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All right. Welcome back to our regularly scheduled non-monthly zoning adjustments board meeting.

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It is 7 PM, so I will begin the meeting by our call to order of the August 13th Zab meeting. I'll start by reading our public advisory.

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This meeting will be conducted in a hybrid model with both in-person and virtual participation.

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The teleconference will be recorded as in-isab meetings recorded in all of the world's

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procedure and the coronal apply for zab meetings conducted by teleconference or video conference.

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If you wish to comment during the public comment

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portion of the agenda, press star nine and wait

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to be recognized by the chair.

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All right, that was our public advisory.

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Now, we're going to do our roll call vote

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and an expertate communications.

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Thank you.

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When I call your name, please state President

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and disclose any expertate communications.

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Commissioner Duffy.

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President Noxpertae.

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Commissioner Thompson.

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President Noxpertae.

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Commissioner Cramer.

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President Noxpertae.

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Commissioner Allen.

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President Noxpertae.

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Commissioner Ruth.

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President Noxpertae.

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Vice Chair Young.

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President Noxpertae.

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and Commissioner Sanderson is absent.

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All right, thank you so much.

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Now our next item is our land acknowledgement statement,

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which I will read.

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The Commission recognizes that the community we live in

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was built on the territory of the Huchun,

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the ancestral and unseated land

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of the Chetinius-speaking Alana people.

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The ancestors and descendants of the sovereign

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were on a band of Alameda County.

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This landing was, and continues to be of great importance,

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to the Eloni tribes and descendants of the were on a band.

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As we begin our meeting tonight, we acknowledge and honor the original inhabitants of Berkeley,

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the documented 5,000 year history of vibrant community in the West Berkeley Shell mound and the

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alony people who continue to reside in the East Bay.

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We recognize that Berkeley's residents haven't continued to benefit from the use and occupation

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of this unseated stone land since the city of Berkeley's incorporation in 1878.

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As stewards of the laws regulating the city, Berkeley, it is not only vital that we recognize

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the history of this land, but also that we recognize the alony people and our present,

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members of Berkeley and other East-Bake communities today.

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The city of Berkeley will continue to build relationships with the least John tribe and

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create meaningful actions that uphold the intention of this land acknowledgement.

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All right, now we are moving on to public comment on non-agenda and informational items.

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So how this works is, if you are here in person, you can approach Secretary Gong and ask

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for a green card to queue yourself or in person public comment.

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as I mentioned previously, if you're attending virtually, you can raise your hand to queue to provide

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virtual public comment over Zoom. All right. With that being said, we will move to in-person

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public comments of which we have one, and that would be from Philip Lim. So Philip, if you're here,

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please approach the mic.

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Hello, board members. My name is Philip Lim. My name is Philip Lim.

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M like Martinez is filled with the NM and I oppose the construction project at 2-2-9-8 during

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a afternoon.

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I request you.

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Oh, I'm so sorry to interrupt you.

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I personally have made a mistake.

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Your comment was on consent item on the consent calendar.

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So, you're currently in non-agendized items, so if I can actually ask you to hold your

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public comment until we get to that portion, I personally made a mistake and miss categorize

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your comment.

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No foul. Yes. Thank you.

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So seeing as there are no in-person comments for non-agenda items, I'll go to Zoom. So if you have a comment on non-agenda items, please raise your virtual hand.

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Looks like we have one. So I will,

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all right, end-jones. I will now unmute you. Feel free to provide your comment.

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Hello, I'm actually wanting to comment on the proposal for the project at 3101 Sacramento

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Street.

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So.

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We will get to that item shortly.

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Okay.

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Thank you for your patience.

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All right.

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All right.

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Seeing as though we don't have in-person or virtual comments for non-agendized items, we can move

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right along.

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So now we'll be moving on to our consent calendar.

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Thank you everyone for your patience.

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So our consent calendar has two items.

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The first one is 31.01 Sacramento.

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And the second one is 22.98 demand.

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So now we will move on to in-person public comments

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on any of our consent calendar items.

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So,

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we have one.

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Joel Vlim, please feel free to provide your comment.

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Before I begin, can somebody let me know

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when I have about 15 seconds please feel free to interrupt me?

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My name is Philip Vlim, and my last name

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like Mark Spelte with Martinez,

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and I oppose the construction project.

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At 2 2 9 8 to Ant Avenue, I request the zoning adjustment board, D9, ZP, 2 0, 2 6,

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hyphen, 0 0 3 9, and I request the board, direct staff to commission and independent study

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to answer the following question.

