Okay, good afternoon, everyone.

The meeting will come to order.

Welcome to the June 1st, 2026 regular meeting of the Land Use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

I'm Supervisor Miranda Melgar, chair of the committee, joined by Vice Chair Cheyenne Chen and Supervisor Bilal Mahmoud.

The committee clerk today is John Carroll.

And I would also like to acknowledge Haime Echeverie at SFGov TV for staffing this meeting.

Mr.

Clerk, do you have any announcements?

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair.

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Okay, thank you so much.

Please call item number one.

Agenda item number one is a resolution urging state officials to support California State Senate bill number 436, the keeping Californians House Act, which seeks to prevent displacement by extending the notice period for renters to pay or vacate from three days to fourteen days, bringing California in line with other states.

This item is on our agenda as a potential committee report, and it may be sent for consideration by the Board of Supervisors tomorrow during their meeting on June 2nd, 2026.

Thank you.

Uh Mr.

Clerk.

Colleagues, uh this is a resolution in support of legislation authored by State Senator Aisha Wahhab.

The bill would extend the notice period for renters to pay late rent from three days to 14 days.

A three-day period uh makes it difficult for some renters who fall behind on rent to access emergency rental assistance, uh such as we have in San Francisco, to get help from family or even to pay when they have already have the money in hand.

Um sometimes late rent is due to problems with your Social Security or with Section 8 uh or with some other bureaucracy that also moves slowly.

Um back in 22, our Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a similar ordinance to extend it to 10 days.

However, the court determined that the local ordinance was preempted by the state, and in order to change that, that would require a change in state law.

So therefore, SB 436 is that state law.

State tenant advocates along with the anti-displacement coalition have asked our office to draft this resolution so that San Francisco will be on the record in support.

Assembly members um Catherine Stephanie and Matt Haney were on the Board of Supervisors in 22 when we supported that ordinance.

Um they will have another chance to support it now that they are up in Sacramento when this version comes to them.

California has one of the most conservative notice periods in the country.

Thirty other states allow more than those three days.

Uh, thank you to my fellow committee members uh for their consideration of support.

Um, and if there's no uh oh, okay, so I see uh supervisor Mahmoud go ahead.

Uh thank you, Chair Melgar, for bringing this item to us and writing legislation.

Um, I'm proud to co-sponsor as well because affordability is a major crisis in our city and our state, especially for renters.

And while the underlying market forces can be difficult to manage legislatively, we can require openness and transparency from landlords towards their tenants.

Three days, as I think all of us can attest is nowhere near enough to respond to a notice of termination of tenancy, and it's not a fair setup today when a landlord can initiate eviction procedures after waiting just 72 hours for their tenants to respond.

Finding funds, bringing on legal representation, and making backup plans in the case of eviction, all take time and all take a toll on renters who are in precarious situations, which I know all of our offices have had to deal with as we support our own tenants going through eviction procedures.

So I'm proud to support and hope this bill makes it through the legislature.

And uh thank you, Chair Melgar again for introducing us.

Thank you.

Supervisor Chen.

Thank you, Chair Melga.

I just also want to echo my you and also Supervisor Um Mammu.

This legislation provides a common sense and cost-effective approach to keeping people house date, and I hope San Francisco can go on record to express our support uh to our state legislators.

Thank you.

Thank you.

With that, let's go to public comment on this item, please.

Uh Mr.

Close.

Thank you, Madam Chair, land use and transportation will now hear public comment related to agenda item number one.

If you have public comment for this item, please come forward to the electorate at this time.

Hi, supervisors.

Um, thank you, Chair Melgar, uh for sponsoring this uh legisl this resolution, and to the Supervisor Chan and to Mahmood for um co-sponsoring it so early.

Um, as you all know, evictions in San Francisco are at a 10-year high, and the vast majority are for nonpayment.

Um, we have a genuine affordability crisis that means tenants are too often unable to pay uh the rent, but we also provide tenants no room for error and only three days to remedy a late payment.

So many things conspire to make this impossible for tenants.

