing, diverse mobility. looking forward to welcoming large numbers of new neighbors and ensure they have good housing and mobility and design. i would like to be involved in

helping steward. i would be honored in sitting on the cac. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. and thank you for the e-mails you have sent us. with that we'll go to michael rooney. adam roberts i know is with yous. >> i live here. i'm part -- a bit of background about myself. i've been in this home since march of 2020. i was an advisory neighborhood

commissioner. soliciting input neighbors, that is going to be particularly important. i really appreciate your consideration of my application and happy to answer any questions. thank you. >> thank you. seeing no questions. why don't we go onto autumn. the previous individual mr. lee withdrew. autumn, are you with us? >> autumn is the only applicant for c4. why don't we go onto gail for seat five. >> hi there. can you hear me now?

>> yes, we can. >> can you see me? >> yes. >> okay. i'm gail. i'm applying for seat number five. i'm a long standing supporter of the plan and my goal as the cac member is to faithfully implement the plan. i've lived in san francisco for 45 years. it's always been my goal to constructively engage in the community. i served on the board for three years as president. my full understanding of the market plan began as a member of the planning committee. i was often the substitute chair. my activism has prepared me for this seat. some of my accomplishments and

organizations and groups include gang violence reduction and engaging at risk youth. many accomplishments including the complete rebuild of the hayes valley park. here is my six point agenda should you recommend me for seat five. building the plan, adding parcel l with k for affordable housing. expanding space. more public spaces throughout the hub as well as safety measures around pedestrians and

psychists. our transit first priority in how we live and work. bringing justice to those most impacted in the western edition by the central freeway construction. advocating for the removal of the essential freeway back to bryant. a false accusation was made in using my influence and a report i believe will put this matter to rest on october 15th. happy to take any questions. >> thank you. our next applicant is madelyn.

>> autumn let's go to you. >> i'm interested in furthering my work in the community by working with you all. >> i don't think we have any questions. appreciate you showing up this

morning. we will now go to madeline howard. >> thank you all for having me today. i'm a resident. i have a huge interest in the activation of the corridor via this committee due to arts, entertainment, social justice, and the historic and iconic way that san francisco does it. i'm currently a non voting member of the hayes valley evaluation. i'm a events curator

coordinator. i moved approximately three years ago now. in the summer of 2020 found hayes valley association and art works and have been a member every since. in our uprising of 2020 felt the need to get active and participated in door knocking. i'm a cool kid. you guys want me. thank you very much. >> are any of the individuals that i called on here.

doesn't sound like it. why don't we go to public comment on this item. are there any members of the public who wish to testify. >> yes. members of the public who wish to testify. if you haven't already done so please press star three to line up to speak. it appears we have one member of the public for public comment at this time. >> please proceed. >> can you hear me now? >> proceed. >> yes. david again. brief points here. to victor or the staff, please update the information sheet to

reflect the planning department move, the address and phone number changed. if anyone was following up on the information sheet, they would not have been able to reach the planning department. the market plan assumed transit on both hayes streets which mta should restore. i support the efforts to that end. if jeremy lee was removed, i assume that will be moved to the call of the chair. thank you very much.

>> i would like to offer some remarks. i understand this has been somewhat of a transition period for the cac with a number of seats vacant. i hope with this city's support, this will begin a new chapter for the cac. i think the cac can play a

really important role in the neighborhood. the applicants before this body are ready and able to provide oversight on improvements and funding and what matters to the residents who live within the boundaries of the plan area. the applicants who you have heard from, my office have encouraged qualified neighbors to apply. thank you to all the candidates who did apply. we urge all candidates for the selective committee to remain engaged and stay in contact with our office or your supervisor as the case may be and also with the folks who are ultimately

selected for the cac. i would like to briefly speak on some of the candidates. my office urges the committee to support today. thank you for hearing from them today. first tracy jacks. an enthusiastic volunteer to get the shared spaces program which has been a huge success off the ground during the pandemic. autumn, i was proud to nominate to the legacy business registry recently. she is a dedicated neighborhood volunteer. jason hennedder son.

