Years. It has provided a safe and warm environment for everybody. Reason foods, reasonable prices, all kinds of gathers, neighborhood meetings, wedding receptions, memorials, chili cookoffs, all sorts of things. The legacy Business Registration helps support businesses like caffe sapore. There are 26 vacant storefronts in five blocks around caffe sapore, and the last thing we need is a successful business to go under for no good reason. Were hoping that the designation of legacy business will help this from going under. Okay. Appreciate it. Next speaker. Good afternoon, commissioners. Thank you for listening. My name is elias sapai, and i am the owner of caffe sapore. I opened the cafe 22 years ago in a neighborhood where nothing was around there. I cherished every neighbor that came in, and i love them. I watched them growing. Some of them, i actually raised, and theyre actually working in the cafe right now. They were babies even though they come from college and they work in the caf
Through 70s was a Thriving Black Community known all over the world. It established black businesses. Black people werent allowed to leads outside the fillmore because of racism so we were a self sustaining community. The beautiful thing about the fillmore is that you had white, jewish, you had all people from all over the world coming to shop and spend their money in black businesses. It was really the togetherness that we all strive for. My daughter and my great uncle played jazz on fillmore. But the city, the federal government and the state through redevelopment agency, through the board of supervisors who held the power decided to use imminent domain and bulldoze the fillmore. 40 square blocks was bulldozed. That red dot on the picture, thats where sheafway is. You can see st. Marrys marrysa theydral. Thats the National Distribution center for the newspaper. It was the fillmore heritage center. You can see the highrise building projects. They bulldozed our community and put us in
12 years. Theres a lot of issues on the table here today, reparations for destruction of the black community, i support nurses in the e. R. , i support taxi drivers, i still take taxis. I will not take uber or lyft because im a union person. It seems like the people here in San Francisco are hurting. And thats what im hearing from everybody today. So i know that you guys are not god, and you cant solve all the problems, but to the extent that you can, im asking for help. You are probably tired about hearing of city college needing help because weve been at this for eight years one way or another. Ive been campaigning for several things to get more funding for probably at least eight years if not longer than that. But what i want to say is this midnight massacre of this last 300 classes, its like the straw that breaks the camels back. So we really need your help on this. And a lot of other people in this room need help as well. Thank you. Next speaker. Thank you for your patience and go
Population compared to other area of the city and also an area where the issue of drug use poses a major problem. Our efforts tell others of other parts of the city such as chinatown and the sunset where permits have been denied or entirely outlawed. The children that i work with regularly find themselves in the presence of open air drug use and going to school or walking in the neighborhoods and many dont feel safe and even in large groups with adult supervision. When new businesses are introduced, they should not be ones that will make a Community Issue already known even worse. Next speaker. I lived and worked in the tenderloin for 12 years and work with a nonprofit in the 300 block of ellis. I dont want to take the time to repeat what everyone said. I want to express my opposition and i dont think we need a cannabis december pencery in the tenderloin dispensary and there is enough on the edges that people with use and urban farm and different ones on the edges of the tenderloin. I
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