Delayed benefits and paychecks as you all spoke to, um, language barriers, remote and inaccessible property managers, buggy payment portals, bad actors who are incentivized to get rid of tenants even if they're able to pay.

For us, extending the notice period to pay or quit is a common sense, no cost intervention that will immediately ease some pressure for tenants fighting to keep their housing.

We've been working on this bill with our state partners for almost two years, and this resolution couldn't have come at a more critical time.

Um 436 needs to make it out of the state assembly by the beginning of July, or else it will die in committee.

We expect this to be an easy yes for the Board of Supervisors given this body's past support for a similar ordinance, um, and are eager to share San Francisco's official support with our representatives in Sacramento, in particularly uh assembly member Stephanie, who can play a decisive role in getting this bill over the finish line.

So thank you all.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker, please.

Good afternoon, Supervisor Chantal Laborinto with the Race in Equity and On Planning Coalition.

The rep coalition strongly supports SB 436 and appreciates this resolution, and Chair Melgar for her leadership and this committee for your support and co-sponsorship.

This change is long overdue and will provide an added safeguard for renters to prevent avoidable evictions, displacement, and homelessness.

Right now, California tenants receive only three days' notice, as was um just uh stated, uh, to pay overdue rent before a landlord may initiate expedited eviction proceedings in court.

Once that three-day notice expires, a tenant can be evicted even if they're able to pay all of the rent that's due.

In jurisdictions with rent control and without vacancy control like San Francisco, landlords have an increased incentive to evict rather than accept their tenants' payment so they can reset rents to market rate.

We need to do all we can to push back on this practice.

If we're a city that is serious about keeping families and tenants housed and preventing displacement and further homelessness, SB 436 must pass.

And support for this resolution is one important step towards realizing that goal.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker, please.

Hello, good afternoon.

My name is Eileen Mehia.

I'm the lead organizer of geographic associations with the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco.

Umorganized tenants all over San Francisco in navigating their rights and connecting tenants with resources on how to respond to a three-day notice payer quit.

Tenants are faced with financial hardships, and this leads to many tenants receiving three-day notices to pay or quit.

It can take more than three days for a tenant to be connected with an attorney that it can respond accordingly.

We encounter monolingual tenants that need support in translating, and it is time a time-sensitive document.

Uh SB 436 will provide renters with 14 days to pay rent to preserve their tenancy and to avoid eviction filings.

Extending the notice period to pay rent or move out will allow tenants and landlords a chance to resolve the late payment and avoid unnecessary expenses and city resources that burden the courts just by allowing a tenant a few extra days to pay.

SB 346 is the interest in preventing more families from facing homelessness, all because they need a few extra days to pay rent.

I urge that all San Francisco supervisors support the resolution and ensure SB 43636 advances.

Thank you all.

Thank you for your comments.

Do we have anyone else who has public comment for agenda item number one?

Madam Chair.

Okay.

Public comment on this item is now closed.

Colleagues, I would like to make a recommendation to send this item out of the committee to the full board with a positive recommendation as a committee report.

Motion offered by the chair that the resolution be recommended as a committee report on that motion, Vice Chair Chen.

Chen I, Member Machmud.

Machmuda I, Chair Melgar.

Aye.

Melgar, Madam Chair, there are three eyes.

Thank you.

That motion passes.

Thank you to the community members who came.

Let's go to item number two, please.

Agenda item number two is an ordinance amending the planning code to make adjustments to the Balboa Reservoir special use district that allow for a connecting element between two buildings adjacent to South Street and across from the Brighton Paseo.

Establishing certain design parameters authorizing residential and certain other uses and adopting a maximum height at this location, affirming the planning commission's secret determination, making findings of consistency with the general plan and the eight priority policies, planning code section 101.1 and adopting planning code section 302 findings of public necessity convenience and welfare related to the proposed amendments.

Thank you, Mr.

Clerk colleagues.

I cannot tell you how excited I am that we are here considering this item.

It has been a very long road, and it has taken some tinkering with this development agreement to make sure that the project can proceed.