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If the buildings at 2,298 and 2,303,000,

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grant avenue, mean to Berkeley,

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what the mansions and the French Quarter of New Orleans

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means to New Orleans,

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let me be fair to that.

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If the buildings at 2,298 and 2,303,

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grant avenue, mean to Berkeley, what the mansions and the French Quarter mean to New Orleans,

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If the answer to that question is, yes, then I don't think that there should be building

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on the site with a new apartment building,

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and also I request the board to walk on the

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north side walk, the vancroft, and between Melvia and Shaddick and Pay attention to how

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for much of the length of the sidewalk walls, but the sidewalk. That is what the block of

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the south side walk where 2, 2, 9, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9 is training towards and I want to ask you if the

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city, thank you. I want to ask you if the city wants that for its visitors and guests as an experience

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when they're going on to their destinations in Berkeley.

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And also, I cover this for health reasons,

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so you can have the generator.

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Clean the microphone later, thank you.

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Thank you so much for your comment, Pele.

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For those of us who just joined, we are currently

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on the public comment portion of our consent calendar.

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So if you have a public comment for any consent item,

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feel free to submit a green comment card.

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If not, then we will be moving on to virtual public comment on our consent items.

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So I'll return to M Jones.

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You should be able to speak.

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Hello, can you hear me?

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Yes.

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Yes.

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I live at 31.07 Sacramento Street, which is next door to the proposed construction site.

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On the other side of me at 31-21 is Creekwood Restaurant.

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The problem is that I am 66 years old.

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I have some limited mobility, so the parking has been a real struggle.

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That's one thing. The other thing is that since this building has been up for sale, has become a graffiti, it's been influx of graffiti on the building.

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trash is being put out there in the new owners, whoever they are, are not coming over there and clean up.

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There's rodents. I've reported to the cold enforcement about the rodents.

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There's a, if in fest wood rodents, I could see them running in my backyard along the wall every night.

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And now, few days ago, there was a family of raccoons on my fence, so my question is about

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are they going to have vector control coming there and do something and also the parking

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situation? Is that something that the planning commission can address when they start this

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construction?

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Thank you.

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Thank you. Thank you so much. I have some comments and responses

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some of those points, but I'll save that for our commission deliberation.

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So we have no more virtual public comments for our consent calendar.

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And I'm seeing there are no more imposing comments for our consent calendar.

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I'll move on to commission deliberation.

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So if you have any comments, that would be the time before we make a motion or vote.

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I'll take this opportunity to respond to some of the points you brought up Ms. Jones.

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So the purview of the zoning adjustments board is the review of permits for, you know, future work or, you know, uses for buildings.

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Your comments about, you know, the current state of the property are definitely concerning.

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Those would best be addressed by the city's code enforcement.

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And specifically, I know there is a point of contact in the city's health department for

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a vector control.

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I think there's one guy named Bradley Horkson there.

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He would be great to talk to, came to my apartment a few times.

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So there's that.

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And then the other thing too, is we, yeah, this city Berkeley has, you know, pretty straightforward

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objectives standards about whether or not a structure provides parking, so with the applicants

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doing is allowed by the city's standards, so that'll conclude my comments there.

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I'll make a motion to approve the consent calendar, including the modification to the revision

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into conditions of approval for $22.98.

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All second.

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You want to?

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Oh, if I did two of that.

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I do.

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Yes.

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So this is for approval of the consent calendar,

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including the modifications to the conditions of approval for $22.98.

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Thank you, Commissioner Allen, have the motion and Chair Vice Chair Young, have the second and I will call roll for your vote.

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When I state your name, please tell me your vote, Commissioner Duffy.

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Yes. Commissioner Thompson.

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Yes.

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Commissioner Claymer.

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Commissioner Allen.

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Yes.

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Commissioner Ruth.

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Yes.

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Vice Chair Young.

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Yes.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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So the use permits for 2 to 98 grant in 3101 Sacramento have been granted.

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There's a 14 day appeal period after which the premise will be finalized.

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All right.

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Moving right along.

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We can go to our action calendar and we have one item there that would be the use permit

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for 29-74 Sacramento Street so first we'll have city staff's presentation.

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Good evening chair and members of the Zoning Adjustment Board. My name is Finals Stover and I'm an assistant planner with the Land Use Division. Tonight I will present a staff report for the use permit application for 2974 Sacramento Street.

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The applicant request is a use permit to authorize the intensification of an existing non-conforming use by allowing the processing of life poultry within the existing warehouse.

