Particularly in terms of the health of the commercial corridor toward, the fact that retail is changing and that 340 square foot, that is tiny, but we want that. We want to be able to use that. This would be a legally approved project and along with the sign approval so we would use whatever permits would be associated with it and we would be signing it off. We have opportunities for the Building Permit and this decision by our commission. Either way. Did you have further . No. I sure commissioner melgars concerns and i things we should be doing whatever we can to support retail. I would second the motion but would also make a comment it feels like some additional legislation is necessary to get staff a little bit more discussion in this area under circumstances like this so it is not a oneoff going forward, but the size of of the cost the retailer seems out of whack with what the benefit from what the city would get from a smaller sight. I second the motion. The motion is to approve t
Particularly in terms of the health of the commercial corridor toward, the fact that retail is changing and that 340 square foot, that is tiny, but we want that. We want to be able to use that. This would be a legally approved project and along with the sign approval so we would use whatever permits would be associated with it and we would be signing it off. We have opportunities for the Building Permit and this decision by our commission. Either way. Did you have further . No. I sure commissioner melgars concerns and i things we should be doing whatever we can to support retail. I would second the motion but would also make a comment it feels like some additional legislation is necessary to get staff a little bit more discussion in this area under circumstances like this so it is not a oneoff going forward, but the size of of the cost the retailer seems out of whack with what the benefit from what the city would get from a smaller sight. I second the motion. The motion is to approve t
The sign approval so we would use whatever permits would be associated with it and we would be signing it off. We have opportunities for the Building Permit and this decision by our commission. Either way. Did you have further . No. I sure commissioner melgars concerns and i things we should be doing whatever we can to support retail. I would second the motion but would also make a comment it feels like some additional legislation is necessary to get staff a little bit more discussion in this area under circumstances like this so it is not a oneoff going forward, but the size of of the cost the retailer seems out of whack with what the benefit from what the city would get from a smaller sight. I second the motion. The motion is to approve the project as proposed with conditions, not with staffs recommendations. Very good. Then there is a motion that has been seconded to approve this project as proposed with conditions not including staffs recommended modifications. On that motion. [rol
Approval as particularly approval for this project. [laughter] commission fung. I had a similar question but directed toward the project sponsor whoever the project sponsor is. My name is terese, im the senior director for five point. Can you flush out the analysis that occurred to reduce the retail . Oh, absolutely. Significantly. You know, i think as ms. Moore said, it is true that in fact, particularly for outlet malls the amount of demand for that type of Shopping Experience has decreased significantly. And in fact oewd produced a report a year ago in which they talked about the challenges that San Francisco is now facing because of the change in retail. Many people are now spending their money differently. They are spending their money on physical fitness lifestyle, dining out those kinds of experiences. Thats one change. And the other change, of course, is the future of ecommerce. And theres been a significant amount of change in the Retail Sector because of the ecommerce. So for
Your acronym is Design Review and document approval as particularly approval for this project. [laughter] commission fung. I had a similar question but directed toward the project sponsor whoever the project sponsor is. My name is terese, im the senior director for five point. Can you flush out the analysis that occurred to reduce the retail . Oh, absolutely. Significantly. You know, i think as ms. Moore said, it is true that in fact, particularly for outlet malls the amount of demand for that type of Shopping Experience has decreased significantly. And in fact oewd produced a report a year ago in which they talked about the challenges that San Francisco is now facing because of the change in retail. Many people are now spending their money differently. They are spending their money on physical fitness lifestyle, dining out those kinds of experiences. Thats one change. And the other change, of course, is the future of ecommerce. And theres been a significant amount of change in the Ret