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city hall come forward and line up on the screen side of the room. finally, i ask we silence our mobile devices at they sound during these proceedings. at this time, i like to take roll. [roll call] >> we expect commissioner moore to be absent today. commissioners first on the agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance, item 1, case 2021-00614c, 258 cumberland street. conditional use for continuance at the time of issuance to december 1. it is now proposed for continuance to december 8, 2022. we also received request from the supervisor office of item 9 case

2022-009014, pca for electric vehicle charging location planning code amendment. the request is to continue to november 10, 2022. i have no other items proposed to be continued, so we should take public comment. members of the public this is your opportunity to address the commission on either two items proposed for continuance. if you are in the chambers please come forward and if you are calling in remotely press star 3 or raise your hand on webex. >> hello. my name is david (inaudible) i'm here on behalf of the adjacent property owners 25 ailth cumberland. we are in agreement not to object to the continuance. we are one of the people asking for it to be continued to december 8 rather then december 1. that is the only reason i appear. thank you.

>> good afternoon president tanner, commissioners. (inaudible) on behalf of the project sponsor. we are amine enable to the request and ask it continue to december 8. thank you. >> last call for public comment on the continuance calendar. seeing no request to speak, commissioners, public comment is closed and the continuance calendar is now before you. >> commissioner imperial. >> move to continue items 1 and 9 as proposed. >> second. >> thank you. on the motion of continuance-

[roll call] >> (inaudible) whether or not that accommodated the cumberland request to december 8? >> yes. [roll call continued] >> so moved commissioners, the motion passes unanimously 6-0. and we'll place this under your consent calendar. the matter listed here under constitute a consent calendar and routine by the planning commission and may be enacted by a single roll call vote. there is no separate discussion of the item unless it is removed by the commission, public or staff in which event the matter shall be removed from consent and considered as a separate item at this or future hearing item. case 2022-003210cua. 44, 2 street. this is your opportunity to remove this matter from consent calendar so it

can be heard at this or future hearing. you need to come forward or calling in press star 3. seeing no persons requesting to speak, commissioners, public comment on your consent calendar is closed, and it is now before you. >> is there a motion to continue or for consent agenda? commissioner imperial. >> move to approve. >> second. >> thank you commissioners. on the motion to approve your consent calendar, item 2 with conditions- [roll call] >> so moved commissioners, motion passes unanimously 6-0. item 3, consideration of adaumshz draft minutes

for october 6, 2022. members of the public this is your opportunity to address the commission on the minutes. again, you need to please come forward if in the chamber or press star 3 if you are calling in remotely. public comment is closed and they are before you, commissioners. >> commissioner koppel. >> move to approve the minutes. >> second. >> thank you commissioners, on the motion to adopt the minutes- [roll call] so moved commissioners, the motion passes unanimously 6-0. place on item 4 commission comments and questions. >> we'll begin commissioner comments and questions with the land acknowledgment i will share and happy to share that commissioner dimand has taken up on my offer to have other commissioners share in reading that so look

forward to sharing that in the coming weeks. the planning commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. with that, i will open if there are commissioner comments or questions during this time. and i'm not seeing any. thank you. >> okay commissioners. that will place on item 5 case 2021-009977crv.

remote hearings. again, just in case none of you are able to come into city hall in person to allow us to continue the city business. we should take public comment. again members of the public this is your opportunity to address the commission on this item. seeing no request to speak, commissioners, public comment is closed and item 5 is now before you. >> i just have a question. i know i asked-amazing how quick a month goes by. if we have a sense if we can continue this for how long we might be able to continue the remote/hybrid hearings? i don't know if we have a sense of that. >> deputy city attorney yang. commissioner, president tanner you might have seen earlier this week the governor announced termination of the pandemic emergency set to expire the end of february, so that is one of the authorized

or enabling actions that allow for remote hearings. we will have that action doesn't effect health officer or the mayor's ability to issue emergency proclamations, so there may be some limited ability to host remote or hybrid meetings, but i would expect that most likely commissioners will be meeting in person beginning of the next year. >> great. thank you. we don't foresee that preclude us from at this point there is discussion the board of supervisors regarding hybrid for the public but that would be us as commissioners in person but we may have ability to still have the members of public participate remotely? >> yes, brown act relates of attendance of public policy bodies.

>> thank you. i got my 4th booster last week so this friday i will be fully boosted or next friday so if you haven't done that or gotten your flu shot there is still time do it that so please consider doing that for your health and others as well. i think maybe we have a late public commenter on this item? >> yes, patricia void. i prefer coming but there are senior citizens that cannot-zoom meetings do help and i want you to take this into serious consideration and particularly people with handicaps and i just want you to take that factor into consideration. thank you. >> last call for public comment? again, seeing none, public comment is closed and item 5 is now before you commissioners. >> anything for any commissioners on this

topic? commissioner imperial. >> move to adopt the resolution. >> second. >> thank you commissioners. on the motion to adopt the resolution- [roll call] >> so moved commissioners, motion passes unanimously 6-0. placing us on department matters. itedm 6, director announcements. >> good afternoon commissioners. i don't have announcement but liz wanted to update you on staffing updates. >> thank you. hi. liz director of current planning. wanted to share staffing updates in current planning and changes to the development review functions. happy to announce we have concluded our hiring round for new managers, which does not happen all that often in government and happy to announce we made two temporary managers permanent

being nutalia (inaudible) on the development review teams. promoted three new managers nick foster quhoo who is here today, ela (inaudible) both on development review teams and kelly waung to run our enforcement program. now we have a full and stable management team also changing our development review team structure. we wanted to let you all know about this since you might see different planners and managers when before you. lt we will be effect waiting the changes november 1 and i passed out a graphic i think commission secretary office queued up to show on the slide. just show the change graphically. we are moving from the 4 quadrant structure with 4 quadrant teams gegraphry based and aligned with supervizorial cystricates and had a few ancillary teams such as flex team that focus on adu and we are now shifting instead to just 7

development review teams that are all geographically based and all align with the new boundaries of the board of supervisor districts in a post redistricting configuration. all planners will keep current workloads. this is about moving forward. in short we are excited about the change and hopeful the new structure will give us that critical foundation to make process improvements in the future. we certainly are preparing for post-housing element adoption the implementation fade e phase will hit planning the hardest and need to make changes so this is personnel changes and structure we think are necessary to set us up for being nimble in the future and pornlly internally at least really reducing those manager to direct report ratios that were way too high to adequately support train and mentor or

staff. all those things lead to exciting change in planning. don't think most people in the public or commission will notice a change but wanted to be transparent we are shifting the changes as well. >> thank you. i want to say congratulations to those promoted. it is great to see so many folks retained and grow the careers in the organization. i think it speaks well of the department so congratulations to the recent promotions, nick and others as well and look forward seeing folks in the chamber going forward. >> seeing no further questions for the department, item 7, housing element schedule update. i believe commissioners braun and ruiz need to be recused. >> yes. my emplorer has a open contract on the housing element so need to request accusal.

>> also have to recuse myself because of the previous involvement of the housing element prior to being on the commission. >> motion to recuse the commissioners? commissioner imperial. >> move to recuse commissioner ruiz and braun. >> thank you on the motion to recuse commissioners braun and ruiz- [roll call] >> so moved motion passes 6-0. >> hello president tanner and commissioners. mia small planning department staff. we are here to provide a update on recent events and requirements around the housing element. at our last presentation, planning commission was three weeks ago we focused on it details of a schedule which have been part of the

housing element the last 2 years, meticulously coordinated with state of california housing and community development. after that hearing, hcd communicated via twitter to a member of the public it would not find jurisdiction s in compliance with housing element law if the housing element was not adoptsed by the goven deadline and the grace period of 120days referenced in government code defining housing element requirements only applies to the rezoning schedule and certain transportation and possibly affordable housing funding programs. hcd does not consider our existing housing element for cycle 5 in substantial compliance during the grace period since it may not comply with 6 cycle requirements. given the many meetings we had with hcd where the schedule anticipated relying on the grace period this was a surprise. san francisco must be in substantial compliance

by january 31, 2023 and failure to meet this timing could have significant consequences. first, it could expose the city to penalties including the loss of grant funds. second, activate the so call, builder remedy which commenters aurked prevent the city denying certain affordable housing projects including projects with just 20 percent of units set aside to affordable houses earning 80 percent ami close thoothe city on site inclusionary requirement (inaudible) project in the state until recently. after hcd found most housing elements in northern california to be non compliant. the city of santa monica which requires developments to include affordable housing generally like san francisco inclusionary program now has over a dozen applications seeking to use the builders remedy. the city

redondo beach has a building remedy application. where does this leave us? the housing element team has been working to build a plan driven by two missions. to center the work on racial and social equity in support of the resolution past in commission in 2020 and comply with state law including considerable changes to housing emment provisions effecting this cycle. both are substantial advancements how housing plan is done in the city history asking us to do more and be transapparent and accountable to communities and political bodies at the state and local level. this is a moment of reckoning our communities and the people that make our housing needs a city to recognize past harm, take responsibility, come to agreements and provide more certainty. during this process we forged new paths reaching and working with diverse stakeholders especially vuliable communities and community of quuler,

those unhoused. we have been askeds by the state to meet housing needs numbers given last year 3 times larger then the last cycle. we are conducting unprecedented environmental analysis for general plan element and unpacked our very complicated approval system like never before. hcd provided guidance on new expectations for the process just over a year which did not include information about this deadline issue. cities acrauz california are working to understand the rules and we know san francisco given the height of income inequity dire needs for those unhoused and well known process burdens is receiving special scrutiny. given recent communication from the state the san francisco planning department will be pursuing adoption of the housing element by january 31 to avoid the loss of potential funding and all our zoning regulations. this is not the process we wanted, we know this is a big change. it may not

feel fair, but we can do this. this plan has been built over 3 years hundreds hours of conversation, communication analysis research creative process and production. we have been to commission 7 times and coordinate would the state extensively. this is a good plan. a deeply considered set of actions. thousands of pages of study. we want to concentrate on final changes completing last documentation that meets state requirements and most importantly, how we implement this. the team has been nimble throughout this entire process. we have never not been on our toes. from pandemic ongoing legislative changes and economic conditions we are ready to go. we have a updated schedule. i'll go through specific dates. these are the pieces we have been working on the last 3 years. the outreach prauz that is built together with

all the analysis and pieces required for the cycle. all that built up our policies goals objectives and actions. so, at this point we have been here on october 6 we provided publication of the second to middle for hcd. we then took public comment, which was then included within that and sent to hcd october 17 this past monday. today we are talking about the update to our schedule and here on out this goes in a pretty fast order. november 3 we'll be here for informational and unpacking what was in the submission to hcd and talking in detail about the implementation programs which takes the actions and sorts them into how this needs to be accomplished. that is something required by the state. we have not published a draft on that yet so that

forth coming shortsly and explain more then. also referring to some of the comments hopefully that we will be getting from hcd very quickly, sowe will be in tight communication to see preliminary feedback. november 15 we will be at the board for committee of the whole on informational to speak more towards the housing element policies and actions. and then november 17 we will have a planning commission hearing to initiate housing element adoption and certify the eir. from that point of course we will be taking public comment throughout this process to be very clear as well. we are seeking a pre-certification letter from hcd still. this we have not confirmed with them. we have to make sure that is still possible but we seek to hope to get that between initiation and approval, so adoption of the housing element planning commission. we will be coming back

december 15 for the adoption hearing itself and then beginning january a set of dates that the board would hear on january 10. there are some challenges. there are procedural pieces we have to make sure we can put in place to be able to achieve this deadline to be able to get through all the pieces and parts by january 31. at that point it would need to be the up or down approval by the board, signed by the mayor and it goes to hcd. they then have a 90 day period for determining whether it is substantial compliance and certifying it. there is some challenge around that period of time. hopefully we are able to get a pre-certification letter so they know things haven't changed from that point and they are confident that they can certify it quickly. just in

conclusion, there are specific time periods for the hcd review periods, like we just had 7 day period. we will continue to take public comment throughout this entire process. we will be reflecting that back with a informational and within hearing informations that we provide. happy to answer any questions and we also have city attorney here to help with some of these challenges. >> that concludes staff's presentation. we should open up public comment. members of the public this is your opportunity to address the commission on this matter. in the chambers please come forward. if you call in remotely press star 3. >> can i have the overhead, please? georgia (inaudible) anyway, this was-as a member of the pub hadlic i'm annoyed with the state and others for bringing this up at the last minute. this is the august 14 paper, the

real honest to god paper when hcd said they were going to come after the city and investigate you. they could have said it then. that is two months ago and on the overhead this is from the january memo. but anybody who fallowed this has known that you had this grace period so to speak. everybody expected to be out by may so i don't understand why all a sudden the last minute people get their panies in a bunch. excuse me, but i find it really annoying that people who say they support housing are bringing this on the city. thank you. didn't mean to be rude, but i-i don't know what this does, but i will write to whomever. thank you. >> trisha (inaudible) neighbors and merchants. one of the largest associations

in the marina-we were never contacted concerning the housing element and we would like to have our input. we have very unusual situations with us, and number one , it is called tourism. two, we have ideas to have inventive ways of adding housing. what disturbs me about all this, i have been involved in this all most 30 years. the fact is, we pass rules and do exemptions. fought for 80 more housing on 333 california. this board ignored us. we fought for 12 more units at 2055 chestnut. everyone of you ignored our statements just rammed it through without even trying to listen to what we have to say. we got some

parking traffic tourist issues. we got a public view issue and we can solve it, but unless you start trying to work with us, otherwise we will have to be difficult and i'm very very very upset. we also have the geary project. we pushed through and supported the neighbors to have the 20 percent inclusionary housing. you guys reversed it. so far i can count in the last 2 to 3 years just in my area alone, 112 housing units that were eliminated. why don't we try to do something correct this time and do something that is beneficial to the city for the economic vitality because of tourism, the economic vitality of the merchants, the economic vitality of

the people who own and live. we have to do something better and i'm not saying it. this is why we have been forced to have discretionary review and we will fight to keep it until the public is listened to and there is a better san francisco. right now we are going down the tubes and we have to do something better. thank you. >> seeing no other members in the chambers coming forward for public comment we'll go to remote callers. when you hear your line is unmuted that is your indication to begin speaking. >> the commissioners this is francisco decosta. for the last 20 years, the planning department focused only on market rate

housing. today we know that we have over 51 thousand homes [difficulty hearing speaker] what i'm hearing from the presenter is, trying to pat your behinds. haven't done meaningful outreach, and that's wrong. so, the state is (inaudible) you have to find a meaningful way to address

