Blocks away and in the tender loin there is a lot, and it is such a small distance that a young different in lack of density and some neighbors, like the tender loin it is normal to see a lot of the tobacco outlets and smokers but in neighborhoods like the heights it is not that normal. And i think that is because of the lack of density and also they target the low income communities and the people of color and youth and lgbtq communities and i am at least in two of those, i am a person of color and so i am a youth and i am being targeted by this and i know that we can and it is not fair that i am being targeted for being who i am and how many of you or the people that you care about are targets. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, for also supporting empowerment of young people. Thank you. Good afternoon. I am a proud resident of the wonderful district eight, and work ends up as district nine, there are 2900 families looking to do what my parents did provide a better
You. I would like to thank you for framing this as a social injustice, and that is what it is, there is a lot of Health Disparities associated with that too and it is about addressing the inequities in the community. And this is also a policy of the national and as usual, San Francisco continues to lead the field. And we hope that this can continue, demonstrating the power of young people, and the collaboration of Community Stage organizations and the Health Organizations and the Health Experts and the Community Residents and of course, the store merchant and thank you for sending a message for big tobacco and we will no longer be target and thank you to all of the youth in the room and the generations of the youth people that made this happen, thank you. Thank you. How are you doing . Supervisor mar, campos, and thank you for having me and, my name is mahia and i work with the transitional youth in San Francisco, and i am here to speak in full support of you passing this policy. And o
Board member with the Arab American Grocers Association and i am the only young person on it they are all like my uncles. So it is tough to fight for what you believe in in the city and what i believe in too and we cant overlook that small, Family Businesses who survive and live in a changing landscape and i am the Third Generation of a story in district six and the south of market neighborhood since 1967. So, thank you for letting us a Small Businesses and stake holders and San Francisco be a part of this work. Thank you. High, high name is emily and i am 17 years old and i go to good Side International which is in the sunset and i have grown up in the Mission District my life and i have been born and raise there had and i can tell that there is a difference in the amount of tobacco outlets when i go to school, and get back from school. And part of the reason that i am here is i am representing my path, which focuss on economic injustice and i think that there needs to be a more equit
President and supervisors i was hoping to get out of talking but do i have 7 and a half minutes . You have 3 minutes remaining. Theres a long history to this project im looking forward to it being over. I think its very unfortunately its come back to this body and that the appellant continues to persist after so many complaints all of which have been addressed its very frustrating for me as the architect for this project that i have to get up here and defend defend that its okay to have lowered the door 18 inches. Really i think everybody has missed that including the Planning Department the focus of this sequa is about lowering the front door and the front porch thats visible from the street because those things are visible from the street. The dorm ers in the back are behind the roof; they are not visible from the street. Everything else the appellant has brought up are subject to permitting issues and all of those permitting issues are being handled now with the building department.
We know that tobacco and cigarettes use is the leading cause of preventible death in San Francisco and thanks so much for the department of Public Health leadership for emphasising that along with communitybased organizations. I wanted to give and nearly 4 hundred 400 million a year is spent on health costs related to cigarettes and tobacco. Also ucsf and stanford researchers gave us recently their up to date research and premature death in low income communities and also tobacco density the higher concentrations of tobacco permits and sales that density results in increased Youth Smoking rates as well so this is about limiting access access but also reducing big tobaccos efforts to hook young people on cigarettes and also the e cigarettes as well and this over time as i said will cut our tobacco permits in half according to our estimates through attrition and reducing the number of tobacco licenses. Creating a cap of 45 licenses per district and that cap was calculated by looking at t