to this is beautiful we have so much to give each other and we're also willing to work >> readiering in progress. >> welcome to the tuesday april 16, 2024. my name is it ben and i'm the commission president. we'll start with announcements. >> we would like to start the meeting with a land acknowledge. we the san francisco entertainment commission acknowledge that we're in the homeland of ramaytush ohlone. as guest we recognize that we

benefit from living in the homeland, we wish to pay our respect of the people of and acknowledge their soverne rights of people. and available to view on zoom and listen to by calling 1-669-900-6833. using meeting id, 49859176. we welcome the public's participation during public comment periods. there will be an opportunity for general public comment at the beginning of the meet anding there will be an opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. each comment is limited to three minutes. for those attending remotely, the commission will hear up to 20 minutes of remote public comment total for each agenda limit. because of the time limit, it's possible that many may not have

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mute it before you make public comment. you may submit a written comment through the chat function on zoom. thank you to sf gov. tv for sharing the meeting with the pbl. >> okay, we can do a roll call. >> president. >> here. >> wong. >> present. >> commission davis. >> present. >> commissioner--here. >> and commissioner--here. >> and the next item is general public comment this is anybody who wants to comment on anything that is not on the agenda this evening. >> no public comment for this item. >> we'll close the item and then we open public comment on our minutes?

>> no public comment. >> okay, we'll close public comment. and do we have a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> okay, vice, president bleiman. >> aye. >> wang. >> aye. >> davis. >> aye. >> perez. >> aye. >> commissioner poggio. >> aye. >> commissioner tomas. >> aye. >> commissioner schlander. >> aye. >> thank you, i hope you're all well this evening, i have a few updates for you all but i wanted to begin mia y--my announcements by joining our new if you want to say hello, you have an opportunity to introduce yourself. >> i'm leonard poggio and in addition to being a new commissioner, i'm a lieutenant

with the sfpd and have been with the department for 22 years. eager to get to work, eager to get to learn everything that is going on and i want to also acknowledge executive director wyland and also commissioner president ben bleiman as well as commissioner ben. thank you, i waok to working with every one. >> thank you, we're so happy you're here and now we have a full commission. so we're very excited about that, yay. okay, great. so moving right along just one more reminder, because this is the last time we're going to meet prior to annual night light and annual entertainment. that is occurring on monday april 29th, which is where our offices are but it's on the first floor in the performance room. and all of our commission will be there. we invite any member of the public to attend but we really

encourage all of our permit holders to attend if possible. we're really excited about all the programming and finally has been finalized. we're excited to announce that mayor london breed will be joining us again this year to give welcoming remarks, which we're looking forward to. and last i checked we had about 175 rsvps which is great. quite a bit more than last time this year. that's fantastic and we hope to see you there and our event will be followed by happy hour. always a great opportunity, all the information is on our website and i did printout the pdf of the program for you all on your google folders if you want to check it out. finally, just a few items for you, relative to kind of corrective action sxz other announcements of that kind. just an fyi that we're at board

of appeals tomorrow night representing the commission and defending a couple of actions that the commission took. i'll continue to keep you a pprised for that a one-time permit, that we issued at our last hearing. and the other one is for palm houses limited, so both of those i'll be representing us at the board of appeals and i'll let you know the determination afterward. our brief in response to the appeals is also in your folder for to you check out and if you have any questions about it, please feel free to reach out to you but you should hear from me by thursday morning regarding the results of those items. and finally, for you all, this is in response to a request from all of you, at our commission hearing from our enforcement update. that we will be bringing in the brickston for potential change

in permit conditions at our next hearing on may 7th. so that will be agendized for you all to make a determination at that point, if you want to change any of their permit conditions. and although this is not a generaledized i did want you to let you know that we're still work withing low seaakies to bring them back into a hearing looking at may 7th for that one as well. if you have any questions, let me know. i'm not seeing any questions, is there any public comment on this item? >> no virtual public comment. >> we'll close public comment and we'll move on to number 5 which is a report from our senior inspect or. >> thank you, president blieman. we received 50311 complaints, tonight i have one brief update

to share. the training of our new team member inspect or rice, has been progressing smoothly. wile incorporating affective training. to manage our workload with our slightly reduced staffing, we have been personally reaching out to complainants for less urging issues. great potential and poised to become a valuable asset to our enforcement team and commission staff. we anticipate completing his training by the end of his month and enforcement efforts. apart from our staffing update, there are no significant actions to report at this time. please feel free to let me know if you have any questions, thank you. >> questions?

