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allowed comment. thank you for sharing the meeting with the public. >> a rollcall >> bleiman yoochl here >> wong >> here >> commissioner davis. >> here. >> commissioner perez is running late. >> commissioner poggio >> here >> commissioner schlander. >> here. >> next is general public comment. anybody from the public upon the to address anything not on the agenda? >> no comments. close public comment. next item is 3 approval of the minutes for october 15 and october 22, 2024 commission meetings. i believe there may be one revision. >> yes. i noticed in one of the minutes on the october 25th or 22nd date the time is 5:30 i believe it was 1:30. >> is that the only correction

that the motion i make approval with the correction of 1:30. >> seconded. >> great. >> you should be a cop. [laughter]. one more question before we go up, is there public comment on the minutes? >> we will close comment and we have a motion? president bleiman >> aye >> vice president wang >> aye >> commissioner davis >> aye >> commissioner poggio. >> aye yoochl commissioner schlander. >> aye. >> number 4 is report from executive director. >> good evening. i have a few updates for the evening's director's report. we had a big election. i will not be speaking on anything that happened at the federal level. but here locally, there were several things that will impact our work.

first and foremost we as well a new mayor elect danielle lurey will be sworn in beginning. january. and have several new members of the board of supervisors. so everyone is aware the entertainment commission falls under the city administrator's office and take our lead from the central office in terms of working with and familiarizing ourselves with the new staff of all of the new elected officials and making sure that everybody is aware what we do as an office. how we function and support them. in their work moving forward. most often when we hear from the board of spierz its is relative to the places we permit and related a sound complaint. we will go ahead and provide some of this basic information and as soon as they are able to take meetings we will do that at the discretion of the city add administrator. >> beyond that, there were

ballot measures we have been monitoring. prop d did not paddle. that measure would have made it so that the board of supervisors would have had the ability to remove several commissions including ours. which was listed and then reinstate up to 65 those making them essential low advisory only. that did not pass. that will not be moving forward with our office. and our commission. and then prop e was the other commission ballot measure that was speaking to creating a task force to look at potential changes and so that is something that we're getting more information from our city attorney on and i will be able to brief you on at one of our december hearings to hear more about next steps how that will be coming in play in the next

year with our new members of the board of supervisors. >> beyond that, there was prop m that impacts our work. and this is a measure that essential low would be eliminating the entertainment license fees begin nothing 2026. a good chunk of our ref now. however, we will not be held at a revenue loss account okay this . is a good thing for businesses. right? so, that's load in the our budget for those future fiscal years. not a loss but as an amount of money that we will no longer need to be held accountsable for collecting from businesses. we will continue to collect our permit application fees and any fees that come from enforcement related activities. if you have questions about any of those measures, we will answer to the best of our

ability. kate has been working closely with charger and tax collector's office on the prop m and the role out of that. i believe that item is going to budget and finance tomorrow. we will continue to monitor that >> beyond that, i wanted to update anybody watching and reminds our members of the commission we will have a holiday party on wednesday december 18th at herringtons. downtown on front street. it will begin at 5:30 p.m. and go until 8 p.m. sometimes will be there in the night having a good time. so come one come all. it is a free event open to the public. it is a cash bar. and we have a rock us good time a great way to know us and for us to know our permit hold and our permit holders to know each other. >> and we may have a few speech

this is time around to update upon folks from our accomplishments and things to look forward to in the year to come. encourage to you come. you can r. s. v. p. online. we sent information and it is posted on social media and we will post in the next month as we lead up to that event. >> the last update for all is around an appeal item. this was one where we had issued a citation to a place, enzyme on norfolk. and for operating entertainment without a permit. and we had visited the business and the business appealed the citation. on grounds that they did not believe we should be entering the business. but this place was operating out

of compliance in multiple ways and had the direct represent us and inspector young the inspector who attended that inspection and was able to provide testimony on what occurred this night. and we just received the other day the statement of decision about that appeal we won that appeal. and the citation will be upheld. that went through the controller's office so you are aware of that process. any time we have an appeal for a citation that is where it goes. opposed to somebody appealing a decision the commission makes that go to the board of appeals. if you have questions about anything. let me know. >> does not look like there are questions. great job on the appeal victory. is there public comment on this

agenda item? >> no comments >> close public comment and move to 5 which is the report from the senior inspector. >> thank you, president bleimanful good evening. we received 126, 311 complaints since the last meetingir several updates. let me know if you have questions. >> my first is about oply at 1754 polk street llp with our office on saturday october 19th inspector visited at 10:20 p.m. in response to a complaint the night before. 10:18 at 10:15 p.m. october 18th. when he arrived an electric guitarist with windows and doors open. spoke with the manager and let him know that the windows and doors must be closeded during