affordable housing for those making under $80 thousand. for those making under $80 thousand. we have too many vacant condominiums and millions of (inaudible) vacant. this is a challenge that you all cannot deal with, nor find solutions, because you are not educated on issues. (inaudible) hoodwinking us for a long long time. thank you very much. >> okay, last call for public comment. seeing no additional requests to speak, commissioners,--let me

just make sure i didn't miss this person. nope. okay. okay. public comment is closed and now before you. >> great. thank you for that presentation. i do have a few questions just about the schedule. i would agree with it is a little bit-just say-i'm a little intense by the method of communication how we learn this information and that's the most distressing part for me and accelerated timeline isn't great for us the board or community members following this for the duration of the time. did you ask hcd-i don't know if it is you or director hillis. did you see our schedule and said i thought they want to be late or just ignored it? i'm trying to understand how they are squaring

the long engagement we had in our schedule and lack of communicating that is outside of the compliance period. any response from them or opportunity to hear from them on the question? >> you had the most recent conversation. >> they know our schedule throughout this and i think partly it is different divisions of hcd dealing with this. this is housing element team who is working with us on the housing element and reviewing our draft and giving us comments, but it is the enforcement section that interpreted the code to mean we were out of compliance january 31 if we did not have a certified housing element by january 31. in that portion of the code it is in the housing accountability act portion of the code so as you know the state code around housing is more and more complex in the last couple years with

bills passed by the legislature. frankly, i dont know if they knew that come january 31 we were out of compliance and things would happen. the builder remedy hasn't been tested. it is somewhat a new portion of the code that is being used to entitle housing projects, so i think it was one hand want talk ing to the other. >> we are not the only cities. there are other cities with similar expectations in the schedule and we looked with the material. it is never articulated and not super clearly articulated on their material. >> safe to sigh next time we wont forget it but perhaps it is worth pointing out to them in a government to government way this occurred and we have been meeting with staff several munthd months if not years and thought they were aware of the schedule and had not received any feedback the schedule is

challenging so they can do a job internally of insuring there is coordination and understanding by the different members of their teams what exactly is going on. i think it was a little shocking to receive the information via twitter verses any other number of means of communication. perhaps we can sun vai the message. to play devil advocate. looking at the schedule and understanding it, if we get a pre-certification letter then we can be fair ly confident that if the board adopts and the mayor also approves by january 31 the element we are satisfied the state code that woe have a compliant housing element adopted, however hcd has 90 days to further review that, so let's say we'll think positive and get a pre-certification but during the 90 day period they send to

another bureau and dont like something about it and not compliant then at that point the building remedy and challenges for grants kick in? is that in the 90 day period? >> potentially. generally speaking they have been very efficient and effective giving feedback right away but with los angeles there was expectation it would be provided earlier and ended up being before the deadline or on the deadline. they are juggling a lot with the information as well. there is also some question as to whether their interpretation of whether something is substantially compliant versus it being looked at from the court system might be different. austin do you want to speak to that too ? >> the court system is involved at a later time not immediately with reviewing compliance? >> i think there is some-in terms of the question about the 90 days to review that is set out in the code and

hcd is charged with reviewing the city housing element during that time. we would have time built in under the code to respond in writing, and i think we would argue that we are in compliance while work wg the state addressing those ish sues. there are other provisions clearer of becoming out of compliance if you fail to adopt and rezone within a year, you cannot be compliant until you rezone. there are other provisions of the code where the consequences are very clear and specific. i think this portion of the code is really about the administrative review and thren by the department. >> okay. so, i have a feeling the schedule is certainly aggressive, but it certainly has all the

pieces there and i do hope hcd can pre-certify. i think that to me is probably the one most outlier here. look forward hearing what the board thinks in a few weeks and just hoping that they don't send a response on december 16 the end of the 60 day review period and after-the last planning commission hearing so keep us abreast if we need to change or adjust the schedule. commissioner diamond. >> thank you. i too have a few process questions and then couple comments. i don't see in here when the response to comment document will be published. >> the response comments as far as i know, there is a goal to have it on november 7. the 3. there was

a goal to have earlier then the 7 and it sounds like the 3. >> sorry, the 3? >> of november. >> that strikes me as pretty important. >> yes. we want to give people a opportunity to reviewed the response to the comments before we actually vote to certify. very important to me and i assume the other commissioners as well. i want to drill a little deeper on commissioner tanner's question. is the january 31 deadline, a consequence for missing of which potential loss of funding and implementation of the builders remedy, is that deadline a deadline that must see the housing element certified by that date or is it a deadline by which we have to have submitted adopted signed completed housing element because i heard you say different things

in the presentation and want to make sure we are crystal clear on what the interpretation is as to the actual requirement and if there is any question about that i like to know what that is. >> sure. commissioner diamond, the january 31 deadline is a time for the city to act and adopt a housing element. it is possible that during the administrative review we will get some sort of pre-certification which would be a very good indication of hcd view of the potential compliance. but, under the code the city must adopt by that date. >> okay. so we don't have to have it certified by the date for the two remedies, we had to submit and sign a housing element? >> correct and that is why the 90 day period that follows is another opportunity to

get the certification. >> it is within our control as a city, which is important to me to understand. okay. what i don't see on here and maybe that's because it isn't happening is meetings with the west side community groups. not only the marina group mentioned earlier are, but all the community groups on the west side who are so dramatically effected by the actions that are set forth in the housing element. is there a schedule when that is happening? >> that will be part of the implementation with the rezoning that will happen after the adoption of the housing element. we have had conversations with those groups in the broad spectrum of the work and policy work. the rezoning is demonstrated in the second subis mittal, shows a couple different options for how the rezoning might play out, but that is really a separate process and separate action that comes after adoption of the element itself so there will be plenty time for those

conversations. that is something that will be ongoing. >> i'll share my thoughts about this imposition of what feels to us like a new deadline, which is quite frankly feels outrageous, and (inaudible) especially the timeline of events so clearly articulated by you and the twitter form of communication. so, it isn't as though the city has been twiddling its hands for the last several years. we have been collectively hard at work for doing studies, meeting with the community groups, producing drafts, responding to comments, meeting with hcd, having hearings, having all of us review multiple drafts, deliver comments, having you respond to those at a very very accelerated pace. we also a city being asked as you said only a year ago

to find room for 82 thousand units, which may be the largest number that any city in the state. i don't know if that is true or not, but if not it is probably-is la larger? >> la is bigger. >> second largest is that correct? >> of the cities in the bay area a large share of the rena. i don't know if anybody had tripled. >> so, when you take those two factors into account, it strikes me that having this last minute deadline imposed on us feels so unfair. that being said-and what i feel like gets short-changed as a consequence of that is the opportunity for two things. one is, reflective comment by the commissioners. i don't know about the rest of you but i have been raising to read through the housing element and talk to staff about it and trying to fly through

as fast as i can. we haven't had the opportunity yet as commissioners to have a hearing and have discussion with each other and all that is getting truncated on this massive policy shift. i recognize we can do more of that when it comes time to implementation, but the housing element sets the policies and it feels to me like that is a real missed opportunity for us. second is the opportunity for staff to have met one on one with all the community groups so effected by this. now that the second draft is published i would have hoped and expected that there would have been meetings out in the community with the community groups to talk about the three scenarios which i was glad to see you included mptd i thought was huge improvement and super helpful. talk about that. the government constraints chapter which was radically different and proposes much more specific measures. we didn't

have the opportunity to meet with the community groups about that. we can do that during the implementation stage and we will do that i'm sure during the implementation stage, but the path will already have been set by the housing element and if we want to move off that pat path we have to amend the housing element which is certainly possible, but just more complex. so, i guess the question for the city attorney and then a thought, which is, the view of the city is if we don't comply with the new schedule we are putting ourselves at risk, correct? of loss of funds and implementation of the builders remedy, am i understanding that correctly? >> i believe that's correct. there is risk to the city if we do not adopt a housing element by january 31. >> okay. so given that i feel we have no

choice. we need to do everything we can to meet the schedule. at the same time i feel we ought to be communicating in no uncertain terms about how up setting it was to get this information at the last moment given-and what it means to the process and what we have sacrificed. the third thing is, i think we need to be scheduling as soon as possible meetings with the community groups. i just cant tell you how important i think that is and not necessarily a public hearing here, i think there need to be meetings with community groups out in the community where you have the opportunity to have give and take in a way that doesn't happen in a commission hearing setting, to hear about the specific concerns of the marina, sunset, and outer and innerrichmond. they all have different concerns that relates to 3 different scenarios that will have a impact on how the rezoning is ultimately recommended by us and adopted by

the board and don't want to give short to the community groups. those are my comments. >> thank you commissioner diamond. agree with those comments. commissioner imperial. >> are i agree with commissioner diamond in terms of the impact it will have in terms of in the community engagement. my question now is about, since you mentioned that the deadline for response will be november 3, that's right? is that the deadline-what is the deadline? >> nrfb november 3 is response to comments. >> so, i guess my question right now is, what are steps that the planning department has done in terms of like informing the new deadline for the

housing element to the community. i understand we have done extensive community engagement. i definitely recognize that, but i think we also want to be due diligence there is a new timeline and with the effect of with everything going on right now, i'm not sure everyone is on the same page with the deadline. what kind of efforts that we have done so far in terms of informing about the new deadline? >> we'll do a lot of the same things we have done in the past. we are coming here first to make sure we are making this public process as possible so everyone understand the reasoning and background and implications of both the missing the deadline and also how to achieve the deadline. we put out information yesterday just through our standard e-mail brast to be able to make

sure everyone knows we will be here today and come back november 3 so we will continue to be communicating to the groups we communicate with all the time. we also just received a number of letters the 7 day period. we did get a lot lot of letters with folks we are working with over this period of time and continue to communicate with them. this isn't a chance or opportunity for us to do any substantial outreach in the ways we have in our last phases given the demands and expectations, but we absolutely welcome public comment. we will continue to be communicating with groups and when it comes to rezoning or particular implementation measures there is staff that is (inaudible) in term s of it schedule intention to be here as much as we can. >> thank you. >> commissioners, if i can (inaudible) planning department. in addition to what

mia has described, we have been meeting with a few community organizations that requested a specific information in terms of some of the revision of the policies. there was a meeting last night with the van ness corridor community, meeting with san francisco heritage groups, so to the extent that we have been able to coordinate and communicate with certain community organizations we'll continue to do that and as indicated earlier, we will continue to take input until early december. until right before the approval. >> thank you for all of that information. recognizing the dead monopoly line or the timeline so we have-it will be on november 17 that the eir will be fully heard and adopted or you know, that is the decision or the day for the

decision. >> yes for the eir but not for the element. >> that is usually the time for opportunity for public comments that of course we are receiving letters, but that will also be a opportunity for public to comment also within the public planning commission time or hearing. i mean, just like with other commissioners, i also share the frustration on this. i feel like yes, the planning department has done a due diligence in terms of the community engagement and we have done due diligence as well and having conversation about this and discussion and also trying to in tandem with racial and social equity plan as well. i think we have done due diligence but at the same time i'm always worried in terms of like the public comments or the

public and how they perceive this deadline that they don't always come to the planning commission and they don't always hear the discussions we had. thank you. >> thank you to staff and commissioners and director-and just on the point on the dates of certification verse approving the housing element. normally we would do those-i think the original schedule had us doing those the same date but because of potential appeal and having the board able to calendar that appeal and hear that appeal, that is why we got to shift where we ask you to certify the eir in november, but then approve the housing element in december to give time for potential appeal hearing at the board of supervisors. we wanted the hearing today-i do plan to send a letter to hcd expressing the concerns you all made, which we shared in seeking any remedy. is there any way for

leeway on this timeline. it doesn't appear there is but asking questions about the 90 day period for review and insuring we get feedback from hcd early so we can meet these dates. we'll share that with you after that has gone out. >> thank you for that on our behalf and definitely can understand this happens but it is quite shocking to say it the least and challenges we discussed so thank you to staff for speeding up things and we look forward seeing you in just a few weeks for the informational. thank you. >> very good commissioners. if nothing further we can move to item 8, review of past events at the board of supervisors board appeals and historic preservation commission. >> good afternoon commissioners. daren star. this week there were no planning department itooms at the land use but full board supervisor

walton ordinance that amend the pdr district past the second read. also perhaps good news on the housing front, the 4 plex ordinance pasted first read 10-1 with supervisor walton voting against it. the density bonus ordinance passed the board allows up to 4 units on interior lots and 6 corner lots in rh district. it allows 30 percent rear yard for density exception projects, 3 year post construction intent to occupy requirement in order to receive the fee waver for historic resource evaluation or to be able to condo the new units when the existing building is retained. no unit less then 1/3 the size of the largest unit or provide one unit with up to two bedrooms. directing planning to look at developing city wide objective design standards requiring rent control for the bonus units and requiring ownership of the property at least one

year prior to application. and also this week the general plan amendment for the transbay block 4 redevelopment project was did not pass first read. this was strategic denial of the general plan amendment. it isn't based on substance. ocii indicated they needed more time to negotiate with the project sponsor due to changing financial circumstances, renegotiate taking the project back to ocii however planning commission must be acted on by the board of 90 days or transmittal or deemed approved because the negotiation between project sponsor and ocii are going to take longer then 9 odays the board is forced to in a way deny the gpa. this was done with the understanding staff would ask this commission to reinitiate and approve the gpa when the rest block 4 project is ready for action. that concludes the report and happy to

answer questions. >> seeing no questions for mr. star, there is no report for the board of appeals. the historic preservation commission did meet yesterday. they adopted resolutions recommending approval for the black and blue tattoo, 381 gurareo street. the new royal bakery, 4773 mission street and new (inaudible) cafe at 670 jackson street, however they considered but adopted a motion to continue the condor, 560 broadway requesting additional information. commissioners, that will place us on general public comment. at this time members of the public may address the commission on items of interest within the

subject matter jurisdiction. your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member may address up to 3 minutes and whether the number of speakers exceed 15 minute limit general public comment may be moved to the end of the agenda. >> patricia (inaudible) neighbors and merchants. yesterday at the sfmta one of the landlords and one of the retail tenants complained to the sfmta about parklet issues on scott between lumbard and chestnut. it is a very convoluted issue, and i stated we tried to ask the parties to mitigate it among themselves, and it has-one refused and before anything is okay (inaudible) want to make sure you are

listening. anything okay i want you to come and hear the full story. i stated that all of my merchants have to be treated equally, and i would like to have a meeting with mr. hillis and who ever is in charge of the parklets because i'm not getting any replay. this landlord and tenant have not had replies from the planning department, the department public works or sfmta and i think people should be treated equally and i like to have one with you within the next two weeks is formal request and my phone number is 415-684-4223. okay? and, also we have another issue. this is the conflicting issues. we have a perfectly legitimate parklet that has permit the sfmta is trying to take away

from my little tiny restaurant, and i think we need to really look at this issue of what's really happening concerning the departments permitted through the city. i think everybody should be treated equally. if one person is allowed 6 parklets the other can have a tiny parklet. we need to discuss this and that's it. all the others seem to be okay. thank you. >> good afternoon, georgia (inaudible) this is a pre-halloween grab bag. i hope the commissioners read the october 12 e-mail on the flat policy. two, here is a updated list of approved alterations from the past 8 years primarily

in noe valley that should be demolition (inaudible) and where some not only took advantage of the demo count and loop hole 317b7 that necessitated commission approving the residential flat policy. some projects (inaudible) just a few years at a higher sales price. commissioner braun was not seated when i submitted this september 8. i asked mr. ionin to send copies to president tanner and commissioner diamond not in the room that day and hope they got it. no more then 10 of the so called alteration projectss if that were before the planning commission rchlt three many projects on the list sold entitlement before the so called alteration began including one underway. four, there are 7 projects in noe

valley mostly entitled 6 are multiunit projects on the market and 2 used the section 37 demo counts. before christmas 2021 there was a hearing like a lump of coal in the stocking, the approval of the former board and care on shotwell street into a private resident. the entitlement is for sale. six, the commission slated to hear two cua or two alterations found to be paramount to demolition, de facto demolition both approved using section 317. both sought entitlement after staff approval. additionally, another alteration project is scheduled determined by staff to be "effective demolition". what does that mean? is this is a new term? seven, the problem isn't section 317, the

problem is never been implemented as intended to comply with the findings and make use of the commission legislative authority to adjust the demo (inaudible) please. eight, once the housing element is past there is one to three years to do the upzoning and existing housing will need protection from the increase in-you are too loud. please stop. once the housing element is past there is one to 3 years to do upzoning in existing housing needs protection from increase in speculation during that time. thank you. sorry for my temper. >> seeing no other members of the public in the chambers requesting to speak under general public comment, we'll go to remote callers.

