Like to try to figure outweighs to work with out ways to work with people to get things done. I hope that time goes on, you can see that you can have all sorts of different leaders whether at the top of City Government or leading organizations or leading teams, that there are really different kinds of leadership styles that we should really foster because it makes us stronger as organizations. Take advantage of all the wonderful information that you have here, at the vendor booth, at our seminars and also the oneonone counseling. I wouldnt be where i was if i didnt have very strong people who believed in me. And even at times when i didnt believe in my own abilities or my own skills, i had a lot of people who trusted and believed i either had the passion or skills to accomplish and do what i did. If there was one thing that i can tell young women, girls, who are thinking about and dreaming about the things they want to be, whether its being a doctor or being in politics, running an organization, being in business, whatever it is, i think its really to just trust yourself and believe that who you are is enough, that you are enough to make it work and to make things successful. We broke ground in december of last year. We broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. Its really great to see the silence that we experienced then and weve experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. 321, okay. [ applause ] the park was kind of bleak. It was scary and over grown. We started to help maclaren park when we found there wasnt any money in the bond for this park maclaren. We spent time for funding. It was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. A lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didnt have any grass. It was that bad. We worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. We worked hard collecting everything. We had about 400 group members. Every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. There is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now its safer by utilizing it. Maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. Whats exciting about this activation in particular is that its the first of many. Its also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. But also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. We are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this citys open space. When we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. I always point as this sight as a model for other communities. I hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. There are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. We hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. Its a really hidden jewel. A lot of people dont know its here. Watching. Ever wonder about programs the city is working on to make San Francisco the best place to live and work we bring shine won our City Department and the people making them happy what happened next sf oh, San Francisco known for its looks at and history and beauty this place arts has it all but its City Government is pretty unique in fact, San FranciscoCity Departments are filled with truly Initiative Programming that turns this way our goal is to create programs that are easily digestable and easy to follow so that our resident can participate in healing the planet with the new take dial initiative theyre getting close to zero waste we 2020 and today San Francisco is diverting land filled and while those numbers are imperfect not enough. Were sending over 4 hundred thousand tons of waste to the landfill and over the 4 hundred tons 10 thousands are textile and unwanted listen ones doesnt have to be find in the trash. 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With the help of good will and other businesses San Francisco will eliminate 39 millions tons of landfill next year and 70 is confident our acts can and will make a great difference. We believe that Government Matters and cities matter what we side in San Francisco, california serve as a model phenomenal in our the rest of the country by the world. Whether you do not to goodwill those unwanted text told us or are sufficient value and the Greater Community will benefit. Thanks to sf environment San Francisco has over one hundred drop off locations visit recycle damn and thanks for watching join us tenderloin is unique neighborhood where geographically place in downtown San Francisco and on every Street Corner have liquor store in the corner it stores pretty much every single block has a liquor store but there are impoverishes Grocery Stores im the cocoordinated of the Healthy Corner store collaboration close to 35 hundred residents 4 thousand are children the medium is about 23,000 a year so a low Income Neighborhood many new immigrants and many people on fixed incomes residents have it travel outside of their neighborhood to assess fruits and vegetables it can be come senator for seniors and hard to travel get on a bus to get an apple or a pear or like tomatoes to fit into their meals my my name is ryan the cocoordinate for the tenderloin healthy store he coalition we work in the neighborhood trying to support Small Businesses and improving access to healthy produce in the tenderloin that is one of the most neighborhoods that didnt have access to a full Service Grocery store and we california together out of the meeting held in 2012 through the Major Development center the survey with the corners stores many stores do have access and some are bad quality and an overwhelming support from Community Members wanting to utilities the service spas we decided to work with the Small Businesses as their role within the community and bringing more Fresh Produce produce cerebrothe neighborhood their compassionate about creating a healthy environment when we get into the work they rise up to leadership. The Different Stores and assessment and trying to get them to understand the value of having Healthy Foods at a reasonable price you can offer people fruits and vegetables and healthy produce they cant afford it not going to be able to allow it so thats