how we might uh ease of limitation for everybody. thank you. thank you very much. commissioners questions? i have one quick question. what about when you go to a coffee shop and you get a cup and it s already a biodegradable cup. are you still want to be charged for biodegradable replacement cup? a lot of that stuff we are have ordinances in place. this is my concern. you know, styrofoam is banned in this town. the stuff you are getting already is biodegradable. i m trying to figure out what i am missing here. right. i think some of this, and i think anybody in the coalition of advocates who are supporting the transition to reusable s, even from compostable s right now, will admit, you know, i think it was a little bit shortsighted to think because it is compostable means it is being composted. in fact, a lot of this waste, same with recyclables, is not -. we want to diverted from landfill. unfortunately, even if single use items are technically compostable or recyclabl
members of the public. okay. it is monday. this is a regular meeting of the small business commission held on monday october 7, 2019. this meeting is being held called to order 2:01 p.m. members of the public, please take this opportunity to silence your phones and other electronic devices. public comment during the meeting is limited to three minutes per speaker unless otherwise established by the presenting office of the meeting. speakers are requested but not required to state their name. completion of a speaker card while optional will ensure proper spelling of the speakers names. in lewis of speaker cards if you have not yet filled one to the right. speaker cards will be called in the order they were placed in the basket. additionally there is a sign in sheets on the front table. please show the office of small business slide. welcome. it is our custom to begin and end each of our small business commission meetings with a reminder that the office of small business
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am happy to get those for you and pass that question along to him as well. let me be clear - the way this is being representative is that the quarter-mile does apply where there is a named street but does not apply when there is a named area, a defined area? in other words, you are saying it would apply - it would not apply to third street, but it would apply to haight street. it would apply, for an since - it would not apply to the mission alcohol special use district because that is a big defined geographical region. would it apply - there s a whole number of these, i assume it would apply to lower old because it is a name street? it is the exception generally speaking. the others do not state a quarter-mile requirement. stating the quarter-mile explicitly, whether or not the boundaries closely track the neighborhood commercial district boundaries. those are irrelevant - - elements. these are limited to the alcohol restrictive use district. this interpretation does not,
qualitative view. they did not do a baseline before. what they are finding now is that they can say through survey data, that 90 percent of the time when the person enters a store, they are bringing in a bag. it does delay the need to have some good baseline data. the country of ireland did a similar thing where they started out about, oh gosh, about 21 cents per bag. what was interesting in ireland when they put in their 20 cents per bag they saw a huge change in behavior. over time people acclimated to that cost of doing business, and there use of reusable bags and started to drop off. when they prodded people again with a raise in the fee, they saw the behavior that they wanted again. they saw a drop off of purchase of bags and an increase in using reusable. for our own data in san francisco. after the ordinance was put in effect after about 2013. we did an informal survey of compliance as well as behavior. we found a rough estimate of about 60 percent. by right to me woul