i will say that about the next applicant. thanks. >> thank you. >> next speaker and we also want to call on asha monet. >> go ahead. >> my name is susan brian i am the member of alliance for a better district six. this seems like a good idea and there are residents around there. this is around second and second street? first and second through south park. there is also some lofts around there. and practically a lot of the places now that did not use to have many residents do. i think that there is shiply, is actually two blocks over. and so, i think that it behoofs you to do more out reach to the community in that area. and he is welcome to come to talk to us at the alliance. i also am supportive of golf because i never got much of a chance to play it but i have enthusiasts in my family. thank you. >> next speaker please? >> good morning, supervisors. my name is asha monet. i would support this and ask you, and i am to support it also because in the area it is south park and there are residents over there. and the area if i a

pre-application meeting [speaker not understood] board submitted a pre-application so there are no fees have been paid for -- except for through this process in order for us to support that meeting. pre-he addendum meeting is similar, but they submitted for a site permit and it's been through planning and before they submit their addendum all the structural detail, they want to have -- sit down and have a meeting. that meeting we haven't been charging for -- we actually have been charging for it, but not according to this administrative bulletin. we thought that the time spent in those pre-application meetings could be paid for by the plan review fees that are paid in the beginning, the 25% of the total plan review fees that are paid on submittal of the site permit. it's kind of turned out that these meetings, instead of answering a small list of [inaudible] these are highly technical meetings where concepts are discussed, solutions are discussed, equivalencies to the code are discussed. it takes a senior staff member, manager, someone with a lot of expertise to be able to attend these

if we could hear from the applicant on this item, please?g supervisors john cevlon here on behalf of the sponsor. they are in the final stages of completing the battery street to be operated with a private club and hotel suites when they purchased the building it was red tag and vacant for a few years and they are looking to have the construction complete by early this summer. so the club will not be operated like a typical nightclub or bar, the purpose of the club is to provide the san francisco tech arts and non-service to gather and socialize. the hotel rooms will ensure that the restaurant and lounges on the first two floors will not be operated as to cause a nuisance to the hotel guests, 24-hour security will be provided at the club. alcohol can only be purchased through the use of swiping a club id card. and between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m., only a club id card could provide access to the building. we have conducted significant neighborhood out reach on this liquor license, transfer. and in addition to the required noticing, we w

you have to go to pre-application meeting. if there is an addendum involved and it's a site permit, and those are submitted jobs and it's during the process, there is no over the counter. >> so, it could be a lot of letters and addendum to the over the counter applications. >> there is usually one letter that takes care of all issues. >> typically these pre-application meetings are attached to larger projects. once you are in the system, once you cross the threshold you are now full permit and you are under review, the pre-application at this point is used hardly at all. you'd have to get special permission to go back to pre-application. but i think one of the concerns, maybe that's not the issue before us. but there's a lot of projects going through over the counter. it's hard to judge sometimes whether they're big or small. so, so, i think this follows up on commissioner walker's question, is when a field inspector goes out, maybe there might be more gray area than fire. i don't know all the code. what if a field inspector c

>> 6 artist a year, and we receive about 108 applications. very competitive. >> but everyone should be encouraged to apply. thank you again for hosting us. >> thank you for including us in "culturewire." ♪ >> good morning, everyone and welcome to the thursday, march 7, 2013, meeting of the board of supervisors, neighborhood services and safety committee, my name is david campos and i am the chairman and we are joined by supervisor yee. mar is in route, and the clerk of the committee is derek evans and we would like to thank the following members of sfgtv staff, jessy larson and lolamelconian. >> do we have any announcements? >> yes, sir, please be sure to silence all electronic device and include the speaker cards and any of the documents to be submitted to the clerk. and items acted upon today will be appear on the march 19th, board of supervisor's agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much. we want to thank the members of the public who are at the hearing today and who are watching. mr. clerk, if you could please call item numbe

so if we could first hear from the applicant on this item? >> just to note that we had been joined by supervisor scott weiner. >> good morning. good morning. >> my name is jennifer hall and my husband and i are opening a wine bar, located on the ground floor of 1 polk, we are thrilled to open in a revitalization of district six. we want to be given the chance to be successful and here to request that you consider our business for a full 42 license. drew and i have lived in san francisco since 2005 and currently we reside in supervisor mar's lovely district and our 11-month-old daughter, and we both grew up in small businesses. my grand parents owned a store, and my great grandfather started a business in china town and actually the first in the china town to have a car. >> i worked in my aunt and uncle's grocery store, earning a if you coins as a daily wage, that is where i learned the importance of customer service and the value of hard work. drew group up with similar values. his strength in project management, and he has also been known to

that should be part of the application. and i get them because i am referenced. so i don't know where we can lead with reference. >> what do you tell them, staff? >> what do you tell them with regard to neighborhood out reach? >> we explain to them that it is surely important that they do the neighborhood out reach to move through this hearing process. but not only the reasons, do these questions matter quite a bit and a security plan is a very big deal with that neighborhood out reach is vital because we have two representatives of neighbors here. hello. and i have not done this in a while since nicholas has been working with applicants but i am pretty sure that he goes through with a lot of specificity about how likely it is that they will not move through the hearing without having done out reach. we do, or we have given them the url for the neighborhood empowerment, network, website, where they list the community groups to the planning department, where they list the community groups. there is no process like commission