why i want to get involved and we just make sure that there are alternatives to people can come into a store and not just see cookies and candies and potting chips and that kind of thing hi, im cindy the director of the a preif you believe program it is so important about Healthy Retail in the low Income Community is how it brings that health and hope to the communities i worked in the tenderloin for 20 years the difference you walk out the door and there is a bright new list of fresh fruits and vegetables some place you know is safe and welcoming it makes. Huge difference to the whole environment of the community what so important about retail environments in those neighborhoods it that sense of dignity and Community Safe way. This is why it is important for the neighborhood we have families that needs healthy have a lot of families that live up here most of them fruits and vegetables so thats good as far been doing good. Now that i had this this is really great for me, i, go and get fresh fruits and vegetables it is healthy being a diabetic youre not supposed to get carbons but getting extra food a all carbons not eating a lot of vegetables was bringing up my whether or not pressure once i got on the program everybody o everything i lost weight and my Blood Pressure came down helped in so many different ways the most important piece to me when we start seeing the Business Owners engagement and their participation in the program but how proud to speak that is the most moving piece of this program yes economic and social benefits and so forth but the personal pride Business Owners talk about in the program is interesting and regarding starting to understand how theyre part of the larger fabric of the community and this is just not the corner store they have influence over their community. It is an owner of this in the department of interior i see the great impact usually that is like people having especially with a small family think liquor store sells alcohol traditional alcohol but when they see this their vision is changed it is a small Grocery Store for them so they more options not just beer and wine but Healthy Options good for the business and good for the community i wish to have 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. [ ] [ ] ] i am the supervisor of district one. I am sandra lee fewer. [ ] i moved to the Richmond District in 1950 mine. I was two years old. I moved from chinatown and we were one of the first asian families to move out here. [ ] when my mother decided to buy that house, nobody knew where it was. It seems so far away. For a long time, we were the only chinese family there but we started to see the areas of growth to serve a larger chinese population. The stress was storage of the birthplace of that. My father would have to go to chinatown for dim sum and i remember one day he came home and said, there is one here now. It just started to grow very organically. It is the same thing with the russian population, which is another very large ethnic group in the Richmond District. As russia started to move in, we saw more russian stores. So parts of the richmond is very concentrated with the Russian Community and immigrant Russian Community, and also a chinese immigrant community. [ ] i think as living here in the richmond, we really appreciate the fact that we are surrounded three natural barriers. They are beautiful barriers. The presidio which gives us so many trails to walk through, ocean beach, for families to just go to the beach and be in the Pacific Ocean. We also also have a National Park service. We boarded the Golden Gate NationalRecreation Area so there is a lot of activity to do in the summer time you see people with bonfires. But really families enjoying the beach and the Pacific Ocean during the rest of the time of year. [ ] and Golden Gate Park where we have so many of our treasures here. We have the tea garden, the museum and the academy of sciences. Not to mention the wonderful playgrounds that we have here in richmond. This is why i say the richmond is a great place for families. The theatre is a treasure in our neighborhood. It has been around for a very long time. Is one of our two neighborhood theatres that we have here. I moved here when i was 1959 when i was two years old. We would always go here. I love these neighborhood theatres. It is one of the places that has not only a landmark in the Richmond District, but also in San Francisco. Small theatres showing one or two films. A unique they are unique also to the neighborhood and San Francisco. Where we are today is the heart of the Richmond District. With what is unique is that it is also Small Businesses. There is a different retail here it is mom and pop opening up businesses. And providing for the neighborhood. This is what we love about the streets. The cora door starts on clement street and goes all the way down to the end of clement where you will see Small Businesses even towards 32nd. At the core of it is right here between here and 20 tenth avenue. When we see this variety of stores offered here, it is very unique then of the any other part of San Francisco. There is traditional irish music which you dont get hardly anywhere in San Francisco. Some places have this long legacy of serving ice cream and being a hangout for families to have a sunday afternoon ice cream. And then also, we see Grocery Stores. And also these restaurants that are just new here, but also thriving. [ ] we are seeing restaurants being switched over by hand, new owners, but what we are seeing is a vibrancy of clement street still being recaptured within new businesses that are coming in. That is a really great thing to see. I dont know when i started to shop here, but it was probably a very, very long time ago. I like to cook a lot but i like to cook chinese food. The market is the place i like to come to once a year. Once i like about the market as it is very affordable. It has Fresh Produce and fresh meat. Also, seafood. But they also offer a large selection of condiments and sauces and noodles. A variety of rice that they have is tremendous. I dont thank you can