. >> commissioners diego sanchez right now that is approved only those projects that have submitted a site permit if they've not done that the new process will be employed and that make sense increase a lot of things in the pipeline. >> connor to add i referenced in my comments a section 8 that will deal with one way or another what i've talked about in the portion of 162 i believe the distinction of the development permit excludes the conditional use applicant so if not gone nor a building permit application we want to make sure that who in the current pipeline. >> those are current large authorization or cu one other thing you might want to think about maybe it's too lastly for the cafe but consider doing it for the final occupancy i see people moving into the development next to the cafe they won't be innovative under the process a determineable amount of enjoys the noise is too much and put - do the developer put in it is required to does - >> it's talking about the xhchgz and innovativeing the residents first is the amendments and additions to the building code we've incorporated

so cindy comfort has worked in the legislation section with the department of public health and diego sanchez is here from the planning department here and supervisor tang will be presenting awhile we're waiting for her we'll start off with cindy. >> those are items 4 to 5 together. >> good afternoon commissioners i'm cindy work at the san francisco health department managing planning and policy and for those of you not amount with the environmental health grant we're happy new year of regulatory oversight for the natural built environment that pertains to health in the environmental health branch we have 14 regulatory programs and some of the regulatory regulations are making sure that hotels are held to a certain standard of cleanness and sanction and taxicab are aimed at the public good and regulate restaurants to make sure that people are safe and one of the other programs is the massage program in that program we also the imagine age we conjectural routine appointments to make sure the place is well ventilated and we respond to complaint and issue permits and licenses so today i'll talk

establishment into through a conditional use permit this is the crux of the legislation i know that diego sanchezs here from the planning department but i'm trying to do with the package of legislation to turn the clock back to the 2006 levels that has caused a lot of angst among the people that have existing establishment especially, since they - we don't blame them for the dual system today, we're looking at the differentizing the massage establishment we have many, many, many establishment that are not completely tracked and no exemption filed with the city or not filed any proprieties with san francisco so we're reilly trying to bring everyone into the fold and do better improvement this legislation is by 0 no means meant to punish anyone that was caught in the dual system that came about in 2009 i wanted to do share with you a couple of the changes we met with stakeholder groups those changes are not reflected in the legislation we've committed to bringing about when it comes before the land use commission and one especially in the feinstein system we want to talk about the public service of

. >> diego sanchez i understand that is a much quicker process than the conditional use i want to say 3 months it is approximately more short timeframe on a consent calendar part of the agenda that is approving projects that are not extraordinary or out of line that doesn't merit discussion or review. >> so subject to less public comment. >> if an individual he believes that something should be that i would off the cds anybody can. >> and the planning director the commission president can pull it off the i've you know off the consent calendar and the business has to do the neighborhood notification healed

. >> diego sanchez i understand that is a much quicker process than the conditional use i want to say 3 months it is approximately more short timeframe on a consent calendar part of the agenda that is approving projects that are not extraordinary or out of line that doesn't merit discussion or review. >> so subject to less public comment. >> if an individual he believes that something should be that i would off the cds anybody can. >> and the planning director the commission president can pull it off the i've you know off the consent calendar and the business has to do the neighborhood notification healed time. >> what kind of businesses are preservation getting through an an expedited basis. >> i'm apologizing for not bringing it maybe you can help me dooerlg things like rauntz i mean it could be like veterinary place that go through conditional use. >> the restaurant are not selling hard alcohol. >> things that are generally meant to have less public lows controversial. >> you know weed we've added formula retail but the key thing to relate one of the stirs steps in qualifying to be

. >> condemn good morning diego sanchez with planning department i'll present planning department recommendation currently, the planning department well, i'll go over the current controls for massage summarized it requires the conditional use for mass acknowledge but there are exemption for use massage and chair massage and employing state certified therapists didn't - police code violations and the planning code didn't currently considers a mass acknowledge establishment employing the certified therapist and medical use this generally didn't require the conditional use in any district the ordinance as drafted we've changed the controls the planning code will 0 eliminate from the conditional use authorization requirement from massage establishment and employing the cam tech certified therapist and pro bono the massage use in one year of the location if that is closed due to health code violations and lastly 9 planning code will not have a medical use for massage uses planning department supports the ordinance as drafted for the following arraigns it run states the land use and has negative effec

