good afternoon. everyone. this meeting will come to order. welcome to the september 12th regular meeting of the land use and transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisor. i'm joined by dean preston and supervisor aaron preston.

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>> thank you so much. just to add to her announcements, masking is still highly recommended although not required throughout the building. please be respectful to those around you and provide adequate spacing if you're seated in the chambers. we have super scriers chan with us. i understand we need a little more time. i know there are a lot of folks here in the audiencer in item. we're reviewing some language. so we're going to call that out of order a little bit later. this is going to be a quick meeting so you'll not be waiting long but we'll do that to hem the process. if we could, madam clerk, please call item 2. >> ordinance amending the planning code for the tenderloin special sign. acting zoning controls for neon signs and affirming ploipt

findings. members of the public who would like to provide public he comment call (415)655-0001 and the meeting item is -- and press pound and pound again. to speak for item number 2, press *3 and we'll know you have raised your hand. madam chair. >> thank you very much supervisor preston for your introduction of this item. i see we have veronica flores for planning here and i will turn it over to you. >> thank you very much. the item before today would create tenderloin neon special sign district which provides specific controls to encourage new neon signs and with the amendments thail descroibt committee. committee members make it easier

to repair and restore existing neon science. the effort is rooted in the tenderloin community action plan. an effort led by the tenderloin people's congress to engage can with tenderloin stakeholders. over 1200 people were apart of the process and it was designed to map out a vision for the tenderloin future. the results of work including community meetings, surveys, and the tendser loin people's summit was a vision 2020 document. a powerful statement of priorities. it addresses economic opportunity, improvement, housing and homelessness as well as arts and culture. nested within the last category was a recommendation to restore and encourage more new neon signs in the neighborhood to

help create a tenderloin identity. after the recent restricting was brought to my attention by two neighborhood leaders in particular. katie kohn ri from the tenderloin museum and miss preteky who explained they were pursuing legislation for the community action plan. miss kohn ri explained she recently found a photo from the 1940s with an original neon sign for the cadillac hotel. she had a vision to create not an exact replica but a historical replacement for the neighborhood showing the original cadillac on one side and the other with the word "tenderloin. the plesm was that was not permitted under current

regulations. my work with planning staff and city feern's office to draft stlotion create new rules for neon signs in the tenderloin neighborhood. as the process evolved and we brought in additional stakeholders, we recognized there could be broader application for making neon signage for the area to allow noncompliant signs to be removed to allow for restoration of some of the classic neon signs where significant work needed to revive them. this adds up to the policy before us today. it intends to make it easier to create new neon signs in tenderloin and more easily re--we pair and restore those tt exist. we'd like to amend the file before us to incorporate all the

planning staff's recommendations from its excellent commission report and the line by line amendments are circumstance whraited to committee members. for residential hotels clarifying that one, these signs are considered identifying signs and two, the projecting signs and dimensions are for the sign its sofa. next is to strike neon stien provisions that are more restrictive than the existing sign regulations also change "blade signs" to projecting signs and finally to allow legal non-complying neon signs to be physically removed from the building and return to the property in its existing condition. we've been informed by the city attorney that these changes are substantive in nature and will require an automatic continuance. i do want to say in closing that we know there are serious

challenges that the tenderloin faces in many respect and we're working every day to address the challenges. among the people he work in live in the tenderloin, there is tremendous sense of pride in and love for this neighborhood. exemplified by the time and effort that produced the community action plan particularly at a time and so much of the public narrative both here and in san francisco and across the destination focused on all of the problems in the tenderloin. we think it's imperative adds we work on those issues to also not lose sight of what makes the tenderloin one of the diverse working class neighborhoods in san francisco so unique. that includes the trailblazing history as a catalyst for lgbtq

community, a refuge for immigrant communities and home to one-third of neon signs in san francisco. the story is complicated but as public officials i believe we do well to lift up the beauty and work for the challenges in the city. i want to independent by thanking the planning department for their work on this ordinance including but not limited to trent greenen, rich sucr karks and veronica flores. and i believe veronica is here with us either in-person or remotely. to speak to this item and available for questions. also i want to thank my stasm -- staff kyle smeely and that you will those staff who work for

this effort. , others and with that, i hope madam chair we can turn the floor over to ms. flores. >> thank you so much. i see supervisor peskin on the roster. >> thank you chair melgar. i wanted to be added as a cosponsor. >> noted, thank you. welcome ms. flores. >> thank you chair melgar and supervisors. i'm from the planning department staff. i wanted to give a brief commission report today. this item appeared in front of planning commission on august 25th during which time they unanimously recommend add approval of modification. supervisor preston went through the various modifications and i want to highlight there was one addition many modification which was to rename the design

guidelines to design standards and this is so that we would not result in any discretionary sign approval. all of the recommendations were incorporated and -- incorporated in the vergs in front ever you today and circulated. so i'm happy to answer any further questions. >> thank you very much ms. flores. with that, let's take public comment on that item, please. >> thank you madam chair. any members of the public who would like to speak for item 2, you need to approach the podium. and we're at two minutes. >> i'm katie conroy the executive director and we're the official sponsors and we have an initiative called "tenderloin neon a-z" to restore klt neon signs in the tenderloin neighborhood. neon signs are crucial to the

visual identity of the tenderloin. and with this new legislation, it will make it easier to restore signs and throws add new historically inspired neon signs to the tenderloin landscape. after the devastating impacts l -- results of the pandemic, advertising is quhoo tenderloin small business needs right now. weed like to create a neon sign district to allow for new neon signs and allow for existing neon signs to be easily restore. this plan has broad community support. the tenderloin community action plan state as a priority to restore and encourage more neon signs in the neighborhood to create its yidity and we believe the historic district will positive identify the identity for residents. i would like to add a to the historical significance of neon

signs. they will benefit the community for much-needed light for foot traffic, increasing nighttime activity and making the neighborhood safer. a quote joaquin torres: there are so many ways to increase standard safety. there are more culturally significant ways to do that that means lietding up the streets. one of the easiest way is a special way do that by having historic neon signs lighting up our streets tonight. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is woody lavonte from san francisco heritage. it's a 50-year-old organization. the mission is to the dedication of the preservation and

enhancement of san francisco's unique architectural and cultural identity. i'm here to support this special sign district. the tenderloin as supervisor preston said haste nearly a third of all of the neon signs in san francisco and neon is a character-defining feature of the neighborhood. it adds to the richness and its physical cal and cultural identity. this ordinance will more easily allow the existing neon signs in the neighborhood to be we paired and restored and allow selective signs to be installed particularly on the cadillac hotel and the tenderloin museum which are morn community anchors. thank you again for your consideration of this and thank you for your approval. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, i'm rick johnson.

ima representative of ccsroc collaborative and lieutenant manager or representative for the hotel. one of the buildings that does not have a neon sign. we desperately need this. i know a a lot of time and work has gone into it. i can stand here and repeat the same thing over and over again. at the end ever the day, the lighting from the neon sign is actually paramount to other things keeping the neighborhood safe. and i think that's what it's all billion as we move forward and make the neighborhood safer. i think everyone here could benefit from it. i don't want to lose the opportunity of tourism to other areas. let them come here first to the tenderloin. let them see what it is we have

to offer and let's move forward. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> my namal is [indiscernible] and i just -- i am on the organizing department for tenderloin [indiscernible] land use committee which has been meeting since seven years now every tuesday. we -- for many of the folks here are from the land use committee, they live in the neighborhood and are our resident leaders. i would not be here and thank you to the president for mentioning my name but i feel i oweo owe it to them without them i wouldn't be here. thank you very much and looking forward to more neon signs in the neighborhood. thanks. >> thank you so much. next speaker. >> good evening, i'm kathy hahn and i'm a resident ever the

tenderloin i'm also a work for the central city collaborative and i would like to see this item passed because it would help benefit the tenderloin as well as improve the esthetics of the businesses within the tenderloin. thank you. >> next speaker. >> hole i'm jason. and i'm born and raised here in san francisco. and i currently live at the abigail hotel. we just got a restore sign on the side of our building. it's gorgeous. it was once a gray slab. it's now colorful and vibrant and lights um the corner and i would like to see more. >> thank you very much.