>> commissioner diamond wanted to weigh in. >> i'm rudely you are interruptsed by the public. when we are speaking or staff is speaking but when the public is speaking that we expect everyone else to be respectful of them just like you want them to be respectful of you during that time period? thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you in deed. going to the remote callers. when you hear your line is unmuted that is your indication to begin speaking. >> hello. this is (inaudible) recent interview with sara (inaudible) planning commission [difficulty understanding speaker due to audio quality].

to the planning department. to the extent planning code 311 (inaudible) overreach by the board of supervisors. under the charter it is your choice to hold discretionary review at all. the planning commission the 7 of you have the power to develop guidelines what discretionary review you will take or which permit will be (inaudible) if you ent want to listen to neighbors (inaudible) you don't have to. if you dont want to listen to neighbors argue about miner expansions you dont have to. the charter calls you the planning commission. you should spend most of

the time studying the details of (inaudible) housing element. all you are doing now is moving a handful of (inaudible) you choose to be the neighbor dispute arbitrary board. please consider what type of permits you will not take discretionary review on so you don't have to listen to them all. thank you. >> this is francisco decosta and i have watched your meetings very carefully, but you don't seem to have any clue about quality of life issues. you all conveniently entitle some developers to have-to build large amount of units.

where are you going to get the water from? you don't give a damn how the bay is polluted by secondary affluents. (inaudible) orientation on that. you don't seem to care working with developers like lanar and you have one person who worked for lanar a long time looking the other way while trying to give them the permit to build thousands of units on land that is prone to liquefaction and (inaudible) plutomeium. the planning department has lost its mind. speaking generalities. none of you all can do a needs assessment.

(inaudible) certain type of lifestyle and you think that's okay. the planning department as it stands today and i'm talking because i have been monitoring this 40 years, i know some of your plans. over 35 years. you all have failed us and i hope that the younger generation maybe they don't (inaudible) at least they will do something to put things on track. thank you very much. >> yes. this is david elliot lewis a member of (inaudible) people's congress and want to thank director (inaudible) for his report for the tenderloin community

action plan and community stakeholder group that is informing it. i have been part of (inaudible) i want to give a shout out- >> excuse me- >> sorry mr. lewis to interrupt you but we are taking general public comment for matters not on today's agenda. the tenderloin action plan will be coming up next. >> i will stop now and return for that. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> this is sue (inaudible) not a great (inaudible) the charter is sufficient-charter allows appeal to board of appeals for any permit in the city. that is the source of charter power for discretionary at the planning commission. the second area it would put

discretionary review is when the proposition m was adopted everyone else limitation on (inaudible) square feet of office space development a year had provision voted on by the people to basically require projects to be evaluated in context and (inaudible) and the planning department spent a lot of time with developers and the public doing-how do we know what the neighborhood context is? we don't want to do (inaudible) we don't want to do a entire review of the whole city. basically discretionary review and (inaudible) came out of that process in 1987. it was after the planning

department struggled with how we are going to evaluate a project in the neighborhood context that is part of prop m and every time the planning department prepares a staff analysis, basically goes through the list of things at the end. (inaudible) i don't think a number of people and planning department running this are going to know where the source come s from. i think it is minuscule. maybe they are trained. that is (inaudible) dont think so. so, prop m-discretionary review is based in the charter. (inaudible) thank you very much. >> okay, last call for general public comment. again, if you are in the chamber

please come forward. if you call in remotely press star 3 to be added to the queue. seeing no additional request to speak commissioners, general public comment is closed. we can move on to your regular calendar. item 9 is continued to november 10 so item 10. 2016-002706cwp tenderloin action plan. this is informational presentation. >> commissioners, planning department staff. we are very excited to provide you an overview of the work in the tenderloin. we are here because of the hard work that the community has been doing for several years. i would like to introduce the team that has been carrying this work. we are

very fortunate to have a golden team. andy nelson working in the tenderloin way before the pandemic and has been working very closely with a number of community partners. we also have (inaudible) and sydney (inaudible) who are not here with us. they are virtually. we also have (inaudible) from the community-(inaudible) and zack sexton. we also-this week we are fortunate to have a new manager. the tenderloin community planning manager, kenya (inaudible) who will bring a lot of additional skills and resources to complement what we have and our existing team. because this is a integrated city effort, this is not a

planning department project. this is an effort the community has requested addresses the many challenges that we have in the community. we also have mark masen who is assuming this week the manager position for the tenderloin street operations and mark has a wealth of experience with homeless outreach, with housing placement, and coordinating the (inaudible) operation. again, because this is a integrated city agency effort, we are also-we also have a part of the presentation (inaudible) who is the director for the tenderloin response for the department of public health and actually she's the director for somany levels and covered so much ground over the past year and she's part of the behavioral health service. andy

mark and crista will provide you with a overview of our work. >> thank you. good afternoon commissioners. i am andy nelson, senior community development specialist at the planning department. i have been with the department 7 years and work would there tenderloin community since that time. it is my honor to present the city and community planning efforts in the tenderloin neighborhood today. i will present on the neighborhood driven collaboration between residents community organizations and city agencies to develop the tenderloin community action plan. i will provide neighborhood project background. mark meza will share updates on street outreach and efforts to address street conditions and how sf planning is working to support

this coordination. crista geta will share the status and planning for neighborhood wellness hubs to address the medical and mental health needs of tenderloin residents, and will describe the community lead proposed streetscape projing eths part of the action plan and implemented in real time. so, the tenderloin is a unique neighborhood with a range of perspectives with the highest density of children in the city and high concentrations of communities of color, seniors, people living with disabilities, artists and community bases organizations and merchants. the neighborhood has long been a refuge for immigrants and lgbtq plus communities. the neighborhood high concentration of permanently affordable housing and specifically single room occupancy or sro housing units makes it one of the last neighborhoods in the

city where low income residents can find housing. this also means that the neighborhood has a high concentration of high need communities and populations. many low income people and families live in the neighborhood with income lez then half the city wide average. the tenderloin also has a significant population of people suffering from drug addiction and substantial houseless population. street and sidewalk cleanliness and sanitation is ongoing and urgent issue. essentially, theteneder loin is ground zero for prevailing and system issues. a housing crisis, nrts national drug trade, opioid crisis all within a small 10 by 10 block area. despite these challenges and circumstances the neighborhood and the residents are reziliants with a

longstanding history of activism, successful community based effort to preserve and protect housing and celebrate the neighborhood diversity and culture including the uptown historic district the nation first transgender destricate, the north of market special use district, the housing conversion ordinance, the tenderloin people's congress vision 2020 plan and november 2021 march to city hall for this initiative. i could spepd hours that lead to this moment but i will focus on the tenderloin emergency initiative and community action plan history and timeline to date. after the tenderloin vision 2020 released, residents worked with then supervisor matt hany and sf planning to

begin engagement codify resident demands and bring necessary resources to address needs. we began comprehensive engagement in the spring of 2021 and conducted over 60 stakeholder meetings and community discussions and collected 1200 surveys in 6 languages to inform the action plan. in december 2021 mayor breed declared a state of emergency in the tenderloin to address the growing deterioration of street conditions exasbaited by the pandemic. drafted the tenderloin emergency initiative and july 1, transitioned to sustain operation including action plan implementation to holistically address neighborhood needs. most recent ly the community stakeholder group met for the first time in september. this residents body will provide

recommendations on plan implementation, uplift priorities as they shift and arise, and maintain community based partnership. the sustained operation and community action plan is a collaborative response. the emergency initiative allowed for rapid response and set up the foundation for agencies to work together. and combine respective enforcement power, resources and are knowledge to address ongoing and urgent needs. the plan will require ongeing communication, cooperation and collaboration for successful implementation. planning role is to support this robust agency coordination. we are collaborating with city partners on joint field operations to elevate community concerns and identify long-term solutions. we are also responsible of keeping track of objective metric and data for

the plan, and for the street operations. we manage and insure accessibility to governance process including the inclusive community stakeholder group, and participatory budget process to allocate the first round of resources to shovel ready projects and programs. these are it the 6 draft goals of the plan. the first 3 goals tie in very closely with the street conditions work that mark meza will speak to next. i like to pass it on to mark to come up and speak about street level operations. >> hi. good afternoon. mark meza and this is my fourth day as the manager of tenderloin street aucheration for department of emergency management. i have a lot of

familiarity with the joint field operation and everything related to the tenderloin community action plan because i was a manager of street outreach for the department of homelessness and supportive housing. a lot of my experience is focused on that part of the work. despite that, i do want to talk about what the joint field operations is and what it looks like. so, this a multi-departmental collaboration to improve street conditions that includes police department, the fire department, public health department, hsh, mta and i believe that's it. i may be missing one. dem. so, this is a push that started in january during the emergency initiative, and this approach to street outreach to improve street conditions changed through time. it is lead by different departments. there has been different refinements to what is done. it service approach to link people with what they're interested in

and eligible for and available at it time. this is not the first services lead multi-departmental approach to street conditions. the city has another program-what is specific about the joint field operation and this is constantly tailored to the tenderloin which is a very unique and challenging neighborhood where the needs can vary one brock to the next. this team is able to implement different strategies to address block by block what is happening to insure that the community is being improved and the people who need help are getting what they need. i'm very excitesed what is different then what i experienced in the past is the community input. with city planner we get a lot of community input to help drive the interventions and what we are trying to accomplish. i got slides here, but i'm winging it. i think that's it for this slide. we have one

more slide. so, one hope is we will have more information next time. i do have information. this is mostly based from hsh data. work to date and achievements. 1496 shelter placements. 1780 housing assessment conducted. i won't go too much into what the housing assessment means. that is how we determine if someone is eligible for housing through the city. these numbers i don't want to cause confusion,er they are not the joint field operation. this is (inaudible) also the tenderloin center crystal will talk about, but what this shows is that the city especially hsh but i know the other departments prioritized providing support to the tenderloin. this if i remember correctly as far as shelter placement and housing

assessment speaks to about 80 percent of the work done city wide since january this year. i am out in the street often and do see it isn't just hsh prioritizing the work. the fire department can't speak enough to the fact they dedicated two of their captain level staff to be the glue essentially for the joint field op. without somebody out there to communicate with all of the different departments, in my experience it is always more of a-there is a lack of professional courtesy and everybody isn't oen the same page. with the jfo we have refined the work to where there is common goals, common language and a common way to track outcomes, so sorry to be so long-winded, i'll pass it over to crista from dph. >> i may be more long-winded then mark. good afternoon. crista from the department of public health. dph is thrilled to be a partner created and

implementing the tenderloin community action plan. (inaudible) today i like to highlight wellness hubs, which is the cornerstone of the city recently released overdose prevention plan. first i want to talk about the tenderloin center. as you heard earlier, the tenderloin is disproportionately impacted by overdose deaths representing 20 percent of fatal overdoses last year alone. in response the tenderloin center or the tlc opened a primary strategy of the tenderloin emergency initiative with ingoal reducing overdose, public drug use and increase connection to health and human services. since january 18 of this year, the tenderloin center has provided and continues to provide services to approximately 400 unique individuals a day. in a low barrier

easily accessible space where they have access to overdose prevention service, basic needs such as toilet, shower laundry meals and access to treatment housing and benefits. over the past 10 months, we reversed over 250 overdoses on sited. placed over a thousand people into shelter over 200 into permanent supportive housing, 300 into behavioral health service and connected 600 folks into various public benefits. despite some of these suck successs we also had challenges, in particular because of our location. with a lot of learning under our belt, the department of public health plans to transition many of these life saving and very critical services to programs called wellness hubs. before i dive deep into wellness hubs i want to center this work in the larger context of the work of dph in particular behavioral

health services. we are doing a lot of wirk to expand the accessibility and availability of treatment for folks with substance use disorder. all through the city, but many folks in the tenderloin will benefit from these services. as you see from the slide, drug use exist on a spectrum for abstinence to problematic use and addiction and so do the services we provide for folks who use drugs. again, pointsing to the slide you can see that overdose prevention service like wellness hubs are one point of the continuum, and are designed for people who are not yet seeking treatment or just in the beginning stages of thinking about changing their drug use. these services aim to reduce the harm associated with substance use by building relationships with people in non stigmatizing environments and when they are ready connecting them to a variety of services you see along our

continuum. in addition to expanding the low barrier services like wellness hubs dph has and and expanding service across the continuum. we opened over 250 new behavioral health residential beds office of coordinated care and expand access to medications for treatment. buprenorphine and methadone effective tools treating opioid addiction. hope to reduce overdose death by 15 percent city wide and reduce racial disparities by 30 percent through these and new and existing life saving services. wellness hubs. building on the lessens we learned at the tenderloin center and years of work by dph community partners and people who use drugs wellness hubs design to provide a safe drop in space specifically tailored to meet and improve the health and

wellbeing of people who use drug and may experience homelessness. many services include overdose prevention, (inaudible) counseling and groups, linkage to treatment, housing and benefits. however sites will be smaller neighborhood based throughout the city. contracted with fewer providers and very thoughtfully embedded into the communities. we hope in addition to reducing overdose deathss and improve folks health they also help to address some street conditions that we are seeing, but by providing a safe place to come in off the streets. but i want to note that scale is very important in this model given the magnitude of the issues we see in the tenderloin and city wide. so, the slide in front of you can see we have been working in collaboration with the planning department to use data and mapping

technology to identify appropriate locations for the wellness hubs. this is a map of theteneder loin and shows the data we will be using for the planning including the safe passage route in yellow, sfpd incident reports in blue and permanent supportive housing sites the red blocks you see. also use data like location of overdose deaths and using this to make sure wellness hubs are placed with the greatest amount of needs and consider the other needs of the community. dph plans to open 2 to 3 wellness hubs before the end of fiscal year. (inaudible) planning is underway to implement sites with little gap as possible [speaker speaking too fast] i look forward coming back and presenting to you more progress at a near term meeting. thank you so much.