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The proposed process would allow a growing diverse community to purchase how large

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shaking for religious and alternative dietary needs and would occur within the residential

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zone portion of the warehouse.

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No expansion of the building footprint or floor area is proposed, instead the project consists

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of interior improvements to accommodate the proposed operations.

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The

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applicant requests is, I'm sorry, the subject property is developed within it as it exists in the neighborhood market, the residential units and a accessory warehouse.

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The property is a through lot with frontage on two public streets and as a result has two required front setbacks.

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The market building is located entirely within the commercial zoning district.

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The Accessory Warehouse spans the commercial and residential zoning district boundaries with approximately 10% within the commercial district and 90% within the residential district.

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The split zone configuration isn't existing condition of the property.

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The warehouse has historically preserved as a necessary structure to the market and contains features associated with prior meet preparations and historic activities.

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The proposal would continue to use the existing warehouse while introducing more instances,

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operationally use within the buildings existing envelope.

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The applicant spent two years working with land use staff to assess the visibility of the proposed project.

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And on March 5th of this year, the use permit application was submitted.

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The application was deemed complete and assigned on March 27th, 2020.

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The

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proposed processing activities would take place entirely indoors with a dedicated processing room.

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An interior wall would be constructed to separate the processing area from the remainder of the warehouse.

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No exterior additions or structural expansions are proposed as part of this application.

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As discussed in staff report, the project has been evaluated for consistency with the Brooklyn Municipal Code,

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including the findings required for use permit

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authorizing the intensification of a non-conforming use.

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Staff also evaluated the proposed operational characteristics

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and surrounding land uses and recommended

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conditions of approval intended to minimize potential impacts

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on labor and properties.

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Based on the analysis, staff finds that the required use

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permit findings can be made.

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With the standard conditions of approval

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and the addition of use specific conditions of approval,

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Staff can close that the proposal will not be detrimental to persons or property or materially

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injurious to the use or development of adjacent properties.

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Accordingly, staff recommends that the zoning adjustment board finds the project categorically

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exempt from secret, presumptive section 15301, at the SQL guidelines, and approve the request

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to use permit subject to the standard conditions of approval and the use specific conditions

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contained in the staff report.

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It's going to close my presentation. I am available for your questions.

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Thank you so much for your presentation. Now, always the time for any commissioner questions for staff.

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I have a question.

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Can you confirm that there are no windows on the warehouse area where the chickens will be processed?

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I can confirm that.

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And then can you also confirm that there's no new improvements to the HVAC or planning system that are required as part of this?

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At this time, there is that there will be improvements.

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For the most part, answered most of my questions, and I'm not that we were talking before the meeting, but we're all like fascinating. We have never seen this kind of project come.

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So we had known, said the Berkeley Health and Environmental Health Division will license.

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Yes, and I was one of the things that we did check on within the two years. I spoke with staff in the Environmental Health. It is covered during their annual inspection.

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Thank you.

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is there any other such operation in the city?

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There is no other such operation in the city, which makes this particular project very important

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to the applicants, and they are here tonight and can't assess why it's important to them.

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I wanted to ask besides the new interior wall that will be constructed, are there going

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to be any other improvements to the facility to aid in sanitation or containing the noise

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that might occur in the indoor space.

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The room will be soundproof, so we shouldn't hear anything additional to the everyday

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market's activities that they have.

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I'm sorry, you did have something else that I think I should address.

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I was just wondering about like sanitation facilities.

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The sanitation discuss that with the applicant.

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He is going to increase service for garbage or refuse and they clean it every day.

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is this action an essential function of the business like is this going to if this

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doesn't happen does the business is the business at risk that I would rather

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the applicant get into what I can say is that staff does see that there is a

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potential for continuous sustainability for the community with this particular

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activity

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and I know that it's not a condition of approval but do we have a

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of about how many chickens per week will be going through or just have big

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this facility would be? We don't have a very specific about how many chickens per week

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however there is a cap of 150 chickens per day at max.

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I have a question. Thank you for your

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presentation and just thinking this through because this is new for us too. I'd imagine regarding

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waste. The waste is it treated the same as any other like restaurant waste? I mean

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restaurants throw away meat, butchers throw away meat and I assume we have a method for that.

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Is there anything different about this because it to me doesn't seem so?

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What I will say is that live animals produce additional waste in what a restaurant or a normal

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grocery store would have the particular animal involved will have to be cleaned up.