next speaker. >> hello supervisors. i'm stephen dennis. there is not much i can add to what haso has already been said. i would thriek say i'm in favor of this. thank you. >> hi, thank you for the opportunity to speak. my name is randall homan and i'm one of the cofounders of a tiny organization called san francisco neon with my husband. and we are a product of the tenderloin museum and we do tours, talks, events and produce an international neon symposium every year. this is big news in the neon world. that san francisco could have historic tenderloin special sign district is big news.

pocatelloo. pocatelloo idaho has one so san francisco should have one too. we appreciate your careful consideration of this. to quote martin true and his book signs streets and store fronts, there is nothing like a neon sign to add the vibrancy to the streetscape. this legislation will really increase the vie bansy of a brsh sigh bransy of the neighborhood of the tenderloin. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. are there any other members of the public that would like to to speak? we'll go to the remolt call-in line. we have seven listeners. unmute the first person, please. >> my name is stephen koals. i'm a curator at letter form archive, a non-profit museum until san francisco dedicated to

typography and graphic design. folks visit us to learn about artifacts of design and we receive from the guests that they want to see works created by land and original artwork. it's a kind of thing that inspires them because it's unique. if we extrapolate that not local area, there are a few things that define account neighborhood than the art of the street. that includes neon signs. they're all handmade. every disi that has preserved and restored neon signs sees a new enthusiasm for neighborhoods where they're prevalent. i support any legislation to resupport ask preserve the designs. >> thank you very much for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i'm tv fisher. i live in the kas pro but i

enjoy spending time in the tenderloin very often with apprehends and family. i want to add my voice in support of the pressure. as a couple of speakers have mentioned, the people who live and work in the tenderloin need and deserve the support of the city and need all of us to continue our recovery after the pandemic. providing a pathway to help restore the existing signs and creating new ones reinforces to me which is a beautiful and unique part of the neighborhood we can be proud of. i'm grateful for the contribution that the signs and people who take care of them nike our urban landscape and i want to thank you for this time. >> thank you. to speak you need to press *3 and we'll call you up for public comment.

>> my name is martin true and i wrote a book called "signs, streets and forefronts" i believe strongly in the proposals for the tenderloin special neon sign district. especially for the right for non-forming signs to be taken offer in necessary work and be returned. this is one of the most essential purpose for sign codes across america. dprsh the preservation is truly valued. i used to live in san francisco years expoog i've been watching the city for years. i've always been watching how historic sign districts and sign

landmark sign codes have been created across america for the past 20 -- 30 years and i see it's taken a while for san francisco to join the ranks of other cities maul and large across america. this is a critical time and san francisco can still be a leader by making this move. i also wanted to mention that i believe in permitting new neon signs to be created to reinforce the identity of a neighborhood. i speak about color and place making and why they're important individual artifacts and elements of an entire streetscape, the character, scale and rhythm. any, please advance this historic sign code.

>> thank you so much. let's take the last caller, please. >> thank you. my name is dedea dlieza, a professor of geology in university of fullerton. i'm coauthorize of the book "neon, a light history" i appreciate the opportunity to advocate on behalf of the tenderloin neon sign district. i think it's tremendous that the tenderloin can be the fairs to make it happen. the tenderloin is incredible and unique across the united states because it has one of the most significant collections of early neen signs anywhere in the united states and many of those are from neon's glory days in the late 1920s and early 1930s

with their magnificent art deco and workmanship. these are all now approaching 100 years old and they've been living outside in the weather for that entire 100 years. that means that just in order to continue to exist and ton provide the neighborhood identity that they have for nearliy a century, they need care. account care that they need requires that a sign be able to be taken down, that a historic nonconforming sign be able to be taken down in order to repair and restore it and return it lit to its former glory and place as an essential component of place yidity in the tenderloin. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much.

supervisor preston, do you want to move the amendment? >> so moved. >> on that motion, supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> ing stleup visor melgar. >> yes. >> supervisor -- >> aye. >> you have three ayes. >> and i understand we need to continue to the next a [indiscernible] >> that would be on the [indiscernible] great. on that motion, supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> preston. >> aye. >> melgar. >> aye. >> you have three ayes. >> thank you that motion passes. thank you all. let's go back to item 1. >> item 1 is an ordinance amending the planning code to designate city cemetery located on lincoln park east of san francisco veteran affairs medical center. consistent with the standards as set forth in article x of the

planning code and affirming appropriate signing, members of the public who would like to provide public comment should call into (415)615-0001 and the id and press pound and pound again. if you have not done so and would like to speak press *3 and the system will indicate you have raised your hand. >> we have the responsibilitieser of this item, supervise consider chan with us today. i'llblñ he turn the floor over o her now. >> thank you chair melgar and thank you committee members for hearing this item. this is actually an ylt, there was an item before you toat received unanimous approval of our -- from our colleagues yourself included was a resolution to the landmarking and the ordinance is before you

to do the actual destination. it has been a work in progress and community-driven effort. i'm delighted we're able to deck layer this landmark of the city cemetery. i appreciate the discussion which voted to approve a resolution to recommend the landmark designation. city cemetery was used as a burial ground for he veterans, korean, greek, tall can and jewish association. immigrant communities whose lives and stories and contributions or a part of literally building the foundation of san francisco. this was their burial ground. although transform tying park today and a golf course and also a playground, in the early 20th seen toury an estimated 10,000 bodies still rest beneath the

turf and two prominent monuments will stay in two fairways. this includes the [indiscernible] chapel which stands today as a symbolic intersection of past chinese and san francisco culture and history. the con chow chapel is now a site where our chinese communities for the first time last year in 2021 were able to hold a traditional observation to pay respects for those who came before us. we'll do this again on october 4th of this year according to the lunar calendar. i would like to thank the can community for up lifting the story and advancing this effort to make it the first archeological land park in the city recognizing this is also an active golf course today, would i thriek, as i had at the

historic preservation commission meeting, reiterate that the intent of this landmark destination is not to obstruct or impact the recreational golf use at lincoln park or the operations or any maintenance and essential repairs that are deemed necessary by the city's rec department for improvement to that space which including the golf course and the playground. so thank you to the community members and organizations who have spent -- who have sent in letters of support for this landmarking including the chinese consolidated benevolent organization. the chinese historical society, ampi historic preservation and especially thanks to the san francisco heritage, for lending the research, passion and

commitment to landmarking this integral peetion of our city's history. i want to take this time to thank my eight for putting forward it item. this brings all the communities together including the chinese-speaking community who really felt disconnected to the space for a long time. i just met with them and just really that they're grateful to be able to go beyond chinatown where they've been doing a lot of ceremonial remembrance of the an ses tri and now are able to have the space in the park in nature where it belongs and allowing the community to gather. i want to thank the planning department specifically to kari hari for her artwork and contribution to this. today we have jordan harrison

with us and fine art museum, poly and thea with us and he'll be introducing amendments to hope to have your support today. this amendment is a minor modification to the legislation sections 4.84. of the city cemetery landmark resolution. it's actually consistent to what we're putting in specifically pa allowing the san francisco recreation and park department to indicate it's not going to obstruct or limit their work and this now we understand that as you probably know the area is also including -- area includes legion of honor. we're make stheurg we're thoughtful about this and include a museum oo. i'm happy to read to you

specifically on page 7 line 10, and line 13. it's to actually insert language including like pursuant to and consistent with similar standards construction measures that the fine arts museum may adopt for project under the museum's jurisdiction or line 13, as applicable and following another line, i think three lines down line 18 where the museum as applicable. this -- last but not least, one more amendment is just to add, you know, ep archeological staff in coordination with sf rec and park or the museum staff all this is to mindful of the operations of the area and maintenance of the area. but i'm going to have also the planning department to talk a little bit about this neement make sure this is really the

amendment is specific to the existing envelope of the museum. it's not to -- in the event that museum has any extension of the area or beyond, they'll have to go through the actual process of the planning department. thank you. >> good afternoon allison, planning department staff here to add clarification about the amendment. the purpose of the amendment is so we already had clarify as supervisor chan said that the standard construction measures that applied for rec projects including process for archeological investigation would apply to the legion of honor if they were to move forward to adopt similar standard construction measures. that would be for projects that

have been -- that might occur underneath the museum that are part of the jurisdiction of the museum. >> thank you. i think we can move forward with the presentation. if there is no more questions from the committee members or you can -- >> i don't have any questions for supervisor chan but i have for the sponsor and i want to thank so much for always recognizing the history of and contribution of immigrants to our city. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioner. we have a presentation that i'm hoping that your support staff can bring up furs. you'll see it to your right. thank you so much. good afternoon.

