for each applicant, your commission packet contains a staff report, a draft resolution, the application, a case report from planning department staff, and a resolution from the historic preservation commission. there are copies on the table for the public. >> item 3 a is ellory owe, y r your -- is elrio -- benefits, fu fundraisers, and community bar. it's become an anchor to the mission district, lgbt community of color and under served communities. item 3 b is hwa rang kw hwa rang kwan martial arts center. they offer their space to outside martial arts groups that cannot afford to rent premises of their own, each renting space on a month to month basis. it is an educational institution that caters er everyone regardless of ability to pay. both businesses received a positive recommendation from the historic preservation commission. after reviewing these applications and the recommendations from the historic preservation commission, staff finds the businesses have met the three criteria to qualify for listing on the legacy business registry. there are two draft resolutions for considerat

is the equity applicants, including the existing nonconforming nonconformi nonconforming applicators, so there's a priority who gets processed. >> you have a question? >> ye >>commissioner ortiz-cartagena: i have a lot of constituency watching. if you get arrested, just, like, if you get a client, they're here in san francisco. they got arrested by the fbi on a drug related crime, they are able to apply for the equity application? >> correct. >>commissioner ortiz-cartagena: okay. that's it. just -- >> you are right, commissioner or teez cartagena. >> they can change it bathe television back to monday night football. >>commissioner zouzounis: i have a question. if you can tell me about the corporate applicant and the incubbator. >> if you're one of the equity owners, or you want to apply for an equity operators, you would have to be a 40% owner and the ceo, or you would have to be a majority shareholder, or 51% as a corporate applicant and not the ceo to qualify. >>commissioner zouzounis: so this, like, similar to kind of, like, the sponsor idea, where it's just, like, if some -- if y

for each applicant, your commission packet contains a staff report, the application, a resolution, case report from department planning staff, and a resolution from the historic preservation commission. there are copies on the table for the public. item 3-a is cliff's variety. the business is a neighborhood hardware and variety store serving the castro district since 1936. going to wait for the little buzz and continue. founded by gerario debaca, the store sells hardware, home goods, fabrics, toys, cooking supplies, and much more. it is the castro's longest-running retailer and has long been known as the place to go for repairs and knowledgeable advice on economy rating, customing, cooking, suing and entertaining. today's cliff's variety is operated by fourth generation family member terry aston bennett. today it serves thousands of people daily and provides directions to other businesses. second business is tommaso's italian restaurant that was founded in 1971, but whose roots date back to 1935. the cantolupo family from italy opened a restaurant, lupo's, in 1935 in the city. it's famo

if to one single application. the first had four pages of kwelgzs and 12 pages of directions. today's fafsa is 10 pages with directions included on the form plus an additional 66 pages of instructions. now 25 years later i sit here as chairman of the senate education committee trying to update the higher education act and once again simplify how they apry for federal fine angle aid. i want our committee to discuss different proposals and write and pass a final bill. 25 years after the first fafs and after the first hearing, it is time to bring it discussion to a result. weicide be able to say to the nearly 20 million families if had stead of answering 1 heir 8 questions, you only have to answer 15 to 25. once is enough. to give your basic information about family size and income to the federal government and if stead of waiting until you've been admitted to college, we'll tell you about your pell grant while you're still shopping around for schools. >> thank you very much for, mr. chairman and i want to thank all

and equity a applicants.e to address the misinfon in the campaign of fear that hat up entire communities of our ci. people fear that legalizing cans will lead to more teenage use, e traffic fatalities, lower propey values and become a gateway dru. however, that is not the realit. in states and cities that legalz cannabis, in fact -- legalized , simple education and facts can l the myths. teenage use is at a 20ç year l. property values have gone up ane is a spotlight shown on opiatesd by big pharma which could be a y marijuana use. additionally, contrary to some , the traffic fatalities in statet legalized cannabis have gone dor remain unchanged. finally, states with robust cans industry have seen record i live in district 6 which has,, the most or second most dispenss currently. it is also a district of neighbs and east residential. i want to echo earlier commentse idea that we could keep the diss out of neighborhoods is silly. you want your customers near yoo they should live near dispensar. i'm glad the ex