>> is there any public comment on the senior's inspect or report. >> no public comment for this item. >> okay, we'll close public comment and we'll move to number 6. which is applications for permits under the jurisdiction of the entertainment commission and i believe executive director wyland will be leading us on this journey. >> quite a journey we have, it's a exciting to step back into these shoes for an evening and also a big thanks to deputy driker --director, so on our regular agenda is for a limited live performance at scoma, on peer 47. scoma's is a family owned and operated restaurant that has been serving local sea food for

nearly 60 years. they're here to apply for a permit that includes indoor and outdoor entertainment. if approved for the permit, they would like to host indoor and outdoor entertainment such as djs and small bands including wedding and bankets as well as outdoor prerecorded music for their patrons. they're requesting an ability to host between 9:00 am and 10:00 p.m. but should not exceed six hours a day from 11:00 am, 11:po am to 10 p.m., pardon. they sent a letter including the fisherman and there was no opposition for the permit. central station approved with their calendaring continue and here to speak with you tonight is the president of scomas,

mary anne. thank you, commissioners, thank you for your time and service, i was a commissioner years ago, and i do know what that entails. i was a president scoma, i just celebrated our birthday, i'm here on the owner listed wiz represent scomas daughters, grandson. we continue to evolve and one of the things that has become apparent is the evolution of our outdoor spaces which we never had prior to 2020. so, with that, has come more and more requests for small trio or perhaps a dj for

wedding mainly is where it's coming from predominantly. so we hope that you will consider allowing us to have the limited life entertainment permit so that guests can enjoy music with their events. and also i think that for the neighborhood of fisherman's wharf which has had its challenges. the resent neighbors that we currently have is because our neighbors on either side are closed and they never did reopen after the pandemic. so unfortunately, you know, luz did have live music. not only will it benefit our guest and scomas and the ability to do this, it will also add some life and vibrancy to fisherman's wharf which is something that we as a neighborhood are trying to do daily. and so thank you, for your time and i'm happy to take any

questions. i think you can submit some photos. >> there is just two. so, this one can they see that? >> yeah. >> so this is the outdoor, as you can see, sorry. this is the outdoors, as you can see, what we're thinking it would most likely be in that far corder, there is about six feet or so or ten feet, i'm not sure that's public space. so in between where our planner box sxz the water, there is still a little bit of public space, that's the port controls and then, there is our space there. so we're thinking there besinger they may want to move it somewhere along the water so it probably depends. we do have electric out there, so it's going to depend.

over in the right, or in the front, there is two more calls, so there is four corners that it could possibly be placed and it wouldn't be large for this room because there is also the rest of the restaurant so unless they bought the whole restaurant, they would have to be considered in the two rooms, but this is the two areas that we do our events. if you have any questions, i'm happy to answer them. >> none here. >> all right, you can have a seat we'll open up to public

comment and then, see what happens. >> speaker: good evening, commissioners having growing up i was more of a alley guys but you have to hand it to scomas they were always the premier spot. al scoma made sure that nobody left and didn't get enough to eat, and the food was delicious and still is delicious. i'm excited because it's a new thing but i think it's time and i think their customers are probably asking for it. so it's going to be a nice enhancement. scomas is the mainstay down there so we need to do what we can to support them. they've done a lot for the city. >> thank you. >> okay, no more public comment. >> okay, i'll close public comment. discussion? motions? >> i move to approve the staff

recommendations. >> second. >> president bleiman? >> aye. >> vice president. >> aye. >> commissioner davis. >> aye. >> commissioner perez. >> aye. >> commissioner poccio. >> aye. >> poggio. >> moving along. >> the next permit on our regular agenda is for a limited life performance for southern pacific brewing located at 6234 avenue southern pacific brewing recently underwent a new change and the new team to incorporate live entertainment and their breweries programming. this includes both indoor and outdoor entertainment as well as amplified sound in a private patio. fl approved, they would like to host including live bands and

djs. the applicant is host to go host outdoor entertainment but should not exceed six hours per day and the ability to host sound daily between 9:00 am and ten p.m. but should not exceed ten hours per day. senior inspect or is working with the business to schedule their sound test where he'll set both internal and external sound limit for the space. their team sent an out reach letter to their commercial neighbors and there was no opposition for the permit. sfpd had no added conditions and here to speak with you tonight is the g.m. jake amir.

>> as mentioned my wife and i took over southern pacific this december. we took over in an effort to make this a new business and redefine what the brewery has been. as you know, southern task has been around for the past four yeah years. it's been an after work happy hour drinks environment. we want to drive new people into the brewery and make the space something that people are excited about. i put together a highly visual approach through this. i don't think if i we need to go through all the slides that i have here.

we're family owned and operated that is my wife, she is hitting mind me. we make our own beer and support local breweries as well. we, serve food day and night and we have i think, really this beautiful mixture of indoors and out doors. we have this massive tree and we have trees that line the interior. we're excited about the idea of brass bands coming to play on friz and saturdays. it's a beautiful space that people want to discover or need to discover and we're really excited to bring more energy into it.

this is our second location that we think can serve well. we host a lot of private so being able to offer additional will only condition to help us book more and more events like that. so yeah, that's my story. >> okay, you can have a seat and we'll open things up for comments. >> no public comment for this item. >> okay, we'll close public comment. motions ideas? >> motion to approve with staff recommendations. >> seconded. >> president? >> aye. >> vice president. >> aye. >> commissioner daifls. >> aye. >> commissioner perez >> aye.

