some of our most powerful supporters include our friends at eureka neighborhood association, cruise in castro, the castro c.b.d., the castro merchants, and castro street fair, as well. we have collected hundreds of responses to our survey and anticipate hundreds more as we move forward to official designation of supervisor mandelman's ordinance. as a district, we represent the community, and we have given the community its leadership in identifying the leadership and plans of vision for our consult value district. my name is sean haynes. so speaking on behalf of my committee, we value and support having your support in ensuring that our lgbt community here in san francisco castro district become officially designated as a cultural district, and that we can provide the resources necessary to help us restore and preserve the culture and uplift the community to its greatest potential, and we very much thank you for your support and listening to us to us. >> thank you. >> president hyland: great. thank you. questions? commissioner matsuda? >> vice president matsuda: i have a question, prob

association. it is supported by the vigilantes who call themselves -- it is supported by the next-door nimbys such as the eureka valley neighborhoodassociation and the middle of -- mission association. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> hi, my name is teresa palmer, i'm a physician and a geriatrician. i have a 102-year-old mother who has major mental illness, and i have been through hell with her, and one of the big problems i see with s.b. 45 is she will lose the trust of the community that you need to serve, and supervisor mandelman, i thank you have a good heart, but you are wrong, and this is going to be used by forces beyond your control for cynical, political reasons to make people think that this will effect the problem with homelessness, and people who are annoying on the streets. we don't have enough case managers now. the public conservator is overwhelms. as a nursing home dr. and a dr. of conserved people, you tried to get someone on the phone, you can't. the public conservator is not available after hours. you've got -- in the department of mental health, and behavioural services, you have a 20% absence of neede

i make these comments as president of the eureka valley neighborhood association. the longest serving neighborhood association in the city established in 1881. over the last decade, our neighborhood has been inundated with the issues and outcomes bit glowing population living on our streets. business owners are left to deal with the symptoms and effects of a system that cannot or will not address the needs of our addicted and mentally ill populations. they are worsening the quality of life and tearing apart the fabric of our community. time and again, the matter is the subject of conversation. membership often speaks about the growing concerns of the property and personal safety. many have stated that the unpray debilitiable and threatening behavior they experience when walking on our streets is too much and is a major determinant to wanting to leave the neighborhood. i hear dozens of stories from store owners who decided to close up stop, residents moving out, would be visitors who decide to stay away. our storefront vacancy rates are the highest in the city and i

our office worked with neighborhood stakeholders over many months including the castro merchant's association, castro community benefit district, eureka valley and the triangle neighborhood to develop zoning changes we are proposing today. the fact that these various groups who would have differing views on land use and appropriate ground-floor uses have reached agreement on the ordinance before you today, speaking to the reasonable nature of what we are proposing and the dire need for a substantially easier path for businesses opening no one of the storefronts. i would like to thank diego and aaron who worked with our office and we are grateful for the broadly supportive recommendation that was provide and the clear, shared desire to open upper market to new uses to trudraw visitors to the corrido. i know diego will go into detail on a staff report but i wanted to respond to a few of the recommendations and explain the rationale in including them. recommendation 5 proposes to maintain healthcare services, principallably permitted use on the first story. while we appreciate the important work that has gone into the healthcare service'