equity applicants who have been awarded business permits. >> it should read equity applicants, not permit operators. >>supervisor kim: so to take out who have been awarded cannabis business permits? >> supervisors, one opportunity to address that concern, maybe to say, instead of who have been awarded, to instead say, who are seeking? jap ja >>supervisor kim: i think the goal is who help those get into the business, but i wouldn't want to force people to help their competitors. okay. so -- excuse me? is that okay. >> yeah, that is okay. that was an error. we're not looking to help people help their competitors, help people get into the business. >>supervisor kim: okay. >>president breed: so you want to make a motion to make that amendment? >>supervisor kim: yes, so i'll make a friendly motion to strike -- sorry to close this -- in section 1609 who have been awarded cannabis business permits, in parentheses, permit operators. >>president breed: can we take that without objection? without objection, the amendment passes, and supervisor cohen made, can we take those to the amendments without

applicant. that's the part that we are focused on. the complexity in programming and indexing tax returns and transferring data and linking up databases, that's all backend complexity. and i don't know that we ought to sq complexity on the backend if at the think time it maintains integrity and accuracy on the front end, and ultimately makes it easier for applicants. and i provided a handout in your materials that show the pathways that are just described. thank you. >> thank you, mr. draeger. dr. rueben, welcome. >> thank you, thank you, chairmn alexander, ranking member murray and members of the committee. thank you for inviting me to discuss simplifying the fafsa, the use and put expected armentano should not be related to the urban institute. the fafsa enable millions of students to apply for financial aid, as my colleagues have shown. but it also presents significant barriers for some students, most notably low income or first-generation students. it has grown more and more complex as offic

applicants must submit how the applicants engaged to advise nes of the intent to apply for canns business permit and to solicit n the proposed good neighbor poli. applicant's community strategy t include written notice to neighs within 300 feet of the premisese applicant's intent to open the s at that location, neighbors cane input and shining sheets for mis held. all materials and notices develd distributed to neighbors by the applicants as part of the strate translated into the languages requiredded by the language accs ordinance. >> mr. starr, i believe it's "af right" in pdr as accessory use. >> only as a microbusiness perm. >> councillors, do you need mor? >> in some of them, for instance pdr district on page 18, are ped with conditions. there are other areas where rets permitted, but cannabis is not d out specifically. just going it take us more timel it down. >> we are other items onts agen. last one is one i think -- i hos wide support here. affordability. >> portability. >> we're going to be discussing portability at the rules commit. it's in the police code versus . the land use

that number today from 30 to 50 applicants, as i understand it. >>supervisor cohen: that's corre correct. >>president breed: supervisor safai, did you have any other comments? >>supervisor safai: i just had any own amendments to clarify that, but i just wanted to clarify that. i was confused. okay. i have two amendments. i think it should be pretty fast. i think supervisor fewer and i had a conversation after last week about the good neighbor and management security plan. i'm reducing that amendment today. we're going to prioritize the review of making sure that office of cannabis, unless there's any issues or complaints or flags that go up, it should be pretty pro forma for the majority of the existing applicants to transition to a temporary adult use permit. but for anyone who have been flagged or that might need additional review, they have to -- everyone has to resubmit their good neighbor and management policy, so i'm resubmitting that today. you have a copy of that. that is for item number 9. the second one is going to require a little more

or approval of the application. >>supervisor cohen: let me interject here. we just created regulations on tuesday, so would you be fair and give us a pass if we don't have answers on the fly. what i'm looking for supervisor yee, he's looking to give help to the -- to the businesses that are going to be starting up, and one of the key barriers to any business concession success are access to capital. the next issue he's bringing up is we want to make sure that the fees are not overburdensome, and if i'm putting words in your mouth, let me know, so he's asking is there some kind of a financial impact of the office of cannabis being able to do their business, because remember this is a cost recovery department, so the fees that you recover is going to pay you and kind of keep this operation. if we were to allow businesses not to pay fees, is that correct, you said for the first year? >>supervisor yee: for the first year. >>supervisor cohen: not to pay fees for the first year, we want to know how will that impact your o

application fee. they wrote a check for $700 towards the fee and the remainder of the fees were paid by a third party, who is trent zu's co-worker. we took deposition of the tenant that signed them as well as the co-worker. in the tenant deposition, he testified that he was asked to accompany him to the planning department to represent the tenants. when they arrived, he was asked to sign signature pages of nine discretionary review pages the applicant said that he did not prepare the d.r.s and he didn't know what it meant. he then was asked to pay for it because i forgot his checkbook. the co-worker that wrote the remainder of the fees, he forgot his checkbook on that occasion as well. trent reimbursed that co-worker for the cost of the d.r. with a check that contained the wording "reimburse for d.r." in the memo line the co-worker brought that check to the deposition and the city is in possession of a copy of it. that co-worker testified she didn't know what discretionary review means as well. anothe