find a variety like that anywhere else. Hi. I am kevin wong. I am the manager. In 1989 we move from chinatown to Richmond District. We have opened for a bit, over 29 years. We carry products from thailand, japan, indonesia, vietnam, singapore and india. We try to keep Everything Fresh daily. So a customer can get the best out a bit. Normally during crab season in november, this is the first place i hit. Because they have really just really fresh crab. This is something my family really likes for me to make. Also, from my traditional chinese food, i love to make a kale soup. They cut it to the size they really want. I am probably here once a week. Im very familiar with the aisles and they know everyone who is a cashier cashier here i know when people come into a market such as this, it looks like an asian supermarkets, which it is and sometimes it can be intimidating. We dont speak the language and many of the labels are in chinese, you may not know what to buy or if it is the proper ingredients for the recipe are trying to make. I do see a lot of people here with a recipe card or sometimes with a magazine and they are looking for specific items. The staff here is very helpful. I speak very little chinese here myself. Thinks that im not sure about, i asked the clerk his and i say is this what i need . Is this what i should be making . And they actually really helped me. They will bring me to the aisle and say this is battery. They are very knowledgeable. Very friendly. I think they are here to serve not only the Asian Community but to serve all communities in the Richmond District and in San Francisco. [ ] what is wonderful about living here is that even though our july is a very foggy and overcast, best neighborhood, the sleepy part outside on the west side is so rich with history, but also with all the amenities that are offered. [ ] chair peskin good afternoon and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee meeting july 22, 2019. I am the chair, aaron peskin, joined to my right by supervisor ahsha safai, and to my left by supervisor raphael mandelman. Our clerk is miss erica major. Miss clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Chair peskin thank you, miss major. Could you read the first item. [agenda item read]. Chair peskin thank you. Mr. Winslow on behalf of the department of city planning. Thank you. David winslow from the office of the staff Planning Department, and im happy to be here today. Chair peskin good to see you after all these years. It hasnt been that many years, but we are here for the polk pacific special area guidelines. The guidelines arent themselves entirely new. They were derived from the existing urban Design Guidelines in the commerce and industry element of the general plan, but they have been reorganized by topic and edited for brevity, clarity, and usability, and a few additional elements were added and a special condition. Thank you, supervisor peskin, for your support, and supporting legislation of the planning code amendment. This concludes my introductory remarks and im happy to answer any questions. Chair peskin thank you to you and to you for creating the neighborhood commercial benefit district. It is an example between wh what of what collaborating between the neighborhood and City Department should be. I want to give a shout out to robin tucker and the pacific Area Neighborhood Association who have trained themselves in the nuances of design and zoning, and versus its a real unique corridor. When we created the c. B. D. , i came to understand that the Main Commercial corridor over the hill was the pacific avenue corridor, which is why you have this very interesting residential and commercial corridor that includes lumber yards and buildings of various sizes and typologies. So i think ordinances were exactly the right thing to do with this area. With that, are there any members of the public who would like to speak to item number one, please come forward. Just who i invoked, miss robin tucker. Thank you for coming, and thank you for your work. Its my pleasure. I want to thank the members of the team, the Planning Department, dave winslow in particular and his team members. And my own team, lower polk neighbors, midpolk neighbors, and russian Hill Community association. We all collaborated on this, but it is to be celebrated what team work, and so much was accomplished because of it. It was over 2. 5 years in the making, and i couldnt be more proud, i couldnt be more proud to have supervisor peskin leading this on our behalf, so thank you all, and thank you, members of all of our community associations, and i hope that we get your vote today. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you, miss tucker, are there any other members of the public who would like to speak on this item . Please come forward on discover polk. [inaudible] for this unique community. We look forward to, you know, seeing them implemented, and we believe that this will be a beneficial thing for the polk street, and pacific avenue commercial corridors. Chair peskin thank you so much, and thank you for your work for middle polk. Next speaker, please. Commissioner kathrin moore, for your support. Thank you. I am here as a personal citizen. I think this particular set of guidelines is a great set of urban Design Guidelines, and i think we took a step forward which many other neighborhoods will do and emulate, as well. It will make the neighborhoods stronger and give leverage to those neighborhoods which will be strong and good. