views i know something that was said in the beginning we think this system works the result of the study is the creates a balance between formula retail and locally owned businesses and proposing tweaks to make it more restrictive in some cases and not restrictive in accountabilities it's a study based on serious research we were happy to make changes as we hear from the commission and public. we're asking you initiate today not take action but allow us to take the next step. the date in our packet is july and depending on the commissions wishes i'm hoping we can consider as soon as june 26th

but that's certainly up to you as well. we'll have several weeks to work out issues with the neighborhoods and the community as we move forward before we move into the board we're going to ask you to initiate it today and thank you for your input and time as well >> thank you. let's open this up for public comment please line up on the screen side of the room. >> dee dee worker man. >> excuse me. i was remiss not recognizing amy with the office of economic workforce development who's joined with us at the hip. my million my i'm amy i'm with the office of economic workforce development i've been there since 2345067 working on the neighborhood program and started the precursor to invest in

neighborhoods actively in 2001 when i was another a nonprofit partner called the local corporation now we call our program invest in neighborhoods work in 25 neighborhoods districts around the city it's a customized approach to helping the businesses in those areas based on the needs and the opportunity and the preferences of the neighborhood. it's an enter agency approach with public and private partners and oewd and planning are working closely together in a variety of different ways. there's a number of programs that run out of our vice president now under the development umbrella like the loan programs and the improvement grants and the new leasing sups and online calls sf

to help the store line spaces and others assistance for the wide consortiums that assistance businesses like cleaning and greening and bifurcation. the focus is the health of the commercial corridor so on strengthening the individual businesses and on improving each corridor in the neighborhoods was provided an initial assessment done in yungs with the neighborhood and those are still available on sf.org have provided a conversation we've been having around formula retail. our office participatedtively in the study we helped to pencil the selection and contributed data and contributed to the

neighborhood selection and working closely with the planning department on the policy recommendation. the key issues related to formula retail from the invest in neighborhoods is based on the constant subcontractor one is the struggling corridors where there's a variety of barriers one is having is neighborhood servicing business mix in low income neighborhoods where there's a reasonable mix of affordable goods as well as a range of goods that meet people's needs especially, if they can't leave the neighborhoods there's a lot of concerns about long time vacancies we recognize that long-term vacancies are not only problematic for the neighborhood

but for the block and the corridor we do a lot of work around grocery stores we also work in neighborhoods that are underserved in terms of groceries the last two points i think that are really important from the investment neighborhoods oewd is in the so entrepreneurship opportunities for people to grow and grow bigger whether it's formula retail or an independent retailer those are jobs and they're a keying priority for the office. on behalf of the oewd we recognize a very, very complicated issue and you can find something in the proposal that not everybody will like but

we think that raising the threshold in 12 to 20 removes a barrier for the homegrown businesses even going up to 50 that wouldn't vastly effect the locations. i've spent several years ago trying to get starbuck's nobody wants them anymore but now the blue bottle sass has more than 11 but not 20. we have positive about the what the administer review might not able to do larger because how it may help with the wasting time it takes a period of 4 months so

anything to get a few less controversial cases will help the small guys who can't sign a lease and pay rent and not be open. we also building the increased emphasis on the store review many of the people concern is about the character of their corridor we also think that additional regulations kwo kwo could have an adverse effect one is the recruiting of desire corridor and leeland avenue is an example it's a a high vacancy rate we're going to bring in a pizza place and any additional

regulation on formula retail could create bigger challenges, and, secondly, we think additional regulation will make it harder in some cases to meet the daily needs of the moderate and protecting people we did a study and in certain categories formulate retail is lower it's 16 percent by one man and he said it was not offset by the independent retailer one is subway swashes they don't want unhealthy food but we don't want it to be hard for people. a third and almost fireman issue is around filling long time foot vacancies this was brought up in

a study for ocean avenue the big that space is wall green house it's hard for a variety of reasons but additional restriction could make it harder. and finally, we're in agreement with the planning department on the subsidy issue to help the local homegrown businesses to grow their jobs and anything that creates a more challenging and longer process will 0 hurt the folks waiting in the cue for the approval. take the opportunity to weigh in i encourage the commission to initiate this policy. and let's go ahead and start. >> 81 thank you. i'm crying tenant independent owner of the

