i'm lilly i'm a resident of the outer excelsior also an employee at alm downtown i'm here to express my he concern about the proposed project of the medical cannabis at 5420 mission street i've spoken to 35 any neighbors we feel this business is not appropriate in fitting in our neighborhood we're accidental poptdz with families and children's and local businesses and many chichz a community that is not bend from the proposed project with two other dispensaries locked one block away our neighborhood is experiencing high crowding of traffic and alterations and crime a decreasing in local businesses medical cannabis is - it is maybe near a pharmacy or hospital is dispensaries are not allot to be located within one thousand feet of the school and it is one thousand 5 hundred foot from the local schools and it the near the parish school the two dispensaries and the proposed dispresence are

to the giant game later i believe that sparks raises the bar for what the country should be and the excelsior will benefit by the sparks community thank you. thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon i was first introduced to spark while i was a resident of my free compassionate care because of sparks being able to educate me with patients with my schedule between doctors and i was able to say i was a former resident of my tree not to take away anything in my tree has done but spark continues to support me and i receive well, my medicine i believe that the fact that you know in another location with more staff will allow them for further outreach and get to more people in need that can't get out there directly to the dispense thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi my name is me i am totally opposed on this event >> (speaking foreign language.) >> >> is very inconvenient for me to go in and out of the area. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> let's say if i have to go on a night shift plus my children has to be going in and out of the neighborhood. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> once

and board nights and jazzy think spark will be a wonderful addition i'll be proud to have it in the excelsior i love my neighborhood it's quiet and assessable to the transportation we have everything we need numerous businesses are shurld on every block and staples are having trouble i think that a new spark locates will draw people into the neighborhood and bring livelihood to the area it may make people weary but spark may encourage other similar businesses to take on similar practices their current location is not in the best of area but inside their security guards and cameras make everyone feel welcome i felt the people were compact about the things they do over the past years they've kept the level of quality and want the best for the business and the folks in the community thank you, matthew hernandez. >> thank you. next speaker. hello, i'm here to read a mess from a neighborhood boyer huey from the dog patch neighborhood i've known spooshg from one year and in dog patch the team members from spark are pro-active neighbors we continue to have spark involved in many neighborhood project

mike's locksmith and general services for his contribution to the vitality of san francisco and the excelsior neighborhood. mike first starting out in business for rocky's locksmith in the castro district and in 1995 opened mike's locksmith and general services in the excelsior district. mike's services range from basic rekeying lock repair, security checks, analyst, auto locks, both foreign and domestic. mike williams exemplifies the best of tr* san francisco small businesses, a business that's engaged in the community, demonstrates integrity to the community by constantly providing honest and reliable work to his clients, both business and residential. mike's lock submitctiontion and general services ha been an a-plus better business bureau rated -- has an a-plus better he business bureau rating, 5-star yelp customer rating and lives up to his motto, affordable and dependable. it is for these reasons and many more judge the small business commission is proud to recognize mike williams and general serve is he as a model san francisco business. congratulations. (applause) >> go giants. >> go

than cook mayor edwin lee my wife and i own a home in the excelsior district we have two daughters that are 11 and 9 and we have been either challenging our home or renting our home for the last 8 years or so and lauded us to consistently pay our mortgage and been a huge help in terms of augmenting our income we make a point of providing a listing of all the local businesses to our airbnb guests because we are proud of where we live our children go to public utilities a half-mile away so we're engaged and the comments i get from guests i never even know with the excelsior existed i love the cafes and the restaurants are great you can get produce for happening half the costs at a major supermarket so tailors is a medicaid waiver i didn't tourism in my district because my neighbors and i rent out our homes for vacation and it allows us to take vacationed you know go away and do things with our kids that particularly now, when i'm unemployed for the first time in 20 years we can do so i love what airbnb and similar rivers like home exchange do in our our community they certainly help our f

to speak against this the project on the 54 hundred block spark opening up a second dispen if the excelsior district i'm confused i don't know what the plan is what the deal is when we we had the first medical cannabis in the neighborhood they're a great actor they have a security guard it's the safest block in the neighborhood when we asked for a second dispen supervisor avalos said in the neighbors are against it there's too many in the neighborhood he's on record from the city council and newspaper he's going to adjust the laws to keep lucky he out and now spark is wanting to open up a second go dispen it doesn't matter whether it's one hundred and one thousand feet it's two blocks away from our union shop in the neighborhood so we're doing the best we can to keep the union jobs in san francisco and establish a dedicated regulated industry in san francisco we want to know what the plan is what's the deal it is changing and not a leveling playing field or at this point so thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. next speaker. >> if i've called our name, please come to the podium i

on site and the tenants will have to comply with the mayor's office subject property located in the excelsior outer commission where the medical cannabis is under the mandatory discretionary review and it is located within 5 hundred feet of another medical cannabis to go through the mandatory discretionary review process and subject to the restrictions of the planning code there are two other medical cannabiss on the 2 hundred block of mission street since the project falls outside of the community a mandatory discretionary review is not required it is one hundred and 66 feet the second is approximately 8 hundred and 70 feet away doing business as as tree medicaid medical cannabis on february 16, 2012, a third mcd was approved through the same process and to date the department has hundreds and one letters in support and additional calls and letters in opposition to the project since the case was pushed and the department has received 15 calls and 31 letters of opposition brown about concerned of the approximate to the childcare and a public utilities how it impacts and crimes and another mcd

