Friends. I thank you so much for your support and for all of your tireless work to this point. Its been quite the experience getting to talk before all of you commissions in the past several months, and we look forward to solving this. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you. Hi. I have stage fright. Im sharon archuleta. Im a tattoo artist. Ive been there since 1998, and ive been a tattoo artist since 1994. Ive worked at lots of shops, and active space allows me to have a safe quiet place for people who dont like going into a loud, scary street shop. I have a lot of customers who are Breast Cancer survivors, and its nice for them to have a safe place to come from. As for the 15 empty units, i think its a lot more than that. Theres five floors, and the second floor has ten empty units, so i cant imagine how many are above. Any ways, thank you, thank you so much. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is elizabeth chur, and i am a freelance writer whos been there since 2008. I write grants for San Francisco general and ucsf. I only work for nonprofits. I am grateful, also, that the legislation would allow office uses to stay for three years. However, its my understanding that people like me would need to go through mandatory discretionary review, which im told would cost a minimum of 4500, and the Actual Service for the Case Management services is 14,000, which is cost prohibitive for someone like myself. Even if we were allowed to stay for the three years, thats an incredible expense for a sole proprietor. I have been looking for other property in the city. The few units on the market, the same eight units are about twice as large and twice as expensive. Ive lived where i work, and coworking spaces are great for startups, but i need a quiet office where i can write without distractions. I would like to ask you to consider waiving the mandatory permitting process or waving the fee for those who provide Important Services and maintaining a diverse economy in San Francisco. Thank you very much. Chesk chechk tha chair peskin thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is gene palmer, and thank you for your time. Im a hair dresser, and ive been doing hair for 30 years, including my time as a barber in the navy, during the gulf war. I am eternally grateful for this opportunity to have my own business. I serve people of all communities. A majority of my clients are elderly or students and theyre also members of the Service Providing communities, most of whom are on fixed incomes. It is because im in an active space that im able to keep my rates reasonably low, even by San Francisco standards, and if i were substantially force does out, it would have an impact on people who rely on my Services Based on cost. Please allow us to stay in these units for as long as possible. Thank you for your time today. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is ramona birchler. I am an aesthetician, and ive had my space since 2008. When i rented that space in 2008, i was told by active space that this was commercial and mixed use, and there would even be a cafe, so there was no reason for me to believe that i was renting a space that wasnt zoned for me. This zoning issue with active space has created a lot of stress and uncertainty for most if not all of the tenants there. In the past six months, i also have been searching actively for alternative space but everything is a lot larger and comparatively a lot more expensive, even though what i have is about 300 square feet for 1,850, which i dont think is inexpensive. I would like to kindly ask that you support this initiative and consider the ramifications for all of these Small Businesses in San Francisco. Most of us would be forced to close up shop as Small Business owners, and active space would not be renting to Light Industrial. As everyone has stated before, theres a very small percentage of Light Industrial at this point, and theres many vacancies. In the years that ive been there, ive seen a revolving door of tenants come and go, most of which have not been Light Industrial. So and i also wanted to say that as of now, i know that theres a certain amount of Square Footage that is chair peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is helen hickman. 20 years ago when i found a space at active space, i was proud that i had the opportunity to establish a solo office with Reasonable Rent and not have to work twice as hard to make twice as less. Ive been practicing 25 years. My objective is to get people out of pain and get their lives back. My clients come to the professional world to athletes moms and even in the nonprofit work. Active space works for my client. Its safe, handicapped accessible, and easy to get to on public transportation, and about a third of my clients come from the east bay. Our clients not only support myself but other practitioners in the building, and not it not only do we do that, but it also supports Small Businesses in the neighborhood, as well. As therapists, were able to consult with one another, and were able to have a onestop shop over there. For myself, its great to have a shop in a place like that, and we are happy to be a part of the colorful and growing Mission District. For my professional, to have my office taken away, its going to be a burden on my clients with a huge rent increase. And as a woman and a Small Business owner in San Francisco, i feel that i am an ambassador to not only the mission but to San Francisco, so i urge you to please consider this amnesty so we can keep our Small Business community thriving. Chair peskin thank you very much. Next speaker. My name is tanya behovsky. Im a hair dresser and have been at active space since 2008. When i was first there, it was a different neighborhood. Now, we have child care, we have two on our block, we have groceries, we have doggie daycare. These people are in the neighborhood with the cafes, seeking out these services. I dont understand why the owner isnt being held responsible for this. I did what i was supposed to do. This would be a loss to lose this. I wish that we ten years is fine, but im not really dont understand, but i just want to say thank you for li listening to our voices, and i hope you consider the change, and it would be a loss. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. [please stand by]. I had to move out of San Francisco in 2012 when my apartment in the mission burned down, and i couldnt afford to find housing in San Francisco. However, i have kept my office in the city because i love providing to this clientele and because there is a huge need. I literally have to turn families away every week and have no other available child therapist in the city to send them to. If i had to leave active space, myself and my two interns, would probably have to close doors because no other location provides a quiet space and to find that in an affordable way is nearly impossible. I reached out to my community to get some information. The communities that these businesses here serve, as youve heard with primary lgbtq and gender nonconforming, hair on salons, people with auto immune disorders, medical recipients, etc. , etc. These businesses in active space are the heart and soul of what it means to be a san franciscan. We are not big businesses. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is david lloyd. I differ today from many of tod todays speakers is that im an office tenant. The decision to move my business into San Francisco in 2017 was the space was advertised as a performing arts space. My office space is on the fourth floor. Its 10 by 10 feet, a small sink with only cold water. The room is often hot, and the space has no windair condition and no ventilation other than the window. Currently there are eight to ten spaces open on my floor. I question the wisdom of displacing so many existing Small Businesses with the assumption that these spaces will be filled with p. D. R. Uses. Currently, no p. D. R. Tenants are flocking to the already available spaces. Id invite the council to visit the location and view the structures slu structur structures exclusively for p. D. R. Use and witness the damage youll be doing to one set of businesses in an attempt to help another. Thank you. I was also treated as an independent contractor. An attempt to net more from the service i provide, ive chosen to go into business for myself. I was fortunate to have discovered the active Space Community in june 2016. It provided me with an affordable, safe, and centrally located space to try my hand at running my own business. Ive had a very positive experience and i hope to continue to build my business here in San Francisco. I was not aware of my lease restrictions in San Francisco and also clearly stated my intended use. I was disappointed to learn that i would not be permitted to continue to operate at active space because of the permitting restrictions. If im not permitted to stay i would be losing my livelihood along with any intent to run a business. If we are forced out of active space, we will leave a hole in the local community we serve and economic contributions we make daytoday with neighboring businesses. Chair peskin thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is shawnna astriken. I run two businesses out of active space. A p. D. R. Business and a nonp. D. R. Business. I also monitor and run a provide Facebook Page for the tenants of the building and see all the concerns that have been surrounding this. Ive been a resident of San Francisco and a Business Owner of San Francisco specifically in the mission for over 20 years, and i am very aware of the limited options that we have as Small Business owners. And i just want to ask that you vote in our favor and continue to support. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is Maureen Mcewen and im a Small Business owner in active space. I want to show you guys one of the tools i use. This is called a speech buddy. It can help a child learn how to say the r sound. It was invented at m. I. T. It is a product of a business at active space. We support each other and our clients, so please let us stay. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is laura clemmens, native san franciscans, and Business Owner at active space. And i just want to thank supervisor ronens office for your Swift Support of us in this really bizarre situation that we found ourselves in. I just want to echo all the speakers before me at what a diversion community, what a thriving diverse community, thriving community, active space has been and how devastating it would be not only to our building but to all the other businesses around there would be. I just want to state to highlight, as chair peskin said, the sticky wicket that were in, that dealing with authorization and permits can be very complicated and confusing, especially when youre a business of one, and so you dont have a lot of time to devote to going to six different offices and waiting in lines and etc. And etc. I was actually permitted by the department of health in 2017 after 1. 