It to school. It is sending a message to my children that substance is fine and ok despite the warnings. For my childrens Healthy Future i would rather not take that choice. Also, do we need to experiment with our childrens future . Please do not allow the mcd to be located so near our schools. Supervisor breed thank you for the comments. Before the next speaker, are there any other members that would like to address the board on behalf of the appellant . Come to the line on the righthand side. Next speaker. Excuse me . Supervisor breed its on, maam. Ok. Ok, i can start now. Good afternoon. Im executive director and people have us speak for them. I would like this take a picture, take a look at this screen. On november 28, this is project sponsor birthday, so some of the supervisors from this chambers went to celebrate the birthday with him. And they have a good time. Nd look at all this. Stop, stop. And also, on thursday, he also throw a party for one of the supervisors here. You know running for office. [gavel] supervisor breed im pausing this is called conflict of interest. I dont know how are you going to vote. Supervisor breed thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, supervisors. I live very close to our street and children often. Shop on the other street. [inaudible] and marijuana and difficult. For families with children to buy please recall on our street, thank you. Supervisor breed thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello supervisors. I know that San Francisco is more than 40 mcd stores understand thats enough for the thats enough for the city. Please no more city stores in San Francisco. Supervisor breed thank you. Next speaker, please. Maam, next speaker, please. If there are any other members of the public who would like to speak on behalf of the appellant, step to the line on your right. Talking about conflict of interest. Are we hearing the fair vote from our supervisors . We have a lot of legislation that we do not hear anything in favor of our residents. Were the ones who vote you. When we have mcdonalds trying to open in sunset district, we do not need to define the ages of children, 0 to 5. Children are children. Are we trying to define in such a way we let them go into our district. When we have sunset district for commercial street cancel use approval, those are defined by law that we need our residents approval to have any business coming in, including liquor store. However, we do not have any voices. We do not have to attend this hearing at all. Planning department should do their job to stop the permit when we have so many people opposed. Supervisor breed thank you if for your comments. The clerk will pick that up from you. Next speaker, please. I know you all are concerned parents or people. We teach our children all the time what is right and what is wrong. That doesnt mean that we are more smart than them. We know from our experience. And please look at them for after cannabis recreation passes, how many tragedies that comes up. You can all see from the media, heres the report on district 11. You can see all the merchants they feel so sorry they did not say no. Or come up to say no to mcd. And their business is 40 . And from one of them, the Police Police captain joseph, he received a lot of complaints about customers double parked and people smoke marijuana in residents driveway and refuse to leave. Supervisor breed thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I am a Public Service employee, here on behalf of myself, my mother, family and community. I am chinese, im here to support the irving appeal. It is not necessary, no desire, im a social worker, there is no necessity for them. As you have heard, there are 55 people that spoke before me and said no, no, no. And shows conflict of interest of for the people, the board of supervisors im sorry to say, shame on you guys. Accept the bribery and also show the birthday pictures that means if you publicly receive the money already they might be more under the table. I want to ask the commission what side, and its important for the people to listen to peoples interests. As you heard today, the peoples interest is no mcd. No thank you. Thank you. Supervisor breed thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I just wanted to finish the second half of my speech since i didnt have time. Supervisor breed maam, im sorry, youve already spoken. I didnt finish. Supervisor breed i understand that, but each person gets one minute each. Are there any other members that would like to speak in Public Comment, seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. We closed Public Comment. Is there anyone who hasnt spoken . Ok so if you want to speak in support of the appeal, and you have not spoken, colleagues, is there a motion to reopen Public Comment . Moved, seconded, Public Comment will now be reopened. And we will not reopen Public Comment again. So if there is anyone who is here only to speak in support of the appeal, only, please line up to your right. First speaker. Hi, my name is sharon and im working in the medical field. I really urge supervisors to take a look at the society to care for the children. So please take a look at this picture. This is high school sorry. Thank you. Kids who are using the marijuana near the proposed mcd area. Sometimes those mcd stores, near the bus stop, and there are lots of kids under age using the marijuana. They have access to this area. To get those marijuana. Kind of like. Illegally. Supervisor breed thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors, my name is im coming here to support the appeal. Please supervisors, see how many people need the mcd . How many residents on sunset need mcd . And how many people asking for, please, consider our childrens health. Read the 19 pages of