chair of the planning committee, a visionary of sustainable urban design. one of the first people that our office called when complex transportation and land use issues come up for district five. madeline, a queer buy racial artist. many programs, as she mentioned. lastly, i want to mention, my office has been in contact with a number of applicants as well as chair peskin and believe there are configurations that can accommodate the slate that

i've described. the current applicant for seat six would also qualify for seats three and tracy jacks currently a seat for seat two could be moved for the at large seat, seat six if that is the committee's preference. thank you for your time and consideration on this cac and frankly on all the various bodies that come before you. thank you for getting the best candidates for these positions and moving these forward. >> thank you for your vetting of these candidates and suggestions on how this puzzle might be put together. thank you to all the applicants. i want to reiterate that whether you are recommended for appointment this morning or in the, we seriously urge you to

stay involved in the process that has been going on since the earthquake. with that supervisor mandleman. >> thank you. i think the slate that was mentioned makes a lot of sense. i would hope to put before professor rudy for seat two. he is on a flight this morning. if some of these are go to go going toget continued. i might continue seat two. >> i would like to make an all uncompassing motion to do the

following things. continue seat one and two to the call of the chair. and to have mrs. howie in seat four. miss jacks in seat six and send those recommendations to the full board with recommendations to seats five and six. and seats one and two to the call of the chair. >> thank you for your time. i appreciate it. >> if there's no objection on that all encompassing motion. >> we have a recommendation for seat three, jason for seat five. tracy jacks for seat six.

seats one and two will get called to a future meeting at the call of the chair. >> that is correct. >> okay. on that motion. (roll call)

>> chair: good afternoon, this meeting will come to the order welcome to the 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 supervisor peskin and supervisor preston. the clerk is and become major and i'd like toacknowledge the staff and assistant tv covering and taking care of us during this meeting. madam clerk, do you have any announcements ?>> clerk: the minutes will reflect community members participated inthis remote meeting through videoconference to the same extent as though they are physically present .

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note item 1. >> clerk: item 1 is resolution to declare the intention of the board of supervisors to rename donner avenue between arelious walker drive and west harney way located in public housing to charlie way. commenters should call 415-655-0001. the meeting id is 2497 312 0703. then press pound, pound. if you have not done so already press star 3 to line up to speak. thesystem prompts will indicate you have raised your hand and are inconference . madam chair . >> chair: thank you madam clerk. we are joined by president walton for this item. welcomepresident walton would you like to make your opening remarks ? >> thank you chair melgar and

my colleaguesupervisor preston . i'm here before you to honestly talk positively about the resolution that i put before the board along with cosponsor supervisor safai and we want to make sure that we get one step closer to renaming donner street to charlie way. the name changes to honor charlie walker who was an icon in the bayview hunters point community similar to that name being synonymous with chinatown. you cannot talk aboutthe history of hunters point community without saying the name charlie walker . the lake people here called him the mayor of hunters point. being in business for six decades charlie has helped hundreds possibly thousands of young black men and women enter

the fields of construction and small business. before california's jail realignment countless black men and women will return home to the bayview community unable to find employment becauseof their criminal records . no one would hire them but charlie walker. charlie walker tracking and construction company gladly employed formerly incarcerated individuals from the community and as he couldn't find ajob with his company he would certainly find an employment with a different construction company or a different company .most of charlie's life in hunters point he was fighting for resources, fighting for civil rights while the city in some cases was intentionally reallocating resources to other parts of san francisco . when we talk about equity work there's that still needs to be done in the city charlie walker is one of the last civil rights witnesses can share with you

how unfair the city has been to black people over the years because of fearless leaders likecharlie walker , shirley jones, willie kennedy , adam rogers and eloise westwood and so many others i am here in this seat as the first african-american male to serve as president of the board of supervisors representing district 10 which of course we all know includes hunters poin community. so today colleagues i'm honored to initiate this process . he is now one of the last civil rights leaders that we have left here in hunters point and with that i just want to thank youfor this time this morning and look forward to a review of this item . you . >> chair: thank you president walton and thank you for bringing this item to the committee . i'm so glad we areconsidering it . colleagues, any questions for president walton?

