Court seats are something of a rarity because judges are not politicians. People have expressed some questions around the factors to apply in evaluating judges or those who challenge them, and that part of the reason for this Forum Tonight is to help explore that. A quick word on logistics for the forum. Were going to proceed in a round robin format. Among the three candidates. Each candidate will provide a selfinterest section and a 1 to 2 minute Opening Statement within our time frame, each candidate will have about 3 to 4 minutes to answer each question, and i will chime in to the extent anybodys running over time so we can be sure to have enough time for all the questions. Well also leave some time at the end of the forum for questions from the audience. You can do that using the q a function at the bottom of your screen. Just type in the question and well see it i. And also for each candidate to make a closing statement, uh, for the purposes of this forum, ill be putting similar q
Among the three candidates. Each candidate will provide a selfinterest section and a 1 to 2 minute Opening Statement within our time frame, each candidate will have about 3 to 4 minutes to answer each question, and i will chime in to the extent anybodys running over time so we can be sure to have enough time for all the questions. Well also leave some time at the end of the forum for questions from the audience. You can do that using the q a function at the bottom of your screen. Just type in the question and well see it i. And also for each candidate to make a closing statement, uh, for the purposes of this forum, ill be putting similar questions to each candidate, allowing for the differences that exist between sitting judges and the challengers. So without further ado, lets start the introductions and im going to pass it over to assistant District Attorney roland to introduce herself and make her Opening Statement. Sure. Thank you. Um, thank you for having me here. Im very happy to
Very much. So to me, it sounds like its a Standard City notification process. Correct. Supervisor cohen is there any resident residual waste Water Pollution from the previous tenant . Thats an important question. If youre not able to answer, i dont know if there is anyone within the Planning Department that can speak to that. I want to know if there is waste water resume sid wall residual. And i need to know if that needs to be cleaned up before the future business occupying the location. I want to know if the future business, be it saba or any other business. Lisa gibson, Environmental Review officer. If you could hold, were consulting with the city colleagues about the matter. My understanding is that, if there were a notable violation of any sort, that would have to be addressed, but were not aware of any, so were not prepared for the question. And the project wouldnt result in soil disturbance, so we wouldnt anticipate if there was any soil ground water contamination that it would
You have seen in the picture, family owned, many of the employees will be hired from the city itself. Were not talking about a huge slaughterhouse that slaughters thousands of animals a day. Its very small, family business. I urge you to make a wise decision and support this business unanimously. 100 . Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, how are you doing, hi everybody. Im the neighbor of saba store, the one in oak oakland. Its less than 100 feet, the same block. In three years i never noticed anything from them, no noise, so clean. And we have no problem with them. I want to say youre ok, come visit the place in oakland, youre going to see. Everything is ok. We enjoy every day eating fresh halal, thats it. Nothing untoward about it. Come check. My address is 807 kennedy street. Im next door to that place. Thank you for the comments, next speaker please. I feel so happy today. I waited 42 years for this. And to have the halal food in San Francisco, we are
Understanding as to noise level. How do we determine what is abnormally high versus what is an acceptable rate of noise for doing business . Sure. Im patrick, im assistant director at the Environmental Health branch. The standard is 45 decibels from a fixed mechanical noise source. As measured in any nearby residence. And thats the evening standard, so the nighttime standard of 10, thats the most restrictive standard that we have as far as noise is concerned. Other than that, its measured at 8 decibels over whatever the ambient is for the neighborhood at the property line. That is usually what we apply during the day time standard. Supervisor cohen thank you. Back to the planning. There were complaints by some neighbors at the Planning Commission meeting that was held in november of 2017 when this item was first heard. That they were not properly noticed. Could you go through what are the noticing requirements, answer the question as to whether timely notice was given to the residents,