Formed all of these districts and put in these restrictions, we want flexibility. We want vibrant commercial districts. So the assessments that were made to help Small Business and reflect character but not have it overreach make perfect sense and the discussion that you have been having about how do we understand where revisiting what the logical borders are and restrictions are . How do we get involved with communities to be sure theyre constantly updates is absolutely the correct point of view for us to be using. So to support Small Business and have neighborhoods feel respects but not have them overinfluence adjoining neighborhoods is clearly a very desirable thing. So thank you for your work on this. Thank you. And i just have a few more speaker cards. Pete im from the Planning Department staff and i wanted to make sure i presented on what the Planning Commission voted for. Im sorry, audrey, i didnt call on you and youre welcome to testify. The recommendation at our first hearing on this on april 1st, you did testify and spoke to the Planning Commissions decision and one recommendation, but you are welcome to do it again. The Planning Commission supported thefulling amendments, to expand the tes deaf definitir and restaurant and to clarify that an entertainment venue holding both restaurant and nighttime entertainment uses would not be required to operate as a bonified eating place. To reduce the zoning buffer for uses operating as certain retail uses in the nc1 district from a quarter file from any ncd to 30h restricted controls to support a reduction in the measurement of the restricting buffer for limited commercial uses in rhrm, to delete amusement accor amuse. No alcohol would be served. Thank you. Put. Thank you. Bruce livingston, the executive director of justice. Weve found this to be some of the most confusing legislature weve seen. This is the first time ive seen this map. How does the Public Comment on something with no maps on stoning for a giant citywide streamlining process . Its kind of upsetting. We oppose this legislation. , especially the changes on the alcoholrestricted use of districts because as you have said, supervisor peskin, those were put in place very meticulous list by the board and through a neighborhood process. It should go back to the neighborhoods. There has not been a process of going to neighborhood organizations that are near these, either neighborhood commercial stricts or the special use subdistrict. We would like to see much more of a process theres good stuff in this legislation, no doubt about it. But the process is just not working. What i really would like to see is, there was a bla report two years ago generated by eric marrs office that was never up for a hearing at the board of supervisors, called the administrative cost. This bla report is about the cost of over 54 million to the city o and county for cost of alcohol in the city. This legislation only moves them around. It doesnt create new licenses. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Livingston. Next speaker, please. Im with the Neighborhood Council and you received a threepage letter about this subject. The Neighborhood Council helped to develop the hate neighborhood commercial district in 1999, specifically because we had concerns about alcohol serving establishments and the stat ration. Saturation. We talked with merchant neighborhoods and most feel that changes the ordinance would not help fill the vacancies because the key barrier to filling vacancies in the hate is rent. Very high rent. So before we give uwe found outc properties and one lccu. We do not want the buffer zone shrink. Shrunk. Tweaks may be appropriate but unfettered permits of alcoholserving businesses in the current buffer scone but outside of hate street will not help fill our vacancy. It would reduce traffic to hate street. We want to have a recognition of our neighborhood commercial district as created for our needs and that consultation with our merchants and our neighbours. There are approximately 100 residents on hate street. It has commercial and residents, too. But we have to protect residents from certain kinds of entertainment and hours. So thank you. Miss wilborn, can you repeat that number . How many lccus. I forgot. One lccu and 15lcus and approximately 35 nc1s. And when you say that is individual storefronts . Yes. Got it. That is what i was asking relative for the other ones in other buffers. So i mean, that would be really helpful, i think, to decisionmakers, all 11 of us, if we had those numbers and then we know what were talking about. I can just tell you based on this map in the third supervisor district, theres one nc1 cluster, which is a lovely block on hyde street on russian hill i know well and is actually thriving and working just great. But just hearing numbers from miss wering welborn. If you can do that for hate, you can to that for the rest of the city. Next speaker, please. Put. Good afternoon. We have Online Service and its really tough to open up a business. Yes, there are some that were g. Theyll come improv up with a td reasons. Thats what makes the business successful is terrifi traffic aa street. So i feel really that this would help out to allow were talking about a retail shop serving wine or beer. Lets see what everybody has heard, and some nay no, that we dont want it. Lets listen to them. Talking about public drunkenness. Its usually from people who buy stuff if street and get drunk. Thats my two cents. New. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, miss lee. Yes, chinatown merchants legislation and thank you for proposing this legislation. Chinatown, we face a lot of challenges that merchants face. So this kind of legislation would give us flexibility and also, it would help us to think out of the box for our neighborhood and provide and bring in experiences, events, Product Services we dont have now and maybe by this kind of legislation that could happen. Soup storsupervisor peskin, we o bring in Different Things to bring the customers in and so far, we have a lot of duplication that i hope with this legislation, that parties will think about that and be able to make changes as we go into the next five, ten, 15 years. Its going to be a different way of providing service and products to our customer because of the changes tastes of them. So thank you for presenting Something Like this and giving us some hope to us Small Business owners. I hope to talk to you soon and hope this was successful. Thank you, miss lee. Next speaker. Hello, my name is steve whickwire. Im the other than o other thane in wick valley. I hoped this shop after works as bbarista for the last ten years and my goal was to open a shop and bring my passion and dedication to higherend Coffee Service to a neighborhood that didnt have it and its been a pleasure doing this in cole valley and just introducing this element to everyone. As part of my extended Business Plan, i wanted to be able to transition my shop into including evening hours, where we could host limited Live Entertainment stuff, namely standup comedy. Visit a bunch of friends who do standup shows around the city that are fun and cool. Out and then, do beer and wine sales to generate additional revenue. In 2017, before opening, i was told that the Planning Department, that to them it looked like on the map that i was clear of these restrictions. Obviously, i found out more recent that im not. I think im Something Like 50 feet from where i would need to be to be clear of all of this. This, there ithis is a huge char business my business. But also for the community, i have a whole stack of letters here from local Community Members and neighborhoods and Business Owners in support of me, you know been fulfilling my Business Plan here. Yeah, i mean, we just want to showcase Exciting Events and bring some culture in. I just want to make sure we never overlook how important Small Businesses are to San Francisco. We can all name our favourite place. You know when your friends and family come into town, you cant wait to show it to them and youre not talking them to starbucks and taco bell or whatever. Youre taking them to places that are real special to you and today identify with. Thats what i want to contribute to. Thats why i opened the business in cole valley. I just hope i can find a way to adapt and grow but otherwise, you cant survive. Anyway, thank you all for listening and thank you for presenting this legislation. Next speaker, please. Help low. My name is steven madrid. Im a member of the cole valley improvement demonstration. Im not part of a Merchant Association or part of a government agency. I try to shop on hate street as well. I wanted to comment on two aspects of this legislation. When it comes to the zoning restrictions on hate street, there is a large, i would argue, a very large portion of the population that although they live within blocks of hate street choose not to shop there because they dont have businesses that attract the residents who live there now. For example, the lower hate according to a San Francisco chronicle article has 6. 29 residents and the other has 1. 9. The legislation would make it easier for Retail Businesses to maybe have some limited food options, would help provide more food options on hate street and get people on hate street more, add more foot traffic and help the vacancies. Haighs street recommends two different choices. I think many residents are excited to see what could happen if he decided to pursue this comedy club routine. My name is eric raymond. Im a 15year resident of cole valley. This has been a huge boon for right there on that corner. Every time theres a vacancy at coleringle and karl, its a bigr risk. So i support this legislation and i think it will be a great thing for individual neighborhoods like cole valley. Next speaker, please. Supervisors, im here on my own behalf as an advocate for the tenderloin Small Business and resident of the panhandle near the haight street corridors. The board is well aware of the Economic IssuesSan Francisco faces in general and the pressure that those issues put on Small Businesses. This legislation represents an opportunity to provide tangible relief and allow businesses to be creative in supporting themselves economically in the longer term. A few examples in the legislation that would be directly beneficial to the businesses whom we support include flexibility around public restroom requirements or businesses hoping to education pan their economic footprint outside of the immediate vicinity and to be able to reach a Larger Customer base to maintain their revenue in the face of rising rents on their leases. In addition the ability to reduce restrictions of alcohol provisions for spaces that may need to expand into multiple uses is very beneficial for allowing businesses that dont traditionally operate extended hours. Cafes, for example, hoping to duplicate their services into evening hours on a popup bases is highly advantageous, especially when they cant service their business mols using a bar, restaurant or cafe model. These are highly equitable visions that allow less canadianed Business Owners to participate