i am in support of the project as shown. >> president koppel: commissioner fung? >> commissioner fung: i accept staff's recommendation and move that we do not take d.r. >> vice president moore: second -- and approve the project? >> commissioner fung: yes. >> vice president moore: thank you. >> clerk: thank you, commissioners. if there's nothing further, there's a motion that has been seconded to not take d.r. and approve the project as proposed. [roll call] -- >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously, 7-0, and we approach the final matter on the agenda, item 16, 2020-002333-drp at 2814 clay street. this is a discretionary review. >> good evening again, commissioners. david winslow, staff architect. this is a public initiated discretionary review of building permit application number 2020.0203.3400 to construct a two-story horizontal rear addiction to the existing two unit, three-story over basement building within an rh-2 zoning district. the resident of the adjacent building to the east of the proposed project, is concerned about blocking

so i think commissioner fung got it right that there will be no d.r. approved as proposed and the dates will be cited as -- excuse me -- plans will be cited as dated. >> >> commissioner: and then i second that motion. >> okay. very good. on that motion, then, to not take d.r. and approve the project as modified, commissioner tanner [roll call] so moved commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 7-0 and we'll place this on the final item on today's agenda that was pulled off of consent for item 6 case number 2020-00850729 castro street. this is a use authorization. >> commissioners, i just wanted to introduce ryan volvo before he starts. he's the new planner one on the southwest team in the planning department. ryan uses all pronouns. they had joined the department about a year ago starting work remotely and then serving as a disaster service worker. ryan graduated with a bachelor's in urban studies in san diego, california. >> thank you. i'll start my presentation now. good afternoon president koppel and members of the commission. ryan balbo plannin

commissioner fung? >> question for staff. ms. feeney, in total, how many dispensaries have been approved? >> in the whole city? >> yeah. >> let me look that up. i do not have that fact immediately. okay, here we go. i'm looking up the cannabis retail map that is available online from the planning department. we have 11 that have been approved, and a number of other ones that are actively under construction. 19 are under construction. >> you're saying there's only 30 have been approved? >> yes, for the -- from the cannabis retail map. so this is -- this application doesn't necessarily include existing medical centers. yeah, that's going through the process now. >> yeah, i'd be interested if you could send it to the commissioners the total number that have been approved. secondly is how many are in application? >> i do not know. >> okay, if you would also send us that information also. thank you. >> commissioner tanner? >> thank you. i do have a question for mr. white, if you're still on the line with us, the applicant. i wanted to

brian fung has more on this vote. >> fred, this is a big setback for union workers in bessimer workers uk seeded more than 5,000 workers there would have gotten collective bargaining rights. as it turned out more than 7,000 voters in favor, but it was outweighed by the 8,000 votes against. so many of the ballots were contested in this historic election. in response amazon says that while many will accuse them of interfering in the election, it is not true. it said in the statement that employees made a decision not to vote for a union, but we are not perfect and we will offer have a team to work everyday to get better. and the union says they are spreading propaganda saying that employees were told that a union could cause them to close the plant, and that set a stage for a protracted legal battle. ste stewart applebalm said that no union election in decades has received this much attention, because itand even this one com. amazon workers who supported unionization say this is just the beginning and alabama will inspire other workers to band together all around the globe. >> thank you

so i think commissioner fung got it right that there will be no d.r. approved as proposed and the dates will be cited as -- excuse me -- plans will be cited as dated. >> >> commissioner: and then i second that motion. >> okay. very good. on that motion, then, to not take d.r. and approve the project as modified, commissioner tanner [roll call] so moved commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 7-0 and we'll place this on the final item on today's agenda that was pulled off of consent for item 6 case number 2020-00850729 castro street. this is a use authorization. >> commissioners, i just wanted to introduce ryan volvo before he starts. he's the new planner one on the southwest team in the planning department. ryan uses all pronouns. they had joined the department about a year ago starting work remotely and then serving as a disaster service worker. ryan graduated with a bachelor's in urban studies in san diego, california. >> thank you. i'll start my presentation now. good afternoon president koppel and members of the commission. ryan balbo plannin

commissioner fung? >> question for staff. ms. feeney, in total, how many dispensaries have been approved? >> in the whole city? >> yeah. >> let me look that up. i do not have that fact immediately. okay, here we go. i'm looking up the cannabis retail map that is available online from the planning department. we have 11 that have been approved, and a number of other ones that are actively under construction. 19 are under construction. >> you're saying there's only 30 have been approved? >> yes, for the -- from the cannabis retail map. so this is -- this application doesn't necessarily include existing medical centers. yeah, that's going through the process now. >> yeah, i'd be interested if you could send it to the commissioners the total number that have been approved. secondly is how many are in application? >> i do not know. >> okay, if you would also send us that information also. thank you. >> commissioner tanner? >> thank you. i do have a question for mr. white, if you're still on the line with us, the applicant. i wanted to

