Space other than a restaurant . I understand that people are trying to make money and go into business, and those are my comments. Thank you. Hello commissioners. Thank you for your time tonight and for staying so late. I wish the restaurant was open, so i could go eat right now. My name is terry besswick and i spoke to you a couple of weeks ago. I wont give you the history of the Castro Country Club and i think we heard unanimous support from the commission and the witnesses. I live upstairs from the Castro Country Club for five and a half years and my bedroom is actually bordering the back patio that has been talked about a little bit. I think there was a lot of confusion at the last meeting regarding the back patio. We discussed no ambientneys, noise from the activity itself and no smell from the restaurant as well. We support our landlord. Our landlord is giving us a 10year lease and were a Nonprofit Organization that has been there for 30 years. And were getting a reasonable rent.
Tie this conditional use, could you describe the kind of Liquor License or maybe the project sponsor can describe the exact type of Liquor License that you are getting from abc . Part of the conditions of approval is limited to a 42 Liquor License to sell beer and wine only. If they wanted to get a general license, they would have to come back to this commission. So we can limit it to the type of Liquor License that hes already obtained . Hes in the process of obtaining. That gives me a little bit of confidence that, hopefully you wont fail, but if another establishment come in they can be limited to just beer and wine. I was generally in the beginning not favorable towards it based on the concentration within polk street area and i know within 100 feet its a different percentage, but generally there is a lot of bars around here and there are ones that are close by and there is also off sale liquor right nearby too and across the street. But i will think about it some more. Commissione
And studies show that big soda is largely to blame. As a father, i know our families need help when they live in environments saturated with sugary drinks that are aggressively marketed everywhere children and families turn, like billboards on top of peoples houses in the bayview or on our buses, or saturday morning tv. As a san franciscan, i also share our collective desire to make San Francisco more livable for families and to continue to be a city that sends stands strong in protecting the Publics Health and allows all of our neighborhoods to thrive. As a local legislator and a law maker like the left of us, i also believe that nothing we do is more important than protecting our Childrens Health and the Publics Health. Were lucky, as i mentioned, that we have strong coalitions for Health Equity and food access in our neighborhoods, especially in the bayview and the tenderloin. But its growing in many other neighborhoods, too. And theyve been building alliances with doctors, Health E
Folks that have helped to make this a reality. Id like to take a moment just to thank a few of the organizations that have helped us along the way. All of us or none, legal serve is he for prisoners with children, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights National power, coalition on homelessness, hospitality house, coleman advocates, chamber of commerce and Small Business commission, and also there are a litany of neighborhood folks that helped gather signatures for us to continue to move this forward. And i hope that you will join supervisor kim and i in voting favorably for this legislation. Mr. Chair, the rest i give back to supervisor kim. Supervisor kim. Thank you, supervisor cohen and president chiu. Its always important to put a face behind legislation. And todays legislation is for these very individuals. The fair chance act is for an individual named don he will who was fired from his janitorial job whos was fired for failing to tell about a 1974 arrest for transpesting. The fair ch
Face behind legislation. And todays legislation is for these very individuals. The fair chance act is for an individual named don he will who was fired from his janitorial job whos was fired for failing to tell about a 1974 arrest for transpesting. The fair chance act is for a woman named sandee who won the lottery at nema across the street, but was disqualified because she failed to pay Child Support in the late 1990s, even though she served time for that failure. The fair chance act is for denise who was told she shouldnt bother to apply for a job as a cook because she had a conviction for shop lifting when she was in high school. As supervisor cohen mentioned, for one in four adults in the united states, an arrest or conviction record is a stigma that means you need not apply. These examples are real life obstacles preventing individuals who are actively looking to change their life by getting a job or finding a roof over their head. Yet we know having a stable job and housing are t