intament. manager said he was unaware but closed them. oply issued a notice of violation for not adheres to the good neighbor policy. next is about after work bar at 409 going street. who does not holds permits with our office. on saturday october 19th the inspector visited at 7:40 p.m. in response to a complaint by out door sound. he benched tv's in operation outside showing games. spoke with two managers not having a permit both acknowledged they need one them sufficiency not his first visit and previously educated them on permitting requirements. after notice of violation for operating sounds without a permit and management in touch with the deputy director about

applying for you a permit. >> next is about jackson at 3231 fillmore. holds a poe. inspector response to numerous complaints that came in friday october 25 and saturday october 26. noted compliance during two visits on october 25 and 9:20 p.m. and again at 10:15 p.m. on saturday october 26 when he arrived at 10:30 p.m. the doors and windows were opened. took a sound measurement. he benched that the out door music was still on and in operation. >> he was able to work with the staff who brought the volume in compliance and the on site manager was unable to turn off at his time of visit.

given how busy it was for the holiday the inspector commended the jackson security and noted that there was a line of people around the block that operationally things were running smooth. in response to 311 complaints visited at 9. . 15 p.m. and again at 11. . 45 p.m. the following saturday november second. during his first inspection the doors and windows were closed and sound levels were compliant when he rew turned later he noted that the out door music was in operation on the patio. after speaking with the manager, she did turn the out door music off. notice of violation for operating skoundz eversoungdz after 10 p.m. >> next located at 3149, 22nd street. recently pd informed the deputy

director of 12 police departments spanning from late 2023 through october 17th, 2024. when a gun was discharged and a patron sustained a gunshot wound in their heel. the permit includes robust set of security conscience special requirement of sending pd and the entertainment commission a monthly event calendar. additionally, with all permit holders required to adhere to the good neighbor policy and number 8 required to submit an incident report to pd and the dec within 24 hours of incident or any time pd responds to a call for service at the business. >> to date we have not received a calendar of events nor incident report for any of the 12 call for service over the last year.

as such, they were issued a notice of violation for the permit conditions and good neighbor policy. management sent a copy of the permit ask a blank incident report with their nov. deputy director is coordinating a meeting with the management. pd mission station to discuss their security plan. >> next update is maze oyster house on polk street. we received complaints regarding them the last few weekend 've weekendses operations are fully compliant the inspector noted the front door has been open during intament. security would close and during his latest on saturday november ninth, he found the door open and garthed that security was going against ownerships to keep it closed.

during the visit the owner closed the door. they were issued a notice of violation for keeping the door closed during entertainment. for the last item i would like it pass it over to deputy director. thank you. >> thank you temperature hi, commissioners. i'm going to update you the final update on the enforcement memo what biby loufrn on 26, 6 street they don't have permits but applied for a poe and ehp. on friday october 18, i spoke with the architect who called with questions about applying for you a poe. the inspector visited and educated them on requirements. during our call i made it clear they must have a permit to have indoor and out door entertainment on the second story out door roof top. i shared there are resident who

is are concerned businesses programming plans. on sunday october 20, visited the lounge at 12. . 40 amin response to a sound complaint. front door was open and dj inside. spoke with management and explain they'd must have a permit. the inspectorment everreported management acknowledged this. there were a handled dollar are citation for operating entertainment without a permit. the following weekends on sunday october 27th. visited the lounge at 12:35 a.m. in response to a sound complaint. front door open and dj inside and the speakers up doors out door were playingly music that was oddable across the street. they lowered the volumes and closed the front door and

decreased the prerecord music. indicated that management knowledge of needing a permit to host entertainment. i issued the lounge a 300 citation for hosting without a permit of tuesday november fifth after applications for poe permit i held a meeting with the owner of the lounge and consultant. during the meeting i said they must have a permit to host entertainment. i also made it clear that if a dj is playing prerecorded it will be a dj. 3 days later on november 8 visited the lounge to drop off a post and responds to a complaint and there was a dj playing i issued a 500 citation for hosting without a permit. this the third citation in less than a month for unpermitted

entertainment. lounge will have a hearing for the permit applications. and they have obtained a one time permit for friday and saturday nights from 6 p.m. to sick a.m. until the hearing date. final is a visit that the inspector made november 16th. stopping by the lounge to make a correction to the yellow poster noticing the public of the permit application. during his visit spoke with staff about the entertainment and out door sound on the roof. the business had a one time permit to operate they were not permitted play out door sounds. the inspector convey third degree and left a few minutes later received a phone call from the owner irate saying we are targeting against them. the inspector is not allowed everyone and have his lawyers sue him and put a restraining order against him. inspector explained he was doing

his job and if he had questions speak with me. owner seemed to believe the dj is not a dj and is a person pushing play on a play list. they are set up behind the booth with equipment and presents themselves as a dj which why we're treating them as such. gi called the owner yesterday is did not receive a call back and spoke about the interaction i explained the owner's behavior was not acceptable. i reminded him we are strife to have a positive [inaudible] and the point to bring thome a hear for example permits. i continue is big let me know if you have questions for me or the inspector. thank you. questions. i have a question k. were you able to get a meeting scheduled.