doesn't look like it so with that let's go to public commen . >> clerk: thank you madam chair. i just want to seeif we have any callers in the queue. if you have not done so already press star 3 to be added to the queue.please wait until the system indicates you have been undiluted . they have indicated we have 2 listenersin the queue . >> chair: seeing there is no public comment public comment is closedfor this item . dowe have a motion to send this item with a positive recommendation out of committee ? >> so moved. >> chair: let's take role please. >> clerk: on amotion by supervisor preston, supervisor peskin >> aye . >> clerk: supervisorpreston . >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor melgar. >> chair: aye.

that motion passes unanimously. thank you president walton. madam clerk will you please call item number two. >> clerk: item 2 is an ordinance submitting the planning code to allow neighborhood social service and philanthropic facility uses in the chinatown mixed-use district with conditional use authorization. change the provision of abandonment of a use that exceeds a use five maximum in chinatown mixed-use district, change the use size limit and size maximum in chinatown, exempt institutional community uses and legacy businesslimits . members of the public who wish to provide public comment, the caller number on the screen is 415-655-0001. the meeting id is 2497 312 070 . then press pound, pound. if you have not done so already

press star 3 to line up to speed. thesystem will indicate you have lined up to speak .>> chair: we continue this item from last week for some amendmentsthat were introduced and we heard quite a bit of input from the community improviser peskin, do you have any further remarks you'd like to share with us ? >> thank you madam chair thank you for hearing this last week and thank you to the community for which we heard widespread support particularly from any number of different interests and individuals and organizations in chinatown as well as porters and the other two areas that this legislation affects, hope street and north beach. as i indicated, that in additionto the amendments i made last week , there would be some further amendments that

were being drafted by the city attorney in response to planning staff recommendations andtheir staff report . those have been circulated to you prior to thismeeting . the first would require that the planning commission find that a social service or philanthropic facility primarily serves the chinatown neighborhood . you can find those amendments that i'm offering today on page 3, lines 10 and 21 and page 2, lines 11 through 19 as well as making a technical protection to allow for the eligible use. established under circumstances. that change is in line 21 for 24. there are a number of purely rhetorical collections that are purely clerical and you can see those on page 3, the insertion of the word nonconforming within the space of more than.

those are purely clerical in nature. i am having maybe a little disagreement with the city attorney as to whether these require a one-week continuance or not. i don't know if mrs. jensen wantsto weigh in on that . i don't think these are substantive but obviously i have no choicebut to confer to legal counsel on the question . and if they are deemed to be substantive would request yet one more one-week continuance though i would like to subject to public comment move the aforementioned amendments. >> chair: thankyou supervisor peskin . is mister jensen on mark can you let us know whether they are they are substantive? they are consideredclinical . >> i defer to counsel. >> chair melgar, city attorney

jensen and only two of the amendments areconsidered substantive . it's the one creating a new finding and the amendment at the bottom of page 1 which basically creates a new ability to revivean otherwise abandoned use size . that wright did not exist under the code before only goes to amendmentswhich we are considering to be substantive . >> chair: thank you very much city attorney jensen. it sounds like we need to bring this back next week supervisor peskin. with that the you have any questions orcomments ? if not we will go to public comment. okay, let's go to public comments madam clerk. >> clerk: dv is checking to see if there are any callers in

