the juice bar on the corner of sacramento and fillmore. that offered aparently significant money to the landlord to get rid of coffee bean and an existing franchised formula retail location. it was evolution fresh, it is a starbucks, the first roll out of a major chain, so there are serious gaps in the way that the formula retail legislation is analyzed and applied, some of which are legislative correction, but i think that some of which really need the attention of the way that the zoning administrator does... bear that in mind. >> thank you. >> the next speaker? >> madam president? commissioners, i'm thomas ren olds the president of the merchant's association. i am happy to tell you that things are good on fillmore and we have no empty storefronts we are one of the most desirable streets in the country, we are happy about that and it has had negative effects that mostly formula retail has helped to deter the larger chains from coming to fillmore street but there are unintended consequences since the law was written several years ago and

my name is miyo ota i have been a merchant on fillmore street since 1978. my store is located at 2035 fillmore and it is an independent woman store retail clothing and accessories from europe, asia and the usa. my appeal permit was issued on 2013, for alterations to 2030, because the building permit is for a new retail store that will be located less than a block away from my business. the proposed store is a formula retail use for which the conditional use authorization is necessary. it is a (inaudible) based international chain of clothing stores with at least 18 usa retail establishments listed in either in the catalogs or sites or both. my statement refers to my original appeal refers to 13 physical stores in the usa. and which the permit holder now claims are only 8. when i drafted my appeal statement i did not include the internet stores because it was only necessary to show that oska has eleven establishments. >> for purposes of argument, i will assume that oska had only 9 brick and mortar u.s. stores, however, they also have a worldwide network of i

the owner of 2130 fillmore to operate a store. the permit is not related to the use of the retail space. the permit before you tonight is solely for structural strengthening and would need to be conducted before regardless of whot tenant is. >> they have filed a separate permit which has been appealed and will be before you on may 15th. >> while we may be discussing in more detail the character of oska at that separate hearing, i wanted to set the record straight on a couple of the issues that she has brought up in the appeal brief. there are currently only 8 locations in operation in the united states. there is one additional one currently in the process of opening in beverly hills and i wanted to point out a couple of errors in the list from the brief i have not seen the list that she brought you here tonight. there is only one oska store in chicago and the address in the catalog was incorrect. so there is just one store in chicago. there is no oska store in evanston and it was a space that was being looked at but has been lease

running some garages, whether it's [speaker not understood] square in chinatown or the japantown fillmore district community as well, we had a lot of great testimony from business leaders, not just from japantown, but also from the fillmore district as well. i think they also emphasized a lot of the points that ed reiskin from the mta did about the tremendous relationships that have been built up over the years and in some ways they quantified the economic benefits of having nonprofits run important institutions like the garage, especially in the japan center. so, i just wanted to thank the community reps and the business leaders for coming out to show why it's a real benefit for the city to support leases like this. >> supervisor breed. >> thank you. i am a strong supporter of the japantown center's garage new lease with mta. the garage is in district 5 and i know how valuable the nonprofit corporation is to the community. i served on the san francisco redevelopment agency commission and i grew up in the western addition. i know the tragic legacy of redevelopment all too well. for years

street to announce that it is coming to fillmore street has less than 11 in the u.s. and 202 worldwide. so those are larger policy issues that have led a lot of retailers and retailers to target fillmore street as a location that they have to locate before they get to eleven. and in the last two years, about 20 stores have opened on our street. none of them had more than 11 stores when they opened. almost all of them have more than 11 stores now. so, the result has been that our hardware store is now a french clothing store and the cleaners is now a chase bank and the thrift shop is now a part of the gap empire and i could go on and what has happened is that the fair amount of disengenuous or we call it a gallery or pop up or we put it in some else's name and even the permits none of them have oska's name on it and it has turned the statute on its head and a lot of this is not in the statute. first it was told how many they had last halloween. and then it was how many they have as of the first permit. and then it was how many stores they have operating. but this langu

the juice bar on the corner of sacramento and fillmore. that offered aparently significant money to the landlord to get rid of coffee bean and an existing franchised formula retail location. it was evolution fresh, it is a starbucks, the first roll out of a major ai

it's been branded as the fillmore jazz preservation district. it is still unfortunately not realized that as of yet. and high rent and other factors are contributing to the deterioration of this area. and i think that it's important to move forward with a commercial district that ban formula retail so that the businesses that are in place there now, and hopefully the new businesses that come, have the ability to compete especially with the rent and other factors that come into play when trying to do business not only in this corridor, but in san francisco in general. ~ bans so, i am committed to really revitalizing and making sure that we work as hard as we can to concentrate our efforts in support on the fillmore corridor to make it what it needs to be for our city, for our community. and, so, i'm really excited about this particular legislation for the fillmore and looking forward to bringing forth others that could really help compliment this and make this area the place that it needs to be for the community. thank you. ~ complement and the r

