Watching my low rider. Now that wouldnt have happened 30 years ago because 30 years ago i would have probably been ticketed or my car would have been towed. You know what im talking about . We have come a long way, low and slow. There is a lot that has been said about whats going on in this country. I just want to thank all of you that came out to the march that we had to protest about children being encaged. I want to thank you because youre standing up to close those camps. I want to thank you because youre standing up to keep families together, because in our culture, the number one thing thats most important to us is family. So the first award is famed after an incredible, amazing woman that was born in 1930, and i just ask somebody if i knew the math right. She is 89 years of age. I am speaking about delores. [cheering and applause] i met delores when i was 12 years old, when mi papa sent me away for the summer and sent me to volunteer for the united farm workers. I had no idea wh
Through an entire legislationive process. Supervisor bevan dusty we were seeing a proliferation of retail spaces to restaurants and the merchants had a concern that daytime foot traffic would collapse as more as more nighttime restaurants were created out of existing retail space. Supervisor campos and i worked together on legislation that we sponsored and the board passed to say that you need a conditional use to convert retail to restaurant. It was not a ban. To my knowledge, no such cu applications have been submitted. I might be wrong about that, but im at least unawaiver unaware of any. I suspect if that is the case, people know there would be a lot of Community Pushback and that would not be granted. We have seen plenty of situations where conditional uses have been defeated. So conditional uses, its not a rubberstamp. You have to do a preapplication, community meeting, submit your application. It goes through a process. It has to go to the Planning Commission. The Planning Commi
Respectfully, that is not the reality. To the contrary, were going through the process of the special use district. And yes, i work with supervisor wiener on the valencia corridor. At that point, the avenue we choose was one that was consistent where the community was. In this case, the community believes that to fully consider a conditional use down the road, that we need to have this interim control. So that the communitys efforts go to actually studying the issue as opposed to fighting a specific project. The other thing that i would say is that for purposes of these Small Business it really is about preserving Small Business commercial space and that is critical, because commercial space when its smaller is more affordable. In this case, in this hot real estate market, to engage in a special use district as the community is terrified that a specific storefront is going to be lost. We dont want to do that. We dont want to have to worry about that and this is simply giving the opport
Do a complete prohibition . Diego sanchez with Planning Department staff. I think the interim controls allow time to recalibrate the appropriate controls if that is going to be sought by the community. Right now you have a different use restrictions. Perhaps in this time, there is more outreach to the merchants and calibrate it we dont know what that is going to be. There is also additional conditional use criteria that need to be formulated and this interim time would give time to formulate those with the community and other stakeholders. I think that is the perspective from the Planning Department as to why an interim prohibition in this time would be okay. It is not a permanent control. It is for a short period of time. Potentially. Potentially. Potentially. It could become a permanent control. And once you have a temporary control, sometimes it can create its own momentum. True. To make it permanent. And i understand that it could include onetailored to the community. The current u
And yes, i work with supervisor wiener on the valencia corridor. At that point, the avenue we choose was one that was consistent where the community was. In this case, the community believes that to fully consider a conditional use down the road, that we need to have this interim control. So that the communitys efforts go to actually studying the issue as opposed to fighting a specific project. The other thing that i would say is that for purposes of these Small Business it really is about preserving Small Business commercial space and that is critical, because commercial space when its smaller is more affordable. In this case, in this hot real estate market, to engage in a special use district as the community is terrified that a specific storefront is going to be lost. We dont want to do that. We dont want to have to worry about that and this is simply giving the opportunity to the community to actually engage in an open discussion and in a full study without having to worry about th