You talk about Affordable Housing, well, where are all these families kids going to go to school . Just think of how many students, and one gentleman who very aptly said, a nurses assistant assistant, a custodian, the teacher, how did these people get the education in the first place . A lot of them dont have parents who can afford tuition, and i am so fearful that city college will just be really in a very dangerous position if you let a project the way it is now go through. I really appreciate going forward, looking forward to the e. I. R. , that you really wrap your arms around what is good for the college and the students and the future students. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Can some of these be handed out . Okay. I am a longtime faculty member at city college. Many people have said things. I just have a few details. Yes, i find it strange to call it call it balboa reservoir. It has never had water, i have always called it city college. We have hand the land we have had the land under utilized since 1946. Most of it has been meeting the parking needs getting back to our 32,000 students, and do wrap your head around 32,000 people coming to campus every day. It is like the city of hercules, moving in. We are a commuter college, and we really have that one function for all the bay area, actually. So think about those thousands of students. Most of them, proportionally take Public Transportation now, but we still have those who have needs that have to drive in or use a car in some way. We also call the colleagues, most of us who have been here many years the land that is being used or considered for all of these huge houses frequently has 35 to 45 mileperhour winds comes right out from the ocean, and goes right up to france hill , it bounces around, terrible vortexes, very dangerous. When the proposal three years ago was rejected, we were very concerned about environmental problems of not having enough water, for example, for emergencies, which was mentioned it still hasnt been addressed. We will look at the e. I. R. , what has to be addressed. This is not the place for a massive Housing Project. It is unsafe, very unsafe, and we see what happens to fires now , terrible fires that are fuelled by horizontal wind. We cant let that happen. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, commissioners. I am a 40 year plus resident. I am very active in the community. I am a member of the committee for mercy housing on ocean avenue, as well as the unity plaza. As plans come forward, you have heard that there are so many different complex issues that must be resolved in the transportation. I think it is very important that the direction established by the community and the mercy Housing Project on ocean avenue can forward and be taken as they apply to this new development. And that is that we need to have a goal that this community become an integral part of our broader community. The numbers are going to be determined later on with the e. I. R. And other Public Comment comments. We need to have a seamless gateway throughout our developments that goes to and from city call in two oh, transportation hubs because they are rich in transportation. I am a daily munimobile writer, i understand the difficulties, on the other hand, we do have a Good Opportunity as far as transportation. Also, the ocean Avenue Retail corridor, which is on a real rise, a real positive rise. At the same time, we need to encourage our bike and Pedestrian Access throughout the entire development as it moves forward, and in ensure that all of our adjacent neighborhoods have seamless access to the amenities of this new development, childcare, open space, city college, and transportation. Thank you very much for your consideration. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item . Come on up. You already spoke. Unfortunately that is your time. Come on up. Come on up. Good evening, commissioners. I am with bridge housing. We are nonprofit Affordable HousingDevelopment Based in San Francisco since 1983. Thank you for sitting with us this evening. Are you part of the project team . Yeah. I cant speak. All i want to say is we are here for your questions. No, no. Any other Public Comment on this item . My name is anita and i happily yield my time to her. You really cant do that either. You cant do that. You can come and do your presentation. I will allow that, but that is not the rules. Go ahead. I would like you to consider an alternative to build this project would destroy city college. There was a plan that was approved by the voters in 2001 and 2005, and that was a for performing Arts Education center , a Beautiful Center which we need for our students to be accredited and to be able to get a certificate, and it would be something that would be beautiful for the entire south and east neighborhoods of our city, and if this if these designs had been approved for 19 years, and the vote is and they voted for and funded them, it was already always assumed that the lower parking lot would be the parking lot for the performing Arts Education center and it would be the parking lot for the entire college once a Performing Arts Center was built on the upper parking lot. This is a surprise that has been sprung on us when mayor lee told the p. U. C. To offer this land up for development. There is a compromise that is possible. Dont forget that this development, which they did not mention in the presentation, if anyone knows that the multiuse building is four stories high, the eight towers that the developers are proposing would be twice that height. Imagine what that would be. I dont know how to present this this plan would be here is that arts center as it was originally designed and approved for the last 19 years, and then the lower parking lot would have two thirds of it that would have solar panel parking, the same lot with solar panels over it to generate electricity for the college, and then only one third closest to ocean avenue would have 300 to 500 units of housing for the