Commission and commissioner richards to present this report to you today report sustaining San Francisco living history is our response as a Historic Preservation organization to increase the displacement of longstanding local businesses and nonprofit and arts organizations in San Francisco which, of course, is a very timely issue this past weekend the San Francisco chronicle had a lead editorial engrossed the city to do more to help the assets in facing displacement in San Francisco for those of you not familiar with San Francisco heritage were 4 thatyearold Historic Preservation organization our initial focus in our early decades was primary an architecture presentation, however, in recent years increasinglyly weve focused on Cultural Heritage preservation this is a timely topic in San Francisco as we see in the news everyday to give you some examples of why we undertook this report and felt the need need to do so first of all, let me describe with Cultural Heritage assets are their
Appreciate our underpinning the statement for world cities is not a notebook and cranny country but paris i appreciate this warning to the Planning Department and staff mr. Kelly to really take a board and anymore comprehensive look at this juncture i dont think that the central selma plan can pass which indeed address what was presented as youre looking across the city the one neighborhood you didnt mention was chinatown the closing of the empress of china with no mitigating idea yet presented it will fall within a legacy registering rather than considering building replacement that is inphantomable and chinatown as a cohe has state of our heritage is an speedometer into the future i know there are other issues but some suggestions being made that the empress of china joins the registration of cultural importance and i hope that you and other presentations will mention chinatown because while theyre still many living owners probably generational changes go as much in the making we nee
That is inphantomable and chinatown as a cohe has state of our heritage is an speedometer into the future i know there are other issues but some suggestions being made that the empress of china joins the registration of cultural importance and i hope that you and other presentations will mention chinatown because while theyre still many living owners probably generational changes go as much in the making we need to help to address this and front on and overall possible techniques for this to go throw the proper process. Thank you for appointing the empress of china its one of our legacy bars and restaurant and sadly one the businesses that is most enthusiastically about the initial round in the early 2013 so its challenging a real loss for chinatown if that occurs. For the empress that emphasis if the owners want to sell the building for over 20 million how can a open space compete with that pressure to help them stay in place. I hope that what we are saying will ultimately trigger a l
Considering building replacement that is inphantomable and chinatown as a cohe has state of our heritage is an speedometer into the future i know there are other issues but some suggestions being made that the empress of china joins the registration of cultural importance and i hope that you and other presentations will mention chinatown because while theyre still many living owners probably generational changes go as much in the making we need to help to address this and front on and overall possible techniques for this to go throw the proper process. Thank you for appointing the empress of china its one of our legacy bars and restaurant and sadly one the businesses that is most enthusiastically about the initial round in the early 2013 so its challenging a real loss for chinatown if that occurs. For the empress that emphasis if the owners want to sell the building for over 20 million how can a open space compete with that pressure to help them stay in place. I hope that what we are s
Okay i think were ready sorry about that the delay im mike the executive director of San Francisco heritage ill id like to thank commissioner president wu and the members of the commission and commissioner richards to present this report to you today report sustaining San Francisco living history is our response as a Historic Preservation organization to increase the displacement of longstanding local businesses and nonprofit and arts organizations in San Francisco which, of course, is a very timely issue this past weekend the San Francisco chronicle had a lead editorial engrossed the city to do more to help the assets in facing displacement in San Francisco for those of you not familiar with San Francisco heritage were 4 thatyearold Historic Preservation organization our initial focus in our early decades was primary an architecture presentation, however, in recent years increasinglyly weve focused on Cultural Heritage preservation this is a timely topic in San Francisco as we see in