>> okay. thank you. so, thank you mark and crista. so, >> sfgov, can we go back to the computer, please? >> thank you. this map is of the community lead projects in the neighborhood public space. the community is taking initiative and responding to the open space needs. the city can facilitate implementation of the projects by coordinating efforts permit approval and allocate funding where possible. at the end of the 3 year period, at by june 2025 we plan to have accomplished the following: interagency coordination and collaboration and day to day operations as well as long-term implementation. investments beginning in open space culture and arts and small business. 10 year implementation commitment from city

agencies to address the needs in the neighborhood such as infrastructure improvements, economic development, arts and culture among others. best practices to support other community neighborhood and issues. in closing, the city and community are working so hard in the tenderloin because the ongo challenges allude simple solutions. ultimately it is a humanitarian crisis. our value is to work together. the city team and community are refining the work every day. the city is a resource for community to implement their solutions. thank you for your time and we look forward to your questions and comments. >> thank you. that concludes the presentation we should open public comment. members of the public this is your opportunity to address the commission on the matter. come forward if in the chambers and line up on the screen

side of the room. if you are calling in remotely, you need to press star 3 or raise your hand in webex. >> good afternoon commissioners and director and public. i got a lot of history in this room. i come here because i'm mad at something. today i'm happy at something. you know, i have been in the tenderloin 38 years. 38 long years. when you do 38 years in the tenderloin you do long years, but it is a beautiful community, i love it very much. my california license plates on my car does not say my child or my dog or my woman. it says the tenderloin. that shows where i'm at with this meeting today and these wonderful people from the planning staff. you know when i heard the planning department was coming to the tenderloin, i said here we go again. the last 10 years we

had every department poking around the tenderloin, including department of airport which i still don't get why they were here. really, the department of airports was moping around the tenderloin. i was trying to see are you all staying in your lane or just another department trying to get in the chronicle. i start working with this wonderful team behind me and found out different. this was a effort-i never dealt very closely with the department head and all these 38 years, but director hillis is boots on the ground. it took several meetings to realize he was the director because he comes across as just a person that is a-employee in the department. never knew you were the director because you are so down to earth and i really appreciate that. that makes a big difference because i have seen other departments that you would not have a chance to talk with to

direct himself. you may have a chance to talk but they ain't going to listen, so i applaud you for that, sir. so, several things i want to mention and wont be long because we got other people who want to speak. i'm not real good on civics but one of those things the constitution and declaration of independence or one says for the people by the people. so, we want this plan to be for the people of the tenderloin, by the people of the tenderloin. we don't want groups coming from noe valley, coming down making decisions and getting involved. we can do this ourselves. if one organization cant do it, we'll combine with 3 organizations and we can do it. we can work on capacity building if we get the chance to do the things with the department and i'm happy to see things going on. one thing-you all got the secret phone numbers we dont have. we don't need these wellness centers up by

the end of the fiscal year. we need them the moment they close the existing center we need something open the same day. we cannot wait until the fiscal year ends because they will go-you all got those phone numbers to departments under this room that we don't have so make your call. god bless and thank you for all you do. >> hello. three minutes. wonderful. david elliot lewis. i lived last 4 decades in san francisco and lived 16 years in the tenderloin. i'm part of tenderloin people congress a resident lead organization, we have no budget, we have no staff, we have no office but we have volunteers and we do have a plan for our neighborhood. a plan that is based on surveying thousands of residents, holding

dozens of community meetings, hearing what the tenderloin wants. also working with the planning department to share our plan and we are pleased to see that the planning department is now working with our tenderloin neighborhood to try to bring to realty so thank you for that. i want to give a shout out, thank you to those who work closely with us like andy nelson from planning, zachary sexton, (inaudible) who all these people have worked very closely with the residents to try to find what we need, what are our voices and why is this so important because historically the tenderloin has been treated like a containment zone like if we don't want it in other parts of the city we'll push it off to the tenderloin. sex work, drug dealing, all the things that wouldn't be tolerated for 5 minutes in pacific heights are allowed in our neighborhood and so here we are. we are neighborhood as you know that is rent

challenged, income challenged. 42 percent of the residents make less then $25 thousand a year versus 15 percent of the rest of the city. it is a poor neighborhood. not all poor. and neglected neighborhood. this is historic. what is hapage now with your planning commission and your planning department working with us residents to come up with a plan and are a way to address our needs. this hasn't happened before. the past work is top down. the city tells the residents what is happening . i want to thank the planning department, all the people i mentioned and haven't mentioned for supporting this. it is a ongoing effort. we'll make mistakes but it is happening and so what i say is there is already cause for celebration. the fact we made it this far, the fact we will have a plan that the

fact multiple city agencies will have to engage this plan and at least if they dont adopt it at least tell us why so they work with us and maybe at the end result we'll have a better tenderloin, a better place. one of the visions for the tenderloin is create a archway or gate the way china town has a gate. make it a proud destination not a place for sight seeing buses to ridicule us but shine and show off. thank you. thank you very much. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is liza (inaudible) community mental helt advocate and a 14 year resident of the tenderloin. and i just want to congratulate not only our community, but

this team. our voices continuously heard. i have been working on the plan since 2017. we heard from over 4,000-surveys, all this is broken down over a period of time with complete dedication from the community, with resiliency even during covid creating our own food bank, creating a community that is heard and listened to even though all of the diversities. the redistricting. the constant neglect during covid. we stood together with a plan for the people by the people and of the people, and our goal came to fruition when we sat down with andy and we are like, are we really-is this really go ing to happen and it started to happen and we were recognized as a community getting things down without support from our government doing it just by pure outreach,

diversity and inclusion. when our voice we were all skeptical. like we are not giving these baby up, and our voices were heard and the action showed that the voices of the people were heard and we have done our second stakeholder meeting. our first had over a hundred and the second about 70 virtual and about 20 to 30 on site. so, the commitment is growing and the penetration is growing and especially to be recognized by department of emergency management as a effective system, i think is a honor and most importantly the individuals behind me that support in hearing our voice and to make sure the outreach is inclusive and reaching everyone and it is constantly monitored and if questions are not answered, they are answered the next time. the public is informed on all most

every level even through the digital divide. so, we offer in languages in person hybrid zoom, so we have this cover ed so i urge you to hear the tenderloin and really hear the voices of people. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is (inaudible) a tenderloin resident and community organizer. first off, thank you so much for this presentation of the tenderloin community plan. i like to express emphasis to make sure the residents are always included in the implementation for the plan. (inaudible) vision 2020 plan were the bulk of the work came from let's make sure everybody involved ichb in that are still involved. this is a great opportunity to give residents something to do and be part of it.

it is dense neighborhood with plenty people who need this. insure this is a long-term solution to the issues in the neighborhood and not just reactionary. i echo what has been said by the previous speakers and let's make sure tl people grow and shine versus a place to be warehouseed and languished. the people of tenderloin can do this. thank you for giving us the opportunity. i use this phrase aearlier this week and think it is appropriate for this agenda. represents what we are as the tenderloin. when one falls we all fall and when one rises we all rise. thank you for giving us the opportunity. >> okay. seeing no other members of the public in the chambers coming forward to speak, we'll go to remote callers. again, when you hear your line is unmuted

that is your indication to begin speaking. >> good afternoon. i'm casey rios, director of demonstration gardens and (inaudible) people's gress. 5 years ago the tenderloin people congress embarked on this action plan the tenderloin action plan. they began we together all of us began a multi-year resident lead planning effort in response to the long emergency we all found ourselves in. all during covid we worked together and we have seen response from the city from director hillis, from andy nelson and (inaudible) and her team and people who

maybe formally were not working together are really trying to work together to implement this plan. we are in early days of it, but we support the tenderloin community action plan because we feel that it has the potential to make our planning priorities manifest, which are to promote healthy living for all of our residents to include all our residents in planning and benefits so that means everybody is part of it. and we are planning for people here today not the people who will be here in the future if gentifyed. we want to make it is a diverse, safe, fun neighborhood for everyone today. we know that if we do

these things if we keep everybody involved, we will promote resilience not just for 5 years, but for the next 100 years and that's what we are planning on. the planning staff are responsive and empathic and our community is increasingly engaged, and provided residents continue to be empowered through this plan, i believe it will be successful. i believe we can work together and end this long emergency. thank you. >> hello everyone. my name is renee colorado, the executive director of the teneder loin murch end and property owner association. thank you to everyone involved and the planning department. there is over 25 thousand people living in the tenderloin and

not all of them can have a voice heard or have time to attend meetings or to be actively involved in what they want to see in their community. often times what they want or what they want to see is not represented to the city (inaudible) community action plan at the planning department to have a hub somewhere where people can e-mail in or drop in questions is great thing. it is great-i think keeping up with everyone working on the plan and i'm really excited hopeful for everything coming from the community action plan so i want to say thank you to everyone and thank you to everyone's hard work. >> good afternoon. my name is christy (inaudible) director ofpologist policy and (inaudible) community benefit district.

part of my role is facilitating several block groups in the neighborhood and working directly with resident and other cbo and i wanted to thank the planning department and all your partnerships and for always listening to community and pivoting when necessary, being a strong partner (inaudible) i would also like to urge the department to maybe implement projects, quicker then the current timeline because i'm nervous we won't have anything to show for next budget season when it is time to show the board of supervisors what we accomplished with there $4 million or 3 and $3 and a half million. thank you pr your partnership and hope you all have a great night. >> last call for public comment. you need to come forward in the chambers and remotely press star 3 or raise your hand on

webex. >> hello, abigail (inaudible) also working with the tenderloin community benefit district. i want to also thank everyone in the room for their time and dedication and i want to chime in and say that the economic social and racial disparities we faced as a nation were never more visible then on the streets of the tenderloin. in the past 2 years (inaudible) together with partnerships, some of whom are in the room with del and the people congress, (inaudible) as a community to respond to the crisis on the streets. this is a long held problem and it won't be solved overnight. proposition 47 increased drug level street dealing and use, decriminalization and had a bunch of

uninteneded consequences. we also cleaned up over 300 thousand pounds of trash and that's not including what department of public works picked up, so clean and safe is the bottom line. until we start addressing the drug dealing and come up with creative solutions that really make change on the ground, we won't be able to center the safety of children and families, seniors and small businesses. safety comes when we all come together. the activation, so once we are able to reclaim space it is really important we are able to continue to activate it. because the tenderloin is not like other neighborhoods. if there are not positive activations happening it does get reclaimed in other ways that are not beneficial to health and the community as a whole. so, i urge you to think creatively and outside of the box. i urge you to move with speed and thoughtfulness when i

know sometimes are juxtaposed to one another. the level of (inaudible) and look forward to our continued work together. thank you everyone. >> final last call for public comment. seeing no additional request to speak, public comment is closed and the matter is before you. >> i want to thank all the folks who called in and came in to speak and i'll call on commissioner louise. >> i want to acknowledge the amazing work for the plan department and community who put years of effort into this plan and just so excited to see it come to fruition and hopefully see programs that really address some of the sad things we see on the streets every single day. having lived in the

tenderloin, there are a lot of similarities i see when i was a young person, but for sure conditions have gotten worse because of the pandemic. so, i am also hoping that within this plan we can also include context or history or policies that have lead to the conditions that we see today. i think that will really help us to influence some of the programs that we implement into the neighborhood because it isn't by accident. the things we see today. it is not you know, by accident there is higher dem o graphic of individuals that make up homelessness and drug use, so i think that if not already i hope is included because otherwise it just

enables us to think about the problems very superficially and think we just do a constant 360 of returning back to a state where we are like, why haven't these problems been addressed. so, those are just my initial comments. i have some questions for planning staff and i'll first just say that there are so many amazing community based organizations in the neighborhood that engage residents, but i know that there are also many residents who probably don't have the opportunity to participate with the cbo and engage in community process, because they are either working two jobs, they have kids. maybe there is language barriers. what are we doing as a department to engage those residents within

this plan? >> hello. my name is (inaudible) i'm a month in on the community development assistant. we recognize that the tenderloin is a unique neighborhood filled with low income, first generation immigrant americans such as myself. i'm someone who grew up in the tenderloin, dont live there anymore but have the lived experience and i want to make sure that we are addressing the issues that you are mentioning. there are interpreters in our community stakeholder meetings and that we are talking to those residents who are often missed and overlooked and everyone-every resident that is engaged in the community stakeholder group receives a gift card as a stipend because we recognize-time is money. especially for

residents, so this is ongoing process that we are embarking on and outreach efforts are getting better and better as time goes by. >> thank you so much. i think it is incredibly porpt for important for us to make sure we are doing everything we can to reach as many residents as possible, and also not just putting that responsibility on our community partners considering a lot of the constraints and capacity issues that our cbo have been having because of the pandemic and i'll let you go. >> thanks. i'll just-because (inaudible) is modest and humble, i will build on some of highlighting what he and (inaudible) have been working on. we see just as this whole plan i feel is a iterative process, we are learning each time we go, so the first community stakeholder group we felt that we

didn't have enough residents that did not speak english as first language. we did have a group that spoke spanish and (inaudible) worked really hard to get another two in language discussion groups one in vietnamese and one arabic, so we have translators that are community based interpreters and we also have all of our materials are being translated and then part of the funding will go to a bigger community engagement request for proposals for community based organizations and that money will go into the community to fund interpreters in the community to fund residents who are participating and all of the cost that go along with that. >> thanks andy. my next question is for community engagement. how are we targeting use? is there a