i'm with the planning department staff. before you is request for recommendation on the land a mark designation of city cemetery to the full board of supervisors. next slide, please. to orient you, city cemetery is located within lincoln park situated on the northwest corner of the city in the owter richmond neighborhood. the geographic boundaries outlined in orange consistent of lot 13-13 block 29. the small northern portion is outside the boundaries of the cemetery. the parcel is owned by the san francisco recreation and parks department. next slide, please. before delving into the significance, i'll provide an historical overview.

in 1868 there was land dedicated from 1870 to 1876, the cemetery was primarily use for burials of indij nant people who died without means for burial. in the 1807s the board much supervise krsz began to grant blocks to benevolent and social and religious plots for their members. these were granted to at least 24 different organizations. the city banned new burial at the cemetery at 1898. in 1909 it was reclassified as a park. the period ever significance ghins 1868 with the designation of the land for cemetery purposes. the period ends in 1909 when the

land was transferred to the parks admission. the cemetery is a testament to the evolution of burial customs how the communities took care of their deceased members. it was common for working class people to join cultural and ethnic societies during their life to sure some assurance that their bodies would be taken care of after their death. this reflects changing attitudes where sentiment mentality was offer the date was outwayed by notions of progress. there are two monuments from the certify tri era that are still standing in lincoln dispark embody the practice in the 19th century. finally criteria four, the remnants of the cemetery have yielded important information about the history of san

francisco. archeological studies provide valuable information about the past life ways that are not always captured in historical records. as a cemetery for the indigent wells ethnic, social and religious organizations, city cemetery has the potential to yield information about the beliefs and practices of groups that were disenfranchised in san francisco. i'll move on to discussing the character-defines features of the landmark. it what seven character defining features created during the period of significance. i will discuss each character defining feature in the rest of the presentation. structures buildings, objects, archeological resources within the geographic boundaries not called out for features of the cemetery or the date outside

period of significance are not contributors to the landmark. although the golf course and legion of honor museums are within the geographic boundaries, they're not considered a part of the landmark because thermobuilt after the period of significance and two are not character-defining features of the city cemetery. a although there are some modifications to the ground since 1909, the topography has remained largely unchanged from the topography of the cemetery. the hills, open space and broad vista's overlooking the ocean echos the historical setting of the city cemetery. trees planted to mark section boundaries are still standing. cyprus trees mark section boundaries. the yellow line designates the trees based on historical

photographs. this category consists of possible structures and objects related to the operation of city cemetery such as buried remains of the caretaker's homes labeled on the slide. there are two structures dating to the cemetery era of lincoln park. first is the alter of place of ka prayer, burn being insenses for the journey into the afterlife. it is built ie the shape of an open triangle that translates to a temporary resting place. this is the only 19th century structure designated to host chinese funeral rights in san francisco.

the object slesk i 15-foot tall structure that has values related to grief and commemoration. it was man toured by the company in connecticut. it features maritime for sentiment at that time and romanticism. it was erected in the late 1880s for those 245 helped the san francisco maritime industry. many chinese meme who came to california in the 19th century held the belief their bones must be laid to rest in their home village. individuals are buried and the bones would be disindisperd sent back to the deceased village. pits were often reused multiple

times. although landscaping is still existing,ment remnants may exist below the surface technically those used by chinese organizations in red on the slide. records show that more than 6,000 chinese people were disinterred. records indicate more than 29 people werer aboutied in city cemetery. there were no mass efforts to reall the burials and they that thousands were remaining in the park. the extent to which the societies and organizations move their dead has no idea. there has been no attempt to remove indij nlts as a testament to over 750 individuals in an indigent area in the mid '90s.

mortgage rare furniture are another character deives feature including buried objects, grave markers and items buried with individuals. weave ad received 11 letters about the landmark, they all express support for the landmarking. the golf alliance expresses concern on the golf course's operation. we ensure the landmarking would not prevent the continued operation of the golf course. the city cemetery needs the landmark status. although it has been altered for use as a golf course, it retains integrity for historical and

archeological significance. the commission recommended designation to the board of supervisors. on behalf of the commission, the department recommends approval of the landmark designation. thank you to sf heritage for assistance in preparing the fact sheet for this property and alex ryder and john martini for their research. thank you for your time today. that completes a my presentation. jordan would like to speak to you followed by pridi from the fine arts museum. planning staff is available for any questions you may have. >> thank you very much. welcome. >> good afternoon supervisors. jordan harrison with the recreation and parks department. the department strongly supports this landmark designation that captured the unique significant history of the city cemetery.

supervisor's chan designation ensures we will not forget the contributions in san francisco's history. rec and park staff will continue to work with the community members on their plans for interpretive materials at lincoln park to allow users to learn about the diverse community buried there. thank you. >> thank you very much. we have one more presentation. great. welcome. >> hello. good afternoon. i'm co-chair [indiscernible], i'm the government affairs manager of the museum. i'm here today to represent the fine rts rts museum. we support the designation. and i want to thank ms. chan for her leadership and the efforts

ever state departments, city staff and key members and groups who work collaboratively on this. the fine arts museum supports the proposed change to the language to ensure there is no conflict with the city charter. there is exclusive jurisdiction over the buildings and land set aside for their use, this includes legion much honor located at lincoln park. my understanding this is a clarification and there is no need to go through additional review. thank you for your time and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you very much. >> that scon cleudz all the presentations that we have on this item. i want to thank everyone involved for moving forward. i think there is -- i think there has been an express expressed interest from the museum. and again, partnership with the

san francisco heritage as well as with our communities including chinese companies and moving forward and creating an annual event at lincoln park to think about all the immigrants and those that came before us. on an annual basis in the fall. so thank you. >> thank you very much supervisor chan. let's go to public comment. >> thank you. are there any members of the public who would like to sneak you may approach the podium. >> good afternoon board of supervisors and my special thanks to supervisor chan for your work on this. i'm a member of the century club founded by [indiscernible] after 1950. i'm an avid golfer and i want to talk about three points quickly.

and i apologize if i go over. first of all, my concern is the measure may be a little bit broad. i would like to see supervisor chan entertain putting into the ordinance the language that she spoke about today which is the intent of the ordinance not to diminish the use of this course for golf. had i been around in 1909, but i wasn't allowed to be a citizen of this country, i would have spoken in opposition to turning this into a golf course but unfortunately turned into a golf course. it's ironic that many chinese american kids, elders and seniors now get dwet to use the land for recreational purposes with the indulgence to my -- i my scottish and english friends, the game was inverchted in china and we're proud that municipal

golf is play dz at a municipal golf course remains of chinese that were buried there because they were not allowed to be buried any place else. let us remember the reason why we formed the city cemetery is because other cemeteries in the city did not allow chinese to be there. i would ask for those minor changes and for the fact that the clubhouse, if it's renovated includes language about the history of the chinese buried there as well as the history use of the golf course. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon again supervisors. woody from san francisco heritage. san francisco heritage is proud to senator landmarking and i just want to speak a little more personallien my feelings on this designation. city of san francisco in recent years has made an effort to

center racial and social diverse ri if all the dispts and agencies. i work in the field of preservation which has long celebrated houses of the powerful or halls of people who are wealthy, not the diverse or equitable. it's one of the prouder things i think i've been involved with is this effort to landmark city cemetery. most of the people buried there i think in part lived difficult and hard lives. they were the people who supervisor chan built the city of san francisco. they are mainses and carpet teres and sailors. they represent the vast diversity of our city which we're proud of. italians, chinese, germans, japanese, french, civil war veterans. catholics, christians, jews are all buried in city cemetery.

