Supervisor second. Commissioners, since we have time not that we want to sit and debate the design, since commissioner richards has provided a dissenting voice on the facade, but it sounds like a majority of the commission is okay with the facade as is, i will weigh in from the urban design teams perspective, we did find the facade was a good way of knitting the building with the existing elements. It would help to provide a strong reelthshlationship to we existing relationship is, so it was a nice meld of new and old. Vice president richards i agree on the intent. Its just the result, so was there talk of a set back of even 3 feet or 5 feet . I dont think there was talk of a set back. Because of its location on the corner, we felt strongly that the massing needed to anchor the corner, so maybe we could work with the architect to find a detail to find more reveal on the facade, and im sure knowing the architect, its something he can potentially find and explore. Vice president richards i support that. Commissioner moore. Commissioner moore i just wanted to commend the commissioners on continuing. The project has set off to terms that indeed sound very much in complement to our own objectives, however there was apparently not enough time to formalize them in a manner that is nothing that were opposing but thats indeed an agreement between the parties involved here. On the facade, i think its a good challenge. I would not put them on the bottom as much as i would put them on the top because the building is rather large, it looks somewhat lengthy, and thats where my questions about the upper part come in, so perhaps we have a little bit more time to discuss this with the architect at some other time. Vice president richards thank you. Theres a motion to continue in the second. Clerk very good, then, commissioners on the motion togs continue to january motion to continue to january 25th. [ roll call. ] clerk so moved, commissioners. That motion passes with commissioner johnson voting against. Commissioners, thats place us on item 19, 20140376 cu 1526 wallace avenue. Id like to make a quick introduction of the Staff Members whos going to be presenting number 18. Matthew chandler retired as a current planner with the flex team. He has experience in the commercial Construction Industry and city planning. Hes worked with preservation and city planning in the midwest and join is us most recently from st. Lewis, missouri. He holds a bachelors degree in planning from Missouri State university, and we welcome him to staff. Supervisor welcome, matthew. Yes. Thank you for the introduction, marcel. The case before you is a request for conditional use authorization to process and sell small livestock at 1526 wallace avenue, a parcel within the production, distribution, and repair zoning district. This was processed as a cb 3 p or Community Business priority Processing Program application. Livestock processing one, which is defined in the planning code as an industrial use that involves the life storage killing or dressing of poultry rabbits or other small livestock and or the tanning or curing of raw hides or skins from an animal of any size. This use allows direct sales to customers and requires a conditional use authorization in this zoning district. The simple reason why were here today. Saba life poultry has been in business for five decades. This use is subject to the locations and operation restrictions of section 202. 2 b of the planning code requiring the operation within a completely enclosed building with no openings other than fixed windows or exits required by law if within 50 feet of a residential district. The operation will be wholly conducted within a hard she enclosure whi enclosure, and the subject site is surrounded completely by other industrial uses and pdr zoned parcels. Saba live poultry plans to establish a second location in the bay area. The facility will process onsite and sell directly to the consumer. This style of butchering will provide a service which the San Francisco city and county currently lacks. At this time those who are limited to or wish to purchase halal products must travel outside of sprask. I have completed copies of the required categorical exemption as well as Public Comments that were received after the Commission Packet was prepared. There are also copies up here for the public, as well. The department has found the project to be on balance, consistent with the general plan, and necessary and desirable and recommends approval. This that concludes my presentation. I am available for questions. The sponsor team has a presentation to follow with additional details. Thank you. So jonas, could i hand over speaking cards for the supporters who are still here, and these are for the 16 who had to leave since things went a little bit longer. Maybe i should move over here. So good evening, commissioners. Dan franton with reuben, ginous and rose for saba live. Were here asking for the permission to grant a cu for the saba processing facility. As you heard, this will be the only facility of its kind in San Francisco, although saba does have a long record of operating eight facilities in new york, as well as in the fruitvale district in oakland. Halal generally refers to whats in islam general practices and then slaughtered according to the specific practices. A brief prayer said before the animals throat is cut. Its blood is drained, and as in every slaughter house, theres an inspector present to make sure thats everything thats done is high generalygienic. Many cultures want to see the conditions that their animals live in and are processed in, and its an important part of their food culture and their religious practices. These are some of sabas new york facilities. So you can see that theyre often in locations that are that are not industrial. Theyre residential uses. These are not industrial Scale