>> commissioner pog g*i o. >> aye. >> and commissioner schlander. >> okay, it's been approved. >> all right for the next permit we're hearing from golden boys regarding portola music fest ral now in its third year at peer 30. the festival will take place on saturday september 28th from 1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and will be amplified sound 15 minutes earlier on sunday september 29th at 10:45 p.m. last like year, the event will have four stages.

the for the of san francisco has approved and an issuance of their special event license. if approved, their one time outdoor event permit would allow golden boys to extend extended of amplified sound no later than 11:00 p.m. on saturday and no later than 10:45 on sunday. they also plan to stagger the stages end time between 10:00 and 11 p.m. to alleviate some of the evening impact. they're also requesting to hold sound checks spa radically, between 12 and 10:00 am and event days between 9 and 12 p.m. like last year, our inspectors will be work withing gold pen boys to determine appropriate sound levels for the event. when setting their sound limits, inspect ors will take into consideration their closest and work with golden

boys to determine mitt nation efforts by the areas most impacted by sound. in terms of complaint data, i want to give you a quick refresher on the numbers based on my report from last october which is also in your folder for this evening. last year, golden boys and the entertainment commission received a combined total of 32 complaints from people in san francisco and combined total of 203 complaints from people in alameda. the vas majority of almeda were 201 from final change in the sunday evening when there was a change in the pattern including wind and fog that did not happen on act and also there was an act that was quite electronic act known as squirlex. to report from the report, sorry dillon wrote this. they worked very hard to be

good residents of san francisco and alameda counties. >> they will have a hotline and center to call and talk about any questions or concerns.

there will be sound requirements. three will be in san francisco and two will be in alameda and in addition from last year, they will also have one dedicated roaming sound monitor in the bay area who tb responsive in realtime and communicate information back to festival staff. they will enable festival staff to check in relation to realtime readings and make as needed adjustments to sound levels in realtime. in your fold they are evening, you will see the permit application, a slide deck with an overview of the event and sound draft plan which will be l need to be finalized, their

draft security plan and out reach materials, a support email from the port of san francisco. to date, we have not received any complaints for this application outside complaints outlined. they had no concerns with this permit. here to speak with you tonight, is aaron from golden boys and tim lee from golden boys and it looks like we have jordan from apu as well. staff is recommending conditional approve with the specific conditions listed in the memo. all right, there you go. >> thank you, commissioner for having us. it's really an honor to be here and to work with you on another edit aration of portola. i have experience in events and my current role helps me to collaborate with experts like

ian, jordan, danny to create opportunities and solve problem sxz bring world class entertainment to the bay. just as i've grown with the company from parking cars to now running festivals in the region, i have seen golden boys grow over the years from very very humble punk beginings to producing the most impactful and iconic festival in history. portola is particular special because all the love and dedication that go into this producing this event. and this is crafted by the community that is by the bay area about 90% staff living only within 50 miles of the site.

but also bit people and that go into this. and i'm excited about the work that we've put into this since day one. and i'm really excited for rainer to elaborate on the successes that we've had over the two years that we've played off and the continued efforts that we're making to address smft neighborhood. being responsible and accountable neighbor is en grained and with your support and guidance, i strongly believe that we can make portola an amazing experience for every one. erin. >> thank you, lovely, thank you, tim. and then, tim is a little bit taller than me. we do have a presentation, i

don't know if we can put that up, i figure it would be good to run through it together. with our actual dates being on september 28 and 29. that we're going to end all noise by 1045. we'll have our sound checks and then additionally some sound tracks happening on the event days in the morning before we actually open doors. the event capacity is estimated

at 20,000 and those will be 21 and up. so mostly adults. so i'll talk through some new and continued things for this year. we're going to readjusting our stage along with our speakers and/or yentation and i'll get into more detail on that when we take a look at the site map in the coming slides that we have. as mentioned we expanded our community out reach, talking to

more people even earlier than we did last year. we will have additional community relation staffing so that includes at least one extra person for our hotline and then additionally that roaming dv monitor that will be for the greater bay area. we're going to be working with the sound monitor the group. and we'll again be working with dave as rat sound as our expert for sound system design and consultation. and then, we'll get into a little bit more detail about all of our community relations but just to mention our career exploration program, that was a thing that we did last year. we have hosted a hiring fair the past two years, we'll be doing that again. and then as we get into looking at the site map, i'm going highlight two things that we're very proud of the improvements

that we made. which is our transportation plan and then, also some of our crowd management. all happening. got it down, this time. okay, so i'm going to start on the outside and again to kind of highlight the transportation improvements that we got based on feedback. we worked very closely with sfmta on better utilizing their white rail station. the actual location for our shuttle pickup and drop off, it will be the same as it has been in the past two years.