faculties, students, and the homeless students of city college. Thank you. Thank you very much. So, thank you, for coming out. You know, i recognize people arent here every week to kind of hear the issues that we grapple with. Im sure in your neighborhood you grapple with some also. How Affordable Housing are by far the biggest needs we have and the biggest priorities we face week in and week out. We get this is impactful that additional housing of this scale were talking about will be impactful to the neighborhood. I think the gentleman who kind of was the chair of the c. A. C. Kind of hit it on the head. Lets continue this analysis. I mean this is a great place for housing for those that are questioning whether this is a public good and should be used for a public land, it would be my biggest priority for public land to build housing and to build Affordable Housing. Its something we do and encourage all the time. Treasure island, Hunters Point shipyard where federal land transferred to the city. I let you talk the whole time. Right. So let me. Pier 70. We prioritize housing on public land into get this level of Affordable Housing im with the folks who want 100 Affordable Housing on this site. Id like that too. Unfortunately we have to make these trade offs to leverage the economic value of this land and build these levels which are huge. I dont know if some of you why here earlier where we had the affordable dividadaro group clamoring for a 50 housing on a privately owned project and unfortunately its not feasible. Im surprised many of those folks didnt stick around to actually support this project, which is 50 Affordable Housing. Its kind of what we drive for and what we need. This process is at the beginning that will be in i. E. R. , well look at density and traffic. Certainly this is a bay area that has got transit. Theres bart, theres light rail and its got. Design can solve a lot of the issues that people brought up. I encourage you to continue with this process and look at other areas that are being built at these density levels. 1,000 units of housing are 1100 units of housing is not an enormous impact. Look at where that type of housing is being built elsewhere in this city. Some questions just that came up on city college. Theres no one officially from city college here . The administration . What are they saying about do they have a need this land . We lease space to city college at vastly low rates which we love and we want to encourage city college to stay at fort mayson. Theyre not looking for a big expansion of their facility. Can you let us know what is city college saying because theyre not here today. Sure. Le with oewd. We have been collaborating with city College Administration for the last three years making sure we design this site cohesively with their plans for growth and their future plans. They own the site just to the adjacent to the east of this. As you know, they lease this site for parking but think, and i have some additional this is the good side if you turn to this slide on the presentation, you can see that theyve been working for many years on a facilitys master plan for their main campus and their Facilities Master Plan has never contemplated approaching the site to use the city site. It actually doesnt even fill up all the available land on their own campus and theyve proposed a number of very large buildings and some very intense Capital Projects to revitalize their campus so actually what weve been doing is collaborating with them to make sure when we design our site plan, its cohesive and the Access Points are aligned and theres really a good flow for pedestrians and traffic back and fourth. Our new public park will actually be directly accessible from a pedestrian pathway that the college is planning on their site to enable Community College members to use our public park and so theyve been very supportive of the project. We have been talking with them primarily about a two or three issues. Number one, the cohesive Site Planning i already described and creating sort of an academic village. Number two, the notion of providing potentially some of our Affordable Housing as indicatededicated to educators. And given that we do have 550 affordable units on this project, at a range of a. M. I. Levels, we have been talking to the college about potentially dedicating some of the two educators, specifically city college and other educators we think that faculty and staff being able to live adjacent to their workplace is a great benefit for many reasons and the third topic is the shared parking which we can talk more about if desired. In the parking, i mean, we heard a lot about the usage on the existing lot. What are the statistics on that or do we have them or is city college at capacity . Sure, so, the situation as it is today you can sort of see on this slide the college has 2,000 surface Parking Spaces on their property and they through a license use 1,000 spaces on the city parcels that this project will occupy and we made it very clear from the beginning based on what we have heard from the community that our project will accommodate some sort of Parking Solutions to any overflow need that exists once our site is developed. We have been observing usage in the overflow lot and it is generally less than a quarter full from any given time and weve been with that general feedback has actually been reinforced by a very thorough transportation and t. D. M. Study that the College Published earlier this year. They did a very intensive survey of their population and found that actually most students do not drive alone to campus. Only about a third of students drive to campus. Most of the students are taking transit, carpooling and walking and biking. On the employee side, about twothirds of the employees do drive to campus. Now in terms of the usage, these charts are dense so excuse me. The college looked at doing some basic t. D. M. And they looked at a potential 25 growth in their community. And so theyve modeled that based on the