Culture and relevancy and in the 3 criteria that is outlined and i will go ahead and read them the businesses operating in San Francisco are for thirty or more years with no break in San Francisco operations exceeding two years and from the businesses operated for more than 20 years but less than thirty and sill satisfies the criteria the Small Business commission of these this business as significantly contributed to the history avenue particular neighborhood or communities and if not knit in the registry theyll face displacement again even with that criteria we have to remember the mayor or the board of supervisors that makes that determination of the businesses under thirty years the businesses troubled to the neighborhood history or identity of the community and the business is commented to the physical altercations defined including the art formations so section 3 is the business telling their story about those 3 criteria and those 3 criteria and weve asked for them excuse me. To
Wish to address the commission on nonagenda decided amends interest seeing and hearing none Public Comment is closed. Under Department Matters directors announcements. Commission tim frye the directors report was included there our packet happy to we are any questions should you have them. Seeing none, commissioners we can move to item 2 past fence amazements. Good morning tim Frye Department staff a few items to sharing share last week the board of appeals heard the brt certificate of appropriateness issued by in commission no november and the board of appeals heard from the appellant as well as mta and the planning Department Staff on behalf of the hpc the board of appeals had a number of questions as you recall the appeal around the removal of the trolley poles and also the removal of trees as part of project the board of appeals did raise concerns about the removal of all the trolley poles and the line of questioning was towards the direction of wanting to save more but the board o
Understood], [speaker not understood]. We have been instrumental in shaping this corridor and this city and we are a jewel and we need your support. And its Many Organizations like [speaker not understood] that are still facing that in our corridor. Dance mission is in the same predicament. Maybe they havent been around for 30 years, but theyre facing the small issues of Small Business and rent increases he. And we need to come together to really address this instability. Every day that i drive by there, i think of marcus brooks store. If i see a sign on the door, im thinking, is that my 30day notice . So, i really hope this is like a step in the right direction, that we can be at the table to provide more information, and to look at our history where we have to, you know, make it permanent. If its not on 24th were willing to look for somewhere else, but this has to be addressed immediately. It what devastating to he see the news last week that [speaker not understood] is closing, anot
Occur and continue into the spring. And because we have a Family Business course that is what we call the practicum where students are actually out doing 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 stud
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