Just as a reminder, the Balboa Reservoir is located in District 7, right off of Ocean Avenue on former city property at next to City College of San Francisco, the Ocean Campus, and next to Archbishop Reardon High School.

The project will include up to 1,100 units, with 50% of them being affordable, including educator housing, a child care center, nearly two acres of open space, and a community room.

There was a very robust community planning process prior to the approval of the project in 2020.

I want to take a moment to appreciate my predecessor, former President Norman Yee, also the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, the Planning Department for Spearry heading it, and the neighbors from Sunnyside Westwood Park in Ingleside for their engagement of that effort over the course of a few years.

Of course, there had been a couple decades where projects had been proposed for this piece of land, and they never came to.

So I'm so glad that we are finally here.

Like many other developments, Balboa Reservoir is also struggling because of rising building costs, an unstable market, labor costs, all of the things that have been on the way of development in San Francisco and in other places.

So construction is now well underway, and I am very grateful for that.

To get the other buildings of the phase one development online, the project team had to get creative.

So they looked into an elegant solution to build units faster, more affordably, but they will need some minor modifications to the original plan, and that's what's before us today.

So that we need to amend the Balboa Reservoir Special Use District, modify some of the design, not all, to allow for a slight new configuration.

The project team is trying very hard to get everything teed up to start construction on these buildings as early as next year.

So this is an important milestone.

I have been promised that I'm gonna get to cut some ribbons before I'm out of office, and I'm excited about that.

Um it is also crucial to me that the project team continue to engage with existing neighbors.

There are some very active uh neighbors who have been engaged with this process from the beginning, both the educational institutions and also the neighbors or residents who live there.

I appreciate that the project team has been keeping everybody apprised of the changes and will continue to do more engagement as the project moves forward.

Uh, this is a very exciting opportunity for our side of town, and I know that we have been waiting for many years.

I want to thank the project sponsor Avalon and OEWD for their efforts and their willingness to problem solve and collaborate.

Um, I uh will invite Jeff Horn from the planning department to present.

Um, and we also have Nora Collins uh from the development team if there's any questions.

Supervisor Chan, did you want to uh say a few words before the presentation of SAP?

Okay, go ahead.

Okay, yeah, thank you, Chair Malga.

I just want to say I express my appreciation for your leadership in moving this project forward.

I'm very pleased to see construction now is underway for this project and also the new street and the first 200% affordable um buildings, and I'm very supportive also for this legislation to help advance the next phase of war, including their, again, you mentioned the new rental housing and public um publicly accessible parts and open space.

And I would like to also add myself as a co-sponsor for this legislation.

Thank you so much, supervisor.

Okay, Jeff.

Um, thank you, Chair Mogar, fellow supervisors, Jeff Horn, Plan Department staff.

Um Chair Melgar kind of covered and hit all my topics uh thank you for that.

Um but to again a high high level summary.

This is a minor modification to allow um our building C and D to market rate components of the of phase one to have a have a chance to get construction started.

Um the planning commission held a public hearing and heard public testimony on this item on May 7th of 2026.

And at that hearing, they adopted a recommendation of approval of recommendation uh of the amendment and made no changes as the legislation was proposed.

Thank you.

Okay, I don't have anyone else who wants to uh comment or question.

Did you get Mr.

Clerk that Supervisor Chen wants to co-sponsor?

Yeah.

Um so with that, let's go to public comment on this item, please.

Thank you, Madam Chair, land use and transportation.

We now hear public comment related to agenda item number two.

If you have public comment for this item, please come forward to the lecture and at this time.

And Madam Chair to appear with no speakers.

Okay.

Public comment on this item is now closed.

Um, colleagues, I would like to make a motion to send this item out of committee to the full board with a positive recommendation.

On the motion offered by the chair that this ordinance be recommended to the Board of Supervisors, Vice Chair Chen.

Chen I.

Member Mockwin.

Machmuda, Chair Malgar.

Aye.

Belkar I.

Madam Chair, there are three eyes.

Great.

That motion passes.

Thank you all.

Um let's go to item number three, please.

Agenda item number three is an ordinance accepting public infrastructure on Geneva Avenue associated with the affordable housing project at 2340 San Jose Avenue.

