Architect for the project at 2323 mission. Im here with the business owner. The patio has been in use for 23 years. One of the neighbors complained. Thats why were here today. I will give you an orientation and then ben will speak more specifically about the use. The twostory awning that you see is the project. This is a floorplan and you can see that ive illustrated theres a red line. Thats the existing plan. Structure in the rear extends out far to the rear yard. In our meetings with building and Fire Department staff, to provide a second exit from this space, need to make a larger rear yard so there is space at the back of the property for people to escape to. There is only one way out to the street in the front and unfortunately no way it put a second corridor. So the Fire Department staff agreed its an appropriate and safe solution to the problem. By limiting the outdoor space to a maximum of 49 people its complaint with the building code. It is the area that we need to demolish and will create a larger rear yard than currently exists. Its difficult to see, but the site is very dramatically sloped. And so when you come out the back of the restaurant, you are on a grade level and theres a step up, another tier, and then a step up, another tier. The property is to the rear of our property and up about a full story, 8 feet, from our patio area. This is a view looking at the section that will be demolished. The area that you see with the blue awning will come off and then you will see theres a covered shed area that will be essentially the new rear wall of the structure and it will not be a shed structure. It will be a full building structure. On the north side here to the right, you can see the wood siding. So thats the north side. There are windows that are on to and face the patio. On the left side, the southfacing side, theres a solid brick wall all the way up, so plenty of sound mitigation. Its a structure that will be demolished as part of the work. These are the only windows in the brick facade that face on to the patio and have faced it for 23 years. Based on the location and size we estimate they could be kitchens and bathrooms, but difficult to know. And on the opposite side, because of the Fire Department requirements, the lowest tier will be the only area where seating will be allowed. Above that needs to be clear in case of emergency. All the use will be moved down from the top two tiers to the lower area. I will turn it over to ben. Thank you very much. Can i thanks for having me here today. Appreciate it. The Planning Department only received two areas of support, but we collected our own and we have about 1,000. So theres 1,000 letters of support there. And then i pulled out some key ones that are not in the stack. These are additional letters that we have and just to point out some of the support that weve had. And i do have seven of these. Can i present these to the yes. So this packet that i give you has a combination of things in it. One thing i wanted to point out was sample letters of support. Theres hundreds of Mission Residents who have chimed in. State senator scott weiner wrote a letter, City College Board members, a number of local business owners, royal coocoo, and others. The Mission Midwives run by cara engleb rect. Mission Street Merchants Association and united Player Services has written in support. I also included a sound mitigation plan that we have in place and i want to point out that i know i only have a few seconds left. We held a Community Meeting on monday and we posted the previous week for anybody that had concerns. Nobody attended that meeting, but were more than open to having another meeting with any neighbors that want to talk about how to mitigate the issues and especially to go over the sound mitigation plan that we think can help to make sure that were responsible neighbors. Thank you. Thank you. So well open this item up for Public Comment. I have a number of speaker cards. If i call your name, you can line up against the side of the room and approach in any order. Steven cook, tom tempranio, ben blyman, wandy felix, and felicia lester. Go ahead. Im steve cooke. Im a resident of the Mission District and executive director of education nonprofit called mission bit for educational poverty. Ive known the owners of this group for several years now and hosted several events at the locations and they never charged me a dime, because they knew i was doing events to support the youth in the community. The item in question is a great suggestion from staff. The outdoor patio has been a great place to build community. Its a jewel of the community. Its very welcoming and charming place to visit. Its not detached and one of the newer, posh areas. One thing i wanted to speak to is the character of the owners. I initially met mark because he was mentoring a student that we shared when i was an academic advisor at thurgood marshall. He was a big brother. So theyve been great stewards of the businesses and great people for the communities that they serve. Thats all i got. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi. Im felicia lester. And i live on cap street, behind the bar. And i didnt know about the Community Meeting or i would have gone. But i am not opposed to the project in general, but the noise is a big problem. And ive been in the mission for 13 years and ive been in that location for three years. Just had a baby, so now i care about it a little more than i did when i first moved in, but the residents immediately behind teeth have three families that i know and am friends with and have six children and three of them under the age of 3. In my back room that abutts its three houses south and our backyard and our back room goes up against that wall that you saw with the brick ward and thats not adequate soundproofing. I forgot about the meeting on october 26 and heard a lot of noise happening around 9 00 p. M. So i went out back and i was like, oh, my gosh, i missed that meeting. It probably passed. And theyre celebrating. I just want to say that the noise is an issue but i would like the timing that it can be open after a reasonable hour. For young children, 10 00 p. M. Is late. I made an audio recording from the back room of my house. So this is what the you can put it up to the mike. [tape plays] people having fun. Its great, but when kids are trying to sleep in the back rooms, its disturbing so i want you to consider that. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. First of all, i have some the windows that you see that they showed on the side there is Apartment Buildings. And its not its very close. I mean, right there you can look over the patios where teeth is. Im strongly against the expansion to 2323 Mission Street. Since theyve opened six different tenants all the apartments on that side of the building have moved out because of the noise level. Sorry. Im very, very upset right now. Due to the noise level, how do they plan to control all the noise that would come with this change if they cant control the noise now. It would only get worse with this expansion. I dont know how much more noise the tenants in my building can take. This is a rentcontrolled building and we have two vacancies only because of the noise of the patio. People look over and go and i have to explain to them, theyre there until 10 00 at night and its noisy until then. What else can i tell them . This is a rentcontrolled Apartment Building. There is something wrong with that. If you cant rent out two apartments there. Anyway, im sorry. Currently ive been living at 2315 Mission Street for 28 years and its never been this bad. Ive spoke with the owner of teeth about various problems over the years yet nothing changes. Rather than focus on expansion, i recommend they worry about the fixing, fixing the problems that they have first, which is the noise. These are just tenants and also people have emailed the Planning Commission. I hope you think about this. Yeah, the noise is really, really, really bad. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello, commissioners. Tim temprano, City College Board of trustees, but am here today as a fellow Mission Street bar owner and also a Mission District neighbor in support of the approval for teeth. For those commissioners who have not had an opportunity to visit teeth, virs first of all, i suggest you do. You will see a Small Business that caters to the diversetive the neighborhood and offers affordable food and beverages. I do mean affordable. You cannot beat 25 cent wings or 1 tacos. Theyre truly, in fact, affordable. And i understand the commissions role in having to balance many uses in a densely populated city like San Francisco, but i do also really want the commission to value the role that bars like dr. Teeth and ours and many others play as an economic driver in the city generating 4 billion in spending and employing 40,000 residents. You know, oftentimes for businesses like teeth, matters like this patio can be, frankly, its about survival, as i think that teeth has outlined. And i would hope that this patio, which has been in existence for over two decades, and is critical to the survival of this business, can continue to be utilized by the community. The owners of teeth have em exemplified in opening up the space to the community and inviting the community in to leverage the space to generate muchneeded funds for community nonprofits. As a neighboring Small Business owner, i really do want to commend the Ownership Team of teeth for the advocacy and work that theyve done on behalf of our industry and the 40,000 people that we employ. I urge you today to support these good Small Business owners in the neighborhood to approve the c. U. For dr. Teeth. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi there. Good afternoon. Im lela cirgold. Ive been a Small Business owner and resident in mission. I own a bar in the mission. I truly believe one of the main reasons that the mission is a vibrant, attractive neighborhood for dining and nightlife and to live in is its Small Businesses. Its warm, positive places like teeth that care about residents that we need to foster and protect. Theyve donated thousands to local charities and they have affordable food and drink and serve a diverse crowd. Without use of their patio, we risk losing another communityfocused establishment. The patio at teeth has been in operation for over 20 years. Today you guys have the power to preserve that and keep this muchloved neighborhood institution open. We ask that you do that. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. I understand its a jewel of the mission and famous bar, but its very noisy and i get that the owners are the greatest people and have the nicest hearts, but theyre rude to their neighbors. Im sure out of the letters they got in support not one is from a neighbor, because every night, especially on weekends, i suggest you visit on the weekend to see how bad it is, the loitering is crazy. The patio closes at 10 00, but im sure a lot of those people go to the front and hang out and talk and a lot of them are drunk. You can hear how drunk they are. Sometimes when i go to work early in the morning, their trash, ive heard them vomit. Its ridiculous im not telling you to shut these people down, but the idea of expanding the back is a bad idea, especially what theyre planning to take down is next to the Apartment Building and these letters here from the tenants, its proof that they cant take it. Just for the sake of the sanative the tenants, i suggest that you dont approve this. Thats it. Just thats it. Its just really bad. And the loudness is ridiculous. And they do nothing about the loitering, which adds to the loudness the focus here is the patio, but the front is bad, too. And just like the ladys recording, it doesnt do it justice. Keep that in mind. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please . Good afternoon. I just wanted to say that to be honest with you, i know that teeth does a lot of outreach and theyre a really great bar. I went on yelp because i only visited them once and thats when they just opened and i had a bad experience. They triple billed me, but i know they do a lot of great things and its awesome that they have so much support in the neighborhood, but the things that are not being mentioned right now is as many good things they have about them they also have just as many negatives, at least if you live next to them. If you dont and you are just there to party, then i think its an awesome place that you can stay at all night, every night, and you know, go home and lie down and forget about it, but for someone that lives next door to them, in the building next to them, i promise you, that you would be opposed to this. As great as they are, as great a staff they are and owners that they may be, they make it literally miserable to live next to them and thats the honest truth. I cannot sleep. I can hear them when im in the back, in the front, in the front, in the back. Our building is next to the patio. I know the pat arroyo patio addition is the main focus today. We never had a hearing or meeting, at least that i knew of because i would have showed up. It may have been a backyard, but they didnt use it until the past few years and thats something that i also note that no one is bringing up. It only started being used in the past two years. It had not been used for 20 some years like theyre saying. To celebrate, they roasted a pig and we had to call the cops on them because it was a fire hazard. They do all kinds of stuff, all the time there, that they should not be doing. They put netting up on our building with no approval because they said that somebody was throwing something on them from our building. Maybe they were. They said they called the cops. Lets see them. Bottom line, they do things on our property. They dont get permission and someone mentioned that there was a meeting. Yeah, there was a meeting a week ago announced. Theyve been open for years. Only until this hearing was announced did they want it have a meeting with us the manager of this building has talked to mark multiple times and told him issues and concerns we have and nothing gets done about it. If it does, we dont see it. We dont get to see the changes. Maybe on the inside. Who knows. They dont affect us or better us in any way. Thats what we care about at the end of the day. We definitely get the worst of it. You did hear a recording from cap street. You should hear it on Mission Street next door to them. Its literally ridiculous. So i could go on. There are other things that happen as well at the business from customers vomitting in our doorway and they only come from that bar. There are two other bars on the block. Never come from them. There are people that do all kinds of stuff and its only from that bar. I know im on a time limit here. I hope you consider this. I know they have pros to them, but i hope you consider the cons as well. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good evening, commissioner. Nice to see you, and, again, thanks for your services. Im al sharwa, doing business in mission for 35 years. And im very protective of our mission community. Im about a block away from the bar that theyre talking about, teeth. And it has been nothing but good experience with the owner and the operator. It became one of my Favorite Places because it offered a lot for the locals. The outdoor we dont have very many places out there. I would hate to see that change. If they close by 10 00, i dont know many people sleep before 10 00. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. How are you guys doing . I worked at dr. Teeth for five years. Theres a couple other bars in that neighborhood that have been known for a bad crowd of people. So i dont feel like teeth is really that big of an issue. The patio, however, its a trademark for San Francisco. Ive had a bunch of people that come to the bar that come from other places just to visit teeth because a friend told them to check it out because of the patio. Taking the patio away from teeth, it will take a part of San Francisco away. Not many places with patios that you can go and enjoy like we have at dr. Teeth. So i think the patio is definitely it would be a winwin for everyone to keep it open. And remodel it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi. Im miguel olera. I work for dr. Teeth. I want you to consider keeping the patio open because way survive from it. Its important for us to keep the patio open. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Commissioners, good afternoon. Phillip lesser, president of the Mission Merchants association. Im hoping that you will accept recommendation for approval and he doesnt lose the first one that he brought to you. Kidding aside, you have before you a 7x7x7 problem. San francisco is seven miles by seven miles and the mission is 7 percent of the 7 miles. And were trying to do a lot of things within that 7 of San Francisco. Ive come before on valencia street patios. Tacolicious. We did an entertainment venue for blondeys. We had problems on albion street. Lexington street. Weve come here for Mission Street projects as well. Problems with the people on bartlett street. The solution is not to do anything on valencia street or Mission Street and then everybody on the side streets will be okay. Or you can do what weve done, this body did, come up with a lookback period. You may recall, engineering report was required. Thats the former parking lot for new college. It now has the patio out there. And you will see a sound wall around it. There are operating requirements as to when to close. How to keep it clean. How to be neighborly. And theres a lookbac