Years it is an extension policy domentsd created and supported by the Community Working krovb with my office and the Planning Department they envision a culturally rich and economically rich environment servicing as the japaneseamerican communities for generations to come it is reimbursed in 2013 and my legislation will pass the board of supervisors one of the 19 remedies of this to create a japantown mcd to ask the community to trailer its district so this process began and now were seeing it through since the j h s passed the japantown community has worked together with the Planning Department and my office we have a fully vetdz mcd that runs along polk street from fillmore and buchanan from post to halfway between sutter and bush extra the this is the heart of japantown corridor most of area is currently zoned mc2 and mc3 the commercial district those are jerking Zoning District e zoning we wanted to create something to specific to japantown the characteristics of the neighborhood and the desires of the community the mcd will include parking maximums instead of minimums and a band on new curve cuts and require the ground floor retail and allow a a 5 foot height bonus and increased residential density we working closely with the community to address some specific needs simple setting a limited on low frequency noise in restaurants and bars and in addition to planning, zoning Economic Committee and retro the times per our controls on retail formula im proud to recognize japantown at some point a jewel in our city was my soak home growing up across geary boulevard in the western edition this will continue the legacy of the plan and insure that Japantown Japantown to not only protected but position to thrive for generations to come the mcd is the japantown community and was unanimously supported by the difference board of Japantown Task force i want to thank everyone that made this possible including the members of the Japantown Task force and i mispronounce the name the Planning Department. Helped to guide the j h s and paul wormer for his expertise and the fearless leader of japantown bob thank you for your years to support japantown and at this time a steve if you have anything to say feel free to come forward at this time. Thank you supervisor president london breed. Steve Planning Department staff excited to see that a great outcome for j h s we appreciate your support. With that, maam, i hope you support it. Lets go ahead and go to Public Comment. Please come forward and speak. Hi a student at San FranciscoState University also i would like to encourage that in the new development there is more local businesses rather than big businesses having local businesses with owners that capture the culture of japan and San Francisco is a good sense of communities and local businesses are more likely to spend locally and stimulates the knew they have anymore freedom to run vooim i environmentally by using less transportation to obtain their products thanks. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Well, first the United States in 1970s of late 1990s ive not been to japantown but my japanese roommate and it was so striking to see a movie and the potential physical entities of Japantown Center it was a nice family for girlfriend and boyfriend and husband and wife and all the romance of the happy spirit thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors im bob im the executive director of the Japantown Task force on behalf of the board of directors of the Task Force Im here to urge youre approval the proposed ordinance and recommend adoption of recommend japantown neighborhood commercial district resolution the enact time as the owners for as supervisor president london breed mentioned earlier is one the recommendations in the j h s the city enforced plan for japantown it is the view of the zoning controls are more business friendly and increase the potential for more Development Units we look forward to this approval thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Govern supervisors im paul wormer i was one of the folks that was involved in playing with this for many years i really want to thank the Planning Department staff and sprooedz in helping us coming up with a really good plan thank you. Thank you is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak seeing none, Public Comment is closed supervisor president london breed what do you want us to do with this did you make a motion colleagues. Ill make a motion to move that forward wmg and r r with a positive recommendation and looks like without objection this motion passes madam clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body . No, that concludes our business. No further business before us this meeting is adjourned thank adjourned. Hello and welcome to this presentation. Im San Francisco purrs since that time weve helped people clean up their criminal records. We created this to help you understand how this worked. Well plan or explain all the steps. After watching this program youll know what to expect after completing the process. Hi, there are im deputy and im part of the clean slate team. 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Motion carries. President james is joining us. If youll kindly wait, ill turn it over to her. Thank you. Item three is approval of the december 2, 2015 consent agenda. Any comments or question about that . Hearing none, all in favor. Aye. Any opposed . Thank you. Item four is approval of the october 7, 2015 meeting minutes. May i have a motion to approve . So moved. Second. Any comment or questions. All if favor. Aye. Any opposed . Motion carries. Item number five is general Public Comment. Thats comment that is not related to specific items on the agenda. Hearing none. Move to number six. Reports. Deputy director Shireen Mcspadden. Good morning commissioners. Im going to keep my remarks very brief this morning because we have a huge docket. Lots of items today. Ann hintton is in washington d. C. This week. Shes also spending some time visiting our representatives on the hill. Shes meeting with feinstein, pelosi and boxer this week and advocating for passage of the reauthorization of the american acts. She regrets that she wasnt able to be here. This would have been her last Commission Meeting as director of the department. I wanted to just mention that next week, wednesday, december 9th at 5 30 is in an retirement party. Were hoping to get a really good crowd there to send her off in style. If people havent rsvp yet, it could be great. We trying to get a count for food. Hopefully, everyone can be there. I think im just going to conclude there and ill report back next month. Im sorry, i need to talk about the process for the new director. The city has engaged a search firm, Hawkins Company and theyre out of los angeles. They may have contacted some of you and some of the people from the public here. They will be doing a thorough job analysis putting together a Job Description and a brochure recruitment brochure and they will be getting that out. The task is really to find three qualified candidates and deliver those candidates to the mayor. Probably towards the end of january. Thats the process as we know it now. Thank you. Any comments or questions . Any comments or questions from the public . Thank you shireen. Next item is the Advisory Committee report. Mr. Leon schmidt. Good morning president james, commissioners, deputy, director mcspadden. Advisory counsel met on wednesday 18th at that meeting. We had a guest presenter, mrs. Amber carol from the also if you see on the agenda, we have an action item. We are requesting we had a vote to extend a letter to Assembly Person david chiu. Their top priority securing funds for the csl. Were asking for a vote from the commission to okay that. Thank you. Any comments or questions regarding the letter which is included in our package . Can you tell me about how much money were hoping to get . Its not specified in the letter. I think csl, their budget is approximately 300,000. They are asking for some support. Theyre also hoping to do some fundraising. They want to get approximately 200,000 or 250,000 if possible. The rest they will do on fundraising. Any comments or questions from the commission . Any comments or questions from the public . Then ill call the question. All in favor of approving and sending the draft letter say aye. Aye. Any opposed . Motion carries. We also had a site visit to the American Community services. That was an excellent site visit. I think you will find information we can forward information to the commissioners if need be. I will end my report there. I know were on a short timetable. Any questions for me regarding anything . Thank you. Next item is legislative committee report, diane lawrence. Good morning. At the request to keep this brief, im going to do precisely that. We have one action item from ast last meeting that is to put in place a process if both the cochairs are absent and we took care of that. One of the other advisory members appointed to the joint ledge committee will run the meeting. We will give prior notice as long as there are members of the commissioners represented and members of the Advisory Council at the meeting will go forward, should the cochairs cannot both be present. That action item is taken care of. We also filled an Advisory Council vacancy on the committee. Were fully staffed, or fully we also on new business, California Senior Legislature presented their legislative agenda for 2016. Theres a total of 10 bills, five are hold overs from the last session. Three are funding bills. Mr. Schmidt just spoke about one of them and two are new bills. In the interest of time, well give you a report on the details of those bills at the january meeting. Then there will be no joint legislative committee in december. Thats typical for that group. We have the ten bills well report on in january if that works for the commission. Thank you. Any comments or questions . Questions from the public . Thank you very much. Next item is the Long Term Care coordinating council. Sandy. Good morning. President james, commissioners and Deputy Director mcspadden. I want to give you just highlights of our meeting that we had on november 12th. As you know, our council is the Advisory Group to the mayor. We felt that it would be appropriate for us to knit submit a letter to the mayor and chief of staff and the head of hsa our opinions about what kinds of expertise and skills the director of the