Laws have evolved and we are the ones who are stuck with enforcing them the way that they are. That does not necessarily mean that we think they are particularly good ideas, but we certainly want people to grow, prosper, and be saved. That can be achieved in all sorts of ways. We want to work with you on that. Thank you. I was the founding president of the Entertainment Commission. I retired and went on to found the culture association, the first trade association statewide for night life, bar, and restaurant activities. I am here with a question that plagues a lot of these license holders, who desire to have their establishment opened for all age dance parties, or 18 and up, and are being handed a restriction in the conditioning process that requires them to sell 50 food and 50 alcohol, in direct contradiction to the underlying statute that defines a bonafide eating place and put an onerous requirement that cannot be met and makes those Business Owners immediate felons and creates a s
Im sorry, marin county. It is the same sort of problem. Part of the argument is just like i it was a kid coming in, people come in from all over the area to eat in San Francisco restaurants. They come from all over the world. Again, this governor is going to support everyone locally. I lot of that will have to come from you to accomplish what is right for the city. How do we do that . [unintelligible] i blame these guys for conditions. This time, i will blame fee on the mall and senator leno. Fiona ma and senator leno. Their limited by statute, but that is very difficult to have much room to maneuver. You said to organize local bars. I have been trying to do that for a few years now. We have our sixth annual event coming up in september. We have been trying to get toger a long time. I am not a politician in do not care to be a politician. If i cannot raise the issue in that way, the way i have been doing it, personally i get quoted in esquire for what i have done, but i still have no c
City family here engaged in this conversation. I think it is really a measurable thing that you have the chief of police introducing todays conversation and todays forum with you in addition to having the board of supervisors as civil the understand the work that you and why it is so important. Having individuals like one of the Board Members spoke earlier about having oewd focusing on this. All this matters when youre trying to work collaborative late. Part of the problem in the past has been people working in individual silos and not sharing information and focusing collectively on what we are trying to get done. We want to grow the numbers. We want and i like to understand it to understand. I think it is great that so many people are here, that we have invigorated leadership from the and bigger the Entertainment Commission and the work that king is doing. I looked out in the audience and i see alcohol and Beverage Control here. All of the players are at the table in order to move th
That is going to mostly driven locally. Most of the conditions youll ever see on an abc license are because we rely, to a great extent, on the Police Department and local officials to determine what is best for their communities. Im not trying to pin this on you guys or blame you guys, but we do try to work with you. We do not tend to want to overrule the Police Department very often. Now that said, i get a fair number of petitions and appeals to me. Typically, they are from the neighbors. I want to see that there is actually a practical problem posed that the condition is there to solve, not that this is the way the things have been or maybe theres someone who is satisfied by what is potentially wrought by having live entertainment. It is always a case by case. Generally, very deferential i am very deferential to the removal of conditions that do not appear to be solving any problems, and by removing them we are narghile posing any problems that we cannot then thereafter solved. Direc
If the conditions has no entertainment, and the entertainment, it also includes this limited live provision. We have determined in the city that this legislation is good good legislation. Theres no conditional use requirement to have this. A lot of people today want to have food, drink, and be able to have some music. How can we get the limited Live Entertainment excluded from the know amplified or no Live Entertainment excluded on the transfers . That is going to mostly driven locally. Most of the conditions youll ever see on an abc license are because we rely, to a great extent, on the Police Department and local officials to determine what is best for their communities. Im not trying to pin this on you guys or blame you guys, but we do try to work with you. We do not tend to want to overrule the Police Department very often. Now that said, i get a fair number of petitions and appeals to me. Typically, they are from the neighbors. I want to see that there is actually a practical prob