linda chapman? >> linda chapman. this weekend, i should have been communicating with people about a different project but was overcome by events on polk street. twice, recently, you have approved more alcohol licenses, one of them which stated that the termination time, and the other, you gave off -- with a free community support. you'll be having to live nations coming up. the sound that you heard from the tape that was heard -- at bar closing time. this is under the senior housing and rental housing that the manager came in to tell you about. these are the sounds that people will hear on top of the hill. after that, it will only be 11:30 and they will go down to polk street. don't go to the mission. polk is the place. what happened is that the firemen had to take control. the police do not even try. the captain says there is nothing that he can do. he only has five officers. the sergeant says that there is nothing they can do. then they describe how somebody tried to get taken away because of the complaint from the

. >> tim colan followed by linda chapman. >> good morning, commissioners. tampim colan. i would guess over the past year, was gracious enough to come down and make extended detailed presentations on this topic to our regulatory affairs committee, and i have to say the response was pretty much that is really reasonable. really like the direction it is the way. it makes a lot of sense. a lot of small changes, and we think it is a welcomed step forward for a more sensible use of are very scarce -- very scarce land. we love the incentive for on- site affordable housing. and we like how it emphasizes alternative the te transportati and of a clear sense of where the direction of things are going, it reduces emphasis on private audits. it is inescapable that is where cities are going. we also love the changes that have been made to allow grandfathering. we saw projects we like that were good. i think it is fair that they be allowed to go under the old rules. we think this is pointing a good direction for the city. i think supervisor chiu and tom should be commended for the work

linda chapman? >> linda chapman. this weekend, i should have been communicating with people about a different project but was overcome by events on polk street. twice, recently, you have approved more alcohol licenses, one of them which stated that the termination time, and the the termination time, and the other, you gave off -- with a

>> linda chapman from nob hill. i want to raise the subject of people that negotiate conditions with the department of developers, conditions you approved without the knowledge of people in the neighborhood at all. i want to put this in perspective, because you will be have lied nation coming before you again before long. you received a letter from the nob hill association, which is a legitimate organization that was not involved in the negotiations last year. what they have tried to do is research and layout as best they could find what were the actual kinds of conditions that existed in the past four evens so that since the judge are rolled up the kind of use that was done in the past but they could show you the use. in contrast, the year before, a little group of people who were not at that time an organized group who had no meetings, no members, who had no way of receiving any kind of input, no way for anyone in the neighborhood to know what they were doing come down -- came down and negotiated with the departme

. >> linda chapman. >> two separate topics. first, i really wanted to thank the commissioners to give a lot of concern>> i want to thank the commissioners to give thought to the design of van ness, antonini and sugaya and moore. the people in a community may be worried about this -- and they may forget. it was very grateful that you gave a lot of thought to this. i hope we will have more -- with the improvements that were proposed. this is very important and this is well-integrated. it is a shame to have a big, a prominent place overcome by those who are not looking at design. as david baker once talked about -- is important that these look like cleaning shops. i was the community organizer, when i heard this proposal. it's not to say that this was not a good one, other than the interior design. they had all been evicted and this was in perfect shape. he said needed to be turned down and the group wound up fighting this for six or seven years in court. but initially, this had the support of my own organization. he was mentioned

. >> linda chapman. i want to express concern about the fact that although it was obvious people did want a grocery store there, we were sort of blindsided in that they signed leases for cbs and trader joe's as a lot -- as opposed to a large, general grocery store. then, they held a public meeting with practically no notice at all for public input and discussion. i happen to be on the block where i get the notices that are required within 300 feet, and i happen to be seeing the secretary of a knob hill association. i give it to her, and she notified if the people and i notified a few people, and those were almost the only people that were there at the meeting. this is a huge issue. the report indicates that there are 52,000 people within half a mile. there is no other store with and certainly more than a mile, i would say, and two buses to get to any of them. i have tried using the one out near fillmore. really infeasible with big bags and two buses, let alone all the elderly people and the fact that eve

>> linda chapman. i like to comment because i was a civil rights specialist with disabilities as a specialty for a while. but i was also on the federal executive boards disability council. i read with concerned these articles about the persecution of small businesses by lawyers and people who are really not out to get access for people but what money can be gotten out of it. my specialty was really employment. i have not researched exactly what is happening here. but one of the principles was that whether it was an employer or a business that has an access issue, one of the questions it is, is it an undue burden? how feasible is it to do? it is not like you have to make everything accessible. some things cannot reasonably be done with the amount of costs that would go into doing it. this applies to employers. unless you are huge. the department of the army could do anything, but a small employer or business does not. there are limitations. i certainly read that there are some lawyers who were making ca

. >> linda chapman. i want to express concern about the fact that although it was obvious people did want a grocery store there, we were sort of blindsided in that they signed leases for cbs and trader joe's as a lot -- as opposed to a large, general grocery store. then, they held a public meeting with practically no notice at all for public input and discussion. i happen to be on the block where i get the notices that are required within 300 feet, and i happen to be seeing the secretary of a knob hill association. i give it to her, and she notified

. >> linda chapman. i want to express concern about the fact that although it was obvious people did want a grocery store there, we were sort of blindsided in that they signed leases for cbs and trader joe's as a lot -- as opposed to a large, general grocery store. then, they held a public

. >> linda chapman from nob hill neighbors and the coalition for san francisco neighborhood land use committee. rose began talking about this, some kind of special provision, something we really need to know about. then i discovered it this week. and i do not assume this is going to be a bad thing. from what i have been able to see, it looks as if there is a lot in it that may be good, but certainly people need to know. i saw some things about van ness and reducing parking, which would be good, and then i saw things about this see c3 distrit that i used to live in. it would be a bad thing to raise parking there. when i was walking around nob hill looking at the forms that are there in connection with our attempts to resurrect the little church and built next to it where you would not be able to do the kind of open space and exposure requirements that you could in the richmond or sunset, i had the idea that we should look at these things that would work on nob hill in the past were building space each other across narrow valleys and open spcacace was treated differentl the first i hea

. >> linda chapman.