assumptions that the thousand spaces of the Lower Reservoir are replaced with our Housing Development project and what they found is that the unserved demand in a typical day this year, lets say, the balboa project was already in place is only about 91 spaces of unmet demand. With 25 Growth Without the college doing any sort of t. D. M. , it could look like 600 spaces of unmet demand. With some very basic t. D. M. Measures and a 25 growth in the city college community, the Lower Reservoir would only need to accommodate about 200 spaces. This is in 2026. So were pretty confident that obviously all 1,000 spaces are not necessarily utilized and that we can come up with a shared Parking Solution working with the college to a reasonable level that actually replaces the actual demand that we think will occur. Thank you, very much. Our commissioners beat me to the punches i was going to throw on the alternatives on the impact of the college. It looks like the city folks have done homework on this. I was on the i could picture myself out there coming up to the podium saying some of the things that some of the folks have said today and i have because we rezoned my neighborhood and there was a lot of fear, there was a lot of doubt, why would you want to get rid of that gas station on the corner. Why put a sixstorey building up there and we went through multiyear processes. We started to be really understanding of what the goal was. We understood the planning folks who were creditable and the city folks were creditable and theres no fixes in and were all trying to solve a big Public Policy issue and there were a lot of parcels on my neighborhood and you can come around and ill show you. Weve had a lot of density added. Weve had 3,000 units just in the vicinity of where i live and it works. Its a vibran vibrant neighborh. If we can accommodate the Affordable Housing, the additional housing we need to create as well as make sure it doesnt negatively impact city college, we have a winner here. I challenge everybody to troy to change your thinking around this is a real solution in search of a real problem. Commissioner moore. For this stage of the project, i find the study very interesting and very thorough particular low because it is anchored in realities with a types of questions you ask when you do quantitive study i feel theres a lot of soul search to go do the right thing. Bringing it into the context of the individual of the college and the future by itself i think its just the right way to start and i have to believe that the e. I. R. Process shapes the project based on mitigate circumstances. I believe the general set up is taking a look into looking at the challenges we face and every small or large project each serves as we sit here. The fact its the larger site it provides a significant amount of open space and it is an increase in density and it sensitively mitigates the impression of density by setting it into a green setting so i myself would ask that we all keep an open mind and this project shaped itself by the process that we use with any large project that is the, i. R. Process and charges and new parameters to move into the future. I command the department and everybody who participated in it including the pack that this project has come as far as it has and i personally appreciate what i heard today. Thank you commissioner. I will also end by saying thank you to the project team oewd. The cac and all the neighbors. My neighbors who have come out to speak on this project. This is my neighborhood. I take the 49 to work everyday. You know, it stroke strikes me d a lot of similar arguments when the avalon and also the development and its actually been great for the neighborhood i think. I worry a lot about the ocean corridor. Most of the businesses that are farther i think those developments have been good for the business corridors. Theres newer businesses, new restaurants, people are coming and going and some of the older storefronts further west are struggling. Retail is changing. For folks to pencil out a business that needs improvements because the storefronts are old and its a challenge. I do think that you know, having this development will help the corridor. I also think it will help city college and i think the density is appropriate for the future. I have a bunch of kids. I have kids and i also am raising other peoples kids. I have a niece who lives with me who attends city college. I have a child who went to local lowell and i think that what our neighborhood has is that we have really great schools. Density is appropriate. It equalizes the access to resources in terms of race and economics in our city. I think this is the right thing to do. I like the project. I like the architecture of it. I think its appropriate. That being said, because i also live in this neighborhood, i can tell you that our transportation infrastructure sucks. And i dont want the presentation you said the city family is working on these things. I heard about a bond for infrastructure for city college. Its not going to do it. In an e. I. R. I would like to see specific mitigation to what will happen here because i think its all connected. I would drop off my kid at school and the other kid at city college and i am amazed that people dont get killed. Every morning theres hordes of people getting off of bart and muni, crossing without a crosswalk over the elevated median and no one takes that pedestrian thing you up but you have to go a million steps over. We can do better. We deserve better for the neighborhood. They started doing double transfer and people have to move off of the second train and move into the first train because the platforms dont support people getting off the k. Thats ridiculous. So i think that you know, in moving forward with dense a fying this area of San Francisco, which i think needs to be du done for sure. We also need to make sure that other projects that support the transportation infrastructure get done. Its the city college and its also San Francisco