>> not yet i spoke to the manager 3 times on the phone. not received an e mail he confirmed receiving the e mail and would reply. i get promises. i will follow up again. >> does the security plan do they have cameras inside? >> they are. >> they have been very amenable to working with pd when officers called to obtain video footage and i have read incident reports they turn it over at officer's request. >> thank you. >> for the lounge, what is the tone with the meetings you have been having with them? it seems like they have not -- it does not seem like they are far enough in the process to possible low get an entertainment license in a month. >> um --. >> i had one interaction with the owner and on virtual

meeting. he seemed agreeable and understanding of the rules. he is not the same twhoon threatened. >> he is. >> okay. >> i have only help one interaction. the inspector had many interactions overnight last month and a half. and all were i would say positive tone until the last call at 1 over the weekend. it was a phone call not in person. >> thank you. >> for the lounge can you tell meet hours for one time? >> permitted indoor friday and saturday 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. and also in the process of working with me to obtain an out door sound permit if they cut off at 10 p.m. it does not trig are a hearing later tell trig are hearing and out reach. >> have we been hearing from

other have you have been hearing from people in the neighborhood about the am lounge and if so, can you give us the sense of that? >> cross stevenson about 35 feet away an sro building managed by someone i have been in contact with. the business is located in an there in a rectangular shape in an l around them is also a hotel. and across is residential. they are sock in the by residential. the zoning controls are none. they can have entertainment inside and outside until 6 a.m. by planning's rules. i heard from the manager of -- you know -- many unit building. and in touch with o sd they heard from folks. i'm trying to connect business

owner with the other individual who is have occurrence >> got temperature >> i share the concerns that commissioner davis that -- they may not be ready for primetime. if this keeps occurring we can bring that up when they arrive here in december. but seems like if they continue to are out of compliance and there is neighbor complaint there is is more out reach work. am i crazy? >> i'm. that minds and always of the minds if they are unresponsive to staff it might be behoove us to bring them to commission. >> all right. >> other will questions? >> is there public comment on the enforcement report. we will move to 6 hearing and possible action regarding applications for permits under

the jurisdiction of entertainment commission. deputy director will tell us about the consent agenda. >> thank you there is one item on consent and the applicant needs to do more out reach i will recommend that we continue this consent calendar to a future hearing after they have fulfilld that out reach. >> okay. >> i will motion it move this to eye future continue this to a future hearing. >> second. >> is there public comment on continuing consent to another hearing. >> we will close public comment. >> president bleiman. >> aye >> vice president wong >> aye >> commissioner davis >> aye >> commissioner perez. >> air >> commissioner poggio jovm aye >> commissioner schlander.

>> aye >> moving along. >> okay. good evening, commissioners i am just the messenger this is dill ain't rice's permit i will present it today. >> the first item on the regular agenda event permit with duration for east cut land to post out door entertainment for the circus bella dance of enchantment event at crossing eaut on december 21 from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. for this event east cut would like to extend the bshgs permit upon end time until midnight the current allows entertainment daily 9 a.m.-9 p.m. not to exceed 10 hours a day. a tent. dj, band and performances and

poetry. this 21 plus events marketed to bay area night life audiences you will see the permit application. the neighborhood out reach materials and pd southern station did not have concerns. staff recommend approval with good neighbor policy. and the continuous you see in the memo. here to speak with you this evening is janice. from east cut landing partners. hello i'm a representative of east cut and seek an extended soupd permit for the crossing. out door event space. and i brought abigale from circus bella to talk about it more. >> hi. thanks for take the time to hear from us today.

this is a one day part of our -- starting again. we are so excited to put the tent up in east company one of our out reach will holding 29 shows. that's within the permit. one goal is to open our circus tent up to other community and have other programming in the tent. sot is our hope with the dance of enchantment to bring in other members of the san francisco community to experience the tent. have a good time and experience the magic that the circus tent has to offer. >> thank you, questions? >> hello. thank you. seeing your event ends at midnight with you give us a sense of the community out reach

you have done? >> i went to all of the there is no residential buildings. circle. i drought on the map. and so i did i took flyers to all of the building managers for every building within the specified distance. >> you did not get any -- calls or anything? >> everyone was excited the circus was coming back. jue did hear from them. i spoke to building managers, directly. >> thank you. more questions? >> i don't have any. have a seat. is there public comment.

