Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Replay Public Safety Committee 981

SFGTV BOS Replay Public Safety Committee 9816 September 9, 2016

On the september 20 board of supervires agenda unless other would stated todays meeting is broadcast by sfgtv staff. Madam clerk and believe there fss request to call item 5 first but since thats supervisor kims well call item 1 until she gets here. Item 1, hearing to consider that the transfer of a type 48 onsale general public premises license from 451 bush street to 447 bush street district 33 for sffsre, lcc dba fluxus, will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of San Francisco. Very grood. Thank you we have a presentation . Police department. Good afternoon sergeant kenny, San Francisco please. Alu has giver an presentation on this location and we stand by our previous answers. Great, thank you. Okay, open up Public Comment on this item. Item number 1, 447 bush street. Well close Public Comment. Dwoo ehave the applicant here today . Lets keep the item open and well go to item number 2. Item 2, hearing to consider that the issuance of a type 48 onsale general public premises license to 482488 hayes street district 55 for burgers 355, llc, dba brass tacks, will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of San Francisco. Good afternoon supervisors im sorjant george from the San Francisco Police Department alu yubt. You have a pcn report for burgers 335, llc. They applied for a type 48 license and if approved will allow to sell beer, wine and distilled speernts. There are zero letters of protest, zero letters of support. They are located in plot 558, which is considered a high crime area. They are in census tract, 162, which is considered a high saturation area. Northern station has no opposition. Alu approves the following recommended conditions. Number 1, Sales Service and consumptium is permitted before thebetween the hours of 10 a. M. To 2 a. M. Each day of the week. Number 2, sales sunchs and consumption of alcohol beverages in the oughtdoor patio areatial be permitted between the hours of 10 a. M. To 10 p. M. Each day of the week. Number 3, noise should be not be audible beyond the area under the control the licenseee depicted on abc 257 dated 12185. Loitering is defined as stand idle about linging aimilously without lawful business and prohibited on a sidewalk or property adjacent to the license premise under the control of the abc 257 dated 121815 number 5, the sale of alcohol beverages are off sale consumption is prohibitsed. Number 6, the licenseee or know emp ployee monitors the outdoor patio area at all times. Number 7, signs shall by posted as a conspicuous space at the intransand exists of the premise as depicted on abc 257dated 121815, no alcoholic beverages beyond this point. Signhat shall be no less than 7 by 11 and lettering no less than one inches in height. I spoke with the applicant who agreed with the above listed conditions. Great. Very good. Thank you for your presentation sergeant george. Any member of the public like to comment on this item, please come forward. My name is jim [inaudible] and im going to read a letter written by [inaudible] president of Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association and signed by Jason Henderson who is transportation and planning regarding brass tax. Supports brass tax in the proposal to expand the commercial space to include 482 hayes street. The neighborhood bar which replaced the [inaudible] has been embraced by our community. The owners have become a part the neighborhood and accepting opportunities it support community activities. The current bar location at 488 hayes street is a place of business that provides a place for neighbors to come together to meet and enjoy each other companies. By expanded the business to 482 hayes street, partners have plans to allow Community Use of this space for neighborhood functions as wem as their own functions. The owners of brass tax are Good Neighbors fwraum the day they opened honoring the [inaudible] please approve the expansion to 482 hayes street and that is gale [inaudible] and Jason Henderson. Any other member who would like to comment . Is the applicant here and like to speak . Okay. We will close okay. You will make a presentation . Well close Public Comment. Thank you. The item is live before us so motion to approve. I move we move the item forward with a positive recommendation. Take that without objection. Let rr go to item 1 per request of the supervisor where this license would be situated. We continue the item. He is taking a tour of the site tomorrow so motion to continue to the call of the chair. So moved well take that without objection and madam clerk we had Public Comment on it. Yep. Thank you. Sitem number 3, please item number hearing to consider that the transfer of a type 48 onsale general public premises license from 177 eddy street to 50 mason street district 66 for pandora karaoki, inc. Dba pandora karaoke will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of San Francisco. 3 good afternoon again. Sergeant kennedy San Francisco Police Department. You have a pcn report for pandora karaoke. They aplide for a type 48 licegence lows to operate as a bar or tavern. There are no letters of protest, no letters of support. They are located in plot 178 which is considered a high crime area. They are located in census tract 176. 01 which is undo concentration area. Tenderloin station does not approve. Alu approves with the recommended conditions. Sales service and consump son permitted from 11 a. M. To 12 midnight sunday to wednesday and 11 to 2 a. M. Thursday through saturday. The sale of sale off the premises is strictly prohickted. Karaoke studio room constructed on the premise shall have the falling characteristics. A, a viewing window thin door or wall. B, the view through windows shall not be constructed in any way nor shall any physical ubinstructions planters partitions or decor placed in front of or behind or atatached to the doors or windows. All doors will remain unlocked and shall not have any form of locking mechanism atamped at or near the doors. The studio rooms shall be equipted with audio and video equipment sufficient for the performance for karaoke entertain. Karaoke must be available thin room during all hours of operation. 