Commissioner riley . Yes, i want to mention that [inaudible] the petition on this establishment. [inaudible] can i put up a diagram to show you the process . I just want to clarify that before sb 731 went in place and before people went through the dph process they all went through this process. This is something weve been doing since the Health Department took over since the Police Department. Basically what happens when you come in to get an application from the department of Public Health and there are certain conditions you need to meet. You need to have a business license and then we ask you for referrals. You can see the referrals are going to the Planning Department for a referral and that will determine making sure the location that if you open your business that it abides by the zoning code and if you need to go through a different process. The Building Department would have to fill out a referral form and they go in and do an inspection to look at making sure the electricity
Department would have criteria. If that were to become based on that criteria and maybe parking, floor space, if that becomes bigger then the principal use, then it switches and that becomes the principal use. Thats how they are defined within the planning code. Okay. That clarifies it for me. The one other thing that i would like to talk about is the implementation of the permitting process. One thing we heard that the massage community thought it was very cumbersome that we have to get the referrals from the fire and Police Department. I did speak to those departments and unfortunately they are not willing to wave those inspections. Its when they go to the facility and inspect safety and fire and with respect to electrical and plumbing and the Police Department does want that background check. Unfortunately we are not able to wave those deferrals or fees. If we had a business that was previously permitted by dph and tax exempt and now coming back into system that we would try to redu
Good evening commission. I stand before you today to say my piece about the current ordinance being discussed and how i feel it will affect the massage profession. Currently im a student at the institute. Im also a u. S. Veteran who served in the marine corp for the past 8 years and looking for another career. I have a strong passion for this career and for medicinal purposes is more evident and it will be seen in the rank with other businesses in the future. I dont see a significance and established Massage Therapy businesses in maintaining a business. Most students wishing to start a business have to come out of pocket and who already have an accumulation debt to their name and now for the amount of time the puc will take the process to be used for entrepreneurship caused by those that cheat the system already not to only generate the profit that they can take aside from massage parlors. Believes the problem well intact. This is an aside to prostitution rings. Please dont add hardshi
Good evening commission. I stand before you today to say my piece about the current ordinance being discussed and how i feel it will affect the massage profession. Currently im a student at the institute. Im also a u. S. Veteran who served in the marine corp for the past 8 years and looking for another career. I have a strong passion for this career and for medicinal purposes is more evident and it will be seen in the rank with other businesses in the future. I dont see a significance and established Massage Therapy businesses in maintaining a business. Most students wishing to start a business have to come out of pocket and who already have an accumulation debt to their name and now for the amount of time the puc will take the process to be used for entrepreneurship caused by those that cheat the system already not to only generate the profit that they can take aside from massage parlors. Believes the problem well intact. This is an aside to prostitution rings. Please dont add hardshi
Legitimate businesses from being able to practice. One i appreciate that there are still four providers allowed to be exempt from the cup process. However if each one has to go through solo establishment permit process that is actually a really large process in and of itself. I know that because i have gotten my building inspection permit recently and it took over 5 months, it took a lot of money and it took providing architectural drawings, inspection, so many different minutia. 13 different visits. If each person of those four have to go through that process, thats causing the city a lot of excess work and its causing each practitioner access work. So i really propose that the four people could actually share a solo establishment permit to cut down on just excess labor and excess inefficiency. As well i think its important to consider that not everybody knew that they had to have this piece of paper signed for camtc exemption. Its not clear. If you have a certification you do not hav