The bayview area plan. It requires an authorization under 2010. 3. The establishment to cultivate cannabis. This site also includes an unpermitted second floor. The applicant also applied for a variance to legalize. After working with their architect and city staff, the applicant has withdrawn that request and proposes to remove the second floor and render the site back into compliance with 145. 5 of the planning code. The department has received no correspondence regarding this application. This site is a preexisting use which is legitamizing and will be required to comply with the office of Cannabis Licensing Office and will submit a review by the police department. This site existed for eight years. The use is consistent with the intent of the core district and general plan and meets the requirements of the planning code. The Department Recommends approval of the requested authorization. This concludes my presentation. Im available for any questions. Thank you very much. Do we have a project sponsor . Hi. So these clients came to me o looking to remove notices of vin given. And we spent a good amount of time coming to the point where a complete gut and remodel is now the request within the context of the 10,000 square feet. There are three tenants in this space, all three are Small Business owners in the city. They have families. They have children in the school system. And they have been operating at this location for more than eight years. And we respectfully request that you provide us the ability to continue operating. They had temporary permits now. And this conditional use authorization will enable them to be fully compliant with the law. So thats the ask. Thank you. Thanks. Do we have any Public Comment on this item . Okay. Public comment is closed. Motion to approve. Second. Thank you, commissioners. On that motion to approve with conditions. [roll call vote] so moved, that motion passes unanimously, 50. Item 25, case 2019005500cua, 2934 cesar va she has street, conditional use authorization. Department staff again. Before you is a request for conditional use authorization to establish a 171 square foot retail use at 2934cesar chavez avenue located within the nc3 Zoning District and 40x height and bulk district. It is located along with this street serving as a small island of nc zoning surrounded by residential house districts. It is plea three blocks south of the calle 24 corridor and six blocks east from the beginning of the Core Commercial areas of mission street. It is dominated by two to three story buildings. Other commercial uses at this intersection include a restaurant and brewery, Automotive Service station, dry cleaner and Appliance Service shop. The commercial tenant space at the Southwest Corner of the intersection appears vacant. The tenant appears to be occupied as an office. The project sponsor is an equity applicant by the city of cannabis. No other Cannabis Retailers within 600 feet. The project was originally scheduled for hearing on octobeo allow additional outreach and discussion to the neighbors. Since that hearing the applicant reported very constructive conversations with calle 24 to bring the proposed facility into compliance with the guidelines for the district. He has held multiple outreach events with neighbors. The department has received nine letters of opposition to the project and the petition submittal of 107 letters in opposition. Currently no letters of support have been received. The opposition to the project centers on the perception of the area as primarily residential, concern over increase in crime and the concern the establishment doesnt include parking as part of the proposal. The department initially had concern regarding the small size of the proposed establishment, however maintaining small and affordable spaces is a goal of the calle 24 plan and theres other dispensaries in the city approximately the same size. The project does not include any request for onsite consumption and the space is too small to be able to include onsite consumption in compliance with the health codes requirements. Staff recommends approval to prohibit any onsite consumption. As the project complies with the planning code and the policies of the general plan, staff recommends approval. Thank you very much. 171 square feet. Thats pretty small. Yeah. Okay. Do we have a project sponsor . Good evening. 171 square feet is pretty much as big as this. Weve been approved before the Cannabis Retail at 2934 chavez Equity Program. The building is owned by my family. Has been for over six years. Im a San Francisco native, born and raised in the bayview, spent a lot of time in the mission. Over the last few weeks ive hosted multiple neighborhood meetings and heard many neighborhood concerns. Im going to try to address some of the few concerns that theyve had. About three meetings ive met with calle 24. And weve addressed almost every single one of the meetings so far, every single one of the concerns. One of the main concerns everyone had was parking. In San Francisco we know how difficult it is as a resident, i know how difficult it is myself. We proposed to them that theres an existing out front that we would be trying to convert that into a green zone so we wont be taking additional parking away and have dedicated parking for our customers. Of course a Security Guard is required so that guard will double as a parking enforcer in a way. And then also while that