Years. It has provided a safe and warm environment for everybody. Reason foods, reasonable prices, all kinds of gathers, neighborhood meetings, wedding receptions, memorials, chili cookoffs, all sorts of things. The legacy Business Registration helps support businesses like caffe sapore. There are 26 vacant storefronts in five blocks around caffe sapore, and the last thing we need is a successful business to go under for no good reason. Were hoping that the designation of legacy business will help this from going under. Okay. Appreciate it. Next speaker. Good afternoon, commissioners. Thank you for listening. My name is elias sapai, and i am the owner of caffe sapore. I opened the cafe 22 years ago in a neighborhood where nothing was around there. I cherished every neighbor that came in, and i love them. I watched them growing. Some of them, i actually raised, and theyre actually working in the cafe right now. They were babies even though they come from college and they work in the cafe. Its a community cafe, supported by a lot of people. I serve every single day, every single customer thats been coming there 22 years. Its not their work, its not their home, its their third place where they come to meet each other. Elderly fellows, they come in, they sit down, they eat their lunch. I married people there. Its a very important place. And again, in north beach, like i say, theres so many businesses that are closed, and a lot of it has to do with the greed of the landlord, the price of the rent is so high that we cant afford it. And actually, id like to support caffe sapore, but the legacy business will help keep us going with the support of the community. Thank you for listening. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My names gloria rogan. I cant talk about caffe sapore without crying. Sorry to be this emotional. But ive been going there since elias opened. Im 71 years old, and i dont cook and sometimes, i think oh, gosh i have cancer, and i dont like to eat vegetables. Sometimes, i go to caffe sapore, and i order a salad, and it makes a real difference to my health. Im a real estate agent, and ive been one for over 30 years. I understand i work with a lot of investors. I understand the dynamics here only too well, and i feel its its a travesty of to see this kind of business being involved, let alone threatened of being removed. Im telling you, one day, my cocker spaniels will be on the cover of a chinese travel magazine. They get their pictures taken all the time, and i have so many people who want to send me photographs of the dogs, and so on. I cant begin to tell you how unique this place is, and i thoroughly support the legacy business designation. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is charles forester. Id like to thank you for the benefits you provide for recognizing the historical assets of the city. Caffe sapore has been a big part of my city. For me, there was no place for me to go to consult my business. I was a consultant, and its right at the border of the tourist area. And not only not only myself, where i got my first fulltime job in what is now my career, but that neighborhood and that community depends on caffe sapore to do their business, to meet. Its also a valuable asset for the community for their families. I became involved with a lot of Community Organizations there. So i id like to strongly request that you grant this resolution. Thank you very much for the time. Great. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is dick lumagi, and i make pottery for a living, and my pottery is very much influenced by the life in japan. In japan, they have a prize called the living definition treasure. Its somebody whos risen to the top of their trade. The definition of this award is the holder of an important tangible cultural property. And i think by that definition, caffe sapore deserves your support. It has a singular talent. There are hundreds, thousands of us who live close by that place, and we live in small apartments. There are few you are and few you are places for us to meet. Its a soulful, wonderful, vibrant place, and i hope that you lend your support to their petition. Thank you very much. Great. Thank you. Hello. Im here for courtneys produce. Im robin courtney. Im patrick and lolas daughter. Okay. Good afternoon, commissioners and planning staff. Thank you for considering our legacy business application. Founded in 1971, courtneys produce has been located at the corner of 14th and castro for nearly 50 years, and before that, courtneys had a market in the haight for two years. The market is very special because everything is sells is fresh from the fruits and the vegetables that are picked up fresh from the Produce Market every morning to the fresh squeezed juices and the fresh sandwiches it makes daily. The business has another k key attribute, and that is that it has never sold alcohol. When my parents established courtneys at the corner of castro and 14th, they changed the neighborhood. They had the bars from the previous owner removed from the windows and the doors, and they strung up lights and added seating around the magnolia tree. They became a location where children from the School Across the street would come to get a special treat with their parents. Its been available for the patients and the staff at the Medical Center across the street, where they can get nutritious and healthy food at a reasonable price. Its improved the quality of life for the neighborhood. The neighborhood considers this to be a gem, and were very grateful that youll be considering the application today for legacy status. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Hello. My name is lorna kollmeier. This is my partner, mike dyer. We have the ornamental shop at hunters park shipyard. Our business touches every neighborhood of the city, and especially as s. F. Preservation. Weve done more facades than i can even count since 1984, when we went into business. And because of our opportunity to have such beautiful space in our torpedo factory, weve been able to keep those patterns. So now, when people walk into our shop, they look, and they see the real stuff, the real stuff that was made back in 1880 and 1890, and its authentic. And you people would know more than anything, when people want to do the right things, and they dont have the materials to do the right thing, then they go to home depot, and they go buy plastic things. So i just want to say were it. Between our collection that weve amassed for the past 35 years or so, when victoriana closed, we acquired their molds. We are it. We are sitting on we are so much of San Franciscos history is underneath that roof. Were okay at Hunters Point the next couple of years, but were grateful of being acknowledged as businesses that are valuable to the city, so thank you so much. Thank you. And im mike dyer, business partner. I just have something quick to say. We are the largest and oldest plaster shop west of the mississippi. But lorna tells me i cant say that because mgm movie studio has an older and larger plaster shop, but ours will last 100 years, and theirs will not. Thank you. Im tom hamilton. Im with gamescape. Just want to vouch for the legacy business status. Basically, gamescape is a place where gamers, the tabletop community throughout the city gather. We have events throughout the week that some are free of charge, so we dont put a price on your ability to partake in what happens at the business. Id say six days a week, we have varying demographics. So your legacy business status would be wonderful, because well continue to operate in the coming years and continue to provide that opportunity for gamers in the city, so thank you. Great. Thank you. Good afternoon, mr. President and commissioners. My name is Scott Madison and im one of the owners and the managers in ecletic cookery. I was planning on three minutes because thats what was said in the announcement but im going to have to edit my remarks. As you know from our application, ecletic cookery is a timeshared commissary with two kitchens at Hunters Point shipyard and a third on private land in the bayview. We share with kollmeier the distinction of being two of the remaining few businesses at Hunters Point shipyard of which there were about 100 when we started our businesses in the 80s. We were the first timeshare kitchen in the bay area and among the first such businesses in the nation. We may well be the largest such business in the nation today. Weve always been a forprofit business, but we are functionally a Small Business incubator, but we function like a Nonprofit Organization than a real business. We offer affordable kitchen services, technical, and occasionally Financial Support and hand holding to our sometimes struggling customers. Our success is measured by our longevity and the number of businesses moving on from ecletic to their own facilities. Our customers are and their employees are a veritable united nations, hailing from many countries and many nations. We give preferential treatment to our bayview customers, and our recent culinary program, only available to bayview residents, focuses on our appreciation for our customers. Thank you again for your recognition and hopefully approval. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is woody labonte from San Francisco heritage. I support all of these San Francisco legacy registry nominations, but i want to call out two that i think deserve a little extra attention. One is the potrero view. Nobody here spoke on that, but some of you may know the new fillmore just published its last issue. To help the potrero view and all of these Community Serving newspapers is vital to our democracy and community strength, so i strongly support that. We also want to highlight lorna kollmeier ornamental plaster. Lorn lorna kollmeier, as she said, shes it. You have the oramountnamental r and cornises in San Francisco thats available in San Francisco. And if you go to our website, we have a video that highlights the business, so thank you. All right. Any other Public Comment . Close Public Comment, bring it back to the commission. Commissioner johns . Thank you. As a first thing, we received this letter from zachs, freeman, and patterson, and it raises an issue. Im glad that the City Attorney is here, because what about this claim that there was insufficient notice and therefore we ought to continue at least the consideration of 790 lombard street . Have you seen the letter . I have just had a chance to briefly review it. Thank you, commissioner. Victoria wong, deputy City Attorney can you hear me . Barely. Okay. Ive seen the letter, yes, and i can provide more vice as the commission, you know, desires. My view is that the commission is making, really, a recommendation today, not a quasi not taking a quasijudicial action. And the administrative code governing legacy business designation does not require a particular form of notice. So i believe the commission can go forward if it wishes today. Okay. Now to the more substantive things. Weve got a really great collection of businesses here. I have patronized at least gamescape with my grandson, and i i know that its thats a really wonderful asset. The ornamental plaster shop well, all of them provide a tremendous benefit to San Francisco, and im so happy that people came out today in support of these businesses. Great. Thank you. Commissioner matsuda . I have a question for rick. Its an ongoing question i have. Im sorry to keep bringing it up, but im very interested in what the marketing plan is. We have such great businesses out that need recognition, and to make sure we promote them as much as we can. So can you give us an update about that . So we selected a company to do the plaques, the bronze plaques. We just put that notice out on friday. Were waiting until this friday to see if theres any objection to that. From there, well do a contract with our company, and hopefully, we will enter agreement with them by february. Weve put a survey