there's a flower shop in a filipino place and other local businesses that deserve the business the excelsioreserves a spotlight and home sharing could do that i hope you'll pass this legislation thank you for your time. >> hi my name is kathy incurring i'm in the castro district i'm a hosted airbnb host and i own my own tic and support home sharing i want to thank you all so much for on the work you're putting into this it must be a difficult task and an important issue thank you, very much several years i was one of the tenants that was looking for a place n to live in san francisco and having a hard time because of airbnb i was able to buy a 3 bedroom tic and have one room for me and one for a full-time tenant and one for a airbnb there are two few people looking for a place to stay now and i couldn't have done it without the airbnb and as a hosted airbnb i would find it difficult if i had a 90 day restrictions i wounded be able to keep my home with respect to the business use of the property audio haven't seen this but how about the opposition given to the massage therapy and all kinds of

. >> what happens to the mcd market in the excelsior as a result if you operate there could someone raise this notion it's not a choice between you the good operator and you and your supporters readily admit there's problems and the police by saying i do things better and you're a different operator what's your sense of what happens to the market do you increase for the people going to this neighborhood you know to patron the businesses there and the mcds what's our prediction on what upstairs to the landscape of the mcds in the queer it's hard to predict. >> my prediction we're going to come in as a happy healthy organization serving medical cannabis residents and how the other dispensaries with whether they choose to step up or not i can't control but i know a they're to have to compete with our organization we will raise the bar in the neighborhood. >> thank you thank you. >> commissioner richards that i i guess if mr. jacobs if you can stay i want to say you have the customers that come they're not really caring about the neighborhood they trash and put the pot on the marijuana if tho

we're looking at facilities across southeast san francisco and, in fact, we're in negotiation with the excelsior we don't have to be in the mission so the first point and second point is that you know the polluter it of our charter are from the bayview hunters point so from the bayview or the mission or excelsior has a pretty well-rounded population of the southeast san francisco i doubt it will have at about impact on the mission. >> i won't add itch more to that. >> commissioner maufas. >> i'm sorry can you you want another commissioner. >> scomplorn. >> i want to thank commissioner wynns and i'll follow our lead i also think it's not persuasive to be told we have to approve a charter because it meets the legal standard because that standard is low in the ed code it's meaning less so i'm not going to be supporting the chart. >> commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> thank you i guess i feel differently about this and have been going back and forth about one purpose in general and i know we haven't approved a new charter school in a while we're not a district that is, we have in the past folded gre

concept of developer fees we recognize that a condo fee shouldn't pay the same faye fee as in the excelsior neighborhood what's excited about the negotiation is puts precedence on allowing us surveillance based on the value of units and hope had this will not leave dollars on the table how to maximize and we have two staff to speak about this item i hope i didn't top all the talking points. >> my name is is kevin with the planning staff and i'll try to keep the redundancycy to a minimum by way of background the planning department in 2012 approved entitlements important the project that is a 52 story building with 4 hundred you thousand square feet of office and 74 dwelling units so the demolition has begun and construction has gone from a planning code it's within the special use district this f cd is within the transbay area and the redevelopment plan and a no longer with state law requires 35 percent of affordable housing is affordable and it is increased the affordable developments and requiring on site with the is where he means to say in terms of the planning code and the furtherance

request for discretionary review good evening southwest team leader we're on the south side in the excelsior neighborhood proposal the proposal is a two-story horizontal rear edition it increases the wealthy by 164 inches and adding 3 bedrooms and two barrooms and a family room the logically e.r. relocation to the garage of the part of the interior it adds 9 hundred and 80 square feet to the existing rinse the subject properties 50 by joe 50 and 25 hundred square feet the dr requesters is concerned about the existing property line they're concerned this position will change the feel p of this home to a detached unit and the sunlight will be come down because it will add 4 additional feet to the overlay 4 feet deeper than the dr filer they'll not windows on the other side facing the subject property the dr requester about modify the corner to accommodate the neighbors access to light despite at a 45 degree angle the side yards exit the side yard paper was not found and many are occupied by one story garages overall it was found to fit within the neighborhood context and the elimination was fo

done continual for the last 5 years there's been numerous presentations and mostly reports and in the excelsior community meetings and the presentation to the neighborhood we had a lease to discuss we presented to them as well question have a broad basis of support throughout the district and city that's it thank you. >> thank you for your presentation and all your work over the years for this budget analyst report. >> mr. rose can we go to our budget analyst report please. yes mr. chair and members of the commission we recorded the details for the completion of the project is $24 million plus on page 8 of our router we note that is shown in table 6 to data total of $800,000 plus in funding sources has been secured so the friends with the assistance of r public works d need to secure the last funding for the project prior to mentioning of the construction in quarter 3 of 2016 on page 12 of our report we note there is no guarantee that the friends will be able to obscure secure the insufficient funding and we further report if funding is not gotten the city will have to support the funds through

