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Organizer with food justice and doing some of the management in the coalition and i would like to applaud you supervisors and doing this work and sets base and Community Work having a positive impact and providing resources to really expand the programs. In the healther Food Coalition started a year ago and we had a convening and residents identified the desire to turn the Corner Stores that tend to have negative impact into something positive and we got a coalition from the meeting and met with...

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 vi...

As you may know we are a coalition of over 25 Community Members and cbos and the Community Working collaboratively to ensure sustainable and affordable and healthy food is available to the residents in bay view Hunters Point. We have developed a Pilot Program for sustainable retail in the bay view Hunters Point neighborhood and in addition to the food guard guardians and Health Promotion throughout the country and influenced other efforts in other under served neighborhoods in the city and it ha...

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 a...

Cups of alcohol at 9 00 oclock in the morning for 25cents but we couldnt get them to sell Healthy Foods and this new proposition is a game changeer and as you mentioned supervisor mar there is evidence based. There is evidence in philadelphia and more importantly the evidence in bay view Hunters Point and i have seen the various groups working there with the city in that neighborhood. I know it can happen in the tenderloin and that in turn will set a precedent for the city and the state and the ...

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...

The farmers markets once in a while but we couldnt do much. We got stores to stop selling dixie cups of alcohol at 9 00 oclock in the morning for 25cents but we couldnt get them to sell Healthy Foods and this new proposition is a game changeer and as you mentioned supervisor mar there is evidence based. There is evidence in philadelphia and more importantly the evidence in bay view Hunters Point and i have seen the various groups working there with the city in that neighborhood. I know it can ha...

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...

Brought in minimarkets from the farmers markets once in a while but we couldnt do much. We got stores to stop selling dixie cups of alcohol at 9 00 oclock in the morning for 25cents but we couldnt get them to sell Healthy Foods and this new proposition is a game changeer and as you mentioned supervisor mar there is evidence based. There is evidence in philadelphia and more importantly the evidence in bay view Hunters Point and i have seen the various groups working there with the city in that ne...

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 valenc...