We do expect commissioner johnson to arrive shortly and commissioner bobby wilson that to be continuance items one ab fulsome conditional use authorization and the Zoning Administrator will opine on the variance for indefinite continuance and further under the regular calendar item 8 potrero zoning map staff asked for a continuance to the i didnt get all under the discretionary review authorization circuses we received confirm that item 17 a the discretionary review has been withdrawn as a result, the defer will take up the matter during the first recess. No others items proposed for continuance. Okay. Thank you any Public Comment on this item . Proposed for continuance. Good afternoon Commission Jim counsel to the Property Owner on potrero and ask the item be heard as quickly as possible if not today this is the correction of an error in the zoning height map on a second Story Building that covers the lot it existed for the last 50 years and thely down zoned to open space despite the
Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner Vice President richards commissioner antonini commissioner moore and commissioner wu we do expect commissioner johnson to arrive shortly and commissioner bobby wilson that to be continuance items one ab fulsome conditional use authorization and the Zoning Administrator will opine on the variance for indefinite continuance and further under the regular calendar item 8 potrero zoning map staff asked for a continuance to the i didnt get all under the discretionary review authorization circuses we received confirm that item 17 a the discretionary review has been withdrawn as a result, the defer will take up the matter during the first recess. No others items proposed for continuance. Okay. Thank you any Public Comment on this item . Proposed for continuance. Good afternoon Commission Jim counsel to the Property Owner on potrero and ask the item be heard as quickly as possible if not today this is the correction of
Werent asking for special zoning configurations or anything. They simply wanted to be included as part of the great mix use community and to be treated accordingly, and on that note that really eased the tensions and we proceeded through the whole first years of our process in a very cooperative vain and basically drafted the outlines of what our entertainment policy is that is before you today. Upon adoption of the 1990 zoning when residential became a fully permitted use planning in the city basically put out the welcome mat to residential uses. You basically said youre fully permitted as a right. Come down to south of market. Buy a home. Buy a property. Please expand that property. This is not the scenario youve often heard where people move down to the area of an airport and then move in at the end of the runway and theyre surprised to find out there are Airlines Taking off. This is sort of the reverse of that. They moved down to a neighborhood where the city said the welcome mat i
Alternatives to alcohol related activities such as the proliferation again of gyms, health clubs and i think for every block in this city has a yoga studio on it. Clubs are sitting empty south of market as a result and a change from the current non conforming status to that is not going to make a difference. Changing from non conforming to has a right fully permitted is not going to allow the clubs to be any noisier, to be anymore outrageous in terms of their impact on the neighbors. Either way theyre zoned the same standards are going to apply, no difference. Down zoning the neighbors which most of these options would result in is not going to stop them from complaining whether they are fully permitted or non conforming, conditional use, the neighbors have every right to complain if a venue is out of compliance. Basically this has been written into law for a thousand years. The basic mans home is his castle now translates down to everyone is entitled to the peaceful and quiet use and
Entitled to the peaceful and quiet use and enjoyment of their home. The western soma process as we described at our first informational hearing was a process of inclusion. The arts and the entertainment are represented on the task force. We had three town hall meetings. Entertainment was on the agenda for each of the meetings. 200 or more residents and Small Business owners and entertainment people participated in each of those three town hall meetings. I can fully admit at the first town hall meeting tensions were throughout the room. There was a lot of tension, a lot of anxiety because neighbors were afraid of what was to come and the Entertainment Community was there arguing for more certainty. I can credit Chris Shaffer and the professional facilitators that she brought into that town hall meeting to kind of tone down the tension and the anxieties and instead turn people everybody involved there on more to a simple problem solving path. How do we make these potentially incompatible