wasnt enough for some of the neighbors, weve also proposed that our team members will double as watchmen during peak hours to patrol the neighborhood if anyone is double parking or blocking a neighbors driveway. Beyond the parking concern there was also a concern of the overall image and crime and whatnot. Working with the Community Members and calle 24, we have agreed to include murals and other things, murals and local artwork by local artists, including cultural aspects of the mission neighborhood. Other than that, no major exterior work is being performed. The way it is, its meant to be that way, and we are going to keep it that way. So you cant even tell really if theres anything there. And one of the other concerns was smell. And i think a lot of Community Members are not very well aware of the smoking aspect. Weve advised that they are not allowed to smoke inside or outside. And it was just lack of information that people dont have. Weve tried to advise and educate our neighbors as much as we can but we can only do so much. Other than that, weve tried to stay involved as much as we can, hosting multiple meetings. We havent had a super great turnout but for the ones that have turned out, theyve acted as community ambassadors. Theyve reached out to other Community Members and told them what the situation is. We continue to host more informative meetings, stay connected with the local neighborhood as much as we can as well as the local organizations. Ive tried to resolve all the Community Members concerns, all the neighborhood concerns, and i feel ive gone above and beyond trying to meet those needs to be a successful business. And i hope that satisfies some of those or all those concerns. Thank you. Thank you, sir. So i do have several speaker cards. Please come up when i call your name. Michael chan, nora, alexandra lawrence, sayed, angela white, elaine watts, shayk, and edgar i cant read this. Anyways, come on up. One minute, please. I want to mention a lot of our friends who are here, they have left by now, but there are a few. So since pretty much all these are in support, if you could keep your comments to one minute, we would really appreciate it. Come on up. Hi. My name is michael chan. I have lived in the neighborhood for 27 years with my wife and two kids. I am for the following reasons. The cannabis spot will be next to a bar. Smoking and drinking will cause fights and malice. An Elementary School. So maids caulk by the store when they walk so kids may walk by the store when they walk to school. For these reasons, i am against the opening of the store. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Any come on up, if you need to speak, please come on up. Thats it. [off mic] it doesnt matter. If you want to provide a comment, please come on up. Thank you. Addressed most of the concerns as far as parking, smell, loitering, patrolling, double parking, parking in the driveways. And i support this cannabis to be approved, please. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. I live threedoors down from this proposed store. San francisco has been wanting to keep the families in San Francisco. Putting Cannabis Stores in residential areas particularly in the mission where so many families live there, i dont think its appropriate. The families that couldnt be here signed the petition, sent the letters. This place hasnt been a retail place at all, at least for the 20 years i know. Its 170 square feet but only 150 square feet are for retail. Its not safe. Its a very small space. The bar next door already had a fire. 150 square feet, you know Security Guard the driving on that street is crazy with the bicycle lane. Its just we create a lot of stress in the neighborhood in the residential neighborhood. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [speaking spannic] is it okay if i translate for him . [speaking spanish] my name is torres and im here to support my neighbors. This place is not appropriate for the folks that live here. [speaking spanish] because of the families that have children. I dont think its appropriate for children to look at all this. We already have too many problems in this district. We dont want anymore. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. I live almost 18 years on this street. Im going to read this. Im speaking for many of the Latino Community that couldnt make it today. Scheduling a hearing on the weekday and we dont have time is a disadvantage for people to take time to show up to the hearing. We have the signatures opposing the opening of the Cannabis Retail. As you know, we have schools, im going to skip that one. I have an eightyearold that comes to my house twice a week. We need to keep our family together, our children without being exposed to that environment. We dont need people loitering outside this proposed cannabis store. It is illegal to consume a smaln Public Places but people still do, even driving. How are they going to enforce this when the customers decide to use the driveway . They say they will hire a Security Guard. The use of the Security Guard is to guard the location and check id. They are not going to be monitoring the block. Calling the police is out of the question because they wont show up right away. We need to be able to get in and out at any time from my garage without getting out of my car and trying to find whoever is blocking my driveway. As i recall, at one time the applicant himself blocked my driveway. Im wondering if he will use his own company to tow away his customers cars when they block our driveways. Your time is up your time is up. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Next speaker, please. Yes. He addressed the parking situation. Thats good. Im a retired Police Officer for 30 years. Ill tell you whats come to this place when you open up a Cannabis Club across the street from my house. Its not going to be good. Youre taking a nice residential area. We have two other Cannabis Clubs. One at 29th and mission and one at 22 and mission. If thats too far for these guys to go, they need to smoke a little faster. We also have a park down the street. You have kids going to that park. Theyre going in front of the Cannabis Club on the way. You have several schools. While they might be beyond your 600 feet, theres still a bunch of kids on this street, passing this Cannabis Club to get to their schools and come home. I see families all the time coming to and from across that street. These kids are going to be seeing this stuff. Explain to your kid what is going on there and why drugs are still bad, you just get to sell them now and explain to your child why it really is bad and no, these guys are exempt from that. Is that it . Thats it i got more. [laughter] next speaker, please. Hi, my name is sac. My father is a business owner. We are from the district by the mission. And i want to support the business they are trying to open up and i want to correct the sir that was here just earlier, cannabis is not a drug. If anything its healing people and people are using it for medicinal use. Its not like that. If thats the case, the same thing we can add a cannabis storefront, we should be able to tell our kids the same thing when we look at a liquor store because there was a prohick pro prohibition era for that. Its very concealed. The Security Guard is not just to check id. His job is to make sure everything is secure. Members are happy because ifening nig goes beyond, the Security Guard is going to if anything goes bad, the Security Guard is going to lose his job. Thank you thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is heidi. Im an existing dispensary operator. Ive been operating my dispensary for 15 years now. Im one of two women, the only woman of color currently licensed. I can tell you as a licensing requirement, ive been working with equity applicants and these two gentlemen have attended my fireside chats where theyve learned about running a cannabis business, ive seen nothing but compliance with them and wanting to learn how to operate a Cannabis Club. And theyve also held outreach, which ive attended, and ive seen they have been working with the public to try to comply with the concerns. They are definitely looking to operate as it should be. And i think that you should support them in their application. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. Im brian. Im a local resident of San Francisco with my wife and two children. I used to live in the vernal heights neighborhood. Im here in support of the applicants. I believe this application falls directly in line with the goals of article 16 in the Equity Program in terms of sporting local residents and local business entrepreneurs to both launch businesses and employ equity and local Community Members. One of the things we should have learned from the recent vape crisis is legalization provides testing and quality products to the community and keeps those away from harmful products away from children and adults who would otherwise purchase them on the black market. The other item i wanted to mention is for seven years ive been the neighbor of a commercial building aft same family, and they are a strong member of the community and very family and helpful neighbors. Thank you, sir, your time is up. Theyll be the same with this business. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. Planning commissioners. I know its been a long night so thank you for pushing through and representing us. My name is kevin. Im with the united to save the mission. United to save the mission has been in direct talks with this project sponsor. And so right now we are not opposed. But i do want to urge you to look at policy standpoint. We just had a really great racial and social equity platform that came up and thats going to be adopted with the Planning Department. Then why do we have 60 percent of dispensaries located in four neighborhoods . We need to start analyzing the oversaturation of dispensaries in black and brown communities. Specific mission, soma. We need to make sure we have party across all neighborhoods and the west side is doing their fair share because its not fair they are targeting our communities and making a profit off it, especially when folks have been marginalized historically for that. Thanks for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Ill make this quick. Im not into drugs and alcohol myself but i feel this person has not been a bad actor. Hes jumped through every hoop thats been asked of him. Hes come to calle 24 to listen to our concerns, and hes been very responsive to them. You have questions about the school being nearby but its not going to be a lounge or a bunch of people hanging out. Its going to be serving the neighbors. I dont see it as a destination people will be driving to. I think people will be walking over. So i support it. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. I live on tenth and mission. And theres plenty of Cannabis Clubs around me over there. I see nothing but more liveliness in the neighborhood because theres more eyes out there. Theres a Security Guard watches. So i dont see the concerns of having more any kind of additional problems. If anything, more businesses need to come into the areas to serve the people. And it brings better productivity as long as they are legal businesses. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. My name is kathrin and im a local native born and raised. Ive been to a few hearings and something that brought my attention more was i use cbd for my pet so when i go to the hearings i can see something that it can be for pets and i know locally theres a lot of pets in that neighborhood that could benefit from that. I can second the fact that these are local businesses that are looking to grow and implement the calle 24 which is not bringing something external into the community. Its kind of innovating the community so i support it. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item . If anyone else wishes to speak, if you could stand over here so we dont lose time between speakers. That would be great. My name is edward. I represent the original equity group. Were a group providing resources advocacy for cannabis equity applicants. I urge commissioners to utilize your equity lens in making this determination. I urge you not to be persuaded by calls of parking. Retail use was established long ago. Again, i dont think 171 square feet is hardly a concern for a neighborhood corridor of that size. I urge you to not be persuaded by calls of child access as someone under 21 cannot come into a december pry and a dispensary has to record 90 ds of footage. If you want to eliminate crime, we need to legalize more of these stores. The black market would be crushed. Planning code 303, section 303 allows you to take gentlemen graphic location into consideration. I challenge you to ask yourself how many of these dispensaries are equity that are operating. Thanks for your time. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item . Thanks for hearing me. My name is paul. My friend has 10,000 plus ears on this man. From what we hear, its a familyrun operation. This has been a solid family in the community. There hasnt been any complaints about the family. And so for them to start another business to raise money for their family and to support their family, there shouldnt be any concern with that. As far as any opposition speaking towards safety issues, we just its on record that theres a brewery across the street. So we should be looking at statistics and not fear and misconceptions and statements not based on facts. Facts and statistics are out there. We all have we need to be smarter. The information is out there. So as far as cannabis being more dangerous than something else, thats not factual. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item . You cant speak again. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item from somebody who has not spoken . Okay. With that, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner koppel. Tonight weve heard this dispensary is approved, there will be fights and violence and gunshots. Previously before we have heard if dispensaries are approved that people will die and people will get killed because people smoke marijuana. So thats not happening. On the west side of San Francisco, the cannabis dispensary opened about a month ago. I looked at the neighborhood for months before the store opened and ive been checking it out ever since they opened. This is a completely thriving business. People walk into the store, they buy their product and they leave and they go home and smoke their weed or eat their weed. Its the least harmful business i can imagine. Theres a Security Guard on the sidewalk. Everyone feels safer. Theres no drama. Theres been not one incident. Theres more activity on this block than there ever has been. If you go from 19th and walk down irving, as the numbers get higher, theres less and less people on the streets except for this block on 22 and 23 and the Business Owners nearby are happy, because they are busier than ever. So i just want to tell you that this is a perfect case study that in sunset in a predominantly chinese residential neighborhood, this business is completely succeeding. Thank you. Commissioner richards. For the gentleman in the burd points about we should look at s as well as we are kind of over n era. If you look back to 1922, it did create a black market and the black market is harmful. The legal market is where you want to be because you know what you are getting and its regulated and taxed. I think this 171 square foot, ive been driving by this place for 30 years. I cant think of a better place to have one if it were facing on a interior block on a small side street it might feel differently but i move to approve. Second. Commissioner diamond. What would happen if mic it. Is it on . Right here. What would happen if the scht if it was 599 feet away . What difference would that make . Planning code section 202. 