i am on the western soma planning task force. i represent business. i have -- there is the development going on on eighth and harris. i want to see -- we can up businesses there. so does not become a planned community. i want to see people out in the street. that is what makes san francisco special. i would like to see -- [unintelligible] there is the vietnamese part out there. i never noticed it before. we have a portion of the city. i would like to help out people. it would be lovely to see if that community could move in and have the shops and businesses and hardware stores and coffee shops, a shoe repair and all that sort of stuff. that is where i am matt. out would like to see san francisco become a place that is attractive for everybody. a place people love to come to. it is but we can go much further. i do with the small business community. i am supported by the council of district merchants and the small business network. i've been to the bayview merchants association meeting a number of times and to the haight-ashbury. i am a dedicated person

-- and the western soma folks would have issues. haute there is a balance to be had. >> i think we have some targeted areas for next week cosy discussion. similar to raising that i think the task force should be prepared and will have some link the mapping sessions, a solar want to encourage members to be ready for the endurance that will be required. next week, we will have the task force present. at this time, if there are no additional inquiries, we will move on to the agenda item, community outreach. >> thank you. i forwarded to -- or i asked madam clerk to forward to task members the ads that came out for community outreach. we have five. and there were two, one in english and one in japanese. we have reporters that came out with a half page and i think they were supposed to come out today or two days ago, a full- page ad. i don't know if you want me to pass this around -- >> those are the same onees. s. >> not all of them, i think there were only three that provided -- these are the actual ones. i just want to point out that t

management partnerships, octavius circulation studies, bay shore intermodal access the study, western soma neighborhood transportation plan, and major improvements to our forecasting models. we also obtained a trout -- caltrans grant for the bayview hunters point mobility solutions study. this is a seminal effort on how to do more with what we have and to knit the community together in the process. we're looking forward to completing the study this year. we have also made progress on the bike county study which is a multi-jurisdictional, multi- agency, multi-year study to look at the southeast corner of the city and adjacent areas in some detail county. in 2011, this effort resulted in priority projects worth over $600 million, including a geneva brt line, reconfigured candlestick interchange, and other improvements. i anticipate you will have a report on that in the next couple of months as well. the chair already mentioned the agreement on the presidio parkway second phase funding. i will not review that again. we also have underway the process for getting the van ness brt project on the

when we were at the committee of development at western soma, there was someone who did the old "there are needles in my garbage, there are needles in my st.." i know for a fact that needles are not, i would say 90% of the time -- not associated with my life. i met someone from the drug policy who went to europe, who went to a safe dance community. i think they should come here and give a presentation about what the europeans are doing around making drug policy part of the night life industry, as well as the kind of drugs people do, so we can clear up those misnomers people are bringing to the table. if we can get the drug policy alliance night life policy person to talk to us, i think it would be really helpful. >> commissioners, i know you want to get out of your -- >> we had public comment in the beginning. unless this is chattering. [laughter] all right. that concludes the february 28 meeting in the san francisco city and county of entertainment commission. thank you all.

a from planning that sets out the conditions so they can expand this entertainment use in the western soma area. that is the requirement to do any expansion. we have had no issues with the dna lounge. dellwood of the better operators in the city. we bring this to you again because there is an amendment to the amendment adding a bunch of area. it is only appropriate to do that. we do not expect any of their operations to change substantially. they are here. purple hair and all. to answer any questions you might ask. >> officer chan has submitted a bunch of these recommendations. there are the same. it seems like it is a little off. >> i am not going to speak in defense of southern station. these came late today and i got them. you can abide by them or not. >> it is not within our purview to talk about staffing drinks. i think those should be eliminated. >> i do not believe the applicant has seen these again. i have read them out at southern station before this meeting. hougpresident newlin: any other commissioner questions? members of the public? nobody from the public, ok. >> i move to app

management partnerships, octavius circulation studies, bay shore intermodal access the study, western soma neighborhood transportation plan, and major improvements to our forecasting models. we

the western song but transportation plan was born in the town hall meetings. -- soma transportation plan was born in the town hall meetings. we tried to implement a series of small, focused, incremental improvements that bring the benefits of community planning and to daily lives. affordable housing, recreation and opens base for everyone, peace and quiet, and al the improvements. these three alleys hold enormous significance to two population groups. to the lgbt community, a social heritage of caregiving born of the aids crisis. community planning works best when the community and city family work best together. the planning department and dph have made valuable contributions, but the transportation authority has gone one step further. they have listened come at a professional expertise, and there are ways to implement the changes. my thanks. >commissioner avalos: we will close public comment. i think that is really great information on how to proceed forward. the designs are something 58 should be proud of and the community should be proud of. thank you for your work. can we motion to