state. People take bart. Get off of balance bow a and baa lot of schools and things that happen there. We need to do better. When the e. I. R. Comes, i think a lot of that or my vote on this will be dependent on what the mitigations are and what the balance is of the housing that were putting in versus the transportation infrastructure. Thank you. If theres nothing further we can move on. Item 10 has been continued to july 11th. But for those of you interested, warriors are down 6057 at half time. Item 11 case 28 we have some additional business to attend to so if you are departing, you can do so qi etly. We would appreciate that. Item 11 case 2018009861cua at 1633 fill more street conditional use authorization. Good evening, members of the planning commission. Sharon young Planning Department staff. Item before you is a request for conditional use authorization to establish a former retail use orange theory fitness in 10,155 square foot vacant commercial retail space on the first mesanine at 1633 fill more street. The project site is taking within the neighborhood commercial Transit District and 65a district. The project site is located in the western edge of the china town plan area. The first one will be utilized for the Fitness Studio and the floor for office space and the basement floor will remain as storage space. The proposal will involve interior tenant improvements to the first floors. There will be no expansion of the modifications proposed. As far as the issues of consideration, orange theory fitness was established in 2007 head quartered in boca row tan florida and has 900 world wild locations. Orange theory fitness has three other locations in San Francisco. Than this proposed project will allow for the establishment of a new orange theory fitness gym located within the Western Addition neighborhood. The formal retail findings are included for the commission to consider. To date the department has not received any letters or phone calls in opposition to the proposed project. The project sponsors conducted pre application meeting on the proposed project in may of 2018. No other persons other than the project sponsors were presented at the meeting. They have committed a petition with 100 signatures in support and letters from the japan town Merchants Association, japan Town Community benefit district and the Merchants Association. The Planning Departments recommendation is approval with conditions. This concludes my presentation and im available for any questions. Thank you. Do we have a project sponsor . Good evening, terry. I represent orange theory fitness. I pulled us so we were off guard. I want to thank you for being here and taking time to hear us. Its been a long day for you all. Ive narrowed my comments down to six bullet points. Im going to get rid of a lot of extra information. I just want to say that the two owners pete and mark are here this evening if you have any questions. Theyre very excited to expand their business in San Francisco. Theyre very excited to go into this neighborhood and we do have the support of the Merchants Association so theyre looking forward to working with fillmoore moving forward to continue to improve the neighborhood and work with them on various projects. Even though we are formula retail, mark and pete work with the communities closely in their studios and they do a lot of outreach and fundraising. They sponsor different events. They know all of their members by name. Its really a communitybased amenity. It is unique. There arent any other workouts like orange theory. We can talk about it more if you have questions about the workout itself. Its a small studio. Class based. Its not an open gym. There are not lots of people coming in all hours of the day and night. And so were here to answer any questions or speak more on it if you like. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any Public Comments on this item . Ok. Public comment is now closed. I appreciate your bev tee move to approve. Second. Thank you, commissioners. Theres a motion that has been seconded to approve this matter with conditions on that motion. Fung. Aye. Hillis. Aye. Johnson. Aye. Moore. Aye. Richards. Aye. Melgar. Aye. So moved. That motion passes 60. Item 12. 3989 17th street conditional use authorization. Good evening. Brigitte hicks Planning Department staff. I cant speak like an auctioneer but ill try and be fast. Its a conditional use authorization for change of use from retail sales and service to Cannabis Retail project site is located within the boundaries of the castro street neighborhood commercial district which requires a conditional use authorization for any project. The subject property is located in a mixed use building on 17 street at the intersection with castro street. The subject tenant space is currently vacant and was previously occupied by a retail store wildcard. Ten apartment space is 940 square feet in size. Theres one dwelling unit on the second floor which will be retained and occupied by the business owners. And there are no schools, youth establishments or other Cannabis Retail establishments within 60t property. And there are currently no cannabis establishments within the castro neighborhood. The project sponsors are equity applicants with the citys office of cannabis, the district permits hours of operations from 6 00 a. M. To 2 00 a. M. And the sponsors have designed the space to have a lobby and security checkpoint at the front of the space to limit the visibility of products and the project is subject to the regulations of the office of cannabis and the department of publichealth. To date, the department has received 52 letters of support for the project which members of the public, local merchants, organizations, and neighborhoods associations have expressed support for the proposed tenant and the revitallation of a vacant storefront and the beneficial service to the community. The department received one letter of opposition to the project which opposed the potential for on site consumption and the