for too long this significant site has been overlooked for its significance. you can see plaques and you can see art and you can learn about the lincoln highway and holocaust thereathathathathatzau

motion that we approve the amendment as read into the record by supervisor chan. >> on that motion, supervisor presken. >> aye. >> preston. >> aye. >> melgar. >> aye. >> you have three ayes. supervisor preston as a cosponsor. >> i would like to send the item as amended with recommendation listing me as a cosponsor to the full board of supervisors. >> on that motion and noted supervisor perfect be. >> aye. >> supervise preston. >> aye. >> can supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> you have three ayes. >> thank you. that

28464501 and press pound and pound again. if you would like to speak on item there three, press *3. >> the sponsor of this legislation president walton has requested another week for this item and i'm inclined to accept that. i will be making a motion after public comment to continue this item to our meeting on the 189th. because it was agendized this way we have to take public comment. let's do that madam clerk. >> thank you madam chair.

any members of the public would would like to speak for item number three? seeing none we'll move to the public call-in line. we have one listener in queue. >> public on this item is closed and i would like to may go e make a motion that we continue this item to our meeting of september 19th. >> on the continuance to next week's meeting of september 19th. supervisor peskin p 367 aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> that passes. >> revolution 4 is resolution 1021 for parcels in residential and commercial combined or rc and residential mix rm and transit oriented districts requiring conditional use authorization for residential

developments but do not maximize units and affirming appropriate finds. members of the public who would like to speak on item 4 call (415)655-0001 and 234-86-2441 and press pound and pound again. if you wish to speak press *3. *3. madam chair. >> thank you for introducing this item. >> thank you chair melgar and thank you to yourself and supervisor preston who voted for the original legislation in january of last year that the board approved unanimously and the mayor signed on january 22nd of last year. this pressure as set forth in the title extends this interim control by six months to january of next year and slightly

modifies the provisions specifically as it relates to another exception for conditional use authorization set forth on page 6 at line 10. wherein the conditional use shall not be required for xisting residential buildings in rc-r dismrks rto districts wherein the expansion is to two or more units and no resulting individual unit been later than 3,000 square feet and 50% of the size of the largest unit in the building. this has actually proven quite successful this these districts in maximizing density and we are working on permanent controls with the support of the planning department and hope to get that

done in the six-month period and those have been productive considerations. conversations. and this would terminate if we pass the permanent controls in january prior to 2023. >> thank you very much supervisor preston. we have no one here in planning? >> no planning is supportive of this and working with my office on the permanent controls. >> wonderful. that being the case, madam clerk, let's go to public comment on this item. >> thank you. any members of the public who would like to speak for item number four? seeing none, we'll move to the public call-in line and looks like we have zero kawrls. >> public comment is now closed. supervisor peskin, do you want to make a motion? >> i would like to move this

item to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> and oon that motion peskin. >> aye. >> preston melgar. >> aye. >> peskin. >> aye. >> that passes. any other items in. >> no other items. >> thank you, we are now adjourned. yay!

>> my name is sylvia and i'm the owner of the mexican bistro. we have been in business for 18 years and we first opened on garry street in san francisco, and now we are located in a beautiful historic building. and we are part of the historical building founded in

1776. at the same time as the mission delores in san francisco. (♪♪) our specialty food is food from central mexico. it's a high-end mexican food based on quality and fresh ingredients. we have an amazing chef from yucatán and we specialize on molotov, that are made with pumpkin seeds. and we're also known for handmade tortillas and we make our own fresh salsa. and we have cocktails, and we have many in the bar. we have specialty drinks and they are very flavorrable and very authentic. some of them are spicy, some are sour, but, again, we offer high-quality ingredients on our

drinks as well. (♪♪) we have been in san francisco for 27 years, and our hearts are here. we are from mexico, but after 27 years, we feel part of the community of san francisco. it is very important for us to be the change, the positive change that is happening in san francisco. the presidio in particular, they're doing great efforts to bring back san francisco, what it was. a lot of tourism and a lot of new restaurants and the new companies. san francisco is international and has a lot of potential. (♪♪) so you want to try authentic mexican food and i invite you to come to our bistro located on 50

moroo avenue in presidio. and i'll wait here with my open arms and giving you a welcome to try my food. (♪♪) >> so, welcome everybody. welcome, that's right. give yourselves a hand. we're alive. we are ain't dead, it's no funeral right. it's about saving lives. before i start, i just want to acknowledge speaker of the house and her team for being here. nancy pelosi, thank you. i want to acknowledge our mayor of san francisco, mayor london breed. my sister. [applause] so it's a pleasure to have you here in the alley in the selma and i got acknowledge my brother the chief right there. chief of

police, sfpd. originally from la but he's in frisco with us and our new da, my sister, ms. brooks jenkins. thank you. i got to give a shout-out to mom's demand action in the house. the brady campaign, the sftd, all the united playaz here helping us out and i do not want to forget my return citizens and brothers and sisters who recently came out home and i want to give a shout-out to our reentry brother, frederick who did a life i tense and omar and davis who recently came home after doing over three decades behind the walls and even more recent, i want to give a shout-out to my brother, anthony and my uncle in the wheelchair,

doug who came home from doing almost 50 years. welcome home, guys. and all the rest of reentry guys who are here. i got to make sure i give a shout-out to sbd, my brother who cleaned this area all up, big ed who did a life sentence and give a shout-out to everybody making this happen, my brother southern richards in the building. thank you, brother. and all the mothers who are here and you will see them speak. i just want to say this right here is an investment in our community for our kids and the reentry. this whole building back here that we newly are going to open through my guys, alan and chris who helped us finance this, he's going to be a building for kids to learn how to read, for literacy and it's going to be for gentleman who came home from restorative justice reentry so

we're the elementary to the penitentiary for reach, y'all. [applause] so i want to thank you for you guys investing and believing in us because we got to make sure that we have places where we can bring our kids. one of the kids who was in our program, i hate to say my nephew who is recently in a tragic situation last night, nancy, he got shot. it doesn't -- i don't know, it's in god's hand and he's in general right now fighting for his life. in the same place is from our neighborhood where he's from, london. so it's close to home and so this is why we stand in what we do what we do because we're fighting to end senseless gun violence and we want to make sure nobody, no families, nobody, no mothers have to go through the ache and the pain and the tragedy of the senseless violence, so we stand in

solidaritity with all our beautiful people, i want to thank the panels of this building right here, swirl, and brother eli for making this mural happen through every time, my sister alex. if i missed anything, hopefully you'll share. but i want to say this is what we stand for and this is what united playaz foundation is build on. we want to ride and live now. we don't want to ride and die, we want to live. we don't want to, you know, say rip all the time, we want to say lip, live in peace. we want to be here so we can have events and functions where we can come together and say guess what, we celebrated in the great words of maddie scott, we're going to graduations and not funerals so with that said, i want to bring up the house speaker of the

united states of america, my sister, she would have been my ex but -- [laughter] nancy pelosi, y'all. [applause] >> i love you. >> i love you too. thank you very much raudy and thank you to united playaz for all you have done and all of rudy's comments, he was talking about one place or another and i remember our first very big anti-gun violence rally in front of san francisco general, remember, rudy, when we were in front of the san francisco general with the positions who were bringing healing, hopefully to those who were there, so we're like a family to each other. we've been together over and over, how many times mayor, have you taken the lead in churches, on an annual basis on some occasions, mother's day on other occasions, whatever it is, the mayor has

been there. she speaks from personal experience of what growing up in the neighborhood, the hood, her neighborhood was about, so thank you because it's not only that you have taken the lead politically, officially in every way but you're always there sharing the stories of the loved ones. and maddie of course, what can we say about maddie scott? what did she say her say, she said let's stop the killing and start the healing and maddie scott. i don't see it was the last time, but the second to last time i saw her she was shaking hands with the president of the united states at the signing of the bill. nobody had no more right to be there than maddie. it was remarkable and the president understood that. the president understood that and she's led us in many ways and i'm glad to be here with laura. thank you, thank you for sharing your story with us and again, again the

mayor and others from city hall, our officials, our law enforcement, thank you. thank you, chief and thank you da and thank you all. so here we are. i say to my colleagues, we just passed assault weapon ban in the house of representatives. people thought we wouldn't do it, we didn't have the courage to bring it up. people would run and hide but they didn't. they voted for the bill. and i was saying to maddie, not just all politics but civics, if we win two more senators that share our view in this next election two months from today, we'll be able to pull back, hi darling, we'll be able to pull back that filibuster and pass the background check legislation and again the assault weapon ban and make the world safer. i say to the colleagues and congresses, you're political survival and i say that to the republicans,

