Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee Meeting - January 25, 2024
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Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee Meeting - January 25, 2024
The Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee met on January 25, 2024, with Chair Supervisor Catherine Stephanie presiding. Vice Chair Ingario was present, and Member Supervisor Matt Dorsey was excused. The meeting focused on a single hearing regarding a liquor license transfer for Pink House by the Bay at 800 Bay Street.
Discussion Items
- Liquor License Transfer (Item 231289): The committee considered a person-to-person, premise-to-premise transfer of a Type 20 off-sale beer and wine license to Pink House by the Bay LLC, doing business as Pink House by the Bay, located at 800 Bay Street. Officer Salmuson from the SFPD ABC Liaison unit presented the application, noting zero letters of protest or support. The location is in police district 106 (high crime) and census tract 10202 (high saturation). The police department had no opposition. The Planning Department (LU) recommended approval with a condition: the petitioner shall actively monitor the area under their control to prevent loitering on any property adjacent to the licensed premise. Chair Stephanie confirmed the item is in her district and indicated she was fine with it.
Public Comments & Testimony
- No members of the public spoke or submitted written comments during the meeting.
Key Outcomes
- Motion and Vote: Chair Stephanie moved to have the clerk prepare a resolution finding that the issuance of the liquor license transfer would serve the public convenience or necessity. The motion passed unanimously with two ayes (Chair Stephanie and Vice Chair Ingario), Member Dorsey being excused. The resolution was forwarded to the full Board of Supervisors with a positive recommendation for the February 6, 2024 meeting.
- Condition: The approval is subject to the condition that the licensee actively monitor adjacent areas to prevent loitering, as per ABC Form 253.
Meeting Transcript
This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the January 25th, 2024, regular meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee. I'm Supervisor Catherine Stephanie, Chair of the Committee, and to my right is Vice Chair Ingario, and the clerk is Mr. John Carroll. I'd also like to thank Matthew Ignow at SFGov TV for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements? Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. Please ensure that you've silenced your cell phones and other electronic devices you may have brought with you into the chamber today. If you have any documents to include as part of the files upon which we are acting today, you can submit them to me over the rail. Public comment will be taken on each item on today's agenda. When your item of interest comes up and public comment is called, please line up to speak along the right-hand side of the room. Alternatively, you may submit your public comment in writing in either of the following ways. First, you may send your written comments to me via email at J-O-H-N. Period. C-A-R-R-O-L-L at SFGOV.org. Or you may send your written comments via U.S. Postal Service to our office in City Hall. That is the clerk's office, room 244. City Hall's addresses one, Dr. Carlton B. Goodlit Place, San Francisco, California, 94102. And Madam Chair, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors Agenda of February 6th, 2024, unless otherwise stated. Thank you. And before we begin today's meeting, I'd like to make a motion to excuse Supervisor Matt Dorsey. On the motion offered by the chair to excuse Member Dorsey, Vice Chair Inguardio. And Guardio, I Chair Stephanie. I Stephanie, I Madam Chair, there are two ayes, and Member Dorsey excused. Thank you so much. And will you please call the first item? Agenda item number one is a hearing to consider that the person-to-person premise-to-premise transfer of a type 20 off-sale beer and wine liquor license to Pink House by the Bay LLC to do business is Pink House by the Bay, located at 800 Bay Street, will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county. Thank you. I'd like to call Officer Salmuson from the SFPD, ABC Liaison unit. Good to see you. Okay, Pink House by the Bay has applied for a type uh 20 license, and if approved, this would allow them to operate an off-sale beer and wine premise. I have zero letters of protest, zero letters of support. They are in plot 106, which is considered high crime. They're in census track 10202, which is high saturation. Um station has no opposition. Uh an LU recommends approval with the following condition that the petitioner shall actively monitor the area under their control in an effort to prevent the loitering of persons on any property adjacent to the licensed premise as depicted on ABC 253. Thank you so much. Any questions? I know that we do have a representative from the applicant present, but um no need to testify at this time unless you'd like to. I don't believe there are any questions. This is in my district, and I am fine with it. Um do we have any public comment? Madam Chair, it appears we have no speakers in the chamber. Public comment is now closed. Seeing nobody else on the roster, I would now like to move that the clerk prepare a resolution making a determination that the issuance of a person-to-person premise to premise transfer of a type 20 off-sale beer and wine liquor license to the applicant would serve the public convenience or necessity. May we take this motion without objection and send this resolution to the food full board with positive recommendation?
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