initiative to do specific focus groups or outreach with youth considering i believe i read the tenderloin has the highest contration of youth and families in the city. i want to stay youth programs that have existed in the city that i was once a part of was probably the turning point for the trajectory of my life and career and i see a ton of kids walking in the tenderloin and i just want to-i would like to hear what the focus has been on our youth. >> we have had a couple of youth focused focus groups and also in language and now that we-the plan has officially kicked off as part of the tenderloin emergency initiative and the community action plan, we are

engaging mothers with their children at this last community stakeholder group, but i think as we all know and (inaudible) because he worked with youth on the tenderloin community benefit districts before this position, that we have to go where they are and so we will have targeted focus groups to engage them on specific issues for-that are specific to their interest and needs. and luckily there is already so much organization within the neighborhood and places to go to find them, so the rec center, the ymca, boys and girls club so we have a lot of resources to work with. >> great. i think it would be wonderful if we saw programs that came out of this plan focused on youth. the last question i have in terms of populations we are engaging and community engagement which i think would be harder to do, are there any

plans on engaging what folks who are living or frequent the sidewalks in the tenderloin? there is a lot of discussion from merchants and residents about things that happen in the neighborhood that wouldn't be allowed anywhere else, and i really hope that the plan also works to destigmatize a lot of things we see and connect it to the historical context and policies, but are we also planning engaging folks who may be unhoused, folks who choose to deal as form of employment and income? >> i can speak a little to that but will not have the most satisfying answer. so, street outreach for people on the streets is happening every day. we know everybody out there. there is not a single person we haven't either engaged in one way or another. not

everybody wants to go inside. many on the sidewalk have places to be inside so it is conservation much different then organizing a community group where you can ask people to meet you. most people on the streets their lives are unpredictable and disorganizes so we meet where they are at and have the conversations but it isn't organize d the same way. i can tell you these conversations are happening. >> thank you. >> i can answer a little bit. at the tenderloin center we make it regular part of the service to get feedback. we have focus group, women identified folks for lgbt community and general community and bipoc folks to get feedback. we used the feedback to inform design of wellness hubs. we continue to icmathat part of the program design. we know by listening to people and valuing their voice and creating spaces they want to be in we have

a better chance of actually making great change and by giving them meaningful ways to participate. so, one program models we are looksing at now is low barrier employment so we are still designing all this. but, ways in which people can do same day employment and get paid on a card. because people's time is important and we want to value all of that time and all their input and by giving somebody a meaningful opportunity that gives people confidence and hope that maybe there are other things they can also do and take other steps to changing their lives. i can toll you part of the well nsds hub model will be engaging folks and we will see folks mostly experiencing homelessness and people who are using drugs and are impacted by the historical structural issue that contributed to their current circumstances. thank you for that question. >> thank you so much.

i just know previous decisions we have made in response to homelessness and drug use and drug dealing can be very dehumanizing and not tackle the root of the issue and so i think it is just incredibly important to humanize the folks who are struggling and making sure that we are incorporating that feedback in whatever we decide to do moving forward so thank you so much for that answer. the last thing i have is around funding. i know this must cost a lot of money to do and i think we received funding in the last budget cycle for the plan. i was hoping if the department could speak to the amount of funding we received in the last budget cycle, how we have spent the money so far, and what are our plans to spend it and roll it out as soon as possible

considering that it's a emergency. we declared a state of emergency in the tenderloin so love to hear how that has been going. >> great question. so, we received $4.1 million in our budget. we need to spend it before-it needs to be out of our doors before june 2025. but, we are going to get it out of the door before that. $600 thousand of that is used for community engagement facilitation and interpretation and translation services. of that $600 thousand, 350 will go to-request for proposal that will be released in january through the mayor's office of housing and are community development. and that has to be given or

designated to a community organization. community group. and then also of that $600 thousand, we are-we hired a neutral facilitator who is crucial to the whole process to help us mediate hard conversation and are design community engagement and serve as neutral party. and then also part of that is being used for stipends and translation services to fill the gap between june or july when we started to when the community group will start taking on the stipends. i wish i had a white board. sorry. so, then we have $3.5 million that is for implementation of ready to go shovel ready programs and projects and we are currently in a very condense timeframe participatory

budgeting process, where over this next couple months we are determining criteria with the community, we are making sure that the list of projects and programs on it is what people want and encompass everybody. everybody's needs. and also ideas and we'll start-there is various ways money gets out the door to make those projects happen. but that we anticipate will be within the next 6 months to a year at the longest. >> okay. for the participatory budget process, are you able to speak to that more because i think that's a amazing component to this and i know district 7 has a budget process. is that an example we are leaning on? >> yes. >> what is the department's threshold of success in terms of

inclusion of residents in the neighborhood? how are we measuring that? how many residents would we have had to reach that have participated in the process? >> right. >> what is the success for them? >> great question. so, the budget process is lead by (inaudible). who is joining virtually. so, they spoke with the district 7 office and the person who lead that participatory budget process. it is a great model and very expansive and never ending menu essentially. what we are-and also never ending budget. we are working with a smaller budget. and so we had already a list of projects that and programs that came with the tenderloin emergency initiative that came from the tenderloin people congress vision 2020plan that have

risen in the neighborhood as something we care about a lot. things like alley way closures, golden gate avenue closure, small business retention et cetera. so, we knew that we already have this list but we really felt like to your point that maybe didn't include all the residents that community based organizations can-they don't reach everybody so we wanted to get everybody's idea so that was the last community stakeholder group is brainstorming all the ideas and from that in the next month we are doing a workshop to refine that list and to develop criteria for what projects and programs could go on the final list. one idea for a criteria that surfaced on tuesday night was, maybe it has to be a resident based project or program and the

money has to stay within the neighborhood. that is one idea as criteria. in the november community stakeholder group meeting we'll vote on the final list of projects and do a neighborhood wide voting process after that. in terms of metrics, great question. yeah, i mean--we had a lot effort and resources put into getting 1200 responses to a survey and that was over a couple months. i think knowing the community stakeholder group we have already been very inclusive with that process to make them the main decision making body, i don't have a metric yet, but for success in terms of response on the voting, but that is great idea and can get back to you on that one. >> thanks andy. i just know we can get

stuck in process so hope we find a good balance of community engagement and making sure we roll out the dollars as fast as possible so in the next budget cycle comes around we can say look how we have spent this money, we need more. those are my comments. thank you so much. it is amazing work. >> thank you. commissioner imperial. >> yes. thank you commissioner ruiz for all those questions. also, i would like to commend the planning department. i think again i am-lately happy to see the public is coming to the planning commission, applauding how the planning department has been engaging with the community. again, this is kind of like a testament how community planning is a effective way in

terms of the planning process so i commend director hillis for initiating this process. and my other comments are around the-looking forward in this participatory budget that it is going to be-looks like a good way of process in terms of the budget, but like what commissioner ruiz was saying, there is a fine balance in terms of the process and also what are things we need to prioritize and think we always get in that pickle as well. but, i guess my other questions or comments in terms of-i'm looking forward to hear more about the wellness hubs program and how it evolves and looking forward as well and presentation that you may have about this wellness hubs and the kind of

care that is actually we center around when it comes and talks about homelessness and we are not just talking about just units, just people but talking about value of compassion and how people come into this centers and that they feel the programs are actually centered on compassion. yeah, i am looking forward in that kind of program going to evolve and i know san francisco is always a innovative city and looking forward again on how we tackle this, so thank you again for everyone. >> i want to applaud the staff and heard the comments and take to heart it great work you have done and thank the community members who spoke today and thousands participated not just in the most recent

iteration but past planning projectss and community based planning projects. it takes a lot of effort and energy and the pandemic was challenging and hopefully you can be encouraged and maybe feel going backward problems you think you solved come up again but hopefully the partnership here can continue to move forward. i do have a few questions for staff and maybe just to start with the wellness center. if you can talk more-in my mind i was saying is that similar to or different then a safe injection site? could you pull more color on exactly what those are envisioned to be if different then the tlc or just smaller scale? >> really good question. many services we provide will be transitioned into wellness hubs. what is important about this plan is these are neighborhood based and community

responsive. as we come into communities, we want to be very clear about what the issues are we are addressing what the community is asking for and taylor services to meet those specific needs. also be having to work with the spaces that we can actually get. you know this, you are the planning department. this is the biggest challenge if you can help me find spaces across the city. those will be-factor into what we can do. on site drug use is the evidence is clear what we learned at the tlc is clear, it is best practice to have on-site drug use to prevent overdose and connect folks to care. we do expect some of the sites wile have drug use, but we are still-like i said, every site we are going into it and being very intentional about what happens at that site and that's being community responsive as well. >> i did want to

respond to (inaudible) question and plea to make sure there is a smooth transition the tlc doesn't close before you secure the permits and leases and everything for your hub so could you explain a little about what the timelines look like? >> as much as i can today. i can tell you i live and breathe wellness hub planning. what i do every day, all the time and think about it constantly. the department of public health is incredibly committed to minimize gap and hopefully have no gap between the tlc closing and another site opening. we are coordinating with all city departments in particular the mayor's office to identify sites and work on the various necessary permitting and community meetings and various other things that go into getting the site up and running. right now i do not have specific dates to be able to share, but i can tell you we are-we have

planning is underway and feeling confidence we are going to have services in place very soon. >> is there a date for the tlc to close? >> right now we are set for early december. that date can be a little-our lease ends december 31 at this point. we have to leave time to demobilize the site and get prepared to get give back to the landlord in the previous condition so we will close before that time. before i release exact date i am thinking when the next (inaudible) trying to time them right but you can anticipate early december. >> certainly soon and so can see why you live and eat and breathe the wellness hub. i don't have a handle on any available property but hopefully someone listening today does and can call you and provide [multiple speakers]

>> we appreciate your work. thank you very very much. i wanted to ask a couple questions maybe about the budget. that is just for mrs. nelson the things you described it sounds like a lot is going to both making sure we keep the stakeholder groups together and implementation of projects and whatever budgets the departments have for staff time and all those energy going to on-going operation. >> correct. yes. it doesn't pay for staff time any of the city agencies, and it doesn't pay for existing work that the city is committed to do. >> additional funds that are going to the city. that is very good to hear. i just are want to say your work as a coordinator in the planning department role not just yours but the department coordination is very very important so i just are do hope i think the challenge that we face maybe in the community planning and maybe you want to respond to this, we

want to or perhaps there (inaudible) city planning of doing the neighborhood and go to the next neighborhood and do more plans and i wonder about the wisdom of that approach versus having sustained ongoing project management convening coordination role for the department of implementation side because if these are living plans and rolling along and we are constantly updating so don't know what you think about how you see deployment of resources so we can sustain this kind of linchpin role as a hub as this plan unfolds and going into the future. >> thank you commissioner. this is something that is in the making. i can start addressing but director (inaudible) might want to add to that. what you stated is what some of what the equity council emphasized and many community partners. to come to a neighborhood and just do one series of

workshop and walk away is very-creates a lot of instability. it might do good but some issues we deal with of the planning department in a comprehensive perspective dealing with housing, commercial space, jobs, services, infrastructure it takes time to think, plan, implement and then access and monitor. right now you see tender erloin is the most robust work we are doing at this point because of the community pressure, because of the mayor's initiative, the emergency declaration but more then anything else, it is a community that is struggling with a lot of issues. four other areas where we have targeted efforts. that is mission district, sunset you saw couple weeks ago, and the fillmore

western addition-and the bayview that we are starting. so, the intent is to have staff liaisons so one person who can develop those relationships and can be accountable to the community part of the challenge is that they need to talk to 10 different people within the planning department and 50 different people across the city, and so trying to identify how we can ease the coordination and collaboration is part of watt we are trying to address. director (inaudible) has been try ing to identify how we support that work. we targeted the specifically community. we have the cultural districts framework that we put on hold because of the housing element, and hopefully as soon as we are able to deliver that effort, we'll by the way be able to allocate more resources but don't know if you want to add. >> i think you know, you covered it. this is a model we like to

see replicated in other neighboreds where we are not just doing planning and handing off to the various department said to implement. we are involved in the implementation because they may or may not get implemented and we rely on the community to be the driving force in the implementation and that is a tough ask for a community. this is model we want to see replicated and as far as the $4 million, we want to see continue in the budget because we know $4 million isn't going to go terrible far. we need resources from other agencies so it is continuing to build that momentum to get resources at planning and get resources in other agencies to do this work. >> absolutely. i think speaking about resources, i want to pick up on something commissioner ruiz talked about and a

caller of the structural contribution to the challenges in the neighborhood. not just block by block and person to person aspect but why do we have the challenges in the first place so the contributions and there are some contributions we can address and some we have to pick up the pieces and can't stop. we may not be able to do that. with that in mind i think about the pilots that have been implemented in the city with universal basic income for mothers post pardm and one for artist so in addition to solutions to the challenges thinking about poverty being a huge driver. we talk low income 42 percent of folks earning less then $25 thousand a year. okay, we can do a lot of programs and have them have higher incomes. we can do job training to try to get folks to have high income job jz we have lower income draub

jobs in the city someone will do this. what could we do with millions of dollars we are spending in the neighborhood in addition to supporting services and previous work in my life we critiqued that as the poverty (inaudible) folks get paid to take care of people in poverty and paid more then the folks living in poverty and the money go tuesday the house how much more effective is that then paying someone else to take care of the effects afterwards. i hope there is is a conversation about physical infrastructure and problematic changes and what does it look like if we think about the nature of poverty in the country and the larger structure we are under and how much we can move the needle working with household by household. what do the pilots and cities done say and what can we do to replicate that. anyway, maybe a couple of the millions can go to something like that. one more idea for the budgeting because sure you needed more ideas for

that. i just wanted to commend the work and hope we can keep being active and partners and want to thank all the other cities agencies. there were 12 logos. it is pretty impressive and amazing and i think the other thing would be in addition to metric that folks feel that the neighborhood is changing in the way want it to change. they are able to drive towards being a place where they feel like they are safe, where they feel they are taken care of and not containment zone and they are part thof city. i donts think it is a accident the neighborhood borders the civic center and includes it and i think it indicates how important it is for the entire city to think about the neighborhood and are think what it says about us as san franciscans, the way treat and help and help to change the neighborhood is really i think upon all of us. i want to thank staff, the community. great work. i know it is just a point on the

work ahead so grateful to have you here and have you working alongside the community. thank you. i don't see other commissioners with hands up to speak. >> indeed. nothing further commissioners, this is informational item that requires no action. we can move to your next item. number 11. case 2022-003591cua. 1196 pacific avenue. this is request for conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon commissioners. (inaudible) welcome back president tanner and warm welcome to commissioner braun. mr. ionin is passing out additional public letters received post publication of the staff packet. i want to personally apology.

