zoning are being asked to do but a whole bunch of things that the e e d will be doing >> thank you. i can add a couple of thoughts. out of the methodology i appreciate that it was done with the vesting of the neighborhoods. that's things that the planning department may not have the time to do but it makes the process smoother because you've provided the foundation of knowledge of which to do the work. that will going forward with the vesting of the actions in those plans. i think somewhat building on the commissioners idea. i saw some blue prints out in the sunsets and i've been asking for a a long time to change our

communication and this is a great model of what i've been trying to articulate. i call it within the concepts of actual contents this provides information to teach to folks in the corridors so they can improve their neighborhoods. if we can build the capacity in those neighborhoods it will carry on. so really appreciate that and want to see the department do more of that. and along the lines of captive commissioner talked about providing accessibility to the data. i think that could help neighborhoods also. they've already participated in some of the collecting of it. so thank you >> commissioner moore. >> following up on capacity building. i think in the idea of

interconnected those documents you've district will be accessible in pdf form so individuals can download them and why'd use them for themselves and comparing them across the neighborhoods. there are certain neighborhoods that are doing some things we're not able to do people can see this on the web. the question i'd like to have answered if i can personally have the planning department start to track the attractiveness of the corridors. i'd be interested in that. they're the new minnie part and i'd like to see how that

increases the attractiveness overall >> i want to thank all the staff in particular tracy and her staff. when we started this program we were working in 4 neighborhoods annoy we are in 25. we had to get those assessments done in a hurry that you are but i think this work is a kind of new phase in some ways of the departments own work plan in the sense as sue said earlier we've spent a lot of time over the last 15 years working where we think the growth it anticipated. now we're shifting change about come in some form so i think

this is a good way to get involved in the commercial neighborhoods to look at less dramatic a change but supporting the exciting commercial districts. it represents a shift in the departments work and an interesting one >> thank you. >> yeah. as a final note i think it's good to look at the best practices if other cities that have neighborhoods similar to the ones we have and the suburbia areas find out why their successful. and i think the idea that many have improvement districts and it's a guy thing, of course, it's up to the merchant to fund it but when tailor problems that

develop like graffiti it is quickly cleaned up and working with the police from the various stations that have authority over the neighborhood commercial districts because we'll have unfortunate incidents when sometimes people are successful that people come in and vandalize those. so it's important to find out to deal with those >> one final question. when we had an nc report can you incorporate some of the data from this process and form that one >> great thank you. >> commissioners if there's

nothing further we can move on to item 7 formula retail controls recommendations to the board of supervisors that the issue of formula retail rail be looked to understand the issue. >> good afternoon amy rogers of the planning department staff where we're here at the request of commission president fong and would like to note an error on the first sentence in 2011 i believe when the board asked for revisions and earlier this summer in review of the multiple frldz - we've been looking at this and his request was in june. as the report before you outlines there are currently 7

active proposals that would change the way the city formula - multiple supervisors are looking at the issue and we think it's timely you asked for this presentation. if i were to characterize those the first would be changes to the geography areas. that includes moving the controls such as argue downtown 3 district and supervisor kim's to the changes by supervisor cowen for the bay view areas. and other changes that are a foot are structural changes. this includes definition

changes. and what should we look at when reformulaing rail. those structural changes are best done at the citywide level and we would like them defined across the city and where's there's a demonstrate need but generally we find feel that overall it should be consistent across the city. and in addition to the proposals outlined in your packet that supervisor mar plans on introducing another ordinance. his ordinance would look at changing the definition of formula rail and increasing the geographic areas it does apply

and we're interested in learning. so in the of the ideas our primary goals today we would like to have time to look at the proposals which we feel is desperately needsed the report before you is a good start and we've - amy cowen joins us here to discuss the issue today. so let's jump into our presentation we have different colleagues to decide the parts and i'm happy to introduce our intermediate and we'll do a review of some of the case laws

in other cities. then my colleague will talk about the particular issues and how we're going to explore the issues and prepare a draft outline for those structural changes. so let us begin. good afternoon, commissioners planning staff. i wanted to start by highlighting a view moments. the first formula retails were adopted in on a 4 and they required 212 notification in c districts. they abandon formula daily and now it's renamed. and they did require a conditional ice authorization on

specific rocks and lots on coals streets. i will note that at that time the department did not support those and the legislation was forwarded onto the board. at that time when the legislation was first introduced by supervisors gonzalez the definition of retail was 4 or morality establishments and by the time the second and third legislation formula come up it ended up being the 12 edition. there were incremental changes including a ban on the north beach neighborhoods and in the japan special use district.

and in 2007 the voters passed a formula retail and that requirement is still in place. we can't change the remit, however, the definition of formula retail maybe alternated through the typical legislation e legislative process. and again, there were changes but the basic structure is still in place. so the definition of formula retail is a type of activity with 11 other retail establishments maintenance two or more of the following features a standard listed facade a standard listed decore and standard listed sicken.