4, petitioners make no changes in the premise interior without prior written approval from the department. 5, nofe employee or age want shall accept money or any other thing of value from customer frz the purpose of sitting or otherwise spending time with customers while thin premise. Nor, shall the licenseee provide or permit or make available gratuitous or for compensation male or female persons who ask as escorts compainians and guest for the customers. No agent shall sulistant alcoholic hoar non alcoholic beverage while on the premise. 7, loitering, loitering is defined as standideally about without lawful business and prohibited on sidewalks or property adjacent to the premise under the control of the licenseee deticketed ochb the abc 257. Number 8 rsh no noise shall be audible beyond the area under the control of the licenseee depicted on the abc 257. The petitioners shall utilize electronic surveillance that is able to view inside and outside of the premise and actively maintained and recorded. The electronic surveillance is in place during operating hours. Set electronic recordings are kept up to 72 hours and made available to the department or Police Department upon demand. At no time shall a customer have direct access or Self Service Access to Self Services beverages and also [inaudible] shall go through a employee of the prem toos the customer. The petition is responsible for maintaining free of litter the area which they have control graffiti removed from the premise within 72 hours of application. If the graffiti occurs on a friday or weekend day or a holiday, the licenseee shall remove the graffiti within 72 hours the beginning of the next week day. Monitor the interior of the premise at all times the alcoholic beverages are served or consumed to insure operates with all applicable laws and conditions. Supervisor campos. Thank you madam chair. Thank you sergeant. Just a quick question about the electronic surveillance. Wonder if you can talk more about that. Want to understand sort of what the reason for that was . Keeping surveillance on the property is for their safety and if a crime occurs it is good for the public as well and can refer to their Video Surveillance and help the public as well is this something where we had this discussion before in committee because there are privacy rights that also implicateed so is this something where it is like you do this for everyone is there is a specific reason why you are doing it here . Good question. We dont do it to everybody but it is definitely good for society to have the cameras out and we can refer to this for any other crime. I think that is the problem for me. I think thati dont think it is a general rule we should require this type of surveillance. I think if there is a reason why it is appropriate here im fine with that but we have made it clear in the past and i made it clear thin past that im not comfortable with the general rule you have surveillance of every business. I just dont think where we as San Francisco should be or want to be. If there is a Public Safety reason specific to a business to have surveillance, then im open to that. But i think there is history of that and part of it for me is as a gay man, the way that this kind of surveillance in the past was used against the community and that is not going on here but want to be sensitive to that. Im not against giving it to the department where appropriate, but i am not comfortable giving it a blanket rule. If i can find my quick notes here really quick. At 50 mason street calls for Service Within 500 feet are 8932. Police reports generated out of there are 1090. Calls specific to that address are 13 calls with Police Reports are 2. If that may help you. Thank you. That helps. Okay, thank you sergeant. So, if there are no further comments members of the committee we open up for Public Comment on the item. Any member that would like to speak on the item. Seeing nonesorry. Please do come up. You can stand by the wall if you like to speak. Hello. My name is kurting lamb and speaking in support of pandora karaokes move to 50 mason street. I currentsly operate the chairman food trucks and restaurant out of the tenderloin district and have been doing so for the last 6 years and through the last 6 years i have seen the tenderloin go through many transitions. Some fwr the better and some still for the worst. Yet, through often the darker side the changes the tenderloin has seen, sthra constant on eddie street between taylor and mason that consistency is real a the lights provided by pandora karaoke. If you are not familiar with the 600 block of eddie street, just giv me a second to paint a picture. During the day when pandora business is closed a mix och professionals walk through the area of drug deal squz people sleeping on the street and resident that call the tenderloin home. At night it turns into a darker place with a different walk of life but a different version orphwattio sign it day. That is until pandoras lights come on. That sign seemingly insignificant brings back light to a otherwise darker place in that part of town. Also whenia hear music and voices of the singing patrons through the front door it takes away from that grimyness that you see in the neighborhood. I know this because i work next door and there from the morning until night. I see the difference in the neighborhood on the days pandora is open for business and when they are not. And when they are open for business, the neighborhood feels a lot more welcoming. Pandora attracts a lot of visiting tourist and groups and friends thank you. We only give two minutes for each member but thank you for your comment and thank you for having your business in the tenderloin neighborhood. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is putact and am here as a resident of the tinder loin. I have been there forever. I want to talk about 3 things one displacement, work in the community and safety issue. I believe pandora is being displaced and kicked out and the riseen he is request the new one. While he is there he participated thin Community Take back the block. All the actirfbty moved to eddie streets and worked with the merchants and nonprofits to make sure they decrease the amount of time happening on the 100 block so as the gentlemen mentioned earlier during the day they clean the streets and make sure none of that happens and during the night time there is security there and they present all these things from happening in their space thin fronts. I feel sair walking at night when they are around. The last part is theyi actually live further down but im will toog walk around in front of their store front to get home because i feel more safe with them there. If you imagine them moving to 50 mason, that will change because they will by there and presence and there will be security and will walk that way and not go on eddie because they wont be there because they are getting kicked out. I think i have 30 seconds left. Thank you so much. Any other members of the public that like to speak . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Someone who has been to pandora myself i want to thank you for being dedicated and responsible Small Business owner in the neighborhood and look forward to continuing to work with you on increasing safety as well as working with us to help continue to activate the neighborhood particularly on this block of mason street. Colleagues at this time can we take a motion on the iletm . I think the folks the applicant are here to say if you dont need to hear from us. They said there were no letters of support and dont know if i can give them to the clerk but have 8 letters of support that were sent to abc and Police Department including one from tend r loin safe passage which states they never support a Liquor License [inaudible] and just finally, there are 13 conditions that have been prooffered by the San Francisco police im so sorry because i would call you up if we had questions. So the applicant at this time the committee doesnt have questions mptd we just have a long agenda and think this committee will move forward with the item if that is okay with you. I appreciate you being here. In the future let our office know you want to make a presentation. You are also welcome to speak at Public Comment as well. But if the applicant would like to Say Something becauseia made the trouble coming down herejeff, thank you for being here. Jeff im the owner and operator of pandora. As stated we are trying to move to 50 mason street and love the neighborhood and put our heart into the neighborhood and are part the block group to insure safety ure in the neighborhood and feel the scurpt staff is with me for 6 years. The same staff and have gotten to know whether the resident and a lot of people feel safer when we are open. We are trying to keep our doors open and later to help the public, to help the neighborhood bring good folks in. There is a lot going on in the area and we like to encourage that type of growth and think that karaoke is good for that and good for the neighborhood so hope we can stay. Thank you. I believe karaoke is also good for the neighborhood and for all things so thank you. Thank you. So, at this time where is walter [inaudible] when you need him . We have a motion to move forward with positive recommendation to full board . We do that without upsition. Thank you for the applicant and for the members to be here on the item and appreciate the patience. We vanumber of Public Comment as well. At this time madam clerk if you can please call item number 5. Item 5, ordinance amending the police code to provide a process for the removal of encampments when housing or shelter is available for encampment residents, and authorizing the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing to develop protocols governing the removal and storage of personal property when removing and encampment. Thank you madam clerk. We have moved this item up in order for staff to present on the item. I believe that the chief deputy of the department of homelessness is here today, sam dodge. Jeff [inaudible] could ntd make it today. We wanted to hear from you about the ongoing tent encampment mapping and dismantlement process. I did want to ask you to come and present on what is ongoing today. As we know tent encampments is a big public issue and something thin discourse particularly over the course of the last 8 months. We have a number of different legislations trying to test t test test test the mission to become this place and what we have understood from the very beginning is when it comes to clearing encampments moving people out of a specific area without giving them a place to go is not a solution. It doesnt work. In fact, what we see in terms of the problem that is out there, is that some of the folks that are camped out are peachal who had been previously moved or pushed along from other encampments and if you dont give people a place to go, they just move down the block or come back to the same spot, which is why we focus in my office on legislation with this board to create more Navigation Centers so people actually have a place to go. And so, that is what we have been focused on for the last few months and we have been focusing in the last few weeks with the new department of homelessness on actually implementing that policy. Clearing out these encampments because we recognize that people companying out in these tents is not a solution and it is not something that works for them on so

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