5 years of other long story of weird things happening. But i interacted with everyone that i needed to, from the tax asse assessor to the sfpd. With everyone that i interacted with, no one checked that i had my zoning paperwork signed. If i didnt know, i dont know how anyone else would know if someone didnt tell them. So i hope you can support our organization and we can all be awesome together. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is lisa hermann. Im an Expressive Arts therapist, and im licensed by the california board of behavioral science. Ive been in business for about a little over 40 years, and im a newish tenant in active space. I wasnt told there were any problems. I moved in a few months ago. My clientele are people from all walks of life, and im one of the few people, few psycho therapists in San Francisco that take insurance. Most of my colleagues have stopped. Insurance hardly pays anything, its too complicated. Everybodys insurance is something else, even if they have the same carrier. Its horrible. Any way, the only way i can stay in business im a sole provider is active space. And i found it on craigslist, went and found somebody elses office. Its charming. It has a sink in every room for washing your paint brushes. Unbelievable. Any way, i love myspace, i want myspace, and im too old to move. Thank you. Chair peskin next speaker. My name is kathrin rose. Ive been working in Mental Health in San Francisco for about 30 years in community Mental Health and then at ucsf and now in private practice in the active space. I chose that building because in part i live in the mission three blocks away, and i started looking for businesses in the mission area, and theres almost none for psycho therapists. That was true then, and its true now, so that would present a problem if i need to leave. I, too, was ushered in by the landlord without knowing there was a problem. Im a licensed practitioner in california. It said art, hobby, business. My clientele are ordinary people. I see teachers, muni drivers, people that work in nonprofit in the mission, seniors, people on permanent psychiatric disability. Most of my people work in the neighborhood or live in the neighborhood, so if i need to get another office across town, its going to disrupt my clients, so thank you for your consideration. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is sabrina huck. My Small Business is ritual by design. Im an artist here in San Francisco. I moved here about ten years ago. I love the art and expression of San Francisco, and the Mission District felt like such a cultural place, and active space works very well for me. As a minority female Business Owner, ive seen a lot of my friends who are in a similar situation move away from the city, but ive been very stubborn, and active space allows me to be able to provide the cultural art to my clients. A lot of henna artists within my industry are taking clients at their homes, and there are not many that have a space like mine, and yeah, i dont know if if i had to move, it would be difficult for me to stay in the city, so thanks for considering, and thank you. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is evan kaminsky. Im a gay disabled Business Owner. Ive lived in San Francisco for 25 years, and i live in mr. Haneys district in a belowmarketrate apartment. Im an aesthetician, beauty provider. My rent is so low because ive been there so long. If i would have to leave, it would ruin my business. I would have to close up shop, which means i couldnt pay my rent my means leaving the city rent which means leaving the city. I appreciate trying to ram this through and the ten years amnesty, but i think ten years isnt enough. I think we should be grandfathered in because we put in the time. If you look up and down the street, all of these apartments and studios that were p. D. R. Are all used for offices. Were not the only one. The entire neighborhood has become offices, and the amount of spaces that people have said, there arent offices flocking to it. I dont know how you would manufacture a 1,000 square foot thing in a 100 square foot room. I hope we can stay until we want to leave, and then after, if you want to put p. D. R. In, great, but if we have to leave, it would did he haevastate mos. Chair peskin thank you. And this is the last speaker, and if there are any other speakers, please lineup on your right. Hi. Im one of the few salons in the nation that offers true p. P. D. Free colors for people with color issues. I have an auto immune disorder which makes it hard to work a regular 8 00 to 5 00 for somebody else. So my disorder makes it hard to work for anybody else. Ive worked for other salon spaces, and they are double, if not triple what i pay now because of gentrification. If i close my business, i would no longer have a way to support myself as a disabled person, so this legislation not only affects my business, but it also affects my health and my state of well buildibeing, an of my colleagues are also in the same boat. I ask the council to please consider voting in favor of this legislation. Ten years is great, but if you can see to grandmother us in indefinitely, that would be helpful for many of us. And on that note, i dont see why many of us have to cover the cost of the amnesty, and i ask you to pass the cost on to the landlord not the tenants because we were never made aware of this. Chair peskin thank you. And seeing no other Public Comment, i will close Public Comment and turn it over to supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen our first choice when drafting this legislation was to gather everyone who is currently at the space in in perpetuity, but that when anyone decided to leave because they want today go out of business they wanted to go out of bus