2, it would not be a compliant sited and the permit would be denied administratively. Are you holding 600 feet as a line in the sand . Its the law thats the code requirement. I have one other question for you. The section 303w findings, i guess you talk about them at the bottom of page 5 and the top of page 6, the way they read, its not really sounding like they sounds like an argument for not approving it. So im confused. The department does find the project is compliant with the finding and the general plan. It is true, though, the intent of the finding was to get to a point where we are having a better geographic spread of these uses throughout the city. The finding itself does cover a lot of topic areas. It kind of should be split into multiple findings. The truth is when we look geographically at the city, the eastern neighborhoods, particularly the mission are overconcentrated. So while we do find that theres particular location and where its locating is not exacerbating an overconcentration on a microlevel, we need to address in the finding that at a macrolevel the city does have a concentration in the eastern neighborhoods. So it is a bit of a finding. Is that overconcentration reason to turn it down . Or is that a statistic you would use for additional regulation Going Forward . Its a policy the city is tr. I believe the City Controllers Office is going to be releasing a report soon that will go a little bit deeper into this. The finding itself only says the planning which i guess commission should consider the geographic distribution of the uses in the city. Its not prescriptive on how you should respond to that. And yet the staffs recommendation is all Things Considered you are recommending approval but with this additional condition . Correct okay. Thank you. Seeing nothing further, there is a motion that has been seconded to approve this matter with conditions. On that motion. [roll call vote] so moved, the motion passes unanimously 50. That will place us under discretionary review calendar. Item 26 was withdrawn so we are moving to item 27. 3252 19th street. Good evening. The item before you is a request for discretionary review for a Building Permit to legalize a change of use of approximately 2,850 square feet on the ground floor at the mezzanine level of an existing twostory building to change the use from Automotive Repair to amusement game arcade and restaurant uses. The business doing business as redemption. The project includes interior alterations to the ground floor and no work on the second floor which is occupied by a professional service use. The project site is located at the intersection of 19th street and is a twostory industrial building. A request for discretionary review was on july 25, 2019 by kevin of the cultural action network. That discretionary review application which includes his concerns and proposed alternative it is is attached in your staff report packet as well as a response from the discretionary review response from the project sponsor. To date the permit has received eight letters of support for the project as well as a letter of opposition to the project in support of the dr. The departments recommendation is for the approval of the project as the proposed arcade, general entertainment use and restaurant use are principally permitted within the umu Zoning District. Okay. So i have asked to recuse myself from this item when you continued it, because it was a lastminute request, and i didnt want to be the person we had such few commissioners. But i need to disclose that the requester and i work together. I do not feel like that relationship will in any way influence my fair hearing of this item or my vote. So im going to participate. Requester, you have five minutes. [off mic] that would be great. You need to lay it down. Good evening, commissioners. My name is kevin or tease. Im a San Francisco native born and raised in the mission district. I filed a discretionary review for 3252 19th street for a multitude of reasons. The first reason is joey the cat has been illegally using the space for over five years. The timeline dates the amount of time that he has actually used his space unpermitted for private event tech parties even after notice of enforcement in 2018. So he was the timeline shows he had a meeting in 2014 to actually have a meeting to change the use and then he withdrew the meeting. After that point in time, he was given a notice of enforcement in 2018, july 26 from the Planning Department to knock it off, stop it, you are not allowed to host private event parties here. At which point in time hes had multiple events stating he is the host of private event parties including an alcohol permit he requested from abc to have a private event party. So that was in march 2019 of this year. So this is not im a small little business owner, he has been breaking code even after he was told no knock it off, multiple times for the last five years. That is not a goodfaith actor. If you look at where the review below, in the multiple, you see he requested one alcohol permit afterwards but the yelp reviews showcase he has been hosting private event parties further along down the way and including having a chance to throw a private event party with children involved. So you talk about this being a familyfriendly space but hes had alcohol around all of that and we dont know how many parties hes had. So i would ask the commission to ask joey how many onrecord, how many parties hes had with alcohol and after the notice of enforcement. That would be my first request. Second being i want to shift the narrative very quickly, no one is going i work with High School Use on a daytoday basis and i think having a Family Friendly