>> if you want to come to the podium i'll call important names. >> hi i'm here on behalf of the youth that use those stores for jobs year around we need those jobs to keep the kids out of trouble it keeps us businesses. we're all young adults we need to know how to work and we need the working experience you put all those small businesses there won't be enough work for us they won't hire us i've worked at targeted and safest way if you take away that stuff where will he go. that's all >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi commissioners good afternoon. i'm here to speak on the on

behalf of the stores also. i just want to say those stores provide a large amount of minority with jobs if you take those away we won't have much to look forward to. i'm also to say that the stores are helpful for elderly people that only have the use of the public transportation access to pharmacies easily and also i want to say that the stores is also helpful to a lot of the in connection families in a lot of the community in san francisco so if you take those stores away the crime wave will go higher in san francisco. that's all i have to say thank you. >> next speaker. >> hi commissioners i'm jay

with the san francisco realtor. we believe in walkable exciting merchant corridors with we want to echo many workman's thoughts and recommendations. we that that having a number above the current 11 above the cap is exciting keep that in mind that number to 20 unite it defined as the retail institution now i, you know, which kind of neighborhoods that are serving the formulate retailers you're letting in or keeping out. the report we think highlights the success of the cu process in preserving neighborhood character and letting in business owners that help the neighborhood. we highlight the grocery store

and the pharmacies providing walkable merchant corridors. expansion of the rail use will hurt the cu process that exists we're concerned about that. form of because the cu process has been so successful we think that over all abandons that were suggested i similar attack that process and don't allow our neighborhood character to evolve in the process. the report highlights the vacancies that remain vacant because formula retail rents it for the spaces and formula retail is the only answer to the spaces so we recognize the importance of large spaces and

the formula retail filling those and we lifeline leave an opportunity for that to happen >> thank you and before the next speaker comes up i mean, i'll call for names. >> hi i'm a residential counselor with the homeless view in san francisco. i support sponsors being built her in the city open a personal note i see the good that having those i refer to them as chains in the city for the sole fact they provide jobs for the homeless. when they opened the city target here in 0 san francisco like within the drop in center i work in i haven't seen a time a higher rate of our youth getting

hired. i remember in one week we had 6 youth getting hired at target. i go in the city because i like the small businesses that san francisco offers. i understand the opposing side to having the store but i try to focus on the positive and the fact it creates so many jobs. san francisco is constantly going to get global traffic the tourists here. someone was speaking earlier and said this is the unique city because of the water on both sides we're not a normal city. i don't feel that the small businesses would suffer as much here because this is a tourist

city san francisco is unique there maybe change everywhere but i support this and still go to mom and pop shops along with chains. i think having them here create more jobs so far people who need them to better the situation that they're currently in like those that i work without in the street. thank you >> next speaker >> i'm ann i'm a resident in chinatown and many elderly and for them to shop in the big and larger labor store to beau things by one stop.

also a big store like walling ground or target and safest way would save our money in town by - also a large store places would be helpful because the price of a reasonable the place is safe and clean so i would really happy to have a large store like target and labor space so thank you

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm here in support of having nor chance stores within the san francisco community although do you want was we saw on the map was fooling with a lot of retail stores and have tourism there's place around san francisco the fillmore was mentioned although there are businesses that are being started and coming to the areas we have a lot of large spaces that are still available. we should notice the mom and pop stores are not able to move into the largely spaces but they're available for larger chance stores and are able to give people jobs and i also work on larkin street and was around with the city target opened up

we had 6 clients and 20 or thirty that were building their resumes trying to get to space where there was an available job. as for me to you like the idea i'd like to see it everywhere i notice on her map it's been designated in some areas like the bayview and little blocks we've having had a lot of mom and pop stores because the upper chance stores are not willing to take the chance but i'm hoping you guys are considering this but adding some type of hiring the residents of the neighborhood or some type of having them work with the

