Planning commission and city of San Francisco office of cannabis for restoring hope in our community through the Equity Program. It shows that my city that i love and care about shows equality. Thank you. Good evening, planning commission. I just want to speak on the tenancy issue. For two years now, we had a lease for the location. We were aware that the current tenant is monthtomonth, so any fact, we are not taking them out , the landlord has the intention of doing that anyway, and i also have a letter here from the landlord for all of you to explain how he told it to us, and i just wanted to relay, for two years we have been working on this really hard. We have been doing everything we can, and i just hope our work pays off. I am eric grayson, a member of the flight crew. I just dont want to hold you guys up. It was named after my mother, and i appreciate your time. It has been a long process. Thank you. Thank you very much. We will open up this item for Public Comment. Anyone who wants to provide Public Comment on this item, please come up. I dont have any speaker cards. Come on up. Good afternoon. This cannabis dispensary will displace the Community Martial Arts center. The center is valued as its only committed to place in the plaza that actively serves families and people of all ages and backgrounds. Its beneficial for youth. The residents have noticed the develop meant of the native environment of the bar and smoke shop and i have been personally verbally harassed. I would go to the Martial Arts Center because it is a family oriented safe space. There is always an issue of cannabis being more readily available to youth in the area. It hasnt been long since i have been a young teen and i understand that its very easy to get access to cannabis, especially if there is a dispensary, whether that be through purchasing via a fake i. D. , or even through consumers who are 21 plus. Family and teens should never feel unsafe in a Shopping Center surrounded by homes, and it instantly unfair for the residents, business owners, and consumers of the plaza services. I think we need to think about the negative impact of this dispensary that will be built in this specific neighborhood because it is surrounded by homes where a lot of youth live and a lot of this community will face the displacement of the Martial Arts Center. Theyre both very closely related. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is philip gray, i am here representing the randolph Neighborhood Community service project. I am a San Francisco native. I grew up on randolph street, which is part of lakeview, which is the west side of San Francisco. It is right in the back of the Shopping Center, and i grew up going to the Shopping Center and i currently have two small children who attend school in the neighborhood at her seo take a elementary school. At jose ortega elementary school. I just want to say one thing. I applaud your entrepreneurial spirit, and ive spoken with one of them, i think that they are very upstanding young men, and i think the Equity Program is something that is necessary, but to make an argument that cannabis availability is underserved in San Francisco is totally ludicrous. Literally living in the neighborhood for the past four years, there is an overabundance of Cannabis Consumption on the streets. It affects our children, it affects our communities, and, you know, in speaking to people in the neighborhood about this issue and asking them where they get their cannabis, because we dont have dispensaries in our neighborhood, and they say, you know what, you can go go on an app and you can have any cannabis product delivered to your home in 15 minutes, on average. So they have a dominoes rule, they have a 30 minute delivery. I dont think that its fair when youre trying to argue that the west side of San Francisco does not have access to medicine for people who need it or people who want to do it recreationally that is simile not true at all. That is simply not true at all. The dojo serves a community really well. There are kids who go through their from a multitude of elementary schools, high schools , and colleges in the area, so i know that has nothing to do with the conditional use permit, but to turn a dojo that serves a community in a strip mall in a residential area into a cannabis dispensary, when the market is oversaturated in the first place is not right at all. Thank you, you have had your time spee you have you had your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. How are you doing . My name is daniel. Im here to support this cannabis dispensary. It is well within the ordinance that was passed here in San Francisco. They are following the regulations and going through the process to get permitted. Then they have to go to the state and apply for an annual license. I would also like to mention that its not they are not actually kicking out the dojo such as the landlord has discretion on that, and he has decided to go ahead and move forward with them as tenants. I think this will be great for the community, especially since theres no access, you know, basically everything is south of market and in the bayview in the Bayview District like you have mentioned. Delivery service is not as easy as it sounds. It can take time and it they may not even have the product you want. If you want to go to dispensary in your neighborhood, you should have that ability to do that. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item . Okay. I do have a question about the existing tenant. So does anyone know if they are being evicted . We were just recently informed of this issue, and it sounds like there is a monthtomonth Lease Agreement with the previous tenant, and the project sponsors have been in talks with the space for about two years now. It sounds like there was a lack of communication between the existing tenant owner and the members that use that service of the Martial Arts Center right now, so most of them happen to have found out when the poster went up instead of previously when this was decided. I see. The landlord has elected not to come to the hearing. I get that, there is no commercial rent control, but i would haight to have an action that we took fuel the increase, the escalation in rental prices for these small businesses, but i also, like we didnt receive any correspondence from that tenant. There was no request. Nothing from the tenant. Yeah, okay. Thank you. Commissioner fung . Staff, this approval also involves consumption on site. Is that correct . The potential to. Okay. If you look at the floor plan, it is one large open space. Where is a consumption going to occur . As with all Cannabis Retail establishments, consumption can be added at a later date with a Building Permit. The tenants the project sponsors are currently not proposing that. They just have the opportunity to, to the floor plan right now is designed is just for retail sales. Any other questions . Does anyone want to make a motion . Commissioner moore . Theres a comment in the letter that was handed to us that respectable of the outcome of this vote the lease for the studio would not be renewed, so that is a very clear indication that the owner has other plans whatever they are we dont know, but it is not directly tied to this application. Commissioner fung . Along that same line of my question, is im not supportive of consumption on site here. Commissioner hillis . Lets just ask the project sponsors about consumption. Is it your plan . I think we faced this and one other hearing where, i dont know if that is standard lang was that we put in, but we eliminated it and didnt have consumption on site,. We had a vote for two cases and it was staff was split on the two cases. Commissioner his, were just bringing the issue up because we are finding we want the commission to be clear on whether or not you will permit consumption on site or you would have you would prohibit it. I dont mind consumption, as long as you have i dont like the uncertainty of this, like whether it is or not. I would like to approve it and have people vote on it. What is your plan . We wanted to go into the space, just on the feedback of the area, we wanted to get security in place, lock it down, and then maybe think about consumption, but that wasnt on our radar. Okay. Just for staff, what is the process then is it a d. B. A. Process . It is just a Building Permit. Since we have had this issue before, staff it is now taking the process of looking at whether to determine if we would recommend approval to allow the possibility of onsite consumption, if the applicable Zoning District include prohibitions on similar onsite consumptions consumption such as alcohol uses. That is a reason why we would potentially permit them, and as well if there are it is adjacent to any publicly open and accessible open spaces, and then what weve gotten from community feedback. Okay. If my ad if i may add, when we are processing medical cannabis dispensaries, it was a lot easier to have a consumption area approved initially because you really just needed to draw it on the plans. D. B. H. Now has much more stringent and much more difficult procedures and requirements for consumption. They also have discretion over there permits, as well. So if a space is not large enough to function as accommodated, they do have the discretion it has to be on d. B. I. s permit . It has to be a Building Permit through d. B. I. And then sent to the department the department of Public Health for a ventilation system. It requires a mechanical system designed by an engineer. It is typically something that a lot of our applicants are trying to defer to make sure they gain approval first. Thanks. Thank you. Commissioner moore . Was in there also a discussion that we ask for some guidance from the department of cannabis . We ourselves are unable to determine of how to really wait in a manner that is fair because we dont have any guidance on the subject matter. What are the parameters which surround onsite consumption . Sure. On the first page of the executive summary we went into the different types of consumption permits that are available through d. B. H. , type a , b. And c. We are trying to develop a more methodological method for determining what the department will recommend where it is appropriate. Our key considerations come from hearing from the commission and we are happy to get additional feedback if there are other criteria. We are really looking at the context and whether other uses like bars are allowed. For this context, the Zoning District permits and bars, given its proximity to San Francisco state, the department felt it was an appropriate thing to permit in the future. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner koppel . Just one question. In your experience dealing with the other operators, the other neighbors whether for or against , where do you see consumption going . I am actually a fan of it because almost all of the opposition i have heard is people who dont want to smell or see people smoking it or have children access to cannabis, so i am trying to get im finding it hard that a lot of these people dont want it consumed onsite. Wouldnt they rather have it consumed on site . It does depend on the context when we look at the different uses, just a Cannabis Retailer versus a Cannabis Retailer that has consumption component onsite, in terms of how that space is used and how it interacts with other uses around it, a retailer generally, people are coming in, purchasing projects products and leaving there is a possibility that they might consume product