Grow and multiply and create more entrepreneur opportunity and more jobs, any job, whether it is formula retail, or whether it is not. It is still something that is important to the city. And so, we agree with the Planning Department, that adding the subsitary criteria right now would not only be a bureaucratic challenge, but would also stifle the local economic growth, opportunities. Thank you. Now, commissioner questions, commissioner dooley . I wanted to ask about can you give me the details on if a business corridor does not allow any formula retail, the new planning that you are suggesting, does that mean that any business that has under 20, it will not be considered formula retail any more . That is correct, lets say that north beach, where there is a prohibit of formula retail, if it changes to 20 locations the businesses that now have less than 20 locations that perhaps more than 11, would no longer be considered form formula retail. At the Planning Commission hearing last mont
As we saw earlier the five criteria correct us to address the compatibility and it will provide the clarity to staff and characterize the district and neighborhood and it will add context to the proposal by providing a comparison to the city wide trends as well as other districts, and the Department Recommends a wholistic view of the district. In this approximation, we can see that if the quarter mile radius was applied to a proposed use on geary boulevard, the analysis will capture the uses on all of the cross streets in that radius, and we will continue to look at the over all districts for discussions of general content and character and consideration of compatibility with the character of the district but using the quarter mile for the commercial uses will provide a car geted analysis of the proposed retailer in terms of concentration and use mix. The 5th existing criteria allows us to evaluate the city wide and neighborhood serving uses, the neighborhood commercial districts are i