is vegan. homemade cashew milk and cocoa nut milk. apples upon cinnamon and nutmeg and create a great desert. my great grand mother made it from scratch. made ice cream for kids in the neighborhood and made different flavors. sugar free and dairy free. got passion to do it being here in the community and from my family.

>> i'm the commission's president. we will start with announcements. >> we would like to start the meeting with the land acknowledgment. [reading land acknowledgment] pugh with. >> this meeting is being held in hybrid format. in person in city hall room, broadcast live and available on

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to public comments. thank you for sharing this meeting with the public. >> let's do a roll call. >> president bleiman. >> present. >> commissioner davis. >> here. >> commissioner podge yo. >> here. >> commissioner schlander. >> commissioner thomas. >> here. >> commissioner perez and wang are excused. >> the next item is 2, general public comment. anyone want to speak on anything not on the agenda tonight? >> no public comments. >> alright. we will close general public comment. next item is number 3, approval of the meeting minutes november 19th, 2024 commission meeting do. we have a motion. >> i motion to approve. >> is there a second. >> seconded. >> is there any public comment on the meeting?j"÷yñ minutes?

>> no public comment. >> we can vote. >> presidentably nan. >> yes. >> davis. >> yes. >> pogue yo. >> i. >> commissioner schlander. >> i. >> thomas. >> i. >> technical difficulties here. meeting minutes approved. next is number 4, report from executive director weiland. >> after this evening there is one more meeting this calendar year, two weeks from do today de4@ó2 hp the following day is our annual holiday party. we're looking forward to that. on harington's on front street

5:30 p.m. it's free and open to the public. there is a cash bar. we don't have much of a program it's really just a great opportunity to come out and network with others in the industry and elected officials that may come, staff and commission. we encourage you$m:na%■ to come. then outside of scheduling i wanted to provide you all with an update for the first year free program. so i will go through some talking points with all of you. the first year free program was implemented by the treasure and tax collector off. going into effect november 1, 2021. in order to wave the cost of initial registration frees, initial license frees, first year permits and other fees for qualifying businesses. there is no other extra paper

work to apply for the program. enrollment is automatic when a business registers for the first time or ads a new location with the city. it ran initially from november 1, 2021 to october 1, 2022. the board extended and the mayor approved through june 30th, 2023 along with modifying eligibility criteria. increasing the threshold to qualify, expanding the business that's qualify. then judge july 2023 the board extended and the mayor approved the program through june 30th, 2024. in april 2024 the program was extended yet again until june 30th, 2025. we have seen the city hugely successful program. since it's implementation over 8700 businesses have enrolled. as part of the program our

department has waved the cost of 134 permit applications and associated license fees. as well as for one time event permits with those associated businesses and bricks and mortar permits. in total our office has waved $155,865. which we feel very proud about. the great part about the first year free program saul of the fees are waved that are waved are still reimbursed to the respective city agency. which means there is no negative budgetary impact to us. we have seen the opposite. as our permit numbers are higher than ever. for reference we processes 435 permit applications in fiscal year 22-23. a total 551 applications fiscal year 23-24. that's about a 26.67% increase

in permit applications between the last two fiscal years. we think is a good indicator for our industry as well. this is fantastic news for our industry. it's taken a toll on our budget. we remain the only agency that absorbs the planning department referral fee required for all brick and mortar applicants. with more permit applications is a higher payment to the planning department. thankfully our dear benjamin van hough it, en had the brilliant idea to ask our colleagues at it, it, x to pwubd will the referral free to the first year free program waivers for eligible businesses. as it turns out we were the only referral agency not doing this already. since november 2021 we have paid the cost of 89 brick and mortar

permit referral fees to the planning department when sthoez could of been charged to the first year free program. we haven't gone back through the last three■o fiscal years of quarterly planning invoices to calculate the amount of the 89 referrals totaled. we are pleased to share we are retroactively charging fees to the first year free program jul. as a result our recent invoice that came through included 16 first year free businesses going from about 5, actually almost $6000 to around 2000 tkhraorz. so a great decrease for us, saving us almost $4000 for just one quarter and helping us stay on track with our very small budget. we're in communication with it, it, x to see if there is anyway

