Independently locally owned business. And so with that, we will conclude that the staff and presentation, if you have any questions, we will be happy to answer, thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks. Thank you commissioners. Good afternoon, with the law firm, and here on behalf of the project sponsor, and we are excited to bring you this project today which will be the last step in the city process for this major renovation of a restaurant that is part of the castro fabric for decades. Less is the owner of the cafe which was established in the 1960. He has spent many years in investing and improving the space, the project before you today will authorize major work that was done pursuant to a Building Permit and was approved improperly by planning and we need conditional use authorization to finalize the project. As you can you can tell there is a storied hiflt here and so i want to go through the time line of the cafe and the project for you. So, the patio cafe opened in the 1960s and, in
Good afternoon, could you hear me . My name is niekol jackson and i am a partner with the catering and events and i am a former employee of the patio cafe and i worked there from 1986 to 1990. And my experience there i was in high school at the time informed my career path i still have you know strong friendships that i developed during my time there and i am here to support the reopening of the patio cafe and it has been profound on my life and also the community that i grew up in and i am a native san franciscan and i grew up in the castro and i really think that it will benefit the community at large, thank you. Thank you. Mr. Johnson, alen beach. Hi my name is dejohnson, resident and on calling wood street and i got the personal letter in regards to this project, and i thought that i would take the time to come down and at least show some support. Because for the community, and in the castro we have seen a lot of closed restaurants and a lot of closed storefronts, especially in the
Provide any off street parking. We sent the letters the neighbors sent 3 letters of concern to the neighbors it included the size of the restaurants and the noise from the outdoor seating independently locally owned business. And so with that, we will conclude that the staff and presentation, if you have any questions, we will be happy to answer, thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks. Thank you commissioners. Good afternoon, with the law firm, and here on behalf of the project sponsor, and we are excited to bring you this project today which will be the last step in the city process for this major renovation of a restaurant that is part of the castro fabric for decades. Less is the owner of the cafe which was established in the 1960. He has spent many years in investing and improving the space, the project before you today will authorize major work that was done pursuant to a Building Permit and was approved improperly by planning and we need conditional use authorization to finalize the
Mr. Johnson, alen beach. Hi my name is dejohnson, resident and on calling wood street and i got the personal letter in regards to this project, and i thought that i would take the time to come down and at least show some support. Because for the community, and in the castro we have seen a lot of closed restaurants and a lot of closed storefronts, especially in the last year. And as finding out through this letter and learnings and a little bit of the story it is really a shame of how much revenue the city has lost through just the red tape that this project has had to go through. Not that it is intentional, but sometimes we cant get passed ourselves to really look at how we can expediate things and what that means to the community and not only the revenue but what it will do to the remainer of the street and i thought that we will come and show the support and hopefully you will approve. Thank you. Good afternoon commissioners, my name is allen beach net son and i am the president of t