we need this in visitacion valley. it will help everybody involved, it will help the community, and it will help our city thrive and helping our natives stay in san francisco. our people want to live here and stay here, but the only way they're going to be able to do that is if they're given the opportunity to run a business, make money, and give money back to the community so we can help educate and help everybody involved. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. thank you for your comments, sir. okay. let's hear from the next caller, please. >> yeah, hi. my name is [inaudible] delgado with living in peace here in san francisco, and we ask the supervisors to please vote yes for the appellant. [inaudible] they have been here in san francisco, her and john now, for collectively over 60 years. they are natives here. they have given their life to this community, especially there in visitacion valley. we think this is a grand opportunity for them. we have high dropout rated, and we have been affected by the covid, so we ask the bo

we need this in visitacion valley. it will help everybody involved, it will help the community, and it will help our city thrive and helping our natives stay in san francisco. our people want to live here and stay here, but the only way they're going to be able to do that is if they're given the opportunity to run a business, make money, and give money back to the community so we can help educate and help everybody involved. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. thank you for your comments, sir. okay. let's hear from the next caller, please. >> yeah, hi. my name is [inaudible] delgado with living in peace here in san francisco, and we ask the supervisors to please vote yes for the appellant. [inaudible] they have been here in san francisco, her and john now, for collectively over 60 years. they are natives here. they have given their life to this community, especially there in visitacion valley. we think this is a grand opportunity for them. we have high dropout rated, and we have been affected by the covid, so we ask the bo

my name is gina tovar, and i live in visitacion valley. i've worked here for many years, and my grandmother lived here, my father lived here. my son is being raised here. i live within walking distance of this location, and as i understand it, the petition or the appeal before the board of supervisors today is to determine whether or not the planning commission made a sound decision. and as was stated in the initial introduction to their opposition, that the planning commission absolutely considered all the facts. they listened to countless people who called in for and against, and i also called in against at that time. it's absurd that they would have another dispensary within two doors of another, and ou entire district is within three blocks. we're a majority -- we're not a majority -- actually, it doesn't makeup. the racial makeup of this area is very diverse, and that's not at dispute at the moment. it's whether or not the concentration of dispensaries is right for our neighborhood, and it's wrong. it's just the wrong location. the pr

, and i repeat, i will not allow saturation of cannabis in visitacion valley, and i would also not want a dispensary next to the library and in the middle of your residential neighborhood. know that that will be more devastating to our families and to our community. supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you, president walton, and thank you for your remarks. and i want to take this opportunity to acknowledge, you know, and just hearing the chinese american community and their remarks and concerns and i'm thankful for participating in this process. i also want to acknowledge that we need to continue to dedicate our resources to really more research and education and outreach, especially for communities of color and in this case the aapi community around the use of cannabis. if i may, though, and i'm really also glad to hear, president walton, your commitment, you know, for the community about, you know, not allowing the saturation and protecting the community and making sure that, especially in the case, that there could be a less ideal location by the library. if you'd allo

, and i repeat, i will not allow saturation of cannabis in visitacion valley, and i would also not want a dispensary next to the library and in the middle of your residential neighborhood. know that that will be more devastating to our families and to our community. supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you, president walton, and thank you for your remarks. and i want to take this opportunity to acknowledge, you know, and just hearing the chinese american community and their remarks and concerns and i'm thankful for participating in this process. i also want to acknowledge that we need to continue to dedicate our resources to really more research and education and outreach, especially for communities of color and in this case the aapi community around the use of cannabis. if i may, though, and i'm really also glad to hear, president walton, your commitment, you know, for the community about, you know, not allowing the saturation and protecting the community and making sure that, especially in the case, that there could be a less ideal location by the library. if you'd allo

. >> the supervisor says visitacion valley is home to a large population of essential workers and saysby covid-19. >>> as the bay area battles retail theft, stores are locking up products. you may have noticed it where you live. melanie woodrow has more on who the retailers are trying to stop. >> reporter: a abc7 news viewer shared this video from the safeway in san francisco. an entire aisle of products locked up. >> they use that as a deterrent. items you typically see in those situations are items that are easily stolen and then turned around and sold. >> reporter: she is president and ceo of the california retailers association. >> a priority for retail in particular is to make sure employees have a safe place to work and customers have a safe place to shop. >> reporter: we found similar locked display cases at the safeway on king street. in a statement, a spokesperson writes in part, quote, we use industry best practices to secure high theft items which varies by location. this practice serves as a deterrent and provides product availability for customers rather than remove produc

you can see particularly in the bayview, visitacion valley, potrero hill, and mission bay. these inequities continue, and you can see that our weekly case rates, san francisco overall, it's per 10,000, but you can see in san francisco overall, we -- for the month of june, we're at 4.8, and then, you can see the differences by self-identified race ethnicity on this slide, so it's something that we're working hard to address with many community partners and systems. next slide. vaccination rate by age. as is continuing to be reported across the country, we have fewer cases in the 25 to 34 age range in particular who are receiving the vaccine. you can see that blue line is vaccines administered by age, and that group lags our vaccination distribution other than the younger age group because they're not eligible to receive the vaccine, so reaching out to this group as well as 18 to 24 is key, although we're going to continue to do everything we can to reach out to these groups, as well as they're particularly likely to have poor outcomes due to covid-19. you can see these figur

you can see particularly in the bayview, visitacion valley, potrero hill, and mission bay. these inequities continue, and you can see that our weekly case rates, san francisco overall, it's per 10,000, but you can see in san francisco overall, we -- for the month of june, we're at 4.8, and then, you can see the differences by self-identified race ethnicity on this slide, so it's something that we're working hard to address with many community partners and systems. next slide. vaccination rate by age. as is continuing to be reported across the country, we have fewer cases in the 25 to 34 age range in particular who are receiving the vaccine. you can see that blue line is vaccines administered by age, and that group lags our vaccination distribution other than the younger age group because they're not eligible to receive the vaccine, so reaching out to this group as well as 18 to 24 is key, although we're going to continue to do everything we can to reach out to these groups, as well as they're particularly likely to have poor outcomes due to covid-19. you can see these figur

the people servicing those jobs, which tended to come from neighborhoods like the bayview and visitacion valley and the mission as well as the tenderloin and other neighborhoods. >> supervisor chan: thank you. i don't mean to interrupt you, but why the service end at 10:00 p.m.? i can understand the richmond, but yeah, that's evident. >> the service did not end at 10:00 p.m. even in our most dire times, we have been running 24-hour service. we have relied on our hour network, which has very, very good coverage and provided service on routes like the 38, like the 22, to get people to jobs that happened at all times of day. we then added back services based on community gaps. so two lines that we added back were the 12 line on pacific avenue and the m bus because we had seniors and other people that were trapped and didn't have access to groceries and other essential services. we have been able to establish most of the essential services since that time. and now that we no longer have that constraint, no longer two-minute services in corridors because we were leaving people at the curb because we