Dedicating this public infrastructure for public use, designating the public infrastructure for public street and roadway purposes, accepting the public infrastructure for city maintenance and liability purposes subject to specified limitations, establishing public right-of-way width and street grade, amending ordinance number 1061 entitled regulating the width of sidewalks to establish official sidewalk widths on a portion of Geneva Avenue, accepting a public works order, recommending various actions regarding the public infrastructure, waiving administrative code chapter 23 and authorizing an interdepartmental transfer of city property from the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Developments to Public Works, authorizing other official acts as defined within, and adopting CEQA findings and findings of consistency with the general plan and the eight priority policies of planning code section 101.1.

Thank you, Mr.

Clerk.

We are joined by Kira Geifman from the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development.

But before we go to you for a presentation, I'm going to turn it over to Supervisor Chen, whose district this is in.

Thank you, Chair Melga.

Um, Claire, would you add me as a co-sponsor for this legislation?

Thank you.

Okay, go ahead.

Thank you, Chair Melgar and Vice Chairs Chen and Supervisor Mahmoud.

Here today to request similar uh Balboa related uh ordinance to request right of way dedication and interdepartmental transfer of maintenance responsibilities for the public infrastructure at Capuso at the upper yard.

Um this is a 100% affordable housing project that was uh constructed back in 2021, sponsored by Mission Housing Development Corporation and related.

Uh 130 units for moderate and low and moderate income households.

Um, as is typical, uh the project sponsors uh included new street and sidewalk paving and curbs, but this one's a little bit different.

Um Capuso at the upper yard is uh truly transit-oriented development.

Uh three of the Muni Metro light rail or not light rail rail lines, and at this location at this intersection.

Um, there is a BART station and um it is as we're excited to have Vice Chair Chen's support because this is one of three affordable housing projects with more than 40 units in District 11.

Um, and we are looking forward to perhaps delivering more as they become available.

Um this is a really incredible project.

If you haven't been, I highly recommend visiting as somebody who attended city college classes and would walk through this area.

Um I can say it's just been an incredible transformation.

Um, and as a result of that work, we are here today seeking to dedicate a portion of the new infrastructure elements for public use.

This would transfer maintenance and liability responsibility to the Department of Public Works.

Um, not sure if it helps, but we did pull up on the computer a uh Google maps overview.

Um, it specifically would be this portion here by the corner of Geneva and San Jose Avenue.

And with that, we respectfully request your approval of this ordinance.

And if you have any public work specifically related questions, my colleague Eli French is here and can answer them as well.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, Ms.

Geifman.

I don't have any questions, and I don't see anyone on the roster with comments or questions.

So let's go to public comment on this item, please, Mr.

Clerk.

Thank you, Madam Chair, land use and transportation.

We'll now hear public comment related to agenda item number three.

If you have public comment for this item, please come forward.

Madam Chair, we have no speakers.

Okay, public comment on this item is now closed.

Supervisor Chen, would you like to make a motion?

Thank you, Chair Melga.

I would like to make a motion to move item number three to the FUBO with positive recommendations.

On the motion offered by the Vice Chair that this ordinance be recommended to the Board of Supervisors, Vice Chair Chen.

Chen I, Member Machwin.

Machmood I, Chair Melgar.

Aye.

Melgar, I Madam Chair, there are three ayes.

Thank you.

That motion passes.

Thank you.

Um, let's go to item number four, please.

Agenda item number four is an ordinance amending division one of the transportation code to reorganize provisions governing the interdepartmental staff committee on traffic and transportation.

Authorize the director of transportation to approve temporary street use permits under certain circumstances, amending the administrative code to authorize the director of transportation to approve certain street closures proposed by community benefits districts under the Downtown Entertainment Event Activation Program and affirming the planning department's CEQA determination.

Thank you so much.

We have uh Java Cronenberg here from the SFMTA to tell us about how this is gonna be so much better than it currently is.

I'm gonna lower some expectations first off.

Thank you, Chair.