that is how we found out about the previous applicant which was through a website. and we are not notified directly by the police or anybody. so as a community organization and now that you could see that, our organization is really impacted by a lot of applicants coming to this process. we not only deal with alcohol licenses we also deal with entertainment permits and conditional use permits. and other kinds of things that impact our neighborhood. and all of these are different processes that we have learned how to deal with. and you know, i think that the thing is that you know, we would like to work with the police department and trying to form a better way to work on these issues. because it is important that the community process is part of it and obviously your committee are now advocating for that process to happen. the same thing is happening over at the entertainment commission. they are talking about how to better get the businesses there to engage the community when they get permits. so everybody is asking for these permits processes to become more public

. >> colleagues do you have any questions of the applicant at this point? >> i know that we will have an opportunity to ask any questions as the process continues. if we could now hear from the police department, please? >> where is the police department? >> this is the most quiet this room has been in quite a while. we appreciate that. >> apologize for the delay, my name is rich vancroy and i represent the police department and from the alcohol liaison unit and i believe that we are talking about 1 polk street. >> that is correct. >> the beer hall llc has filed a for an on sale beer and wine and in the last calendar year from july, 2011 to july of 2012, there were 60 police calls for services which generated 11 police reports. the premises is located in plot 560, and this is a high crime area as defined and the plot has 71 police incidents recorded for 2011 and the applicant premises is not located in the high crime area. the premises is located in the census track, 0124.02. and the applicant from the current located in undue concentration area. there is t

and the applicant from the current located in undue concentration area. there is ten letters of protest, recorded by the alcoholic beverage control unit and there were 12 letters of support recorded with the alcohol beverage control unit as well. there is no opposition from the northern police station, the alcohol licensing unit recommends approval. the following conditions have been recommended to the california department of alcoholic beverage control. >> sales and service and consumption of beverages shall be permitted between 11 a.m. to 12 a.m., midnight, sunday through thursday, and 11 a.m. until 2 a.m. on friday and saturday. number two, the sale of alcoholic beverages for off sale consumption is strictly prohibited. number three the petitioners shall be responsible of maintaining free of litter adjacent of the promisses of which they have control. loitering is to stand idlely about and linger without lawful business is prohibited on any sidewalks or property adjacent to the licensed premiseses under the control of the licensee, as despikted on abc

the applicant's premises is located in the high crime area. premises is located at census 0105, and applicant premises currently located in undue concentration area and to the previous gentleman's count, we are kaor rating that there were no letters of protest and one letter of support and no opposition from the central police station and the office recommends approval. thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> why don't we open it up to public comment. is there any member of the public who would like to speak on thit em. >> seeing none, public comment is closed >> colleagues we have a license application and we have a recommendation to approve by the police department. >> could we have a motion? >> yes. >> motion by supervisor yee. >> yes. >> and if we could take that without objection? >> thank you. >> why don't we call number four. >> item number four is a liquor license, excuse me, a hearing to consider the transfer of a type 20 off sale beer and wine license from 1169 market street to 2011 market street. for whole foods market. >> thank you. if we

we will prioritize the applications based on speed and volume and collisions and finding what the top locations are for each year. because we know that -- even with the prioritization within the application base track it still is the one applications that we receive from residents, so we want to reserve funding for doing -- sort of local pro-active efforts which we still achieving the benefits but focus on locations there is increased biking and walking and that might be partnering with another program and it might make it more comfortable and looking for those opportunities and improving geographic opportunity if there are areas that we receive more applications than others we want an opportunity to see if anything is missed through the application process, so the improvements we're recommending is about $500,000 a year and the other is $600,000 a year and for the school track we wanted to be more proactive and reduce speeds around schools and we match through the traffic calming projects and increase school area safety that include traffic calming as a component. a lot of funding wi

applicant here? >> so, before we hear from the permit holder, as you may remember before you on december fourth, you should find in your binders the motion that was passed and the conditions of that motion relative to this extended hours permit. there were a couple of requests in there. i think that commissioner hyde, in fact, asked them to come back tonight. and additional out reach was one of those, as well as modifications to the exterior sign, advertising 24-hour service. so that should be requested in addition. i just need to inform the applicant as well as the commission that there are two outstanding approvals from dbi and electrical that i have not received yet. so this permit is not done yet. >> which means that you cannot operate after 2:00 in the morning. >> and until we approve a permit here as a conditional permit. is approved on the condition that you get all of the needed approvals for your final sign-off. once the final sign-off happens, then you actually receive the permit. once you

which is similar to a demolition application process. and that would have to require me to do the similar requirements of the demolition. so, given the difficult requirement to do that, i have moved the kitchen back to the existing rear building and that's why i have changed the plan and that's why the plan is as it is as proposed. thank you. >> thank you. okay, public hearing is closed and opening up to commissioners. commissioner moore. >> mr. smith, would you perhaps help us explain the issue about the kitchen? i've never been asked to consider a building in approval of family housing which happens to lack a kitchen. and since eating is an essential part of how we live, it should most likely occur within the same envelope we do everything else, particularly since the dwelling unit is now the primary place for the larger number of family members to live. i'd like to get some guidance relative to the last statement the applicant made, that he would have to go through a dwelling unit declassification [speaker not understood]. >> the proj