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There's like in a restaurant or in a grocery store there's no waste from the actual animal

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as it's processed elsewhere. This is kind of encompassing processing the whole thing we will

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have to deal with additional waste but nothing that will be dangerous to the community.

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Yeah, thank you.

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Can you speak to sort of how you reached the determination that it's sort of an intensification of a current use versus sort of an entirely new use?

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I mean, I think on first glance, it seems sort of closer to a manufacturing process almost or a completely different process from, you know, a process that would involve, you know, processing already cluttered meat.

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So can you just speak to a little bit? Historically, Sacramento Market has, and it does have at this time a butcher shop, but historically, the particular shop has

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butchered its own meat in the back. It just wasn't alive when it reached the warehouse. In this case, the anticipation is the fact that the poultry will be coming into the shop life.

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That is the only difference. They still have a butcher counter. They still butcher meat. They still cut it down. But in this case, it's just the beginning process to the

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in process.

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There are no more questions for CSTA.

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That's one other question.

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What's which door will the chickens be coming in?

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Will be the one that's facing the apartment building in that parking lot?

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Which is a loading, which is their normal delivery.

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And the trucks will back into the loading zone as the trucks we do now.

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So no one will see the chickens.

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Okay, and are they trying, or chicken is normally transported in like an open air truck or is it like a fully sealed bike, you know, each thing we like.

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Can it's a test to how they gonna get the chickens there.

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Okay.

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Thank you so much.

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We will now move on to the applicant's presentation.

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Good evening.

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Good evening.

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Good evening.

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Good evening.

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Good evening.

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Good evening.

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Good evening.

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Good evening.

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Before I talk about the proposal itself, I would like to share something that is very important to me personally

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and to the way we operate our business.

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As Muslims, we are taught by the Prophet Mohammad, the kindness to neighbors, compassion towards animals

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and planting vegetation, our activity and faith.

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The comfort and wellbeing of our neighbors is our utmost priority.

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That is why we have considered our neighbors and every part of the planning.

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For this project, we have thought carefully about how to maintain noise, odors, cleanliness and operating hours.

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We want to be a good neighbor, not simply a good business.

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We are proud to be a third generation business owners with deep roots in South Berkeley.

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My parents own Sacramento Market before my husband and I took over.

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And my grandfather also owned a nearby store across from Longfellow Middle School.

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So serving our community has been a family tradition for generations.

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Our customers trust us to preserve what they love while continuing to meet their changing needs.

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And we want to honor that trust by offering something unique and in demand, which is fresh hello chicken.

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We currently sell a variety of meat and fish that are meat counter.

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We are requesting approval to provide a particular type of chicken, fresh chicken,

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process according to the Halal method.

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What is Halal cut chicken?

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Halal is a religious way to prepare food.

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The Quran tells us to eat meat,

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as Halal and Bayib meaning pure.

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Eating Halal is a core part of Islamic practice,

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intended to maintain physical and spiritual well-being.

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Halal cut chicken is chicken that has been processed according to Islamic rules.

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First, the chicken must be alive and healthy, and then second, a prayer said, and the chicken

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is processed.

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As Muslims, we can only eat meat as prepared in this way.

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The Halan method of preparing is very similar to kosher, and Halan and kosher go hand in hand

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because it shares same fundamental similarities.

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There's a great need for Halan and fresh chicken in our community.

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I grew up in Berkeley and have been at East Bay Residence in my whole life, so I understand

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and have limited some of our food options can be.

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Frozen Halal Chicken is available and limited supply over here.

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And the ones we do find are not fresh and have been packed

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and frozen for weeks.

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And they're not the best quality.

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We get customers who ask for fresh,

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better quality chicken all the time.

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Berkeley has an established and growing Muslim community,

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including the Berkeley Mastud and Mosque

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that is just four blocks down from our store.

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Customers who look for Halal, act and come

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and ask for it after Friday, a prayer, and especially in Ramadan.

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Our proposal would greatly benefit these Muslim and immigrant families who otherwise have to travel outside of Berkeley to find fresh halal chicken.

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Our customers want confidence that the chicken they purchase is prepared in a manner consistent with their beliefs and needs.

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Providing this service locally gives them greater transparency about their food and where it comes from and how it was prepared.

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We believe that transparency adds unique value to our community.

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At the heart of this proposal is fading on food, the freedom for everyone to choose,

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Our community, more choice, greater access and confidence.