>> paul i will talk about the great start up. i say this is why we live in san francisco it is what we should do in san francisco. and i support it. >> thank you. we'll close public comment. motions? >> i like to move to approve with staff recommendations. >> seconded. >> all right. >> okay. president bleiman. >> aye >> vice president wong. >> aye >> commissioner davis. >> aye >> commissioner perez. >> aye >> poggio. >> aye >> schlander. >> aye. >> that has been approved. moving on. >> next permit on the agenda is place of entertainment out door sounds at the front of the business for bas may on polk street. a new bar that will take overnight space that was blur.

the new owner a seasoned operator and plans to host jazz, bands and dj's comedy and drag shows and support the arts with poetry and art. the application clsd posting out door sound daily 9-10 and not exceed 6 hours per day and drive foot traffic in the business. out reach the owner sent a letter to the neighbors notifying them of the application. and in your file you the see concern from a resident niche ahead of a polk merchant group of the neighborhood and owner have a meeting for this friday on inform 22nd to talk about the plans. there is a sounds limit for the space included in the recommendation below and pd northern station had no added conscience e here is the owner, neymar martel.

>> good evening. i'm martel. san francisco native. grew up -- i went to [inaudible] and received an nejz community values the past 25 years. had the privilege of owning restaurantses, bars and music venues across tan san francisco. i'm organized in the city's

memorable events. new year's eve at the bill graham center. armani exchange. aquarium at the wharf. open parties for the san francisco symphony. >> community experience have been my passion and place for people to connect, share and enjoy welcome atmosphere. make focus is revitalizing the lower polk an area with some potential i envision a neighborhoods with energy and entertainment. options such as neighborhood filled with vibrant energy. live jazz. sunday brunches. i believe revietsdzizing the address the challenges with the

homelessness open drug use. i work to provide for my kids. >> thank you. do we have questions for presenter? >> can you tell us about the programming that you have planned for the [inaudible]. it is the bar, restaurant, lounge, nothing special. there will be occasions like if there is a corporate event ownership sometimes that like a

special performance or entertainment to offer them that. >> thank you. >> more questions? >> okay. can you have a seat. we will -- open this up for public comment first. >> is there public comment on this item? >> good evening am commissioners david, i, my wife and daughter reside boost address of the building was built in the 19 huh's sounds travels throughout floor. when blur was there they did not have entertainment but heard the conversations. . we are concern the amplified music outside. if you saw the location you would realize that tell be a problem. we supported the application

across the street. they had music outside. bar owner agreed it was a problem and got complaints from residents. and it is important to note that at the subject address, residential above and we live above and have a lady a senior when lives on the corner like a part of this above the bar and across the street our residential buildings seen it. it is polk street is narrow i would love to support this application. i supported many applications before here in front of you folks. but i would like to see the amplified music out doors reduced two days a week the weekends my wife works with the city and gets up early. concern body that. and we are concerned about entertainment in if there is not

sounds those other issues. management has e mail addresses for a lot are sxeerns tonight have e mail addresses. this will fix with them. don't seat notice on the window if they did they did not pay attention tell be a shock to people who live there. the building there is beautiful. it the apartments are gorgeous. the sound upon old building earthquake it shakes. this is our concern. concern body it. love to again have the sound reduced to 3 days a week. that might be okay and if we could be asured sound proofing

we are fine with this thing. so. i would hope that you would look into those things and requestor consider that before making your decision. i have a meeting with the accident owner friday. >> good afternoon will commissioners i'm going to comment on deputy director's comments he is an experienced operator. i want to put it in perspective. martel. i he does not know i was going to say anything. martel is over the last first represented him in 1989. he had so many bars and restaurants i never heard of one problem from any.

he's done an amazing job in the top i have been doing this a long time the top 5 people martel is through. . the fact i'm just amazed he would go down on to polk street. and to me i'm looking for signs of life in san francisco. and he first said i'm going to blur i liver around the corner i seen the space. i want to say, as he said about his dad all american most famous football player ever.

>> good evening i'm proud to say that i graduated in 1983. martel in my graduating class. he operates his venues with a lot of class. i amming from the toller up bring. we are look at an area that needs stimulus and a person that has a good track record and experienced, i see him collaborate with other community people. to create something in san francisco that makes san francisco special. he is not done year to year he

has done for decades. we can -- work out challenges that there are. i am happy he chose that your that area does need stimulus and positive energy temperature is an area that faces challenges. and social impacts from the city. my hat's off to the toll and martel for taking on this challenge. but if anybody can do it as mark said. it is in good hands. >> anymore public comment? online? >> no. >> all right. discuss before we motion? a motion? >> sorry. hold of it popped up >> there is -- go for it. >> eugene state your name have

you three minutes. >> i'm eugene barns i'm just attending via zoom because i attended martel's venues and have been in awe of the way he operated his businesses. and the way he treated people in the community. from the time i was bear low old enough to be in his venues to now i always respected and admired him. and wanted be like him. i grown and been a business owner in san francisco and always looked him for guidance and leadership and i think that he moves in his community ini havingerating the community and bringing people together and showing people you know what community is about. i wanted to add my 2 cents that i believe it will be great for the community and will be in support of him. >> thank you.