he vaulted over fung into the windshield and ended up 30 ft. away i remember just seeing the windshield completely smashed in a ziff like a deer head hit it. police say the driver stopped and was arrested for being under the influence of alcohol and prescription drugs. oh, he was just his head was down and crying. really upset. he was really he was devastated for me to stay, you know, 75 year old edward cox is out on bail at the door of his mobile home, obviously upset and unable to talk about the crash for legal reasons. this could destroy his life as well as a lot, you know, cause a lot of trauma to that family. if he goes, how did you i and you hurt people. that's a very serious situation can only imagine the amount of pain and suffering that the family is going to have nevado police. say the boys at children's hospital oakland, the dad at marin health, both in intensive care, but stable after surgery. ah long road beginning for the family. how are we going to eat? how are we gonna pay our rent? and then all the time recovering with their he

exactly the point we discussed at this very hour last night with britney pacnet fung ham.tely told axios the chauvin convictions have, wait for it, lessoned for pressure for main. time and begin congress mass. >> what's the chance we see anything substantial on this? >> well, you better see something. you know, the substantial nature of it will depend on just how serious the leaders in the house and the senate are and but those staffers are speaking troous and those members, they're bosses who believe that there conviction has lessened the urgency. you realize that the day was put on the street when we heard that this man had been found guilty and another black teen y and happen and he followed about events and this sort of wishing it away and is seemingly believing that because, you know, which everybody was seriously concerned about has now been taken care of that that takes care of police shootings. and policing in black communities and this idea of how you can reform this process. now, it doesn't. it makes it more urgent and these members had been not this this like fr

elaine fung semrau, her father served in world war ii, and it was her story, and her father's story that compelled me to take this a whole other level further than just having them we featured in a documentary series. it was so important to realize that these chinese men and women served, they had no path to citizenship. yet, they serve anyway. they truly believe that they can contribute something to the united states of america, and they did so willingly, with great sacrifice to them and their families. >> and that's all the greater impetus to your project. frank provided his valuable research support, and you really had this bigger overarching goal in trying to force the project, and the personal aspect, the connections that you had to discover, you seem so important to this. i want to ask you about that so, fang, the american legion was founded after world war i, i think most people will recall world war ii veterans as well after returning home in 1945, 1946. could you speak a little bit about the contributions that chinese american veterans made to the legion, and also what role you

family, and one that seems to particularly grab people's attention is the way in which the house has no fung shui, to put it mildly. it's a tenement hall. upstairs and downstairs are the same. no central hall and when that means for the upstairs is that the bedrooms open on to each other, and at the time of the proper dispute to which i had alluded, that either raised the tension in the borden household or, you know, created some new grievance, the bordens lock and move furniture to separate lizzie's bedroom from the parents' bedroom. so that now, for example, if you were going to go the house which is a b&b, which you can walk from the second floor to the front and back, but then you would not have been able to because the doors that separated the daughter suite of rooms from the parent suite of rooms was locked and the furniture was moved in front of it. i think this gives us an example on the way in which we bring our own biasses and preoccupations to this kind of case. i don't think it's unusual that the people looked at this saying this is an incest story and sexual abuse and someone wh

the father was fung into the windshield and endeding the windshield completely smashed in a ziff like a deer under the influence of alcohol and prescription drugs. oh he was just his head was down and crying really upset. he was really he was devastated for me to stay. you know, 75 year old edward cox is out on bail at the door of his mobile home. obviously upset and unable to talk about the crash for legal reasons. this could destroy his life as well as a lot, you know, cause a lot of trauma to that family. if he goes, how did you and you hurt people? i'm sure that he could. that's a very serious situation can only imagine the amount of pain and suffering that the police say the boys had children's hospital oakland, the dad at marin health, both in intensive care, but stable after surgery.e family. how are we going to eat? how are we gonna pay our rent? and then all the time recovering with their health as well? so they'll have they have a lot of challenges ahead of them. yeah, as a parent, it could be. it could be your kids. it could be you in the crosswalk. neighbors say this stret

motion to approve items 4 and 5 on your consent calendar -- [roll call] >> clerk: and commissioner fung, you might try killing your video. that'll oftentimes assist in at least getting your audio through, so if you just turnoff your video camera, that will help. >> commissioner fung: okay. [roll call] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously, 7-0, placing us under commission matters for item 7, consideration of adoption draft minutes for your march 25 and april 1, 2021 hearings. members of the public, this is your opportunity to speak to the minutes by pressing star then three to be added to the queue. seeing no members of the public wishing to speak at this time, commissioners, public comment is closed and the minutes are now before you. >> president koppel: commissioner tanner? >> commissioner tanner: move to approve the minutes as submitted. >> vice president moore: second. >> clerk: thank you, commissioners. on the motion to approve the minutes of march 25 and april 1 -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously, 7-0, plac