report about report from the Health Department is saying identifies how much damage for the kids for the mcd for the marijuana. Please considering our residents, consider our residents voice. Please listen to our voice. Supervisor breed thank you very much. Are there any other members of the public who have not spoken who would like to speak in support of the appeal, please line up. [speaking foreign language] supervisor breed please speak directly into the microphone. [speaking foreign language] translator i live in sunset area for decades. I truly love this community. Im mostly very concerned about the Health Effect of the marijuana shop that is going to be opened in this area. I personally am suffering from asthma and im not very pleased at the smell of the smoke around to affect me quite a bit. [speaking foreign language] so i ask you it to please consider the concerns of all the public at large in that particular area and not to approve the marijuana business. [speaking foreign language] translator we have a duty to protect our future generation. [speaking foreign language] translator protect the citizens health. Thank you. Supervisor breed thank you. Next speaker. Ive been here so many times and i live in sunset district for long time. And i just wonder how many percentage from the other part of sunset here to mcd . And how many say no to mcd . Thats our voice. Please, please, please, say no mcd, everyone, ok . Supervisor breed thank you. Next speaker. Joe from 25th avenue. I went to ste. Annes in the sunset, im 4th generation native san franciscan and my mother runs a daycare, we dont want this. Point blank, we dont want it. Supervisor breed any other members who would like to speak. Supervisor tang thank you, sir, who just spoke. Could you state on the mic what kind of daycare is it, in a home or actual facility . Yes, its in a Residential Home. Ive come down here before. Actually, i got one of the shirts from Family Childcare just by coincidence. My more came in here and spoke and i was waiting in the car and she told me to come in and shes outside waiting for me. Its a dropin. Supervisor tang in a Residential Home . Ok. Supervisor breed seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Well now move to 10minute presentation from the Planning Department. Oh, i apologize, the appellant, the second appellant is here. And i was wondering if he could come forward to do his presentation before we move into the other presentations . Thank you for remembering me. Through the president , to mr. Youll have seven and a half minutes to make your presentation, however the system will reflect eight minutes. When you hear the first bell that should conclude your presentation. My name is sal, i represent the sunset merchants and neighbors association. Im 71 years old. Born in San Francisco and raised in north beach. Growing up in my culture, family, community and hard work are the qualities of a happy and successful life. I moved to the sunset 42 years ago and living on 22nd and irving. I feel i know the neighborhood quite well. My wife and i raised three children. They went to the local schools. When i first moved to 22nd and irving it was, a quiet and some would call it a sleepy neighborhood. If you havent been to irving street lately, let me describe to you the activities that go on in these six small blocks between 19th and 25th avenue. This is a definition of a thriving and family oriented neighborhood. When you have 30 restaurants, 11 nail and hair salons, hardwood store, grocery stores, produce markets, pastry stores, bank and savings, starbucks, walgreens, music store, florist, ophthalmologists, dentist office, three phone stores, five houseware stores, herbal shops, two delis. Remember, this in is in seven blocks. Laundromats and now two new additions, the urgent care facility and San Francisco month sory school. This is what the quality of life is in my neighborhood. This is not the right location for the Barbary Coast or any other cannabis dispensary. I cant go a day without walking the streets of my community, seeing families shopping, walking with dogs, or enjoying the neighborhood. My 16yearold granddaughter and her friends love to hang out on the irving street as do many other teens. Parents living in the neighborhood, in our community, 52 of the children are between the ages of 617. 52 of the children are between the age of 617. My community and i stand here today worried that introducing the Barbary Coast will falter the ability to have families, children and teens alike to appreciate our community and feel safe in doing so. And continue to enjoy the quality of life that we have come accustomed to. And there other concerns the community has about the Barbary Coast moving into our residential neighborhood. Most importantly, the overall safety to the elderly and children. Secondhand smoke and quality of the air coming from the dispensary. Parking, which is always an issue. And will become a bigger issue. The urgent care facility is next door to the proposed mcd. Children, adults and elderly alike will be entering and leaving the urgent care facility constantly smelling marijuana while waiting news for themselves or loved ones. This could not be a pleasant or comforting experience. According to the drawings submitted to the Planning Department, they plan to install a ventilation system. Let me tell you about ventilation systems. When i owned paradise pizza, one of the tricks i used was to saute garlic and onions, it would send the aroma out to those, the customers would say, it always smells good. Does the neighborhood kneeled need to tolerate the odoris of marijuana, or skunk weed . Together, as supervisors and parents, it is our duty to protect the children of our city from anything that may be deemed dangerous. Together, we need to pro