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For people who need fashion, hello, chicken, this would give them a local, regulated neighborhood

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option. We are not building something new. We are using an existing warehouse, inside an existing

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neighborhood market. That served this community since it was built in 1949. I'm kindly

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asking for the opportunity to serve a community with fresh, hello, chicken. And the way that

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carefully controlled, respectful and compatible to our neighborhood. We are willing to work with

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the city and comply with any reasonable conditions of approval in a way that still provides service

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to Berkeley's diverse community.

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Our goal is to add value and serve our community without making

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changes that would negatively affect the customers who have supported us for so many years.

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Our proposal is limited in scale when operate indoors and will be subject to conditions set by city staff.

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We kindly ask the Board to approve this request so that we may serve our community while protecting the surrounding neighborhood.

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Thank you for your time and consideration.

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Thank you so much. Now it's time for any commissioner questions for the applicant's presentation.

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Commissioner Thompson.

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It seems like the city would have a rule of some sort or is there not one that says that you can process me on this street in particular.

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There's no such thing.

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That's the question for staff. Sorry.

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You know what? This amount of timing is off. Let's scratch that. I'll bring it up later.

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Sorry.

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I wanted to ask, so one of the conditions of approval is that there would be a maximum daily limit of 150 chickens.

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Of course, that's an upper bound. Would you be able to speak to how many chickens per day or per week at this point you're anticipating or planning for?

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So we want to do it by demand, so first when we start off is probably not going to be every day.

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Maybe two days a week, three days a week, and then depending on demand.

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Of course, one of the conditions is that the chickens cannot be there at night.

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So whatever comes in during the day has to be gone by night.

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So it's totally going to be based on demand.

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Thank you.

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This was somebody else's question, but I'm going to ask it.

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If you could describe how the chickens are delivered, I mean, I've probably seen trucks

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of chickens on the freeway, but what is the containment like and what would be, and then how

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is it transferred from the truck into the building?

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It would be a closed truck, and the truck would completely come inside, so the back has like

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an unloading area, like a garage kind of, and that's where it would be, so it would

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completely park inside, close the garage and then take them out. Yes.

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All right if there are

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no more commissioner questions for the applicant, we can move on to public comment.

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All right so we'll

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start with in person public comment. First we'll begin with Howard S.

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I live in the neighborhood about

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walk away. I'm a nice Jewish boy. I didn't know anything about the Hallala thing. I like

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this place. The front is always clean. The prices are low, lower than Berkeley,

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low, which is about eight blocks away. I use the, I go to the meat counter. I know the guy,

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I get my hamburger specially made. My daughter just brought me an air fryer. I'm going to

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make chicken McNuggets, maybe they're going to even taste better now. These are good

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people. This market is so important to the area. The nearest places to buy food are

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liquor stores on either side or you walk to Berkeley bowl. So the idea that somehow he's

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going to be able to do this is not a good thing for the neighborhood.

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Hi, thank you so much. My name is Andy or Andrea Grace. I live about three blocks away from the Sacramento market. I've watched as this family has taken over and turned it into a really thriving grocery outlet for the people that live in the neighborhood including the seniors who live just a couple blocks away who can walk there.

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As our previous commenter said, Berkeley Bowl may not only be physically inaccessible, but maybe financially inaccessible as is whole foods, which are the two closest grocery stores.

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So anything that contributes to the economic prosperity of this store, I think benefits the whole neighborhood.

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I've watched it on the come up in the last couple of years.

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I really love to be able to go there and shop kind of like a European every day or two as opposed to going to do a big shop at one of the big stores.

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as much as I love Brooklyn, but don't get me wrong.

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But their meat counter and their fresh produce,

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they have been unequaled in the quality

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that they like to bring.

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And I think if anything, when it comes to animal husbandry

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and rights, which is very important to me,

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a small operation like this can be more attentive.

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And certainly, the whole designation

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is a part of that, like we can be more attentive

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to the rights and the needs and the spiritual experience of the animals that we're processing

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because the people that I live around eat meat and fresh chicken will be great for our community

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and so will the economic prosperity of this family who have done a great job of maintaining a

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wonderful source of grocery for my neighbors and myself. Thank you.

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Thank you. Thank you so much,

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next up we have Margaret O.

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Hi everyone my name is Margaret O'Woo Sue I go by Mimi I'm actually not a

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Berkeley native my partner J.R. is here and I started coming out to Berkeley around three years ago

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and Sacramento Market has been just a staple of my experience as it leads to just

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getting healthy food quickly and then getting snacks through the kids that are in our lives.