to relt row actively collect the funds from the other 73 referrals paid from the previous fiscal years. we understand that's likely a challenging request and may not work out. thankfully we can utilize this benefit of the program through june 30th, 2025, and we hope to see continued increase in permit applications for the remainder of the fiscal year. i will keep you all a prized with updates as we move forward. we do need to continue to get creative with our referral fees to the planning department and other budget saving ideas. i will keep you informed that had. let me know if you have questions around first year free or holiday party or anything else. >> questions. >> a quick question. the part-time inspector. has that person been hired yet? >> we don't have a public announcement.

we should at the next hearing. >> okay. thank you. >> other questions? >> none. any public comment on the executive director's report? >> no public comment. >> we will close public comment. we can move along to number 5. report from our senior inspector. >> thank you, president bleiman. good evening, commissioners. we have received 29, 311 complaints since the last hearing november 19th. i have one update below. let me know if you have questions. my only update is habibi lounge. process of applying for permits with our office. sunday december 1st inspector young rice visited the lounge at 12:42 a.m. for a previous sound complaint.

the doors were closed and the dj was inside. the! was in operation on the roof top. outdoor amplified sound is required to end by 10:00 p.m. inspector young rice spoke to the general manager who was unaware of the permit continues and seemed genuinely apologetic and turned the speakers off. this is the second since the other was november 16th at 1 am. it's the owner's responsibility to make sure staff is aware of the permit conditions. they were not. the lounge was issued a 500-dollar citation. this is the fourth citation since october 20th. additionally it was brought to our attention the business advertising food service after 2 am. threur not currently permitted to do.

the owner has been ordered to cease late night food service until they obtain the permit. there is no acknowledgment back from the owner. the business is slated to come before the commission on december 17th for review and possible action on their poe and hoe permit applications. >> questions? alright. i don't have questions. public comment on the senior inspector's report? >> no public comment. >> closed. alright moving along number 6. which is hearing and possible action regarding application for permits under the juries tkweubgs of the entertainment commission. no consent agenda tonight.

we will move to the regular agenda. >> hi good evening can you hear me okay. >> yes. >> great the first is for place of entertainment permit for outdoor entertainment and amplified sound at sf beverage and different eulg company. the owner has a permit but not one from our office. he plans to use the poe for entertainment bands, comic, recorded music for patrons outside. the business is located adjacent to california college of the arts. during the outreach process the coo contacted me and josh with questions about the outdoor component of the application. we met and had a productive conversation with josh scaling

back the hours to a place and he the schooling edge are comfortable with. it's outlined in the staff recommendation below. notice the conditions are specific. this was on purpose to allow for more outdoor programming when the students are off campus in the summer. sabrina has set a sound limit to the space and will have an outdoor sound limit when they program. they included the standard calendaring condition. here to speak with you tonight is the honor josh leavy. >> yes. >> how are you doing. it's been seven years since i was here last when i opened my first business in san francisco. i was bright eyed and bushy tailed then. the restaurant business has taken a toll on me with the

pandemic. we're here today to expand our business in san francisco. i thought i wouldn't do. but an opportunity came up and we are taking over a beautiful space owned by the developer kilroy at 100 hooper. adobe has 300,000 square feet above the current space. in that neck of the woods we have the cca. hopefully down the road amazon will build a fulfillment center. bring more people down to the area. so, you know we want to, our current space at the square has zero complaints and issues. avc, federal it, it, b, or anything for that matter. we have been a good steward of the area for the marina district for north beach, russian hill, pro sid yo as well and the north

bay as well. we bring them from all over the area. this new venue is better suited for our expansion in terms of our capacity to entertain. this space is almost double the size of our current operation. we have a bigger outdoor patio that kilroy has let us use throughout the year because of the]oo gç industrial nature of e properties at pdr. production distribution. in that area minus the students during the school year. we had a good meeting with the coo the other day. right before thanksgiving. we talked it through and came to a understand what is good for her is good for me. i'm bringing entertainment, bringing food, bringing life to that area which hasn't seen -- the occupant left there in 2021 right after the pandemic.

