This is regular meeting of Small BusinessCommission Held on october 3, 2016. This meeting is called to order at 535 p. M. The Small Business commission thanks Media Service and sf gov tv. Members of the public take the opportunity to silence phones. Pub luck comment is limit today 3 minute per speaker unless otherwise established. Speaker are requested but not required to state name, completion of the sparking card will insure proper spelling. Deliver speaker cards to the the commission secretary. Additionally there is a sign in sheet at the front table for those that would like to be added to the mailing list. If you can please show our slide. Alright. We begin each and end Small BusinessCommission Meeting with reminder the office of Small Business is the only place to start your newbeds in San Francisco and best place to get answers about doing business in San Francisco. The saufs of Small Business should be your first stop and have a question what to do next. So, if you need assistance, Small Business matters start here at the office of Small Business. Thank you. Alright. Item 1, call to order and roll call. Stephen adams is absent. Dooley, here. Dwight, here. Ortizcartagena, here. U, riley, here. Toursarkissian, here, zouzounis, here. General Public Comment. Any members of the public who would like to comment on anything not on tonights agenda. Seeing none. A men. Public comment is closed. Itedm number 3. Discussion and action to approve legacy business registry application squz resolution. Discussion and action item. The applications under consideration are the booksmith, dog eared book, green apple books, henrys house of coffee and zeitgeist. The presenter is Richard Kurylo good evening. Richer kurylo Legacy Business Program manager. I have a Powerpoint Presentation today. Today we have 5 legacy business applicant before you. The legislation and Administration Code section 2 a rks 242 d says eligacy business is a business nominate bide a mb of the board of supervisor or the mayor and Small Business after a hearing determines and meets the following critee ur. One, the business operate in San Francisco for 30 or more years with no break in San Francisco operation exceeding 2 years. The business may have operated in more than one location. If the business operated in San Francisco for more than 20 years but less than 30 yearatize may still satisfy the subsection if the Small BusinessCommission Finds the business criblt today the history or identity of a particular neighborhood or community and it is not included in the trejistry the business would face a significant risk of displacement. Critearium two, the business contributes to the neighborhood history or identity of a particular neighborhood or community. The business is committed to maintaining the physical features or traditions that define the business including craft, culinary or art forms. The Small Business commission makes finds tgz includes the business and registry as a legacy business. Today we have 5 legacy businesses starting with item 3 a, the booksmith. 1644 hate ight hate street in district 5. 3 b, dog eared books, address, 900 valencia street and 489 castro street and thats in district 9. 3 c, green apple books. Address, 506 clumeant street and 1231 9th avenue in district 1 for 506. Henrys house of coffee, 1618 nor ega street in district 4. Zite gite in district 9. Books, beans burgers and beer. That is awesome. Have the applicant operated in San Francisco for 30 or more years with no break exceeding 2 years the determination is 3 a, c, d and e. The determination is no for 3 b, which is dog eared books. Has dog eared books operated in San Francisco more than 20 years but less than 30 years. Contributed to the history or identity to a eneighborhood or commune ity and face significant risk of displacement, the determination is yes. Criteria 2, have the applicant contribute today the neighborhood history orioid of a neighborhood or community. Determine is yes. All 5 applicant were recommend bide the Historic Preservation commission. The app competent committed to maintaining the physical features design including craft, culinary and art form squz the determination is yes. Staff recommendation is that the Small Business include there 5 businesses listed in agenda items 3 a3 a in the legacy business registry as legacy businesses. There are 5 draft resolutions for consideration by the Small Business commission, one for each of the legacy business registry applicants. And ill entertain questions if you have them. It is another great group of businesses and i want to thank each of you for going all the effort to fill out your application squz qualify. This is a fantastic. I see familiar names on the list so delighted to have you join the registry. Commissioners, any questions for richard or comments . Richard can you elaborate on 3 b . Dog eared books. 