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
Within the commercial districts on ninth, tenth and folsom one story of office is permitted and right now there is none on harrison street and its only allowed in the wmoug in the enclave districts and landmark or article 10 or 11 buildings. Pdr and arts like a lot of districts in the city. Most pdr uses are permitted as a right except in the rad except with the exceptions of some of the uses that are allowed in pdr1 and pdr2. Arts activities and allowed in many districts . The city and. And in western soma protecting the arts is a big deal and generally committed throughout the planned area especially within the sally district. Again this goes to the split height, the way that you chief the additional height in sally is dedicate one story in the building to permanent arts activity use and whichever story you dedicate is 15 feet high so you get the extra 15 feet that way. Night Time Entertainment currently not permitted in the district but as a conditional use in the sso and a small am
Entertainment, and when they get to discussing how theyre going to make all of that work i hope you will remember the discussion that were having today. Okay. Everybody loves fun. You cant be against fun, and night Time Entertainment is an integral part of the fabric of south of market, so let me make it very clear from the very start there was never any notion of restricting putting on any additional restrictions on night Time Entertainment. Our goal from the very beginning was to ensure we would find a better way to make it Work Together and everybody is full a lot of good ideas to improve what we have. Nobody wants to poor cold water on them but unfortunately the good ideas tend to involve somebody elses neighborhood. Now were talking about our neighborhood here. Nobody understands the impacts of entertainment like the residents of south market. We have the greatest concentration of place of entertainment permits in the entire city, so no matter what anybody tells you south of marke