Retrofitting work is taking place. So fortunately the landlord is not, they are closing, fortunate for them the landlord is still going to continue to lease to them, but the unfortunate element is that they are having to close their business for 3 4 months to do it. So, just they called to check to see if there is any sort of resources or assistance that was thought about for businesses for having to close. So and the answer is no . There was nothing planned. They would not be paying rent . Likely not. If they are employees. They have to pay the store. And you know hopefully some businesses will have Business Interruption insurance that they maybe able to rely on but not all may. And then i just provided a list of some future presentations that will be ahead. And then that we will be receiving the super bowl presentation from jason tremu at the next meeting. And then a list, a calendar list looking at 2016 meeting schedule. I have it here. Just for your information. May because of Smal
Agenda. Any member of the public wish to make a Public Comment on any item seeing none, Public Comment is closed very good commissioners under Department Matters directors announcement. Tim frye the directors report was included in the packets happy to answer any questions seeing none, commissioners review of past meetings. Tim frye Planning Department staff a quick a couple of quick announcements donna i did not have a formal report from the commission i want po to mention one is the departments annual preservation staff retreat is scheduled for the end of october occasionally a couple of commissioners participate either during part of the retreat or the full retreat and well forward you the information on october 27th once we have more information and again youre welcome to participate if you would like to do so and second just a quick announcement that Department Staff commissioner hyland and commissioner wolfram nieftsd visited the cal house this morning on the presentation work pr
Agenda. Any member of the public wish to make a Public Comment on any item seeing none, Public Comment is closed very good commissioners under Department Matters directors announcement. Tim frye the directors report was included in the packets happy to answer any questions seeing none, commissioners review of past meetings. Tim frye Planning Department staff a quick a couple of quick announcements donna i did not have a formal report from the commission i want po to mention one is the departments annual preservation staff retreat is scheduled for the end of october occasionally a couple of commissioners participate either during part of the retreat or the full retreat and well forward you the information on october 27th once we have more information and again youre welcome to participate if you would like to do so and second just a quick announcement that Department Staff commissioner hyland and commissioner wolfram nieftsd visited the cal house this morning on the presentation work pr
Grow and multiply and create more entrepreneur opportunity and more jobs, any job, whether it is formula retail, or whether it is not. It is still something that is important to the city. And so, we agree with the Planning Department, that adding the subsitary criteria right now would not only be a bureaucratic challenge, but would also stifle the local economic growth, opportunities. Thank you. Now, commissioner questions, commissioner dooley . I wanted to ask about can you give me the details on if a business corridor does not allow any formula retail, the new planning that you are suggesting, does that mean that any business that has under 20, it will not be considered formula retail any more . That is correct, lets say that north beach, where there is a prohibit of formula retail, if it changes to 20 locations the businesses that now have less than 20 locations that perhaps more than 11, would no longer be considered form formula retail. At the Planning Commission hearing last mont
As we saw earlier the five criteria correct us to address the compatibility and it will provide the clarity to staff and characterize the district and neighborhood and it will add context to the proposal by providing a comparison to the city wide trends as well as other districts, and the Department Recommends a wholistic view of the district. In this approximation, we can see that if the quarter mile radius was applied to a proposed use on geary boulevard, the analysis will capture the uses on all of the cross streets in that radius, and we will continue to look at the over all districts for discussions of general content and character and consideration of compatibility with the character of the district but using the quarter mile for the commercial uses will provide a car geted analysis of the proposed retailer in terms of concentration and use mix. The 5th existing criteria allows us to evaluate the city wide and neighborhood serving uses, the neighborhood commercial districts are i