clement, and -- outer clement, and geary. it will allow eating and drinking uses as principally permitted uses if the total street frontage dedicated to such use does not exceed 30% and as conditionally permitted uses if the total street frontage dedicated to such use exceed 30%. remove the prohibition on large fast-food restaurants and prohibit formula retail pet supply stores and formula retell eating and drinking establishments in the subdistricts. many video stores a principally permited use on the ground floor. permit a how -- height increase of 5 feet to permit tall brown- floor ceilings in the zoning district. make an environmental finding. presentation today by joseph smooke, legislative aide to supervisor eric mar. president o'brien: welcome. >> good evening. joseph smooke, legislative aide to supervisor mar. a have been working on this legislation. my colleague was working on this for a number of months. i am picking it up from her to present to you tonight. , do lovage is here as well in the audience. -- tom radoul

and i got the inner and outer clement districts. there would be committed -- permitted. the supervisor, did it this request, as he felt it was still a relaxation of the restaurant controls, and that is what he was seeking to you recommended to remove the prohibition on formula retell pet supply stores. although supervisor mar did not remove this, there is discussion about this control at the land use committee and full board. after discussion, the board approved the ordinance on the first reading. the budget was unanimously passed this week on final reading, and the mayor joined the board for assigning it into law. we are excited about that. and there were a couple of items that we discussed before, so i will not go over the mighty delaware, but i will let you know that they're finally approved on second reading. supervisor campos'legislation concerning vintage size and our own general plan amendment making minor tweaks to the community's 50 element. two new items were introduced this week. they're both hearing requests. the first is a hearing request by supervisor wiene

clerk calvillo: item number 40, dealing with the inner clement, outer clement, and geary neighborhood commercial controls. president chiu: supervisor mar? supervisor mar: i want to thank some from my office to have a lot of time in gauging many different community forces on this one but especially the work of the planning department -- from my office who have spent a lot of time engaging many different community forces. there has a lot gone in from the small-business community, especially the small-business commissioners and staff, and i wanted to thank them tremendously for their work on this issue, and also the planning commissioners, as well. this legislation has the principal and altman objective in supporting the district, especially those that are locally owned and to encourage economic activity there, especially in the greater respect -- the greater geary corridor. this is the diversity of the businesses. it utilizes the legislative process, our powers to update controls or modernize emperor in a way that leads to greater opportunity for all of our small businesses. it also enc

if you look at a map of the clement street inner and outer areas or the greater corridor, a lot of the current vacant storefronts would be impacted. this would help felt -- helped fill many by listing the overly restrictive regulations that were put in place years ago. it would also help serve commercial quarters by lessening environmental impacts and strengthen neighborhoods vitality, protect the deke character of our neighborhood and the first fabric of our small businesses. many people have testified from the small business commission to the planning commission which offered its support for the legislation as well, that we don't want suburban strip malls or a suburban strip mall culture within the richmond district. we want vibrant neighborhood- serving businesses. i also want to say that i shot that many of our smaller businesses, including the and be and i think the owners here today and i think the -- over the spread of formula retail big box stores like the current pet food express on california and others, that would harm many of the small businesses according to testimony at t

i remember growing up on clement street. i have always lived around in richmond area, just being around a unique area of the richmond, discovering san francisco in the 1980's. >> i am hoping we can not support small businesses like this because they are the unique character that makes neighborhoods like this so rich and lively to live in. >> i have also been active as a community organizer. i worked at the chinese progressive association. i also worked at the mental health center in the richmond district. i have always been passionate about civil rights, equality for everyone. i have a 10-year-old daughter, so having a girl has made me much more sensitive to gender equality issues. i guess i have always been vocal about my politics, but as a supervisor, i have to listen to other perspectives and making decisions. >> very soon there will be of much more seniors in that area. we are trying to focus on whether a stop sign or stoplight might help. >> tried to look at issues of senior nutrition programs, alzheimer's research, eve

i hate to remind everybody that we're coming up on the one-year anniversary of tyler clemente's deathn at rutgers. what has this taught you about tolerance issues in this country as you've taken op the campaign with your website? do you think you've opened yourself up tore a target for intolerance? >> sure. i mean, everywhere you go, there's always going to be those who want to degrade and divide. i'm on a mission to unify people, to bring people together for respect for everyone. and, yeah, i've opened -- i've put a bit of a target on my back, but with people like tyler clemente being put into a place where they feel their only option is to take their own life, i feel a responsibility to do something about that and to not only tell kids that it gets better but actually to make it better. >> for everyone that wants to check it out, they can fw to your website at athleteally.com. they can take the pledge and give it to everyone else going back to school this semester. >>> so precautions are being made up and down the east coast. north carolina telling thousands to leave as irene is bar