this is a good opportunity to get the area back up and going. with the anchor leading and being bought who knows what will happen with that. there are breweries going out in that district a lot the last couple of years. harmonic has gonna way. the other one, new belgium has gonna way at the ballpark. we're trying bring life back to the area. think with entertainment license for the ability toe entertain the general public. we get tourists at the square. we're not planning for tourists to get off a cruise ship and make it to the design district as much as they do at the square. we will have to have some entertainment for locals to keep them there. to entertain them. actually create a good vibe for that area. it hasn't been since the building was built in 2018. yes, so outdoor entertainment,

outside. you know we're looking to do acoustic bands, light music. i know the previous tenant had outdoor music without a permit. i'm going through the proper channels to make sure we're a good steward of the neighborhood, commission, the city. yes, that's it. any questions? >> questions. >> just more specifically on the programming you will be doing. >> i mean we're talking maybe dj inside. it's a brand new building. sound engineer was out there. maybe during the day in the summer maybe a dj outside in the courtyard. that is kind of what our thing will be. inside, i mean this building was built in 2019 for hundreds of millions of dollars. the windows are pretty much bullet proof, i wouldn't say bullet proof. he was doing his test, you could barely hear the music outside with the doors closed. so, the programming i haven't

gotten into this space at our current space. we had the pokemon christmas party there last year and there was a dj inside at the square. those are the type of things. hosting that type of party. maybe a sunday brunch, mimosa with a dj. free kind of, we're not looking to be the midway. that's not my game. we're going to be a brewery, restaurant, distillery and place of entertain hadn't. super simple. >> that area i know kind of has sort of a really mix use. how much of it is residential.ht how many@qç neighbors are residential. >> i wouldn't consider the college students -- i mean they're the residents. they're there part time. there is no full time within two blocks. >> okay they're not sleeping there. >> no, they sleep on the other side of hooper. on the cca campus. they're in dorms.

they're on the other sit side of our courtyard. >> okay. >> like three buildings down. >> i guess you have created channels for feedback. >> yes, with the ceo or coo. >> i see you had a lost communication with her. >> we had a meeting about a half hour. she wants us there as much as we want to be there. the tenants that are there are 9:00 to 5:00 monday through friday. i pray they come back to work full time. adobe is three days a week now. they're trying to sub lease 150,000 of that 300,000 above me. >> i don't have questions. sounds good. you can have a seat. we will open to public comment and then see where we go fromy@ there.

>> no public comment. >> closing public comment. any discussion before we entertain motions ? sounds good to me. >> yes. >> yes. >> alright. do we have a motion. >> i move approval of with staff recommendations. >> i second. >> president bleiman. >> i. >> commissioner tkaeufrs. >> i. >> commissioner pogue yo. >> i. >> skpheugser schlander. >> i. >> commissioner thomas. >> i. >> all set approved and we can move onto the next permit. >> the next permit is place for entertainment legacy north beach bar at 1326 grant avenue. they have a poe with our office with restricted entertainment hours. the owners went through a planning office to host amplified entertainment indoors until 1:30 a.m. daily.

now it's approved they're before you tonight to amend the poe permit with the same hours. they're seeking ability to expand outdoor daily 2:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. since the poe was issued in april 2024 we have reviewed zero complaints about the business. the owners conducted neighborhood outreach and collected signatures of support. all in your file tonight. there is no opposition. here to speak with you tonight are the owners karen and joshua. >> either one. >> so, yes everything she said is accurate. we obviously don't plan on

having entertainment seven nights a week until 1:30 a.m. since we're applying thought we would just choose for the ability to should that opportunity arise for our business. we are, we are only opened past midnight on friday and saturday nights already. we would be well shut down by that time at least five nights of the week. just looking to, we have had some entertainment, acoustic entertainment since obtaining our permit. we have great response and would like to build on that. music is how i know how to build community. i am in the music industry. i work for a music venue. that's what i would like my bar to represent. that's what we're going for here. >> questions. >> no. >> commissioner perez isn't