i hate killing small trees or any trees. i felt it prudent to give the benefit of the doubt of public comment received which is voluminous. give a special shout out to melody hsu from supervisor peskin office. which letters were double counted and make sure you receive to the best of our knowledge all the comment letters. want to put as a preamble. 1196 pacific avenue is before you. district 3. eastern edge of pacific avenue. northeast corner of property on pacific avenue and jones street. the actual retail frontage is pacific. this isn't the corner tenant space. are confused about that. 1198, also retails sales and service not associated with this projecktd.

the request before you is establish the cannabis retail use which under had larger land use cat gear of retail sales and service use but the neighborhood commercial it is subject to conditional use authorization. the space is pretty small, under a thousand square feet. 940. vacant to staff knowledge for at least a year perhaps longer. last occupied by a hair salon. the project would make miner interior and exterior improvements. exterior improvements are miner. they are add a security gate. project is not include on-site consumption and that means no smoking or vapeing of any cannabis product said. just to make it abundantly clear the condition of approval prohibit on-site consumption. front and center the project would not be before you if it didn't pass

the 600 foot test. cannabis retailers cannot come online if they are within 600 feet of another cannabis retailer, medical cannabis dispensary or school k-12. obviously it past the first sniff test and before you now. i listed a number of addresses. i hope i clearly stated they did not disqualify the project located here. it was for you to have a better sense of the geography and landscape. the closest school is 1100 feet away and closest cannabis retailer is california street cannabis company, 1398 california street 1800 feet away. the analysis from planning perspective is dry and objective. the only meat is under 303w where you as a commission are asking for additional findings unique to the use cannabis retail. they are the

geographic distribution of cannabis retail throughout the city. concentration of cannabis retail and medical cannabis dispensety and goods and service within the proximity of the subject location and lastly any increase in the youth access and exposure to cannabis and nearby facilities and that primarily serve use and any proposed measures to counter balance any such increase. i want to quickly run through these for you. regarding the geographic distribution, staff is the project would support the geographic balance throughout the city. the northeast section of the city within a half mile of the subject location most of the cannabis retailers are located within clusters. within the (inaudible) nob hill, union square or north beach neighborhood and call what you want but it looks like a doughnut. a large hole in the middle where 796 is located. from

objective analysis perspective this greatly services the policy goal of creating geographic distribution and not sort of adding to the clustering phenomenon we dealt with both mcd and cannabis retailers which disproportionately landed in the south of market neighborhoods over time. the concentration of cannabis within pacific avenue, the ncd is neighborhood commercial dist rskt. yes, predominantly residential but the ground floor permits a host of retail sales and service use. restaurants, service use and cannabis use with benefit of conditional use authorization. by virtual of the project and use going into the subject location which is vacant it isn't getting in the way of other retail service use and again objective actually creating a balance of different services. there are no cannabis retail use in the subject ncd. regarding the youth access and exposure

issue, cannabis retail facilities are heavily emphasis heavily regulated in san francisco much like alcohol in regards to alcohol beverage control. is more likely youth would gain easier access to cannabis in the unregulated market. which remains large and dominant force in san francisco. particularly due to the slow rate of permitting to get these type of retailers regulated online and by cultivating cannabis in homes is permitted under state law. by providing the regulated legal market with neighborhood the project discourage unregulated sales for youth and lastly regarding proposed measures to counter balance any possible increase, the project sponsor is required as part of the good neighbor policy to have staffing, ambassador and security that both monitor the store front and 50 feet either side of the storefront with no visible products in the windows and strict

emphasis enforcement of the 21 rule. the only exception is 18 or older with a doctor note. on the public comment, public comment is sort of voluminous. to the date we had 6 letters in support, 46 letters in opposition. the project sponsor did independently secure 26 letters of support on their own. they are before you and then on the other side there was a change.org petition that garnered 275 signatory. the opposition letters cited concerns of crime, parking, general incompatibility of the proposed land use within the neighborhood. one housekeeping item i e-mailed you i believe yesterday. one additional condition

of approval 16 based on feedback we thought would be prudent to very explicitly state off-site consumption is prohibited and article 16, 16-18 through 16-20 states no off site consumption. that is illegal in san francisco. so, in summary planning supportive of the project and recommend approval. department finds the project is on balance consistent with objective and policies of the general plan and find it to be necessary desirable compatible use with the neighborhood. this project does comply with strict location of requirements and affirm the required section 303 requirements of cannabis retail use and we have a equity applicant and that is a priority of office of cannabis to

prioritize (inaudible) >> thank you. project sponsor you have a 5 minute presentation. >> hello everyone. my name is (inaudible). a business partner at pacific avenue. i moved to san francisco in 2001 as a international student. i'm (inaudible) from turkey. i studied at san francisco state university, bachelor in corporate finance and business analysis. also a master degree from golden gate community in organizational psychology. i have been doing business in san francisco i can say since 2003. i do have various businesses in san francisco in different industries. we are

very excited about this project. i hope it will get approved, and what i can promise is we are going to run very professional transparent company and we'll always be open to communication with our neighbors. thank you. >> hello everyone. thanks for being here. my name is (inaudible) the equity owner of positive vision. i'm from san francisco. i grew up in the neighborhood of north beach, china town and nob hill. i went to (inaudible) elementary school on broadway and montgomery, fran cisco middle school. gael academy of science for high school. i was equity verified back in 2018. i wanted to do my own and i came

in front of planning commission with the name mobuds on cesar chavez. i got it approved but unfortunately i only had a loi with the landlord and he was my sponsor. long story short, he changed the deal. changed the rent. so i had to walk away from it. being equity is very challenging in san francisco to find a location. i went back to the drawing board, studied the map, different zones. what relates to me. north beach is where i grew up, so i looked and i got a lot of no's, but i kept striving. i

walked the streets. i drive down every neighborhood and just like nicolas mentioned, it is like a doughnut. there was nothing there and it is a purple zone and i'm like, there might be potential. so, for professional help i got sam and nick as attorneys and partners, because i didn't want to get shut down again like the last landlord did. i'm sorry--i can promise you that as a san franciscans i want to be here, i want to do business here and don't want to be one of those that dont get to live in their own

city and can't afford to live in their own city. i'm sorry. i'll pass it on to sam. >> thank you commissioners. as you can see this location is very important to the applicant. we did-i dont know if you can see the presentation, but we did find this neighborhood does have a disparity in cannabis dispensaries and important to remember this is equity applicant and there is equity in the-where the dispensaries are located. they dont belong in all the (inaudible) this is certainly a location that would enhance that. thank you. >> that concludes the project sponsor presentation. should take public comment. members of the public this is your opportunity to address the commission on this item. you each have two minutes. if you are in the chambers

please come forward and line up on the screen side of the room. calling in remotely, you need to press star or raise your hand on webex. >> good afternoon commissioners, directors. my name is jennifer may a long time resident of china town. the key question in deciding whether to approve a conditional use is whether that use is beneficial to the surrounding neighborhood. you must look beyond whether the use is allowed generally and look carefully at the particular facts unique to this specific location. the facts here do not support approval of retail cannabis on a residential block. occupied by some of the cities most vulnerable citizens. i am deeply concerned about the impact on the elderly immigrant residents and low income families in our community and on our

block. when the board of supervisors voted to prohibit retail cannabis in china town, they found it drives up prices and lead to gentrification and displacement. the board also found that retail spaces should be preserved for uses that meet the basic needs of china town residents. that same logic applies here. there are only a handful retail spaces available in upper china town and those spaces should be preserved for uses that serve the residents of our neighborhood. there is no need for another cannabis store when one is located just 15 feet away. i believe the sponsor said is 18 feet away, but we found 15 feet away on the commercial corridor of california and hyde. over 270 people have signed petition imposing this use and you can clearly see that the

people will be impacted the most do not support a cannabis shop on this residential block. this location is also located next to a bus stop along the pacific avenue corridor. a bus line that was conceived by (inaudible) as part of a china town trip- >> thank you ma'am. >> disabled asian americans. >> i'm sorry, i thought it was 3 minutes. okay. >> two minutes. >> okay. thank you. >> dear planning commission, my name is emily wong a russian hill residents. i have lived on russian hill since 1994. i moved to san francisco when i was 28, got married became a mother. my son who is

17 high school student born here. my father who passed away last year lived with us 7 years. he was 92. i'm asking the planning department to deny the conditional use permit application. because our neighborhood is filled with life long residents like me who have made san francisco our home and have spent our entire lives committed to living safely and peacefully. i know more then 20 young children and teenagers who live on my two block radius. i knemore then 20 years who live on my block. russian hill is one of the few neighborhoods in the city that supports families and voont convenient for walking and transit. supports working folks like me, young, middle age and old who contributed to the tax base and greatness that is san franciscomentf please help me and my neighbors keep my neighborhood safe from

unnecessary predatorial marijuana shops. he can cry. i can cry. okay. our children and seniors need our help, and the number 12 bus stop is right in front of this proposed shop. there are 5 marijuana dispensaries under a mile from the locate. high tops pacific and hyde is two blocks open 24 hours right here on my phone. quhie why is it the planning department hasn't identified that? >> thank you ma'am, that is your time. >> okay. thank you. >> i ask all speakers to address the commission. we are the object of the comments not other members of the public in the audience. thank you. [captioning to continue in a moment]

>> good afternoon commissioners. gregory bogesy, a over 20 year resident of russian hill and i love my neighborhood. i love the community that i'm in, and i would want to do everything i can to (inaudible) i feel this proposal would do meaningful damage to the community i live in. i just want to go over a few concerns i have that i think

should be taken into consideration. as everybody talked about the number of dispensries in the neighborhood, i understand the 600 foot rule but if you think about it in more objective terms, that is less then 2 blocks, so even though it sounds like it is a long ways it is really not, it is less then the distance between one corner and the other of this block we are on now. so, when we say also that it is out of distance from a school, it is within 2 and a half blocks of gene parker, 3 blocks of spring valley and 4 blocks of cathedral. these also as everybody said on a bus line which many of the children take. so that should be a consideration. lastly, i like to

think about the balance of (inaudible) more interest are about the community. interest of those intending to open the shop are really about their financial gain so i like-i want to consider those in the balance of things. thank you. hello commissioners, a long time resident on bernard street around the corner of the location. i have a 10 year old daughter and our street i count 12 school age children. i pasds by the location of the store front all most a daily basis. i know there are a lot of people speaking here and effects us the most because we are the immediate neighbors so someone who lives across town or few blocks down wouldn't effect them as much as it effects all us and why you can see we are all here

today. this is not a commercial neighborhood and this would be one of the very very few retail stores in the area. along with the kids we also have many elders in the neighborhood. cannabis shop would not serve theed community such as a hair salon, a grocery store or laundry mat would. i'm concern would safety for the kids and vulnerable population. we are told the security guard would take care of all the safety issues people talking about park in the driveway or consuming cannabis on the door stoops. when woo ask that the answer is the security guard will take care of that but one security guard and there will be numerous issues. i am not against cannabis, but this isn't the appropriate location for it. thank you. >> thank you for your time and hearing me

today. michael lindsey a long time resident of the pacific avenue neighborhood commercial district russian hill and north beach. i don't believe there is any doughnut we have today found out there (inaudible) under a thousand square feet. i am a long time resident. i know my neighborhood and neighbors. i had a business here for 20 years until very recent ly. it is a special neighborhood not heavily commercial. my understanding section 726 of the san francisco plan identifies our district as created to preserving the surrounding neighborhood residential character. permitting a cannabis dispensary do not do that when there are 11 of (inaudible) our block attracts more then fair share of visitors on foot and especially in cars blocking traffic on our bed-end street to smoke joints and look

at the view. it is a serious problem. many families with young children including myself live here because it is re residential character. we need a corner deli or bookshop or cafe. none need security guards. (inaudible) exclude children like mine. recent study of 700 california dispensaries (inaudible) suggested many children are drawn to entering such dispensaries even though it is against the law intended to protect them. the study found low rates of compliance by many cannabis stores with inadequate screening process allowing miners to enter and view items that should be restricted to adults 21 and over. it added many such stores items that appeal to teens and children inside and i can provide the information. if i stop a child entering the store what message does it snd to my 7 year old as we walk

past a security guard every year. (inaudible) >> thank you sir, but that is your time. >> okay, thank you. >> hello commissioners. i have no prepared remarks. my name is bo lee a native russian hill resident and grew up practically next door to swensons and now a home owner two blocks from the proposed cannabis outlet. i'll state for the record i'm not against pot shops they are legal, my concern is appropriateness of the location of this in a very quite residential neighborhood. having lived here pretty much my whole life i have seen a lot of changes. change is inevable and sometimes good. we live in a iconic neighborhood that attract visitors all over the world yet

been able to preserve our character all these years, which is amazing for as many neighborhoods changed to the point you can't recognize them anymore. russian hill is diverse as you can tell it ranges from mansions to all most china town,ic which is the proposed location is pretty much outskirts of china town and if you were to visit that particular block wrou would see it is not exactly the dem o graphic for a pot store. my concern is pot stores are all cash type businesses, and as such i think they would attract-risks of attracting more criminal activity. there is no foot traffic-it isn't like a commercial district or we have commercial corridors in our

neighborhood. polk street, california, columbus, we have no metered parking in our area. it is just residential parking stickers, so parking and like i say, the fact of having somebody-business with a security guard out front in that neighborhood doesn't belong. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> hello, good afternoon commissioners. i like to thank you for your time and allow me to speak on my behalf. my name is frank sam, i grew up in the upper china town neighborhood at 1140 pacific between taylor and jones and today i am representing my mom and all my neighbors. every since i heard about the planning commission to allow the cannabis project at 1196 pacific, i am extremely worried.