Cannabis Retail establishment in general. Sponsors have two open houses with the Community Prior to this hearingment staff recommending approval as noted in the executive summary and its a new and active use to an existing vacant storefront and the district is well served by transit. The project meets all applicable requirements to the planning code and the castro neighborhood commercial zoning district. This concludes my presentation. We have the project sponsors to present. Thank you. Thank you. This is the planning commission. My speech is abou about three minutes. Before i begin i would just like to thank our family. My friends, my daughter, members of the community and members of the cannabis industry for being here today. I would like to thank the office of cannabis. Our former director nicole and marissa and thank you for answering all of our questions many times over and thank you for the help. It means the word. Im Chris Calloway the c. E. O. And equity applicant of eureka sky. The path that led can we get the overhead. There we go. The path that led me here today has been challenging, full of set backs, failures, somesments but no regrets. 20 years ago i arrived in the bay area from detroit. I collected all the necessary paperwork from my doctors and issued an i. D. Card and began working with gy jim. I was a kid way dream and meaningful purpose and doctors note and medical cannabis i. D. Card. It turns out just short of everything. Early one morning i was greeted by the Sheriffs Department who claimed there was a strong outsider of cannabis coming from my home. I said dont worry up your paperwork and paid extra money for the cultivation certificate. I presented these documents and showed them the small number of plants in my closet, they tore the paperwork in happen and took we away in handcuffs. Looking back this may be where my confidence was lost in doctors notes. I was arrested and charged with three felonies and after a stressful year, negotiated a deal that avoided a lengthy prison sentence. Oddly enough, one of the conditions of my deal in terms of my probation granted me the ability to cultivate and possess and consume cannabis. The things i was just arrested for. I can assure you the irony was not lost on myself or the judge or the courtroom. I can look back and laugh and Equity Program is creating an opportunity to transform the worst experience of my life into one of the best opportunities ive had. For this i am forever grateful, humbled and honored. The program has a part of much more in my opinion and not only has the power to change the lives of verified its important the cannabis business are are not only blended well with the characters of the neighborhood but support the community in meaningful ways. I founded a Nonprofit Organization and they transform storefronts into temporary Art Galleries until the permanent businesses move in. The project began in detroit 25 years ago, a city familiar with abandoned buildings. The castro is a neighborhood experiencing a high Retail Vacancy rate. Through our arts project we will work closely with the Castro Community to get art in as many storefronts as possible. Through the retail landscape of our society and along with it retail cannabis. Unfortunately, most properties cannot meet the various demands needed to fill all the requirements of a sub category of retail category permit. For the record [ please stand by ] and enabled her to function daily without headaches and tremors. Rae, chris, and i are committed to reinvesting back into the community. We act locally, but the lope the impact is global. We are going to do more for our community. I am an ad hoc member of the neighborhood association. Rae is a board member of the castro merchant association. Today together we will be living in the castro neighborhood and we want to make it a great place to visit and to live. Standing in front of you today thank you, sir. We may have questions. With that, will take Public Comment on this item. I have two speaker cards. [calling names] good evening, commissioners. I am a Small Business owner on castro street and im speaking to you at the request of the rig executive director of the benefit district. The c. B. D. Voted overwhelmingly in favor of this project. The c. B. D. Are the stewards of the plaza. I am sure is commissioner richards knows we have various issues with bad street behavior in the plaza. We come with the addition of security cameras, Security Guard in a viable business on the strip will be a benefit to the neighborhood and i urge your support. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Commissioners, i stand here as the president of the valley neighborhood association. I will keep it short. We have voted unanimously in support of this project and hope you will do, too. It will be a great addition to the neighborhood. It will fill a vacant spot and provide a necessary service. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Commissioners, i am the president of the merchants. Im here for any questions you may have. I also have a personal statement i am a resident of 17th street in close proximity to the proposed site. Im also a business owner. Im personally acquainted with desmond morgan, the sponsors of this. I have the highest regard for their integrity and entrepreneurial endeavors. I strongly support the proposed venture in our neighborhood. It is clear that cannabis is and will continue to be a strong market in our community. The proposed bill will bring added business and foot traffic to the area which would benefit neighboring businesses as well. The proposed the proposal by the press includes security by the way of designated staff with benefits to the area as well. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is brian springfield. I have lived in the castro for over 21 years. This is the first time i have come to speak at one of these hearings. I am doing so because i think it is important. I feel like an approval of this application will be of great benefit to the neighborhood. I am on the board of castro merchants. Im also on the board as Vice President of the friends of harvey milk plaza going on three years now, i have been really impressed with the generosity of both desmond and desmond and ray in contributing as volunteers to both organizations as mentioned, restoring the board of both of these organizations and serves as our fundraising chair. I am here tonight to strongly support this project. This business of the cannabis dispensary can provide a lot of benefits to a neighborhood. It could create a lot of problems for the neighborhood. The difference between benefit and problems is really the way that the business is operated, and it comes down to does the Neighborhood Trust the people that will operate it . And the gentleman who are the project sponsors have done an exemplary job on this project of neighborhood outreach, transparency, communication with the various neighborhood groups, and taking important work from the neighborhood. We have come to trust and believe that they are going to do just an exemplary of a job of running this business. We hope that you will join us in supporting the application and lets see it open. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is charles. Im here to support my very dear friend in opening this business. I had the privilege of working with desmond 35 years ago in the hospitality and retail business. They are both very committed to what they do. In addition to that, they are honest individuals and very industrious individuals that i have seen in the past. I see them in seattle and i now see them in San Francisco doing very, very good things. In addition to that, they have a positive attitude in the spirit of aloha that they carried from hawaii. It is very important. I think they are bringing their family over there to the castro area and i think it will be awesome. I hope you approve them. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Okay. Public comment is closed. Commissioner fong . I would move to approve, but i would add that i would like to codify the prohibition of onsite mac usage. Commissioner, just to add to that consideration, staff did receive comments from one member of the public expressing concern with onsite. In this case, given that there is a rental unit above that has only been occupied by the project sponsor, we were slightly less concerned, and the castro is a destination district , unlike many other districts, but so many people, it is a place to go out, myself included, even though i have never lived there. So the general concern was that we would create a condition where people could consume cannabis in the castro but not have a legal, safe place where they could not have a legal and safe place to consume it, and the possibility that that might cause people to consume it on the street or in the back of the bars of the castro where it is not permitted under the code. Okay. Commissioner richards . Im not sure i accept that comment, but okay. We can chat later. I have been in the neighborhood 27 years. I think this is a needed Retail Service offering for the neighborhood. I originally thought from 6 00 a. M. To 2 00 a. M. , it is really i would actually hope you were open 6 00 a. M. To 2 00 a. M. , to be honest with you i originally had the same thought about the onsite consumption, but if you actually walk out of the business, you will be in a park where you can smoke, and you can go behind the castro theatre parking lot. It will create issues for the neighbors. I would encourage onsite consumption, even though you are not applying for it because there is no legal place for folks to smoke, and if you dont do it onsite, you will do it somewhere where it is not appropriate. If they do it, they need all the Health Department regulations for containing the smoke in the odours. I cannot think of a better place to consume it rather than onsite. If you dont have an onsite permit, how are you going to monitor the plaza when somebody comes into the store, buys something, and decides they want to try it out front . During the open houses that we have, we shared at this point of time in time, that we are asking for onsite consumption, but we have room to grow on the premise, and it is our policy that we are going to be able to monitor with the six cameras that we are going to install on the side of the building, and so we would be able to see if anybody is going out and consuming in public spaces, and then we will have to address it with them because of the fact that it is not one of our policies to consume in public spaces. It would be like me going into a liquor store, buying a bottle of bourbon, and not having a place for a bottle of wine in a once directed taste it , which is not allowed, either i think i am trying to look at this as just like an alcohol consumption. I think if i could add one thing, when we are giving one property cannabis entitlement that involves multiple subcategories, that property may not be the best use of this category, there may be another property within 600 feet that is more suited for those purposes. It seems like the zoning law is a little restricted. I know this isnt the hearing for that, but i do think we have plans and ideas that add consumption to the castro in the way that fits the neighborhood really well, and i know that as if anybody we find is consuming it out there, they would not be allowed to come back in and purchase from our store. That area is something that needs some sort of work. Do you have the Legal Authority to tell someone in the plaza, which is a city park, that they cant smoke . It is not their legal right to do that. We are going to have notices inside the store that there is no consumption of public space in public spaces, and when they come in, they need to show their i. D. If we get a complaint, or if we see them, then we will take them outside. That also goes for members of the community that are in the plaza. [indiscernible] commissioner moore . Why not then leave the application for consumption