President yee good afternoon. And welcome to the october 6th, 2020, regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer. Commissioner fewer present. Clerk supervisor haney . Supervisor haney present. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman present. Clerk supervisor mar. Supervisor mar present. Clerk supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin present. Clerk supervisor preston. Supervisor preston present. Clerk supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen present. Clerk supervisor safai. Supervisor safai present. Clerk supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani present. Clerk supervisor walton. Supervisor walton present. Clerk and supervisor yee. President yee present. Clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United St
Want to work with you and thank you all for your hard work and want to get a copy of the legislation thank you. Thank you and the amendments will be available to anyone who would like to see them next speaker good afternoon. Im paul wormer im here on behalf of the Telegraph Hill thank you very much for all i have our efforts and working together on this whole project were excuse me. Were quite happy with the 11 still being the they recalled and we would like to participate and im sure all the Neighborhood Association want to participate in the updating and looking forward to drafting the legislation for the complexity that staff wasnt able to deal with ive offered and still happy to participate so as i say Telegraph Hill dwellers want to perimeter i too havent seen the legislation i tried to gatt get a copy today but. Couple of comments been the prospective legislation the approach of what ill call second story units as a means of defining something that is not formula retail i think c
That up to communicating how to help the businesses that fall in between the 11 to 19 talking about the San Francisco soup company and the on that are San Francisco based on and want to make sure we can do all we can to help the local San Francisco businesses not get lost with starbucks and mcdonalds and the Small Businesses that San Francisco entails looked like to see the legislation and thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker. Supervisor wiener and supervisor cohen and supervisor mar connie celebrating our 4 Year Anniversary comprised of labor unions coming together to work to continue the process of making San Francisco the city that we all know and love we appreciate supervisor mar our hard, hard work in this we know that you worked with a Large Coalition and it takes a lot of stick to itness and we support this compromise legislation one of the things beef been talking about in the halls of justice has to do with the balance of honoring the vitality fabric of our busines
Commissioner dooleys the financial ability of Companies Representing these properties this is something that were seeing a shift in peoples concerns. I think it used to be the aesthetic impact, which our current drafting, but shifting to where the finances are coming from and what the backing and power that these companies have . So we cant really make these businesses happen. What we can do is prohibit other businesses to try to encourage something else. What we are hearing from developers, especially as people are more interested in redeveloping sites with retail on the ground floor and residential above, you are seeing more and more Space Available while retail consolidate online. As well as developers hesitant [speaker not understood] so if you cant get a solid retailer down there for lets say a 10year lease, its hard to make that project pencil out and that is what were hearing from developers that they tend to partner with formula retailers and if there is partnership with oewd t
Another meeting. Commissioner yee riley. The only difference is whether or not we count International Locations . Right. Whether or not they go through the cu process . Right. So there is still a chance they will go through . Right. So i support that. All right, next item should locations of subsidiaries majorowned under the current definition be included in the calculation . Its similar to the first one. Subsidiary of the gap. They didnt have to go through the cu because they were a subsidiary . Correct. So to me that would go along with no. 1. Its related. May i respond to commissioner dooleys the financial ability of Companies Representing these properties this is something that were seeing a shift in peoples concerns. I think it used to be the aesthetic impact, which our current drafting, but shifting to where the finances are coming from and what the backing and power that these companies have . So we cant really make these businesses happen. What we can do is prohibit other busin