5 53 p. M. I want to start off by acknowledging the tragedy in oakland ghost ship fire at the Entertainment Commission we were fortunate to have a body like us to protect and safeguard all over the place look after the folks coming into San Francisco to enjoy the art life anyway want to acknowledge and accepted our love and respect to the families and victims of this fire i know there is a lot work were leaders in open about night life and how to keep it assessable and how to keep a thriving underground, too, and so thats work i think well be looking forward to doing and so i encourage everyone out there in tv land and the public to really support our commission but also the work in continuing the underground community of artist and musicians here in the bay area and San Francisco with that, well start roll call and go ahead with our meeting. Want to do a couple of announcements. Oh, yeah, he forgot before a roll call a few announcements please turn off cell phones and keep them on silent not to disturb the preceding and secondly, if youre a member of the public and want to make Public Comment do so when i call you and Public Comment speaker cards to fill out beforehand and to the staff and finally thank you to sfgovtv and media serves for airing this meeting live to the public every time we meet now go ahead with the roll call. Commissioner perez commissioner thomas commissioner caminong commissioner joseph commissioner lee commissioner frost president tan. Everyone is here. Would you a full house. I want to acknowledge that tonight is the loose formal Commission Meeting even if Audrey Joseph who has been here from the beginning of the Entertainment Commission so ill spare parting words later but want to acknowledge that and thank her for her amazing decade plus of service on the Entertainment Commission so yep. This is not the last time youll side her but in this room in this way all right. Well start off with general Public Comment any any Public Comment on items not on the agenda you want to make for the commission not seeing any, well move on and approve the minutes from october 18th commissioners i dont know if you have any things to change from that otherwise do a motion move to approve. Theres is motion a second. Ill second. Great any Public Comment on the minutes lets vote. Start from this side commissioner joseph commissioner lee commissioner caminong commissioner thomas commissioner perez and president tan that item passes move on to item number 3 discussion and possible action to make recommendations on the board of supervisors file number 1 61064 and building it is a modification to our current yeah. Is it anyway actually ill not data it but pass it on to the director. Thank you commissioners we passed the legislation objective well supervisor breed passes it to do all the work weve been doing around the Residential Development of the entertainment venue it certainly was a big heavy lift when we started and at some point down the road it was clear when people slept was an issue and those are not initially in the legislation so i went back to the well and asked supervisor president london breeds office to add the molt, hotel used for the 2016 work again continue to protect night life as much as possible with the development that comes in within three hundred feet we went through the process coner johnston is here to thank you about this legislation you are more familiar than what it does so commissioner will be brief or maybe not he likes to do the whole thing because hes so cute. It is a hard introduction to live up to coner johnston. Do it connor. Chief supervisor president breed ill try to make that quick that is the speech in planning it is much more official im sprinkle the jokes as jocelyn mentioned last year the board amazing supported and passed supervisor president london breed night life preservation protecting the music venues within the neighborhoods and the legislation is fundamentally a threelegged stool and a lot of it will be reviewed because all of you in the room helped to draft the first leg the venues are pretended to be sued if within the permits and the second leg the landlord and realtor to disclose to tenants that is a venue nearby and the third leg to have a hearing with the developer and the musk venue whenever a i development is within three hundred feet of a music venue and the Planning Commission to consider recommendations how those uses what coexist that last leg is fundamentally the most important part of law to help the land uses in the dense land use neighbors worker rather than against each other after the fact people are unhappy and changing things p is less difficult the law is we like to brag the first of its kind in the country thank you for being petitioner of that and thank you to the executive director for putting up with me so todays amendment we established the authority to work on Music Development but as jocelyn mentioned the commission should be involved in the hotel venues right now youre dealing with conflict between union square and the night life venue likewise issues with jessie street and hotels are complaining through the staff theyre having to refund peoples room their ratings are down and your mission manages those after the cat is out of the bag or the cow and the barn or worse i dont know so your staff has to insure that the venues are in compliance working with the management of the hotel and forced to do 24 after the fact to supervisor breed amendment good afternoon the Entertainment Commission to address the concerns between night life and post hotels before those hotels are approved it is a preying issue according to jocelyn a dozen hotels in the pipeline and most have night life nearby there