Um so again, I'm here to present on uh the Transportation Code, Division 1, Article 6 changes uh that we are proposed, primarily from staff in our city attorney's office.

Um, just for context, this division establishes ISCOT, which is the interagency committee that reviews every event and street closure, fire, police, many others participate in reviewing these so that when people do have an amazing time in the street, it's safe and excellent.

This is a duplicate file of something we all came here a month ago for, which was uh streamlining ISCOP.

But as um staff were working through that process, we realized this legislation is very old and it's really we're all struggling, it's struggling under the weight of itself.

And so we requested and thank you all for um agreeing to create a duplicate file.

So we're returning here for us to just issue uh review these issues related to Article 6.

So this is um I only have nice things to say about Article 6 here, but you can all think of carnival instead while I tell you all, I know I'm no, I'm pandering to the chair.

Sorry.

Um so the goal of this work is to clean up Article 6 with just structural only changes to facilitate future updates and improvements um to temporary street closure policy.

Um this is largely aligned to permit SF, but also there's just been a lot of good governance legislation coming through.

And so this is where we're all just taking this opportunity to clean our house.

So some of the issues, if you've ever read Article 6, which I'm gonna assume that would be no one.

Uh there are incoherent structure built over decades of various changes, including um when the MTA was established, um, outdated references, antiquated code, it is generally illegible.

And so just for the public, if anyone's watching this, you know, again, this is a very messy house, and people keep asking to paint the walls, and we're like, I cannot paint the walls.

We need to clean the house.

So some of the amendments in front of you, they are all purely house cleaning opportunities, um, nothing more than that, um, including um we I keep calling it the interdepartmental committee, and in fact, last legislation that passed renames it council, so this amendments include that change, um, as well as ensuring that uh this legislation doesn't um overwrite any of the fees that are happened to be established in Article 6.

Um, so what is in front of you?

Just overall restructuring makes this code more readable.

We've removed antiquated and unused code sections, and there have been minor clarifications for readability, updating titles and references, fixing typos.

What it is not, it changes no projects, no policies, and no programs.

It just makes it um easier for us to make future changes.

And so that's it.

If there are any questions.

Oh, and I want to sorry, I want to just make sure I appreciate my colleagues from OEWD who have been excellent partners on this.

So, Carrie and Katie Tang, as well as um the city attorney's office who actually carried the bulk of this work.

So many appreciations to them.

Thank you.

Yes, thank you, City Attorney's Office.

Um, I actually always I love this.

I love being able to clean stuff up that has gunked up for many years because then it gets in the way of like progress on the actual thing.

So thank you so much for taking the time to do it.

Um I don't see anyone on the roster for questions or comments.

So let's go to public comment on this item, please.

Thank you, Madam Chair, land use and transportation.

We'll now hear public comment related to agenda item number four.

If you have public comment for this item, please come forward now.

And uh Madam Chair, to preserve those speakers.

Okay, uh Ms.

Cronenberg, go ahead.

Yeah, I just wanted to say that staff recommendation is for this to be um continued for one more week just to allow for a greater public notification.

So I wanted to make sure that was said out loud as well.

Okay, sounds good, but we're gonna make the amendments that you have uh, you know, uh shared with us uh and then let it sit for a week before we yeah.

That's correct.

Thank you.

Did we call for a public comment?

Yes, but you did not close it.

Okay, but there's no one.

So public comment is now closed.

Um I would like to make a motion that we adopt the amendments as presented by the department and uh then to continue it for a week.

This would be to June 8th.

Yes, to June 8th.

Motions offered by the chair that the ordinance be amended as presented and then continued as amended to the June 8th, 2026 Land Use and Transportation Committee meeting on those motions, Vice Chair Chen.

Chen I, Member Machmoud Mahmoud I, Chair Melgar.

Aye.

Melgar, I, Madam Chair, there are three ayes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Let's go to item number five, please.

Agenda item number five is a resolution imposing interim zoning controls for 18 months to require a conditional use authorization for the establishment of new convenience store uses in the tender loin and south of market public safety zone, as both terms are defined within.

Affirming the planning department's determination under a CEQA and making findings of consistency with the eight priority policies of Planning Code Section 101.

