the bar was opened in 1972 by two lesbians as a fern bar. the twin peaks tavern, housed in an intact 20th century building, the bar retains its expansive windows and other character-defining windows and continues to serve the lgbt community. only two other (inaudible) have been designated based for their association with lgbt history. planning staff has met with both the owners of the building and the owners of the business and reviewed the process for permanent review and explained the benefits and responsibilities associated with local land mark designation. as supervisor wiener said, both the owners of the property and the bar support this designation. >> is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> i was just talking to somebody about this bar. tom woodell used to go to this bar quite a bit, that's what they told me. yes, we need this land mark, yes, you know it's true. one thing i can say about this bar, no, it's not very new. hold this bar, love it, hold it and we need it, yes, we need it, eight days twin peaks a week. e

the first of the so-called fern bars because i thought ith&::úss henry -- it would be the late 60's early0's. but on another note, i heard about the avalos legislation. and, now, i remember we've, on numerous occasions considered our policy on demolitions and reset the policy accordingly. so i don't understand why -- i guess its strfl administrative i don't know why the board of supervisors -- >> the clerk of the board has not transmitted the full ordinance to us yet but we will, in our analysis, review, as you said, we've done recent updates to our merger criteria and will review that history when we bring the ordinance before you. >> commissioner antonini: but we would presumably be the decision-making body on that if it's planning code. >> the board of supervisors is the city's legislative body so you as the primary land use body you get to make a recommendation to themn is non-binding, and the final vote will be at the board of supervisors whether to change that law or not. >> commissioner antonini: i just remember previous instances of us discussing these policies such as mergers and

bar pilots. ktvu consumer editor tom baker has been looking into the numbers. >> reporter: prior to the january 7th collision with the bay bridge fern system, bar pilot guy kleess had three other reportable incidents. even without the current incident, the seven year veteran appears to have racked up the second worst percentage of incidents and the worst among long time pilots. to say the least, this incident is getting a very close look by the board of pilot commissioners, the state licensing agency. >> they are working with the coastguard and other agencies to compile all the information and make sure that they have a full picture before any recommendations are made to the board. >> reporter: an analysis of 15 plot records unearthed by the examiner shows that nine pilots, most with far more experience than kleess, had only one reportable incident. two have had two incidents each. two have each had three incidents. one pilot had seven incidents but in 24 years and one with eight incidents but over four decades, all of them on state approved licenses. >> the program is very rigorous and prescribed by state and federal law and the co