nightlife is a valuable part of the nightlife in san francisco. it is the main thing that keeps 20 and 30 somethings here in the city. if we push out this age group and take away establishments they are forced to go elsewhere for entertainment and we lose to those surrounding cities. we should all be working to keep these establishments of culture open in san francisco. it boosts our economy and the overall livelihood of the city. mezzanine has single-handedly built my career from the ground up. to see a place like that that has helped so many people over the years close, just because of an ending lease agreement and refusal to negotiate another one it is a heartbreaking reality. let's save mezzanine. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> josh armstrong, fifth generation san franciscan. i've been here for many years, my dad telling me about the family dog, and other institutions from the past that have come and gone. more and more corporate promoters are coming into the area and pretty much taking over a lot of the rights for the indep

i want be to support more nightlife in the area but the neighborhood has to come around to it to. i am saying it in a different way that the other commissioners here. >> we understand that. >> thank you. >> i don't think that you are not being honest with us. i will give you that. this is the most honest conversation we have had here. i live in that neighborhood. i have a four-year-old. i am looking forward to checking out what is going on in there. the things i recommend. two issues, us, doing the permitting. i don't know how it is going to go. i am supportive of it. then you have the abc issue. we just went through this removing a license and we had to do the 500-foot mailer and we had a lot of neighbors and the one thing i can say is that the there is actually one complainant, which could be, nine times out of ten if you can find that person and set down with them and make friends with them and they will support you. if they support you and the a bc knows it and they say i was against it but i sat down with them and i support this. the road is fairly smooth there. i would put o

particularly when we have seen an area in like soma where nightlife has been critical and essential and we see those venues disappearing. that is where we have to interview -- intervene for public interest. that is what we're doing doing here. you have my commitment to do whatever i can to support and protect these venues, and also that we look for longer-term, more public solutions. it will be a temporary solution and we also need long-term solutions. i want to thank everyone that came out. i also want to recognize and think the cretin brothers and the representatives that are here, as well. i hope the conversations will continue. i hope you heard today why we are doing this, and why it is so critical that we protect these venues. with that, i hope we can put this forward, chair, with a positive recommendation to the board. . >> chair peskin: i will take that as a motion area supervisor safai will not object. so we will send this to the board. he wanted to second but we do not second things on three committees, hence my words we will send this to the full board with recommendations. wi

during his tenure he led to the nightlife, entertainment and small business communities through protections and innovative policies. i am kind of blown away by what he said. i was memorialized in a mural. i don't think i can top that. i ask you to support me in the nomination of president blieman for president. >> i will second. >> any public comment? none. public comment is closed. >> it is great to see how you blossomed. i served as president for many years, i think you have taken the commission to another level. i always personally shied away from doing over advocacy because i wasn't from the industry. to have a representative from the industry as president is key because i think you see the industry night and day and late night. you know, i see it as a consumer and citizen of the city, but i think it is really important to have a staunch advocate from the industry in this role. i am grateful you are in the position for the past year and happy to see you continue. >> commissioner perez. (roll call) >> congratulations to me. i will check in with the deputy director. >> last item tonight i

and the city that never sleeps, had its nightlife back on.van cleave, cbs news, new york. >> quijano: overseas now, an amusement park ride in india took a deadly spin today and the terrifying accident was caught on camera. two people were killed and more than two dozen were hurt as the ride spun out of control. in france, bastille day celebrations reached new heights today, it included more than 4,000 soldiers, 100 aircraft and one james bond-like moment, a fly over by a man on a jet powered board. and in england, a wimbledon final four of the ages. novac djokovic beat roger federer in a tenth and terrific five set match. he took the five hour final winning a tie breaker with the two locked 12-all in the final set. it was another beautiful summer sunday across much of the aloha state today. but not all was perfect in paradise. carter evans on the big island shows us why. >> reporter: hawaii is home to some of the most beautiful beaches in the world with picture perfect shorelines but it's pictures like this no one expects to see. >> we're her

france the hassle and bustle of joe bloggs nightlife swings into action sounds opens the doors to his dinner club and like most evenings he has a full house tonight it's a chance for him to celebrate his feet with his guests. and i felt like. if. you know john is back. you know he's our. new. all the beauty about you not folks. thank you. and i'm. in the loop johannesburg is dr goli the city of gold a place of fortune seekers from all over the continent but something that is mining a different kind of gold here in killed a little taste of africa. now that looks good maybe i'll try that sometime because this body is powered by gummy and bank went to live there's nothing better than that but let's not argue food now right let's get to our next topic. if you haven't already noticed african fashion is on the rise there $100.00 joules name to the waze has already taken runways around the world by storm including a catwalk and its response from copper told me that her success happened overnight let's find out how she built her business from the ground up just 21 i did the final touches try

directly across the street for my office is used to set a bar called the nightlife. sold drugs out of that bar for a number of years inside and out so they have mobility that came before and to show people that yes i was that once the drug dealer that read up and down the street sold drugs and did all that stuff they're. a changed person and i'm now somebody that they could expire to also. executive clemency was a better sweet victory to be honest right there because it didn't take me very long . after i got out and the excitement exhilaration wore off that i realized that that. i may be free. so many of my friends and other people aren't and. as long as they're not then i'm not really so i started the can do foundation which is clemency for all nonviolent drug offenders to try to continue to help some of the women i left behind i did time with danielle barbara mary richardson and they've all done well over 20 years these are all guys who are serving life these are for pot he's for l.s.d. . i have just got back from washington d.c. i was there for a on a fundraiser a