queue. if you have not done so press star 3 to be added to the queue. for those on hold continue to wait until the system indicates you have been on muted. we have threelisteners and maria if you can on the caller . >> caller: lindachapman. first of all recognizing supervisor peskin is a master of land-use , most of this must be very beneficial . i still have some unanswered questions and concerns and so on because i've seen the horrible unintended impacts on street in our commercial districtof past actions of the board of supervisors planning commission . so it sounds as if it is intended for a specific place, a specific business. i don't knowwhich one. maybe i wouldn't be concerned if i knew . certainly mergers for something like making a furniture store

and antiquestore that need to make space and under conditional use , good idea. merging legacy business is probably not that. it sounds like it would be one of the bars for example. if it were made, what is and legacy business? they came along in that case and took over his face that havetheir own legacy restaurant . no question, it's a place we went after my mother's funeral service. the whole family from the west side and so forth but it was bought as the alu officers that many people were doing by people who wanted to exploit the 47 licenses to turn them into bars. it wasturned into a horrible out-of-control entertainment business . based on a restaurant license and an entertainment approval for a piano bar, mind you. it was sodisruptive amongmany other businesses there that

were disruptive that it ruined the entire district . that and the others together . and most recently a neighbors meeting and entire meeting was devoted to the complaints against mays by the neighboring bar owner that it was disrupting his business and the murder in the alleyand the totally out of control who went there and the badsecurity and all that . without the conditional use , would that be possible for them to be enlarged? >> clerk: that includes public comment, madam chair. >> chair: with that public comment is now closed. we have a motion on the floor from supervisor peskin to amend the item so let's take role on that and then we will come back next week to vote on the entire item. madam clerk. >> clerk: on the motion made by supervisor peskin to amend, supervisor peskin. >> aye.

>> clerk: supervisor preston. >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor melgar. >> chair: aye that motion passes and we will come back to this item next week . >> clerk: on the motion to continue as amended. >> chair: i didn't realize we needed a motion supervisor, you made that motion . >> so moved. >> clerk: on the motion by supervisor peskin to continue to next week, supervisor peski . >>. >> chair: aye. >> clerk: supervisor melgar. >> chair: aye. thank you madam clerk. please call item number three. >> clerk: item 3 is an order amending the planning code to

require use of inclusion in the housing street for a project within one quarter-mile of the boundaries of the district or anywhere in san francisco if not allocated withintwo years ofpayment , and affirming appropriate funding. members of the public who wish to provide public qaeda comment on item 3 , our number is 415-655-0001 and the meeting number is 2497 312 0703 and press pound, pound. if you have not done so press star 3 line up to speak. >> chair: for this item we are joined by supervisor catherine stephanie from district 2. welcome to the committee and supervisor, the floor is yours. >> thank you supervisor's peskin and preston.before you today is a ordinance that would earmark $1.5 million for a 100

percent affordable housing project to be constructed within a .5 mile radius of the geary masonic special usage within two years of deposit into the citywide affordable housing fund and after two years the fund will be placed anywhere in the city. we're asking for an amendment so this legislation would expand the radius to 1.5 miles to include more of district 2 especially in the lombard area and ihave , i believeeverybody has that amendment . by way of background the geary masonic special used district was adopted in 2016 to facilitate the redevelopment of the lucky penny restaurant which supervisor peskin referred to as the copper penny before it was the lucky penny and it was to allow a mixed-us development project with retail and housing including on-site below-market rate units . the special used district was amended in spring of 2020 to allow either inclusion of on-site below-market rate units

or payment asan inclusionary housing the . and the developer has opted to pay the inclusionary housing fee. other comments then, it was said back then i committed to pursuing the legislation before you today to ensure that the inclusionary housing fee would be used for a project in close proximity to the lucky penny project in district 2 so we could provide affordable units in district 2 as wellwe're in the midst of a housing crisis as everyone knows and that has been exacerbated by the pandemic . like some of you sitting on this committee i was disappointed . that the lucky penny project could not accommodate the inclusion of affordable housing units and we've been down that roadwhen we passed the amendment to the special usage back in 2020. despite labor shortages , skyrocketing cost of materials