i work with equity applicants and entrepreneurs. seen directly the tangible and wide-ranging benefits for health including physical and mental health for consumers. and i am an outspoken advocate working with a number of businesses based in san francisco as well as the3me east bay. i think that cannabis is something that should be universally accessible and affordable. i think the city should go to any length necessary in order to make sure all citizens have access to cannabis and that the businesss have a good climate to operate. when i was living in kas pro castro, the local dispensary there was one of the best-managed retail business notice entire district and it was tangibly and directly contributing to the health well-being safety and economic benefit of the community. thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm wendy mcpherson, owner operator of flower power dispensary south of market. i'd like to speak on the planning department's language of expanding retail. i'm in a high-tourist area on second street betwe

architecture, the application on the other end. we like to think about it as each layer of a stack, essentially. they will all require a different kind of look at what security requirements are necessary. we do not think they are all created equal, all applications are created equal, and should be electric grids have the same type of security requirements as my young daughters electric toothbrush that connects to my phone? probably not. as an industry, what we are looking at is what type of security requirements and best practices do we need to implement at the device level or the design level to ensure that each application has the security requirements that it needs to meet a consumer's expectations? we also believe in consumer education, data is really what is becoming extremely important here in terms of enterprise, industrial entities taking the connectivity to the next level. what can we do with that data and improving our operations and maintenance? making sure the consumers understand what type of data is being collected is

architecture, the application on the other end. we like to think about it as each layer of a stack, essentially. they will all require a different kind of look at what security requirements are necessary. we do not think they are all created equal, all applications are created equal, and should be electric grids have the same type of security requirements as my young daughters electric toothbrush that connects to my phone? probably not. as an industry, what we are looking at is what type of security requirements and best practices do we need to implement at the device level or the design level to ensure that each application has the security requirements that it needs to meet a consumer's expectations? we also believe in consumer education, data is really what is becoming extremely important here in terms of enterprise, industrial entities taking the connectivity to the next level. what can we do with that data and improving our operations and maintenance? making sure the consumers understand what type of data is being collected is

applications, that is not the most important thing. for older ubiquitous connectivity, you may look to satellite. >> i agree with everything david just said. just to bring up to a higher level, when legato and we think about what do you need from -- what? pun? tjat ahat a [laughter] >> the key is spectrum. they all have different characteristics. of the the networks future are going to require each of those in a mix of those in order to provide and serve the diversity of applications that the iot will result in. we are focused on the enterprise side of the equation, was role require ultrapetrol -- which will require ultra reliability and coverage. which satellite does provide. we are also strong believers in being tech neutral. a allould either -- ll different applications could benefit from all those technologies. some of the mission-critical things will require the satellite for coverage for basic connectivity and then the ground systems come in for the lower bandwidth applications. >> modest talk about the policy aspects of it. cong

they're such a diverse range of applications and products and the iot perspective itself as the applicationson the other end. and the way we like to think about it is each layer of the stack essentially will require a different book. we don't think all systems are created equal. you know, should the electric grid as an example of the teams -- same type of security requirements as my young daughter's electric toothbrush that connects to my phone, probably not. i think is an industry what we are looking at is what type of security requirements and best practices almost do we need to implement at the device level or the network architecture design level to make sure each application has to security requirements that it needs to be the consumer's expectations. we also absolutely believe in consumer education. data is what is becoming extremely important in terms of enterprise and industrial entities taking conductivity to the next level and what can we do with that data improving our operations and so making sure consumers understand what type of data is being read is extremely important as well

the application process continues in full swing. i do want to stress that we will remain open for qualified applications right up until the time that we start down the list of final [inaudible] with candidates. there's always passive candidates in a search like this and the search firm has done an excellent job of following up on leads and having discussions with prospects. we welcome, as we said in several other times during the course of this process, if someone has a name of qualifications of someone you think would meet the qualifications published and posted on the website we welcome the opportunity to screen those candidates. as a reminder, everyone can provide additional-remember the health service service system, will provide some input to the kind of capabilities and expectations that we might have for an executive director of the system. the survey that is on on you can participate in. i believe there's paper copies available as well. those who might be in the room. we are looking forward to receiving that input during the