. >> diego sanchez with staff while try to struggle with that all businesses need a land use approval so the permit for cu and whatnot if a business opened up without the permit to be in the land zoning we'll. >> how about we give them an 18 month period to fix it or find an alternative space. >> sometimes they're not permitted under the current zoning at all you can't fix it. >> they'll find american people alternative space. >> if they have a permit their grandfathered anyway correct. >> permit from who. >> from us. >> a permit from us fine but if not that's why where the difficulty lies for massage. >> i come boo back to a woman on pier street she opened up her officer on the third floor. >> we'll explore that. >> just to confirm commissioner antonini is the maker of the motion are you amenable to the finding suggested by commissioner richards. >> thank you for that. >> commissioners there is a motion and a second for approval as read into the record commissioner antonini as well sole practitioners exempt from the cu process to reconcile the article 2 changes and finding for apple

. >> good afternoon diego sanchez of planning department i'll be presenting a planning code amendment to change the massage i'd like to provide a department of public health and supervisor katie tang time to present to you. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is cindy work at the san francisco department of public health in the environmental health branch today, i'm going to give you a quick overview of the massage establishment in san francisco and kind of talk about why the department of public health supports improved land use controls for the massage establishments i'm sure you're aware of has 14 regulatory programs and some of the environmental health recollections making sure that hotels are held to certain sanitation standards and taxicab are aimed at protecting did public good and restaurant are protecting people if food illness and managing the safety and sanitation supervisor tang will go into the daily from a health prospective there the proposed legislation a health code and planning code amendment one to conform local law to state law and we want to delete an excepti

. >> diego sanchez with staff it's my understanding that the referral has a lot of information that your requesting are you in good standing once that's done they check to see if the land use allows the massage establishment. >> so they go through their hearing with dph. >> and this is for all of our permits establishment so for our permitting authority you'll come in and file out an application and look at all the information go to get a planning referral depending on the business a 3wr5urgd check and get the information and evaluate it and decide to grant or deny the permit for the business so we're the permitting authority so it starts with us and end with us and get all the other city department for example the planning department didn't grant the land use condition that they'll not been able to get a permit or a dbi violation. >> if i may to be clear they start with you with an application but the approval has to come to us before you you give them the actual permit. >> correct. >> there's a process that starts with the department of public health and comes here and goes back for a

then van hot you think and about half of our color coordinator staff profiles i'll briefing thank diego sanchez and aaron star and i believe ann mare so thank you for lending our staff they were very helpful from day one the result of all u you'll those meetings and conversations with the stakeholders is the legislation you say before you i'll briefing walk you though the legislation first most important element is that the entertainment commission and the planning department will create and occur rat pa map of the existing permanent places of entertainment about 3 hundred and 50 when a developer summits or starts the application for residential development within 3 hundred feet of one of the places of entertainment the planning department novices the developer and the entertainment commission there's a potential conflict between the new development and the existing venue the entertainment commission will then van to have a hearing with the developer and the venue will be invited and present their plans on how to co-exist the developer can present sound issues and the neighboring venue to mitig

sanchez is live in santa clara. the ruling applies directly to san diego county but it could end up back here, too. >> reporter: sure, we expect there could be challenges similar to the one in san diego here in the bay area and to put it in perspective as to why, jessica's law just as a reminder requires sex offenders to live at least 2,000 feet away from schools and parks. where we are right now between where we are and the lights behind me, that's a school we're at less than half a mile so we're actually about that distance away from where the sex offenders would have to be. that's the spacing basically what i'm saying, about the same amount of space as folks who, offenders would have to stay away from the school. sex offenders in san diego county challenged that law saying that made it impossible for them to find a place to live, so if you're thinking so what, they're criminals, they should have to suffer the consequences, law enforcement actually sided with them on this one saying that when the offenders can't find a place to live, they can be a lot harder to track. sometimes they live on the streets or stop reg

"today in the bay's" kris sanchez is live in santa clara this morning. the ruling applies directly to san diegounty but it actually could have an impact here as well? >> reporter: it really could have a spillover effect on any community where it is difficult to find affordable housing, because jessica's law requires sex offenders to live at least 2,000 feet from a park or school. to put that in perspective that school about that distance away. you could imagine the burden that puts on convicted sex offender and that's the argument they made to the courts in san diego saying the requirement made it nearly impossible to find a place to live. if you're thinking so what, who cares, these are criminals we're talking about, why should we concede to anything they need. law enforcement sided with them on this one saying when the offenders cannot find a place to live they can be a lot harder to track. sometimes they live on the streets or they stop registering all together. in san diego, a trial judge found that 97% of all housing was off limits to sex offenders because it was too close to schools and p