29 years rather than 30. The legislation allows to be included in the registry if they face a risk of displacement so they are trying to negotiate thait lease which is up in 2018 and having difficulty with that so we are thinking that the listing on the registry will help them negotiate the lease with the landlord. Making a exception then . We allowed exsemgzs in the past. We have done that for one of the applicant in the first round and there are a few more in the pipeline that are also within the same category. Thanks. Youre welcome. Any other comments . Okay. Well, thank you. Well open up for Public Comment. Do we have speaker cards . We have one speaker card. There are other additional cards. Standard that you announce the first speaker is pete [inaudible] good afternoon commissioners. Morning somewhere. First wanted to thank you for your service. Thank you for volunteering your time to support smaum business in San Francisco. Green apple was founded in 1967 with a credit union loan. We opened a second store in the inner sun set so we support 38 employees. We did math and think we have done about 5 million transagzs actions in the last 49 years. If there is history in a few of them i think there is history in all. Connecting people and books 5 million times i hope is impressive. The building is [inaudible] the book squz people chaisked over time but if you shop twnt or 30 or 40 years ago it would have the same feeling. Books are important to every community. They help couples conceive, survivors grieve, kids learn to read, learn new perspectives. [inaudible] recirculates money nin community. [inaudible] pays cax out to customers which they respond in the local community. Unlike our online competitors. Ory books evolved with the times. We expand and contract sections based on what is selling. We have all most 1300 yelp reviews 12 hundred are 4 or 5 star squz say this to show the Community Support for the store. No other book store has that many. We have won a lot of awards including publisher weekly seller. We live here. My partners and i live here and xids glow to Public School squz vaulten tear and referryed the basketball games around the corner and green apple is a source of stability on clument street. Many merchants told us they opened near us because we were there. We also participate in the community and helped found the local First Movement educating business and consumers about the value of shopping locally and active in the murnant association but humanity happens at green apple. Wie had fires, earthquakes and death and also marriage proposals. New stores have grown from ours. At least 3 other green apples started their own store in San Francisco. The only reason we are still here is 4 or 500 people every day decide they rather have locally owned independent book store. We thank you for your consideration and support. Thank you. Anyone else . We have mr. [inaudible] good afternoon. My name is [inaudible] Third Generation coffee roast in f is. The business was founded in 1965 but my fathers uncle andy and my father purchased in it 83. I remember being 12 years old woken up on saturday and dragged to work to help my dad with the business. I hated it and it wasnt something i wanted to do, i wanted to swatch scuby due. 3 years i made the switch from corporate world into the business. We are in the Coffee Business because it is part of my heritage not because it is a Good Business. I love what i do, i get to work with my father. I get to roast coffee and have conversations with the community and my hope is the legacy business continues and respect and honor what you are gibbing giving us and be around for another 50 yoors. And y hope that one of my children willp want to be in my business. Next speaker is kat rosen burger. My name isicate roseenburger. I have a letter from my tax guy supporting our financial liability. That is something i can submit. This is nervewracking. You nervous . You are only on sf gov tv broadcast world wide. Thank you. Yes. Late night. My name isicate roseenburg. We opened in 1992 at 1173 vulens lu. After a new land lady bought the build{moved to 900 valencia at 20th. We had 5 landlords since occupying the space. The new landlord is instead of renewing leases to long established viable tenant giving 45 days eviction notice and raising the rent as much as 5 timeathize current market rate. Dog eared book saz financial viable business. San francisco has been a center of literary innovation and tradition. The [inaudible] our authors write world class fantasy adventer and [inaudible] robert Lewis Stephen [inaudible] ann rice. Those are just the authors within international reputations. Our current poet laureate [inaudible] another. We were once known as the city ofpo poets. Neither authors or book stores or the city of San Francisco operate in a vacuum. We have a benefital relationship. As recently as 10 years goy there were 9 book stores in 9 blocks. Abandoned pant, adobe, [inaudible] forest books, [inaudible] modern time squz valencia books. Now, there are two book shops in two blocks. Dog eared books and borebder land. Boarder land nearly closed shop last year due to minimum wage increase. They subscribed [inaudible] signed up 600 scribers in 4 days. The Community Support is here, our neighbors old and new love and support us. We are a International Tourist destination. Please allow us to be honored as a legacy business and what i call the little city that could beloved San Francisco. Thank you. Next speaker card is kristin evans. Im the owner of the third book store, booksmith. It was a treat to see 3 book stores on the list today before you. I am a relatively new owner of our store, 9 years. The book store was founded over 40 years ago and it was a pleasant surprise to be nominate frd the legacy business designation by our supervisor breed. We were hosting a 4th Anniversary Party in the store this summer and had a huge turn out and she came and said i nominated you for the legacy Business Award