Departments that have cases before the board this evening. Up front, we have Scott Sanchez, also representing the Planning Department and Planning Commission. As well as andrew perry, senior planner with the office of the Zoning Administrator. And up front, we have joseph duffy, senior building inspector. And given the coronavirus, were taking a few special precautions. We would appreciate if you would the public would use every other seat. If youre together and you dont mind sitting next to each other, thats fine. Additionally, please use Hand Sanitizer when you come up to the use the equipment. Please dont touch it. He can adjust the microphone as well as the laptop and the projector. If youre sneezing or coughing, please leave the room and make sure you sneeze or cough into your arm. If you feel sick, please go home. Physically sick, not related to your case. The guidelines are as follows. The board question that you silence all phones. Please carry on conversations in the hallway.
Commissioner adams. Here. Clerk commissioner dooley is absent. Commissioner dwight. Here. Commissioner laguana. Here. Clerk commissioner ortizcartagena. Here. Clerk commissioner you have a forum. Public comment allows members of the comment on matters within the Small Business jurisdiction but not on the calendar and suggest new items for future discussion. Do we have members of the public who would like to make Public Comment on any item not on todays agenda . Okay. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Clerk item 3 for approval of legacy businesses registry applications and resolutions and office of the Small Business. Commissioner, office of Small Business staff, Richard Kurylo Legacy Business Program manager. Sf gov tv, may i have the power point presentation. Before you today are four applications for your consideration for the legacy business registry. The applications were reviewed by me for completion, submitted to planning staff october 23 and heard by the
To parklet. Many are parking or dumping related not at the parklet. So what i would say is focus on the bottom of the chart and thats representative of the type of complaint and volume of complaints we receive related to parklets. Typically they come in through 311 and can be routed properly and theres a unique identifier in the event they need to followup to see what happened. Well send out a district inspector to examine the parklet. If theres a safety issue is different than if theyre missing a no smoking sign but we someone out to take a look. In the event a staffer identifies an issue with a code or something we issue a correction notice. Thats not necessarily punitive in nature. Theres not a penalty associated. Its reaching out and communicating what the issue is and what you need to do to address it and the time frame in which we believe the issue may be addressed. The permit holder can comply for ask for an extending depending ob if they need materials to get something or waiti
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