and other adverse conditions i am giving everything i can to make sure my district is pivotal to add units with affordable housing to its fair share to increase density and provide homes for working people and that's why i insisted on 186 units of affordable housing for low income seniors in the 3333 california project instead of the office space that was going to be in that project originally and i'm happy they successfully entitled that project back in 2019 . i did feel the need is all the more urgent after seeing the california fair housing task force. identified mostof district 2 as i opportunity areas , one whose characteristics have been shown by to support positive economic educational and health outcomes for those low incomefamilies particularly long-term outcomes for children which of course is something i care deeply about . i believe this legislation will

actually assist in actualizing those goals and i'm actively working with mohcd and we're working to createhousing for people of all income levels in district 2 . i've been working on this and speaking about this and the one area i'm thinking about with real legislative aide, it's something i really don't want to let go of. we have this opportunity to gain the sea to focus on d2 or within 1.5 hopefully miles of the lucky penny project. so i will be asking you to spend the geographic area where the fee could be used from what is currently proposed to the .5 radius to 1.5. i know this includes the broader area adjusted to as i shared my office is committed to working closely with mohcd to find a location for it with 100 percent affordable project

in my district. at this time i be happy to take any questions you may have on this legislation and get your thoughts. >> thank you very much supervisor stephanie, any questions orcomments for supervisor stephanie ? supervisor preston . >> thank you supervisor stephanie for your work on this. and i appreciate it . i thank you for that amendment that you circulated around. i think it's great that we'll have a little more of a cushion in the two years that was originally there and hopefully i believe that's getting amended to five years to dedicate those funds more locally before they would revert to general funds if i'm including that right. and just a couple of things, one is i think in the amendmen , just a technical thing. i think the change from a quarter-mile radius to 1 and a half miles, i think that also

needs to be made ina second sentence .so it's right now in the draft we got you made that change on what is it, piece three, line 1 but it also needs to be in the sentence that follows references one quarter-mile of the boundaries i think we should include in your amendment to make that the same one and a half miles of friendly amendment suggestion there. and then i also would say more generally on this aside from the fact that i'm still sort of lamenting the loss of the luck penny . we're alltrying to get over that . but that aside, i just feel i know this has come up in other contexts around the past on what is the appropriate when you're trying to target affordable housing near a site where someone does the and payments, what's the appropriate amount ?

sometimes trying to have a smallercircle more like what you had proposed around a quarter of a mile .i am fully prepared to support you in your efforts in getting this housing in d2 whatever you think is appropriate and that's one of the half miles from the site so i have no issue whatsoever extending that i do for the record want to say that i think this is a fairly unique site. supervisor stephanie talk about the history of the site, the sort of second or now third round of ordinances to try to get this site right and get the fundsused and activated for affordable housing . i want to make clear as one third of this committee that i generally wouldn't look very, would not view this as a precedent and would look fairly skeptically at efforts to define and i don't want it to become a default of a mile and a half from the site.

that is not a statement whatsoever on supervisor stephanie's efforts here and i assume that is guided by potential sites within her district that she wants to make sure can still be on the table so i would absolutely differ that and support that but i did want to note this comes up in other contexts as well and we also all know from our different districts sometimes a mile and a half can be, can include an area that has quite a bit of affordable housing and areas that have absolutely not. so generally we try to narrow that circle, constrained that circle as opposed to created but anyway, those are more comments generally on thisissue than the district . i do have as a supervisor stephanie i think i wrote around the other to online 2 about the third cage, let me knowif you want to include that . >> would you like to make the motion to amend this item as

you just stated? >> i do think you're correct, i think that that first to the one quarter-mile in the next sentence needs to be one and a half. i think you're technically correct. >> is that okay supervisor stephanie? >> of course, that was probably something that was missed by when it was drafted. course, thank you for pointing that out. >> not to anybody under the bus, supervisor. >> we can vote after public comment. did you have any further comments supervisor? >> no. >> chair: i will say supervisor stephanie, the supervisor for district that also has fairly low density that i really commend you and how tenacious

