Community who have been involved in this process throughout the neighborhood including the valencia corridor, 24th street, the mission corridor, people from all over the neighborhood have commented, and lastly once again thank nadal from my office and supervisor wiener and your staff for your work. Thank you supervisor campos and also i had a few remarks. Im actually very excited that were here today with this legislation. It has been years over due, and i think im going to have some real positive changes for the mission. Shortly after i took Office Supervisor kim and i started tag teaming on one off exemptions to the mission alcohol special use district because while this isnt just my view that this special use district served an important purpose when it was first enacted 20 years ago in terms of combating alcohol blight in the mission. Over time in my view out lived its usefulness, and we saw a few years ago at the Bowling Alley that went on at 17th and south van ness that project w
An abomination down mission street. Nothing moved. Mission street doesnt have decent service. Additionally the one thing missing from every transportation seen that i have ever seen is a map of the hills of San Francisco. Until you grasp the fact theyre limited ways to get around the city because the mountains are in the way and the east is bay fill you have a Transit System and mind set that everything is flat and everything is walkable and bikable and its not true and the Transit System needs to be adjusted for that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Is there any additional Public Comment on item two . Yes, please come forward. Hi thank you very much. I am alice rogers, a resident in south park, and i want to thank you so much for holding this hearing. Its long over due, and all of the salient points have been made. I just want to support the need and the rincon south Beach Mission bay south park central corridor neighborhoods, the need, the absolute need to solve these problems. So fa
Corner stores that sell cigarettes and alcohol to neighborhoods that have much more businesses that sell healthy affordable and Fresh Produce. I also wanted to say that many of the food justice and access leaders that i have had the honor of working with helped me understand that food access and the struggle for healthy food in neighborhoods is a civil rights issue for many of the lowest income neighborhoods and on a city wide level as well, so this legislation sets up a Pilot Program that is city wide that draws from the amazing work from the bay view and the tenderloin neighborhoods and other neighborhoods as well. I also wanted to say too its a coalition of not only the food access groups and grass root organizations but Small Businesses and their associations. Jobs with justice played a key role and i am grateful we have people here from jobs with justice and also the Grassroots Coalition in the bay view and the tenderloin and the support is significant and also spur, our city plan
Get a license but a large store can and a lounge has trouble becoming ada compliant and if they do so theyre going to lose the license and a store may close down and not reopen again because the special use district would cause the Liquor License to be forfeited so over time the district was starting to stifle positive change and innovation in the neighborhood and it was time to take action, and i really want to thank supervisor campos because for me i have always been i have clear and public view about this district. Supervisor i know this is a real challenging for you and there are a lot of different views in the neighborhood and i am appreciate of the subtle and thoughtful approach that you took to this, and it a pleasure to collaborate together on it. I think this is going to be a very positive thing. I want to note that we do have a few amendments today, and i just want to briefly describe them. I understand none of them would require a continue scpans we could act today. There ar
Supervisor kim and i started tag teaming on one off exemptions to the mission alcohol special use district because while this isnt just my view that this special use district served an important purpose when it was first enacted 20 years ago in terms of combating alcohol blight in the mission. Over time in my view out lived its usefulness, and we saw a few years ago at the Bowling Alley that went on at 17th and south van ness that project was going to fall apart because they werent going to be able to serve beer so did did a one off exemption for movie theaters. When the roxy theater which is a treasure of Community Institution wanted to serve wine and beer to help survive such a unique San Francisco Mission Institution they were prohibited and we did another exemption for that and each time i gave the standard speech while its great to do the one off exemptions its not good policy and we need to fundamentally address of the problems that were caused and that valencia whole foods cant