commissioner dooley: -- upper market. commissioner dooley: thank you. i believe this is responsive to the way businesses are operating now and the growth in new industries. we have light manufacturing would like to combine with retail. we have food service that needs catering. we are doing combined kitchens, combined businesses in larger spaces. this is an opportunity for some of those incubator food businesses to locate out in the neighborhoods, so the neighborhoods have more services. i think it is very responsive to emerging business models. it is nice to see we are making room for those emerging business models in neighborhoods that really want them. i would like to thank you for that from the small business community. thank you. president o'brien: seeing no other commissioners to talk, i will open it up to public comment. >> leslie lenhart, union street association. we feel this is very good and we support it. i do of a question i would like to ask this gentleman. on page four, there is a typo or i am not quite understanding what this means. if you

president o'brien: commissioner dooley? commissioner dooley: i just want to reemphasize what some of my fellow commissioners said, which is you can't keep going to the same group over and over again. the small businesses in particular. you know, they don't have a strong advocacy behind them except for us, and there are a lot of folks out there that are not paying their fair share, and i feel like while we will support this as an emergency thing, i just cannot emphasize more strongly that these other folks have to share the burden too and, you know, we're kind of tired of them paying no sales taxes. that is just wrong. that then other folks are burdened with a higher tax burden. i really would like to hear from the mayor that those other possibilities are actively being explored, because i think that's extremely important. my other comment is i'm still very uncomfortable with the one-year -- you know, if the state doesn't do it in one year. i would like to hear you go back and extend that for a much longer period of time. if

seeing none, commissioner dooley. commissioner dooley: i have written a possible motion saying the small business commission, in order to encourage small businesses, urges the city of san francisco to provide a separate set of lower impact fees for the easter neighborhood. anyone want to add anything? we would like to direct staff to develop another set of fees. >> that hits the nail on the head for me. can we have a motion? >> i will second that. >> to be proper, i would go to public comment. on the motion. president o'brien: do we have any public comment on the motion? yeah. seeing, none, that is closed. do we need to take a roll call? any objection? the motion is passed. we will go onto the next item. >> thank you for coming out. we appreciate it. >> are you going to take reservations at your bowling alley? ok, good. >> item 8, director support of a report on the office of small business and the business center. update on a department programs and announcements regarding the small business activities. just to note

commissioner dooley? commissioner dooley: i am very glad we are having this conversation today and that there is somebody year from small business, and i look forward to work together to make this easier. i do not know where we are on the city with that, but it would be great if we were able to issue some sort of a small test that says service dog or emotional, so that people will not having to be questioning the is. that would be good for the disability community. also for the owners. you do not want to believe you are not being told the truth. sometimes they just want to bring their dog in the bar or whatever, and i think that would be really helpful to clarify that for both sides, and, clearly, and this is the best way to go, so thank you very much for coming in. we certainly look forward to working with you. president o'brien: commissioner clyde? vice president clyde: -- >> there is a narrow definition of service dogs. there is no requirement. it is illegal to ask for a documentation. one of the thing

commissioner dooley? commissioner dooley: i am very glad we are having this conversation today and that there is somebody year from small business, and i look forward to work together to make this easier. i do not know where we are on the city with that, but it would be great if we were able to issue some sort of a small test that says service dog or emotional, so that people will not having to be questioning the is. that would be good for the disability community. also for the owners. you do not want to believe you are not being told the truth. sometimes they just want to bring their dog in the bar or whatever, and i think that would be really helpful to clarify that for both sides, and, clearly,

commissioner dooley? commissioner dooley: i am very glad we are having this conversation today and that there is somebody year from small business, and i look forward to work together to make this easier. i do not know where we are on the city with that, but it would be great if we were able to issue some sort of a small test issue some sort of a small test that says service dog

commissioner dooley: yes. president o'brien: no. commissioner yee riley: no. >> commissioners, that fails 3- 2. president o'brien: ok. next item, please. >> that will be reflected as a no recommendation. is that correct? president o'brien: in its current form, yes. >> i just want to say that i think the department of the environment for working really hard to make something that was actually doable and amenable to both the industry as well as the retailers and the general public. i think they worked very, very hard, and i would like to remind everyone that this is an industry that took the opportunity to show its displeasure with san francisco by pulling a major contention out of san francisco the moment this was -- convention out of san francisco the mom and this was announced. i think that did more damage than it helped. we will still be working on this. i do want to thank the department. >> you are now on item 8, discussion and possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on file # 0110592, planning code, i

commissioner dooley: i am not sure if this is proper but we have another business from the same area.i was wondering if we could call him up to share his experiences. >> i would like to hear another experience that nobody has any objection? please, come forward. >> my name is aben. i completely feel this person's paints. n. we see positive impact of what it is like to have a new business to come to an area. we just opened a new store and we had 16 months of what we -- you went through. it is a very difficult. it is a difficult climate. i agree with you 100%. the focus should be on jobs. the idea is that there are jobs that impact the community is more important than walmart's in neighborhoods. i come from a small business perspective. my experience is that there it -- this is nothing but a positive to the community. there needs to be some waivers and situations that allow small businesses to grow and thrive in a place that was previously empty. we have seen what it is like when you are around empty buildings spending half of your day chasing drug situations. the impact is when a busin

commissioner dooley: i am not sure if this is proper but we have another business from the same area.i was wondering if we could call him up to share his experiences. >> i would like to hear another experience that nobody has any objection? please, come forward. >> my name is aben. i completely feel this person's paints.

so melissa allen has turned to another inmate, megan dooley, for help with math. >> it's great because embarrassed when she helps me. i sit there and listen to her because i know she's not judging me and stuff. >> i treat people how i want them to treat me. math is one of my better skills. it comes easy to me. so something that she struggles with that's easy for me, if i can help her with it, it's not going to hurt me to sit down for ten minutes and write out the multiplication tables. all i have here is time. why not use it for something constructive? >> 30, 40, 50 -- >> yes! >> melissa sees learning math as a step towards getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. >> monday through sunday, nonstop, every day. there's not a day that passed, every day. i did crazy -- i looked like eye damn fool. i can see myself out there. i looked like a damn fool. running around thinking i'm the [ bleep ]. probably smelled like one. i don't know. 37 years old. i can't do this no more. i don't want my brothers to be here. we better than that. we're the allens. we're