Okay, we have uh Dominica Donovan here from Supervisor Dorsey's office to present.

Welcome.

Thank you and good afternoon, Chair Melgar, Vice Chair Chen, and Supervisor Mahmoud.

My name is Dominica Donovan, Chief of Staff to Supervisor Matt Dorsey, and I'm here on his behalf to present on this item.

Before I begin, I want to thank Supervisor Mahmoud for his partnership as a co-sponsor, as well as his office's collaboration helping develop the resolution before you today.

This resolution would establish interim zoning controls requiring a conditional use authorization for new convenience stores as defined in the resolution within the tenderloin and south of market public safety area for a period of 18 months while the city studies potential long-term land use regulations.

This proposal does not strictly prohibit new convenience stores, nor does it affect existing permitted businesses.

Instead, it creates a temporary review process to ensure that new convenience store uses are evaluated in light of neighborhood conditions, public safety concerns, existing use concentration, and community needs.

One of the challenges we encountered during the drafting process is that the planning code does not currently define convenience stores as a distinct land use category.

Most are treated as retail sales and in service uses and are generally principally permitted in the subject area.

As such, we have included an interim definition for convenience stores, which will allow the city to study whether additional land use controls, such as adopting a new definition may be appropriate.

The resolution is informed by the unique circumstances facing the tender loin and south of market.

These neighborhoods already contain a significant concentration of convenience stores, more than 75 throughout the area, including eight along the Sith Street corridor alone in district six.

Residents, small businesses, community organizations, some of whom are in the audience today, and public safety partners have raised concerns about both the cumulative impacts of the concentration and whether existing commercial mix is adequately serving neighborhood needs.

At the same time, the city has devoted substantial resources over the past several years to address open air drug markets and quality of life challenges in these neighborhoods.

As reflected in the resolution, law enforcement and community stakeholders have observed that large late night gatherings associated with drug activity frequently occur near convenience stores and similar retail establishments.

And the police department has identified that this area is one of has one of the highest concentrations of narcits related activity in the city.

In response to that, the city recently expanded late night retail restrictions following reported improvements in public safety conditions, including reductions in violent crime and narcodius incidents.

This resolution will build on that work by providing time to examine whether additional land use tools should be considered as part of a broader strategy to improve overall neighborhood conditions.

During this interim period, the planning commission and department will consider whether proposed new convenience store uses serve a demonstrated neighborhood need, contribute to a balanced commercial corridor, support positive street activations, and align with the city's public safety and public health goals.

These temporary controls will provide for thoughtful analysis, stakeholder engagement, and the development of recommendations for any permanent framework, while ensuring that ongoing efforts to improve conditions in the tender loin and south and Market are not under undermined during that process.

For those reasons, I respectfully asked for your support, and I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you, Ms.

Donovan.

Uh Supervisor Mahmoud.

Thank you, Chair Melgar, and thank you to Dominica and to Supervisor Dorsey for leading on this legislation.

I wanted to give context and the perspective of District 5 and the tenderloin as to why this legislation is deeply important.

We know that late night convenience stores sell tobacco, smoking paraphernalia that have become gathering spots for open air drug sales and related crime, particularly in the tender loan and sixth street corridor.

We had a hearing uh last year, which through data documented this to its effect.

Residents, families, workers, and businesses have come to us about their public health and safety concerns, including drug activity, violence, litter, vandalism, and unsafe street conditions.

When we held a hearing last year, we had families, women come here, immigrants uh from all over the TL expressing to us the concern they felt about feeling unsafe uh in their own neighborhood.

Accordingly, this resolution is a temporary measure that would tighten approval requirements for new convenience stores in portions of the tenderloin and south of market for 18 months while the city evaluates and develops longer-term policy solutions.

Existing businesses would not be affected, and this proposal does not ban convenience stores.

Instead, it pauses automatic approvals to ensure new establishments are reviewed carefully while more permanent tools are considered.

As as the President Dorsey's office outlined, um, this will give us time to evaluate, evaluate future conditions in the neighborhood, such as does a proposed store serve a genuine neighborhood need, such as a healthy food access.