your political survival is nothing compared to our children as we try and protect them against gun violences so thanks moms, where are you darling, moms demand action and brady against violence and all organizations that worked together. we can do so much maneuvering in the country, the outside mobility skeletonization you're the ones who are -- mobilization and you're making this happen. the outside mobilization, the volunteers, as i say the volunteers and politics and volunteers in politics are our vip's. and thank you for that outside, but we will, how do we say it, every meeting, we're not stopping until the job is done. and what a model, united playaz is to the country, that's why rudy is on my case because we have $4 million in our house bill for

the building and we're intending to bring that check the next meeting as soon as we can get the bill done. [applause] but that's, what we call a personal request of the speaker, so i think we won't have too many problems with that. but again, let's look at each other and say how many times have we seen each other at these meetings and how beautiful it is to see an every widening circle of friends but this is about our children, their safety, you know the record, more children die of anything else combined in the country than gun violence. how could it be? one hundred people a day die of gun violence, five of them little children, little children. so, thank you. thank you for what you do. thank you for being a model to the nation, from our own community, it takes a hood to say the hood. that's what we say. when all of this goes on, we cry about it and the

rest we say, we don't agonize, we organize, we're going to get the job done. thank you all and let's say thank you to rudy for being such, thank you rudy. [applause] thank you, rudy. i said it earlier. our mayor has been a model to the country, to the world, today she welcomed the queen of the netherlands and did so beautifully, representing our city, our values, finding our common ground. but it would be hard to think of any event on gun violence prevention that the mayor hasn't taken the lead on or been at or sent her representatives if she happens to be not in town and that would be very, very rare. we're very blessed in so many ways with her mayor-ship whether it's covid or whatever it happens to be because it's always about the people. it's about justice. it's about fairness, about respect

and she and i share a thought. when rudy was talking about our brothers who are just returning now from some other experiences, i was thinking of the gospel of matthew and the gospel of matthew he says when i was hungry, you fed me, christ said, god says, when i was hungry you fed me, when i was homeless you sheltered me and when i was naked, you clothed me. when i was in prison, you visited me. a very important value for us to have. [applause] we share that value, we all share our respect for our great mayor, mayor london breed. [applause] >> well, first of all, i have so many thoughts running through my head at this moment because of all the people that are joining us here today. madam speaker, we are so lucky and blessed to have

you as our speaker of the house, as someone who continues to fight for the things that are so dear to us. i think that you know, people don't really realize the battles that you deal with on a regular basis, not with making sure that san francisco is okay and that you know, united playaz and other organizations and resources are provided but also taking care of the entire country. looking at the bigger picture of why getting the right people in office is so significant, traveling all over this country to raise money and to elevate the message because when it is all said and done, getting the votes for so many important policies that help us address this issue, that's what makes change and the fact that you worked tirelessly on the safer

communities act, what you're doing around assault, banning assault weapons and i just can go on and on about your leadership because it's helping all of us, you know, meet the need at this time, meet the challenge and come together in this remarkable way, so we are grateful for your leadership and when i think about what's happened over the years, i think about my childhood and growing up with maddie scott's son and just george was a great person and then i see his sons now and it breaks my heart that he never got a chance to see what amazing kids he created but we are here to also make sure that they know who their dad was. you think about these kids who never even

had a chance to go to prom, so i show up for these events whether i'm supervisor, mayor, it doesn't matter, a title matters not to me. what matters most to me is making sure that the next generation of young people growing up don't have to continue to experience the pain because of the loss of their relatives due to gun violence, of witnessing someone getting shot and killed in their face at the age 12 which is what happened to me and people i grew up with. worried about what is happening in their school. doing drills to make sure that they are protected from gun violence in schools. i want to recognize and appreciate maddie scott, rudy, and shawn richard

especially because for years these were in the trenches with no funding, no support for many, many years doing the hard work when no one was paying any attention to this issue in the capacity we see now and it's not something that we wanted people to have to experience. that's why they fought so hard. we never wanted organizations to have to emerge for this purpose. it is so heartbreaking and frustrating at the same time. but i still have hope. i have hope because all of you are here, because of brady, because ever moms demand action, because of the consistency of rudy, shawn and maddie scott and because of our fearless leader, madam speaker pelosi. i have hope that we're going to get to where we need to go because it's not just reacting to these

situations after they occur. it's about prevention too. it's about investments. it's about getting to our kids before they even get to that point where they even think about picking up a gun, before they -- that shouldn't be a thought in their head and part of that journey of trying to get to a better place means investments and this is why in san francisco we invest a lot of resources into programs and things that we know are going to make a difference, that we know are going to have a tremendous impact not only of our young people but also though who may or may not have made a mistake in their lives and come home and deserve a second chance. they deserve an opportunity and then we hope that the next generation will learn from those experiences and never want to get in a position like that where they get locked up in the first place. there's work that needs to be done and we're doing the work in san

francisco. and i'm grateful and proud of the work especially that our police chief is doing, we got a $6 million grant in order to address violence prevention in order to invest in preventing the kinds of outcomes that happened because of gun violence from happening and i'm grateful to be here also with our district attorney brook jenkins and our supervisor matt dorsey, partners in the efforts to ensure that when we talk about -- [applause] -- criminal justice reform, we're talking about real criminal justice reform, real second chances and preventing problems from happening in the fplace. we have so much work to do but i'm still hopeful. i'm hopeful for the future. i'm hopeful because i know we're going to continue to advocate until the job is done. i'm hopeful because of the investments that we're going to continue to make. we had a

couple of really tragic incidents that occurred in san francisco over the last couple of weeks. heartbreaking situations, things that should have been prevented. there's a lot of hurt people out there because of this and maddie scott always say hurt people hurt people. and so, healed people are a blessing, they are a blessing to making sure the world is a better place. it's time for us to continue to roll up our sleeves and get the job done. we have a lot of work ahead of us but all of you make such a difference in the work that's ahead and i'm excited to be working with you on getting the job done, so thank you so much again to all of the folks who are joining us here today and at this time, i really want to bring up a woman who needs no introduction. you know, ms. maddie, i have known her since i was a kid and you know, she's a spiritual woman, she's a

praying woman and godly woman and it wasn't just about her kids and her grandkids in our community. she always showed so much love to all of the kids in the neighborhood. it's why she developed a reputation for being the person that everyone goes to especially when they are going through a very challenging time in their lives, so maddie, you have uplifted so many people in your life so today we uplift you and we thank you and we thank god for you for your work and everything you have done, for sharing your experience, turning the tragedy of your life into an advocacy moment that turned lives around, even if you can't see it everyday, it has happened and so we thank god for you and we appreciate you and at this time, ladies and gentlemen, let's give maddie scott a round of applause. [applause]

>> thank you for that, mayor breed. who would have been my daughter in law, y'all. [laughter] okay. i was working on it. [laughter] i was working on it. but first giving honor to god for allowing all of us to be here today on this beautiful day. it is for his glory that his sun is shining down on all of us because he knows our hearts. he knows each and every one of our hearts and he knows that we care, we care about lives. he knows that we want to better day for our children. he knows that. and so i'm just grateful that all of you are here today. i'm very humbled and very proud to

be standing before you where i turned -- where i was able to turn my tragedy into triumph and turn my pain into purpose. i could no longer lay myself on the crouch drinking myself to death and locked up and secluded and locked up and i have a praying mother that just turned one hundred years old, y'all. one hundred years old. [applause] and i have to honor her today because i wouldn't be standing here today, you all, if it wasn't for her because i wanted to give up. i wanted to die. i felt like the world had killed me when my son's life was taken and she said no, no, no, no. no, you must go on. you must go on. you must get up. you can't quit. and so, i honor my mother everywhere i go and i thank god for her and i thank god for our

ferocious speaker, congressional leader that represents us here in san francisco, that represents our nation and our country, house speaker, not just our speaker but our friend, our sister, our mother, she's a mother, so she knows what we are feeling. she knows what we go through and that's none other than house speaker nancy pelosi. our congress leader. [applause] who i'm so dedicated and grateful to for choosing me to be one of the california electors, to cast the vote for president biden and vice-president, our girl kamala harris. i'm grateful for you giving me that opportunity. i thank you and for our mayor london breed....