Production facilities, theyre theyre really small scale facilities that are comparab compatible with mixed use neighborhoods. Customers at their oakland facility tend to be east asian, muslims and latinos, mainly, and then, they serve some is restaurants. Sabas decision to let me just. Sabas decision to locate in the bayview was driven by a couple of things. One is desiring to be close to their customer base. Theyre just a couple blocks off the t3rd railway line, and i think these conditions are setup to regulate much larger facilities than what saba proposes here. As know, less than 5 of San Francisco is zoned for industrial use, and that figures been getting progressively lower over time. Livestock processing is allowed only in a subset of those districts so there are really very few places for this business to go. The pdr is intended to facilitate some heavy pdr traffic. Its 24 hour trucking, relatively noising operations. There are a lot of auto body shops, a lot of very active trucking facilities around here. Sabas use is going to be much much less intensive than whats than whats going on around it. You can see some pallet facilities, a lot of auto body shops. Actually one of those is where sabas facility will be moving into. Sabas use here, its a 2100 square foot facility. Itll be completely enclosed. They anticipate storing about 500 birds onsite on a typical day to support daily sales of about 200 to 400 birds, which sounded like a lot to me when i first heard and then i went over to see their facility in fruitvale, and its really a room with a few cages of chickens in it. Its not really a large operation. Of course, there will be some peak times with more birds, but this is just the general day today. Trucking to and from the city will be or to and from the facility will be really typical for a small industrial use probably less than many of the other businesses around with one to two trucks a day. Although San Francisco only allows Livestock Processing in a few industrial districts, theyre allowed a lot more widely in in other cities, including in oakland, where you can see theres a residential building right next door. I was there, again, this morning. You dont smell any odors offsite. Its actually a pretty quiet facility. I guess im out of time for the moment, but there are a few other speakers here who im sure would like to make a few more points, and im available for questions. Supervisor thank you, so im going to take Public Comment. Im going to read some names, and you please lineup against this wall. Ina dang, marry beth alonzo, nadine may. If your names been called, feel free to approach the dais. Hi, commissioners. My name is nadine may. Im a San Francisco native, and the first thing i want to point out is i have a button on my purse that says, actually, keep our muslim neighbors safe. My tshirt says no muslim ban ever, so i dont think anyone can accuse me of islamophobe i cant, n cant islamophobe. The last slaughter house was closed before the earthquake, and the one before that was 1971. I feel that its not appropriate to have a slaughter house here. I think San Franciscos been vanguard, i think weve always been, and id like to see the city move forward on an issue that impacts not only animals, health, welfare, and the environment. Everybody knows that well, maybe you dont know, but meat and dairy industry is the number one contributor to global warming, number one. Its incredibly did estructive habitat. We dont want it around. I simply dont want San Francisco to go in that direction, and one other thing i wanted to point out is would this slaughter house have been proposed in an area like the Richmond District where i live, even if it were zoned for that, or st. Francis wood or pacific heights, no, its in the bayview, which is as we know, a poor, struggling area that i know fairly well cause i have friends there. And i think this is a question of the environmental injustice. I just dont think its fair the bayview has fought very hard to have a healthier environment, and i dont think this is going to contribute to it. I am a vegan, but i dont like in a bubble, and im very concerned about conditions of animal welfare, conditions of slaughter. I know that they would be able the slaughter house would be able to sell animals to the public, so while their facility says that they would be killed in a halal method, in a humane method, what happens when they sell to the public . Theres no guarantee at all that those animals will be killed in a halal manner, and last, but not least, jobs. Everybody mentioned jobs, everybody wants local jobs, which is great, slaughter house jobs are awful. Theyre mostly all across the country done by undocumented individuals, and theres a reason for that people people do not want to do that. Thank you. Thank you, maam your time is up. Thank you, commissioners. My wife name is ina day, and me and i are raising three chirnz, and we run a doggie house at 223 shafter in the bayview. We are embedded in the community. We care about the community. The bayview has historically been a dumping ground for toxins. 