>> thank you. >> anymore? >> now we are closing comment. another question popped up. >> i wonder if you can address the question about sound mitigation? do you have plans or whether or not your expectation about. mitigation. how will you keep the sound. >> the doors would be closed up out doors was part of the whole on the permit that was part of the it not something i'm going to promote all the time or even dom it was part of the whole permit process. >> are you planning on putting

sound buffers or -- the they are insulated now i have one more treatment on the ceiling tile that goes on. and the speakers will be suspended not attached to the ceiling. the sound to try to alleviate from the sound traveling through walls yoochl who will manage the sound system? your management or artists? >> i mean i will. iel the sound will be put in by a sound technician. >> you will be in control of levels. >> yes >> if there are complaints how can they contact you? >> they can have my phone number. you will answer that phone call in role time. >> i'm sorry. >> you answer that call until real time yoochlt i have dhn my

life. >> yea. >> all right. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> um -- since it seems the out door amplified sound is concern of the neighbor and it is not a huge concern of the owner, i would consider making a motion to limit the days to 4 days a week? >> i'm of two minds on that. part of it is yes, we could but i don't like putting limits unless there is an issue. if he is being honest sounds like he is an honest person if when others said that is in the a component of this. i like to allow people flexibility. in their business. and not limit them yet if issues come up bring them and up add limits that is my approach.

i'm open to discussing that with the rest of the group >> i'm landing there, martel sounds like an experienced and professional operator. i don't see any concerns with granting the permit with staff recommendations. and it sounds like that -- our sound inspector set a limit f. there are issues we can come in and inspect and take the measurements to see if they are complaints from the neighbors. as of now i don't see a reason to limit it. joy think that knowing that street so well, that area needs this right now. i think that you know i'm of the mind to give martel any tool he can use to help. it went from a vibrant part of the city to post covid twhoon is the needs a lot of help to get back to the glory days.

i'm kinds of hoping that an experience operator with plant the flag and bring light. any other? thoughts? a motion. i will motion. i motion to approve the permit with staff recommendation >> second. >> president bleiman. >> aye. >> vice president wong. >> aye >> commissioner davis. >> aye >> commissioner perez. >> aye >> commissioner poggio. >> aye >> commissioner schlander. >> aye. >> congratulations, move on to the next item. >> the next item is for the great surtheatre the applicant requested continuance of this item. there was a determination made

by the planning department regarding the end time for hours. and the applicant would like to work with the planning department first before coming before you at the commission. requesting continuance. why are they going to say something. >> my client would. i like to say i had 3 entertainment permits before the planning department this year. and all 3 of them thrown roadblocks and i'm getting purturbed after covid like, i think mr. bleiman was there that time. like -- everybody thank you, thank you, now it is like all the young kids from princeton who never made a pay rollthinking about things to three sand in the gas tank. i will ask for continuance. i want to give paul a chance to speak a bit about the history of the place and why it is great.

>> thank you very much. >> i'm paul nathan. professional magician i travel around the world doing magic shows. and then few years ago 2015 i took over steward shcht great star theatre. it was a problem. and we took it over. i did not want to i was happy being the magician. but it would go back to being a mess or worse. when we took it on in 79 someone at planning had didn't lazy poor job of drawing a line down jackson and everything behind the theater was zoned as a store and the lobbet restaurant.

why there are 16 restaurants blocked. not the street.

we have been doing for hundred years we were hundred year old theatre. oldest in san francisco. the only operating theatre that hosts chinese opera.

the only movie theatre left in the northeast quadrant of the city. only community theatre left. only theater that services the china down community. we can't operate after 11 at night and doors have to be shut. we can't do a 10. . 30 screening like every other movie house they do buzz they need the revenue. we do because we need that revenue. we don't get grant from thes city.

>> we can't do that. not stepable. so, we cannot i found out this was a condition. we can't operate with the 11:30 condition. can't have this curfew it would put us out of business. and even if we do it as a temporary that would break our hundred jeer tradition of having no curfew and put nus a position we could not argue that we are out of compliance. we beg you for this continuance until we get this resolved properly. >> that's messed up. >> ierms that happened. it gets more messed up. >> ask about the -- >> so. obviously our tiny jurisdiction is the permit of your live music and not the planning which is the big thing that is here but if there is a way this office or

body can be helpful. >> they have been. >> so you know i'm sure we -- i'm happy to talk to you about this off line. but you know perhaps targeted legislation might be in order. happy to chat with you future that's what i do all day. that said. do you have anything else before we condition this? >> like to grant. >> do we have don't have we just are out of grant money. unfortunately. but thank you for sharing that. that sucks i'm sorry. the city behaves that way sometimes >> thank you for your time. >> is there any -- public comment?