and stay competitive in this economy and i strongly support these provision and the nature of the legislation in general. Thank you. Next speaker. My name is ben blimn, and today im speaking as a visitin and the San Francisco bar owner alliance. Bins the dawn of human kind, they were come before you to tell you that the sky is falling and everything is going to help and im here to deliver an Important Message that its different this time and the sky is actually falling this time. Some of the issues that we face in Small Business are outside of the jurisdiction of this committee, things like payroll and healthcare costs, ridiculous rents and online competition, but some of the issues we face are squarely in your jurisdiction, such as duplicate inspection, onerous fees and a planning code that sometimes can be so restrictive that prevent s us from adapting. Last night we saw mission pie can no longer can make revenues to survive and is closing. Cmission pie was one of the strongest and best one businesses in the entire city and when a business like this shuts down, we should take notice and all make changes immediately. I wont pretend this legislation will solve all of our problems but its a hell of a good start. We have so little help out of city hall and we implore you all to prove this legislation so that we can adapt again. I just want to make one note on buffer zones. I realize some were put in with intention but for one neighborhood to tell another neighborhood that they can or can not have certain business, that is protectionism to me and i dont think that is fair and violates certain codes of fairness as a society. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im the president of north beach neighbor and im here on behalf of our 300 plus business and residential members to support this legislation. This matter is personal for us. Our neighborhood is hurting, as you may is seen on the front page of the chro chronicle. Were in our fourth year in a row of sales tax declining. The primary action of this city and body is to add restriction after restriction, layer after layer. Many of those still do work. They have stood the test of time. But what we think this legislation does and were asking you to look and revisit some of the restriction and ask which may be ready for change. The Current System right now, we think, disproportionately affects Small Businesses. The very businesses that give neighborhoods so much of the fabric and community that we do love. Its the Small Businesses that cant absorb the months of delay, if not years of delay, like a business business can and Small Businesses that really get hung up on chasing around planning to get different answer and spend half their day trying to figure owl wha out what is a. I want to thank the mayor and supervisor for their support on this issue. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. The founder of suvula, a group of neighborhood centric greek restaurants in that just over five years has become part of the cultural fabric of San Francisco. We have managed to have found success here and have phon growa restaurants with over 200 employee, providing them with a livable wage, healthcare benefits, really exceeding all expectations. I know some of you on the board have dined with us. We are in full support of this. All of these changes as were up against an issue as i am in the fact theres tremendous demand in other neighborhoods in San Francisco for us to bring suvula to those neighborhood. Quite frankly, it gets easier to do internally and externally harder to do when dealin dealinh the city with the permitting. Something as simple as alcohol use, our most recent restaurant opened in district two, we had to go through a full change of use to turn an existing permitted limited use restaurant into a full service use restaurant because of the alcohol ad. We are thankful for mr. Vanhouton with the pickup window screen as we continue to be a the forefront of this ever shifting restaurant space. So again, in support and thank the board for their time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Thank you for hearing this item today. Im here representing northeast medical services or nems for short. We serve 70,000 patients in the bay area each year and nine clinic are located in San Francisco. Our first clinic opened 50 years ago on the borders of the chinatown neighborhoods. This is one neighborhood weve noticed an uptick of neighborhood finance e were believs. Fewer vacancies create e welcoming community for patients and staff who live and work in many of the areas. We hope that you will support this ordinance and thank you for your consideration in advance. If you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im with the Mission Economic agency. I wanted to first mention that we do think there are helpful provisions in this legislation, some common sense provisions. Im not clear where a couple of the amendments that have been kicked over time sit right now. So i want to mention one where we would not be in favour of a general loosening of the bonified eating place rules. We feel like thats a loophole problem, where we dont have a meaningful mechanism to stop what are ostensibly new bars that we saw outlined on that map, as that larger districts that the latinos spent fighting for in the missioner. I think were up to 389 alcohol permits in our neighborhood and sort of continuing in that direction right now. I think that we relayed we would be ok with this shifting of things, potentially like how lncus will be treated and how they interact. If they simultaneously suggested that we take this to a map 2020 or some equivalent work group process to figure out what exactly is done with these in the mission because its unclear what the overall strategy was. And i think we heard that oewd would be amenable to that idea. Now were hearing other neighborhoodeneighborhoods are s and were not sure how this would interact and we want to know what is our strategy given our unique problem. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker and if there are any members of the public to testify on this item number one, if you line up to my left, your right. Hi, sou supervisors. Im with the latino democratic club. I work as a merge of jamestown serving latino youth k12. We feel that this should not be one size approach that are oversaturated. Were sending the wrong message when we have more needed uses and permits in restaurants. You can look at the alcohol use district and its the same sentence that says that. Traffic might increase for the neighborhoods, but the costs are going to be offset to the city with safety risks. Theyre going to ensue and basically, it will bring up the costs, so administrative safety lists. Theres 11 restricted subuse restrictions in the city, two of which were created in the bay view and if this is about neighbor reference, we dont introduce one size fits all. Specifically the Mission District worked hand i hard in s for a redistricted use strict and we have 389 alcohol permits. How to you enforce enforce 51 . If you look at hav have hav at o take these things into consideration and make sure that we are taking support in this. So thank you for your time. And seeing no other members of the public for Public Comment, we will close Public Comment. Supervisor brown. Thank you, chair. I appreciate everyone coming today for Public Comment. I think everything that everyone said, i see ben nodding his head, to definitely make sure that we connect to oewd looking at these things. But i have to say, you know, when we talk about safety in these kind of commercial stones, whezones,looking at alcohol lich food, i can just say, i can take one corridor in my district, the vaziadero, before it changed, it was a corridor that you did not want to walk down after dark. Now you see people out, out shopping and you see people dining and completely changed that corridor and made it safer because there were bodies on the street. I also know that haight street, ive been doing a lot of doorknocking and when i have talked to people, i asked them, do you shot on haight street and a lot dont do that. Steve madrid talked about it, going down to vadizadero to sh shop. Do i feel like they should have a buffer zone that goes all the way to cole valley, no. So for me, these large buffer stones with these restricted, it doesnt doesnt seem fair for our little neighborhood corridor or clusters. I mean, with the rest the legislation, because there is a lot in this legislation, it really is to help businesses. They have to able to maneuver and adapt, like the wood house. They have to be able to do that. Gy want tim so sorry you not tt message there planning when you talked to them and realized when you opened your business, you were 50 feet that buffer stone, im so sorry about that. That is not a good situation. But i also feel that a lot of the legislation were doing will help businesses. The problem with a lot of the vacancies are that businesses die and go away and then you have a vacancy or storefront no one can fill. Are there bad landlords that wont fill them . Absolutely, but we need to give businesses a chance to thrive and to have a business that takes sometimes 18 months of them paying the rent before theyre able to open, thats safely film. Shameful. I know so many people that would love to open a business but they dont have the money to pay the brent theyre able to open. That happened in 1999 and that was 20 years ago and things have changed. Im goin gone to merchants on ht street and they would like change. So colleagues, i present this going forward. But i think that we definitely need to have a way addressing things happening now in our corridors. So before i call on the supervisor, just a couple pieces of housekeeping and one is the amendments that you and mr. Vanhouten to make and do you want the committee to consider those . My staff was given a copy and i dont know if supervisor hainey has one. I have what was given to me a couple of hours ago. We are all acutely aware of this remarkable phenomenon, which is the city is a wash in money. You cant drive around our streets. Rents are through the roof and yet, across the archipelogo, theres an increase number of vacancies throughout the city. So it really is a conundrum and i think there is a number of reason and they are Different Reasons ranging from landlords with unrealistic expectations. There are seven different businesses burned out of existence to changing behaviours to folks in the age of Online Shopping and what i call the culture of convenience, where im not picking on him. One of my nearby neighbours has his laundry picked up and delivered to his house and has potato and everything delivered to. And were all dealing with this. I do want to say that the permitting issue is definitely a part of the problem. And a lot of that, actually, is how long it takes and i know because me and my staff walk shoddy who was one of the burnedout businesses, coight liquor, from the process of public works where he not hung up on a street encroachment to why a packaged liquor store needs a permit, i dont understand. But these are not the things of