is there -- so you -- commander fung, you said this new data dashboard that is showing the crime trends within the aapi community, is there a reason why that can't be made public? >> i know it was created for us, you know, as a tool for identifying a deployment response to these issues. i can't speak to whether, you know, that information clark county developed and serves as a purpose in supporting the district stations both from a community standpoint as well as an enforcement standpoint, so we are just starting the process of utilizing it specifically as we've seen an increase in incidents impacting our elders or elder population, just identifying areas where, and the types of crimes that we are identifying that are happening throughout the city. >> and supervisor mar, if i could pitch in, we'll see if we have the capability to do that given our current technology infrastructure. if we can't -- we'll let you know if we can in the format you want us to in a follow up with the rest of the board, so we'll let you know if we can put the dashboard or something like that in the public realm

. >> and so, if that commissioner fung guy was there and the deck passed, that's a good thing. >> i'm assuming because he doesn't miss any hearings so i am assuming commissioner hung was there. >> i was trying to make a funny since we worked with him and he made decks smaller. >> he was there. he was there. >> all right. thank you. >> thank you. we'll hear from the department building inspection. >> commissioners, the permit under appeal. i didn't hear too much about the building code issues. i do agree with mr. sanchez's comments on the distance for the deck or deck to the property line and the building code. the permit itself appears to have been properly reviewed and issued by the various city agencies that we typically similar to the last project where we had planning forced building and d.p.w. if anyone has any questions, i think that's all the comments that i have. thank you. >> ok. thank you. we will now move on to public comment. is there anyone here who would like to provide public comment on this item. please, raise your hand. ok. i do not see any hands raised. so we'll move

is there -- so you -- commander fung, you said this new data dashboard that is showing the crime trends within the aapi community, is there a reason why that can't be made public? >> i know it was created for us, you know, as a tool for identifying a deployment response to these issues. i can't speak to whether, you know, that information clark county developed and serves as a purpose in supporting the district stations both from a community standpoint as well as an enforcement standpoint, so we are just starting the process of utilizing it specifically as we've seen an increase in incidents impacting our elders or elder population, just identifying areas where, and the types of crimes that we are identifying that are happening throughout the city. >> and supervisor mar, if i could pitch in, we'll see if we have the capability to do that given our current technology infrastructure. if we can't -- we'll let you know if we can in the format you want us to in a follow up with the rest of the board, so we'll let you know if we can put the dashboard or something like that in the public realm

is there -- so you -- commander fung, you said this new data dashboard that is showing the crime trendswithin the aapi community, is there a reason why that can't be made public? >> i know it was created for us, you know, as a tool for identifying a deployment response to these issues. i can't speak to whether, you know, that information clark county developed and serves as a purpose in supporting the district stations both from a community standpoint as well as an enforcement standpoint, so we are just starting the process of utilizing it specifically as we've seen an increase in incidents impacting our elders or elder population, just identifying areas where, and the types of crimes that we are identifying that are happening throughout the city. >> and supervisor mar, if i could pitch in, we'll see if we have the capability to do that given our current technology infrastructure. if we can't -- we'll let you know if we can in the format you want us to in a follow up with the rest of the board, so we'll let you know if we can put the dashboard or something like that in the public realm,

is there -- so you -- commander fung, you said this new data dashboard that is showing the crime trendswithin the aapi community, is there a reason why that can't be made public? >> i know it was created for us, you know, as a tool for identifying a deployment response to these issues. i can't speak to whether, you know, that information clark county developed and serves as a purpose in supporting the district stations both from a community standpoint as well as an enforcement standpoint, so we are just starting the process of utilizing it specifically as we've seen an increase in incidents impacting our elders or elder population, just identifying areas where, and the types of crimes that we are identifying that are happening throughout the city. >> and supervisor mar, if i could pitch in, we'll see if we have the capability to do that given our current technology infrastructure. if we can't -- we'll let you know if we can in the format you want us to in a follow up with the rest of the board, so we'll let you know if we can put the dashboard or something like that in the public realm,

is there -- so you -- commander fung, you said this new data dashboard that is showing the crime trendswithin the aapi community, is there a reason why that can't be made public? >> i know it was created for us, you know, as a tool for identifying a deployment response to these issues. i can't speak to whether, you know, that information clark county developed and serves as a purpose in supporting the district stations both from a community standpoint as well as an enforcement standpoint, so we are just starting the process of utilizing it specifically as we've seen an increase in incidents impacting our elders or elder population, just identifying areas where, and the types of crimes that we are identifying that are happening throughout the city. >> and supervisor mar, if i could pitch in, we'll see if we have the capability to do that given our current technology infrastructure. if we can't -- we'll let you know if we can in the format you want us to in a follow up with the rest of the board, so we'll let you know if we can put the dashboard or something like that in the public realm,