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But I actually just wanted to share more of a personal testimony as to why this is so important to me.

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My family is from Ghana in West Africa and they immigrated in 1988. We identified as Christian

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and culturally allowed chicken. It's so important to the food or cuisine. Specifically, our soups

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students and all of that. And when we were in the Bronx, New York, we had access to

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a loud chicken and we were able to eat food from our cuisine and it was wonderful and then

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we moved to a southern Michigan, a town called Pilsdale that you probably haven't heard of.

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And it was so hard to get a loud chicken and that just impacted the access that we had to

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have in food that reminded us of home. And so when I was speaking took a loud one of the

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owners of Sacramento Market, and he told me about him bringing life chickens into Sacramento

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Market and having a lot of chicken, I was just so elated as someone who was looking to

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transition out here, just thinking that this would be something that would be accessible to

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me, is something that is so important. And so I know that they've spoken to the ways that

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this is home from our religious perspective, also just culturally, it's important. And just the

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institution, as it stands on its own, is a staple. So I just wanted to offer that. Thank you.

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Thank you so much. Next up, we have someone who was just mentioned, J.R.

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She probably said

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better than me, but I've lived in the neighborhood south Berkeley since 2012 I believe and I

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got to go all as probably three, four times a week. I have a nine-year-old son, he loves going

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there, like sometimes if we want to get to get something, he's like not only a breakable, like

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you want to go to the laws, and so I just want to see his story continue to thrive and succeed

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and I believe that this offering allows him to continue to be successful going forward, so

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that's it. Thank you.

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All right, that was all for our in-person public comments. We will now move to

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So we will be moving on to, I believe it's zap deliberation now.

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Actually, before that, we have, typically, the opportunity for the applicant to respond to any public comments that may have been voiced.

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So you can do that now if you wish, but there have been no adversarial public comments. So I'll still afford that opportunity to you if you would like to say any closing remarks.

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Thank you.

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All right, now it is the time for commissioner deliberation.

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So the floor is open.

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I moved to approve the project.

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I was surprised.

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So fast.

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Yeah, I really appreciate the staff work on this.

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Because as reading it, I had a list of questions in my mind.

458
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:17,300
And as I read through it, and the project specific conditions of approval,

459
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,860
It really like buttoned things up.

460
00:41:21,020 --> 00:41:23,760
I was like, oh, this is going to be crazy, and it wasn't.

461
00:41:23,980 --> 00:41:26,400
It was well organized in the article.

462
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:28,400
So, yeah. Thanks.

463
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:38,120
Yeah, I just, I want to second that in the level of care and consideration for our unique somewhat unique thing that takes time.

464
00:41:38,580 --> 00:41:44,720
And I also, yeah, I just appreciate that preparation.

465
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:46,140
It really helps with everything.

466
00:41:46,140 --> 00:41:52,140
And then I just want to say yay to neighborhood serving grocery because I think that's a really important thing.

467
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:57,120
Good presentation.

468
00:41:57,900 --> 00:42:01,400
It was very thorough and I appreciate the support.

469
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:07,240
I know I kind of sound like a melodramatic teenager, but as a vegetarian myself,

470
00:42:07,740 --> 00:42:13,260
I will probably abstain from the vote, but I do want to come and spend my money in your store.

471
00:42:13,260 --> 00:42:22,020
And I will come visit, I've driven by, and I want to come and buy some groceries, and I want to see your business thrive.

472
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:37,980
Even though I personally don't eat meat, and I, well, anyway, for my religious purposes, I don't do meat, but I do want to see it thrive, and I will be supporting you.

473
00:42:40,090 --> 00:42:48,190
I did want to share one piece of thought connecting this to another meeting we have recently.

474
00:42:48,810 --> 00:42:55,510
If you saw this kind of behaving a little squirmishly, the reason is because this is sort of an unusual type of application,

475
00:42:56,550 --> 00:43:08,330
which is ever quest to expand and existing legal non-conforming use, which is a whole bunch of jargon to say that our job typically is to look at the zoning map of the city.

476
00:43:08,330 --> 00:43:18,110
and then see what is allowed in that list of allowed uses within a zoning district and then review using those criteria.

477
00:43:18,790 --> 00:43:31,330
Here it's a request to expand a poultry processing use in an area that is residential to R3 side of the through lot.

478
00:43:31,330 --> 00:43:40,330
So we recently heard, I think the last request to expand an existing non-conforming use was the holistic therapy center on sixth street.