between caesar chavez and 25th, that's our pickup and drop off. the first hear --year, we did not see huge ridership so we moved it and we saw great ridership so we're planning on at that stop. and the next ride share and drop off, shifting illinois to be in between 23 and 24th, there is a much larger sidewalk there that allows for easier queuing and it also keeps people from the residential space that's are past third in between tennessee and india. and then as we move inside

further, another thing that i want toed highlight is the improvement for our warehouse stage. from our first year to our second year, we flipped the orientation of our stage. and we did that for a couple of reasons but one major one that we were having issues with e gres and ingress the first year. we changed all the entry or exit ways on the north side to be exclusively exit ways and the way to enter the warehouses on the east side. so it forces folks to go into the festival and then they need to enter on the opposite side and they can only exit on the north side which creates a better flow. pointing out our other stages, our main stage is the larger one in the middle. it's largely in the same position but we have it tilted

we're trying to terminate as much as sound as possible. and then trying to contain the sound. and as we look at the other two stages, they're also pointed directly north into shed d, that is another change. that's a major shift to contain on the site. going to talk a little bit about community out reach, going to brief through, because i want to leave time for comments. but essentially, it's been noted that we expanded that out reach again just earlier and two more folks, we're already talking to alamed, talk to go

our sound mitigation and our same community letter and offering help in distributing that with them. our website is still live, still has our current information and i believe it has our hotline up there as well. on putting together that program, it was very successful, we had 30 participants from different colleges and nonprofit throughout the bay area and we plan to do the same this year. we also hosted the hiring fares, our first year was in-person. it was relatively successful but host iting virtually the

second year really upped our participation and we were able to fully staff our box office and our guest services using those folks. half of our food and beverage vendors are local and we'll be keeping that same percentage if not more. and then our increased and expanded neighborhood cleaning efforts, we did cleaning day with the dog patch neighborhood prior to the event and during the event we were also able to expand our cleaning efforts so that we were able to address some complaints that we received in realtime to actually go out to the spots that were left of our plan and hit them as our crew was out there. it's been mentioned 90% of our patrons with within 50 miles. so we're excited that our

patrons are our community. series of shows that we do throughout san francisco and the bay area. last year, we did 20 different shows, the week prior in ten different venues and we'll be doing at least that if not more this year as well so. getting into sound mitigation. i've mentioned some of this, i'll just go ahead and rehighlight that we'll be work withing the five tv monitors two in alameda and three in san francisco, one thing that we were exciting about, coming outlast year, relatively, but as far as our complaints went, we did receive the majority of complaints versus them going to 311 which is great for us because we're able to actually address those comments in realtime and then make adjustments based on those. versus last yae, i think it was roughly the same or 311 may have gotten more.

so we'll plan on working closely with the entertainment commission team on getting messaging with 311 that will send folks to us versus them giving us their complaints. we did not receive any complaints on sunday, we receive minimal complaints on saturday, and the majority of complaints were on sunday evening from the hours of 6:00 to 11:00:00 so that last set was a big deal for us on that front. and i have highlighted the stage but i think we went through all that. i don't know where we are on time i'm sorry if i'm breezing but i can run for a complaint looks for somebody, seeing a couple of head nods. basically, if we're in a event that somebody needs to go a complaint, if they go to 311,

there is that will direct them to us, they will place a call where they will talk to a real person, in the event that no real person is available because they're on the line with somebody else, they will be given the option to leave us a voice mail so we will still be able to respond to that complaint. we're going to ask for specific information from them, including as specific as location as they'll give us to where they're at, what type of sound they're experiencing and what type of noise is gother them and then additionally some follow-up information. and if necessary we're able to send out that roaming dv monitoring. but in the event that the person complaint is coming from a place that we know is potentially prone where we already have a dv monitor, the group is in the same room as the call center so they're able

to look at the all at stationary monitors and compare and then they can take a look and see what that reading is, and upseding the read thating they're seeing may not accurately reflect what they're seeing and feeling that's why that roaming monitor is going to be going out and have that complaint that that complaintant is having. afternoon the complaint, they will work with dave on our next step on how we can mitigate onsite. so that will include getting the readings again and we'll be able to determine the what the source stage and once we determine the stage working through, we'll take a reading through most likely if somebody is experiencing it, they're experiencing it, then we'll go

to the next steps of how do we change what we're doing to make the experience change. that will be reaiming speakers it depends on what type of frequency that they identify as issue so low or high. i think that's all i have, i threw in a kufple more slides and security overview but i can leave this recap up and if anyone wants to ask any questions, i'm ready or happy to address them. >> hi, thanks for coming in. it seems like only a few months ago, that you came n.something like six months ago. >> i think it was june of last year, so it's been a while but

yeah. >> good to see you again, thank you for coming back. and thank you for the presentation it's very thorough. i have a few questions. when you do the sound check, you see the decibel readings at the time and they set the levels. >> yes, so the station monitors will be and then we'll have, our sound monitors onsite and then additionally the entertainment commission sounds out somebody to take readings and that's how we base our decimal readings onsite on the entertainment commissioners readers. >> okay, great. and based on your experience last year, when you did receive

the complaints, you were able to respond in realtime, does that mean tweaking the sound or lowering the volume? >> yes. roughly yes, by the time that we were getting to sunday evening, we were feeling pretty good about the mitigation efforts that we had put in and when we started, so once the influx of complaints started around 6:00 p.m., we did start actively trying to make adjustments, but we were a little bit behind the 8-ball and having a hard time where it was coming from and what the main issue was. again, because it was just all of a sudden it's coming at us full force.