vent the youth prevent the youth access and exposure to cannabis and we need to minimize the potential harms to our community from cannabis. Pro proents of cannabis like to point out states like washington, colorado and oregon as model states. Heres a quote from the Health Department. The number one complaint was odor. And most jurisdictions felt that the retail sale of cannabis was ruled out too quickly and the edible cannabis and wish they had more control over the cannabis market. We as a community understand the need for an mcd. We all have loved ones who suffered from cancer, or other illnesses. Marijuana has helped them in some way. I myself lost my sister carolina to cancer just a month ago. The properties that make marijuana cannabis helpful to treat nausea and pain comes from the cbds in marijuana, they are not psycho active. Irving street is not the right location. There are Companies Like spare, that will deliver if youre not able it drive. And if you can drive, go to harvest on gary boulevard, 20 minutes away from 202nd and irving. We as a community understand proposition 464 has passed and unfortunately marijuana is here to stay. But there is a new game in town of the new game is called recreational adult use. And this is just a youve nix for getting high or getting stoned. There are no benefits to the community. There are no benefits to the community for adult recreational use. There is even greater danger with edibles. Young people experimenting, not knowing their tolerance level for edibles can be dangerous. Even worse, edibles left out by a parent, son daughter or friend, where a child can consume them because somebody was too stoned to remember to put them away can be deadly. In the 60s, and i know, the thc levels were 34 . Today, they can be as high as 85 . We certainly know that marijuana doesnt make you smarter. What about all the other side effects . Altered senses, altered sense of time, change of moods . Difficult in thinking and problemsolving, impaired memory, hallucinations and psychosis when taking thc in high doses. Im not making this up. When the Tobacco Industry started in 1860 nobody knew the dangers of tobacco. It took over 100 years to learn the daily effects this is exactly where we are with recreational use. Please give me a minute. Supervisor breed your time has concluded. Thank you and condolences for the loss of your sister. Well go to the Planning Department for the presentation. Will the presentation talk about each one separately . So you basically will have up to 15 minutes, but youre not obligated to use the entire time. Thank you, members of the board, good evening, president breed, supervisors, dan sider with the Planning Department. Im joined this evening by nancy tran our lead planner for the case and aaron star for legislative affairs, well be consize as possible given the amount of comment we have heard and will hear. The matter before you tonight of course, is whether to uphold, to amend or overturn the Planning Commissions approval of the conditional use authorization that is prerequisite to opening the mcd in question. Just as the Planning Commission did before you, you are charged with deciding if this project is necessary or desirable and compatible with the neighborhood. Supervisors, weve heard from the two separate appellants in the case, ms. Kimmerlings appeal articulates restrictions under her group feel that mcd would be acceptable use in the neighborhood. She asks that you uphold and amend the commissions approval in order to impose those particular restrictions. As well hear from ms. Tran, many of the restrictions and conditions proposed are implicit in the commissions approval or otherwise already regulated by the existing city law. On the other hand, the couple asks that you overturn the Planning Commission action and disapprove the cannabis dispensary, the appeal does set forth a range of concerns, perhaps principally arguing that the mcd is not necessary or desirable in regards particularly to the potential impact on youth. The Planning Commission did consider this argument at their hearing. The Planning Commission found this was not the case. Supervisors, at the Commission Hearing there were hours of testimony, the commission did review thousands of petition signatures and letters. They did find unanimously that as the only medical cannabis dispensary near, remotely near this location, the proposed mcd would provide a desirable amenity to sunset residents and would address geographic equity to medical cannabis noted by the Planning Commission and the board and would provide Vacant Store Front with a proven local business. I want to note that the proposal and the conditional use path that it followed thus far is consistent with the land use controls that you adopted earlier today on your agenda on second read. With that, supervisors, we are recommending that you uphold the Planning Commission unanimous action as is and with respect to some of the salient details in the two different appeal letters i will refer to ms. Tran. Thank you. Thank you. The first proposal is amendment by imposing additional conditions with regard to the mcd Business Operation such as restraighti restraighti restraigicting business owns an prohibiting scope of services offered. The Planning Commission determined that the proposed mcd operational hours between 8 00 a. M. And 10 p. M. Compliy with te hours in the health code. They did not restrict Business Hours despite raised concerns because minors are not allowed. The mcd intends to train personnel in verifying that they have valid identification. The operator also intends to install cameras, maintain Adequate Security on the premises and address unzooer desirable activities. With the respect to store front display, both california prohibit edible products from bei