bookstore. i became involved in the formula retail defines issues when we found we were having difficulty recruiting formula retailers into the merchant organization that's relating new we started in 2011 and have the board members. we saw the freehand we recently had two chains open up on hate street the herbs store and c x that has a pawnshop in the untsdz kingdom we think it's absolutely critical that the playing field be level and fair. we i personally have participated in the focus groups at the planning department and want to commend two ladies for the process they run we

wholeheartedly are thrilled about the inclusion of international locates and want subsidies included and want the number of planned locations to be included in the definition for a new business like starbuck's and evolution fresh e.r. jake spades those are companies that have resources that go through a conditional use progress and the community should be mravrpt. furthermore, we believe it's a benefit to the business for them to engage in their local community they can learn more information by reaching out to the organizations. and hate ashbury association is actually, we do the holiday

lights and engaging in the process all the people volunteering their effort and energy and resources are the local businesses. we feel that again, it must be a fair and level playing field we'll request that when you are formulating further review of the dings the subsidies do be included as well as planned locations. thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker. on this side of the room. >> hello, i'm kyle. i'm a resident of the mission district and currently work for supervisor campos on his campaign for the assembly. i've been working in various capacities and i'm going to focus on what we don't agree

with in the proposal but several not unappreciative. i learned one of my favorite institutions was being pushed out of their place after 25 years. after the landlords set a higher rent of 65 thousand dollars they authenticity they were safe they will be there for years the increase was from 45 how does is a month to $8,000. i'm guessing what's following i'll spare you the particular hours we've spent with the community groups fighting displacement i won't go into the thousands of dollars a campaign aimed not for the city to say no

by at the core for the community to say when a type of business that wants to come into the community this is owned by a publicly traded company and it brought in $1 million plus like the jake spade this would imblown other landlords to raise the rents. you can imagine the concern when at the saw the recommendation not to incorporate the parenthood it will feature the local business person his business would be harmed if the rent is higher. did that mean the mid sized

business should get the neighborhood permission. it should be noted that out right opposition is not a shared across the board and the person said in the effect it exceeds her threshold for the - this is the next point raising the threshold from 12 to 20 is a better plan. we miss the point when there are midsize spin-offs their virtually i'll close by saying >> sir, your time is up. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, commissioners deedee workingman

in the chamber of commerce the dhm represents over 15 businesses large and small local and national we want to acknowledge and thank the planning department and planning staff for putting this in place we appreciate the good intentions for the planning codes relating to all retail that's derived from outreach. the chamber of commerce sxheenz the working groups made up of formula and non-formula we've discussions the policies coming out of the board of supervisors and the planning department we've met with ted egging connecticut on and looking at this and tried to without parole come up with a balanced point of view which we think reflects the planning department study that

shows a good faith effort that encourages and supports all kinds of retail across the city. so your points of views related to the planning department will recommendations are as follows: we support raising the formula retail from 11 to 20 it enables the small start up retailer to grow before they fall under the definition of formula retail but captures the national chain that the formula raltsd were defined for we support of the quantify approach to determine the formulate retail we were never comfortable with the 12 percent like there will be more

deliberations and method to the madness and we really support ann and appreciate establishing the metric review number two, thoughtful cu when a formula retail wants to take over the spates especially because it includes public novs and mandatory discretionary review if there's only one observation we feel that including the international locations san francisco is an international recognition it should stay that way we feel you'll be closing the doorknob donor on something that didn't make sense when people come from all over the world or people want to shop here and not been able to travel

everywhere else >> thank you. >> >> next speaker. >> yes good afternoon. i'm russel speaking on the merchant hill association i want to talk about the historic hound we're in favor of it being international. but we're definitely opposed to the increase in the count from 11 to 20 and the inclusion of the affiliate stores in the it up. we build the hate valley is the inbart of the hill it's served our neighborhood he especially well in maintaining it's integrity of small business which supports both local artists and the clothing murphy's and inference makers to increase the number to 20 will

