Wont continue the great work to balance the reforms we need to implement as well as making sure we focus on Public Health for San Francisco. We can do both we have done both the data makes that clear this is to be thats why day is to o so significant i remember 8 years ago and all with ed lee form mayor and form supervisor malia connecticut and police and our form chief and thank you for being here today chief sir. We came out clapping. during a very difficult time. There were a number of photos who were out ranldz a number of challenges to this department faced. And the fact is at the time and though we miss president obama his department of justice put out 200 plus to improve we adapted that and worked with the california doj to implement those recommendations first through xavier used to be the California Attorney general and now others continuing through that process so much has happened a lot of outrage and frustration many of you know i grew up[in a community where trust between
This is responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. Acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Welcome to the San Francisco Recreation Park Commission meeting this morning at 10 00 am. , thursday, april 18, 2024. When you are in line and waiting. 4. Unless otherwise indicated, speakers will have 2 minutes to provide comment. Public comment will be available unless founsz by the chair. Recreation and Park Commission meeting 18, 2024, 10 00 a. M. City hall, room 416. Please address your commission to the commission directly the commission may ask comments from the public and blue cards available at the table we ask you to fill out a blue card Public Comment maybe submitted email and Postal Service and included in the file were on item two the president s report. Thank you ashley im going to pass to the general mana
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