a bar owner, a father to a toddler now in the outer richmond, and a passionate organizer around nightlife for at least the last ten years, if not more. i am currently the chairman of the california music and culture association, which is the trade association that represents night clubs and bars and music festivals and music concerts. and as i said, i've spent years advocating for night life. but before joining the entertainment commission, but joining the entertainment commission has truly been one of the most rewarding experiences i've had. i'm now the president of the commission, which allows me kind of some extra input into the direction that the office goes and what we do. and i can't say how pleasurable it is and how rewarding it is to work with the commission staff. they're extraordinary competent and care deeply about san francisco night life as i do. i think my root of love for night life is night life is for everyone and shouldn't just be for the wealthy. in some cases, it seems that's the case, and i don't think that should be the case here. my philosophy around the entertainme

has the hassle and bustle of joe bloggs nightlife swings into action sounds opens the doors to his dinner club and like most evenings he has a full house tonight it's a chance for him to celebrate his city with his guests right. i felt like he was there. if. you know john is back but. you know. now. all the beauty about africa is not for books. thank you. and i. include johannesburg is dr goli the city of a place for fortune seekers from on over the continent but some of that is in mining a different kind of gold here in. a little taste of africa. now that looks good maybe i'll try about some time because this body is powered by gunmen bank went a lot there's nothing better than that but let's not argue food now right let's get to our next topic. if you haven't already noticed african fashion is on the rise so one wonders why and i just mean when i was he has already taken runways around the world by storm including the cops walking carpets all the lab tests excess didn't happen overnight let's find out how she built her business from the ground up just 21 i think the final touches try la

and the nightlife and involved in teaching coding to women and also got involved in the s.f. bicycle coalition last year when i was hit by an 18-wheeler the first thought wasn't thank god i'm alive is well, this is going happen and i later realized it's ludicrous i should have the same expectations whether i'm driving, biking or walking. to spend time explaining how difficult life was after an accident to put on a shirt or wash dishes because you need two arms. four months after the accident i ended up back in the bike lane because i think it's important to be the change you want to see and i also believe in a better system and i think what the changes have done so far are amazing and we can continue making it better. i think you can understand the importance of the folsom and howard streetscape projects and pushing forward the two-way bake lines and intersections will continue to make things safer for myself and all people because the plans include muni lanes and bike walks. >> commissioner: thank you for sharing your story. i'm glad you're doing well. any additional public

streamlining the process is critical to building more housing and making sure the festivals and events and nightlifewe are so excited to have in our city continues without delay because san francisco as we know is a special place, but we only work when we work more efficiently together. i am excited, and i know those over 1800 employees are excited to have new bathrooms and shower and places to park bicycles and the other great things we are adding to new buildings. i want to thank everyone who is building this place and the work you are doing to get this building built on time and hopefully on budget. you know that is important to us. more importantly, how this is going to be one of the projects that really changes how we do business in san francisco. no longer will you have people going on line to those different places where they complain about the process and what they have to do to get a permit. what i want to see them going on line to say is, wow, the city makes it easier. they have a new permitting process to get permit online and it doesn't take that long. that is what this place is about. i

the goal here is to increase opportunities for retail, restaurants, nightlife witnesses and limited commercial uses. nc-one cluster districts, limited commercial districts. the same of wringing clarity and helping to simplify these buffers is an alignment with the planning department report a decade ago which really highlighted the need that all of these overlapping buffers on these buffers extending point two five miles in different direction there is a questionable impact there. again, just highlight the proposal versus the existing buffers. currently nc one is subject to, in the 710 zoning table it says limited restaurant bar, other on named uses pretty look at the most restrictive controls of any neighborhood commercial district within a quarter-mile oregon otherwise default to that and c-1 zoning. for limited commercial uses to determine you look at the most restrictive controls of any named neighborhood commercial district within a quarter-mile. our proposal is essentially to do three things. the parcels themselves to changing from a quarter-mile districts of measuring any named ncd to a

seen alive friday night outside of a bar on the oxford square which is the center of the town's nightlifesurveillance video shows she walked up to the door of the place, stopped, turned around and walked out of camera view. she never went in and we don't know where she went next. her roommates had to return home at midnight and then went back out at some point. if the roommate said she didn't hear her leave and didn't know where she was going. the next morning on saturday, a local sheriff's deputy on patrol in harmon town, about a 30 minute drive from campus on the north side of sardis lake here, that's where they found casteel's remains. the exact location, remote area called buford's arrange, her body riddled with bullets. friends from her hometown say they can't believe she's gone. >> you don't ever think it's going that. >> shepard: her sorority sisters describe her as a ball of light, who always had hers while on her face. and one person said that she was quite possibly the nicest person she had ever met. jake thompson is on the line with us, a reporter for the oxford eagle and has b