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
Exist forever. No dangers that we will lose any of the existing night clubs. Stronger Building Code standards are written into the plan and placed the burden of sound proofing for venues. Clubs as kobe mentioned will have the rights to expand. Would change the club to allow non conforming status to continue on even beyond the demolition of the current building and continue that entertainment use after new construction is completed. We allow all forms of entertainment for expansion in the new area south of harrison street. Its just a logical extension of the purposes of the sally Zoning District to have the service and Light Industrial uses with the prohibition of Housing Units it seems like a natural extension if the Entertainment Industry does need to expand sally seems like its the place for that to occur. Im sorry. We also welcome entertainment to be part of the folsom Street Commercial corridor through limited live performance. We dont increase residential capacity along 11 ethstre
Back. We redesigned the building so there is only one bedroom and studio apartmentos the front of the building so there are no family buying units on the front of the building so we made those changes in response to our meetings. We thought that met their concerns. I explained that with modern Architectural Design and other modern design there is no measurable sound coming from 11th street into those units so i feel they are compatible uses. The incompatibility that is being discussed is coming from older buildings with no acoustic insill laigz and designed long ago. If i was a young person i would be delighted to live on 11th street and i went to clubs all the time. I think there are lots of people that would like to live in the area so what happened in 2005 after we made the changes that the night Time Entertainment industry was requiring of it, which i was happy to do, and then they came back and any type of housing isnt compatible with night time uses so after i redesigned the buil