out to all the legacy businesses to see if they want plaques, how many, what size they thought was appropriate. We have about 60 responses back from them. And then, we are continuing to do press releases every time legacy businesses get on the registry. As i mentioned, we are doing a slow you know, marketing were introducing things as we can. We also have received some funding from the board of supervisors for a position, so were working on maybe potentially hiring someone who could help with the marketing. Marketing, and then also to help with the maybe the expediting of the applications or well, right now, its just me. I know. And we have a queue of 30 applications, so thats really taking a lot of time. Oh. Theres just a lot of demand for the services we provide, and a limiting staff. So as you can see, each application that we do, we put a lot of time in it, not only finishing the application, but we have to run it through the process, not only this commission, but the Small Business commission. Yeah. You do a great job. We have plans, come the spring, to do a huge marketing and Promotion Campaign to really get the ball rolling on everything. Great. And really depends on if we can get this position this person to do thats the type of activities that theyll be doing. Were waiting for it. So fingers crossed that they can make that happen. Great. Thank you. Yep. Thank you. And thank all of you for coming out. Its rainy, not fun, its cold. But we really appreciate you coming out and telling us your stories. Thats what makes this program so special for all of us. Thank you. Commissioner pearlman . Thank you. My first comment is to shelley. Theres two problems in the text that i just want to note. For ecletic cookery and for gamescape, on number 5 is the property associated with businesses located on the local, state, or federal legacy registry, both of them are incorrect. They reference a different property. So for those two, i just want to make sure the records correct on that. Thank you for noting that record. So, i mean, it talks about a cap Street Property of which neither one are on capp street. The difficulty with reusing templates. Yeah. I do the situation with caffe sapore is pretty remarkable to me, and sad. The fact that you had 1900 names on a petition is is utterly shocking and wonderful. I i mean, thats like most of the neighborhood there. And then to find out that the potential of this business being ousted in the middle of a lease, i dont even know you know, theres obviously legal issues there. You know, i havent been there, but its i mean, for people to come and shed tears about the potential loss of that space is it really is a testament to this entire program of legacy businesses because heres one that although not 30 years, has clearly woven itself into the fabric of north beach, in that neighborhood. So im im a little saddened not a little saddened, im very saddened by a landlord who would, you know, throw out a businesslike that or not be able to come to a you know, some kind of an agreement to allow that business to continue. I am hoping that, you know, hearing that theres 26 storefronts that are potentially available, i certainly hope that business will survive because it sounds like the loss of this business would be a tragedy for the community. For everybody else and caffe sapore, this is the best part of our work. You guys are the community. You are the representatives of who San Francisco is. And the ornamental company is a very big representative of San Francisco. To find that youre the only one left is a little scary. To find out what would happen if youre not there, how we would do our work, you know, to restore a lot of our important buildings. So for all of you, thank you so much for your work and your contribution to our city. Okay. Thank you. Commissioner black . This is the pleasure that we have each meeting is being able to celebrate these fabulous businesses in this city. I want to start with caffe sapore. For one thing, the comments made by the potter i found very compelling. If your pottery is anything like your statement, its very beautiful indeed. I loved hearing from people in the neighborhood about how important a resource that is, and it is very important that we have businesses that are part of a neighborhood and thats something that this legacy business is supportive of, and the Preservation Commission is supportive of, so i wanted to get that out there. Im also familiar with courtneys produce, having been a customer over the years. I dont live too far away. I love the idea of the ecletic cookery. Ive never been there, but i love the idea of you forming a business that helps other businesses in San Francisco thrive. Thats as good as it gets. Gamespace, im old enough to think its a legacy business. Times have passed, and you know, as someone whos been passionate about architectural history since i was very young, hats off to lorna kollmeier for keeping the faith. And im sure you have people from out of town ordering materials, and thats such an important resource. All the best to you, yeah, sure. Any local newspaper that is neighborhood based the p potrero view, you cant get any better than that. I think i covered them all. Did you want to yeah. Going back to the two businesses in the Hunters Point, i remember i was at the shipyard on the u. S. S. California in the 80s, and luckily, i didnt see the torpedo room, and i didnt see your food cooking facility, but i would love to come see where you do. I lived in north beach for a period of time. I cant believe you have all those people coming out. You are a beloved institution. Reinforcing what commissioner matsuda or black said, its amazing that the landlord is acting the way they are. So i am just in true support for all of you and thank you very much for being part of the fabric of San Francisco. Thank you. So i have a couple comments. Courtneys produce, i also love walking past your establishment on my way up to b. V. With my dog every day. Lorna, you know,