>> thank you, and welcome to the november 8, 2010, small business commission meeting. we are joined today by president irene yee rile, kathleen dooley, luke o'brien. some are absent. if any member of the public would like to speak and suggest items for consideration, they may.

president yee riley: seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioners, to make recommendations to the board of supervisors for frontage controls. this is an ordinance amending various parts of the san francisco planning code, detailed in the agenda. commissioners come in your package is the legislative digest along with the ordinance. today, we have a presenter. >> thank you. good evening, commissionaires. i am tom, the executive director, and we have been working with supervisor mirkarimi to put this ordinance together, and we had support from your earlier this year that looks at street frontage and

districts that allowed mcs to use, so that was commercial districts in the city, the residential-commercial districts in the city, and so on, so on that ordinance, we said we would like to wherever possible foster this idea of a walkable, continuous street frontage, that create pedestrian interest, create safety, and they are commercial areas more

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could not reopen a new neighborhood commercial business, so the idea behind the rto in the market octavia plan, and this is acknowledged in a section of the code that says that existing nonconforming could stay, because they say they are great assets, but they will not let you build any new of them, and that is strange, because in the code, there are prohibited. you're building a new building, and it is on a street corner, yes, you are permitted to put that there, so it is taking an urban pattern that existed from the early part and saying, "let's carry that forward.

ok? -- ok? " -- oiok. president yee riley: we were talking about areas where we might want to start making new projects have a new diverse size. lombard is a good one for that. -- commissioner: i think that is a good idea when we have these on rentable spaces -- unrentable spaces, dividing them

up. i think that will be a very important thing. some of bart transit corridors. >> that is a great idea. i was thinking one of the things that might do it is if in the rc district, we had a use size limit. that would be an incentive, certainly.