I dont see the shadows moving. So, this has to do with the impact on the street, the neighbors and the light well. Flip to the next image which we did, we remodeled the proposed building which is the, did three go. Go ahead. Thats it. So theres a fourstorey with a deck front and back but the impact on the street is considerable. Can you slide it a little bit there. And, particularly concerned with the impact to the shading of the fourstorey building on the neighbors light wells. We created this spread sheet. Its com paying the proposed building that was submitted on august 29th, the revisions you see that the project sponsor has created today and we have an alternate proposal that has three units. Theyve taken a 40foot high building and reduced it by reduced it by six inches to a 3. Its an egregious minimizization. Im going to push this up. The regional proposal had eight bedrooms, they reduced it to seven but increased the bathroom count. Our proposal has nine bedrooms so its a more affordable for more families. Id like to just show some quick images. I just have my phone. Lets see here. We cant see it. You cant really see the red very well. Basically, if you can see their entry is now their first garage level. You have 30 more seconds. The garage level goes up halfway through my window i live in the right side. Im a renter. Longterm rent control. So, that means they have the light well filled in on the first floor so that whole area will be looking out of our interior windows on a wall and then it goes up fourstoreys. I made lots of drawings but you cant see right now. I made lots of drawings that you cant see. Basically, our light well, as you saw in the stad ow shadow sl be completely covered and we wont get light in two interior rooms and the rental unit above us will get no light. I have lots of poets and drawings. It would be very easy for them to mass against the wall thats blank on the other side. Thats your time. Thank you. Can i show these. I think weve exhausted the time. Thank you so much. Any other Public Comment on this item . Come on up. Please lineup on the left. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners. My name is rick hills. Almost like your former commissioner. Were both former planning commissioners. I served on this board from 199 1997to 1999 under the great wile brown and i add measur admire y. I am i know the project response o he is one of the best buildings in the city. He does terrific work. He lives in the neighborhood. And he has gone through the most important exercise of working with the neighbors to come back with a more userfriendly building. I totally support it. I think however valid the opponents believe in their points of view, i see it as a case of death by knit picking that only drags things out longer and its more expensive and only aggravates the problem with a lack of housing in the city so i recommend approval of the project as planned. Thank you, mr. Hill. Next speaker, please. My name is mark norton and i didnt get to speak at the last hearing because i had to go to work. I lived directly across the street. Practically. Ive been there for 35 years. This fourth floor they showed you the floor floor is invisible in the rendering. It will not be invisible from my house. Either my living room or study. Many im the person that looks at this more than anybody on the planet because where i am. I support the idea of having three units. Its a good idea. I dont think having an unaffordable by design one at the top is a good idea. My minute suppose already. This is a letter about the h. R. E. They didnt do when they created this new ceqa exemption. I know you didnt get paper before but there you have it in paper. This should be continued in the gentleman is willing to sit down and negotiate with the neighbors. I asked to sit down with them and talk the last couple of days and he ignored that request. Thank you, very much. Next speaker, please. My name is Alexander Mulder and i work in the neighborhood. I came to the first meeting here. I also attended the neighborhood meeting and now im speaking. I spoke the first time as well. I followed this project. Ive watched the developer work with the neighbors and changed the materials. Im fully in support of this house how it is. Its a greatlooking house and fits in with the neighborhood and i appreciated the fact that they added a unit and i thought it was wise for the neighbors to recommend that so i saw both sides and i think now the project as it is is great. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Good evening, commissioners, neighborhood council. Just as mr. Mark mentioned here, im sorry its late and were im for getting peoples last name. The fourth floor is a health floor according to the drawing. It does exist. Overhead, please. Thats what it looks like. That is done by the architect and that is what it looks like. One thing i just want to bring to your attention is this is not dont difficult to get rid of the fourth floor. The fourth floor is 600 feet and the project involves three car garage, 900 square feet for the garage. Get rid of two cars, get 500 square feet to one unit and have three floors of three units. We are not against units. This is excellent having three units and it is perfect. But you do not need to have the fourth floor. Thats all were asking. Next speaker, please. Thank you for giving us the time to voice our sorry. I dont do this very often. Thank you. My name and im here as my person and the president and im here as a person to support our neighbors and it came to our attention the project is a little too big and im so glad theyre doing three units because we need housing and i wanted to point out a couple of things, one of them was the overhead, please. The measurement, it seems that the 30 feet were taken from this part instead of from this year and so it is a lot higher on the back and also the light well what about the light well. Ok so, its really fivestoreys not fourstoreys high. Thank you, your time is up. Any other Public Comment on this item . Local residents im here to support my father in law and the other old time residents there and they dont feel that its in place. They have done work to keep the neighborhood and he is kind of the mayor of the block. And i go with what he thinks you know, he just does what is right always. He is a man thats just a man of principle and so is my father in law. I jushe just had a heart condit. These people do what is right so i support them. Its a good thing. Theyve gone to a lot of work to prepare this other proposal and its a good propose a thank you. Any other Public Comment on that item . Public comment is closed. Commissioner richards. I