sophie hayward, planning staff. and again, before i begin my presentation, i'd like to turn it over with your permission to jeremy pollack, he's here from supervisor avalos's office. supervisor avalos is the sponsoring supervisor for this piece of legislation. >> good afternoon, commissioners. jeremy pollack from supervisor avalos's office. and, yeah, i'll leave it to ms. hayward to give you the other details on the minutiae of this ordinance. i wanted to present just a brief overview of the ordinance and our intent with it. the staff report hopefully breaks it up into sort of three main parts. the part that deals with section 317 that deals with the controls for loss of dwelling units through demolition, conversion and merger, and our intent is to bring the criteria that you use when evaluating those situations more in line with the general plan's housing element which has a strong support for preservation of existing housing, particularly affordable housing and rent controlled housing. the second portion of the or

sophie hayward planning staff. i don't have much to add to the discussion due to the fact they're interim controls we didn't have time to present this to the commission but we will include them in the presentation next week which will address formula retail as an issue across the city including the mid-market area so we will produce the controls with your amendments to the planning commission next week and the department is generally supportive of the controls. thank you. >> thank you ms. haywood and i also want to state that through discussions with several of our property owners we want to make sure that this legislation impacts business that are fronting market street, and so we just wanted to make that clear as well. >> thank you president chiu. >> that was the national question i had. >> >> initial question i had and the language says that the if any services, the french financial services, restaurants, limited restaurants and pharmacies and egress and aggress market street. is that for the five categories or

sophie hayward from the department. >> good afternoon chair wiener and members of the committee. planning staff. i will note that the planning commission considering the amendments last week thursday at the regularly scheduled hearing. they passed the resolution in support of the proposal and the vote was 6-0. the commission did as you noted make a association of proposed modifications and those were intended to clarify implementation for planning. the overall proposal was supported by the commission and i am available for questions if you have any. >> thank you ms. hayward. seeing no questions we will open it up to public comment. is there any public comment on item number three? yes please come forward. >> i am not seeing resistance on this, just to support it. i am herman [inaudible] and own the elixir and owned the property for 10 years and the property and a commercial condominium and i own both of those so i have not been able to expand my bar to complete. meanwhile this law allowed all the new restaurants to open in the mission with full liquor licenses and have cocktail b

the sophie hayward from planning will present the ordinance, but essentially the legislation does a few things. first, it allows transfers of liquor licenses within the district. so, currently my understanding is that the mission alcohol special use district, the first alcohol restricted use district to be established under the planning code is also the most restrictive. it doesn't allow transfers within the district at all. this means that potentially bad actors are frozen in place, there is no enincentive to close up and move on because that would mean the loss of a license. this means that the code is propping up those very uses that perhaps most of us would like to go away. under the legislation, any transfers would need to be considered as a conditional use and the legislation requires that good neighbor policies be attached to any conditional use [speaker not understood]. secondly, the legislation allows uses that currently have a liquor license to close down to make repairs, like opening up windows, improving the facade, improving layout for a-d-a access, et cetera, without losin

sophie hayward, staff and legislative affairs is here as well. >> opening it up for public comment. i have a couple speaker cards. neil julian owe. michael berndon. gustav o sarena. >>> good afternoon, president fong, commissioners. i'm neil julian owe [speaker not understood]. foundation currently operates three [speaker not understood]. magnet, stone wall, all of our prevention services and programs under the umbrella of staff aids project. the need for these services has been growing and we're not able to meet the existing demand at our current locations. for example, last year the magnet organization performed more than 15,000 clinical visits and had to turn away more than 2000 men because of a lack of capacity and space. that's why we're moving forward with the plans to co-locate these services in a larger space at 474 castro which will create the first dedicated facility for health and wellness for gay and bisexual men in the united states. this new center will enable us to keep work -- keep up with the demand for services, a demand by people who live, work, and play in the ca

hayward from the planning department. >> thank you chairman wiener and supervisors. sophie from the planning department. i want to reiterate and we looked at the ordinance and passed the resolution in support of the proposal. the planning commission considered the item last thursday, july 18, and did make a motion to approve supervisor kim's proposed legislation but that motion failed. they did want me however to convey to you the votes and that is commissioners moore, sugaya and [inaudible] approved the legislation and an tiny and fong voted no on the legislation and they need a majority so they need four votes to pass the resolution and without that the commission wanted to convey how the failed votes were divided to this body. thank you. >> thank you ms. hayward. we will now open the floor for public comment. if you want to make public comment please come forward. mr. brooks. >> good afternoon one last time. eric brooks representing san francisco green party local grass-roots organization "our city" and as coordinator for the ceqa improvement team and make sure and i think we reached an agreement and