[applause] and to our mayor london breed who has been a champion all through the community from aaa cc to the mayor's at city hall, being our mayor at city hall, we're grateful to you, mayor breed. your heart is just full of compassion. we thank you, speaker pelosi, leona bridges and christine and all of that are involved every year, every year, every year, they put on a dinner for us for mother's day. we were in front of city hall protesting every mother's day because we wanted people to know what mother's day felt like. it wasn't a good day for us but because of leona bridges and the, and mayor breed and christine, we thank you guys for

what you do for us at third baptist church every year and dr. amy sea brown as well. you make our mother's day happen, you do. yes! and to our chief of police, chief scott who came in and rolled up your sleeves and do work with us continually to help fight this situation that we have with crime and violence. we have a remarkable team and don't let me forget our brady team. our brady team is on the ground 24/7, you all, 24/in legislation, and sheila hamilton, our vice-president of organizing and kat, i always get -- i can't say her name right but anyway, i want you to know that everyday, everyday, every month, we are in meetings, every wednesday we're in meetings, on the ground running from dc, all over the country to change legislation in this country

that's going to be better for our children with the school memo project, with safer storage, okay and our governor gavin newsom who passed majority of every bill we put forward in the state of california and rudy corpuz, my brother from another mother. my partner, i want to thank you for all you do, how you always represent us mothers and how you always keep your door opens and you and misha and your staff and welcome home to all you brothers and welcome home to all of you because we mothers, we have been to san quinton and we're not afraid and we went years ago, what was it 20 years ago, men with no more tears and we shared our grief, our pain and turn their lives around and low and behold, look what we have. we have brothers and sisters coming out of

quinton and vacaville and other places to do this work and that's what we need and want, to turn it around because we don't agonize, we organize. we don't agonize, we organize. let's say it. we don't agonize, we organize. come on now. we don't agonize, we organize shawn richards, my brother. shawn richards lost two brothers from gun violence. at my side ever since and knew my son. shawn was with us because when there was a gun (indiscernible) at the palace, that was a week of violence and sunnyvaly sunnyvale, but brady unites mraz

y'alls and my sister who taught us to go out and protest and fund a cal palace and we wouldn't allow you to sell guns in our community. that's activism, you all. that's activism. that's activism. that's what we do. we don't agonize, we organize. we don't criticize, we organize. we don't jeopardize, we organize. because these (indiscernible), this is about all of us than none of us. we will stop the killing and start the healing, we will go to graduations and not funerals. we will vote for those senators that we need in the white house to change this demographic of gun violence around in our nation. we did it with the woman's movement. we did it with the civil rights movement. they said we couldn't do it and said

we would never vote and never stop jim crowe and they are saying we'll never end gun violence and i have faith. i have faith of a mustard seed that we can and we will stop gun violence in our nation because this is about all of us and all of us mom's against gun violence demand action, all lives matter. you know, i look at us today and i'm so grateful and so thankful, i have a grandson on the way, my grandson -- my son is a grandfather in heaven and he has a granddaughter and grandson on the way. i thank god for that. i wouldn't be standing here if it wasn't for you all. i wouldn't be standing here if it wasn't for you, for god, for my mother, i wouldn't be standing here, you all. i be would the couch and so that's why i worked so hard to pick up other

mothers, that's why we work so hard, liz and sherrie and all of our mothers when another mother is in trouble, we're there to pick them up, to lift up their bowed down head, so we're praying right now because today is one of our dear sisters who has been on the battlefield a long time and today is her daughter's anniversary, i don't know if she's here. sharicia, 24 years ago she was killed violently on third street. so today, we honor s hr ika wesley because lynn gives her life 24 hours a day to this job, leading with mothers, leading at the crime scene and preparing the funerals, after care with us to help those mothers and our healing circles so lynn is not here but we honor sharika and honor lynn for all you do. oh, we're grateful today. you guys have made my day today. i'm

grateful to our mayor breed who was the first mayor, you all, to sign the ghost gun ban legislation, the first mayor in the country with our board of supervisors and katherine stefani, we had great leaders here, from our speak are to our mayor, to our supervisors and to our police chief and to all our activist. to all of you and to speaker pelosi staff, dan bernal, mr. hope, christine who is not here, all of your staff and mayor breed, your staff. they are always there for us no matter what. the people behind the scenes. we thank you. we thank you because we couldn't get this job done without you because this is about all of us and none of us. we wanted to go to graduations and not funeral asks we want our kids to excel and not look over their shoulders while in a classroom

and we want them to play freely on the school yard, so the only way we're going to get that done is in the voting booth, y'all. in the voting booth, you got to vote and support the senators from ohio and pennsylvania. you got relatives and families back there, spread the word. spread the word to get those people elected because those people represent us you. they represent what we do on a daily basis because as i say, this is about all of us or none of us. we will stop the killing and start the healing. all lives matter. all lives matter because i want to hear you say it, we don't agonize, we organize. can i hear you. we don't agonize, we organize. i don't hear you. we don't agonize, we organize. we organize for justice, for peace, for life, for goodness, for education, for housing, that's

what we do. we don't agonize, we're going to organize and right now, i want to bring up my sisters who lost both her sons who i loved dearly who has been in this trenches with me for over 20 years inside of san quinton at the vigils and on the phone midnight trying to come many a mother down telling her to put down that bottle and going to another mother's house in the we hours to comfort her, that's the work we do, that's the work you don't hear about. to prevent suicide and as you know, this is suicide prevention week. so, pray for our families, pray for our children. pray for them because we have a fentanyl epidemic going on and other violence going on but thank god for our leaders who represent us and thank god for united playaz

and brady team and i love each of you and you're in my prayers, brother damian, just for us and i love you my brother. so right now without further or do, i want to bring up liz torres from healing for our families and our nation. [applause] >> hello. my name is elizabeth torres. ah, a native san franciscan. and mate that you brought up sharon. many of you know don't know that sharon teaches mothers when alive and taught me in san mateo county, daly city police department how to deal with investigators. she told me what to get, what to bring, be prepared she said, be prepared. and i did. and i always keep that dear to me, so

god bless you, sharon. i have to read because off the cuff, it's too emotional, so i want to stay on script here, so please forgive me. good afternoon, my name is elizabeth torres of healing for our families and nation. and mores in charge. i am the proud mother of francisco garcia pena, age 19, in 2004, when he was murdered with assault weapon. five years later, my son garcia age 24 in 20009 would be murdered and back in 2004, there weren't many places a mother or family members could go to do seek help beside the witness, not the witness, i'm sorry, 850 bryant

and then god bless mitchell salazar, he said hey i've got folks you need to meet and he introduced me to mattie scott at a healing circle and that was the first time a mother could go to a place like that, confidential, protected, just to release all the hurt, the burden and i had a lot of anger back then. a lot and it almost drove me nuts going in the street, odd hours, places i should never be going to, looking for who killed my kid. and it's devastating, devastating. so, you do not want to imagine the shock, the loss, the trauma, the daily pain of years it takes to go from victim

to survivor. it takes all the strength and will of a higher power in you to fight back, to refuse to accept that our sons and daughters can be stolen from you without consequence, to have to return and perform and produce as though these traumas never happened. i have been in this battle for over 18 years for gun violence prevention and education with the help of my family and community. i have solicited help from being not incarcerated and providing support while going through the jurisdiction system in my son's case. that's the clean aspect of it. but i was going to san quinton, was to offer anybody a care package, money for word on how to solve my sons' cases and

i couldn't see myself living, breathing without doing something, fighting, no, you cannot take a child from parents, kill them and then just go about your business, no, you can't. you've got to fight back. and there was a lot of tug back behind those walls because they felt like, i got a story. i've been hurt, you know, it's not just you, you mothers coming behind the wall. we got something to offer too. and it took a few years but we got it. we got it and surprising, they actually helped me -- when the people that were responsible for my son's first death, they actually helped me because the biggest fear i wanted to address is i wanted to know, what