i'm just wondering if they get them before the equity applicants, as well. >>supervisor safai: madam chair, can i actually comment on that because my amendment actually dealt with that. >>president breed: supervisor safai, do you have a comment or question for supervisor safai, supervisor kim? >>supervisor kim: is it okay if i just have them answer first because i'm just trying to keep everything straight in my head. >>supervisor safai: i got it. >>supervisor kim: so those in the pipeline are not eligible for the temporary expansion. >> that's correct. it's only for the ones that were shutdown, so going back to supervisor safai's earlier amendment which discussed how businesses -- which businesses will get permitted initially, and what that amendment does is to say that the director may only give permits to, i think, six categories of business, as least initially, and those categories are equity applicants and equity incubators, equity applicants that possessed one prior to the date of this ordinance, temporary businesses that get a nonretail businesses, bus

however, once my office makes applications available, they have a duty to apply for the application within 30 days of becoming available and the article 16 permit is appealable to the board of appeals. i want to be crystal clear about that. >> supervisor. >> i'm assuming we have been having this discussion, many discussions, that we're preparing ourselves for the transition to adult use january 1st. i think when we -- so what we're asking is for current operators of mcd's to actually submit a good management plan, a safety plan, good neighbor plan, goes through the police department for review, public health and your office also. those are the steps. is that correct? is that what i'm hearing supervisor? >> yes. >> so my question is would this delay at all the opening or allowable adult used to existing dispensaries because you must review them all and we are now going into a short month of november and short month of december quite frankly and it has to go through the police department. and i also feel that these dispensaries that have work to do still, it is a little unfair to say to do t

that all comes down to our actual application process. right now, one thing we're looking at in particular is our preliminary project assessment application, seeing if we can reduce that timeframe, get the best value out of that and look at consolidating the many different types of development applications we have into one development application so we can staff it better, track it better, have better coordination and critically set these timeframes for the project, even if it has a c.e.u. and other entitlement action as well. we need to set the timeframe for the project as a whole and give the public the information of what that timeframe is and intermediate targets along the way so we can know if we're on track not. we'll spend a lot of energy looking at our application process so you'll be seeing ago lot of that in the plan. i've been talking to folks in all of our divisions about how we do that. if we don't get that right, we won't be on stable footing for any of the rest of this. i want to talk about some things that are relatively r

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>> you can't ask them at the very beginning. >> i've got two applicants. i may not ask them if they're married. i may not ask them if they intend to have children. i may not ask them if they've been convicted of a crime yet. >> right. and what's interesting is some places have been doing that for smoo-some time. 20% of the country. san francisco, l.a., but almost 20% of the country people live in a place where that question can't be asked. >> it's after i say i think this person over here is going to be my candidate, i'm going to tentatively offer them a job, and then i get to ask. >> that's right. >> or i get to look. >> that's right. >> and then if i find out they're a bank robber, i mean, let's use something non-violent and we'll keep it simple. relatively non-violent. let's say they robbed a bank. what are my options? >> right. so at that point if you're going to deny them a job based on that conviction, based on their criminal history, then you should notify them in writing of that. by law you have to then give them five days to appeal your decision.

, so the application was suspended. i spoke to the planning department about that and said if you're going to cite this as enforcement matter, you're going to require additional use authorization for removal of this as a dwelling unit and they agreed to require additional used to eliminate it. they're facing the process either way. we filed to correct the problem long before it was an enforcement matter. >> to the chair, could i see a copy where the application, the owner signed you to start the process? yep. >> that would be helpful for everyone to look at. >> this is standard form i have been using for years to show i was authorized for these purposes. >> commissioner walker. >> just another question per the owner's representative, the terms of the lease end next year, what is the likelihood there would be a resolution, i mean, a lot of this is a civil issue, not in front of us. >> the resident group's attorney is present, she can comment on that. this is not terminated at will. this is the way san francisco works, we

that's only going to be compounded for equity applicants. we need to consider how we move forward allowing them to come in and by having this doral dra cone draconian thousand foot buffer we'll um peed the cannabis industry -- impede the cannabis industry in san francisco. >> i'm ryan. i was born if san francisco. i've live -- i was born in san francisco and a resident of district 9 and employed in the medical cannabis industry. i work for one of the largest distributors in california. i work directly with a number of the people you heard speak here today and number of dispensary services here in the city. i was hired for this position shortly afort passage of the original medical cannabis regulation and safety act in 2015. so i'm living proof that it creates jobs. i don't want to take up too much time. i'm going to echo some of the highlights. i support the 600-foot buffer. a thousand foot buffer has led to the clustering issue. i feel this has been discussed and accepted as fact by this board in the past. i support mr. de la plain's propos

