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Okay, i think we can start. Cochair madrid okay. This is the mayors disability Public Meeting for november 20, 2020 at s 1 p. M. My name is alex madrid. Thank you, alex. Im Deputy Director of m. O. D. And serving as clerk for this meeting. This is a virtual meeting. Its being broadcast to the public on sfgovtv. It is open caption and sign language interpreted. The Mayors Disability Council holds nine meetings and generally held on the third friday of the month. Please call the Mayors Office of disability at 415 5546789. Or by email, you can contact us at mod sfgov. Org with any m. D. C. Business. Our next regular meeting will be on friday, january 15, 2021 from 1 00 to 4 00 p. M. This will also be an Onl ....
Today. Im available if you have questions. Supervisor fewer any questions or comments . Supervisor peskin could you remind us of your name . Katy sherping. Supervisor fewer you mentioned many of the permits being streamlined. Which ones are you streamlining . The legislation that was signed last week did a number of things. I may not have them all off the top of my head. It reduced some of the duplicate inspections that would happen. If you did a buildout and apply for an entertainment, you would have to do that again. So that goes away. There are other areas where we updated our health code for example to be more in line with state health code around when restrooms are required to be accessible for patrons. This expands opportunities for businesses to, for example, have like a small coffee cart or Something Like that without having to provide a restroom for their customers. There were a number of other pieces of this legislation. ....
Definitions for drinking and eating uses in the planning code and it was reduced to three. It was based on alcohol consumption. A bar owning alcohol. And a limited restaurant, no alcohol. We were able do this because the city had adopted controls which made the different layers of restaurant definitions unnecessary. So we had definitions that said, if you serve in disposable cups, youre this kind of restaurant. If you order at the counter, youre this kind of restaurant. We simplified that to three basic things. For those in controls, we left the fullservice restaurant the same, but permitted limited restaurants without alcohol, through most of the city and obtained existing prohibition on neighboring retail and commercial districts through that. So recently we developed our cb3 process, which is community, processing program. For qualifying businesses, it requires conditional use authorize, hearing date in 90 days, placement on the consent calendar. No guarantee they stay on consent, b ....
Legislation that was supported unanimously by the board and signed by the mayor last week. It included a number of code changes that will have real em packets for the food and beverage impacts for the food and beverage business. A lot of them came directly from the one of on one work with restaurants. There remains opportunities for improvement, which well discuss today and this program will be a good lens to watch that. Finally, looking ahead, we want to continue to expand our outreach. Were serving a large number of businesses but want to make sure that every restaurant knows its available to them. Were also thinking about how to increase capacity. The budget and legislative Analyst Report prepared at the request of supervisor mandelman on the castro areas, looking at store front vacancies, is a tool. Im thinking about the larger conversation around reducing vacancies. There is interest in how to increase capacity for the progra ....