in this vacuum in japan town, there was the fillmore district with african americans and a variety of other people and they moved into the community. and then japanese americans get out of camp and they come back to their neighborhood that has been populated and made into a different life and different world and what happens when those two communities overlap and intersect? whose place is it, whose home is it? who is an american? how do we sort of coexist in this post war period where the people from that community are by and large marginalized, yet you have this whole kind of other thing happening where it's -- the war has been won, this is like new things, television is happening, advertising, this whole advertising thing is happening. so you have these marginalized peoples and what happens, is it possible to develop a kind of at that moment a cross-cultural community? is it possible to have kind of a multi cultural community that emerged from that moment? and so, in particular, that's what i wanted to explore. and part of the back drop is there was this extraordinary jazz scene hap

there is ones on polk street and the fillmore corridor that needs to be done. we do have one on polk street and one on chest nut. but i need one on union street as well because that is where i hear that the concerns are. so my intention is as the officers increased to look at the ones where there is a high crime area where we need them the most, at the short term, stop them with those and then work my way up to staffing all of them. and i am hopeful by the end of the summer. >> thank you, for telling us where you are putting them now and also where you want to add additional beats when you get the officers. that is good to know. also, thanks for addressing the language access issue and the issue of the elderly and reaching out to folks who are not here tonight and i am sure that it will be interested in coming at some point and engaging the department. i think that it is a common sense approach to do that. to sit down with the elderly folks in their homes or in the buildings that they live in to talk with them and hopefully to bring in the officers who can meet

it's been branded as the fillmore jazz preservation district. it is still unfortunately not realized that as of yet. and high rent and other factors are contributing to the deterioration of this area. and i think that it's important

and the march 23rd is at the west bay conference center in the fillmore. and the march 13 is at city college on valencia street on the mission campus. >> i do have a flier here, if anyone is interested? >> just one? >> we can forward you that information. >> they are going to do a special blast, i think, that is what jane said at the office. >> thank you. >> thank you. thank you, director dick-endrizzi. >> next item please >> commissioners, item 12, president's report, allows the president to report on recent small business activities and make announcements that are of interest to the small business community. >> have i got a couple of things here. and both of them have to do with the department of public works. dpw, i i participated in the graffiti abatement because dpw is trying to get businesses to sign up if you see [tkpwra-ufrts/] on public property such as trashcans or benches or walls. you can always call 311 or we're trying to get as many business owners to go out to these classes and they give you the whole kit. i got my vest. i got my paint. they

another retail store which is in the lower end, right by sutter and fillmore and i went in and talked to the woman, i tried to get the sales people from behind the register, they are always glued to the register, when you outside of the register, you seem to see what is happening most of the times and this one girl that i spoke to i said be careful, you can't see anybody, something could happen. and sure enough, a week later, a guy comes in and he robs her and so it is just on that and anything to do with consumer issues. i used to work in the da's office, and my experience was consumer issues, i teach them what to look for and the blind areas instead of shielding the areas so the people can't hide behind the price tags and catch the customer and people yell at me and say you don't have to follow me around i am not going to steal, you could reply by saying, i apologize by was taught by the manager just to greet you, have a nice day and enjoy shopping, and then somebody with catch them and not be on top of them. a lot of retail theft is part of the staff that again is the key word of b

and, so, i'm really excited about this particular legislation for the fillmore and looking forward to bringing forth others that could really help compliment this and make this area the place that it needs to be for the community. thank you. ~ complement and the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor breed. supervisor campos. >> thank you, madam clerk. first, i want to echo president chiu's comments and welcome supervisor tang to her first board meeting and look forward to working with you. and i want to just thank my colleagues for a number of item that they have introduced and certainly supervisor wiener, like to co-sponsor your resolution the bike sharing program. i think that is an important project that needs to move forward. and speaking of pilots, i do want to acknowledge the work of the mta, the free muni for youth coalition, and so many partners who attended the launch of the free muni for youth program which supervisor wiener, you might want to note that the mta held it at everett middle school in district 8. but it was great to see the number of young people who came and t

