Is there comment on the Public Session . Were here and the public isnt. Can we put that in the minutes . All in favor say yai . Aye. I move to reconvene in open session. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . I move to not disclose anything discussed in closed session. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Madame secretary, next item. Pledge of allegiance. I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised of the use of cell phones, pagers and similar Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chairman ordered the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing of or use of ale cell phone, pager or other similar soundproducing electronic device. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unle
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,
Regulations should be a priority for our city leaders. The track record of the oakland location is great. They have fulltime Health Inspector and the place is very clean and well maint maintained. Im one of their biggest customers. Supporting organic stores, this type of business should be supported as well. With regards to the Environmental Impact, i am a licensed chemical engineer in the state of california and its commonsense to me there is no such Environmental Impact. Its a very Small Business as 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 bl