first of all, i oppose the project because i fear of my safety. i take the number 12 bus daily and it stops in front of the store. i fear when there is a crime i will not be able to protect myself nor be able to protect my mom and my neighbors. i also fear that the elderly and children getting on or off the bus is is a red flag. (inaudible) riding the number 12 bus and local resident walk by the proposed cannabis store daily. pretty soon there will be drug addicts and dealers on the streets. i worry i will get robbed because of stranger asking for money. i fear i will be attacked because i'm asian. the majority of our neighbors are local residents who dont spoke and use cannabis. my mom taught me that stay away from drugs. i don't like the smell

of cannabis. it makes sense because it makes money for the city, but it is definitely not a good project. i urge you to cancel this project, and remember there is blood on your hand if you allow this project to happen and you (inaudible) you are at fault. thank you. >> good afternoon commissioners. thank you for your time. my name is mary o'hara- >> if you can put the microphone up. >> 23 years i have lived on the corner of jones and broadway where broadway deadend at the wall. i experience on a daily

basis tourist from all over the world that come to see our view and see our neighborhood and admire our neighborhood. our neighborhood is filled with families with children. it is very difficult to rise children in a city but these parents are doing everything they possibly can to be able to raise their children in a city. the fact that there is no parking that people are parking in people's driveways and blocking traffic as it is just to tour the view. the fact that this is just a block away from one of the best viewing spots in san francisco. it is going to bring a bunch of kids up there smoking pot 24/7. and it will be all day and night long. it is difficult enough for us as it is. but the garbage that will be dropped, the noise and the fact that most of the bedrooms in these

victorian homes are facing broadway or facing jones street and those children are sleeping in those bedrooms. it is not just the parents, it is the children. this is a lovely neighborhood. it is a neighborhood. it is not polk street. it is not california street. high commercial districts. there is no need for this. there is 185 different services you can call on the phone and they deliver to you. you don't have to walk there. we have enough in the neighborhood area. if people want to go to a pot store they can without a problem. they can take a bus. thank you. >> my name is rick (inaudible) i bought a property on pacific. i bought it because of the school. there is 6 schools within the

neighborhood. yes, it might not be close to that cannabis, but i work from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. and i count the number of kids that walk through pacific. how many of you have kids? would you like your kids walking down there? i have a 5 year old. i bought the property because of the school here. there is no parking. i myself have to pay for parking but the double parking that goes on in that area even if you look at the buses there, they always get troubled by the double parking. so, i speak for the kids that are average 20 to 30 kids walking that street because they have to go to different schools within the neighborhood. it is not within the school, but the kids who have no voice in this business cannot speak for them, so i am representing it because i have a 5 year old and i also

have a elderly about to move to our property. if you look every morning 7:30 to 8 o'clock there are about 5 wheelchair old elderly that are waiting in that corner pacific and jones for the bus. a lot of people walk through that area neighborhood, so for my perspective, it is not the area we want to have a cannabis. we could have a grocery store that is very much more useful for the neighborhood. that is all i have to say about that. thank you so much. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is betty lim, also a native of russian hill. been there my entire life. not go nothing to numbers. i like to address the fact the neighborhood is not suitable for a cannabis facility dispensary. we know that there are at least 7 in the

immediate area within the zip code 94413 and 94109. pacific avenue is one lane each direction, bus comes through and no traffic goes. a fire truck goes through the bus cannot roll to the curb to by-pass. keep enmind the traffic is already a issue at the main street corridor. regardless of what my neighbors shared about the children, the retirees, the elders, it is really an unsafe retail space for dispensary. sure, let's put in a laundromat, coffee bar, grocery store. traffic will be a head ache and continue on being a major issue. unless you tell me you can say let's put in a traffic light there, we don't have traffic lights. pacific avenue does not have a traffic light. does

not have speed bumps. how do you prevent the ride shares speeding through with a large amount of increase in traffic? we just possibly cannot allow a dispensary in the neighborhood, especially with the large amount of traffic that it will bring in. thank you for your time. >> good afternoon. my name is (inaudible) i was born and raised in on pacific avenue in the home i live in. i grew up first 5 years of life my grandmother who taught me about qualities and characteristics of my character i feel has gotten me where i am today. this is why i'm so concerned about grandparents, elders and childrens because at this age for me for

everyone here it may be around the same time that it is fundamental to our development. it is safety, security and it is help me become more (inaudible) that is why i dedicate my life to doing what i do today and been doing that the last 20to 30 years because i believe in this neighborhood. i believe in the people of this neighborhood. i believe they are our strength and stability sustainability of our community. i also want to raise one other issue about the amount of cannabis stores. if we look here--this is the project site and the red is where the

proposed project is. in the green are existing cannabis stores. now, this is the pipeline of cannabis stores in and around the area. there is over-saturation that will happen and our concern is not just our own neighborhood and own block, but in our neighborhood and boarder neighborhoods more and more (inaudible) we are not- >> are thank you, that is your time. >> daniel (inaudible) 1650 jones street and not go toog argue about the children and elders because they are children and elders in the tenderloin and many other areas where there are cannabis

stores. but what i don't understand is they talk about the fact the closest cannabis is larken and california. 1436 pacific avenue a pot store i know about and i buy pot from emily pointed out it is called high tops cannabis. 1436 from 1196 is not that far, so i don't know why that has not come on the radar and don't know why the cannabis committee didn't know there was cannabis. 24 hours it open. i'm not against a pot store, i smoke spot and goes to grass roots on polk since it was medical marijuana. i don't think our neighborhood is appropriate. i do think the amount of (inaudible) no extracharge we need a cannabis store around the corner from us. thank you so much. >> okay. before we go

to our remote callers i'll ask for any additional members of the public in the chambers to come forward if you wish to submit your testimony. now would be the time. okay. seeing no other members in the chambers we will go to remote callers. when you hear your line is unmuted that is your indication to begin speaking. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is patricia (inaudible) one block of the proposed site for 7 years and lived in san francisco of 16 years. this is a type of business that can forever alter the fabric of a neighborhood and we have a great neighborhood. one one block of the proposed dispensary we have a karate dojo (inaudible) small nftly owned fitness, hardware store and one

of the neighbors built a library book swap in front of their home. this neighborhood as mentioned has significant amount of foot traffic by our elderly asian american community and many tourist and families. as mentioned, it is primarily residential. please do not permit a cannabis dispensary into our neighborhood and add to the traffic and parking problem and it is going to forever alter the sense of spirit of this lovely little corner of san franciscoism thank you so much. >> good afternoon (inaudible) calling in support of the neighbors who would be directly impacted by this project. i am in opposition. i look at the picture of the actual building and

see the residential entrance. it is so close to the door going into the site. it does not look good. it is much too close. t as well as the concentrated pedestrian, all those coming using various forms of transportation. all those scooters, parking bikes on the very narrow sidewalk. it is not in the best interest of these neighbors nor in the best interest of the safety. the bus stop also is going to be expanded by sfmta as they to make it more accessible and safe for elders and people with disabilities actually getting on to the bus. this is the wrong place, the wrong business and wrong place and what i hear the community say is they want a community

serving business. they want to have a cornerstone which community serving business would normally bring to a community, and justdize not meet their needs. so, please listen to this community. listen to the neighbors, listen to those most impacted and deny this project. thank you very much. >> good afternoon. we live at the corner of jones and pacific which is literally just around the corner from the site in question. my family has been a resident of this neighborhood for over 15 years. thank you for allowing us to express opinions on this matter. i'm asking for the conditional use to be denied. i'll be quick as to why.

(inaudible) the street is extraordinarily residential. it has many many families and children present as many neighbors have spoken up. the zoning in question is a very thin commercial corridor that connects the commercial element of polk with the more commercial portion of china town. despite that very thin commercial zoning it is not a (inaudible) there is also no effective way of preventing people to use cannabis (inaudible) along the street in question. it is a narrow footpath. there is a bus stop there and are there are many families and children present. you cannot effectively prevent people using product immediately around the location. there was a comment earlier in the opening i think that the store potentially

would (inaudible) that is not true. it brings unregulated sales to the area and it brings that because unregulated supply is cheaper and thes venue will attract a known customer base. thank you very much for your time. >> angela fong and opposed to the dispensary. born and raised within one and a half blocks of the dispensary on broadway. i live directly across from the dispensary proposal. i have three generations of my family within this area who have grown up in the very nice neighborhood. i went

to commodore stockton and marina middle school and galileo high school. i walked to and from the bus so i understand the use going past especially with a busy bus stop. i like to brink up the safety and safety and crime element. most dispensaries have over $10 thousand in cash. yes, you are proposing you will have a security guard. maybe (inaudible)

>> november 22, 2021, oakland police chief stated at a press conference more then 175 shots fired during recent cannabis robberies in one month. one month in november of last year. this is oakland police chief. san francisco examiner stated (inaudible) easy targets for robbery. >> thank you, that is your time. >> thank you everyone. >> my name is (inaudible) and i live and work close to the specific site. i am for this project for various reasons. i don't believe that

cannabis dispensaries are dangerous. they do have security guards. i go to them because of my health and my father had cancer. when my dad was battling cancer, leaving him alone for running around to get pain medication for him for a few blocks was just unnecessary and a lot of cannabis clubs (inaudible) hundred percent of the time on point. there is no way somebody who's less then 21 years old or under the proposed age can go inside because there are (inaudible)-i have never been able to have a id to a

someplace know my name-(inaudible) i listen to the other residents. i totally understand (inaudible) preadjustmental bias towards dispensary. i'm a man of color as well. i heard a lot of people tell me that i'm not racist, but same thing, i hear a lot saying we don't have anything against pot, but you know, let's see what comes up. as a person that has been impacted by cancer and knowing this medication really (inaudible) i'm for it >> thank you sir. that is your time.

>> good afternoon commissioners. (inaudible) san francisco small based business owner. i want to voice my support for the proposed project of the 1196 pacific avenue. who is a immigrant and incredible and professional small business leader. this opportunity would directly impact sf cannabis. it is well documented that cannabis was a key driver of mass criminalization in the city. mostly because large cannabis companies are talking reinvesting in communities and social equity. offering minority owned business (inaudible) prioritize black, brown and immigrant communities as part of the cannabis economy. everyone who is afraid of cannabis can be

helpful treating epilelsy (inaudible) chemo therapy (inaudible) this would serve the neighborhood. there is a undertone of discrimination when you say i support cannabis but just not in my neighborhood. or when you associate illegal drugs with cannabis. this isn't a safety issue, this is a equity issue. thank you for your consideration and time. >> good afternoon. teddy kramer the local business chair for the russian hill neighbors. also a board member for next village that support seniors throughout the northeast corridor. i'm speaking in personal capacity as a resident of russian hill on the corner of jones and broadway and located directly around the corner from the proposed dispensary. i am speaking in favor of

the proposed dispensary. please follow the recommendation of the planner. there is nothing unique (inaudible) all around san francisco. please be objective, follow your laws rules guidelines and processes. if you deny this application you will be causing irreparable harm to future equity candidate s who look to pursue their dream of owning businesses in san francisco. thank you for your time. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is naome mann, 2040 hyde street about a hundred yards from the cooked street so i'm very familiar with the hustal and bustle and excess traffic on a quite what was once

a quite neighborhood street, and very quintessentially san francisco. i raised my children in san francisco and i also spent all most 30 year teaching at city college of san francisco. i'm very invested in the life and health and the character of this city. i have a few things to say in support of this business. first of all, since covid we have had hundreds and hundreds of storefronts and (inaudible) for one reason or another. there is so much literature on the blight that follows one after the other after the other of small businesses going under. that storefront has been vacant for over a year. it is very nice the people who live there say they would

like a laundromat or small market or whatever, but no one has stood up to invest in that space accept the people who are proposing this cannabis dispensary, and i think we need to be concerned as much about the financial, the economic health of the community as everything else. i never heard one word from the people who were worried about the safety and helths of their children and seniors about how close and how many (inaudible) liquor stores. >> thank you ma'am. that is your time.

>> hello, my name is (inaudible) i live at 49 bernard street and would like to issue my support for the project. i just went-something similar trying to make impruchbments improvements to my home. it isn't surprising to me the same people involved in that are asking you to decline this. there is a lot of comments unwanted businesses that (inaudible) i can understand that, but this has been outstanding and open this property for over two years now. there is a lot of commentary wanting this and that, but i yet to hear is anybody standing up and doing something about (inaudible) creating a business, opening something, doing something accept for complaining and asking for something else and putting people's financial health, taking a risk

starting a small business, and i just fully support them. i hope to see equity in this space and diverse neighborhood that has everybody feeling welcome. thank you. >> hello. my name is (inaudible) i am a long-term resident of san francisco california specifically north beach area. three blocks from the proposed location opening. i directly support this location opening for several reasons. one, we had past (inaudible) as a long-term resident of the city, seeing the owner is a person of color and looking to do good there, makes

me question why people dont want to support the business. in addition to that, there are plenty of businesses around the area, but if you ever have been to the specific location there are reasons why grocery stores are not opening there, hair salons are not opening in that location. i think a business like a dispensary will definitely last there because it is something we all need and it is very helpful to the community and a lot of people worried about the senior citizens or robbed or mugged (inaudible) it is not something that's-in addition it will drive business in the area. (inaudible) diversification of businesses in the area and especially support our own residents looking to own and be entrepreneurs in the city are home grown residents that went to schools in the area

that know the area and residents. i think it is very important for us all to support residents especially residents looking to better their own community. as somebody that is from our own community looking to open a business in our own community, i support it. if he looks like something that is (inaudible) >> thank you sir, that is your time. okay. last call for public comment. again if you are in the room you need to come forward. calling in remotely press star 3 or raise your hand on webex. with you hear you line is unmuted that is your indication to begin speaking. >> good afternoon commissioners. can you hear me? >> yes are, we can hear you. >> my name is (inaudible) calling in support of this project. i'm also

equity applicant i (inaudible) dispensary myself i can say since we opened we haven't had any problems. i heard a lot of people speaking about the violence and potential for that, but none of that is going on in general (inaudible) i know these individuals and know they are good people and want to give back to the community. i urge the commission to please approve the project. thank you guys so much. >> hello commissioners, my name is (inaudible) resident, san francisco california for more then 25 years. i also have a master degree in sociology and economics and i studied the sociology and economic of san francisco my whole life and i to say i'm in full support of approving this plan.

the fact the business owners are community men and men of the community and there is no better then those type of people to lead the community and the people with kids, i would say, this is a great opportunity to use this as a educational (inaudible) shine light on something in san francisco because it isn't easy raising kids in san francisco, especially in 2022. so, i want to look at this as something that is positive for the community not something negative and that is something i can be educational because it is and there is a new time in the world so i feel we should educate instead of hate. thank you for your time.

