mr. lazarus here who would like to speak on items 15 and 16? >> i am a licensed cannibas distributor in san francisco. and i want to make sure that everyone is clear on what the impact would be on a gross receipt tax. as a distributor i have three responsibilities -- transport, test and tax. i pick it up from the grower. the lab tests it to make sure that it's safe for consumption and i deliver it to the retailer and i collect excise and i collect cultivation and i give it to the state. my business operates on low margins. anywhere from 3% to 10%. a 10% tax on gross receipts, if i buy something for $900 and i sell it for $1,000, a gross receipts tax means that i make zero dollars. i have two options -- i can charge more or i can go out of business. or i can work somewhere else. i'm just part of the value chain. every other business that i sell or buy from has to do the same thing. gross receipts tax is bad tax policy and it's a depression era policy. there are other ways to gain tax revenue. i'm very grateful for my permit and i'm hiring throug

mr. lazarus discussed and more and more expense and regulation at this point is going to make that project unsuccessful. we have to have businesses that are viable in san fran to oversee and to employ workers. i am seeing it every day across the state and unfortunately i see clients of mine that say i can't make it work. i really want to and i want to do the right thing but i can't pencil it out, so i will have to take my chips and move move on. the more we see that is it would become less relevant for cannabis because san francisco is the birthplace of legalized cannabis. >> any others wishing to comment in seeing none public comment is closed. >> supervisor safai: because i was involved in big the chair of the rules committee as well as the budget committee conferrings therconversations there were a t of supervisors that worked on creating and facilitating and creating a pathway for this industry to grow expand an flourish and we did a tremendous amount of work to create a pathway for equity applicants. as of today there are 47 that have put their applications in. despite what i ultimate

rejecting the mayor's reappointment of ann lazarus to the board of appeals for a term ending july 1, 2022. >> supervisor safai: great. thank you, mr. clerk. unless there's any initial comments from colleagues i'd like to hear from our applicant, miss ann lazarus for reappointment to the board ofa, peels, term ending july 1, 2022. >> ahsha safai and supervisor stefani. i would like you to meet the executive director and we went through a transition this career and we're fortunate to identify miss rosenburg and i'm happy to have her with us. she's really the frontline for the appellant and the respondents and makes our job easy. so with that, speaking of doing the job, i've had the honour and the principl privilege of servis board now for six years. i have feel that i have at this

mr. albright. >> good evening, president fung, commissioners, lazarus, wilson and honda. we're the under dog tonight. i've got my colleague, melanie sangupta to help me out this evening. you're here tonight to look at these findings and see if you can uphold the findings and deny this facility. as we said in our materials, we don't think there is evidence to support the finding, so is what the evidence? the testimony? the photographs we just saw? it's our photo simulations and the plans, and we think that there is no evidence to meet the findings that you have to make that was either presented tonight or previously presented. the department of public health, department of public works, and planning department concur in their brief, department of public works does not believe there's evidence to make the findings tonight. and so what are those findings? if you look at findings seven and eight, it's whether this is a planning protected district? why is it a plan being protected district? because it's eligible to be a historic district, and these are eligible buildings. they