30 of all toxins of San Francisco have been placed in the bayview. I am native San Francisco. My fathered fished in the waters avenue of bayview in the yosemite. When you bring a business such as a slaughter house, and we know that there are toxins in chicken poop dust, where the feathers are going to go, i ask you to take a pause and do an Environmental Impact study before you place this into the bayview. There are zoning for this, but there are 37,000 of us that live there, and its also a socially economically challenged community, and we dont need to increase the staff that show that our asthma rates are four times higher than the rest of the city, and so are cardio problems, so please tell us where the exhaust is going into our system, what is being done with the poop, what is being done with the blood. Personally, at my doggie daycare, the facility was run at as a Meat Packaging company from 1992 to 2012 before it was sold to my predecessor. We tried to find the source of a stench. We were told by the president sever that it was urine. It turns out its blood in the water system below us, and were spending thousands of dollars to dredge that out that was in the system from 1992 to 2012, so i ask you please think about the community as you move forward with this. Please stop the cycle of environmental racism and impact on those who are in the lower socioeconomic realm. Thank you. Thank you, maiss dain. Next speaker, please. Hi there. My name is deandra hundrin, and before i start, i just need to make a minute because the emotional feeling of standing there actually, watching this room packed for people who were fighting in regards to buildings, and brick and mortar to being just a few people here fighting for lives of people was quite interesting. Again, my name is deand deandra hundren. Current owner of Business Bear with me, a mother and daughter doula and maternity consultant business located in the bayview, and a member of the Economic Development on 3rd street, im actually the secretary of that committee. I am submitting these comments or stating these comments to each of you for consideration in regards to the conditional use permit currently pending for 1526 wallace avenue. My commitment as a Business Owner and a long time resident of the bayviewhunters Point Community has made it possible for me to raise my children, now grandchild in our family home, just three blocks away from the property at 1526 wallace. I received no notification on my door, in my mailbox, in my email, knock on the door, from anyone stating and letting me know that this slaughter house was going to happen just three blocks from my home. It is so disappointing that once again the community and folks like myself that live just blocks away from what i feel is an intrusive and potentially hazardous establishment wasnt notified in a clear, concise and acceptable way that this potential event has the potential to take hold in our back yards. In fact, i can see the slaughter facility from my living room window. It wasnt until i requested to be on an informal call with the Animal Legal Defense Fund that i learned about the proposed conditional use request in its current format. I, too, believe the Department Lacks an adequate real basis for approving the conditional use affecting 1526 wallace avenue as a Livestock Processing avenue. The 20152016 wallace avenue building it into a Livestock Processing facility has strong Environmental Impacts. I strongly believe that you need more information. I strongly believe we as residents need more clear information about blood and the waste. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi there. My name is ali almoled, and what we need is a halal chicken. Im a citizen, you know, this is what were looking for in this area, and i hope you approve it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi there. Good evening. My name is marry beth stalanzo, and i am a resident of the district. I have concerns that a slaughter house would have on the neighborhood and the animals. I would oppose a slaughter house in my own neighborhood, and therefore, iopose one in the bayview, too. People who live, work, and visit there should not have to deal with the impacts, be they physical or emotional any more than i want to. I ask you to deny this application, please. Thank you miss stalanzo. Next speaker, please. How do you do. My name is salal, and ill make this very short for you. I hope were not debating here whether people should eat meat or not and what kind of meat they should eat. However, i want to relate to you that our Community Needs and demands are under represented. Our Community Needs theres no place for us, for muslims to go ahead and get halal meat around this place, the place of the city of San Francisco and while it was opened with the Muslim Community in mind, i have a business very close to the one in oakland. Over 90 of clients are nonmuslims. I spent the last three days counting foot traffic to that store, and i have found that in the first day, one out of 12 were muslim. In the second day, one out of 11, and the third day, one out of nine, so the people that go there really demand and need to see where the animal has come from, how it is being slaughtered and how its being processed. It might be somewhat foreign to some a good segment of the population, but for a whole lot of us who really care about organic a place is, where this product has come from, what food did it eat, and how its slaughtered. Were importantly for the people who are really worried about how humane it is or not, i challenge that there is a more humane way of slaughtering an animal, and i hope thats not the discussion that were having here than the muslim way. Reason why is the animals, when they get slaughtered are in separate chamber from where they get gathered. Unlike those commercial slaughter houses that are in the bay area, where another animal gets to see another animal being slaughtered. This is highly fore bidden in the religion, but more importantly the health way is really important to the muslims and people who are health conscious. Because the way it was bled out, so it has an impact on the people. We are very well aware that this place used to for many years host these places, and i very strongly recommend that you approve this, not for the sake of the Muslim Community but the community at large, so i ask upon you to approve this agencial use permit. God bless. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi names jamal guinan. I grew up and i was raised here in San Francisco and as far as i can remember, one of my parents biggest issues that we faced when we live here was finding halal