are 3 open Pipeline Hotels between three hundred feet of airport and the fusion lounge in union square most hotels have night life nearby because they want to be in neighborhoods that are more active and engaging thats where the guests want to stay and theyre more denser we have to make sure that both parties are Good Neighbors both the venue and the hotel night life and live music not only bring in over one bloimdz into the local community but help to define who we are as a city i want to end with a quote from benny imagine you know from the culture and Music Association a bar owner the 2015 legislation you helped us pass entered the legend no legislation has helped the night life in decades it was landmarked with those amendments with the strength we can canned it to a new category and even more to fight for night Life Entertainment in the city and dense neighborhood i want to briefly pout this legislation is support by sfmta as well the Hotel Council and we last week got unanimous support from the Small Business commission which i hope we can receive from our commission and ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. So thank you, again, for helping supportive this effort. Want to go wow. For your presentation that was great i have a question that will not say cover the or less developed hotels that are existing for the night life. No. Commissioner frost. Someone is in the process of building a hotel what process will this go into effect thats a great question with the existing legislation open the existing development we are a grandfather process for projects in the pipeline when the legislation based paw i but fundamentally in those this is on the front end for the initial authorization do you want to expand on that point jocelyn. Right so we did try in laymans terms when we see passed the other one for the taller than the and worked backwards into the pipeline i guess we should pursue again looking bog the pipeline a lot of development coming it means for us well be running quicker out of the box we have to set up now to deal with that dentally capture most in the pipeline if the Building Permits are issued are were too late no way to be able to do anything but prior to that and i think we could capture a lot of those i hope we can do. Do you have a sense on the number i know the last time around you were able to do shoes amount in the pipeline. You said it 12. 12. That that the hotel molt pipeline you can count them not necessarily as many but bring projects we heard 950 market part of that they grabbed them by accident. I want to ask you are those hotels potentially Entertainment Permits. Of course. But primarily they are hotels. Right. Even if theyre not covered by this legislation will still be beneficial for the discussions with them that is and their advised what they can do to minimize their construction so down the line if it comes back we did warn you so i love that idea. We wander you commissioner thomas had a comment. If you look at the threelegged stool youll hear the purchase is fundamentally to do two things to get the parties are parties talking and influence the commissioners opinion if Planning Department has arrested issued the approval that is too late to influence but, but always an opportunity to get the parties together and have direction for the supervisors legislatively saying this is an important policy direction whenever. Once the planning is approved the construction process is also a place to have negotiation power still i think that is something weve heard definitely from the concerns of theirs commissioner thomas. First of all, thank you for tackling go down to this a conflict we dont have the tools to address thank you for doing that will this be triggered by the status of the volunteering with that type of status to change. Let me communitybased into the weeds and lets pull up the definition so this is a definition to be 116. 2 the new language is Development Permit number 4 the project proposes the new construction of a molt or hotel to a change of a hotel and molt use and defines use so, yes it is a change of use to motel or hotel not previously one of those and, yes, that will trigger if it is a change of operators i suspect probably not im speculating here. But those are sro isnt it considered a hotel now an sro. Ill guess. I mean. Im not sure but i guess well learn a lot more about as we go through for the residential it is certainly possible that will be a process of educating the planner to make sure the notification comes to us as far as the technical question i guess well have to find out the answer. Either way not considered either considered hotel or residential i like the way that the director kane said that eir regardless. Even if a commercial office space converted to a hotel triggered by the Brand New Development and likewise commercial office space to the conversion as well. Or if residential apartments that will change the hotel. Uhhuh. Yeah. I think the only rental i couldnt answer if it is an sro hotel. It is a hotel. I remember questioning the use there was an sro that kept coming back to us on 7th street i think 6th street about some annual i may be wrong but i inquired whether an sro was bona fide hotel and considered a bone fide hotel at the time. I think that is because utah we applied for his hotel. And the hotel above h s f is an sro but it is considered a hotel. Uhhuh. So those are already hotels and if they change i mean it wouldnt there are restrictions on the ability of an owner to change an sro hotel for example, it goes through a process and urban design group certainly i would love for us to be able to intervene as many places as possible ill argue for that transition but not intended to