i do support the citywide application. maybe what i'm looking at is something of a simplified version. when you uphold the data, you can have the information here, all the calls that we have in, but you still have to know who is the driver closest to that location so you will still have them on gps or smart phone. that is my personal hangup. i would making it harder for ourselves? should you be an easier application? when i log on, i am such and such and identify where you are. the reason support this is the fact that when you look at taxi magic and all the applications out there yes we have those but the problem is we still lost market share. how do we regain market share? you fight fire with fire, that is why i support it. >> i want to thank director -- for all your hard work and i agree with what director lee said, we are going to compete with the models out there; we have to be up with the times and technology. i have the taxi magic app, i have used it. when i was waiting for my cab i saw a desoto cab, i could have aba

we have no applications expressing concern about granting this permit. >> now, it is your turn, go for it. >> good evening, commissioners, mike leon this is my business parter alex lontel, we are here to ask you to entertain our permit so we can help the community in all of the support and entertaining the community as well. >> yeah, i want to know that we have been working very hard and to this place to bring it back to life. we have tremendous amount of work and we have considerate neighbors and the whole community. we have enormous amount of sound proofing and we are likely to appreciate that for you guys to consider our permit. >> okay. hi, i got some questions for you. you put on a new roof, did you put sound proofing in it when you put it on? >> yes, we did commissioner, we put six inches of fire rated proofing material. >> great. and the permit that you going for, you do understand that it is for a fixed place venue, it is for a building, with walls and not for your patio. >> right. >> and you do understand that? >> all right. and your occupantcy is 240. have you seen the police

and they serve brunch, lunch and dinner, the purpose of this application, according to the application is to allow the applicant to have live music which was a stimulation in this llp. and the performances would be indoor only. and at the locations designated on the diagram in your packet and so hopefully you found that. again, llp does require indoor only, ending at 10 p.m. and an accessory used for the primary use of the restaurant. >> would you please define accessory use, for the commissioners who don't know what that means. >> the planning department defines it as not more than 200 square feet of performance space within a location that is also primarily used for a different function, not an entertainment function. >> so there are a couple of people here, i know that there gluston here but i saw him come in the room. >> you are up. >> thank you for your time. my name is pete glustern. we have been opened at jones for two years this week, it is going great. we have got most of our operational stuff down to a science now. what we would like to do is do music on sundays, for brunch.

is supervisor weiner do you want to say anything before we move on to the applicant. >> i am in full support of a license. >> thank you. >> so if we could hear from the applicant on this item, please? >> thank you very much. >> good morning, supervisors, and staff, thank you for your time today, my name is adam smith i am the director of store development for whole foods market in northern california. we are very excited to be preparing for the opening of our 7th san francisco location at 2001 market street. we are here to request the transfer of the type 20 license as referenced. the sale of beer and wine is very critical to our store business, as well as something that our customers have come to expect from us. we respectfully request your support in the transfer of this license. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> sir. >> if we could now hear from the police department. >> rich vancorw representing the san francisco police department. whole foods has brought an application with the california department of alcoholic beverage control seeking a type 20 that is off sale beer and wi

>> if a tenant filed a hard ship application they can file at any time. for example if you are able body now you can pay for a pass through but if you have a -- if your financial circumstances change, it's hardship and that is not the case for other types of passers. but once the tenant files, it pachltsz passes. they are not displaced. it stays the pass through and the board looks to make sure the figures meet the 35 percent ratio, they kick it back to one of my administrative law judges who holds a hearing. the whole process probably takes 2-3 months but in the meantime while that process is going forward, the pass through is stayed and the tenant is not obld obligated to pay. >> it takes 2-3 months to pass this? >> more or less. we have an incentive to expedited this. it would be after a lot of postponement because they are ill or something like that. usually what i do is try and call the other side. call the landlord and say could you please extend this pass through and usually they are cooperative. >> how long would you know this -- how well-known do

so, i understand the applicant for seat number 2 which one of the applicants for seat number 2 on today's agenda is a city employee. so, that person could not be appointed to any of the three seats. >> okay, thank you. >> [inaudible] a clarify question. for the person retiring from local 21 who is vacating seat number 2, that person wasn't a city employee? >> i don't know. i don't know anything about the person who is currently holding seat number 2. but generally city employees -- sorry? generally city employees cannot be appointed to this body. >> so, maybe it seems to me -- i'm under the impression bob muscat who currently has the seat that is expiring is a city employee. so, i guess it's unclear to me, are we changing the rules or are we now enforcing them, is it an oversight? what exactly? maybe he doesn't work for the city and i'm mistaken. >> i can't tell you about him personally. i wasn't involved in his appointment. i can tell you we're not changing the rules. this was a voter adopted measure in 2002, i believe, that set the qualifications for these positions and in that ballot m