guess a couple of things first. Weve been talking about sb50 and Transit Oriented Development, blah, blah, blah, blah. This building is a block and a half from the jay church so im wondering it why it needs throwcar parking to be honest with you. A block and a half. Secondly, the light well on the first floor blocking the persons dwelling, the room, im wondering if the stairs can be moved closer to the garage wall and have an actual entry way thats not covered so that the persons window is facing a journey mans entrance for the a. D. U. Rather than a solid wall and its something that is workable and those are the two questions. The parking dont need three cars, we stand for Transit Oriented Development and its a non starter for me and i would rather get rid of the fourth floor and another unit and the unit sizes are pretty good because the average unit size is 1600. I guess you would like that. I would like to get rid of some of the parking and reduce the fourth floor. Agreed. Motion to reduce the parking, approve the project and take off the fourth floor. Can we talk about the stairs moved over so theres no the light well goes all the way down to the grant and a hallway. Id like to include that as well. Second. Wed had direction with staff. Mr. Washington. Del vivin washington. As i understand, as we enter the building entry and lobby area, the goals of the commission is to extend the stairway down. We have to realize that this is an entry to reach that lower unit and if we reduce some of the parking we can possibly get the width of this garage so we can get an additional corridor that would allow access to that. Is the project architect here . You think that is feasible . Um, its difficult. Im looking at page a2. 1. Please, real quickly. You guys do this light bulb things all the time. We can have a fence on the Property Line and we will. People in this building will put their trash out there and the people next door will say, why dont you put a roof on it and well its like gee, thats what we were proposing. And the other thing is theres a half a stray differential. We purposely did not put pits on it. Well thin frame it and keep it as low as possible. Because it is over the stair, we can lower it a little bit. As you said, the other thing to keep in mind when you go from two units to three units. The Building Classification changes from an r3 occupancy to r2. Fire, exiting, all that stuff gets heavy duty. It sounds like a good idea, just do this and this and that. I can lower it as low as we can but it would be very, very difficult. Can i answer any questions . So, i mean, if you can put a2. 1 up on the overhead and show us why you have to have you cant move the stairs closer to the garage, to where the garage actually would have been, because were eliminating parking, why you cant have an open passageway. Forget about the trash cans and all that, thats the neighborly thing people need to work amongst themselves to someone wouldnt put a compost bin under someones window. It happens. Well i know it happens. I would rather you are asking about moving these. The entry. Yes. Move them down towards the garage. What used to be the garage. Yes, where the car is. Put it under the other stairs. Excuse me, you are out of order. I think what were trying to do the problem ok. Right there at that line, theres a retaining wall there so we have to dig into it. We could do that. So you could have the passageway. If this is what you want and we can pass this and move forward, ill be happy to do this. We need to just move forward. We love you for that. No worries. So, mr. Washington, do you wants. I under the project architect will work with staff to meet these goals. Get rid of the fourth floor and how many Parking Spaces . One. Not three. One. I would be ok with one. One. Yeah. And bicycle. And a bicycle parking. You can have thro three bicye parking. Ok. So, is the secondary ok with that. Make the motion. So theres a motion, commissioners, its been seconded to approve this matter with conditions have been amended to continue working with staff eliminating the fourth floor reducing the light well down to the ground and reducing the parking to one space and providing bicycle parking. On that motion commissioner johnson. Aye. Richards. Aye. Koppel. Aye. Press melgar. Aye. So moved. That motion passes unanimously 40. Commissioners, were at item 21 for case number im sorry, we just have to take a little break. Im sorry. Its 8 00 and weve been going since 9 00 this morning. Weve been here 11 hours, folks. Sorry. Commission regular hearing for thursday, november 21, 2019. Ill remind members of the public to silence your mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings. We left off on item 21 for 2018009157cua at 2175 hayes street, conditional use authorization. Good evening, commissioners. Silva jiminez, the Planning Department staff. The item before you is a request for conditional use authorization to permit the demolition of a one story dental office and construction of a four story residential building within the hr3 district. A conditional use authorization is required to exceed the three dwelling units per lot in an hr3 Zoning District with the maximum of one dwelling unit per lot area. This would result in a Building Height of 40 feet and the conditional use authorization would allow for a total of four fourbedroom units with a threebedroom dwelling unit at the ground and basement floors. The project includes 144 feet of open space in a newly created year yard. Five class one bicycle spaces would be provided. Since the staff report this department received one letter in support and no letters of opposition regarding the proposed project. The Department Finds the project is on balance, consistent with the objectives and policies of the general plan. The project will add five familysized dwelling units to the housing stock, thereby bringing the subject property into con importance with the residential uses. This concludes my presentation, and im available for further questions. Thank you. Do we have a project sponsor . Come on up. You are not the same one . [laughter] good evening, commissioners. Im very pleased to say this one is not neo valley. Okay. This is a legal con forming dentist office. It takes up the entire, 100 percent lot. We are going to create the midblock open space. As you see here, we are going to respect the light well. Im going to talk about that in a minute. Jim alexander and mike are neighbors here. Ive met with them and said i would mention them because they can go back and look at the tape. Theres really six items here that people are worried about. They want to get rid of this existing building. Its an