Want to work with you and thank you all for your hard work and want to get a copy of the legislation thank you. Thank you and the amendments will be available to anyone who would like to see them next speaker good afternoon. Im paul wormer im here on behalf of the Telegraph Hill thank you very much for all i have our efforts and working together on this whole project were excuse me. Were quite happy with the 11 still being the they recalled and we would like to participate and im sure all the Neighborhood Association want to participate in the updating and looking forward to drafting the legislation for the complexity that staff wasnt able to deal with ive offered and still happy to participate so as i say Telegraph Hill dwellers want to perimeter i too havent seen the legislation i tried to gatt get a copy today but. Couple of comments been the prospective legislation the approach of what ill call second story units as a means of defining something that is not formula retail i think c
That up to communicating how to help the businesses that fall in between the 11 to 19 talking about the San Francisco soup company and the on that are San Francisco based on and want to make sure we can do all we can to help the local San Francisco businesses not get lost with starbucks and mcdonalds and the Small Businesses that San Francisco entails looked like to see the legislation and thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker. Supervisor wiener and supervisor cohen and supervisor mar connie celebrating our 4 Year Anniversary comprised of labor unions coming together to work to continue the process of making San Francisco the city that we all know and love we appreciate supervisor mar our hard, hard work in this we know that you worked with a Large Coalition and it takes a lot of stick to itness and we support this compromise legislation one of the things beef been talking about in the halls of justice has to do with the balance of honoring the vitality fabric of our busines
Will be available to anyone who would like to see them next speaker good afternoon. Im paul wormer im here on behalf of the Telegraph Hill thank you very much for all i have our efforts and working together on this whole project were excuse me. Were quite happy with the 11 still being the they recalled and we would like to participate and im sure all the Neighborhood Association want to participate in the updating and looking forward to drafting the legislation for the complexity that staff wasnt able to deal with ive offered and still happy to participate so as i say Telegraph Hill dwellers want to perimeter i too havent seen the legislation i tried to gatt get a copy today but. Couple of comments been the prospective legislation the approach of what ill call second story units as a means of defining something that is not formula retail i think contractually is a good idea and again depended on who gets into that career that may raise issues with that group and maybe others thank you
Maneuvered we ask you the process needs review not overly did not an economic studies with an idea of what constitutes best businesses this hinges on the threshold of the report under todays control fees for controls uses consider parks and some employment related impacts they require additional studies for large retail over 50 thousand square feet in size whether or not their exempted both proposals will require 3 new studies with a variable area to be determined by the use the 3 studies includes the new employee numbers and wage and itemization of the Public Services needed and created and provide a quantify and qualify active to help people to understand the unmet demands awe how it effects the neighborhood supervisor mars study as a lower threshold off 20 thousand and exemption Grocery Stores and requiring it a smallscale business will need a new cost for uses similar to how new cost construction into as to how the process review it is important to know that the discretionary revie
Conditional use process for formula retail to the community so they can weigh in i know in my district weve had quite a few instances where formula retail in the castro upper market neighborhood its shown its worked formula retail proposals that have begun if with almost no opposition because theres properly outreach and people in the community thought when it was lee i didnt see on castro street or the old turn over records massive location people thought were going to stay vacant had a lot of support but then we had robust conversation about starbuck and it was denied so my one of the proposals the process works the Community Weighs in and the Planning Commission makes a decision a number im supportive of the proposals today and the amendments outlined by supervisor mar it will provide a Even Stronger and Better Process whats challenging is that a lot of times when we hear push back against formula retail zoning controls it is not necessarily push back against the concept of having t