here, i'm sure he would ask you if someone has a complaint what is your plan to respond to them in real time. >> we certainly would hear them out. and comply if we're being disruptive. >> he asks leading questions. think he's getting to is if you have people who have issues providing your cellphone to them and allowing them to text you during service so you can communicate with them. >> yes. >> it's in our good neighbor policy as well. we like to remind people that. i have had many bars. i find that incredibly effective when neighbors have issues. not getting back toe them at a later time, they go crazy if they can't speak to someone. >> yes. one of us is usually there at night. one of the two of us or both. they would meet us personally. those who can hear us have our numbers already.

they have our information from the outreach letters. we know them personally already. >> great. i don't have further questions. have a seat. we will open this up to public comment. >> no public comment for this item. >> alright. we will close public comment. any motions ? >> i motion to approve with staff recommendations. >> i second. >> president bleiman. >> i. >> commissioner davis. >> i. >> commissioner pogue yo. >> i. >> commissioner slander. >> i. >> commissioner thomas. >> i. >> alright you have been approved. thank you for coming in. we can move onto the last comment tonight. what a day. >> the final.

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san francisco most famous that as many of 15 thousand commuters pass through that each gay. >> one of the things that one has to keep in mind regarding san francisco is how young the city we are. and nothing is really happening here before the gold rush. there was a small spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in san

francisco. and then the gold rush happened. by 182948 individuals we are here to start a new life. >> by 1850 roughly 16 thousand ships in the bay and left town in search of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. with sand the way that san francisco was and when you look at a map of san francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. but by 1875 they know they needed more so the ferry building was built

and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the ferry building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the trams came to that area also. but by the late 1880s we needed something better than the ferry building. a bond issue was passed for $600,000. to build a new ferry building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in san francisco they thought that was a grand ferry building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and san francisco had grand plans for this transit station. so he

proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two how and was not completed and killed. but it opened a greater claim and became fully operational before 1898 and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but market street was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals and mission street up to nob hill and the fisherman's area. and then the earthquake hit in 190 six the ferry

building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. and 80 percent of the city would not survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams were running and buildings had to highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a dennis herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and

2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to chance to show how electrical cars and we're going to get on top this. >> take 10 years for the city to rebuild. side ferry use was increasing for a international exhibition in 1950 and people didn't realize how much of a community center the ferry building was. it was the center for celebration. the upper level of ferry building was a gathering place. also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or world war two

had a parade on market street and the ferry building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide that is what page brown wanted to to be a gathering place in that ferry building hay day the busiest translation place in the world how people got around transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our international exposition 18 million living in san francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after the earthquake and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in

1918 san francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and san francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and what we're supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble so two would be hauled away. >> the way the ferry building was originally built the lower level with the natural light was used for take it off lunge storage. the second floor was

where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that is interesting point to talk about because such a large building one major stairway and we're talking about over 40 thousand people one of the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the ferry building and the embarcadero on market street was actually added in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have san francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. as the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach

san francisco. and automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a result marin and other roots varnished. the dramatic draw in ferry usage was staggering who was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. take the care ferry and to san francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. >> when the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up

where our sales force transit center is now another way of getting into the city little by little the ferry stopped having a purpose. >> what happened in the 40 and 50's because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a world trade center and wanted to build it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down including one that had too tall towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of ferry building and completely impractical. after

the cars the tower administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the united states. so they had an intrastate free plan the plan for major freeway systems to go throughout san francisco. and so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. the plans were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the san francisco saw had human services agency happening 200 though people figure out city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. which cut us off from the

ferry building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. and that was the renaissance of ferry building. >> that land was developed for a new ferry building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didn't want- that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store. >> the san francisco ferry building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a

shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for more so think investment in the future and feel that by making a reliable ferry system once the ferry building will be there to surface. >>