479
00:43:40,610 --> 00:43:50,150
I think similarly our process was, you know, it is a reasonable request to, you know, continue our expanding substantially similar use.

480
00:43:50,950 --> 00:43:56,410
So, you know, extending that, you know, I feel that I'm ready to support the item as well.

481
00:43:56,410 --> 00:43:56,750
So,

482
00:44:04,020 --> 00:44:05,240
then we take a vote with the motion.

483
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,660
Motion and a second, so we were discussing that.

484
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:10,460
And if there's no more discussion on the motion,

485
00:44:10,820 --> 00:44:11,700
then you vote.

486
00:44:11,900 --> 00:44:12,160
Cool.

487
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,400
We can take a roll call, though.

488
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:16,320
So we'll take a vote.

489
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,400
Here we have a motion from Commissioner Allen

490
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:23,760
and a second from Commissioner Duffy to approve this project

491
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,020
at $2.974 Sacramento Street.

492
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:28,740
When I call your name please state your vote.

493
00:44:29,060 --> 00:44:29,620
Commissioner Duffy?

494
00:44:30,660 --> 00:44:32,260
Mr. Thompson.

495
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:33,320
Epstein.

496
00:44:33,940 --> 00:44:34,820
Commissioner Cramer.

497
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:35,540
Yes.

498
00:44:36,380 --> 00:44:37,000
Commissioner Allen.

499
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:39,120
Commissioner Ruth.

500
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:06,000
Commissioner Quaver. Yes. Commissioner Allen. Yes. Commissioner Ruth. Yes.

501
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:14,580
Vice Chair Young. Yes. Thank you. All right. Congratulations. Your use permit has been granted.

502
00:45:14,780 --> 00:45:18,980
There will be a 14-day appeal period after which the permit will be finalized.

503
00:45:21,110 --> 00:45:23,790
All right. I believe that

504
00:45:23,790 --> 00:45:32,630
I believe that was all of our action items, only action item,

505
00:45:35,750 --> 00:45:41,650
it was, all right, so now we can move on to our design review committee report.

506
00:45:42,590 --> 00:45:47,950
If any member here wants to give an update on what's been going on with DRC,

507
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:52,340
yes, I'll get it together one second.

508
00:45:52,340 --> 00:46:04,400
So, does our review we met and we reviewed a property on print street, and I'll get the address in just one second.

509
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:14,640
It is 2330 print street. So, this is on the corner of print and telegraph.

510
00:46:16,580 --> 00:46:33,640
It's to demolish three main buildings, including a two-story church that's sitting on the corner of Telegraph and Prince, and then there is a one-story school and a vacant commercial building.

511
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:41,320
So those would go away and then it would be replaced by three residential buildings that are each four stories high.

512
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,620
And these would be units for sale, not for rent.

513
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:56,760
So they also include, it's 23 town-home style units with two parking spaces each.

514
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:02,180
So there would be a row of garages that are going down print street.

515
00:47:02,820 --> 00:47:07,620
And there was a lot of objection on that design and whether,

516
00:47:08,300 --> 00:47:14,240
So, the builders are saying we want to attract people who are going to make this permanent

517
00:47:14,240 --> 00:47:20,380
and most of the folks who are buying in this area want parking spaces and not to impose

518
00:47:20,380 --> 00:47:33,980
on the neighborhood and we got a lot of responses and we got a lot of input and feedback from

519
00:47:33,980 --> 00:47:41,640
the board and the community. So they're going to come back to DRC with some changes to it.

520
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:48,960
So we shall see, yeah, interesting project and we were we really liked the fact that it was

521
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:57,820
it was more permanent and not so tall. But that's been the biggest controversy with this.

522
00:47:58,100 --> 00:48:02,800
But the design looks great and we'll see what they come back with DRC again.

523
00:48:06,940 --> 00:48:14,780
Thanks. I feel like it's pretty rare that we see like units for ownership that are coming online, so that's cool here.

524
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:18,700
Everybody's like, what are we really gonna get that?

525
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:29,700
Yeah, I think it's on the DRC website. Let me see if it's there.

526
00:48:37,700 --> 00:48:39,200
I think it maybe.

527
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:41,520
So I think like we have a city like the next

528
00:48:55,980 --> 00:49:13,180
yeah, it was it was yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so the garages it's it's well, and yeah, yeah, and that was that was there was there was feedback about the apparent of it and just the fact that there's

529
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:18,980
You know, it looks unwelcoming when you get a row of garages. It says

530
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:24,640
go on by. And that's a neighborhood. There's a park next door of the

531
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:29,600
Halcyon Street community is a very they've got a community there and they didn't

532
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:35,720
want it disrupted. So the designers did say they would come back with some

533
00:49:35,720 --> 00:49:39,900
plans that they thought would kind of tie it together better. So we shall see.

