Get the green light. The new health order giving grads something to look forward to in the east bay. And clear skies right now but that is about to change. The late season storm thats expected to soak the bay area this weekend. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us. Im janelle wang. As most bay area counties move toward reopening more businesses in just a matter of days, Santa Clara County is the lone holdout. Some stores are getting frustrated and fear theyll be overlooked as shoppers go elsewhere. Heres nbc bay areas ian cull in san jose. He begins our coverage. Reporter as popular strips like downtown willow glen start bustling again for takeout, Santa Clara County still wont allow nonessential businesses to offer we assume its for our safety, so we just follow suit. Reporter the ibis boutique owner said she launched a website when the pandemic hit, and online sales have helped. But she worries shoppers might move on to counties with a relaxed health order. When were clo
More today and tonight into tomorrow, heres a shot of the radar to see where we stand the heaviest rain bands pretty much go from a line of richmond down the peninsula. And then another patch down there to the south bay as well from a say up to eastern Contra Costa County all the way down to the south bay now the flow pattern will show you whats coming from the southwest moving to the northeast. Losing a little bit of intensity. But it looks like theyll be a regeneration happening later on in the Santa Cruz Mountains particularly in the south there police favoring that area. Now the shot is as youre going to see all this morning for the brit shots and such a lot of fog to deal with that nears alcatraz in the foreground barely detectable and off in the background you can see San Francisco which see San Francisco and also the bay bridge to our temperatures are very mild right now were in the lower to even middle 60s off to any are there upper 50s meanwhile up to the north bay and down so
The nonpermitted use, and the recommendation would be without affecting whether or not that use was permitted, if you did have a lease commitment for a certain type of nonpermitted use that would exempt you for the tax. An example. There is flexible retail permitted in the southern half of the city and less so in other parts of the city. A conditional use will not permit that in many areas of the city. If a Property Owner of the vacant unit had a lease commitment, however, that deserves to exempt them from the tax. It shows they are trying to find a tenant and are on the ball. Whether or not the city wanted to grant a variance as needed is an entirely separate issue. To conclude the main part of the report is the problem ofvay cant store vacant storefronts is not divorced from the general issue of declining retail trade in San Francisco during a period of very strong Economic Growth in the city. It is possible to design this tax in a way that is positive and possible to design a tax in
Recession or not a property cannot find the tenant that is allowable even with conditional use but could find a tenant in the nonpermitted use, and the recommendation would be without affecting whether or not that use was permitted, if you did have a lease commitment for a certain type of nonpermitted use that would exempt you for the tax. An example. There is flexible retail permitted in the southern half of the city and less so in other parts of the city. A conditional use will not permit that in many areas of the city. If a Property Owner of the vacant unit had a lease commitment, however, that deserves to exempt them from the tax. It shows they are trying to find a tenant and are on the ball. Whether or not the city wanted to grant a variance as needed is an entirely separate issue. To conclude the main part of the report is the problem ofvay cant store vacant storefronts is not divorced from the general issue of declining retail trade in San Francisco during a period of very stron
Year and 500 and 1,000 in year three and beyond. A property would be deemed vacant if it is unused for more than 182 days in a given tax year of the january 1 to december 31 tax year. The fact is i dont really like calling this a tax. It is a misnomer. It is completely avoidable. If it is successful we will collect as little of it as possible. To that end, Property Owners can invoke exemptions by doing any number of things. Those things taken in series could last for up to 2. 5 years. Applying for Building Permit and under amendments i suggest today properties would not be deemed vacant from the period of application of the Building Permit until issuance. Rehabilitating space and performing properties would not be vacant. Leasing the storefront. By entering into the lease, not a sham lease. The vacancy clock restarts to mitigate the concern the assessment might be passed to the tenant and applying for the approval. If it requires conditional use from the Planning Commission, properties