>> good morning, committee superviser, lance burton, planet fillmore communications. i am a local business enterprise that worked largely with some of the small business venues and event makers here in the western addition as well as the south east communities. we struggle with the ability to promote ourselves expose ourselves through the marketing and advertising that is needed to get a grand scale audiences and to our opportunities. and as we looked at the season of african american acknowledgment, this recent few months, we noticed that it was very, very tough to get our messages out above and beyond the very, very localized participants who showed up because of our fliers or the links that we do with the internet. but when i size up the profiles of these two companies, and i look at what the innovation that jcdco has had a history of having over the course since they were founded in 1964, verses the clear channel and 1973, i see two different companies that are very devergant in the philosophy in the way that they approach the communities. i must say that i am sur

so, we have the lower hate, we have the haze valley and the middle fillmore and the western addition, and upper fillmore and pacific heights and the marina, and it is a large area and as you can see within the northern district there are ten districts and a number of smaller communities that we encompass. >> this is number two. one of the things that this picture shows you here is the five district sectors that the police department polices during a normal workday. the northern is broken up into five sectors as you can see the largest one is the year that we are in now, which is in the marina area which is the five-car sector and we also have a four, a three, a two, and a one car sector where we have police officers that are in regular cars and foot beats and plain clothes and a number of other aspects policing the specific districts. go ahead. some of the things that i wanted to talk to you about the facts of northern station is that it covers 5.3 square miles, which is about you know, ten percent of the district, with 49 square miles in the city, population of 96,000 which is ten pe

this on fillmore street has been occupied by a permit and was build in 1900 and has a brick foundation and the landlord has not been able to update the foundation because based on contractors they said that it would saying significant remodeling and efforts there is no way that work could have been done. >> this is the first opportunity that they have to make this building safe. this is related to public safety. it is really important to the landlord that this building is safe, for not only the dozen or so people above the building but the hundreds of people that enter into the retail space on a daily basis. i have included pictures, i guess this does not show it. but any way, i have included pictures and exhibit. >> on the overhead. >> back where you had it. >> okay. >> it takes a little time. so i have included pictures of the foundation, it is a brick foundation. i have reports, contractor reports which is included in the exhibit, that state that this is a permiter brick foundation and it has nothing to do with oska, alleging that the two permits are related because it is related to

that is programs we've been working with at babies point and fillmore addition. this services families and coordinated services in those neighborhood. we have one of the largest juvenile law offenders offices certainly in the area many youth who are in need of reentry or support for their needs and i also consider it services a population that is contacted to some of our adult clients. it's a policy matter for the board we're happy to talk with you about at any time. it readily comes up but anyone who's seen the program up close has any doubt of his effectiveness. bob dunlap is here if there's any questions he, certainly address that. we've seen an increase in serious cases he has dealt with. and there's budgetary matters over the last 10 years. from what i saw the das budget it has gone up but percent wise it shows a advantage for the da's office. in 2003 the controller come forward with a budget that showed clearly that our office needs to have more funding and we think that's captured in that 10 year figure. in our 10 year period we've only expand by 10 attorn

it's depicting the fillmore as i see it in myize. it's called the fill no more. basically it depicts from beginning of urban renewal to what we have right now. one side of this art, it shows the black man had businesses and cars and buildings they owned. and then somehow it turned into what we have now with the urban renewal, big high-rises and most of our blacks are unemployed. but what i am here to say here, first of all, i just wanted to give great honor to my supervisor, queen b london breed doing a wonderful job. i think she's going to do a fantastic job because accountability is one of her [speaker not understood]. but right now in the western addition, we have created problems from the urban renewal redevelopment agency from the old wd. now we have a new -- two knewer agencies replacing the redevelopment agency. ~ newer on the left-hand side we have the housing authority. so, we are in a scramble here. who is in control here in san francisco? i'm not going to sing today, but i sure want to hear a tune or two. right now i'm so serious because all our people

i have worked collaboratively with the japantown task force and key decision-makers from the fillmore district in this area as well. i spent additional volunteer time to attend tree related meeting such as the one supervisor wiener held on the dpw street tree relinquishment matter to contribute my own personal opinions and solutions for this issue. [speaker not understood]. i have attended -- i know, hurry up, hurry up. i have attended the commission on the environment meeting for certain issues related to the urban forestry council and have run into tireless activists from other areas of the city. one of the people i have come to know is dr. espinola jackson from the bayview district. she has great concerns about environmental justice for the people in her exhausted. community. speaking of the bayview district, after december 2011, i found myself to be the only councilmember ~ who attended mayor lee's press meeting to applaud the efforts of the neighbors who worked on the model block project on newcomb avenue. it may be tough for somebody on the urban forestry council to attend these

millard fillmore is very important even though he is quite forgotten.roversial. a number of northern states didn't like it and threatened to secede and he had to go around the north arguing about the enforcement of federal law through the north and those arguments became very relevant later when lincoln became involved. >> can you make a case that being a forgotten president means you're doing a good job? >> yeah. interesting. >> say for solving a war which, you know, obviously is important or being assassinated which is tragic, if you are a forgotten president it means there's not a lot of controversial stuff going on, probably economic times are good. there's peace and prosperity. isn't that a valid case to make? >> it's a great point and i think you're probably right. it kind of puts you in the middle and people tend to be forgotten in the middle. >> yes. >> you remember the extremes, either great or really horrible. >> yeah. >> but if you're doing okay and not making huge ruffles, huge waves, then you're probably going to be forgotten. however, some