happens to you when you're behind the walls? do you think of the victims that you have murdered? because our families sure thinks of you guys. and i know that's not popular but they honestly answered me and that was the biggest console. they helped me in court and guiding me, i'm asking them, why isn't he looking at me? why aren't they looking at me? they robbed me. they stole something from me. and they would explain and teach me no, they cannot. they cannot do that. they've been instructed not to do that. so, i got it. so, i give a lot of my healing to no more tears because it helped me deal with my anger and they were honest enough when i asked the most intimate questions, do you think of the victims on the day that you

murdered them. do you think of the birthdays? do you think of your birthday while you're here? and they said to me that, you know, when we go to sleep and we rest, everything goes. but it's waking up and dealing with that and moving on in the yard, in the cell block, that's what it is and it just helped me. it helped heal me. i have consulted with parents that have been affected by violence, sharing my experience and navigating with law enforcement and the superior court system. i'm so appreciative of this administration for all the positive work taken to combat gun violence, giving us hope and that justice will prevail with an urgency has much-needed and we have waited a long time but

i'm glad that god got you in the right place. thank you! and thank you to (indiscernible). i want to personally thank you, house speaker nancy pelosi for representing us in congress, for commonsense legislation and to our mayor london breed who signed the ghost gun legislation and to our brother rudy who are from united playaz and his team for your leadership, strength and guidance and who took the time to be in attendance and today i would like to introduce laura. [applause] >> hi. thank you so much to speaker pelosi and united playaz, thank you for inviting me today. i'm the managing director of law center to

prevent gun violence, our organization was founded in the aftermath of a terrible tragedy that took place at a law firm at an office building in san francisco, 101 california street. not to far from where we stand today. in 2016 we joined forces with the organization founded by former congresswoman from arizona gaby gifford and she was shot on january 8th, 2011, while meet with constituents in her hometown of tucson, arizona, is and the shooter killed six people and wounded 13 but despite her injuries, gaby embarked on rehabilitation and her commitment to the american people never wavered to this day and she leads our effort as an organization to save lives from gun violence. gun violence is a crisis that is growing at alarming rates, gun deaths have been sparking across the nation in 2020, there were over 45,000 gun deaths and preliminary data

is telling us that in 2021, it will be close to 49,000. the violence is expansive, but the toll of everyday gun violence is disproportionate are felt in black and community communities and this is a marathon not a sprint. it's something we have had success with in the state level in recent years, since the tragedy at sandy hook elementary in 2012, we and others in the gun violence prevention movement some of whom are here today helped pass more than 460 state gun laws in 45 different states and? laws like filling loopholes in domestic laws were flagged. let me say that that act is the most significant gun safety legislation enacted in

nearly 30 years and it was a tremendous victory. [applause] some of the things, the legislation does many things including barring some of dating partners from obtaining firearm, making straw purchasing and trafficking federal crimes and investing in programs that support community violence, intervention and prevention and many other things. but the enactment of this historic law is just the beginning. the law will only be effective if we fully and safely implement it. that's why gifford is working federal departments, sub agencies, state and local officials to implement this law. i wanted to mention two other bills passed in the house. the protecting our kids act which, if enacted it would raise the federal minimum age to buy a rifle or shot gun and ban gust guns and have a gun access prevention law and other things and in july the house passed the assault weapons ban with five

bipartisan support and it will ban the manufacturer of assault weapon for civilian use and gun owners can maintain their weapons and ban the manufacturer and sale of large are ammunition magazines which is the thread in mass shooting. gifford been at the forefront of this fight for a long time and we're not backing down. we need to keep the momentum going and we need courageous legislatures like nancy pelosi and i need to introduce claire from moms demand action. >> good afternoon, this is a mural of my son camillo. i want to start by thanking ael ex, from mom's demand action and rudy from united playaz for making this happen and i would like to thank eli who was a

childhood friend in camillo, they were going to the middle school together. he was born and raised in san francisco. it's a city he loved so much. he worked as an emt for ambulance as he went to paramedic school with the goal of working for the san francisco fire department. the day after he finished paramedic school he went out to celebrate and shot ask killed by a 21-year-old stranger as he was leaving the club and i was told he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. and that seems to describe our country at this moment in time. we have a problem with gun violence and too many mothers who live with this unbearable grief. this is a mural of camillo but it represents all those who we have lost to gun violence, to sense ms gun violence and all of us who stand up and say we don't have to live like this. i also

want to thank matti and elizabeth, when they spoke, we all -- we all lost our children in different ways, our children were all different and as mothers, we have experienced the same things and i was on the couch for many years drinking and i often, i also found relief going to san quinton sitting with the circles and i went out in angry and came out with my heartbroken and i remember sitting in a circle of offenders who committed homicide when they were teenagers and i told them i dedicated my life for working for gun violence prevention and that's my way of dealing with this and every one of them said, wow, if there wasn't a gun so easy to pick up when i was a kid, we wouldn't be here. we're not monsters. it was easy. to

bring speaker pelosi up, i want to speak of my mom, i first met speaker pelosi at john luis's sit-in congress and my 88-year-old mom was there and loved to follow politics and i asked speaker pelosi to meet her which she kindly did and my mother went up to her and say i will not die in peace until you're speaker again. [laughter] and then a few years later, she was and we were at a vigil, at a church in san francisco and she came over to say hi to my mom and my mom said to her, now, i can die in peace. [laughter] and then she turned to me, and said she understands because she's catholic. and my mother died in year at 92 years old in peace. thank you very much. >> [audience awe]

[applause] >> and may your mother rest in peace knowing that you are at peace or striving to be there. it must be very hard. well, you see this, it says, see what it says here, it says gun violence prevention day of action. it's a day of action around the country, and what better place for us to observe it here in san francisco than with rudy and united playaz and with our people who presented today. and with each and every one of you, so we can say thank you to you. i'd like to recognize one really important word that we saw demonstrated here. courage! courage, the courage of mattiei and the courage of elizabeth and ms. torres, oh my gosh, and claire, your courage, your courage. it's really hard for us to imagine how we would cope

with such a thing and then use that grief for action to help save other lives and comfort other people. let us salute their courage. that makes a difference. [applause] and laura, thank you for talking about the gifford and all that is happening with activism and all of this. when this bill, the bill that we passed and became law that mattie was shaking hands with the president a minute after he signed the bill, when we were passing it, we thought is this really enough? is this really, should we settle for -- you know what i'm saying to you because it was so much more we wanted. we wanted background checks and assault weapon ban, we wanted some more things and i said to louie mcbeth, i said lucy i give you my vote and leadership of this

caucus. if you say it's okay, we'll have the democratic vote for it and she said we absolutely must make this progress. so for all of us who wanted more, when we always want more, with lucy who lost her son jordan and she dedicated her life to helping alleviate the pain of others, she said it was good enough for her for now, for now, nonetheless, it will make a difference and she said it will save lives and she spoke beautifully to our caucus in that regard. and so then we're here with our mayor, a leader, a model to the nation on how to channel the energy to guide the legislation, to make a difference, thank you, mayor on this day of action. and again, to see camillo, how beautiful with his giant's cap and his friend who portrayed that and to

hear you claire, talk about him and your mother, multi-generationally and all of this, so this is a day of courage for the moms and we spend a lot of times, don't we, with the survivors and no words are adequate to comfort them. only action to get the job done to prevent further violence is a comfort. but we take their guidance, we listen to you. we listen to you and your wisdom, your strength, your courage makes the difference, so i have no doubt that we will get the job done. our president is committed to it. you know how much time he spends with survivors and he has lost children not from gun violence but he's in that club, so the survivors welcome him in a different way than they might welcome the rest of us so she's

determined that we will do more. and of course elections have ramifications. so all we want is we're not saying somebody should vote democrat or republican and everybody to vote for the children to stop gun violence for legislation that will do just that. so i'm here to say thank you to all of you for making our san francisco take of action, to prevent gun violence -- to make prevent gun violence so successful and drum beat across our nation to save the children, so thank you for not agonizing but organizing and thank you so much. rudy, where is he? let's bring him back up. rudy, i don't know how he was as a little boy and ran around and i can't figure that out. [laughter] >> [audience, he's still bad.]