programs they do work with the community as all the chance stores what goes on into inside did community it's possible that small businesses and big businesses can still work in the same place and be successful we know in san francisco you go down dot what if i still buy t-shirts downtown. that won't stop me from going into target and buying a giant t-shirt has well. i think that san francisco keeps people left out it's a unique dallas place to have all those things in one place we have so many different places in san francisco we'll be able to fit larger retail and smaller retail stores and still provide a place

for the community. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i lived on alamo square i'm retired and take pleasure on shopping by foot. if you restrict the cd to only local businesses you're likely to see to that there are retail goods and services that i need that are not available in my neighborhood because they won't be supplied by local people increase no guarantee if i restrict formula retail local people will fill the need. i walk now a lot but if you do this i'll get many my car and

drive do those other retail locations. this city has a policy of discounting driving in cars. so if you employ any sort of a tight restriction on formula retail your in effect encouraging me and other residents to drive and i don't think that's what the city should or what it wants to do. so i. in in favor of no restrictions on formula retail absent that i think our restrictions should be as highs as possible to make sure there's are plenty of opportunities for people to walk to the store to buy the goods and services in my neighborhood. thank you

>> thank you. >> i'm matt i own a retail company in san francisco. i am an advocate of healthy retail in general, i think that's what i want to point out to the commission. vacancy is really the excusable of all our neighborhoods the city doesn't benefit from a tax base stewardship. i think i've been could go this for 23 years and have come to the commission and one and lost battles. the commission thought that blockbuster would put people out of the business and as we can all see in retrospect in hind

2020 there's no greater example of social darwinism i got back from vancouver and two things there's a complete onslaught against retail right now. the e customers is growing leaps and bounds over the retail. there's a threat to a healthy environment no where in the country it's the internet. you couple that with the increase in the minimum wage and the restaurant tours, the most wild sweng commodity pricing every. every. we see beef rising 10 to 20 percent a year and the mandatory

health care the impacts to have the courage to try to get a store open her in san francisco is enormous. i feel like it commission we've got so many rules on the books a discretionary review can stop many opportunities and the weighing in on the use i feel this is an administrative active overkill to continue this and i really two last points last year 75 percent of the retail was filtered and the other faster growing is medical you have to take care of the baby durmdz so in a couple of years we're going to be looking at how to reduce

the use of restricting food >> thank you is there any additional public comment. >> i support the other gentleman's opinion i like is it not overly restricted i experienced a company that's a network marketing and not network but then because they have one neighborhood then with the 7 miles we can't have another one we never went there andful never have been there all the mountains it's impossible to

drive but we can't have another one because of the rules we want another larger retail business your community needs it let our community people decide what they want not the people here to decide thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> if i can remind the people of the public to silence our mobile days. good afternoon >> judy with the coalition neighborhood. i'm on the focus group for the formula retail as well as other speakers here tonight. a couple of things the history of trying to limit formula

retail gos goes back over 75 years i believe with a and p the pacific retailers they've disappeared on their own. just an observation. sometimes, it happens that a - a business that passes the 11 location mark such as books ink on its own reduced its number of locates they're down to two locations now. we met the know if group met on march 24 it was a very, very productive meeting. a couple of the things we looked at one was the night in some areas for an anchor store it's an anchor store being a large

formula retail or chain store. another thing the study brought into focus under employment was there are better and more employment opportunity at formula retail stores than the small businesses. this is something that was very much brought home today by several the speakers i preservative that thank you very much. thank you for your time and looking at the issue and hope to be here on the 22nd and of may and june 5th to say what's going on in its advancement >> general public comment seeing none, general comment is

closed. >> thank you for the presentation i notice from the staff we're not hearing the presentation from ted about the economic impacts until the 15th of may the same time we're going to hear the presentation from any supervisor mar. are you going to get in information ahead of time if you don't have the information we can't make the decision >> our planning staff has read the report and it's available on the website so it's something we take into account when we make the policy recommendation but because the doctor focuses on the supervisor mar not the focus of this study the supervisor want to bring up his proposal at the same time so we're waiting