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you, commissioner moore. Are there any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. Chair peskin and colleagues, i do want to say that it is the 38page document that mr. Winslow provided over that i direct you to, and it is really a lovely document. Not only the beautiful photographs, but just the way it speaks to the context of that neighborhood and what is appropriate development, site design, you name it. So for anybody who is watching, if you have Nothing Better to do, go to sfgov. Org and read that 38page document. Colleagues, if there are no questions, and i see no names on the roster, i will make a motion to forward this to the full board with a positive recommendation and hopefully it will be passed on the First Reading and 30 days later or there abouts will come law. Thank you, one and all. Madam clerk, that will be the order. Madam clerk, next item, please. [agenda item read]. Clerk chesk, as a matter of communication, wed like to note on march 19, 2019, the Planning Department indicated a transmittal indicating the Planning Department failed to pass the resolution, however, the Commission Secretary failed to report the seweactual vote h would have indicated the type of disapproval and the lower vote for tomorrow. Chair peskin just to be clear, pursuant to the city and county of San Francisco, this is respectfully but a recommendation. The matter is totally within the hands of the government, and we can vote how we prefer. With that, i will defer to my colleague and primary sponsor, supervisor safai. Supervisor safai okay. I dont know if mr. Givner wanted to mr. Givner deputy City Attorney jon givner. The boards agenda for tomorrow indicates that theres an eightvote threshold. Thats incorrect. The Planning Commission did not find the ordinance is inconsistent with the general plan, so you said supervisor peskin, when this goes to the board of supervisors it will only require six votes to pass. Chair peskin thank you for that clarification. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai thank you for that clarification. There was a lot of misinformation out that. I would just ask that we take this later. We are finalizing the amendments and we will return to this shortly. Chair peskin okay. We will continue this item, and we will move on to item number three. I dont know if supervisor ronen or her staff is here, but we will call item three. [agenda item read]. Chair peskin all right. Is there anyone here from supervisor ronens office that would like to make opening comments . Seeing none, do we have somebody from planning, audrey merlon . Thats all right. Its a new last name. Chair peskin i was just going to say, it was like a week ago. It was. Chair peskin thank you. Miss donovan is here from the office of Small Business to speak on their behalf. Chair peskin miss donovan, would you like to speak on the behalf of the Small Business. Yes. Dominica donovan with the office of Small Business. The Small Business commission heard this item on june 10 and is supportive with the lemgs lation. It will undoubtedly prevent the clover you are or displacement of approximately 200 owned small enterprises. Many of these businesses are child and Mental Health providers, educational services, chiropractic services, and nonprofits of various missions. Many of the Business Owners also identified themselves to be disabled and noticed that this has unabled them to successfully operate their businesses. While the Small Business commission recognized that they would like these pieces of legislation to be revisited, they realize this is a smart piece of legislation for the challenges the businesses are currently facing. The recommendation also diverged from the Planning Commissions recommendations that businesses who are considered to be office uses should also be able to participate in the legitimatization process. Were appreciative of your consideration and were here for questions. Chair peskin thank you, miss donovan. Thank you, supervisor ronen, and thank you for dealing with this rather bizarre sticky wicket, and the floor is yours. Supervisor ronen thank you, supervisor peskin. Today, this legislation will provide am nesnesty to 150 sma businesses that were facing he vacation. I want to thank carolina morales in my office who spent hundreds and hundreds and thousands of hours trying to fix this. In january, dozens of Small Business active space which is at 3150 18 street learned that they were facing fines based on 15 zoning regulations. These are very small Owner Occupied enterprises and most of them are personal services. I want extremely concerned for the small Business Owners, so i held two Community Meetings with the tenants, quickly introduced the amnesty legislation and my office connected with a large portion of the tenants to follow up. Closing 100 businesses or more on the same block would be an economic crisis for the mission, a neighborhood that has already suffered tremendously from the displacement of hundreds of businesses and thousands of residents due to gentrification. The ordinance before us today will provide them amnesty under the code. It will consider them to be legal nonconforming businesses and allow them to remain in the building as long as they file the appropriate legislation. Im also actively to protect Light Manufacturing spaces. Light manufacturing provide working class san franciscans with working class jobs. The mission is one of the few places where p. D. R. Zones existed, and we must protect these spaces. Prior to active space building, there was a long history of this property of arts and manufacturing uses, so the Planning Commission imposed restrictions when it approved active space in 2004. The owner of the active space signed a notice of special restriction in october 2004, where he committed to make p. D. R. Use of the building, including a prediction of both office and residential purposes at the building. It the City Attorney is pursuing a separate enforcement process with the owner, but i wanted to provide you today with the full context of the situation we are solving for. Once again, it is both my priority to protect the Small Businesses and p. D. R. Zoning and spaces in the mission. Therefore, im offering legislation that will provide a balanced approach. The lemgs lation will provide an amnesty for Current Office use to stay in the building for the next ten years. It will require all of the tenants to prior pursuing all of their necessary permits and require the office of Small Business in obtaining their permits with the necessary office. I want to thank you for being here today and speaking before this committee and for fighting to