for later . I believe for the time being, it will set a precedent where we take exceptions for one group, but not allowing anyplace else in the city. We have their own Business Model , and i am supporting what they are asking for this moment. Thank you. I will just chime in that i also support that. With all due respect, commissioner fong, i think that the castro is the destination. There are lots of folks who come to the castro for the first time folks to come back and back again, who dont live there, and , you know, i really wonder about your ability to ban someone from your store and have that be enough of a deterrent not to do it. I no longer live in a neighborhood that i lived a block away from them, many, many years, so it is like disneyland for adults for some folks, and i think that is great. We want to support that. I also want folks to have a safe place. I dont want them to consume marijuana with alcohol. I dont think it is a safe thing , that is the other alternative. When folks dont have a safe place to consume it, they might try to do it where there is open public spaces, and it is usually in a place where they serve alcohol. I dont want that to happen either. I support what other commissioners have said and i will allow this to go on as planned. Someone has to make a motion, not me. Commissioner richards . I moved to approve what is outlined by staff. Second. Very good, commissioners. We have a motion and a second to approve this item with conditions. On that motion. [roll call] so moved. That motion passes 51. [applause]. Thank you. Warriors just took the lead a 7270. Item 13, 1398 california street. Good evening, commissioners. Department staff. I haight standing between you or dinner and the game. I will be brief. If you could pass out the additional comment letters here. Four Additional Support letters, and then the nearly 200 letters in support to save a few trees. I did not print those, but they are available for commissioners. And the summary, it is a northwest california, and this is the ground floor, 100 Corner Retail space for the cable car. There is no onsite consumption. The location is well outside the area for schools and or other schools. The project is supported by community members. The department is very supportive of the project. I will conclude with that. Ill hand it over to the project sponsor. Thank you. Thank thank you. Hello, project sponsor. Good evening, commissioners. I am the registered equity applicant of the california street Cannabis Company. I will be working alongside ben and duncan, handling the daytoday opposition operations of the business. I am a San Francisco native and a product of the San FranciscoPublic School system. I was born in the potrero hill section eight project and moved to the north beach second section eight apartment when i was ten. And now i currently live on the corner of pacific and larkin. I have lived in San Francisco my entire life, with the exception of four and a half years that i was in college i graduated with a degree in business management. I was also given the opportunity to study abroad of course, i was the reluctant to go abroad. I live on my own and live on my own on the other side of the world, the been pushed me to get out of my comfort zone and go experience something new, something different. The experience changed my life, it changed my outlook on the world, and he gave me a greater appreciation for different cultures. I have worked closely with ben and duncan for eight years. My relationship with these guys goes far deeper than business. Since then, then has ben has been a regular fixture in my life, attending football games, graduation, and even family events. During the same time, i also met duncan. Being raised by a single mother with three kids, i looked to ben and duncan for mentorship, and later on, employment. At the age of 15, they started to bring me in as a dishwasher at one of their establishments. From the age of 15, i worked my way up through every position available. During summers, and all throughout my college career. At the age of 21, they decided to make me a bartender, and shortly after, they trusted me to manage and run two of their businesses. Because of my hard work, creativity and perseverance, they recently decided to make me managing partner at tonic. You may be thinking, he is too young, or he lacks experience, but because of the experience i have gained over the last eight years working with and around a controlled substance and because of the mentorship and guidance that they have provided to me, i can confidently say that i am ready for this next endeavour. As a young man of color, i know as much as anyone that i must work harder, keep my nose cleaner clean her, and be better our vision for the california street Cannabis Company is authentically San Francisco. From the logo, as you can see, sorry. The logo represents knob hill and the cable car system. To its owners, myself being born and raised here, and living four blocks from the project site, another business partner, born and raised in the richmond district, as well as ben and duncan, although we are not born and raised here, they moved here 15 years ago and have become integral parts of the community where they live and work. Both of them are native raising native san franciscan daughters in the outer richmond. The Equity Program goes well beyond me as a c. E. O. We will hire other equity applicant his staff, carry equity owned product, and are committed to donating 500 a month to local organizations that further the goals and spirit of the Equity Program. Now i will turn it over to my partner, duncan, to discuss security and community outreach. Thank you, commissioners. This is in a very a very impressive young man we have here. Im proud to call my friend and a business partner. Do i have 30 seconds . I will make it very quick. My name is duncan, i have owned and operated businesses in San Francisco for over a decade, controlled substances, and have also worked in the cannabis industry. We are