encompass those types of uses. A whole host of religiousy process making that a cu. I applaud your offices work on this stupefy h. Supervisor breed and yourselves are proven to be night life champions and with the new board of supervisors looking forward to the leadership in big alley supervisor wiener going to the state well cultivate more but thank you for the work. Have you a friend in supervisor president london breed thats for sure. Youre looking for on action so lets open up for Public Comment and then we can move is there any Public Comment on this item. No . All right. Public comment is closed. Commissioners i would love to make a motion in support of this piece of legislation in the name of this commission so i will do so. Yeah. I think i will second that. I mean, i think a member of the Residential Group committee i think that is proven to be really whats the word added arm of work we have that is protecting night life in the city and i think our venues appreciate it and people dont hardly know about the way we are improving on kind of the community and night life that exists so i think this is added tool is a good one. All right. Lets take a vote. Commissioner frost commissioner lee commissioner joseph commissioner caminong commissioner thomas commissioner perez president tan. That item passes thank you very much. Well move on to the report from our executive director and staff. Okay all right. How are you its been a while not a meeting in a while and this is our last formal meeting of the year as you may know so i was gone for a bit at the time you guys didnt meet and in las vegas representing the Entertainment Commission with the Night Life Association that is super interesting and it was a descent turnout ive seen better but the work were doing including the work we picked up and continue to do that on an International Level so connected to that through a different trip altogether i was asked to go to Western Australia and sidney i did in november it was fantastic he represented at the Western Australia and got to review a number of times what the Entertainment Commission is what we do and the techniques and the good work and people were expressed and i went to sidney and spoke to a room of 40 people you know from the lord mayor to all the way down to bureaucratics sidney is a big place and a lot of work theyre doing in music and highlevel policies and dont have any protections like we do on the ground people doing regulations like we do i hope i did you all right of and more and more as we do this kind of work asked to explain what were doing so next year ill be in austin twice telling a Different Group of people and pushing this along with the Entertainment Commission and how you make night life healthy and responsible and certainly the oakland has made it you know again, a priority to try to reach out to east bay in my way and if any of you can be helpful in that theyre kind of still in a grieving space and not necessarily asking for our help we are talking internally at the city level how to make sure what we do you know in keeping safe basis is not an aggressive posture we identify when there are places that seem at risk and move them to a compliant without punishing artists for open space they mandate want to live in but have no choice in so, anyway that was a great experience i hope to continue to do that i have on the agenda this work that you heard about im not going to repeat about the hotel motel but moving a Planning Commission in january to get it on the calendar this work will be at the board in the First Quarter of 2017 Holiday Party two weeks from tonight i hope yall got the invitation i assume it went out how many people maggie and 6 hundred. 6 hundred. 6 people will show up. 6 hundred at the armor club we know many, many people say theyll come and want to be a part of the Entertainment Commission and want to attend but dont freak out weve freaked out too many times it is really okay. So, yeah the only other thing i want to say i put an important date 12, 20 is our party and january we only have one meeting assuming the president will make a decision on the first meeting in january as they usually do in the tenth meeting well have to agendize that you can discuss that in january 17th we have a meeting i have the intention of putting forward a piece of legislation modifying in great detail the ordinance and how we go outdoor sound i might request the Commission President consider an additional meeting in january for the purposes of hearing that legislation because it is a big, big piece of legislation i want to put that out there and february date to keep in mind the 6 which is our summit and that will kind take shape as we go along but february 6th if you dont have it in your calendar put it down and lastly inform things that comes up seat 3 is Public Health and seat 4 which is currently perez neighborhood seats those seats come up for whenever it is called the. Reappointment. Reappointment on july one so in order to be prepared so we dont have vacancies you know consider Going Forward and letting me know if youre intending to pursue the seat or not and can work on alternatives so thats it unless you have questions. Hand it over to. Youre saying just to be clear to have two meetings in january even if the firefighters one is scheduled. Correct and an additional obviously well agendize that. And notice it. I get it. One item. Yes. You think you dont think you can last and be part of one meeting in january. The potential for the number of venues, however, this grows we dont have another proper meeting from now to then. Got it. Thanks inspector which inspector want to go first. Inspector pauly. Good evening commissioners several things to