until june 5th for that combination. >> it might be a decision day for us? >> supervisor mar has a revised version of his so we're trying to cooperate with him so once it's introduced you could act an may fifth. we're trying to bring the policy recommendations to you on i believe on may 22nd that's the thursday your last hearing in may you won't have another hearing between then but you'll be able to see the recommendations and respond to public input and come up with your own policy recommendation. if we're able to coordinate

everything we'll maybe get to forwarded on june 5th >> it's clear we're not making a decision on the 15 of may. >> the doctor report has been moved. >> their got it moved later but both on june 5th it's the same problem exists we're expected to make a decision on something we're seeing the same day. >> we can make sure that the commission has access and we'll post it open the website for the public so there will be two weeks previous we'll be talking about the policy prelims for the formula retail so you'll have plenty of time. >> commissioner if i may the

vesting on the report is only on supervisor mar's proposal not covering the full gambit that's why we're combining those. >> the question was it was go on going to be on the 15th so you'll have time to mull over those before we make our final action but it sounds like this is going to happen on the 5th of june all 3 items. >> the commission is if it's available and ready we'll ask you try to consider it on may 28th we can continue it. okay. thank you. i'm starting to figure out the time table >> sorry. >> i heard a lot of things i have some general feelings based on what i heard a lot of

concerns about vacancies it's important. because big spaces are hard to fill and hard for small businesses to fill there's the talk about dividing them into smaller parcels it makes sense we might have a different bar for over 10 thousand square feet maybe a dr rather a cu but giving someone the chance to fill those we should help them so this is a higher bar. i don't think it's wise to expand into additional categories making formulate retail including a lot of things that are not considered formula retail as with banks they're all formula retail so to make them

go through hoops there's not a competitor here. it's disserves those places where there's no final constitution you walk along mission street or ocean or geneva there's very few banks or inspections in those areas we want to encourage them so to make them it does a disservice by making it harder for financial institutions to go in there. the level i think in your report you said that only 9 percent of formula retail were by category i guess under 50 stores and then 75 percent had of the formula retail over 50.

then there's i guess there was a separate category for franchises i'm not sure how that read it sound like a dividing line 11 or 12 for our locally growing first name is if their successful at all at the rapidly surpass that so the bar a has to be higher but it makes senses. and then i'm hearing that you know the consideration of companies that might be international and not in the united states are not having over 12 in the united states but the point was well-made we want those to come to san francisco first, because it will draw people from outside of san francisco to go to the stores

because we have a large international population in the bay area so if they hear about one on fillmore or downtown they'll go where ever we can the product is we shouldn't restrict those to have them in the educate they have to have enough stores in the united states because presumably they'll have quite a few other places if they're a large company. the other thing that is important that seems to be a formula towards formula retail to do more job training and perhaps hire a higher level of the minority they have the

deeper pocket but it's a good service if at the do those things. points about sense e citizens and the need they need in their own neighborhoods not having to get out of cars and banks are another good example because a lot of people who are citizens i'm one of them i want to go to a person to talk to. so and feinstein a good point was made by one of the speakers is the real enemy is on line as far as our brick and mortar services we're neighborhood originated we might withstand it f this but make it possible for

our brick and mortar to be able to science with the competition from the online products. those are my views >> commissioner borden. >> thank you for the report and the work we found out what we pretty much know every neighborhood and situation is different and formula retail is slightly different. i know we were hoping for a more robust answer perhaps but you can't get into that without deep economic data analysis. i think that obviously when you're a retailer whether a smaller or large retailer you go where the demographics is and in neighborhoods that are more possible you have more retailers moving to the neighborhood vs.

where the neighborhood that are more affordable not see that harassing as much so the retail that those neighborhoods attract but in turn of local stores you'll attract as well more upscale technologies that have higher levels of income. i think what is interesting and the report starred to talk about this there's a trend we hear a lot from the small business community the online issue is a large issue about the loss of shoe repair and other stores because the change in the nature of the retail. it's true you see the amazon fresh trucks and you can get whatever you wanted we hear it over and over about minimum wage and other things one