you've been in your efforts in following this project for the many years. it's been on the table .since we lost the yummy grilled cheese sandwiches at thelucky penny . and this is a unique site as supervisor preston talked about . it is at the top of a very busy commercial corridor and you stop with it and insisted on housing and density for this site that brings something fairly new to your district so i appreciate your efforts. and with that i think madam clerkthat we can take public comment >> . >> clerk: dp is seeing if we have any callers in the queue. if you have not done so press star 3 to be added to the queue.please wait until the

systemindicates you have been under muted . i see we have no callers in fe . >> chair: then public comment onthis item is now closed . uber visor preston. >> i thought it was part of the amendment. maybe not. supervisor stephanie through the chair, just wanted to make sure the issue of the 2 years that the legislation as drafted had the fund targeted to the mile and a half and if the first two years is not used and we're reverting to citywide and the latest version had five years. i just want to confirm that because it's not inthe market . is that part of what you're saying ? >> since we changed this i do have a copy here on page 3, lines three and four where it says within one quarter-mile which, that's what we're

changing too. of the boundaries within five years of the project. >> that's part of the amendment, thank you so much. >> thank you for making sure aboutthat . >> that, supervisorpreston . >> supervisor stephanie submitted along with a change of page 3, line 2 changing one quarter-mile to one and a half. >> chair: madam clerk, please call the roll on this amendmen . >> supervisor peskin. supervisor preston supervisor melgar .>> chair: aye thank you madam clerk.

do we havea motion to adopt the item ? out of committee with apositive recommendation as amended ? >> so moved. >> chair: please call the role. >> clerk: supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor melgar. that motion passes unanimously. thankyou supervisor stephanie . >> have a great day. >> please call item number four. >> commissioner: >> clerk: item number four amends of the planning code to designate 396 february 3, 1998 12th street a.k.a. san francisco bar as alandmark

consistent with the standards put forth in article 10 of the planning code . members of the public who wish to provide public comments on item number four call the number on the screen. that number is415-655-0001. the meeting id is 2497 312 0703 . and press pound and pound again. if you've not done so already press star 3 to line up to speak. the system will indicate you have moved to speak. >> chair: today is visit the land use committee day by our colleague. i think we have supervisor matt haney here with us or perhaps hisrepresentative. do we have , we are. hello, miss mahogany is with us fromsupervisor katie's office, welcome . >> good afternoon, thank you so

much for having us and for hearing this item today. my name is honey and i am here to speak on behalf of supervisor haney who introduced this legislation introducing landmark designation for the eagle bar which is a historic life institution located in our district and within that letter stonewall district.i will say it feels fortuitous we are having this hearing today which is the day after the return of negative which was the original name of the fulton street fair which we, we proclaimed this year and it just took place yesterday and the eagle was again a central part of the celebrations of fulton street. i know we've spoken on this item previously when it first came to the board a few months ago so i'll keep my remarks relatively brief but i did want to do provide this item with the respective background so please bear with me. the eagle first opened its

doors at its current location in february 1981 at the corner of 12thand harrison and has been operating there for over 40 years . the folsom and harrison corridors provide an area known as the miracle milewhich counted nearly 30 different gay businesses including letter bars, clubs , shops and bathhouses in the 70s and 80s. the eagle is currently one of the few leather bars left in thisarea and holds much significance to the lgbt to amenity and the history of the city . it is imperative to supervisor haney we acknowledge its significance and endeavor to prevent this rich history from being erased due to destabilizing pressures of gentrification and development. you've received dozens of letters from our district residents extolling the profound importance of the eagle and to them and it's san francisco's queer community and a tradition that was circulated by the eagle received over 1500 signatures insupport of the