so we're going to be better prepared to address those head on and we're not going to start feeling comfortable and having to backtrack to get us to the point where we're now receiving the complaints. >> thank you, i understand. thank you very much. >> what is sound stirring? >> so it's essentially, i'm not the i'm not dave ratt but i'll tell you the basics of how i understand it, it's redirect how the sound is going to go. so the way that they're able to control speakers at this point, they can change the frequency direction and instead of having it, focused down towards the ground if we're seeing a lot of

issues they can point it a little bit up and they can change things on that level. and so that is something that we're going to be going looking at more at depth this year, is how to use that to our benefit just because low frequency is a lot of source of complaints that we were getting this past year, and again how we use that to our benefit starting out and you know, of course. >> i'm just curious on the, the timing you said that on the sunday you're ending 15 minutes earlier. >> correct. >> and how, i'm just curious where did you get that number of how that would help? that sounds like not a lot of difference. >> totally. so and definitely, understanding the 15 minutes does not sound like a son but for us in the, in the entertainment large event business, 15 minutes is a

pretty large amount of time just because we have so many things that we're working towards based on the caliber of artist that we're trying to get and the number of artist that we're trying to squeeze into one day. so there are a lot of different factors that go into that, again, one of them being the types of artist that we're getting and the types of show that we're putting on. but a lot of large of the show is the amount of time that artist are performing in the dark. so it is legitimately a factor that would make us lose talent if they're not able to perform in the dark. >> all right, i understand now. >> yeah. thank you. >> that's all for questions, so you can have a seat and we can get to public comment. we'll start with the room if there is anyone here who has public comment on this agenda

item i imagine there may be some people on the--. >> just a reminder for the folks in joining us virtually, you can raise your hand by pressing the raise hand option on zoom, or if you're dialing by phone pressing star-9 and for remote public comment we'll be limiting 20 minutes total for this. >> hi sarah, please unmute yourself, you have two minutes. >> speaker: thank you, president and members of the entertainment commission and staff. i'm sarah henry and i'm the communication director from the city of alameda, while we don't count ourselves as direct neighbors of festival, it's as it is because the wait sound carries over water.

folks trying to understand where the noise was coming from and when it would stop. then last yae, erin and staff reached out months in advance to share a number of changes they made to lessen the impact along with a hotline number to share with the residents. that out reach was helpful but as erin mentioned the impact felt on sunday night were more than the year before, in part because of the weather and programming when the hotline received the hundreds of calls. the vie braisesing caused headaches and migraines and nausea and the windows shaking made it difficult for many including kids. today they have made changes including feedback in realtime, adjusting the stage and ending the outdoor sound 15 minutes earlier than the previous two years, while we greatly appreciate the efforts, we strongly request that the

sunday night program end by 10:00 p.m. and that it's designed and scheduled to reduce noise later in the evening. it's vibrant art community we're grateful for goenld --golden voice efforts. as entertainment commission considers this application the city thanks you for your consideration and our partnership. thank you. >> thank you, sarah. >> hi, elizabeth, please unmute yourself and state your name. you have three minutes. >> speaker: hi there, my name is elizabeth i'm a two-time attendee of portola, i have a question about the presentation in terms of community engagement and out reach. what members should be looking

out for if they're interested in like, just like offering feedback or engaging with the event like you suggest. is it just out reach to members of bay view or what should be looking out for, that's it, thank you. >> that's all. >> okay, looks like there is no more public comment. >> that was under 20 minutes. >> i want to the applicant to address that question even though it's not a q & a? >> just the last question about how to get in touch with us. on how to get in touch our

contact page is active so you can get on there and i believe the email address is info at portola.com, portolamusicfestival.com and you can reach us there. >> thank you. all right, we'll close public comment and we can have a discussion. thoughts? i mean while i'm sympathetic by the residents in almeda affected this weekend, my personal feeling is that we should grant it until 10:45 because of the scoping and work that goes into it and to me 10:45 is not that date even though i go to sleep at 8:30

now because i have a daughter. to me, it's not, it's not too much to ask to go an extra 45 minutes. >> i feel very comfortable approving this, they've done a lot of preparation work, community out reach, a lot of thought into lessons learned from prior years and it's a fantastic music festival that ads a lot of culture and economic here in the city, so. >> what she said, i agree. >> all right, do we have a motion then. >> i was going to say, i agree with all of the above but i do hope that 10:45 is 10:45. >> i would like to motion to approve this with staff recommendations. >> second it. >> okay, president bleiman? >> aye.

>> vice president wong. >> aye. >> commissioner perez. >> aye. >> commissioner roggio. >> aye. >> wong. >> aye. >> we can move on to our final permit. >> final permit, all right thank you. the last item is one-time outdoor permit with extended duration to host the inaugural downtown first thursday of three monthly street party, the series kicks off on thursday may second from 5:00 to 10:00 p.m. and continues through april 2025. their expected attendance is 10,000 people per day. into the streets is partnering with the civic joy fund and its purpose is to revitalize and activate downtown with music and art and culture and fun.

programming will include live music, dance performances, drag shows and food trucks and food vendors and close beer garden and kids activity and retail. they will have three main stages as well as curated acoustic busters spread out throughout the street closure area. entertainment will feature local talent and they're considering touring known acts though they have not committed to that yet. you will see in your folder their out reach material including their out reach letter and map. a map showing the locations and compiled feedback including letters of support as well as opposition. the applicant conducted neighborhood out refp to affected neighbors within 250 feet of their premise. we received 3 letters of support and 15 letters of opposition in your file.