534
00:49:44,610 --> 00:49:49,430
All right. Thank you so much for that update. After that we have correspondence and

535
00:49:49,430 --> 00:49:59,970
And there we have a link to an email from Stephen Siler regarding the 2021-28.

536
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:15,500
On what the city's disability access requirements are, because from what I read, it sounded like the city has this in place, but from an ethical viewpoint, we should do more to make less traffic or more accessible.

537
00:50:15,500 --> 00:50:22,160
I get to make it, yeah, that's, I'm answering my own question.

538
00:50:22,500 --> 00:50:23,200
Thank you.

539
00:50:23,720 --> 00:50:27,820
We, yeah, if we follow the requirement of the city,

540
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:32,420
that's what we require to follow, and that's our purviewist.

541
00:50:32,700 --> 00:50:33,220
Thank you.

542
00:50:38,060 --> 00:50:43,600
All right, so, I think next up are the last item that we have anything

543
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:45,440
done for it is staff announcements.

544
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,180
Yeah, so, staff announcements, we have one item.

545
00:50:51,180 --> 00:50:57,260
City Council is considering scheduling a special meeting on November 12th,

546
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:07,040
26, which is already scheduled with one of our regular Zab meetings for November, and so

547
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:16,280
I wanted to pull the Zab members for attendance if they could attend the meeting if it were

548
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:18,560
move to November 5th a week earlier.

549
00:51:19,740 --> 00:51:24,560
So I'm wondering if we could kind of take like an informal pull, like a head counter, a hand

550
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:32,320
count for those who are present here who might be able to attend the November 5th meeting.

551
00:51:36,240 --> 00:51:38,260
1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

552
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:39,340
Okay, yeah, and here on alternate.

553
00:51:39,940 --> 00:51:41,480
So, okay, so we've got five.

554
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:48,140
And I believe five would be a quorum, so I think we're good, and we will finalize that

555
00:51:48,140 --> 00:51:54,490
to November 5th. Thank you. Thank you.

556
00:51:58,410 --> 00:52:00,810
There have been some questions about a second,

557
00:52:01,150 --> 00:52:09,870
Zab meeting in August. Do we end resolved? I don't think there is a serious

558
00:52:12,390 --> 00:52:17,870
we're not going to move forward with adding a meeting in August. We do have really full

559
00:52:17,870 --> 00:52:24,550
agenda for September and October and there might have been some talk about adding a special

560
00:52:24,550 --> 00:52:32,390
meeting but so far we are not moving forward with that. Yeah. What do you know if we do consider

561
00:52:32,390 --> 00:52:34,670
more meetings in September or October?

562
00:52:42,670 --> 00:52:48,970
Okay so our next meeting will be September 10th and I can

563
00:52:48,970 --> 00:52:51,170
Now move to adjourn.

564
00:52:55,470 --> 00:52:55,650
Second.

565
00:52:58,190 --> 00:53:03,010
Yeah, I think so, technically. Okay, we have a second from Commissioner Cramer.

566
00:53:04,490 --> 00:53:10,830
Okay, great. So we have a motion from Vice Chair Young and second from Commissioner Cramer to adjourn.

567
00:53:11,550 --> 00:53:14,410
When I call your name, please state your vote. Commissioner Duffy.

568
00:53:15,510 --> 00:53:24,010
I'll say yes, but I also, it does feel silly. Sometimes I have to vote on closing the meeting, but I've been in part of that meeting is where we disagreed on closing the meeting and voting was very important.

569
00:53:27,890 --> 00:53:29,410
Thank you.

570
00:53:29,970 --> 00:53:30,550
Commissioner Thompson.

571
00:53:31,970 --> 00:53:32,530
Commissioner Cramer.

572
00:53:33,690 --> 00:53:34,350
Commissioner Allen.

573
00:53:34,870 --> 00:53:34,910
Yes.

574
00:53:35,430 --> 00:53:36,110
Commissioner Ruth.

575
00:53:36,270 --> 00:53:36,550
Yes.

576
00:53:36,990 --> 00:53:37,630
Vice-chair Young.

577
00:53:37,970 --> 00:53:38,230
Yes.

578
00:53:38,730 --> 00:53:39,230
Thanks.