great community partner to us, through our continuing relationship with cpmc, we have been able to further enable san francisco to seniors with the ability to continue to live a rich and fulfilling life and to make sure they have access to the services they need. this agreement would allow our linkage with cpmc to remain as strong as ever, while allowing a long line of deserving san francisco organizations to have the opportunity to work with cpmc in the same way that we have. [bell rings] i urge the planning commission to approve without delay. please support the rebuilding of cpmc. thank you for your time and consideration. commissioner fong: thank you. commissioners, i will talkt the objection that i heard from the opponents, and that is that the hospital should be sized down and i think that if you know what goes into hospital design, there has been an allusion to that. there are years of design, that have gone into this particular project. i ve fallen to the project
going narrow it down from three lanes to two lanes, and anyone who advocates a change in the hospital is ignoring this. you have two major transit lines that are about to be upgraded, and you have one major transit line close to st. luke s, the 14-line. this is a line that i know well. and on san jose this gets very slow at other times of the day. i pass crowds of cars, and this is not a good place to increase the size of the hospital. thank you. the next speaker? thank you for hearing this item. i am the program manager at mission high where we serve san francisco residents with low-moderate income, and those looking to hire from the pool. i am a labor partner and i support the plan to rebuild two earthquake-safe hospitals. this will bring many job opportunities to our clients in the development and administration stations stages. they invested time and personnel to help upgrade this program and we are transitioning that into a professional service academy. they se
my name is robert garcia. i have been in the neighborhood since 1965. polk street has change, not for the better. it is getting worse, and it is dangerous. they want to know why people do not go down there, it is horrible what is going on there, and it has been a steady decline. it is a destination point. this is what has happened. they re going across the most densely populated area west of new york. . thousands of people live there and we hear it all night long people coming across our never read and 3:00 in the morning going back. we have tried to work with them. here s what is happening. i only have two copies of these the prostitution problem there has exploded. the reason is that there are people there who are drinking and have expendable money. i am also with the first offenders program. there was an operation there by a northern station, and they made 400 arrests for prostitution, and that was in the two-week time and this operation just ended a week ago. there are
code and law. then a determination would be made and ultimate the car license would reward not issue. for today s purpose, what we re looking for is to see if you want to see this continuing moves through the abc process or see a reason to stop it where it is that today. we do have a high concentration of licenses and this area. having said that, it has evolved into entertainment district. that is what is right now. yes, it has gotten mixed use and a lot of residential, but in totality, we have our relationship that is basically working. i could name other parts of the town that are not nearly as successful. i think right now the poll street corridor is doing ok. the polk street corridor is doing ok. i would suggest that this place was not losing its lease, i am not sure the part of it would be as willing to support it. having said all of this, we are recommending that application for approval with the following conditions. sales service and consumption of alcohol beverages
we work really hard for the last 20 years to clean up that area. we ran the circuit, prostitution circus out of san francisco. we had as many as 125 people on street patrols. we have three different groups on polk street. and they re supporting all of the things that cause the problems. i really recommend this not be approved or continued until we of a good group organized. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. good morning. i have been going to koko s for a year. i do not really think of it as a bar, more like a community meeting place. they had a group of writers go in and tell stories about the area. they also supported the art crawl. they had different paintings. it is not really a bar. i understand the concerns. there are many bars there. they do have a lot of shows, but as far as i know, they are not getting a new entertainment line since. they wanted to appease the people protesting them. it is about a sense of community. i have never felt unsafe standi