>> what we're trying to approach is bringing more diversity to our food. it's not just the old european style food. we are seeing a lot of influences, and all of this is because of our students. all we ask is make it flavorful. [♪♪♪] >> we are the first two-year culinary hospitality school in the united states. the first year was 1936, and it

was started by two graduates from cornell. i'm a graduate of this program, and very proud of that. so students can expect to learn under the three degrees. culinary arts management degree, food service management degree, and hotel management degree. we're not a cooking school. even though we're not teaching you how to cook, we're teaching you how to manage, how to supervise employees, how to manage a hotel, and plus you're getting an associate of science degree. >> my name is vince, and i'm a faculty member of the hospitality arts and culinary school here in san francisco. this is my 11th year. the program is very, very rich

in what this industry demands. cooking, health, safety, and sanitation issues are included in it. it's quite a complete program to prepare them for what's happening out in the real world. >> the first time i heard about this program, i was working in a restaurant, and the sous chef had graduated from this program. he was very young to be a sous chef, and i want to be like him, basically, in the future. this program, it's awesome. >> it's another world when you're here. it's another world. you get to be who you are, a person get to be who they are. you get to explore different things, and then, you get to explore and they encourage you to bring your background to the kitchen, too. >> i've been in the program for

about a year. two-year program, and i'm about halfway through. before, i was studying behavioral genetics and dance. i had few injuries, and i couldn't pursue the things that i needed to to dance, so i pursued my other passion, cooking. when i stopped dance, i was deprived of my creative outlet, and cooking has been that for me, specifically pastry. >> the good thing is we have students everywhere from places like the ritz to -- >> we have kids from every area. >> facebook and google. >> kids from everywhere. >> they are all over the bay area, and they're thriving. >> my name is jeff, and i'm a coowner of nopa restaurant,

nopalito restaurant in san francisco. i attended city college of san francisco, the culinary arts program, where it was called hotel and restaurant back then in the early 90's. nopalito on broderick street, it's based on no specific region in mexico. all our masa is hand made. we cook our own corn in house. everything is pretty much hand made on a daily basis, so day and night, we're making hand made tortillas, carnitas, salsas. a lot of love put into this. [♪♪♪] >> used to be very easy to

define casual dining, fine dining, quick service. now, it's shades of gray, and we're trying to define that experience through that spectrum of service. fine dining calls into white table cloths. the cafeteria is large production kitchen, understanding vast production kitchens, the googles and the facebooks of the world that have those types of kitchens. and the ideas that change every year, again, it's the notion and the venue. >> one of the things i love about vince is one of our outlets is a concept restaurant, and he changes the concept every year to show students how to do a startup restaurant. it's been a pizzeria, a taco bar. it's been a mediterranean bar, it's been a noodle bar.

people choose ccsf over other hospitality programs because the industry recognizes that we instill the work ethic. we, again, serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. other culinary hospitality programs may open two days a week for breakfast service. we're open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner five days a week. >> the menu's always interesting. they change it every semester, maybe more. there's always a good variety of foods. the preparation is always beautiful. the students are really sincere, and they work so hard here, and they're so proud of their work. >> i've had people coming in to town, and i, like, bring them here for a special treat, so it's more, like, not so much every day, but as often as i can for a special treat.

>> when i have my interns in their final semester of the program go out in the industry, 80 to 90% of the students get hired in the industry, well above the industry average in the culinary program. >> we do have internals continually coming into our restaurants from city college of san francisco, and most of the time that people doing internships with us realize this is what they want to do for a living. we hired many interns into employees from our restaurants. my partner is also a graduate of city college. >> so my goal is actually to travel and try to do some pastry in maybe italy or france, along those lines. i actually have developed a few connections through this program in italy, which i am

excited to support. >> i'm thinking about going to go work on a cruise ship for about two, three year so i can save some money and then hopefully venture out on my own. >> yeah, i want to go back to china. i want to bring something that i learned here, the french cooking, the western system, back to china. >> so we want them to have a full toolkit. we're trying to make them ready for the world out there.