>> nicole elliot office of cann.isor safai is speakis a program that supports providiw cost or free cannabis to low ine patients. i think supervisor tang, what ye speaking to is the act of 1996 t down because of federal enforcer threat of federal enforcement. while compassionate use is in bh remps, one is a program and thes operation and closure of the opn by federal activity. >> essentially we would have ton amendment in the rules committee legislation. great, thank you. >> and i have one more questioni want -- that i need to clarify. going back to supervisor cohen's meavment aboutç-amendment's abt collocation, i wanted to ask, wd the -- i guess the way i underse play out, there would be an exig operator in a space andç that e else would apply to operate in t space to share. would they have to go through te procedure of submitting to the g department of public health, yor office, they'd go through the se approvals. it wouldn't be anything differem the process that anyone would gh to be approved to locate in tha. t

. >> supervisors, nicole elliot with the office of cannabis. what this amendment does is take those mcds that have applied for an article 33 permit to be an mcd that were caught by the moratorium and did not have a land use either scheduled at the planning commission or had not applied for their land use approval with the planning department at that time. and it treats them as basically this board treated the mcds that did have land use scheduled at the time the moratorium passed. it takes those applicants that didn't have land use and allows them through the process. it was at least our interpretation that the moratorium conversation was really around anxiety-related to those operators applying in a rush to get through. this treats those applicants the same. applicants that had what plied for an article 33 permit prior to july 20th of this year. prveg of >> supervisor peskin: and the universe that have population looks like what? >> currently there are eight on list, but that includes one that has withdrawn the land use approval and has not co

i'm just going to say that the director here today is nicole elliot, the director here in five years could be somebody completely different that doesn't believe in medical marijuana. i'm just -- i'm just saying that we are now as the supervisors on the verge of creating ordinances that will regulate a huge business. we have no idea where this is going to head but we do know the past relationship with marijuana and our past relationship with marijuana has been medical and it has proven to be successful as medical. and so i just want to make sure that we have the integrity of the medicinal marijuana is still in place and protected for those thousands of patients. >> i think you make a good point. supervisor yee and then supervisor sheehy. >> i was just going to say one word, i think what i heard

nicole, director elliot, we puts date in there because there were that had not had a planning comn hearing yet and by this particue and not submitted a complete application. i think there are a couple in te pipeline, or a couple waiting bt included in the seven, is that ? >> the july 20th, 2017 date wile everybody in the pipeline. >> are there additional people g for hearings? >> that is why that date is tago the date of application insteade date of land use approvals. because there are some who haved for an article 33 permit who doe a date yet at the planning comm. what it says it they may move fd and seek approvals, if they gete approvals, they're treated juste every other dispensary. >> that is the universe of seven applicants. >> correct, plus the one thats e moved since 2013. >> shall we move on to supervisr farrell's 202.2 subsection 5 sun b, this is going back -- this ig rid of the orbit concept and reg it with instead of the 300-foots with a 600-foot radius which cos with the orbit concept, i woulde everything to be on the table. i personally prefer the orbit c. i think that was a