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 across

the corridor also, we don't compete with formula retail we engage unique storefronts and fill the vacancies that are not cord by other small businesses so we urge you to consider the professional and business standards in the conditions >> thank you. next speaker. hello commissioners. >> i'm here to support the changes from the planning department. san francisco beautiful has strived to low income protect the formulate retail stores it impacts the uniqueness of the

san francisco neighborhoods we appreciate the planning department for addressing the definition and the signage by stressing the importance of pedestrian experience i want to bring to focus that many retail stores they use colors that impacts the neighborhoods like the chase store front that has a blue color that impacts the pedestrian signage and it should be regulated as regular signage we're interested if looking to the stronger performance retail formulas will establish. thank you >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you good afternoon. my name is is t.j. i'm an attorney representing the owners of 555, 9th street the retail

center we want to thank the staff and department for their authenticity full recommendations and in particular we're encouraged to see the recognition on the part of staff that retail centers like 55, 9th are appropriate and that formulate retail in under certain facts and circumstances or circumstances can be welcomed into the city the unconditional use process will not be an additional advantage we're concerned with the administration review process that the staff has proposed that the invocation that one person who opposes the project could kick it back into 0 commission

meeting i'm not sure that what constitutes a controversial project but that said as i said we're encouraged about alternative track. we're interested if working with the staff on the particulars of formula standards and the pedestrian assess measures and will work with the staff to try to understand what exactly the impacts will have on 555, 9th street. with that, i'd like to say that we look forward to going through the process and b be back before you in the future >> thank you. >> hi i'm jim. i'm a resident of has a valley many of the comments that i have really repeat what the merchant

of has a valley sea the neighborhood association speakers already said i'll spare you that i thank the planning department for the initiative for doing the study. the thing that stands auto is the increase from 11 to 20 i'm very much opposed when you get over 10 or 11 unit you have more resources and if you need for additional use in neighborhoods you have more resources you can do that. the idea offered by the north beach telegraph hill spokesperson was interesting that if local ones can have fast tracking that's an accomodation to support local businesses but

clearly once a local business has a business spread out they feel like a chain so we have to address that and recognize that >> the good thing as you know they have full bands to nothing. that's one of the beauties of this so neighborhoods are able to choose how strike they want to be and if there are 11 units of a locally based well supported business the neighborhoods that would be subject to the cu if they had a fast track option could get air unit located easily there are better ways rather than opening

to 20 that is universal for all businesses that along with the provisions counting the international and the corporate subsidies and whatever to integrate the internets impacts the chain stores are really desirable things i presenter our thought of at the looking at those things for review. thank you >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners, director. i did want to echo the directors comments my name is danny i'm the co-chair we're presented the opportunity to participate in the focus groups that led up to the recommendations i want to commend you for the

transparency. a lot of the businesses are seeing that and it's great having being involved without belaboring the signage the controls are one we appreciate i think the i have no speaker cards land use categories that are incorporated into the land use controls are good no reason a chain like a hair salon should be included i want to say from the increase from 12 to 20 stores i think the 12 number was somewhat ashtray it only incorporating an additional 12 percent remains ashtray and

without a strong policy rational i have a problem supporting. if vacancy were an issue citywide it may not be a different conversation, however, we have a vacancy rate around 5 percent and in the urban castro district we have a higher rate of 8 instead of asking for the locally initiated formula retail shushes blue bottom to come in the debate remains lyle at the same time as recently qualified for $20 million they're going to expand in a rapid matter the

strong you're going to keep it at the local neighborhood rather than making it right and increasing the threshold. i did want to that is true put a plug in the upper market castro district we have a privately funded actually with the help of oewd and supervisor wiener and upper market castro retail strategy that aims to look at small business retention and attraction like surveying customers and understanding the prospective and getting into the weeds to understand why the vacancies remain i'll encourage the process and we expect to begin in the next month i

european hope you'll not end the threshold thank you >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm gary heights. i really appreciate the improvements that the plaintiff has initiated i have owned a flower shop on upper market near castro for 40 years during that time i've seen pottery barn and wall grnz and expansion and cvs and many others. when the hordes of tourists come to the castro and is there's a wonderful cfo or swash shop or jeffreys nature pet shop it feels like a healthy situations

when we say they have 8 quiznos or 8 petting could see it is like cal did you michigan there's no reason to visit the castro if there's another strip mall. not everyone agrees with us so the senseable compromise defining formula retails as having more than 11 locations the numbers should not increase and the formula retail businesses that should remain as is and every formula retail business should go through the same process. it's been empty storefronts have been talked about and there's lots of reasons for this in the castro there's that on landlord

that owns many, many buildings and seems to refuse to rent them out but also where cvs was holding out years and years and years for formula retail to get more income for the then he would from a small business. it reaches a point when the evolution falls victim we have the revitalization going on and increasing the number of character chain stores will not help us grow thank you. thank you >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm going to be speaking on behalf of carol i was born and raised in san

francisco i'm a commercial real estate broker several years ago at the request of airport director john marty served on a parental panel to explore the terminal 2 the observe was to take advantage of the time and make it more meaningful for the restaurant needs for travelers. with other real estate brokers i participated in mapping 45 places the neighborhood vacancy factor was 4.8 there are 5 hundred chain stores of 36 percent are founded or based in san francisco and/or the greater bay area. approximately 44 percent is devoted to restaurant and speciality food shops and bars

and stores and just around 3 percent or one hundred and thirty branches is accompanied by banks that are formula retail under san francisco's defines. everyone agrees that san francisco is special and that the unique character it is a benefit, however, we can't predicted e predict or anyone else who is going to vicinity a new practice or how our shopping partners will change part of it makes san francisco the basing place we ask people to contribute to circumstances. as a community we want to encourage the creativity and viability we want to support of the local businesses. and we want to protect our quality of life. i'm not interested in baltimore over formula retail and don't see myself frrmg anything.