>> current resident 49 bernard street. i would like to call in to say i'm in fill support of this project. number one is (inaudible) diversity in the neighborhood here that i live in. i think color owned businesses especially local business in the community are a absolute necessity. to block this deny equity in that business moving forward and that is a shame to see in one of the most progressive cities in the united states. second piece reason i think that or in support of the project is i think opposed to some of the objections i heard today. i think cannabis is actually an improvement to a neighborhood. from both lifestyle and economic perspective. for those reasons i think this project should be supported. thank you

commissioners. >> hi. imeler i'm a san francisco resident who live said in the neighborhood. i support the project because there are no dispensaries accessible for me near russian hill. i feel like the addition of this would offer a valuable service and asset to the neighborhood. thank you for your time. >> hi. thank you for your time today on this call. all the concerns that have been in the russian hill nob hill neighborhood. i have lived in russian hill nob hill. kristen anderson, since 1998 and i was fortunate enough to buy a home on jones street a block and a half from the proposed dispensary. like many people in this call i'm quite worried about this business

coming into our neighborhood which described is a gentle quite residential neighborhood and specifically the street is not a commercial street, it is residential street with a very narrow neighborhood walkway and right (inaudible) that fustillitate movement of a lot of elderly people and school age children throughout our residential neighborhood. i strongly feel this isn't a good business for our neighborhood. it isn't about being discriminatory, not about being against the century, but there are (inaudible) as others have mentioned within a quick walking distance of the proposed location and this business is not match with this residential neighborhood and specifically this residential street. as a long time member of this neighborhood and a current home owner on jones street, like i said just a block and a half away

from this location i want to voice my concern and my worry and i'm against this business moving into the neighborhood. thank you. >> okay, final last call for public comment. seeing no additional request to speak, commissioners, public comment is closed. this matter is now before you. >> thank the members of the public who came today and called into talk about the dispensary and the role here. i do have a couple questions for staff. mr. foster if you can talk about just clarification perhaps on the dispensary high tops that some folks were saying i was trying to look up trying to see maybe it is a delivery service. (inaudible) the other location if it exists and where it falls in the scheme of

cannabis businesses. >> sure. thank you for the question president tanner. front and center the location in question would not show on the map because it isn't brick and mortar cannabis retail location or a ncd. it is regulated by office of cannabis. that is why it isn't showing on the map but it is under their purview and under their jurisdiction for regulation, so i want to operate on a positive thought they are operating legally and they are abiding by the code of conduct. it is possible they are only selling cbd (inaudible) outside the jurisdiction of the office of cannabis, but i want to consult with office of cannabis to get more detail. (inaudible) but get them on the radar. they are not on the map because they are not retail location.

>> thank you so much mr. foster. commissioner koppel. >> so, aside from commissioner moore who isn't here today her and i were the only here from the onset in the very beginning of the legalization of cannabis, and we--then commissioner hillis was here as well. we had endless hearings to get more then enough community input from all walks of life, all parts of the city to really do best we could considering we are still operating under the state guidance, so juggling

the state recommendations and where we landed was a very very very very healthy and thoughtful conversation with everyone involved, and when the dispensaries first starting coming in front of us they were concentrated in a couple areas of town that we saw as alarming and all along had just longed for more of a equitable diverse set of locations throughout the whole city, and then also encouraging with the equity program equitable diverse ownership of these businesses too and so what do we as a city stand for giving people a chance to come here. this guy went to school he didn't just come here. you can tell this is a big dream of his and thought it was disingenuous for public speakers to single him out and

talk the way they did to him when the guy is just trying to make the best for himself and finally we are starting to see that we heard this before. we don't want this in our neighborhood and it will be in every neighborhood. it is going to be. we should have affordable housing in every neighborhood and legal and essential businesses in every neighborhood. i'm in support today. >> thank you commissioner koppel. commissioner diamond. >> thank you commissioner koppel. i share your concerns. i will say that we heard many specifics raised about the potential negative impact on children and older adults, and concerns about bus stops and traffic. those are all issues that have been raised in every other neighborhood. i didn't hear anything that distinguish these concerns from the rest of the city where we have been approving these projects and i feel like we need to

be very equitable in the application of the rules to make sure we do as commissioner koppel talked about which is not concentrated in one particular part of the city but making sure they are spread eveningly. secondly, in a time where we are really facing a crisis with retail and we have clothe shops all over the place i applaud you in particular, the applicant for wanting to open a small business, taking the risk that is involved and investing in the neighborhood in which you grew up. i think that remarkable example and hope the project is approved and will be supporting the staff recommendation and you are successful in your endeavor. i also want to say the office of cannabis and planning department staff worked carefully to come up with security measures that they existence of the guard isn't something to be concerned about. it

is something to be extremely happy about,s and that i have a cannabis shop a few houses down from my house. it is extremely clean, people are not loitering, there isn't immense amount of traffic. i will say i'm very much in favor of the new conditions added to this because i do think some are not aware when they buy products they can't go on the street and smoke them. each time a purchase is made it is good idea and impose that as standard condition and all projects going forward and perhaps going further asking the office of cannabis to impose that as a license condition on all the existing cannabis shops. but, i am very much in support of this and would make a motion to approve. >> second.

>> i think we had a race for people to second the motion. we don't have other comments. thank you. >> seeing no other request to speak, there is motion to approve as amended by staff. on that motion- [roll call] >> so moved commissioners, motion passes unanimously 6-0. concludes the agenda today commissioners and pleased to announce you have a break next week as a scheduled cancellation. >> we can read the housing element. we are adjourned. [laughter]

>> this is a huge catalyst for change. >> it will be over 530,000 gross square feet plus two levels of

basement. >> now the departments are across so many locations it is hard for them to work together and collaborate and hard for the customers to figure out the different locations and hours of operation. >> one of the main drivers is a one stopper mitt center for -- permit center. >> special events. we are a one stop shop for those three things. >> this has many different uses throughout if years. >> in 1940s it was coca-cola and the flagship as part of the construction project we are retaining the clock tower. the permit center is little working closely with the digital services team on how can we modernize and move away from the paper we use right now to move to a more digital world. >> the digital services team was created in 2017. it is 2.5 years.

our job is to make it possible to get things done with the city online. >> one of the reasons permitting is so difficult in this city and county is really about the scale. we have 58 different department in the city and 18 of them involve permitting. >> we are expecting the residents to understand how the departments are structured to navigate through the permitting processes. it is difficult and we have heard that from many people we interviewed. our goal is you don't have to know the department. you are dealing with the city. >> now if you are trying to get construction or special events permit you might go to 13 locations to get the permit. here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one location which is a huge improvement for the customer and staff trying to work together to make it easy to comply with the rules.

>> there are more than 300 permitting processes in the city. there is a huge to do list that we are possessing digital. the first project is allowing people to apply online for the a.d.u. it is an accessory dwelling unit, away for people to add extra living space to their home, to convert a garage or add something to the back of the house. it is a very complicated permit. you have to speak to different departments to get it approved. we are trying to consolidate to one easy to due process. some of the next ones are windows and roofing. those are high volume permits. they are simple to issue. another one is restaurant permitting. while the overall volume is lower it is long and complicated business process. people struggle to open restaurants because the permitting process is hard to

navigate. >> the city is going to roll out a digital curing system one that is being tested. >> when people arrive they canshay what they are here to. it helps them workout which cue they neat to be in. if they rant to run anker rapid she can do that. we say you are next in line make sure you are back ready for your appointment. >> we want it all-in-one location across the many departments involved. it is clear where customers go to play. >> on june 5, 2019 the ceremony was held to celebrate the placement of the last beam on top of the structures. six months later construction is complete. >> we will be moving next summer. >> the flu building -- the new building will be building. it was designed with light in mind. employees will appreciate these

amenities. >> solar panels on the roof, electric vehicle chargers in the basement levels, benefiting from gray watery use and secured bicycle parking for 300 bicycles. when you are on the higher floors of the building you might catch the tip of the golden gate bridge on a clear day and good view of soma. >> it is so exciting for the team. it is a fiscal manifestation what we are trying to do. it is allowing the different departments to come together to issue permits to the residents. we hope people can digitally come to one website for permits. we are trying to make it digital so when they come into the center they have a high-quality

interaction with experts to guide then rather than filling in forms. they will have good conversations with our staff. >> providing excellent customer service to each other so that we can succeed together. because we're a small division out here, and we're separated from the rest of the p.u.c., a lot of people wear a lot of different hats. everyone is really adept not

just at their own job assigned to them, but really understanding how their job relates to the other functions, and then, how they can work together with other functions in the organization to solve those problems and meet our core mission. >> we procure, track, and store materials and supplies for the project here. our real goal is to provide the best materials, services and supplies to the 250 people that work here at hetch hetchy, and turn, that supports everyone here in the city. i have a very small, but very efficient and effective team. we really focus hard on doing things right, and then focus on doing the right thing, that benefits everyone. >> the accounting team has several different functions. what happens is because we're so remote out here, we have small groups of people that have to do what the equivalent are of many people in the city. out here, our accounting team

handles everything. they love it, they know it inside out, they cherish it, they do their best to make the system work at its most efficient. they work for ways to improve it all the time, and that's really an amazing thing. this is really unique because it's everybody across the board. they're invested it, and they do their best for it. >> they're a pretty dynamic team, actually. the warehouse team guys, and the gals over in accounting work very well together. i'm typically in engineering, so i don't work with them all day on an every day basis. so when i do, they've included me in their team and treated me as part of the family. it's pretty amazing. >> this team really understanding the mission of the organization and our responsibilities to deliver water and power, and the team also understands that in order to do that, we have a commitment to each other, so

we're all committed to the success of the organization, and that means providing excellent customer service to each other so that we can succeed >> i don't think you need to be an expert to look around and see the increasing frequency of fires throughout california.

they are continuing at an ever-increasing rate every summer, and as we all know, the drought continues and huge shortages of water right now. i don't think you have to be an expert to see the impact. when people create greenhouse gases, we are doing so by different activities like burning fossil fuels and letting off carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and we also do this with food waste. when we waste solid food and leave it in the landfill, it puts methane gas into the atmosphere and that accelerates the rate at which we are warming our planet and makes all the effects of climate change worse. the good news is there are a lot of things that you can be doing, particularly composting and the added benefit is when the compost is actually applied to the soil, it has the ability to reverse climate change by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil and the t radios. and there is huge amount of science that is breaking right

now around that. >> in the early 90s, san francisco hired some engineers to analyze the material san francisco was sending to landfill. they did a waste characterization study, and that showed that most of the material san francisco was sending to landfill could be composted. it was things like food scraps, coffee grounds and egg shells and sticks and leaves from gardening. together re-ecology in san francisco started this curbside composting program and we were the first city in the country to collect food scraps separately from other trash and turn them into compost. it turns out it was one of the best things we ever did. it kept 2.5 million tons of material out of the landfill, produced a beautiful nutrient rich compost that has gone on to hundreds of farms, orchards and

vineyards. so in that way you can manage your food scraps and produce far less methane. that is part of the solution. that gives people hope that we're doing something to slow down climate change. >> i have been into organic farming my whole life. when we started planting trees, it was natural to have compost from re-ecology. compost is how i work and the soil biology or the microbes feed the plant and our job as regenerative farmers is to feed the microbes with compost and they will feed the plant. it is very much like in business where you say take care of your employees and your employees will take carolinas of your customers. the same thing. take care of the soil microbes and soil life and that will feed and take care of the plants. >> they love compost because it is a nutrient rich soil

amendment. it is food for the soil. that is photosynthesis. pulling carbon from the atmosphere. pushing it back into the soil where it belongs. and the roots exude carbon into the soil. you are helping turn a farm into a carbon sink. it is an international model. delegations from 135 countries have come to study this program. and it actually helped inspire a new law in california, senate bill 1383. which requires cities in california to reduce the amount of compostable materials they send to landfills by 75% by 2025. and san francisco helped inspire this and this is a nation-leading policy. >> because we have such an immature relationship with nature and the natural cycles and the carbon cycles, government does have to step in and protect the commons, which is soil, ocean, foryes, sir, and so forth. -- forest, and so fors. we know that our largest

corporations are a significant percentage of carbon emission, and that the corporate community has significant role to play in reducing carbon emissions. unfortunately, we have no idea and no requirement that they disclose anything about the carbon footprint, the core operation and sp360 stands for the basic notion that large corporations should be transparent about the carbon footprint. it makes all the sense in the world and very common sense but is controversial. any time you are proposing a policy that is going to make real change and that will change behavior because we know that when corporations have to disclose and be transparent and have that kind of accountability, there is going to be opposition. >> we have to provide technical assistance to comply with the state legislation sb1383 which requires them to have a food donation program. we keep the edible food local.

and we are not composting it because we don't want to compost edible food. we want that food to get eaten within san francisco and feed folks in need. it is very unique in san francisco we have such a broad and expansive education program for the city. but also that we have partners in government and nonprofit that are dedicated to this work. at san francisco unified school district, we have a sustainability office and educators throughout the science department that are building it into the curriculum. making it easy for teachers to teach about this. we work together to build a pipeline for students so that when they are really young in pre-k, they are just learning about the awe and wonder and beauty of nature and they are connecting to animals and things they would naturally find love and affinity towards. as they get older, concepts that keep them engaged like society

and people and economics. >> california is experiencing many years of drought. dry periods. that is really hard on farms and is really challenging. compost helps farms get through these difficult times. how is that? compost is a natural sponge that attracts and retains water. and so when we put compost around the roots of plants, it holds any moisture there from rainfall or irrigation. it helps farms make that corner and that helps them grow for food. you can grow 30% more food in times of drought in you farm naturally with compost. farms and cities in california are very hip now to this fact that creating compost, providing compost to farms helps communities survive and get through those dry periods. >> here is the thing. soil health, climate health,

human health, one conversation. if we grow our food differently, we can capture all that excess carbon in the atmosphere and store it in unlimited quantities in the soil, that will create nutrient dense foods that will take care of most of our civilized diseases. so it's one conversation. people have to understand that they are nature. they can't separate. we started prowling the high plains in the 1870s and by the 1930s, 60 year, we turned it into a dust bowl. that is what ignorance looks like when you don't pay attention to nature. nature bats last. so people have to wake up. wake up. compost. >> it is really easy to get frustrated because we have this belief that you have to be completely sustainable 24/7 in all aspects of your life. it is not about being perfect. it is about making a change here, a change there in your life. maybe saying, you know what?

i don't have to drive to that particular place today. today i am going to take the bus or i'm going to walk. it is about having us is stainable in mind. that is -- it is about having sustainability in mind. that is how we move the dial. you don't have to be perfect all the time. >> san francisco has been and will continue to be one of the greener cities because there are communities who care about protecting a special ecosystem and habitat. thinking about the history of the ohlone and the native and indigenous people who are stewards of this land from that history to now with the ambitious climate action plan we just passed and the goals we have, i think we have a dedicated group of people who see the importance of this place. and who put effort into building an infrastructure that actually makes it possible. >> we have a long history starting with the gold rush and the anti-war activism and that is also part of the environmental movement in the

60s and 70s. and of course, earth day in 1970 which is huge. and i feel very privileged to work for the city because we are on such a forefront of environmental issues, and we get calls from all over the world really to get information. how do cities create waste programs like they do in san francisco. we are looking into the few which you are and we want innovation. we want solutions. >> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses, and

challenges residents to do their shopping within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services in our neighborhood, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i am the owner of this restaurant. we have been here in north beach over 100 years. [speaking foreign language] [♪♪♪] [speaking foreign language]

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good morning the meeting will come to order the thursday october 27, 2022 meeting of public safety and neighborhood service. supervisor mar the chair and i'm joined by stefani and melgar and joined by supervisor mandelman this morning. thank you to stefani cabrera for staffing this meet and like to thank matthew from sfgovtv for staffing as well. madam clerk do you have announcements. >> thank you the board of sprierdzs are convening hybrid et