This would include bars, restaurants, retail establishments, art spaces, performance venues, and manufacturers that have all served San Francisco for more than 30 years. These business he must also demonstrate a strong connection to the neighborhood and the community in which they operate. Throughout the world programs have been developed to protect bars, restaurants, and retail establishments. San francisco heritage who is here with us today is going to provide a little bit of Additional Information on these programs throughout the world and their legacy bar and Restaurant Program here in San Francisco. San francisco, with this legislation, would be the first city in the United States to codify a legacy business registry. Designation of these Cultural Assets la victorias bakery, green apple books, the rock see, gallery [speaker not understood], the list could go on and on, will provide some is civic recognition of the importance to the community of these establishments. One additional
And their legacy bar and Restaurant Program here in San Francisco. San francisco, with this legislation, would be the first city in the United States to codify a legacy business registry. Designation of these Cultural Assets la victorias bakery, green apple books, the rock see, gallery [speaker not understood], the list could go on and on, will provide some is civic recognition of the importance to the community of these establishments. One additional piece is that we would like to begin this process with one tangible benefit. This legislation would provide Property Owners purchasing buildings in which a legacy business operates a rebate of a transfer fee if they extend a commercial lease to the legacy business for ten years. Additionally, if a legacy business is able to purchase its own property, then it would also qualify for a rebate of the transfer fee. There is so little data that exists regarding the number of legacy business he in San Francisco. We dont know how many there are,
The legislation there is a requirement that the office of Small Business report back to this commission and the board of supervisors with further recommendations as to other substantive incentive and assistance that can be provided. Another important part of, we feel of the legislation is the recognition piece. And the other case studies that weve evaluated in places like london buenos aires, barcelona, part of the program is to promote these businesses he in the aggregate as part of the history of the city and their often Cultural Heritage destinationses and that has also been a part of the success of those programs. The legislation, of course, is also informed by our own legacy bars and Restaurants Program, and i think you have our pocket guide thats was handed out to the commissioners today. And it is really intended to be a Public Education program, to raise awareness about these places and how long theyve been in existence and its really had a phenomenal response by the public, bo
Phone locations. I what just kind of curious as to how that let me just do a little bit of clarity. So, what we did just to kind of give you an idea, this is nothing definitive, well go into a little more detail. I just wanted to give you an idea based upon pulling together the data from sf data, the tax and treasurers business registration. We did not delete or pull out anything that does not necessarily fit in one of these categories. So, they are defined, so, like if youre talking about cell phone, define in the legislation in terms of what types of business sectors will be part of this program. Just to kind of give you an idea and to i think before i start making a decision on who is not in there and who is in there, i think it needs more eyes than just me. So, the list that you have is just the class code 08, which kind of covers retail, restaurants, it doesnt cover manufacturers or other categories. But just to kind of give you an idea a to who might be there, were going to have
December 9th and you may wonder why that date is so important. Its the end of the College Semester for the fall. But we are looking at knowing that there are some thing that we can actually accomplish by december 9, but other thing which will actually need to occur and continue into the spring. And because we have a Family Business course that is what we call the practicum where students are actually out doing things, we believe that, in essence, at least three of these projects will be able to continue into the spring past whatever was accomplished by december 9th. So, that concludes the information that i wanted to very quickly share with you. Im happy to respond to any questions you might have. Commissioner dooley. I just wanted to add my great thanks also for getting this going. Im seeing in my own neighborhood every day businesses leaving because theyre forced out. These are valuable neighborhood assets, successful businesses that just simply cant pay, you know, when their landlor