a vas majority of the complaints are oppositions, 14 of them said that they want the entertainment to end early we are most of them asking for 8:00 p.m. as an end time due to the potential impact of the amplified sound. sfpd had no concerns with this permit. throughout the series, the applicant is hosting traffic meet wgz southern station as end sfmt a and will modify their control as needed on a monthly basis. because this event is brand new and their performer line up will continue to evolve over the month, our staff are recommending that they email us and southern station a monthly schedule of booked acts ten days prior to the coming events. staff are recommending approval with a good neighbor policy and the rest of the conditions you see listed in the memo this evening.

here to speak with you, is javier sanchez from into the streets. >> thank you, commissioners, thank you for your consideration. it's a little weird being back here after being virtual for so long. i see we're mission the regular characters. my name is javier sanchez and imanage the safety and compliance as well as logistics for into the streets, hoping to bring this event into fruition with support from the east guide benefits districts. we're hoping to bring a culturally significant and vibrant series of events to the second street corridor from market street to followcome, it will be along second street between market and howard. so we have four stage areas, the largest and most

significant one would be on second street at howard, we have two smaller kind of gg areas between montgomery and second and the other on notoma between second and terminal. and we have a busing stage that was watch the b amplified some of the time and that would be jesse street closer to second street. we do plan on ending sound earlier than 10 progressively. so the main stage which would be the most impactful as far as age wise, we plan on shutting that down at 9:00 o'clock and then the two dj areas on mina and on natoma approximately 9:30 and then the busking stage is at 9:45 and in addition,

rotating entertainment like for example the first event will have to roaming drag queens, not so much of a sound, but, yes. so we did a good amount of out reach thank you for forwarding the letters to us, the complaints i was hoping we would have more in support. but i did share the emails to the team for consideration and incorporate into planning. we plan on posting contact number a on the polls long the route so people can call in with realtime complaints and it will provide us with more information on future programming. and yeah, i mean we're excited to bring this to san francisco helping revitalize downtown, hopefully bring a lot of activity for the businesses down as well.

we really really want to make it work well for the businesses so we can bring something that will be a benefit to them. and yeah, i don't know if you have any questions. >> first of all, thank you for doing this, we need more foot traffic and support for our businesses downtown. it seems like the majority of the complaints are concerns about sound going to 10:00 p.m. and you mentioned it's going to be staggered depending on the stages. the one that go from 9:00 what are the type of entertainment and sound levels? >> the page area on mina is like a disco, we're going to have a giant disco ball but it's more of a disco type of atmosphere. and latoma cabana so kind of

tropical that kind of vibe. and then the other stage, the busking, it's going to rotate like, we're collaborating with a bunch of different partners. >> and just from a reminder that we will go out for their first event to set a sound limit for future events and we have that so that it's set against 100 feet from the property plan of event free. >> awesome, thank you. >> hi, thank you for coming in and also thank you for your work for bringing entertainment downtown. you said you're going to have phone numbers for neighbors who may have a complaint on post, besides that, will that be available through social media or website? >> social media. >> a number that people can call in space they have issues with the sound. >> yes, that's correct.

we're just adding on the polls is just another area information, but you can get on the website, it will be posted on instagram. >> yes, it will be great if you can add to to your social media and you said it will be answered in realtime, correct? >> what we plan on doing is having it, it's like a google voice number and it will forward to us. because we're going to be running around, for instance, it will go to me first, and somebody able to answer it all the time, if not leave a message and then, we'll take a look at it later. >> as soon as we can. >> is it possible to have a dedicated person to manage the complaints. ?flt yeah, the best option is

the info booth and whoever is posted at the info booth manage it, so probably go to them first is best. >> and will you be building the stage every month >> >> yes. so the first, it's going to be an art car so we're experimenting with that, to see how easy it is. because the set up has to be between 12:00 and 5:00 and any stage that we may have is not too complex, it will be pretty basic. something something similar to that, we're trying out the art car to see how that works. >> thank you for coming in. >> thank you. >> what time, are you closing the streets? is there a street closure? >> yeah, it's from the hours of 12 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.

>> for the residents that live in the area, how are they getting in the parking spaces? >> we can assure as well. there is a pretty decent amount of parking in particular. for instance second street between hol someoned some and howard, because of the access needs for that block, there is 199 montgomery, there is quite a few so we have plans for all parking. ?fm specifically for the neighbors that live in the buildings? >> yeah. >> how are they going to get to their garages? >> they will drive. >> the mta is a of approval always requires any approved permit to provide local access to residents within the street closures, so they would have of. >> so as an example for i believe, it's 199 montgomery, the access is actually on in

datoma so they would drive from new montgomery and we're required to have a baracade monitor so they will be there to tell the neighbors. it's a little complex because some of the ways have to be by direction so we have a lot of traffic monitors but there is access to all off street parking, they get to drive in. >> you mentioned that you have not totally figured out the timing of the programming. i'm just curious, if you know, i see no reason that it should not go until ten p.m. as soon as it's taken into consideration that it's allowed high energy stuff was ending a bit earlier. >> actually, the schedule is blocked out, so we can only put

programming up until 9. so that is the plan. we might tweak things a little bit after the first couple of events, we have to understand our impact but the more information we have, we get a few events under our belt we'll be able to look at the information and adjust accordingly. >> thank you. >> i have no questions for you, let's open it up for public comment. you may have a seat for now. >> thank you. >> commissioner, i'm andrew robinson the executive directer, excuse me of the benefit district. and i'm thrilled to be partnering with the into the streets.

