We lost a mayor, we have experienced a global pandemic, we have weve seen two major recalls occur in our city. And i know people may feel saddened and upset or hurt by some of the situations that have occured. But i want to assure people who are part of San Francisco that in our dna is our resiliency. Our ability to look at the situations to combat at the situations and to come back stronger than ever before. This process for the District Attorney was a process that was very much similar to what i did to select the three members who we chose to serve on the school board. Countless conversations, conversations with people who serve as prosecutors, conversations with judges, conversations with every day people who live all over San Francisco and forgotten parts of the city. Never who have never been political a day in their life. Who felt that something was going on in San Francisco that needed to be addressed. And in almost every single instance in talking to those who supported and opp
Plow and imp low so these properties are not zoned residential they are located in an nc 2 neighborhood Zoning District that will allow new restaurant and could convert to another retail store or to a new restaurant can open up but that is a commercial strip on 18th there. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. Is there Public Comment on this item . Okay, step forward. President , how many minutes . Three, minutes, just one speaker, three minutes. President and members, i have not come here on this case and i was not aware of it until i got here i am bob pass more and i worked for the Planning Department in 2000, and my recollection of this property was different and mr. Sanchez while i support his recommendation. Would you mind speaking into the microphone. Should i start over. No i heard. My recollection is that the property is more that the Planning Department in the early years treated more as a private club or Community Building and not in any way a commercial type of establishment. I dont
Application and consulting with those two recommendations we would move for the principle of law of this. It is designed to help other people in the neighborhood. And its not a inaudible restaurant. It would have the underground floor space into an active area for businesses use. And final it will create 8 to 10 job openings. And again, the recollection for the country club it is a free place for people who are recovering from drug and alcohol use. Although the leg decision of the country club part of the cities housing places on the second floor the second floor roofdeck has been sdientd to minimize enjoys. As you can see in the patience the rear deck has been sub divided into two sections. The second portion it retired for the planning code for to serve as a unit space for businesses. And there are physical barriers that are designed between those two open spaces. And finally, Castro Country Club the project site is well served by transportation and will have little impact in the nei
Debris in the neighborhood and further use of the commercial use within this neighborhood. If you wish to review those letters we can circumstance late them. So far as the department has received several letters from the legalization of the country club. And after refusing the application and consulting with those two recommendations we would move for the principle of law of this. It is designed to help other people in the neighborhood. And its not a inaudible restaurant. It would have the underground floor space into an active area for businesses use. And final it will create 8 to 10 job openings. And again, the recollection for the country club it is a free place for people who are recovering from drug and alcohol use. Although the leg decision of the country club part of the cities housing places on the second floor the second floor roofdeck has been sdientd to minimize enjoys. As you can see in the patience the rear deck has been sub divided into two sections. The second portion it
Questions, ill be happy to answer them is there is presentation by the planning commission. Im the architect for the Building Owner and also the Castro Country Club. Its a pleasure to be here. Weve been working on this project for over a year. For us the story starts when my client started looking at the building and my client is successfully in business and restaurant business. When we look at the building we saw the potential the combrv. What we also stated was to keep the Castro Country Club open and it has been there for thirty years. We discovered there was no permit for this project. This also gives the castro club more time to add issues to their project. Mike from the castro club are here to speak for the castro club. Weve been met with respect for the whole project. For a second id like to talk about the actions and reacts. And these are the objections. One was about odor. Were going to run a shaft up on the roof and take the process to get rid of the odor. And another one was