eyesore. But they are worried about rodents. The owner is using synergy for it and hired a pest control person. Everybody wants the midblock open space. Ive already addressed that. At one point, nobody wanted the commercial, we used that space for the adu now that the codes have changed. There is a mona and travis i need to reach out to. They want me to adjust the light well. No problem now that i know about it. And i got an email from decreeing about the rodents. Hes worried about privacy. Normally we are really careful with using obscure glass on that. And the last thing is they want to see parking out there. So we did that. Theres a lot of bay there. So we use the rounded bays. Its modern but we are trying to stay within neighborhood context. And hey, 313, im ready to move on. If you have any questions im ready to answer them. As far as i know theres no opposition to this. They just want to get this building down. Thank you, mr. Wise. Do we have any Public Comment on this item . Okay. With that, Public Comment is now closed. Make a motion to approve. Thank you, commissioners on that motion to approve this matter with conditions. [roll call vote] so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 40. Commissioners that will place us on item we have already considered item 22 placing us on items 23 for case numbers 2019000745cua at 1100 thomas street. Sorry. You will consider the conditd administrator will consider thee good evening, commissioners. Michael, department staff. Before you is a request for conditional use authorization to legalize the expansion of an existing 4,762 square foot agricultural use on thomas avenue. It has temporary authorization to continue operation. The fatal applied for under the permit of 2016 to 2017 to establish a greenhouse use within the building which was a onestory warehouse consistent with the planning code definition. However after completing the permit, the site was altered to expand the mezzanine using existing beams within the building, thus turning the mezzanine into a second floor. The Cannabis Cultivation facility was expanded onto that new floor area. The project requires a conditional use authorization for the expansion of the industrial agriculture use which requires a conditional use authorization. The project requires a variance from the planning code section 145. 1 which requires an industrial building ground floor clears 15 feet shall be retained. Mezzanines dont factor into the measurements since they are not considered a story but by rendering it into a full floor, the ground floor height is no longer compliant. The department has received no correspondence regarding this application. The site is a preexisting use which will be required to comply with cannabis licensing requirements including power from renewable sources and submitting a plan for review by the San Francisco police department. The use is consistent with the core Zoning District and general plan and meets the requirements of the planning code. The department recommend approval of the requested authorization. Im available for any questions. Thank you, mr. Christianson. Do we have a project sponsor . Good evening, commissioners. My name is al, im an architect on the project. She is the proprietor of the business. I just want to give a quick presentation and let him talk. Initially this building happens to be at the end of the hunters point, the bayview district. Im sorry, can you speak into the mic. Im sorry. The yellow highlighted with the red arrow is where the location of this is. This is the view of the warehouse, the actual business occupies about half the warehouse. And this is the door on griffith street, not on thomas. Initially, the project was approved for creating three grow rooms inside an industrial warehouse. The three grow rooms are these. And it had a roof to contain the environment. I believe they got their permit approved im sorry. This additional room right here. And as a result of that, what ends up happening is they have an entire roof over these rooms that could be used for grow facility. Mostly for the seedlings. Taking into account the tresses that account for the building, this would be the new grow area, the new grow area that they have for the seedlings. Im going to give this up to sam so he can talk about the grow facility. Good evening, commissioners. I know its late so ill try to be brief. So the whole purpose of this basically is to try to keep the whole operation inhouse. And by us doing so, its complete Quality Control and addresses several issues that basically the California Department of food and agriculture are concerned with and the office of cannabis. So we will continue to have the ability to control the complete life cycle of the plant from clone to mature flower. And in doing so, what happens then is we also address security issues. It minimizes the coming and going of the building instead of outsourcing it. Theres minimum entry and exiting. This also controls Pest Management, prevents introduction of pests from outside sources. And we dont have to do that because we have the ability to do that inside on the top of this area here. Its actually just this area here, this spot right here, this part here is part of the mezzanine thats already there. So with Pest Management being addressed, security being addressed, we also have Quality Control. We keep control of our products. And also we continue to keep our local hires. We have a total of eight employees. And we all Work Together and four are from the neighborhood. So if we continue doing this then some of them would not have the position there as well. So thats where we are at with that. I hope thats sufficient. If you have any questions, i would be happy to answer them for you. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you do we have any Public Comment on this item . If you would like to comment, please come up and do so now. Okay. So Public Comment is now closed. Commissioner koppel. Seeing no questions, im going to make a motion to approve. Second. Very good, commissioners. On that motion to approve. [roll call vote] so moved. That motion passes unanimously 50. Im inclined to request the granted variance. That will place us on item 24 for 2019001143cua, 1465 donner avenue, conditional use authorization. Good evening. Department staff. Of about you is a request for conditional use authorization to legalize an existing 10,000 square foot industrial agricultural use at 1465 donner avenue. It is a preexisting operation with temporary authorization from the office of cannabis to continue operation while legitamizing. It is in the Zoning District and 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