close public comment. motion to continue this. as the date will work for the applicant. >> seconded. >> president bleiman. >> aye >> vice president wong >> aye >> commissioner davis >> aye >> commissioner perez. >> aye >> commissioner poggio >> aye jury room commissioner schlander. >> aye. >> all right. you can continued and i'm happy again to help please reach out outside of my official capacity i'm happy to help >> and the guy next to you's got it. >> next permit is llp permit front of the business for trash guy on 23rd street. a climate friendly restaurant and natural wine bar come

seeking a permit to host for pat rains. the mrkdz cldz says out door sound. daily 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. not exceed 6 hours a day. owner sent a letter to residential and commercial neighbors and in your file is a letter of support no opposition. p d mission approves with no added conditions. hi, everybody. >> we are a climate solution restaurant. and trying to raise awareness

around food waste and implicationos climate change. i'm a fourth generation from san francisco. grew up here. the city has been sad to see a lack of entertainment lately. live entertainment. revolution cafe was our favorite that closed. and -- we thought why not bring some live entertainment to our space during business hours. primarily jazz. we want to have something casual that go goes on simultaneous with service and dinner from 5 p.m. to 9 o'clock on weekend its is 10 o'clock. but we have been luck tow receive accolades

>> best new restaurant and in 2022 from esskier magazine and we are struggling as a small business >> we are a mom and pop shop. the two of us the managers of the space. and we have found that we need more reasons for people to come in to give people more reasons compelling events to have them join us for service this is a matter of survival it have people think of us as not just a restaurant but to hang out. listen to music. and do something fun for the city this we love and care about and is of course, struggling now. so, yea. we are on great repyre with neighbors we are on good terms with upstairs neighbors. and communicated everything around this permit to them.

thank you so much for your time and support. >> thank you. >> questions? >> the applicants? >> commissioner perez. >> hello. can you hear or see us? >> yes. >> i'm wonder whatting entertainment are you planning do? we listed those things as options but our main entertainment that we will have is just jazz. so -- our space is small. we can only fit a jazz duo may be a trio. on this small stage we have. but tell run simultaneous with service like on the slow day like a tuesday or wednesday. >> okay. thank you. >> i know i think i'm a big fan

i'm familiar with mr. murphy. congratulations and good luck. >> thank you. >> anymore questions >> life your spot. lost natural wine. keep doing what you are doing! >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> open up for public comment. any public comment? >> no comments. >> all right close comment do we have motions? >> i move to approve with staff recommendations. >> second. >> all right. >> bleiman. >> aye. >> wong >> aye >> davis. >> aye. >> perez. >> aye. >> poggio. >> aye >> schlander. >> aye. >> all right. congratulations. you have been approved and move to the next item. >> thank you. >> thank you very much.

appreciate you. >> the final permit is llp naincludes out door sounds on the rear patio of the academy 2166 market temperature is an lbgtq+ social club event space focussed on promoting interactions and programming the business found in the 2017. and this llp application is to bring the business in compliance with programming. under the llp permit applicants plan to host indoor djings, comedy, fashion and drag shows and out door sound daily 12-10 not to exceed 6 hours per day. an all right to all neighbors and no opposition received. and in your file you see supported from the castro merchant's association and pd mission had no add conditions.

of here are the owner paul and nate. i'm paul miller. this is my partner nate. i'm a native of san francisco. business owner. as stated we have been in business for 7 years. the main purpose of >> what we are doing is to provide opportunity for people to socialize in ways not just bars. and in doing so, we do all sorts of things. game night, book club, movie night, we have two pianos in the place. a terrace on the back with fire pit its is lovely if you are watching check it out. but -- because we are doing many programming stuff we want to

make sure that we have a permit covers us for all sorts of stuff. and the list that she provided is inclusive as we could be. >> we have a couple photos of our space we would like to show as well. this is our back patio. this is our main level lounge. these are members of our club not models. this san example of game night. this is the lounge we have. we love to use this piano more for cabaret and things like that

our out door space this is the main floor if we had a dj it would be located here. and that's it. >> questions? >> we used to have a bar together, paul and it was nice, too. >> just saying. i it is nicer. >> this one is. >> is there i don't have questions can you have a seat and i will open to public comment. >> yea. >> good evening. i'm raffle hips a 30 year old san francisco residents in the castro. i'm active in the community and a board member of the castro

community benefit district and member of the academy the component of my social life. nate and paul created a place for me. interesting programming and social opportunity to meet and engage with new members in a neighbor low or personal level. best of a church social and local bar combined with the permit they will offer a varied entertainment opportunity to what is a great community space. it is a community i want to talk about the control in place. adhere to good neighbor goals. a member organization academy has 2 controls manage behavior of members with respect to being a good neighbor. we have strong social norms to encourage behavior. paul and nate use stepos individual member for disruptive behavior. there are few other entities in

the city with this behavior xroel except churches i urge to you vote in favor. permit today. thank you. >> we will close public comment. do we have motions? >> i move to approve this with staff recommendation. >> seconded. >> all right. >> president bleiman >> aye >> wong >> aye >> dave us >> aye >> perez. >> aye >> poggio >> aye >> schlander. >> aye. >> all right. you have been approved and i believe that is our last permit. for the evening. that was not a spicy hearing. >> okay. >> the last agenda item is number 7 which is commissioner comments and questions, what do we got?

must have an event? >> we are off season. joy don't believe it. >> give him two weeks. >> [laughter]. >> i would encourage everyone to come to the glow block party on december 13th. it is happening on front street. it is a street downtown san francisco. it will be cool. the glow kickoff for their giant multi -- visual lighting of all the things and we will have warm drinks and country row line dancing with the dj. and we will have a dance contest. the dance floor to light up and we will clear it out and people will compete for dancing and bars will be open. hoticiders and picked our drink list it looks good.

