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From YouTube: Pittsburgh City Council Public Hearing (12:00pm) - 7/12/22

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Bill #2022-0502: Liquor License, Szechuan Spice Restaurant

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Good afternoon and welcome to pittsburgh city council's public hearing for tuesday july 12, 2022 relative to bill 2022-05.

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Will the clerk please read the title of the bill.

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Bill 502 resolution requesting the approval of an inter-municipal transfer of a restaurant liquor license from china palace restaurant, incorporated to the applicant szechuan spice, incorporated for the premises located at 5700 center avenue known as zeschwan spice restaurant pursuant to amended pennsylvania, liquor code, 4 461.

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Thank you, madam chair, for the record, my name is erica strasberger and I am a member of pittsburgh city council representing district 8..

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Our first order of business will be comments by representatives from szechuan spice, incorporated, followed by testimony from our registered speakers.

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Good afternoon my name is michael meld, I'm an attorney representing szechuan spice, I'm here for fred sprole who's. The attorney who filed the application. Basically szechuan spice, wants to transfer a liquor license from monroeville to their place of business on 5700 center avenue, where they currently operate. A restaurant they're seeking the approval of council and one thing I think that should be brought to council's attention- is that that's the former place of jimmy sang's restaurant and they had a liquor license for years, and I don't I don't I'm unaware of any problems that they had.

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I have a representative of szechuan spice david liu, who can answer any questions.

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Thank you very much.

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Hi, how are you doing I'm david liu from uh representative from sciton spice, so um our situation spice offer authentic skeleton food there's only a few authentic restaurants in pittsburgh. So we want to offer liquor wine beer to the customer so and before from, I think we started at 2017..

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So before that jimmy shen didn't have legal license. I have the letter from the landlord and then it's in the lease layout gray to have the bar and there was a bar there.

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So um so we we really like to have a have a bar. That's it.

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Thank you very much. Thank.

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You for your comments.

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We will now move to testimony from registered speakers. Please give your name and address for the public record. Each speaker will have three minutes to address counsel. Our first speaker registered is yvonne, f brown, not seeing ms brown here, she's, not online. We can move to our next speaker registered anna, marie del duca.

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Wisdom related to choosing life in our city, and I wanted to do that by sharing some statistics right now, there's at minimum 125 children killed every week in pittsburgh by abortion and those numbers are expected to rise with the um with the uh recent supreme court uh decision.

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And um you know many of these children are that the parents are choosing pharmaceutical abortion as a nurse. I recognize the dangers of that and then we see that's almost 65 000 children or 606 500 children annually, but these children um that are uh done by pharmaceutical abortions, they're they're being told to uh flush uh the children. You know down the uh dispose of the children by the you know the the toilet and I just wanted to share you know.

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No, I don't not only I mean for on every account that is so trump traumatizing to mom uh to see uh she a lot.

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She may be advised not to look uh but between the pain that she suffers while and she can't there's no recourse for her actions once she takes the medication and once she when she begins to feel the discomfort of the labor and that that is very traumatizing and then to see her child as a silent, no more pittsburgh um coordinator, I I know that there's been moms that have called in in terrible distress, they've had to remove their child because they were unable to flush the child.

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So some these children are going, and you know it uh it's just just very, very devastating, and um so I wanted to just assert that there's a better solution and that solution is choosing. It is a responsibility for all of us to advocate for life and advocate on behalf of these parents, uh supporting them into making good decisions that won't cause in pittsburgh's.

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Poor health correlation has been systemically rising uh in the same correlating with the abortions that have been going on. So I wanted to share those things and I'm prayerful that uh that we will advocate that we'll advocate uh how using godly wisdom we pledge allegiance one nation under god, and god asks us to choose life. So thank you for the privilege to speak today. Thank.

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You very much having exhausted the business of this public hearing. This meeting is adjourned.

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