We know that tobacco and cigarettes use is the leading cause of preventible death in San Francisco and thanks so much for the department of Public Health leadership for emphasising that along with communitybased organizations. I wanted to give and nearly 4 hundred 400 million a year is spent on health costs related to cigarettes and tobacco. Also ucsf and stanford researchers gave us recently their up to date research and premature death in low income communities and also tobacco density the higher concentrations of tobacco permits and sales that density results in increased Youth Smoking rates as well so this is about limiting access access but also reducing big tobaccos efforts to hook young people on cigarettes and also the e cigarettes as well and this over time as i said will cut our tobacco permits in half according to our estimates through attrition and reducing the number of tobacco licenses. Creating a cap of 45 licenses per district and that cap was calculated by looking at t
Including the Affordable Housing requirement that would be enforced really travel and run with the land. We expect the bridge loan to be repaid in approximately 1 year after the boards consideration of this transaction the state department of finance will review it and the bridge loan is expected to close in january. So with that that concludes my presentation. Members of the tjpa as well as claudia gorum are also here with any questions you have. Do we have anymore questions or comments for the staff present here today . Supervisor kim . No. Okay with that then we have items 41 and 42 before us. And wed like to take Public Comment on those two items. Any members of the public if you wish to speak you have 2 minutes to speak. Seeing none Public Comment is closed for this item. Any further discussion . All right. All right. So hour hearing has been held and closed and now 41 and 42 if we could so we could take that same house same call without objection. Oh, im sorry. Our house has chan
Stores and strengthening partnerships and healthier communities and i wanted to thank my cosponsors again supervisor kim ween weiner and chiu and cohen and lastly nurturing the Young Leaders and also the youth leaders from the tobacco use reduction force all 3 generations of the youth leaders i wanted to thank from arab american grocers i wanted to also thank from the department of Public Health Derrick Smith for his insights and help in drafting this for amazing work in this legislation and lastly i want to give tremendous respect to the young people and read off the names of the tobacco use reduction force leaders. Reading names. Lr i really really believe that were going to be building a safer and stronger neighborhood and so thank you supervisor mar for your leadership in moving this forward. Thank you supervisor mar. Yeah i just wanted to give another thank you to nick pagalatos from my staff working so hard with the young people and im really working respectfully with the arab am
Supervisor kim ween weiner and chiu and cohen and lastly nurturing the Young Leaders and also the youth leaders from the tobacco use reduction force all 3 generations of the youth leaders i wanted to thank from arab american grocers i wanted to also thank from the department of Public Health Derrick Smith for his insights and help in drafting this for amazing work in this legislation and lastly i want to give tremendous respect to the young people and read off the names of the tobacco use reduction force leaders. Reading names. Lr i really really believe that were going to be building a safer and stronger neighborhood and so thank you supervisor mar for your leadership in moving this forward. Thank you supervisor mar. Yeah i just wanted to give another thank you to nick pagalatos from my staff working so hard with the young people and im really working respectfully with the arab american grocers rs to be supportive of them as well and their input was really a key driving part of this b
Regulations. In response im going to be incorporating these minor amendments today the first allowing applications for new permits submitted for approval by the director by todays date so if somebody is submitting a permit by todays date, they are not subject to any of the requirements also cigar bars the owner came and testified that they were subject to the exemption in the Health Code Section 1009. 23 e and that their cigar bar for for five consecutive years can and both can obtain new permits on a one time basis its only a couple of cigar bars bars that are being included in this amendment. So this Tobacco Sales reduction act was crafted, again, in coordination with a number of stakeholders groups and i thank again the Arab American Grocers Association and others from the department of Public Health and especially the Community Advocates and the youth leaders the Tobacco Sales reduction act also is part of a coordinated approach that includes Healthy Retail sf that allows us to tra