the first ordinance was the ordinance that would change the controls for the inner and outer clement as well as for a portion of geary boulevard. you heard this motion on july 14. he recommended approval of modifications. supervisor mar amended the ordinance to include your recommendations but for one. he did not remove the prohibition on for resale and pet supplies as you recommended. although he did not remove this, there was a discussion with the land use committee and the board. the board of supervisors approved the ordinance on the final reading. also before the board was an ordinance addressing limited live performance. you heard this item sponsored by supervisor mirkarimi in july. it would create a limited permit for businesses whose primary business is not performances. you recommended it with modifications to extend an opportunity to several districts. supervisor mirkarimi did incorporate your recommendations except for one. he amended ordinance so that entertainment use is not allowed in the western area currently undergoing a community planning process. the ordinance would

union street and clement street, they have a hard cut off at 10:00 p.m. they will not be able to apply for the one hour extension after a year. it passed on hits of first reading. it will have a sector reading as soon as the board of supervisors return from recess. we hope for a late october. that is when people, businesses will start applying for their permits. prohibiting amplified sound, that is still in committee. as well as the coffee stores and video stores. you had the presentation last month. there are a couple of other pieces of legislation we heard a while back that is still being held in committee. in regards to the ata, we want to provide you with an update that july 26, we held a presentation with the glenn parker merchants association. on august 3, carmen chu's office assembled a panel for the merchants of district four, along with the sf bar association. the opportunity fund gave a presentation and carla johnson from the mayor's office talked about cash. that panel was televised and is now running periodically on sfgtv. we have linked it to

i live at 1423 clement st.. most of my concerns have already been voiced. i am a resident of san francisco. a recreational swimmer and a san franciscan. i value the presence of the america's cup here. however, there are aspects that are concerning. one is aquatic park. it is a venue for kayaking, family outings, picnics, other things. is the only swimming and waiting beach in san francisco that is safe for children and is home to a vital senior citizen'' center, a maritime museum, and boating clubs, all of which are used by the local community. the draft eir does not take any of this into consideration. primarily in the area of the bay between the golden gate and the bridges -- the swimmers are important to many of the area of residence. -- residents. provisions for traffic and parking are vague at best. de -- they lack sufficient -- they are not specific. [laughter] last week, a giants game was letting out. there were no traffic cops. stoplights were not coordinated. it was a time and gas-consuming nightmare. is this a harbinger of the america's cup? the p

to the church archives, you look up, you know, the registers, who was born by the name of ricardo clement in 1913 on this date, and you will find no one, like, with this name, of course, because he never did exist. it's a faked identity. and you can, of course, work with this kind of technique or procedure, but you cannot check 150,000 documents and names scattered all over europe. of course, these alleged places where these people came from. so you can only give estimates. and it's also interesting that in many cases people didn't change their name at all. they stated their real names, their real date of birth and be everything. except one exception. they never said, well, i'm an austrian or german, they would always say i'm stateless because that was the condition to get these travel documents. but in many cases they would state their real names without any whatsoever problem. and sometimes they would even say the letters of -- [inaudible] a lot of people from the vatican would say, well, he was a former member of the nazi party. he's not able to get austrian citizenship back or the ger

ourselves in a stable position so that we don't see an impact on the streets of our city and on the clements that small businesses are operating. the state will transfer services to state governments and local governments. to city and local governments. we have the legislature's proposal to eliminate or condition the redevelopment agencies which is not directly addressed by this measure. there is an overlap. a lot of the economic activities have an impact on our economic climate in the city. within the current state budget, there are a number of figures in the budget and what the state did to balance this budget as i am sure you have heard is rather than actually does make all the cuts that it needed to get to balance, the state made an aggressive assumption about the revenue that will be coming in over the next year but essentially said that if that revenue does not command, there will be triggered some place said that if we don't see the revenue, these cuts will go into effect. despite the fact that the state has passed a budget, we are potentially going to see additional cuts to public sa

. >> ordinance amending the planning cord modifying planning codes on clement. >> i ask for your support again today. i would like to thank our combs of small businesses and residents from the richmond district. it has been led by amazing owners and workers from b and b, to cal, to rich and drew's canine corner, like bow wow and me ue, i love saying their names. it is supported by a number of small businesses advocates as well. this will help us fill vacant store fronts by updating the zoning laws in our neighborhood. it also will help us maintain a diverse neighborhood district. so i urge you are your support again today. thank you. >> any discussion? roll call vote. >> mirkarimi, aye. wiener, no. avalos, aye. campos, aye. chiu, aye. chu, no. cohen, aye. yell, no. farrell, aye. kim, aye. mar, aye. there are eight ayes and three nos. >> the ordinance is passed. item 13. >> ordinance authorizing settlement of the lawsuit filed by t-mobile west against the city on july 8, 2010. >> roll call forth. >> mirkarimi, aye. wiener, aye. avalos, no. campos, no. chiu, aye. chu, aye. cohen, aye. yeb,

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