in downtown needs this injection of energy and excitement to return office workers to bring visitors to bring people from other parts of the city downtown, downtown is where the city comes together. and i'm here to speak in support of the first thursday's program. thanks. >> thank you. i'm the executive director and i'll echo andrew's comments we're glad to be part of this opportunity.

the way tlaifb talking to us and the community their professional organizations coming in really talking about reinvitation talking about small business.

so we're proud of the direction where it's headed. we know that they accomplished many of those steps. we look forward to a very successful first event and many to come as this proceeds to the process and we make downtown amazing for all of us. thank you. >> hello every one except for ben bleiman, i'm honored to speak in front of you today. this project has been very beautiful one to be part of and i think what i want to en part upon but as you think about approving this, is how many different organizations and community groups and creative partners are all working together to make this success. this is not just myself and

kaid' but they've been on calls with all the museums with the art galleries, the small businesses, noise pop another planet, the midway and grace towers and more are all working together and holding hands in order to accomplish something that feels really really difficult right now, i was on second street earlier and it was pretty empty. and this is one of the main arteries downtown so. this is what it is about is yes having a good time. and we should make the trek, working with the companies around there. i'm really really thankful that

this got approval for all 12 months including july 4th, i ask that you support it and join us, thanks. bye, ben. >> speaker: hi commission, excuse me, so i would like to preface this by saying that obviously, this is going ton an event that is inter generational and has pulled deeply from all of the surrounding community, but, for a minute i would like to look at this from a perspective from me as a 25-year-old. i have a lot of friends who have not been downtown in a long time and they go to the neighborhood and they go to oakland and they go to berkeley in the south bay but they're not coming downtown and this would be a beautiful reason for

them to get back to that, thanks. >> okay, we're moving through virtual. if you're dialing n dial star 9 to be added to the queue and when it's your turn unmute yourself by hitting star-3 and lastly another reminder that per the city's remote public comment policy, we can only take up to 20 minutes worth of public comment for this item, thank you. >> hi michelle please unmute yourself and state your self, you have three minutes. >> speaker: hi, i just want to thank the team, they're really doing a great job.

they're trying really hard, i see them working very well working with the neighborhood and i ask that exact same question how is 199 going to get out of their parking spot they have to go this way, they're like michelle, they're thinking things through. i myself got on the phone with rickology because i thought, everybody's trash needs to be taken care of. so i i don't need to take care of that myself. this is a really big deal and a hard thing for them to take on and for them to try something down in an area na is really quiet is really cool and we're appreciative of this moment. again, thank them for doing a fabulous job and we're in huge support of this. it's going to be fun. >> thank you, michelle.

this is definitely an event that is looking fogal van nuys a lot of activity both energy, both bringing people economically into the neighborhood both giveaway importantly. and this is a rally type of

neighborhood and this is to provide the opportunity for downtown putting back in the map where it's not just a destination where we get and just to get the most famous dinner or smaller to to the movies. but to come to the neighborhood and brand it for that. we're going to address those and manage those as we go along to that. how to participate and be successful and look for two, you know, grow we should definitely support it.

>> thank you will. >> speaker: hi i'm rebecca i reside at 199 and our building is ground zero for this event as well as for the howard weird festival which occurs just three days after this event. and sound reverb ates along the buildings. 8:00 p.m. instead it's a hal weird festival. this allows clean up to end at 10:00 p.m. instead of midnight

on this school work night. >> thank you, rebecca. hi, todd, please unmute yourself and state your name, you have three minutes. >> speaker: hi i'm todd i'm a public school teacher here in san francisco and i am in full support of the fest going until 10:00 o'clock. it is such a good way for every one to have a good time. >> i'm sorry, to interrupt you, we're on the next agenda item, you'll be thrilled to find out that portola was approved. >> speaker: wonderful. we're going to move on to the next comment, sorry. that is all of our virtual

comments. please unmute yourself and state your name. you have three minutes. >> fwaod evening, i'm vicky i'm a resident and a board member at 199 new montgomery and thank you for hearing my comment and the events. there is a lot of families in the building and children need to go to bed, i think we have forgotten how early they need to go to bed to learn and participate in numbers this their education.

if it ends at ten there is going to be a noise and equipment for however it takes to move the equipment off and away. so please, if you can please consider our concerns here in a high-rise building hundreds of people in this building. thank you very much. >> thank you, vicky. it concerns me about the community out reach, in the building there is hundreds of complaints and we signed a petition that has bnl --been largely ignored by the organizers. we need to work to figure out a time that would be beneficial for the community as well as not be an interruption to every

one's homes that was largely ignored. i'm echoing the comment that there are a lot of kids and we need to go to sleep. i urge to end the event earlier, it takes hard to break down. even hearing that they will have a phone, and then to it will goes to a voice mail. that tells me if it goes over, the time that is permitted, they have no recourse. i urge the community consider all the consequences for the residents here, this is a violation of their homes so yeah.

>> thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> i think we're going to close public comment for this agenda item. before we get any discussion, does anybody have any questions? if you can hop back up here to the microphone, and attempt some of our commissioners may have some questions for you. are you guys that you can make sure that make sure that that's possible, can you kind of address that or make sure that your vendors are mindful of the

possible noise that that's going to cause. >> part of the noise mitigation, we have the truck down on tahama further down so we come file everything and pull the truck and that the truck is not being there slammed. all right, thank you. >> you can have a seat again. >> i would like to say that we reached out to 246 second street and we've been in communication with their managers constantly and holding community meetings as well, it has not been well attended. ?fm and we encourage to you continue to do that in perpetuity.

discussion? >> downtown is a disaster, small businesses are dying and they're dying for one reason, because there are not enough people. so you know, i have these conversation wz elected official and with leaders and they say, what can we do, can we waive this fee and change the zoning, this has nothing to do with that, and i keep telling them if you want to talk to small businesses, it's more people, that's what they need. and i think it's almost impossible for me to over state how bad it is downtown especially on certain days. but, you know, we are it's a ghost town in many many areas of downtown. obviously, we know that downtown is related to a lot more than the health of small businesses there, it's the economic engine that funds our schools and police officers and our firefighters, our pothole fixing and everything.

items like this are attractive to me. i can also say that the bar i own is not near there but it's the price i'm willing to take is that i'm too far away. i spent a lot of time in new york city and i grew upright outside of new york city and every time i go back there i'm shocked by the 24-7 noise. the ambulances and the trash and everything it never ends and the people of new york become accustomed and the people downtown san francisco were accustomed to a level of noise and since covid it's

become very quiet, probably as quiet as sonoma, as life comes back down, we're going to see a natural kind of issues arise because when somebody is accustom and something changes, downtown has to be thriving. we need to have a lot more. i think it's something that i'm comfortable supporting. >> completely agree with that, downtown is our heartbeat, it's our tax base, we need to take some big risks and infuse a lot into downtown and we need to

bring people back wile i'm sensitive to parents and work hours that is part of the world entertainment commission plays. we will have sound inspectors that will go out and set limits. i for one am totally in support of this and i think we need more like this. >> i'm also encouraged that it seems like they are really proactive about sort of self audits and being flexible and seeing how events go and discussing it and making any needed changes or adjustments, so i, i am very excited i cannot wait to go.

>> all right, do we have any motions then? >> i move to approve with staff recommendations. >> second. >> all right, president. >> aye. >> vice president. >> aye. >> commissioner davis. >> aye. >> commissioner perez. >> aye. >> commissioner poggi o*i. >> aye. >> aye. >> it's been approved, follow-up with our staff at your earliest convenience for the next step and we can move on away from permitting tonight. >> thank you, guys. >> so early. what would go wrong, we have one more public comment in our public questions. all right, number 7 commissioners comment sxz questions, what do we have? oh i just want to welcome our new commissioner, we are so excited to have a police

presentation, i'm excited about our energy. this commission works better when we work hand and hand with the police and we're excited to have you do that and continue to do that. >> mriek wise, i appreciate it. >> welcome to the family, good to see you and i'm looking forward to working with you. >> thank you. >> it's strange looking up at new, i'm used to looking at dore' and dave. >> i miss them. i do have one thing, my annual music festival is happening from pole being street, picking on the polk, this year we're having two stages one that is on broadway during the day and then a dj that goes until 10:00 on polk and california and we're so excited we have a couple of big acts, the jazz

mafia who is a famous local jazz mafia, it's so awesome, we'll bring the house down. and a band called motel act a big get for us that is playing the night show from 8:00 to 10, come check it out. >> this weekend? >> a week from saturday. >> i also have my bar besides grand grant opening and tickets just went on sale so if you want to go, get on that so i can. >> that's a hot ticket, i bet. >> oh, it's going to be fun. and i came wup a theme. >> what's the theme. >> oh my god, when i suggested this, i thought you're going to make fun of me, this is a prom idea, the token mom said t stud through the stages, the 6:00 o'clock is going to be 60s and 7:00 o'clock like the 70s. >> that's a great idea. >> so you have to keep changing?

>> i mean, i'm going to. >> oh my god. >> we just do different drugs every. >> we will strike that from the record. >> i got too much parties to promote so i'm going to leave it alone. >> well, is there any public comment. >> yes, please. >> may first, start heritage month, so we are doing the official celebration with the mayor at herb's theter with a reception, the award ceremony is at 5:30 so everybody is invited. >> al is back, he's got fence again. >> all right, any public comment on this agenda item? >> no public comment. we'll close this agenda item and we'll adjourn at 7:01 p.m. >> great work. great work.

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