landmark effort . the san francisco eagle is a cornerstone of our leather lgbt cute district and an important cultural institution and humidity anchor that deserves all the protections and privileges the city can provide . if the sf eagle achieves landmark status it will be the seventh lgbtq site site is a friend landmark in the city. thanks for supporting the initiation of this process. and the leather lgbtq cultural district and for an owner and steward of the eagle, the historians have documented the history of san francisco including but not limited to the l rubin, shane watson, donna graves and the sf city planners especially alex westhoff who worked so hard to pull the forthcoming presentation together and thank

you to chair melgar and the committee membersfor your consideration of this destination . >> chair: thank you for the thoroughness of your presentation. i'm amazed . this is the first in the soma. thank you to supervisor haney for bringing it forward. we have francis mcmillan who will weigh forth on thisitem. >> i have a presentation . >> we have granted you presenter status if you want to bring it up ... >> can you see my screen? i'm sorry.

>> chair: we can see it. >> thank you. good afternoon supervisors and planning department staff. i'mpresenting historic preservation commissions designation for the eagle bar as an article 10 landmark . we recommended designation from 19 to 21. that report was prepared at senior planner westhoff's office. the eagle bar was established in its current location at 12th street. it is significant for its association with the lgbtq committee of san francisco's longest running leather bar and over the course of four decades the eagle has served as a community center for self markets lgbtq community posting events includingcharitable fundraisers , live music and comedy, political and social organizingand more . it's designated the eagle 107

san francisco landmark properties associated with its lgbtq history. the eagle opened just before the onset of the aids epidemic and through the 80s and 90s they lost 22 staff members to eight. during the early days response to aids was lacking and the san francisco model established support and compassion for community groups to care for people with aids. the eagle became a center for fundraising activities including several recurring events which continue today including weekly fundraiser bus and the annual bare chest calendar. collectively these events raise millions of dollars for age-related charities as well as others such as suicide prevention breast cancer and homelessness. it is significant for its association with market fernandez, chair compton. all of whom played prominent roles in the development of the eagle as well as the letter and

lgbtq seen locallyand internationally . the. ofsignificance is 1981 to 2020 . determine the san francisco eagle bar meet eligibility requirements and status as warranted . the departmentrecommends landmarkdesignation . i'm happy to answer any questions . >> chair: thank you miss mcmillan for that presentation. colleagues, dowe have any questions for miss mcmillan ? okay then, let's take public commentsmadam clerk . >> clerk: we are seeing if we have any colors in thequeue . if you have not done so already press star 3 to be added to the queue. please wait until the system indicates you have been under muted . we have five listeners. if you can unmute the first color please .

>> caller: i think it hurtsthe moral fiber of the city . [inaudible] >> clerk: [inaudible] let's hear from thecaller . >> caller: my name is larry santiago, owner of the eagle bar. i want to thank the committee and boardof supervisors for this consideration . there are so many words i would like to express in such little time but however i just wanted to consider this designation because the san francisco eagle

has been in a unique position and place of community for many years and we look forward to the next 20 years so i'm looking forward to having everybody from all over the world over here and we will continue our mission of being a community space for everybody in every corner of our community. thank you. >> clerk: next speaker. >> caller: linda chapman. i say good idea. lgbtq landmarks have been designated now in various parts of the city and i mentioned i just returned from a demonstration in front of the lgbtq business, the legacy

business in our district in paul at 1520 nine. the demonstrators were out there todemolish this business . when i came to, even before i came to live on mount hill in the 1960s i use to take the polk bus up to galileo and i was floored by the gorgeous neighborhood commercial district, the most beautiful i ever saw. i didn't realize at the time it was a lgbtq district before polk street and when i did live here i thought you are so lucky and we would go to the state which was a lgbtq mecca but also the one where the other neighborhood peoplecould go like the ladies did not really go into the gay bar . now it's to be demolished. why? because the people who bought it, a development company decided they would