Roll call. Commissioner adams. Here. Clerk commissioner dooley is absent. Commissioner dwight. Here. Commissioner laguana. Here. Clerk commissioner ortizcartagena. Here. Clerk commissioner you have a forum. Public comment allows members of the comment on matters within the Small Business jurisdiction but not on the calendar and suggest new items for future discussion. Do we have members of the public who would like to make Public Comment on any item not on todays agenda . Okay. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Clerk item 3 for approval of legacy businesses registry applications and resolutions and office of the Small Business. Commissioner, office of Small Business staff, Richard Kurylo Legacy Business Program manager. Sf gov tv, may i have the power point presentation. Before you today are four applications for your consideration for the legacy business registry. The applications were reviewed by me for completion, submitted to planning staff october 23 and he
Economic vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. If you need assistance with Small Business matters start here with the office of Small Business. Item 1, call to order and roll call. Commissioner adams. Here. Clerk commissioner dooley is absent. Commissioner dwight. Here. Commissioner laguana. Here. Clerk commissioner ortizcartagena. Here. Clerk commissioner you have a forum. Public comment allows members of the comment on matters within the Small Business jurisdiction but not on the calendar and suggest new items for future discussion. Do we have members of the public who would like to make Public Comment on any item not on todays agenda . Okay. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Clerk item 3 for approval of legacy businesses registry applications and resolutions and office of the Small Business. Commissioner, office of Small Business staff, Richard Kurylo Legacy Business Program manager. Sf gov tv, may i have the power point presentation. Before you toda
I want to end up with a few of the challenges that we are faced with when enforcing this. And the first and biggest being our inability to determine the truth since we rely on selfreported data from hotel owners. We encounter cooked books and second sets of books where theres the books for me and the books for the real use of being recorded. Ive already mentioned the misuse of the temporary conversion exception where hotel owners consider an entitlement. Another challenge is the limit on d. B. I. s authority to initiate enforcement proceedings. We are not considered an interested party. And therefore we cannot initiate complaints. And we do have the ability to assess penalties for recordkeeping violations but not for conversions, which is the main violation of the ordinance. We encounter vacancies in room warehousing, which i can talk more about later, but theres no law that requires hotel owners to rent out their guest rooms. My colleagues are about to leave me so theres not going to
Actually implement that in a way that integrating your business into the community. But overall, i would say i think the move to open up the space to the public to create a restaurant in this space that can truly be serving of all different interests and members of the community is actually a step in the right direction. And so i would move to not take dr and approve the project. Thank you. So i will also be not supportive of this dr. Let me just add to your wise words, commissioner johnson. You are always so on point. That i think, you know, we have seen all kinds of changes in our neighborhoods. Resulting from income disparity. And, you know, its hard to see sort of the effects in terms of displacement, loss of cultural space and accessibility. I dont believe this project does any of these things. I also think that theres been a real shift in the last ten years in terms of whats viable for restaurants and retail. I think theres been a sort of seismic shift. I wish we lived in a world
That integrating your business into the community. But overall, i would say i think the move to open up the space to the public to create a restaurant in this space that can truly be serving of all different interests and members of the community is actually a step in the right direction. And so i would move to not take dr and approve the project. Thank you. So i will also be not supportive of this dr. Let me just add to your wise words, commissioner johnson. You are always so on point. That i think, you know, we have seen all kinds of changes in our neighborhoods. Resulting from income disparity. And, you know, its hard to see sort of the effects in terms of displacement, loss of cultural space and accessibility. I dont believe this project does any of these things. I also think that theres been a real shift in the last ten years in terms of whats viable for restaurants and retail. I think theres been a sort of seismic shift. I wish we lived in a world where having pinball machines an