Does it add to over-concentration of similar businesses?

Does a storefront design promotes safety and visibility and has appropriate operating hours that align with the city's public safety and public health goals?

This temporary control creates the space needed to assess the additional zoning, licensing, enforcement, or public safety measures that may be appropriate for the long term.

And the resolution builds on earlier tenderloin public safety measures that have reduced violent crime and narcotics incidents in the area.

Me and my office support responsible, law-abiding businesses that serve neighborhood needs, and this legislation is intended to ensure that the city is not inadvertently streamlining approvals for bad actors that seek to profit from the challenges these communities are facing.

Our goal is to balance economic activity with public safety, giving neighborhoods immediate relief while we work towards durable long-term solutions.

So, colleagues, I ask for your support in turn.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you, Supervisor Mahmoud.

Um, I don't see anyone else on the roster with comments or questions.

Um I appreciate the collaborativeness.

Uh, let's uh go to public comment on this item, please.

Now hear public comment related to agenda item number five.

Please come forward if you have public comment for this item.

And if you're waiting for your chance to speak, you can line up the line up to speak along that western wall.

Okay.

Uh am I coming through?

Yeah, please begin.

Yeah.

Hi, uh, my name is Andrea.

I'm a uh resident of San Francisco.

I guess um, yeah, I don't know.

I think I'm a bit confused by this resolution.

It seems like um, you know, the uh convenience stores in the uh tender line throughout the city, you know, they um serve an important food access need for people who work late and um already the curfew has been um impacting uh food access.

Um and also I think um the other thing I would say is uh like you know, during the pandemic, they served an important purpose, providing PPE, um, and so like you know, these uh convenience stores play an important role in our community, and we should recognize that.

Um I feel like you know, if like open drug use is an issue, like we need to treat that as a public health thing, and just seems like we're um sort of using a sledgehammer where a scalpel would make more sense.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Let's have the next speaker, please.

Hello, my name is Selma.

I'm also a resident of San Francisco, and I also want to um present my opposition to this measure.

Um I have to agree, it seems like this measure punishes um mainly immigrant business owners for the city's failure to protect the public and for the city's failure um to ensure public health.

Um I don't see why specifically Arab and immigrant business owners need who are struggling to stay afloat and keep their business afloat need to be punished for the city's failure.

Um, and when we talk about San Francisco being a sanctuary city, that also means supporting its immigrants and supporting immigrant business owners' ability to make a living and to support themselves and to be treated like any other business owner in the city.

It seems like we're targeting business owners specifically in District 5 and District 6 continuously, not just with this measure, but others.

And I just believe that we need to be treating them equally and to address public safety concerns as they are, not by punishing business owners.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Let's have the next speaker, please.

Good on the supervisors and Chair Malgar.

My name is Pratibateke and I work for Turnloan Housing Clinic.

I've been a strong advocate along with the community.

It was community who wanted store our legislation so that we can we can have some kind of control, especially from 12 to 5 a.m.

with some of the convenience stores.

So I really appreciate this resolution.

I thank you, Supervisor Dorsey's office, Dominica and Super Sablal Mahmoud to put this in.

I think it is time we have to review and see if we need five convenience stores in one block, or we need different kinds of retail that serves the community.

And I think this is a very good pause to basically if folks want to open retail and convenience store, they can come to planning and figure out if and explain to us why their store would be different and what kind of hours they would be opening.

What are they going to be serving the community, which is what we need in the community?

So I really appreciate this, and I hope to hope this particular interim zoning would help us to figure out what kind of stores we need in the community.

Thanks.

Thank you for your comments.

The next speaker, please.

Good afternoon.

I'm the executive director of the Mid Market Business Association, which supports businesses, attracts businesses to vacant storefronts along the mid-market corridor from Fifth to Van S, a little north, a little south within the zone that would be impacted by this.

I'm here to speak in support of this.

It is not typical for us to go out of our way to try to make it a little more challenging to do business in San Francisco.

We work really hard to ease that restriction.