after imi grating, she grew up in district heights and the excelsior. it was in these neighborhoods she first found her voice in advocating for change. ~ while still a student at balboa high school, ilid organized students and parents to fight against the reconstitution of balboa high school by at that point the board of education. she advocated for the teachers that she loved. being a daughter of a migrant farm worker, she was raise today appreciate the importance of hard work, the importance of family. her motivation and drive helped earn ilid a place at u.c. berkeley, becoming only a few balboa graduates that at that time moved on to higher education. while there ilid joined the filipino academic student services, pass and for four years worked to recruit and retain dedicated filipino students who had gone through the same struggles that she had gone through. in 2009 ilid found herself working for the bernal heights neighborhood center where she has worked in a number of capacities including as a census worker, a public safety coordinator, a program m

from a church based on san juan to now being located in the heart of excelsior across from the [speaker not understood] triangle fcc has grown its services from employment and legal support, domestic violence prevention, [speaker not understood], language access, and immigrant and worker rights. it continues to thrive based on three core strategies. it was founded upon organizing, advocacy, and service. in the last ten years the fcc has achieved major victories with the neighborhood. city and filipino community ~. working with and organizing neighborhood youth, the fcc helped to get a new stop light on all man i and san juan after a young student, stacey cross was killed at the intersection. alemany ~ [speaker not understood]. in just the past few years the fcc's worker rights program in collaboration with the office of labor standards enforcement has helped win over $1 million in back wages from filipino caregivers -- four of them, i'm sorry, four filipino caregiver, which is a significant event. and what's really great about the work that the filipino community center does on wage the

the california justice alliance to build to scale emerald city securing the high road jobs in the excelsior with the california adjust alliance prompting studying jobs and just policies that support the local work for on the groups across the state of california that are involved ♪ closing i am most recently in those presentations i've been closing and director raphael closing with a quote an immigrant woman from pueblo mexico who said in one of our meetings if i were the mayors we were discovering the talents our community maybe economically poor but rich with talent that be under that utilized with you should create an equal local economy i'll add a kwaeshl local department as well thank you (clapping.) antonio there's so much going on and so much work going on we're learned about and being a neighborhood e neighbor of the secret garden we had the mission housing folks in the back working for the thanks for the outreach to transfer the garden to continue that effort so there's so many things to happen to advance the vision so i'm glad we all got to learn >> thank for the opportunity. >> q

you, your camp mather guests and welcoming them in that's a hotel business i get that sunset and the excelsior and you u the bay area doesn't have the options for tourist there should be another pathway for others folks that are doing if full-time and if the cu i've never seen you reject those they go through but if it's h that had a right if the real owners burden is the waste time but for my understanding once the schedule is in 38 they all pass so that's were any policy preference is but i do really want to be able to make that feedback but still give full respect to the work we've not fully vetted out all the recommendations but i prefer to send this out without recommendations but those are the things i'm looking at i'm glad we're able to table this complicated issue here at land use. >> okay supervisor kim with that, there's a motion on the table - did you want supervisor cohen. >> it's okay. it's been a long day supervisor kim said something i heard echoed in the comments from public comment i've been sharing in the concern of short-term rentals being taken off the market and airbnb tha

training ground for young people not only from sunnydale but other parts the surrounding park the excelsiorhat needs the kind of training and the green jobs and other types of jobs that will be created i wanted to see the new apps i'll check anti golf now and other incisions i wanted to also say my fond it memories my dad an this putting kind of like josh and his son on the putting green i'm hoping that the families from the neighborhoods surrounding have that experience i'm appreciative that the laborers and foundation are building those types of program i know jim from the hayes valley middle school have been increasing the access for physical fitness and activities i'm interested in the foot golf that's mentioned in the materials a way of not having my understanding you don't have to have a set of golf clubs it's a wonderful mix of soccer and girls as well as boys c participate i'm hoping the focus on making the neighborhood safe with the hurts playground that's another ongoing effort to make sure that this is an assessable safe and affordable place for everyone thank you very much for w

concept of developer fees we recognize that a condo fee shouldn't pay the same faye fee as in the excelsior neighborhood what's excited about the negotiation is puts precedence on allowing us surveillance based on the value of units and hope had this will not leave dollars on the table how to

>> i'm annie pleased to urge you to approve two additional grants one for a bicycle project in the excelsior neighborhood we recommend you grant an award for $70,000 and in the explanatory document accompanying the resolution as you can see the bike project will help people learn bike safety and bicycle are surpassed will be refurnished and shared with community families and a second award will go to urban sprouts with san francisco park alliance as it's fiscal sponsor at the rancher the funding is provide off and on for the jewel probation department we have representatives from the urban spruce from the eco center if you want to hear from the granted recipients i don't know but we're labored to approving those two grants. >> there couldn't be a more perfect way to partner with a partner here in the mission and as well as health department with opportunities been given we are excited about this i don't want to jump ahead of my colleagues but thank you, ann i didn't any questions. >> before i move to both items i want to say that meantime we grant money for a particular issue it is an extens