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Planning code by adding section 249. 70. Thank you. And item no. 2, the author is supervisor david chiu. Supervisor chiu. Thank you, mr. Chair and i want to thank you for scheduling todays consideration of a suded is at site of the pagato palace. The pagota theater site which has been a blighted site for almost two decades. By way of a little bit of background we have come a long way since this issue was first brought to our attention late last spring when hi office got a surprising call the same day as the First Community meeting to provide details about the proposed construction on columbus ...

I think thats the main thing we want to make sure that we keep the best program in the country [speaker not understood]. And we he keep it that way. Thank you, mr. Oka. Good to see you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Jacob mazol, [speaker not understood], tadik mahmoud. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, commissioners, board members. Jacob mazol from San Francisco taxi. For the past two or three years since and im sorry for my voice. Im under the weather. But it seems to me that since the sfmta took over the taxicab regulations, no matter what sf town taxi would do, the mta managed to screw us....

Sometime now. Ive addressed that with sfo people on how to handle that. Whats happening is now that we have the 8,000 series and these other vehicles that are being added and i believe youre probably going to see another spike in hybrid medallions, but you do need incentivized drivers who dont have a medallion down the road for them to Still Service that very important community. Ive given a suggestion previously, and im going to bring it again to you. You need to work with the para Transit Coordinating Council and the broker to subsidize the time and gas that is aped expended by the drivers w...

Doesnt preclude the issuance of ramp taxi medallions to drivers in the future, its certainly, certainly points away from it. And i would urge you very strongly. Leave this door of opportunity open for drivers. Too many other doors have been closed to them. I also have to say that i oppose further leasing of medallions. I know that its in the agencys financial interest to do this, but i think that the agencys financial interests too often have been trumping the interest of drivers, the interest of companies and the interest of the public. So, id urge you not to do that. And lastly, let me just ...

They get lousy conditions and they have to hire me and spend a bunch of money or somebody to deal with that and maybe they are going to pay the rent for 6 months and then what happens . Now they are going into the business weekend and what do they do . They start taking chances and book parties that they should not take and bring in promoters and then the police have a problem. You know, in one sense, it is not good to spoon feed them, but in another sense, you got to help these people. Because they have so much coming at them and you got to keep them stronger and i think that community out re...