But the conditions, as you heard, have kind of forced our hand.

We've seen an immediate proliferation of new stores that are acting quite negatively on the neighborhood.

We support that as well.

I go to the stores, I go in them myself.

We know who's acting well and who's acting not, sometimes by some degrees of paperwork separation.

These are the same stores that we've seen acting negatively that had to shut down in other parts through strong legislation.

So this is an opportunity to create that pause to make sure that we have good actors coming into the neighborhood, and we are willing to support any business trying to come into the neighborhood, move through this extra uh burdensome process.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker, please.

Good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is Kate Robinson with TLCBD.

I'm also here in support of this legislation.

I thank you for it.

We know exactly who we're talking about when we talk about these stores.

They're they are not enhancements, they're not supportive contributors to the neighborhood.

They sell chips and sodas and meth pipes and run illegal gambling rings.

You know, I'm somebody who has worked in the neighborhood for nearly 20 years standing side by side with people who live in the neighborhood who are predominantly immigrants, uh low-income uh immigrants who are um, you know, trying to survive in a neighborhood that uh you know is dictated for them and the stores that open up are not meeting their needs.

They are a part of the drug trade, and this is of course not every store.

This is not every store owner, and this is why we work with our partners at OEWD in bringing incredible um responsible business owners to contribute to the neighborhood.

And this is why we need, unfortunately, legislation like this to um get in front of a real problem that has brought the neighborhood really backwards in the last five years.

So I I really commend you all for the leadership because it's not easy.

And I thank you for taking a stance like this.

Thank you for comments.

Next next speaker, please.

Chairman Melgar, my name is Kim Jackson.

I'm here speaking on behalf of Local Two, the Hotel Workers Union.

Many, many, many hospitality workers, members of my union, and others who work in restaurants and hotels have to traverse streets, live in the in the tender line and in South Market.

Have to traverse these streets late at night, early in the morning.

And they deserve to be safe and get home to their families safe.

And it is really been challenging and difficult for them to do that.

And that's not fair.

And we want to do that as well as challenge bad bad actors in our community.

So I thank you for your support.

Thank you for your comments.

Do we have any further speakers for agenda item number five?

Chair.

Okay.

Supervisor Mahmoud.

Thank you, Chair Melgar.

I just want to thank all the people who came out for public comment today.

We may have different perspectives, but I know every person who's come out in support or against cares about this neighborhood and SOMA and cares about how to make sure it's a vibrant, uh, thriving econom uh economic engine for everyone, including our immigrants, our small business owners, and everyone who is a resident in these are in the neighborhoods as well.

And I think that's why I believe Supervisor Dorsey and ourselves have really felt that this framework is a thoughtful scalpel to try to figure out the future.

And to clarify again, this won't have any effect on existing businesses already in these neighborhoods.

Existing corner stores and existing stores will continue to be able to operate as they currently do.

This is really about putting a pause on future openings so that we can take that scalpel and review through long-term changes potentially to our zoning to how do we incentivize more economic diversity in the neighborhood?

This is a neighborhood of 3,500 children, and yet we don't have a wholesale grocery store.

We don't have a toy store, we don't even have an ice cream store.

And I think it's time to look at how do we incentivize these types of businesses that to cater to the needs of the children, the family, the immigrants who live there when they don't have what they're looking for today.

And so really excited again to sponsor this legislation because it will give us the opportunity to take a pause and look at how do we thoughtfully architect the future of the tenderloin and SOMA and in partnership with community.

Thank you, Supervisor Mahmoud.

Um, would you like to make a motion?

Yes, thank you.

I'd like to make a motion to send this item to the full board with a positive recommendation.

Uh motion offered by member Mahmoud that this resolution be recommended to the Board of Supervisors, Vice Chair Chen.

Chen Aye, Member Mahmood.

Makhmoud Aye, Chair Melgar.

Aye.

Melgar, I, Madam Chair, there are three ayes.

Thank you.

That motion passes.

Thank you all.

Mr.

Clark, do we have anything else on our agenda today?

There is no further business.

Okay, public um, we are now adjourned.

Thank you.