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Chair if you want to have me talk about the fillmore commercial districts runs from mccarthy and is home to the 13 Home Restaurant and she by a launch the familiar restaurants and boom, boom room and where supervisor breed grew up and spent time under the Redevelopment Agency with the shopping and entertainment and cultural hot spot this attacks folks the Planning Department outlined it ill read a portion of the report this neighborhood was under the authority of the Redevelopment Agency and this is a concentrated period in the early 80s and 90s while the development kept the diversity they didnt say maintain the historic Evergreen Commercial spaces and further the neighborhood under a went another jazz district and in many ways this was successful in bringing the night life activity to the area, however, the street suffers creating a named mcd for the first name is an important street to help with the vigilant to further build upon its identity this proprieties commercial uses on the
Framework to there will the unique needs and atmosphere theyre looking to foster their feel establishing the neighborhood are commercial districts is an important part of the plans to create corridors let me get into the details the proposed mcd runs 12 comblokz blocks from hate to aquifer and it will replace the r u t and that runs from hate to geary it is home to businesses like missouri joes and the oasis cafe its a vibrate mixed use corridor the mcd legislation will permit the uses on the seconds floor and it protects existing housing and encourages new houses whites preserving the wrashgd and removes the alcohol restrictive use and for the new mooukd and removes the type of alcohol that be sold and they maintain the prohibition on the finance and cash cords and provide a 5 foot height for 50 x that allows for the ground floor uses and defaults to the pending now a citywide policies regarding formula retail use formula retail the city has a formative the processes will be followed
Corridor our city is going to be investing over 10 million a place our neighborhood considers to be the spine it cucamonga connects us from marketing or market to kings street this legislation is for our residents and merchants thank you for your work with our office and our land use folks and colleagues, i i couldnt for your support. Thank you im extremely supportive of this measure we did something probably, maybe not ideal on market when we were starting to get more and more indications with the development and the Brand New Development space and this automatic default to bring in real estate offices and entitlement Companies Offices that are important to have in a neighborhood that typically shouldnt be on the greener level i totally agree this is a Public Safety safety but the vibe when the daytime offices are closed and are shuttled the whole weekend having a few of those say fine but a Tipping Point where a corridor losses its vitality this is when zoning controls should go in p
Appear on the october 28, 2014, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. Thank you madam clerk please call item one. A resolution imposing zoning control for the Ground Floor Office uses. Supervisor kim is the author. Today is a interim between king and fulsome to support and promote an actual retail frontage along Second Street and south of market and support our Neighborhood Small Businesses our out of those works with the south Beach Corporation members are here today over the past couple of months a few interim controls market in hot Real Estate Market were in those interim can stabilize your neighborhood and businesses theyre facing displacement for currently allowed uses area San Francisco remains the hottest city in the nation for commercial real estate a testament to to city with estimates passing the. Org and it is a market as rapid as Companies Continue to expand the vacancy rate it fell another 20 points lower in the south of market theres a tremendous dema