in an unauthorized area, which is one of the criteria something we discussed on the 17th street in the castro making sure were not spilling out onto the street on the flip side, when you have a space it has consumption, it may operate a little more like a bar and an entertainment use. We have heard from certain districts such as the mission that, you know, we dont want to encourage we want more of a traditional retail and less of an entertainment component. Thanks. Thank you. Commissioner johnson . I just wanted to address the neighbors. I know you brought concerns around the shop, and i just want to explain a little bit more. When you think about the Equity Program and about cannabis generally speaking, cannabis is legal. We have decided, as a city, not only to create an Equity Program to make sure that folks that were disproportionately caught up in the criminal Justice System were on drugs and able to engage in this industry, but also we are looking for equity as far as where shops are located and making sure that they are spread out across the city. That is why, you know, we are making our deliberations. We totally hear you and know that there are Delivery Services and other things, but were also taking a larger consideration of equity across the city into account as we consider this case thank you. Okay, i will just say, this is walking distance from my house. I support this project. I do support consumption onsite on site, and this is because, you know, to the question, it is all about the context. So if this was consumption below somebodys apartment and, you know, we werent sure if the building inspection could yield a mechanical fix were not fort not to go into the apartment, and i would say no. That is what we did the last time. In this particular instance, you know, is a stripmall, and if folks cant consume it onsite, if theyre smoking it or vaping it, they will go outside into the stripmall. There are food establishments. It is across the parking lot and across the street, there is no housing for hundreds of feet on both sides. So, you know, i am totally comfortable doing the consumption there because otherwise if people dont consume on site, what they will do is smoke it in the green areas in the park. There are many. Those green areas are close to peoples houses. There between peoples houses. And i just think this is not a good solution. I would support the consumption onsite, and i look forward to the department of Public Health and d. B. I. Doing what they need to do to make sure that, you know, any Secondhand Smoke or, you know, things that might stem from that are addressed. Thank you. Commissioner koppel. Motion to approve. Second. Commissioners, just as a point of clarification, just to make sure that we address the onsite, the commission is supportive of onsite consumption, i just recommend that staff amend the motion to be clear on that matter, just to make sure that it is apparent. I dont think the motion specifically called out that item, so something along the lines that it will be amended to address future onsite consumption and support the parameters. Okay. Okay. Staff said it is already in there. Commissioners, there is a motion that has been seconded to approve this matter with conditions. On that motion. [roll call] so moved. That motion passes 61. Commissioners, now i think we really do have to take a recess. Staff is actually stuck outside who are here waiting to present your next three items. Any idea how long it will take . There was no eta given. There was a package and theyre having dogs come in. For the folks in the public were waiting for the next item, there is a security issue, apparently there was a package found and sheriff his checking it out. There are dogs that have been brought in, so the staff that is supposed to present on the next three items is stuck outside and cannot get into the building. So we unfortunately cant proceed with this hearing. We could just postpone the next three items. We could continue the next three items if that is what you think. I think we may have to do that because we cannot guarantee when we are going to be able to resume this hearing. We have no idea . There is no eta right now. We could continue it one week. Okay. We can hear them at the very beginning of the agenda next time. Does anyone want to make a motion . Moved to continue one week. Second. We need to take Public Comment. Does anybody in the audience want to make Public Comment on the continuance of the next three items . Come on up. Next week, were moving it to the beginning of the agenda next week. One week, next thursday. I think i can come. Please speak into the microphone. We cant hear you. My name is cheryl, im here about the hopkins avenue thing. Right now we are only taking Public Comment on the matter of the continuance itself. I know, i understand. So it will be another week for this . There will be these three items that would be first for next week. I will move my schedule around. That is really too bad. Thank you. We cant control it. Thank you. Next thursday. All right, with that, we will adjourn we have to vote. Close Public Comment. Close Public Comment. I need a motion to continue those items. Do you want to can you continue any of the items for two weeks . Is there a motion to continue we did. Move to continue one week. Second. Thank you for staying awake. On that motion to continue items 1880, 19, and 20 a to august 29th. [roll call] as acting zoning administrator, please continues items 18 e. And 20 b2 august 29th. So moved. Thank you. Okay. Adjourned. San francisco and oakland are challenging each other in a battle for the bay. Two cities. One bay. San francisco versus oakland. Are you ready to get in on the action . Im london breed. And i am oakland mayor libby schaff. Who will have the cl