tip the balance excuse me. as would not been able to maintain the integrity of the small business community. how we feel in hate valley and the valencia street corridor we're a very international city with travelers coming from worldwide travelers don't want to see the same things at home for example, the magazine it is japanese magazine we love america is the title and the important to them the important neighborhoods in the cities they get to san francisco mission and valencia street you're going their folks to shop here. this is something we've double the count from 11 to 20 will

erode the fabric i've been in hating valley for 2 and a half years the others have put in the sweat equity. also national geometric is doing a store on the shopping and the story is featuring has a valley it's important to maintain the aspect of our individual stores. from the economic standpoint of increasing from 11 to 20 just quickly in 1997 i grow my location from one to 6 and especially in our 5th location we doubled that to 20 swastikas the entrepreneursship

>> i'm cindy on the hates valley association i've been in hate valley for 20 years. supporting the community and offering something unique especially to those who come and visitor and russel said it we're not for extending that it will imbalance the enterprising and if you have big businesses with deep punctuates they can do this from my own study it's based on being on the retail floor people across the nation international they come to hate valley because there's special shops they can't

find everywhere else that's why they come here others parts of san francisco that's making us unique and we have to protect it. i hope and think that you'll keep in mind for future proposals. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm larry. i'm the vice president of the hates valley neighborhood association. again, i'd like to thank the planning department staff for all the great work they've dunn on this complex and somewhat controversial issue. we have participated in the proposal and review progress for the changes to formula retail. formula retail is not allowed in

the haze golf neighborhood that's the result of years advocacy to preserve the neighborhoods unique culture attractiveness. we're in favor of the planning department's recommendations regarding the performance standards for the commissions review and with respect to super stores. we over the following comments regarding jauftd the language. we're opposed also to expanding the number of retail establishments from 12 to 20 that's an 80 percent over 80 percent increase and building the economic of scale will allow

more formula retailers to enter the neighborhood with higher rents. russel's story is an example. we applaud the formula retail to include international formula retailers and new use categories. we also think that not including subsidy parent companies in the definition needs to be looked at it constitutes a loophole with fewer than 12 or 20 locations in order to circumvent the law. we intend to agree that recurring the progress when appropriate we think that the cu

process is working and should be continued >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. kathleen dulling i didn't president of the north beach commission today, i'm speaking on behalf of the north beach business and the telegraph hill i also participated in the planning process and the reviews i really want to thank the planning department for the hard work it's complicated and i think they did a very good job we support many of the proposed changes such adding international locations and expanding the news. we don't support increasing the

numerical number to 20 we understand the deserve to allow the important chances we suggest a better way to do this is have the planning department include them in the proposed administration review process to fast track non-controversial important chains that will allow neighborhoods if at the desire to require a full cu process that will make it less on and on reduce for the local companies and increasing it to 20 is not limited to the local companies it's every company worldwide so this will possibly increase the number of businesses that are

formula retail without a cu way beyond what we have now. we also feel that if a business ladder has for example, an multiple maintained presence like at&t late that's owned by gap they must be considered a formula retail. we also building where's there a clear connection between a new spin-off like jake spade and kate spade and obligation brothers they need to go through the cu process if they're popular with the neighborhoods they'll go through without a problem. we also think there should be requirement that all formula retail that wants to come up you

accompany more than 3 thousand square feet should be looked at. this impacts a large area from the one quarter walking distance - >> thank you. next speaker. . >> hi jay chang with the realtors we want to persuade the planning department we support the neighborhoods that are walkable and help people find homes everyday in san francisco. because san francisco is a one kind of a place. we agree with a number of the recommendations the move from 11 to 20 makes sense to us that

arrived out of a form process the addition of the conceptual evaluation is good we ask you look at the additional defines to the formula related we having ask real estate brainstorms will fall under the description of formula retail what we and he real estate broernlz is one that might have unintended circumstances in the case of real estate brornlz we build character and design our neighborhood to sell the character and don't believe that builds a home legitimate