in most areas the formula retail applies the c u criteria are the same regardless or the size and regardless of the number of retail outlets where 12 or 1 thousand. before i move on regarding the retail formulas i'll turn to over to my colleagues for controls about formula retail >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm jenny planning department intermediate. first i'll present non-formula retail and formula usage and second i'll talk about that

cross the nation. first, it's important to note that most of the existing research is on big box impacts not on smaller storewide. we found one study in san francisco. month studies were done by a nonprofit who promotes local stores. so for those rations the city wants to conduct its own study. and most studies look at less immense studies. those studies tend to describe the local increased spending by non-chain stores. and at the same time the formula retailers provided goods and services and serve as

neighborhood anchors. in 2007 a study was done and found that independent routines do have the most growth. the money is kept and recycled in the local economy and this generates more income for the local services. zoning across the nation. recently many small california cities driven their laws like san francisco. but they seek to prevent a formula retail establishments. also the concerned is disruption of the culture of the

neighborhood. and discouragement of some services. so they have limited the number of the establishments permitted and some have abandon. our second example a neighborhood in new york city has the same concerns but they already have limited commercial space speaker at that time, 69 banks had opened for retail in the upper side. and the city adopted the upper west side which provided stricter controls for the regional hub. the controls while not the recreational - the intent felt

control is to prevent and keep a safe neighborhood while protecting neighborhoods for services >> now i'll turn is back over to my colleague >> so the long-term goal is a set of consistent citywide controls that can be refined if necessary and needed for specific areas. but we're addressing a number of topics sincerely o e w d is working on and our study will address. those include the definition and implementation of the controls. specifically does our definition capture the appropriate uses. currently the definition is only

local specifics but if they have fewer than 12 in the u.s. wouldn't be countered formula retail. there are nationally known use not - not stores but brands. gas stations are not considered formula retail. we're looking at our criteria for evaluation. is 11 or other establishments should formula retail business with 12 exciting outlets be evaluated like a large chain like sub by the way. should our criteria reflect

whether or not a proposed business has outlets in the bay area like pet food express or should we consider separately a national chain like starbuck's. and i'm thinking about pharmacies that provided retail that's not provided by depict operators or are there areas we should look at human resources and when considering new applications what are the guidelines. what are the guidelines working in the upper area. we would like to look at visual impacts by definition formula retails have sicken or color scheme and can that standard

standardization respond to the san francisco neighborhood. we're looking vacancies and the affordability of jobs and other services. we would like to look at the geography broundz and they apply in the dnc district but two proposals are the intermediate controls by supervisor kim extend the controls into neighborhood that have not been subjected to them. so today before you is a draft recommend to the board of supervisors that the formulas by looking at extensively. and the board can then look at

the policy going forward. our timeline is short. we hope to select a consultant immediately and to return to this commission in the fall with a mid report and complete the study by the end of the fail. that includes my presentation. i have a handout on one side is a chart that summarizes the zoning district and also specific formula retails and on the other side it's the criteria we use for physical retail and those are available for the public as well. and the second i have the information won a letter with suggestions for modifications to the draft ordinance as well as

correspondence. we are available for questions thank you >> thank you. >> it there that i public comment on this item? >> i have one speaker card. dee dee workman. if you'd like to speak please line up >> i'm dee dee from the san francisco chamber of commerce. we ventured appreciate the departments taking the time to look at this through a citywide analysis. there are many individual proposals in various sections of the pipeline regarding those and we'll to see those tabled and publically vetted and we hope

the economic analysis will be unbiased would no summations about the impact good or badass formula retail on the san francisco vitality out the gate. we wonder if the $40,000 budget is sufficient. we encourage a larger budget but we're pleased with this approach to use facts and data to craft the data and we support this effort and look forward to working with the department. thank you >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners ilene i'm here today on behalf of the belmont code committee. we met yesterday and we saw the

report and we want to commend the staff setting forgot the issues from board members of what's the future of retail in san francisco. so i want to share with you the committee at belmount is wholeheartedly in support. the points and the scope of work that the staff sets forward is wonderful. this process is good and the staff has outlined that in the report. it will simplify the staff retail citywide and and belmount in particular c-3 districts have not be regulated and the vast majority of our members are from

the c-3 districts and the tenants will be formally retail. we wholeheartedly support this and perhaps $40,000 isn't enough and the timeline and the conclusions are going to be important and we look forward to working with the staff on that proposal >> thank you. >> i want to also give my appreciation to the staff. i think the report pointed out a lot of questions that many of us are thinking about how to

achieve that balance. i really like the example in the study of europe west side and the study of coronado in california. the analysis has been point out in order - what's the right balance of national and local. what's the right balance for businesses of all sizes. and it's very mind-boggling and i sometimes look around the neighborhood and we have so many neighborhoods and in each neighborhoods there are corridors of different density and i look forward to hearing the analysis and conclusions from the staff as what are some of the uniform policies that can be applied across the city by

there are pockets that may not be a standard policy. the last thing i want to make is attachment b except for san francisco is 70 thousand and i'm hoping to see in the next round we can collect study information that are closer to our status of our own city. i want will be helpful >> thank you. >> members of the commission i'm janet from smith and i've worked on projects like this. i think this report is a very good beginning and i like the planning departments saying this

are not adopted piecemeal but we get this altogether. and every case is different. roadway because of the discussion of those changes it's like the wild west neighborhoods are appealing for permits that are not form retail in order to pull them into the driveway from a so i hope you'll support the recommendation and applying the citywide program in a rationale position. thank you very much >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm ben. i'm a 13 year resident of san francisco. i also work in the retail business and a represent both

local and recreational and national retailers as my career. i wanted to speak today about some common miss kepgz >> formula retail also drives upmarketable rents that's not true. you look at other streets that have strict controls and the rent have gone up there's much greater things at play then formula retail. it's also a miss conception there's plenty of examples for example, a toy store could be

next to another store and the toy store could help the other store. we're lumping in other stores that are navigate small businesses. but just like people in this room stores with being lunged in with wal-mart and target and that's incorrect. i have some concerns about the pending legislation. supervisor breeds proposal is quite frightening. i think that it basically amounts to protection itching are certain uses and it negatively effects other businesses and small businesses while ben others. i think something that's not considered is