stay in San Francisco. Small businesses like yours are the cornerstone of our local economy, and we need to continue supporting you to stay in the city while thriving, not just surviving. I also want to thank the City Departments and staff that have been working closely with my office for the past six months, including director regina dickendrizzi, the department of building strong as well as the department of Public Health with particular thanks to Stephanie Cushing and jen cu cullworth. Thank you. Chair peskin okay. And supervisor ronen, thank you for that and for your work and your staffs work, and the City Attorney and Planning Department and Small Business and department of Public Health. And as to the amendments that have been handed out to us, those all seem to pertain to what you just spoke to, which is the office of Small Business assists under the program as well as the acceptance of the three years suggested by the Planning Commission. All right. Why dont we open this up to Public Comment . I imagine theres going to be a lot of folks here. Weve got a huge crowded agenda here before the summer recess, so two minutes and if youll lineup to my left, your right, first speaker, please. Hi. My name is nicolle. I am one of the three owners of a business called pottery in common. Small commercial businesses are a vulnerable population that do feel the effects of gentrification and unfortunately businesses at our scale are unable to occupy commercial storefront simply because we cant afford it, nor do we need the large storefront that is available. There is a need to protect small but stable nonp. D. R. Businesses, and without your advocacy, Small Businesses will be displaced, and the Cultural Landscape of our city will be forever changed. Yes, protecting p. D. R. Districts is necessary, but i want to ask you at what expense. I calculated percentages off the charts 19. 0165 from the office of Small Businesses. I have a dear friend who is a family massage therapist. She was shown 15 vacant spaces at active space two weeks ago. She was also told that there was a growing wait list for nonp. D. R. Services that were wanting to conduct business at active space, so currently we have a wait list for nonp. D. R. Businesses, but a 5 vacancy in the building itself. So i urge the supervisors to start to research the percentage of occupancy for p. D. R. Businesses in p. D. R. Zoned districts. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning. My name is lee peckley. Ive been in active space since 2012. When i came, i was not made aware of the zoning. Im a Small Business owner. I thought i did everything right. I went to the Small Business association, took four classes, and this one just wasnt apparent to me. I have grown my business and active space. I have been looking for new space outside the building just for desire since 2016, and i havent been able to find anything comparable. Like my neighbor said, the amount of space out there is just too huge in size and rent to be usable for Small Businesses. I just want to thank you, hillary, for stepping in at a time when there was a lot of fear for us and we didnt know what was going to happen. And it blindsided us to find this information out and to feel like we didnt have anymore resources. And to carolina for the hundreds of hours she spent on this legislation, and for domenica for being so responsive, and to regina, too. Im asking because we dont have other alternatives. We dont have other places to go. Im still looking, by the way. I am will continue to look, but please. I do think filling this building up 100 with p. D. R. Might have been feasible, but in 2019 San Francisco, its not. So having some floors nonp. D. R. Would be good to split it out just to talk about a future plan. Thank you very much. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is ava schmidt. I am a therapeutic and care active worker in active space. I loved in last summer because the moved in last summer because the place i was in was active space. Im lucky i moved in when i did. I would like to stay where i am for a while. I want my clear womanowned business in the bay area to thrive, not just survive. I do my business on a sliding scale and often free session. This business allows me to treat people in a way i was never able to do before. As many other people will mention, its affordable, its tiny. Keep in mind when this legislation passes, many of us have to put out 3,000 in permits just to allow us to stay, so please at least give us ten years to make it worth it. It was advertised to us. How are we to know that it wasnt zoned for us . This building may be p. D. R. , but cities change in a decade, and clearly theres a need for something different. We are here to prove that. We are grateful for the lemgs lation that will protect some of us, but the Bigger Picture is changing the zoning so that all the tenants can stay and others like us who need that type of space have access to it. Too many buildings in s. F. Sit empty. Thank you for your time and consideration of keeping this small group of Diverse Businesses alive in San Francisco that serve the people of San Francisco. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker. [applause] chair peskin and folks, if you want to express yourself, there you go. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is molly rose, and im also a pilates teacher in the building. I live near the space, and ive seen the area change in the building. As the area changes, we need to change with it. Ill keep it short today. Thank you for your time. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker. Were front loading with pilates instructors today. Thank you for supporting this work by Hillary Ronen and carolina morales. Thank you, you guys, for standing with us. I dont have a whole lot other to contribute than what everyone has already said and what this amazing line of amazing entrepreneurs will say other than we really want to desperately stay in this space. And as of the others said. Ten is awesome, but longer would be more awesome. We love being able to share these spaces with our