>> remind the date >> december 13, friday. >> that was -- the streets is producing it. it was directly addressed at commissioner poggio that is the biggest day of the year for you. >> busy night for everyone working for the city. >> any other things going on? >> public comment on our commissioner's comments and questions? >> no comments. >> we will close that and adjourn the meeting at 6:41 p.m. wow.

you are watching san francisco rising with chris manor. today's special guest is sarah phillips.

>> hi, i'm chris manors and you are watching san francisco rising the show about restarting rebuilding and eare imagineing the city. the guest today is sarah phillips the executive director of economic workforce development. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. let's talk about the city economic plan and specifically the city's road map to san francisco future. can you give a brief overview and update on progress? >> absolute e. in february 2023 mayor breed released the roadmap comprised to 9 strategies to move the city forward understanding there was structural and lang lasting changing by the covid impact. 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out and are using small businesses, some of

them remember long-term structural impacts. the way we work. how often we are in an office and how much office space companies who had headquartered in san francisco need. some of those were structural impacts how we stop. there has been a long-term change as online shopping takes up a greater share how we performs and covid-19 took a shift that would probably take 10 to 15 years happen and collapse what happened ofern the timeframe to 2 years so saw structural impacts how people shop. we have seen a lot of progress rchlt we are 9 months in and significant things we have seen is efforts creating permitinant services and homes for people experiencing homelessness is dramatic. we increased the number of shelter beds dramatically and take-up of the beds dramatically, and there is more

work to do. on the safety side there are exciting things that happened. we increased our police pay among the highest in the bay area which is a important thing for recruitment. police recruitment across the country is down so recruiting the best we can means we need to give a high pay set. august the highsh return in graduates. we see 75 decrease in retail theft and 50 percent reduction in car break ins which is quality of life crime san francisco experienced so there is real progresses we are seeing on clean and safe sides. one thing important in the mayor roadmap we are not trying to get back to 2020 vision. i think covid showed having a downtown with people sitting at

offices isn't the best downtown it can be. i think it is a opportunity to bring 24 hour life use downtown. >> music and concerts is a great way to bring people to a specific location. golden gate park we had lots of events in plazas throughout the city. can you talk about those and if there is upcoming events too? >> i think you touched on something key to the mayor road map. for san francisco and particularly san francisco downtown to move forward and be successful as a great american city, it is about bringing people together because they want to be together not because they center to be together and music is a strong part that. the planet concert sear ries coming up and happening throughout the city not just golden gate park but downtown locations are a great example. there are smaller examples as well.

the landing at--is a new plaza we constructed in the mayor roadmap where two streets come together akwraisant to a couple restaurants closed to cars in daytime, chairs and seating and throughout the week they have lunch time and evening music to bring people together after work. they participate in that. something we are working on setting up for next year which is really exciting is our sf live program and that will bring a full 2024 concert series where we match local venues bringing their work and partnership to useian square, music center plaza and embark cadero. we will be able to announce concert series through the sf- >> you mentioned vacant to

vibrant, that program has a lot of attention lately. can you talk generally what exactly that program is? >> yeah. so, we opened a program where we put out a call for landlords willing to offer groundfloor space for free for 3 to 6 month jz small business or storefront operators who had a proposal what they would do for 3 to 6 months. it is pilot. we had a incredible amount of interest. we had--i'm forgetting the number of landlords, but more then we expected because we are in a place where commercial real estate understands they need to come to the table to help make our groundfloor lively and resulting in a transition where the groundfloor is seen less as a money making operation, but more as a leader to lease upper floors. if you have a active ground floor yields better on the

other 80 percent of the building you are trying to lease. that was great, a lot of cooperation scr over 700 small business or operators responded to that call. it is pop up. there is no intention this would result in forever small businesses, but there is certainly a hope and i think what we are hearing, i don't have the final data, but there are 17 activators in 9 different spaces, some are colocated, which is why the difference, and out of those 9 spaces that are being leased for free, now 7 of them are in discussions for long-term leases so the spaces continue. it is the program. we are hopeful to have a second and third traunch and hoping to pilot in other neighborhoods with other partners. it is not an inexpensive program because there is a lot of capital that goes into popping up for short amount of time but what we are seen is they visit the businesses, the businesses are successful and san francisco want to support