legislation but the things of whether its dbi im not talking about discretionary entitlements but the person who needs to get their health permit. Theres a vacant restaurant on the corner of valejo and grant and the person reached out to me and i was calling the health inspector, can you get there this week . That shouldnt be the job of a lelegislator. Theres no amount of legislation that will make them permitting these in tandem and if tha if ay pay full straight, then there should be no shortage of staff to do that, but the reality is, those staff do the most lucrative projects first. So theyre busy processing huge Downtown Office developments, instead of dealing with 85 , which are in Small Business and theyre not in the central and financial districts south of market and i wanted to set that right. I think that, as i said, in the beginning, i want to sincerely thank supervisor brown and her staff for working with her staff and my staff over what was the original staff as to what was just introduced now. I think that was really very good work and i think that while the original legislation was well intended, the amendments, almost all of which i support, make it better. So i also, as no secret, i think we should do some very appropriate databased, mr. Vanhouten, work, ash th arod the ncd and restricteduse district buffer zones. We should also reach out to the various supervisors, who, in turn, should reach out to constituents what they want. The covalley problem of using the post restrictive easily fixed. Had that been the issue, we should have been able to do that back in january, but i want to make sure when you do a sweeping piece of legislation here, i have a perfect example. From when i was a supervisor from 2001 to the beginning of 2009, broadway was a hot, violent mess. And soup store chu inherited that problem. We used to have to give a special propose incarceratio ape Sheriffs Department so they could bring the bus on friday and saturday nights, because the cops couldnt take enough and we would load them on the bus. I mean, huge, violent street fights, up and down, all night lawn. And for the first time, this is not a raving major problem. So i dont want to inadvertently create that problem, whether its in the mission or on the thirdstreet corridor. So i want to proceed carefully as it relates to public input and with the input with the supervisors from other districts. I know supervisor safye wants to weigh in. I would suggest we take the amendments by supervisor brown. My amendments are all around the issues that i discussed and simply stated are to let them opt in. So i take sou supervisor brown s the elected representative of that area. If the ncds and rusds need to be shrunk there and buffers gone away, sobeit, i welcome that. That may be true for other supervisor and other neighborhoods and communities. So i would suggest with duplicate the file no one file and add the amendments im offering. In either event, ive been informed that what supervisor brown has introduced today requires another hearing as a matter of law. Is that correct . please stand by . That would be what i suggest. So moved. I would take that without objection and then i would duplicate the file and make a motion to add my amendments which are before you. That overlaps and has different 24th street starts to go into the valley its different than 24th street in the mission in terms of the issues that they might be facing in terms of the businesses that liquor licenses and so on so i understand how that quarter mile buffer might cause a problem in that area. I think that its good that you duplicated the file. You are putting forward your we can have the conversation about that today and next week talk to the district supervisorrers ansupervisorsand. Its whether you are opting in or out. Right. Is supervisor brown who are is removing the buffer, you are putting the buffer back in. Think that is probably what makes sense in the next week is to talk to the districts and ask them where they are and hopefully well end on where we ultimately land about opting in or out. I appreciate the hard work that supervisor brown and the Mayors Office have put into this. As we looked at the history of some of these things like formula retail, formula retail now trumps some of the neighborhood notification when it comes to a change of use when you look at things. I think thats the history of that so, i really appreciate all the Small Business advocates and owners who have come out and neighborhood leaders who advocate for their commercial corridors. It sounds like theres more work and conversations to be done. It sounds like we have some really good groundwork laid in terms of getting this to a final piece of legislation and hopefully in the next week, while these amendment have been added, we can resolve the final disagreement. Supervisor haney. I think that was a thoughtful summary and plan, supervisor, safai, i was going to Say Something similar. I want to thank everyone who came out and to supervisor brown and the Mayors Office and chair peskin for working together to bring this legislation forward and to improve it and sharpen it. I definitely sympathize with and understand the challenges that our Small Businesses are facing. I think that this is a challenging time for some of the reasons we control and some we dont control for Small Businesses and finding ways to get out of the way to allow flexible and creativity is really important. And sometimes i feel like the city is getting in their way to do what they need to do to make it each month. I do think that some of