Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is deidre vonne rock. I am the president of the rest portal rock merchants association. While im proud that we have the lowest vacancy, that is not how it appears on an objective view. In west portal, absentee land lowers who have no interest in the block of a huge problem. For example, we had a discussion in anchoring a project on the west tunnel because they were still collecting rent on a formula retailer. We had a radio shack that sat vacant for years because the owner wanted another radio shack. Finally, verizon showed some interest in it, but its been meyered in planning for well over a year. Just recently, one of the owners of the four buildings where three of our businesses recently has been devastated has been unresponsive, delaying the Recovery Efforts of all the other businesses. The Merchant Association is often asked about the status of the vacancies and what can be done, and our answer is nothing. Not until there is anymore enforcement
Or districts might be rather large or several blocks long and requiring ground floor retail on every piece of that corridor might be too difuse, so there might be places in a district that are more strong locations for our retail, and perhaps retail could be required in those locations. But in other locations that may be weaker will not be appropriate locations for new retail. Supervisor fewer okay. Does that explain it . Supervisor fewer yeah. Okay. Supervisor fewer got it. And then i have another question for oewd, when you said you help with relocation in my businesses, in my district where Small Businesses have been there for 30 or 40 years, and now theres a new landlord, and the landlord wants to jack up the rent five times to what theyre paying, and they have to relocate, but these are stores that are actually on its such a fine line to making it every month, im wondering, so do you help with relocation costs . We have not helped with relocation costs, but we do help in terms of
In just a moment. But first take a look at these pictures. Viewers have been sending us clips of lightning strikes from around the area. The lightning lit up the sky over the Santa Cruz Mountains this afternoon in the midst of a thunderstorm. Striking the top of a chimney. These are pictures from central county fire which serves millbrae hillsborough. It looks like a fence was also damaged. Lightning made a large cypress tree look like candling near half moon bay. This was taken by peter finch on pearl avenue and posted on facebook. No one was hurt. Lightning stretched across the skyline along with rain. The weather has caused a delay for the giants game. Only one player made its too bad before the tarps were brought out. So far the game has not been called. We saw scattered showers and other parts of the bay area. This downpour around dinnertime in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Delays at sfo to the weather. A live picture of the airport. There have been ground stops during the evening and
Set to give birth to her 3rd child two days from now. Is safe live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. She ran and jumped into a car. A woman said to give birth to her third child two days from now is safe tonight after a mysterious disappearance in San Francisco. Good evening. Im brian hackney. Battlements family finally breathing a little bit easier tonight. The woman initially went missing this morning after getting into a car. Kpix 5s joe vasquez tells us what is new about the disappearance. Reporter she was last seen at 11 am walking here on divisadero with a friend. Her husband tells police when she got to divisadero and page she suddenly jumped into a car and the car took off. Nobody is sure who the driver was. The friend did not recognize the car. That part of the story is a mystery. Police quickly put out a notice asking the public to be on the lookout for lauren. We are considering her at risk because she is nine months pregnant. We want to make sure that the
Set to give birth to her 3rd child two days from now. Is safe live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. She ran and jumped into a car. A woman said to give birth to her third child two days from now is safe tonight after a mysterious disappearance in San Francisco. Good evening. Im brian hackney. Battlements family finally breathing a little bit easier tonight. The woman initially went missing this morning after getting into a car. Kpix 5s joe vasquez tells us what is new about the disappearance. Reporter she was last seen at 11 am walking here on divisadero with a friend. Her husband tells police when she got to divisadero and page she suddenly jumped into a car and the car took off. Nobody is sure who the driver was. The friend did not recognize the car. That part of the story is a mystery. Police quickly put out a notice asking the public to be on the lookout for lauren. We are considering her at risk because she is nine months pregnant. We want to make sure that the