and said great what does that mean . Just a little about the booksmith, it was in the application gary frank and debbie [inaudible] met at the uc berkeley book store and they set out to establish what they thought would be a sustainable viable business to raise a family and they opened their first location on haight street in 1976 below the i beam club with the puchck rock scene and they were fortunate to be able to buy a building on haight street in the early to mid80s. Gary invested in library lightjug custom shelves which are there today. My husband and i took over the store in 2007. Gary had advertise d the business for sale starting in 2001 and hadnt been able to find a buyer. It speaks volumes to the change in brick and mortar bookstores acured over that period of time that we have been between the first and second dot com boom. Frchinately he saw and trusted his legacy to my husband and i and we have been proud to continue offering a general selection of books to the local Haight Ashbury neighborhood made up of color people can makes it part of the intrest of going to work every day. Thank you very much. Great. Thank you very much. Zeitgeist is next to speak . You came all the way over. Laura [inaudible] the daughter of the owner of zeitgeist. As you may have seen zeitgeist started in 1977 and founded by man names hauns [inaudible] embodied a lot of what you may recognize. A bit of a grungey dive bar that appealed to a wide group of people. What you may not know is he is home osexual so it was a place a lot of people could go which at the time in San Francisco didnt have a lot of spaiss in the community. When he passed in 1998 my dad took over the bar. There is a mural in the backyard that is there to remember him and we tried very hard to keep that legacy in place. One thing that we are facing a challenge we might have in the coming month is there a Development Across the street which is 5 stories high that will shade our beer garden so wree doing everything we can do to maintain the business and be what is for the last all most 40 years so we really appreciate your considering us for this special legacy business designation and we hope we will be able to sustain that as it comes. Thank you very much. Alright. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Any comments . I want to say it is a another great group of people and embody the independent Small Business, something that we all need to hold fiercely on to in this town and delighted to be here to help you in any way can and bravo to all you. Yes, thank you very much. As i said observe, i appreciate you taking the effort to go through all of the application process and to be here tonight as well. Thank you and thank you for your word. Any other comments . Alright. A motion . I move. I second. Okay. All in favor . Aye. Any opposed . Welcome to the legacy business registry, thank you very much. [applause] that motion passes 60, 1 absent. Now get back to work. [laughter]. What is next. Item 4, discussion and axz to made recommendation on board of supervisors file 160960 planning code temporary homeless shelters in certain industrial and mixed use district. Allow temp laer homeless shelters in production and distribution and repair the west soma mixed use office and Service Arts Light IndustrialZoning Districts subject to conditional use authorization affirming the planning commissions determination under the California Environmental quality act making findings of public convenience necessity and welfare priority code section 101. 1. Discussion and possible action and our presenter is sam dodge, deply director department of homelessness and supportive housing. Good evening. Emily cohen and here hi, emily. How are you guys . I assume you presenting the next as well. I wont call you sam dodge again. Okay. Im not sure how to make this sf gov tv will turn it on. Thank you very much for having us. Like i said, emily cohen with department of homelessness and supportive housejug here with paul from department of public works and we cani have a short presentation prepared about the navigation sent squr the legislation that correspond and paul and i can answer any questions you might have. Um, so, San Francisco faces sorry for the interruption. So is injust want to make sureyou will talk about theis that file number 160961 that is the presentation is targeted to . Both. Mr. President should we call both items together . Yeah, can you call both together. I need to read into report. Discussion and action to make remation on board of supervisors file 160961 summary street vacation 25th street temporary Navigation Center for homeless rez dent. Ordinance ordering the summary street vacation of portion of 25th street bounded pie assesser parcel block 4241, lot number 002, to seawall lot 355,. Lot number 001 and assessers parcel block, number 4300 lot number oo 1 to the south. Michigan street to the west and 356 seawall lot assesser parcel block number 1399 lot ooo to the east. To facilitate construction of a taemperary Navigation Center for homeless resident authorizing on 24th street pursuant to Administration Code section 106. 3 b. Afirming the Planning Departments determination under California Environmental call act. Consistent with general plan and the 8 priority policies of planning code section 1071. 1 and authorizing official acts and connection with this ordinance. Discussion and possibly action item. Thank you.