Having a student teamwork with the office of Small Business on the refinement of the information, the matrix. We have received the work that has already been done by the intern that is there. Were looking at Additional Information regarding gross receipts, generation of ownership, as well as other facilitate i have numbers, [speaker not understood] codes, et cetera, so there is a comprehensive index put together. The third project relates to Legacy History information. And toward that end im going to be joined by a colleague who is a business historian who will be working with teams, hopefully two teams, who will be looking at having and collecting some stories from some of the legacy Family Businesses. Not just the Family Business owners, but also neighborhood residents and adjacent businesses, in essence, trying to assist in defining what you have said, what makes this legacy business so critical to a community. The first project were looking at is what we call a legacy best practice
Were a membership based nonprofit organization, and were so proud to be collaborating with supervisor campos on this legislation. It really we feel a validation of our earlier efforts in this realm ~. We feel that the proposed legislation is modest, but highly significant step towards recognizing these businesses he which are so important to defining the identity of San Francisco ~ a. Too often these places are taken for granted until we learn of their impending closure, which unfortunately in San Francisco is almost a weekly occurrence. Many of thea businesses are successful, longstanding business he that, but for the current economic climate, would survive and thrive today. As documented in our report sustaining San Franciscos living history that was just released in september, one of the primary challenges facing these businesses is the fact that they do not own the spaces in which they operate and that they are subject to the Economic Force he that make their lease renewal prohibit
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 landlord quadruples their rent. And anything we can do in this area, i consider of great importance. Well, we he want to thank you for the opportunity to actually work ~ with the city on this program. I just wanted to share with you that our students conducted a studentled study on the ordinance as it is being proposed to make sure that they understood it as a prelude to even starting these projects. One of the conclusionses of one of the students was, this is why i am here at this university because im actually starting to get my
Im not sure who i tell about switching over to the for the presentation threw go where we started with the site is meeting the enhancements of the hansens dealership and the neighborhood and so the way we did that the increased capacity current site its smaller than the showroom that we currently have and so we took the showroom requirement and is split it and stacks those two functions on top of each other it allows the hansens to tailor the sales process because they know the neighborhood and consumers very well they will be able to stress the function there and holds the corner and holds the anchor for a gaping tooth in the neighborhood so, and one of the things that was raised when it stack was brant about is there were concerns about the building mass and so one of the things that we put into place, we will see in the ground floor here, its a little bit washed out but the curve wall is actually meant to recall the racing history of ally and so we call it is roadway curve and that
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 landlord quadruples their rent. And anything we can do in this area, i consider of great importance. Well, we he want to thank you for the opportunity to actually work ~ with the city on this program. I just wanted to share with you that our students conducted a studentled study on the ordinance as it is being proposed to make sure that they understood it as a prelude to even starting these projects. One of the conclu