Association is also about the rents that are constantly going up in San Francisco. And so i know there has been this idea that i think is pretty promising, we can expedite the condoizing of retail space. Meaning that if a Property Owner has a piece of building that actually has maybe housing on top, that he or she is able to actually sell the retail space. What do you think about that . Because its true, there is no rent control on retail spaces. In my district, im seeing a 10year lease with an option for another 10 years, theyre now doing it annually, by just an annual lease. The restaurants in my neighborhood are seeing a lot of increases. And three or four times the amount of rent. This is what happened to farmer brown. So condoizing just the retail space and the empty store fronts, they can just sell the retail space. What are your thoughts about this . Well, Planning Department doesnt really deal with the condoization of spaces, but if its instability in the Restaurant Industry, t
Trying to earn a living where the two are at odds. Fortunately, some of the lawmakers in the city and voters as well, have made decisions in the last five years, at least since ive been in business that have affected us and makes it hard to stay afloat. The first is minimum wage. Since we opened its gone up from 12. 25 to 15. 59, which is 24 increase. And there looming threat each year. So there is this constant dark cloud hanging over wages. One of the hardest things about the minimum wage increase is that all of our employees are still working 23 jobs in San Francisco. So i wish i could pay my employees more actually. They work really hard, but all of them have multiple jobs, you know, we like to hire people that live in San Francisco, because it means theyre more likely to be on time and come to their job. Ill send my statement to supervisor fewer. I appreciate your time. Supervisor fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. Im one of the coowners of a restaurant in di viz dar oe
Definitions for drinking and eating uses in the planning code and it was reduced to three. It was based on alcohol consumption. A bar owning alcohol. And a limited restaurant, no alcohol. We were able do this because the city had adopted controls which made the different layers of restaurant definitions unnecessary. So we had definitions that said, if you serve in disposable cups, youre this kind of restaurant. If you order at the counter, youre this kind of restaurant. We simplified that to three basic things. For those in controls, we left the fullservice restaurant the same, but permitted limited restaurants without alcohol, through most of the city and obtained existing prohibition on neighboring retail and commercial districts through that. So recently we developed our cb3 process, which is community, processing program. For qualifying businesses, it requires conditional use authorize, hearing date in 90 days, placement on the consent calendar. No guarantee they stay on consent, b
Have in Environmental Health. In addition to that, i wanted to say that we are trying to streamline our inspection process so its more riskbased following the center for disease controls five major issues that cause foodborne illness. And supervisor peskin has sponsored that. Its been before you, so we will become more in line with the counties around us using red, yellow, green. So its consistent as you move from county to county, and also Restaurant Owners are not seemingly punished because they have a broken tile in the back. Or a broken tile in their bathroom. Or they just dont seem at that time to have paper towels or soap in the bathroom. So its really punishing them in that way where they lose points, this is more riskbased. Its based on food temperatures, food storage. Hand washing, if they dont wash their hands and finally where the source of their food comes from. So were making changes to the way that Environmental Health has operated in the past. And were moving forward wit
Public comment on anything that is not in the regular agenda, do we have Public Comment . Good evening commissioners thank you so much for having me unexpectedly this evening, i know a couple of you commissioner akers and hide, and my name is Stephanie Ashley and i am the director of the saint James Infirmry to tell you know about an event that is coming up on june 5th is the 15 anniversary of saint james and it is the first Occupational Health and safety clinic by and for the Sex Worker Community in the nation. So, every five years, we have a major fundraiser to celebrate our existence, and we are having our biggest one yet this thursday at temple nightclub and i see Dave Peterson here from temple, and they have been very generous and helpful in getting this party off the ground. And it is going to be a great night and we are going to have some celebrity djs including david harness and ricky sins and we are going to have a dungin and the former lefty ladies and i am going to have a ph