applicant. >> that's a new one on me. i think that's the way we were headed. >> supervisor peskin: miss elliot, would you like to speak to the amended conversion language which eliminates subsection c and d and changes subsections a and b and creates a new b. >> supervisors, nicole elliot with the office of cannabis. what this amendment does is take those mcds that have applied for an article 33 permit to be an mcd that were caught by the moratorium and did not have a land use either scheduled at the planning commission or had not applied for their land use approval with the planning department at that time. and it treats them as basically this board treated the mcds that did have land use scheduled at the time the moratorium passed. it takes those applicants that didn't have land use and allows them through the process. it was at least our interpretation that the moratorium conversation was really around anxiety-related to those operators applying in a rush to get through. this treats those applicants the same. applicant

the owners or the applicant. and very few people of color. in fact, i have yet to meet -- i'm not saying they don't exist -- you i have yet to meet latino or african-american owner in the cannabis industry. i think it is important that we try to get this right. i look forward to hearing what proposals come forward from the board and i think all the members of the board that have been working on the equity program to make sure we ensure diversity in this new industry, but also ensure that the communities that have been hurt by the misguided policies that we are now correcting benefit from the wealth of that correction. the last thing i'll state, i have been hearing that this board is treating this different. i was not around when 270 tobacco permits were issued in the district that i represent. 260 tobacco permits just in district 6. we are now limiting to 45 per district. and as permits expire or businesses go out of business, they will not be reissued again in the district. this board has acted to regulate a lot

the first application before su for cliff variety. a neighborhood hardaway and variety store founded in 1936. it's a family-owned store and it offers hardware, home goods, candy and other every day items for over 80 years. when the oldest son eriny joined the business he started the tradition of creating elaborate window displays especially during the holidays and designed a ribbon machine, two button machines and rolling ladders. currently operated by fourth generation family member, cliff variety store serve oafers 700 people daily. the second application is for thomas' restaurante serving north beach since 1971. it's roots date back to 1935. however, when it was called will you pleaseos. it was found -- it was called lupo's they introduced pizza to san francisco and perhaps the entire west coast. it became famous for the wood-fire brick often. the long time chef took the new name. under the new name, the restaurant continued to serve a i growing clientele and in 1973 it was sold so the krati family. they added a few family recipes

and rick and rhea are getting close to finalizing all of the grant applications, the 73 grant applications that we have received. this week, on friday, i'm not sure if you are aware, but they've already started demolition of the old goodwill site as mission and south vanness intersection and 11th, so this is now called 1550 mission street, which is going to have housing, some down stairs retail, but then, there will be dpw, dbi planning, and a few other smaller departments are moving over to 1550. the second floor will be a permit center that will have dbi, all of dbi, the mechanical, all of that broken out. planning, dph, all the regulatory agencies that a business needs to go through or anybody needs to go through, including the police department's permitting center will be over there, which is great. people don't have to go over there to 3rd street to dale with their permits. there'll be hearing rooms, rooms -- areas for people to be working on things while they're waiting, so our office, it -- we have a small section there, so katey sharping, who is doing the open in sf who is dealing

equity applicants. [sot-greg minor, assistant to c of oakland] an equity oakland residents will get priority who live in a neighborhood with a large number of cannabis related arrests or have a cannabis restriction on their record. >> the next time i invite you over to the house for a potluck, it may mean not just cooking, but doing other things at home. >> reporter: oakland city councilman knoll guyo said when -- noel guyo said when the city started looking into cannabis licenses, they found something. >> we wanted to grow it to 16 and found out in the process we had over 250 doing business anyway now owning warehouses in the homes all over the city. >> reporter: so while the city keeps a tight leash on the number of dispensaries, they decided to make other businesses like growers legal so they can collect taxes and make sure they all follow building codes. they also took the opportunity to bring oakland residents into the business. 50% of all permits must go to what they call equity applicants. >> it'

it had cooled technology with interesting applications.are working on an enterprise, business focused version. because of the high price point it is not geared for consumers but they feel medical environments or construction workers would want to wear the google glass for business. apple will likely take that consumer approach as opposed to the business approach that google is taking. shery: apple still has no headset so it is cooperating with other businesses. what are the cooperation projects at play now? mark: because the consumer headset is not ready for testing apple's operating system on the they are using vr headsets from htc. it is widely regarded as one of the best, most powerful vr headsets on the market. they made prototypes. first iphone came out they used mac screens to project . to test their ar environments they are using the competition the our headsets right now. they are also working on an intermediate device that is sort of an iphone connected device where you can use it as the screen and the camera and sensors. they wil