Move forward. Thank you so much and thank you for the presentation. Commissioner thank you very much. Any other members of this public. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Id like to thank the members of the public and there say restaurant in the castro is a restaurant in the castro i wont name the restaurant on 16th street and they string the lights up and were told not to serve and yet they serve and i dont have a problem with that bit know the with that but i know the owners want to work with the city in legalizing that. Maybe thats one thick the commission can do thing the commission can do Going Forward continuing the conversation and especially with a lot of the smaller Restaurant Owners who want to engage. That would be great idea. Commissioner dwight. I had one comment to your question and i wanted to say its always a good time to ask questions how to improve situations for Small Businesses in San Francisco to the extent the merchant associations and merchant and restaurants
Item 4 San Francisco planning presentation on the parklet presentation by john francis senior planner and urban designer. Congratulations to all the legacy businesses who were nominated. Its a great way to start the meeting. Im actually going to thank you for inviting us to give an update on the park let program and im going to hand the mic to my coprogram manager who will walk you through the update. Thank you for the invitation to present the Parklet Program and i comanage the program with my colleague john francis at the Planning Department but presenting with us as well tonight is our colleagues from street use and mapping at public works. We will be sharing an overview of the program and Parklet Program and the history, goals and policy and how the application process works and where theyre located. And then we assembled the role on permitting and enforcement. So before we dive into the Parklet Program, id like to introduce the program that works with people from San Francisco to
Geez, itd be nice if there was a way for more local neighbors, residents, whatever, to create more of a Community Space and that would i think be beneficial to the Small Businesses in the area. Whats drive the need for the foot traffic. Whats the thinking there is the parking is so valuable that i guess i shouldnt put words in your mouth but what is driving that. The question is how to create more of these spaces sometimes i have worked the excelsior in the Mission Corridor and there were a lot of vacancies and we were looking how to have incentives to attract traffic and its what comes first the business or amenity but its particular to each case. Its very dense and businesses are constantly changing and thats why we get all the foot traffic. Weve had people complain about parking and its the amenity thats an extra value for them. We had tons of parking in the mission when i moved there in 91. I dont think anybody would say that businesses were doing better back then. Its been largely
Item 4 San Francisco planning presentation on the parklet presentation by john francis senior planner and urban designer. Congratulations to all the legacy businesses who were nominated. Its a great way to start the meeting. Im actually going to thank you for inviting us to give an update on the park let program and im going to hand the mic to my coprogram manager who will walk you through the update. Thank you for the invitation to present the Parklet Program and i comanage the program with my colleague john francis at the Planning Department but presenting with us as well tonight is our colleagues from street use and mapping at public works. We will be sharing an overview of the program and Parklet Program and the history, goals and policy and how the application process works and where theyre located. And then we assembled the role on permitting and enforcement. So before we dive into the Parklet Program, id like to introduce the program that works with people from San Francisco to
Thank you so much and thank you for the presentation. Commissioner thank you very much. Any other members of this public. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Id like to thank the members of the public and there say restaurant in the castro is a restaurant in the castro i wont name the restaurant on 16th street and they string the lights up and were told not to serve and yet they serve and i dont have a problem with that bit know the with that but i know the owners want to work with the city in legalizing that. Maybe thats one thick the commission can do thing the commission can do Going Forward continuing the conversation and especially with a lot of the smaller Restaurant Owners who want to engage. That would be great idea. Commissioner dwight. I had one comment to your question and i wanted to say its always a good time to ask questions how to improve situations for Small Businesses in San Francisco to the extent the merchant associations and merchant and restaurants are intereste