this activation so hopeful to expand it. >> that's great. can you talk a bit about why piloting programs and testing things is so important? >> absolutely. you know, i would say not only the important generally but important in san francisco specifically. the benefit of pilot programs in the reasons they are really important here is, it allows us to try something and say, there may be consequence but let's understand those in real time rather then waiting to start a strategy while we think about them on paper and if they are too great we can modify the program as we go. mta has absorbed the strategy whether a bike lane or other to figure how best to use the street? is this working? is it working for bikes and cars and buses? maybe not, let's switch it around and pilots have been important to oewd to our office

particularly because we tend to have the ability and the mayor's support through the budget process to pilot things through request for proposals or rfp process where we can put out a small amount of funding, try activation and small public plaza, see if it works and i think the benefit there is, if it doesn't work we tried it and had the benefit of seeing real time and when it does work, we are able to uplift that and move into a permanent strategy and that is where our agency turns over something we piloted to another agency because it is part of the city operating procedure. pilots also give people hope. when we have the short-term whether it is physical public plaza or activation that shows change is possible and allows them to vote for what they

like. >> lastly, in lith light of the current ai boom, do you think there is a way to leverage those new changes to take a bunch of san francisco's status as a tech hub? >> i do, i think they work together. san francisco right now has a strong vacancy problem in our office space. and there is a back-story to that. our zoning downtown has not prevented other uses, in terms of permitting uses of the multi-story building has been open including allowing residential but we put other barriers, cost and code barriers et cetera and what happened also during the height of our preevious boom is that, the amount that tech companies were willing to pay for office space bid everything out so we-without intentionally zoning a single use downtown, we de

facto became a single use downtown and thereat is the opportunity you are pointing out. now because downtown was so convertible from work from home, particularly as tech based downtown was and how much companies put at the market in the office spaces we are seeing high vacancy now, all most 30 percent so there is lot of square feet but that presents a lot of opportunity. we have the ability to absorb expansion of the tech industry we are so strong at. we have seen over 800 thousand square feet of ai space leased just in 2023 alone and there is still more demand out in the market, more ai companies looking for space so that is a growth spot absorbing some of the vac ancy. the opportunity too is prices for downtown lease s have also dropped and that opens up a breath of opportunity to a breath of companies that were

priced out in 2018, 2019, 2020. san francisco has always been great at starting companies and allowing them to grow here. when our prices are too high it prevents that growth so now we are a super fertile ground for more start ups and invasion on the smaller end of the sector because they can come and enter our market and we have the space to offer. to talk about san francisco's assets and the leveraging that, we sit at the epicenter of really great university and educational institutions. we are between uc berkeley and stanford. the graduates produced just from those institutions alone stay in the bay area and want to rise up and work here, provide a real opportunity for the start ups to build their companies and companies to grow here so we confident we will absorb a certain amount of office space with ai tech. with that, we are interested in increasing our human capital growing graduates.

downtown university is something the mayor is open to pursuing and we are in conversations with uc berkeley we love to have as a partner in our downtown and then residential conversions are a great partner to that. as we build back the office space, people will want to live downtown again and we have a number buildings that can be converted to residential. the costs are high. mayor breed and her partners on the board made significant changes to reduce the costs. we waived fees for change of uses in the downtown area. there are code changes that will make the conversions easier. there is a ballot measure on the march ballot that will attempt to reduce costs for those as well. it is ongoing process and none of those changes we talked about absent ai growth downtown, but institutional growth downtown, arts growth downtown and residential conversions downtown are long-term changes so one thing i want to say recollect i do

think there is a opportunity per your question, but we also need to be patient because what we are talking about is is a real shift to the make-up of the downtown since from the growth it has been starting at since the turn of the century so that isn't a 2 year change, that is a 10 year change and we center to watch as it goes. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate you spending the time here today and your creative vision and positivity, so thank you so much. >> thanks so much for having me and hope you all downtown and shop. >> that is it for this episode. for sfgovtv i'm chris manors, thanks

>> san francisco has always been very diverse, very progressive and not only open in other ways but music as well. musicians always want to try to find something new to play and if they are thinking about playing something new or different. i'm the product of the san francisco schools. i started when i was 10. i

joined the band and that was the most interesting instrument to play. and you have to be able to put yourselves in different situations. that's what made me better. if you do with two or three ingredients, that makes it pretty boring. most people know me for playing with carlos santana, touring the world all over the place. phenomenal place with music and also being around him you have a lot of fun and learning a lot about music and things beyond music too. this place is history, i have been here many many times like any 70s and seen some really incredible groups and that is being here a number of times is

kind of a full circle moment. it's really something that we cherish when we play is getting the energy back and forth with the audience and kind of a symbiotic thing. playing for the home crowd and your family is really a meaningful thing to be and just a fun place to be in. a lot of great memories seeing so many groups here over the

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