these pieces around the quarter mile buffer from a restricted use district may have been done intentionally and knowingly. As a general matter, dont make a lot of sense to me to have a blanket policy around that across the board. I think when you do have a quarter mile between different neighborhoods that very and completely needs or just may not have been consulted and you put a restricted use district and some of which really and the process we use and having the right around is critical and tacking on everywhere throughout the city a quarter mile to that as a buffer doesnt make a lot of sense to me. That said, in the example of the baby was one that h that he hadd and i wanted to learn what supervisor peskin has because he has been through this stuff. In some cases, they may have drawn this with knowledge of the buffer and being intentional with that. Its in opt in or opt out of who really wants to be a part of it but as a general matter to me, a quarter mile buffer from every single restricted use district does not make sense and this legislation should be able to help to address that. There may be some supervisors who say actually, im not prepared to do that right now. From my area. And so, i dont know supervisor brown if how you would like to deal with that aspect of it because we have a onesizefitsall challenge right now with a quarter mile from every restricted use and we dont want to go to another version of a onesizefitsall where we say no one needed or wanted that because it sounds like in some cases they did want the buffer. How we deal with that is an important thing and i want to ask you, supervisor brown, im sure supervisor peskin has thoughts on that. Theres an amendment related to the bonified eating places and some of the places are ticketed that are serving food. I do want to say this is something that is also important in my district. The Great American music hall, slims, these are places who have chargechallenged around this ani would like to i wouldnt be in favor of amendments that excluded my district in this particular thing and i would like to talk a bit more about some of the amendments here around the hours. I do think its reasonable if you are selling if you are coming for an entertainment event and selling tickets and if you are selling food and alcohol that you would start to sell that two hours before which was originally for up to eight hours if the show is starting at 8 00, people start coming in at 6 00 and people are going to be there until 2 00. So i just wanted to get a sense of what you are doing there and also just say that i would like my district to not be excluded from this. I think in general, figuring out this bigger issue of the buffer zones and how we protect zones that need to be protected and they have the opportunity to did that if it was an intentional thing to have that buffer zone. Not to go from one size fits all to another one. Thank you supervisors for those comments. The City Attorney is reviewing these amendments which the spirit of which are discussed but what im going to do is actually not coupe indicate the file. Continue the file as amended by supervisor brown and give them time to digest the amendments which are non substantive and we got implement them in whole or in part at our next meeting and ive been informed by the clerk that there is no meeting on next week so, we will, one, accept the amendment and to continue this item to next meeting which is monday july the first. July 98th . July 8th. Excuse me. Right. So for item number two we need to rescind the vote as well. Right. So i think i said, as to item number 2, we will continue it to our next meeting. If you want i can make a motion to withdraw our continuance and make a motion to continue item number two without observation to thobjection. Both are continuh amendment and without and with that we are adjourned. Shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of San Francisco. We help San Francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . Im one of three owners here in San Francisco and we provide mostly live Music Entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and its not a big menu, but we did it with love. Like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. For latinos, it brings Families Together and if we can bring that family to your business, youre gold. Tonight we have russelling for e community. We have a tenperson limb elimination match. We have a fullsize ring with barside food and drink. We ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. Were hope og get families to join us. Weve done a drag queen bingo and were trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying Different Things. This is a great part of town and theres a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. Theres a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanhang out at. We have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. Some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and its exciting. We even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. Its in the San FranciscoGarden District and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals. Its important to shop local because its kind of like a circle of life, if you will. We hire local people. Local people spend their money at our businesses and those local mean that wor people willr money as well. I hope people shop locally. Good morning, everyone. This meeting will come to order. This is the june 26th, 2019 special meeting of the budget and finance committee. I am chair of the budget and finance committee