>> whatever it is, he's god's blessing to you. thank you rudy. i yield back. >> hailey wants to say hi to you. >> come on, josh. - >> tenderloin is unique neighborhood where geographically place in downtown san francisco and on every

street corner have liquor store in the corner it stores pretty much every single block has a liquor store but there are impoverishes grocery stores i'm the co-coordinated of the healthy corner store collaboration close to 35 hundred residents 4 thousand are children the medium is about $23,000 a year so a low income neighborhood many new immigrants and many people on fixed incomes residents have it travel outside of their neighborhood to assess fruits and vegetables it can be come senator for seniors and hard to travel get on a bus to get an apple or a pear or like

tomatoes to fit into their meals my my name is ryan the co-coordinate for the tenderloin healthy store he coalition we work in the neighborhood trying to support small businesses and improving access to healthy produce in the tenderloin that is one of the most neighborhoods that didn't have access to a full service grocery store and we california together out of the meeting held in 2012 through the major development center the survey with the corners stores many stores do have access and some are bad quality and an overwhelming support from community members wanting to utilities the service spas we decided to work with the small

businesses as their role within the community and bringing more fresh produce produce cerebrothe neighborhood their compassionate about creating a healthy environment when we get into the work they rise up to leadership. >> the different stores and assessment and trying to get them to understand the value of having healthy foods at a reasonable price you can offer people fruits and vegetables and healthy produce they can't afford it not going to be able to allow it so that's why i want to get involved and we just make sure that there are alternatives to people can come into a store and not just see cookies and candies and potting chips and that kind

of thing hi, i'm cindy the director of the a preif you believe program it is so important about healthy retail in the low income community is how it brings that health and hope to the communities i worked in the tenderloin for 20 years the difference you walk out the door and there is a bright new list of fresh fruits and vegetables some place you know is safe and welcoming it makes. >> huge difference to the whole environment of the community what so important about retail environments in those neighborhoods it that sense of dignity and community safe way. >> this is why it is important for the neighborhood we have

families that needs healthy have a lot of families that live up here most of them fruits and vegetables so that's good as far been doing good. >> now that i had this this is really great for me, i, go and get fresh fruits and vegetables it is healthy being a diabetic you're not supposed to get carbons but getting extra food a all carbons not eating a lot of vegetables was bringing up my whether or not pressure once i got on the program everybody o everything i lost weight and my blood pressure came down helped in so

many different ways the most important piece to me when we start seeing the business owners engagement and their participation in the program but how proud to speak that is the most moving piece of this program yes economic and social benefits and so forth but the personal pride business owners talk about in the program is interesting and regarding starting to understand how they're part of the larger fabric of the community and this is just not the corner store they have influence over their community. >> it is an owner of this in the department of interior i see the great impact usually that is

like people having especially with a small family think liquor store sells alcohol traditional alcohol but when they see this their vision is changed it is a small grocery store for them so they more options not just beer and wine but healthy options good for the business and good for the community i wish to have more

>> we have private and public gardens throughout the garden tour. all of the gardens are volunteers. the only requirement is you're willing to show your garden for a day. so we have gardens that vary from all stages of development and all gardens, family gardens, private gardens, some of them as small as postage stamps and others pretty expansive. it's a variety -- all of the world is represented in our

gardens here in the portola. >> i have been coming to the portola garden tour for the past seven or eight years ever since i learned about it because it is the most important event of the neighborhood, and the reason it is so important is because it links this neighborhood back to its history. in the early 1800s the portola was farmland. the region's flowers were grown in this neighborhood. if you wanted flowers anywhere future bay area, you would come to this area to get them. in the past decade, the area has tried to reclaim its roots as the garden district. one of the ways it has done that is through the portola garden tour, where neighbors open their gardens open their gardens to

people of san francisco so they can share that history. >> when i started meeting with the neighbors and seeing their gardens, i came up with this idea that it would be a great idea to fundraise. we started doing this as a fund-raiser. since we established it, we awarded 23 scholarships and six work projects for the students. >> the scholarship programs that we have developed in association with the portola is just a win-win-win situation all around. >> the scholarship program is important because it helps people to be able to tin in their situation and afford to take classes. >> i was not sure how i would stay in san francisco. it is so expensive here. i prayed so i would receive

enough so i could stay in san francisco and finish my school, which is fantastic, because i don't know where else i would have gone to finish. >> the scholarships make the difference between students being able to stay here in the city and take classes and having to go somewhere else. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> you come into someone's home and it's they're private and personal space. it's all about them and really their garden and in the city and urban environment, the garden is the extension of their indoor environment, their outdoor living room. >> why are you here at this garden core? it's amazing and i volunteer here every year. this is fantastic. it's a beautiful day. you walk around and look at gardens. you meet people that love gardens. it's fantastic.

>> the portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year. mark your calendars every year. you can see us on the website ?oo hi, i'm holly lee. i love cooking and you are watching quick bites. san francisco is a foodie town. we san franciscoans love our food and desserts are no exceptions. there are places that specialize in any and every dessert your heart desires, from hand made ice cream to organic cakes, artisan chocolate and cupcakes galore, the options are endless. anyone out there with a sweet tooth? then i have a great stop for you. i've been

searching high and low for some great cookies and the buzz around town that anthony's are those cookies. with rave reviews like this i have to experience these cookies for myself and see what the fuss was all about. so let's see. while attending san francisco state university as an accountinging major, anthony's friend jokingly suggested he make cookies to make ends make. with no formal culinary training he opened his own bakery and is now the no. 1 producer of gourmet cookies in the biarea and thank you for joining us on quick bites. how do you feel? >> i feel great. >> so i want to get to the bottom of some very burning questions. why cookies?

>> it was a recommendation from a friend. hard to believe that's how it all started. >> why not pies and cakes? what do you have against pies and cakes, anthony. >> i have nothing against pies and cakes. however, that was the recommendation. >> you were on the road to be an account apblt. >> actually, an engineer. >> even better. and it led to making cookies. >> in delicious ways. >> delicious ways. >> this is where the magic

goes down and we're going to be getting to the truth behind cookies and cream. >> this is what is behind cookies and cream. >> where were you when the idea came to your mind. >> i was in my apartment eating ice cream, cookies and cream ice cream. how much fun, cookies and cream cookies. their cookies and cream is not even -- it took a lot of time, a lot of fun. >> a lot of butter. >> a lot, a lot, a lot. but it was one of those things. all right, now behold. you know what that is? >> what is that? >> cookies and cream. >> oh, they are beautiful. >> yes, so we got to get --. >> all right, all right.

we treat the cookies like wine tasting. i don't ever want anybody to bite into a cookie and not get what they want to get. we're training staff because they can look at the cookie and tell if it's wrong. >> oh, here we go. >> you smell it and then you taste it, clean the plat palate with the milk. >> i could be a professional painter because i know how to do this. >> i can tell that it's a really nice shell, that nice crunch. >> but inside. >> oh, my god. so you are going to -- cheat a little bit. i had to give you a heads up on that. >> what's happening tomorrow? these cookies, there's a lot of

love in these cookies. i don't know how else to say it. it really just makes me so happy. man, you bake a mean cookie, anthony. >> i know. people really know if they are getting something made with love. >> aww >> you know, you can't fool people. they know if you are taking shortcuts here and there. they can eat something and tell the care that went into it. they get what they expect. >> uh-huh. >> system development and things like that. >> sounds so technical. >> i'm an engineer. >> that's right, that's right. cookies are so good, drove all other thoughts out of my head. thank you for taking time out it talk to us about what you do and the love with which you do it. we appreciate your time here on quick bites.

i hope you've enjoyed our delicious tale of defendant 93 and dessert. as for me, my search is over. those reviews did not lie. in fact, i'm thinking of one of my very own. some things you just have it experience for yourself. to learn more about anthony's cookies, visit him on the web at anthoniescookies.com. if you want to watch some of our other episodes at sfquickbites/tumbler.com. see

>> good afternoon, thank you everyone for coming. my name is jeffrey come lin and i'm san francisco's director of transportation. and i'm so grateful to have the secretary, the speaker and the mayor here to celebrate our progress on the central subway. we are joined by local community and i'm grateful to all of you in the local community who who have put up with years of construction and disruption here in the heart of china town but we promise it is going to be worth it. as we sit here i want to action knot the long history it has taken to get here including remembering the earthquake and the demolition of the embarcadero freeway and this project started both as