arcade place is awesome. If you look at the pictures, that is not what the use is being used for. Its hosted for private event tech parties that are for uber, lyft, airbnb and the average rental is 25 00. If he is able to get approved with a license that would restrict the hours of operation where he would be able to have alcohol. Thats not a familyfriendly space. We dont need another mission bowl where monday through friday you are not allowed to have children in the space. And its great you brought like ive seen the pictures of nuns and having these folks come in and they are going to bring the kids. I want a Family Friendly space. I dont want another bar. We have 389 alcohol permits in the mission district. A special use district is being ignored and within the process of changing and fixing the loophole right now. So i would urge the condition to take that into consideration. And regardless if you approve this i would ask that you limit the hours of operation to make sure this is not a night life destination coming in because of the fact that this comes in i want to see hes turned time and time again that he has been asking for alcohol permits without it. I dont think hes responsible enough as an owner to have an alcohol permit if hes going to be hosting private event parties. What is the impact going to be when it cops to traffic . You need 24 7 access for pg e around those areas as well as the Fire Department across the street. So we dont know about the actual traffic impacts and i think a study should be put in place with that. So, yeah. Also urban mixed use and the current use is actually for production distribution. So hes asking for change in use to entertainment. But pdr is our most valuable space we are losing at a rapid rate and we need to preserve that. Not to mention he had illegal signage for joey the cat and the auto body shop was still on there. He removed the signage when the discretionary review was put in place. This is within 500 feet of an Elementary School and 600 feet within a high school for john on connell high school. We are talking about proximity to schools. We dont need our young people walking by that and seeing these negative images unless that space is going to be solely for a familyfriendly event. So no one is asking to shut down that place. I want to make that clear. But we dont want corporate event parties like the one he hosted in march illegally. And so not to mention i want to bring up the fact that ive heard this is going to clean up the sidewalk and this is going to make everything safer. Someone was shot on this block. Thats something we need to keep in mind. I dont think having an increased Police Presence come on 19th street is going to be good for black and brown communities, especially for the homeless folks that are there time and time again. So i think that shows theres a lot of lack of understanding of the Police Encounters with black and brown communities in this community as a whole. So im really worried about those because of the high increase of calls that are going to be coming in with that. So, yeah, i think that all of that are really strong reasons on why we need to come into play and uphold the dr review but the restaurant is being up held right now currently. And we are working in process of closing that loophole through the map 2020 process. I would urge the commission to take this into mind. Im available for questions. Can you hand those papers . Yes. Okay. Do we have any Public Comment in support of the dr requester . Okay. Come on up. Im the neighbor. Let me start out by reading the yelp review. Okay, if you get the chance to throw a party at their private warehouse, do it. They even have a doorman who sits outside to ensure only our group is going in so no drifters crashing your event. It costs dollars 2500 to rent this place. Thats not community building. Theres no parking in the neighborhood. Its residential neighborhood. They are going to have parties till they do have parties. This was written 5 20 2019 after they were given a cease and desist. And you are considering legalizing this and changing the designation of it . No. How nice they are bringing children in here. Kids are such a great because. But im all for it if you want to do kids. But lets get the alcohol and shut it down at 9 00 so it really is a kidfriendly place as opposed to using kids to have a really big party place. The academy of art, now we have this place. Is that what people do is they run around and open up illegal places and then the city says no and they keep going and finally they decide, okay, im going to legalize this and the city says okay. You cant do it. You need to lets respect the umu and the fact that its a pdr space that something we need to keep in the mission. And lets please deny this. Lets not reward him because he now is trying to legalize and change the designation and make this into a party pad. No, its a residential neighborhood. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. So i havent been invited to party at their Corporate Headquarters over there. So i just looked at the review and this is so offensive to me that not only are they talking about keeping the riffraff of the neighborhood out, but then this type of where its just not acceptable in 2019 in my society. And that is my society right there. In 1984 i moved in on 20th and shotwell. Im on 20th and bryant now. The 2500 a night corporate rental fee, thats my neighborhood. So i support what marie is saying. If this is going to have pictures of nuns bowls and kids frolicking then lets make a familyfriendly place. Lets not make it like urban bowl which has hours kids cant go there because they are serving booze, lets see it as a family place that will be a good place for gaming and to keep kids occupied, similarly to what mission rec is. Its a safe place and doesnt serve drinks. So this whole pictures ive been showing you which i will turn in though i thought i sent it to you by email. There are game machines there but its a bar. And using the loophole of bonified restaurant which we are changing now in map 2020 because of the loopholes, we were talking about the oversaturation of alcohol in the neighborhood. This is less than 600 feet from the schools. Theres also an Elementary School at the Church Within a couple of meters away. And theres 250 a day fine. Have they paid it . Because theres evidence online and at the abc that theyve been partying since theyve been told by the Planning Department not to. So id like to see them fined and i dont want to see this bad actor being rewarded in the same way that you just denied merging a two unit into one because its rewarding. I dont want to reward joey to keep going. And i dont trust him that its going to be really a restaurant with alcohol on the side. I think its going to be a restaurant as an excuse to serve alcohol. So i would like to see this as an alcoholfree place and decent hours. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. Executive director of alcohol justice. I live in vernal heights. I parked in front of this place nearby. I go to odc which is kidfriendly about 700 feet away. I want to remind you they have taken over the st. Charles school and so now we have two schools that are very close to this. Its been illegally operating with alcohol as an event site for a good four years. I should also mention my kids used to take dance classes up there in the same facility. And its a long time ago. And its been a school but its not a kidfriendly site now. Evidence of his using it as an event space, in march 12, 2019 a permit was received and then granted for activity on march 22, 2019 with an alcohol license. And yelp shows at least three other events that have taken place since the order was written by this Planning Department for him to sort of cease and desist this activity. Joey the cat should be renamed joey the liar. Im sorry. He has not been playing straight with the city. And we know very well on a statewide basis that restaurants, bonified restaurants are an excuse to turn things into bars. And we oppose this. I would be glad to give you the Public Disclosure records i just received from abc for the six permits that were pulled in the last six years of activities. Some of them within the time period where he should be fined on a daily basis. Please do not approve this. If i could find my notes, i would wrap up. I mean 24 7 access is needed by pg e across the street where theres often homeless encampments on the street between 18th and 19th, and 24hour access is needed by the Fire Department. Do not legitamize this as a Party Event Space with alcohol. Thanks. Thank you. Next speaker, please. After being here all day, i think you guys are probably expecting it to be short. But theres a lot of people in line to talk back there if everybody in the blue tshirts decide to take their time. So, sorry about that. All right. I know they bought this place, this pdr space for a million and a half dollars and with all the blue tshirts there must be a lot of money floating around in this business. And i think its intended not to come from speedball. I think its intended to come from the corporate tech party rentals. Okay . Clearly have proof its been operating illegally. And so now they are going to try to legalize this. Well, i think we should have a skiball place. You should approve this project as a skiball place with no alcohol and closing at 9 00. Im sorry weve lost the pdr. We had the equity discussion this morning. And we talked about how the city, the mission, the equity folks need like the jobs and the apprenticeships. They need a place to work too. And if we keep letting our pdr get converted into party places for the rich, shame on us. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. Christian son im here to support to support kevins request to leave this an alcoholfree ski ball facility. The mission is oversaturated with bars and alcoholserving restaurants and so close to children. I dont believe thats wise. Also i dont feel that you should reward an individual who has continuously violated the Planning Commission and the abc instructions and had illegally thrown events even after he was told not to under the guys that this is supposed to be a ski ball repair shop and not an event space. And Everybody Knows that the mission is probably one of the most active alcoholrelated incidents areas that General Hospital sends ambulances to in the city. And with another saturated alcohol facility within this area is not what this Community Needs. What this Community Needs is some familyfriendly childrens activities. And like kevin said, we are in support of this individual doing ski ball, but familyfriendly ski ball without an alcohol permit. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comment in support of the dr requester . Okay. We will now hear from the project sponsor. Commissioners, good afternoon or good evening. Phil lesser. Agent for the family, joey who you have been hearing about, his wife jane over there, their sevenweekold child. If you want to know about shotwell street between 18th and 19th, they live there. They live half a block away from the site. These are longterm mission residents. You see the people are sitting here. We have the next door neighbor thats going to keep speake to you. People on the block are going to speak to you. This is not a person who we should impugn his character here. So thats one item. This is not pdr. This is urban mixed use. For your code, urban mixed use is something that came out of a tenyear process that i was involved in. Director ram was involved with. The commissioners at the time, commissioner moore was involved with. This is to be a buffer, and its written in code here. Between pdr and residential. And one of the things thats expressly permitted is nighttime entertainment, arcades are permitted. Restaurant is principally permitted. Yes, he began operating in that manner before he got his permits. He got a notice of enforcement in july of last year. Within 21 days he had hired me, hired architects and these architects. And you can see from the date on the building application, augus. So weve been going through the permitting process since then. Made an excellent all of this what you cant see on the left, you have the rollup doors, it was an Automotive Repair shop that was purchased vacant. If you look at the one on the right, you can see the rollup doors being taken out. These are the plans you have in your packet associated with the building application. Theres going to be complete transparency. People are going to be able to see whats going on inside that has arizona they walk down the street as they walk down the street. Currently hes operating legally. He has a temporary use permit by the Zoning Administrator of the city and county of San Francisco. The Fire Department has vetted it. The department of Public Health has vetted it. And he is currently operating legally while he is waiting for hopefully your affirmative decision here to let him continue with his Building Permit. With that, joey is going to speak to you about how the restaurant will be fully integrated with the arcade and what youve been hearing is a mischaracterization. Hello, hello. So an arcade is not economically feasible without food and beverage. Thats just a fact, otherwise arcades would exist. I operate arcade games in 17 locations. Thats my business. I repair arcade machines. Thats how got into this business, by operating a competitive ski ball business. Ski ball is my life. If we cant open an arcade without food and beverage, we are not going to open an arcade of my so if they say no arcade, no alcohol, okay, you get nothing and the building stays closed. The point about how alcohol impacts the neighborhood, steve fox, the owner of urban putt will speak to that because he has a space very similar that is Family Friendly that has alcohol, food and beverage. As you can see on the floor plan, im adding an entire kitchen facility and integrating food throughout the space. You can eat upstairs in the mizzein themezzanine. You can have a beverage while you are having ski ball. This is not a facade to pop food in. This is going to be a place to eat, drink and play. And thats what you hear the neighbors want to hear. So we are going to have regular hours similar to urban putt. The restaurant is code complia compliant. And thats how you can create family fun and Community Spaces in this neighborhood that i live in and have lived in for 11 years. On the topic displacement, when we moved in here, the owner of the building had sold it completely vacant to us. There was no displacement. I was running my arcade repair shop. My arcade repair shop is an arcade repair facility that will need to exist within the mission. Thank you, sir, your time is up. Do we have any Public Comment in support of the project sponsor . So if you want to speak in support, please line up to my left and just come on up. Go ahead. Good evening, commissioners. My name is mickell and im here representing myself. We are the ownerrers of the adjacent building, located at 19th street. I would like to provide some information regarding the building in question, located at 3252 19th street. Mr. Joey did not displace blue collar or any workers when he and his family purchased their building. The previous Property Owner attempted to rent his property once he retired from the Automotive Repair industry. Unfortunately, it turned out badly as those renters were also growing cannabis illegally and the upstairs portion of the building caught on fire, threatening the janitorial building. After that, he decided to retire and completely retire completely and sold the vacant building to joey and family. Since then, he has run a business repairing and renting arcade machines and hosting the occasional special event. There have been four generations of native san franciscans which include my family and friends that have enjoyed these games during my childrens birthday parties at joey the cat. We all grew up in the neighborhood and most of us still live in the neighborhood or close by. We are not in the hightech industry. We are Blue Collar Workers ourselves. And have even invited the st. Charles church to play the games with us. Joey the cat is fun for both adults and children and more