attempts to elective where people can buy and make purchases the legislation assumes a more or less status changing world by way of example when the preliminary local transportation cars was not an issue people stayed home and cooked i'm sorry - and it is an understatement to say our needs and interests have been changed by the internet and other technology - thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon commissioners

i'm pat. i'm president of the d t n a neighborhood association d t and a what direction proud to participate in the study >> thank you to the department for taking on this task to read the long document. d t and a has been a strong proponent of define and better streamline the formula retail process public utilities i came before the commission in april of 2013 with a proposal that the planning department participated to streamline the progress that you've unanimously approved. are we were facing 60 thousand square feet of new retail spaces coming online we were the type

of environment is formula retail looks for. we wanted to maintain our neighborhood character and you helped us do that. in this study we recognize there are advantages that have been pointed out like things like signage what because we've been to the commission many times over signage issues. we do oppose the change in formula retail defines with upwards of 75 percent of cu applications being approved. it is hard to understand where the problem is. we understand and hear that you want to support of the small businesses it's not difficult to the get the support for a super duper in a neighborhood but

difficult for a neighborhood to come and fight a starbuck's and the $750,000 land use lawyers and the pr firms that those multiple nationals are able to hire per we accept that's part of the progress we're here fighting the fight and supporting those who feel should be brought to the neighborhood. i also want to remind the commissions that the voters voted for proposition g in an effort i quote from the planning department's website protect san francisco's vibrant small business sectors and create a supportive environment for the small business innovation i

don't believe that opening the gates to the multiple nationals is what the voters intended >> thank you. >> hi i'm winning wendy nearly three years ago we left our jobs to run our own mom and pop cafe and after years of searching for the right location we found it two months latter wisp approached by starbuck's. this was the beginning of our consul use application process in san francisco. ownership a small business you're doing it all your way we average the 16 hour days we cook and clean the sidewalk and develop we hire and fire and

track and packing pay takes with 4 different agencies 4 times a year there's a city department supporting website how to walk you through the conditional use luckyly we found a orphan website opposing the application and tracked down a name and pinked his brain we spent the 20 first two years of taking on a a side job to learn the bureaucrat system in this case with starbuck's to build a campaign to attract media attraction and research and learn about and educate the community members on land use we're not professional

organizers starbuck's has dispatched one of their full-time representatives who's entire jobs was to shepherd this system they then hired two public relation firms to sought. by doing anything to lower the bar that is noted to quiet the voices of the independent merchant of san francisco. i urge you to keep the cu formula retail stores at the 12 and not allow one from a transfer of one merchant to another. it takes the time to be harder at the corner store it closed been a chain restaurant starbuck's wanted to take over that'll they would be there

today and at least one of the locally owned cfo shops would be gone we wouldn't have had the time to figure out how to speak up it's currently accompanied by two local businesses >> thank you. next speaker. . good afternoon, commissioners i'm with the committee on jobs i want to commend the staff for the hard work in undertaking the study it was ambitious and one that was well worthy of the research. all and all it was a balanced report and coming from that the balance recommendations. i'd like to social myself with the remarks that were made earlier by deedee workman of the

chamber but one issue i want to have the staff and or the department and the commissioners reconsider or to think about and that is applying or spending those rules to atms. retail today faces champed like online shopping more and more people are buying things from amazon and dozens and dozens of another that are available online. when people go to other people ams they provide a number of different tractions and deposit money and take money out. and when they took money out they're not spending the money at amazon. when i go to the atm probably once a week i get cash give my

son an allowance and spends it at the local book shop and pay the babysitter and shop at one restaurant open you 22nd. when people go to atms they get cash and spend it nearby so i understand they're not the most exciting thing to look at but when you look at on the balance when you look at the services they provide in the neighborhood and the neighborhood merchant it's positive. so again, thank you for your work and i know i look forward to addressing this group later. thank you >> thank you. >> good afternoon commissioners thank you for letting me take

the opportunity to speak today, i'm pamela a local broker i want to enlightenment ann mare on the recommendations in such is a short time and many of the proposed changes are a stechld, however, i'm ♪ favor of restricting international retail with the u.s. present so stores in the u.s. are already qualified for formula retailer rules. the existing controls for formula retail are and allow the decision-making process. i have a few comments looked like e i'd like to share about international formula retail i keep hearing h and m and other

scores and scores of interesting one of a kind mfrpt agony and others there's numerous people that want to come to san francisco. by requiring that the international brands with over 11 stores to go through the cu process will only allow accident larger companies the very brands that everyone seems to have a problem with that t will allow them to get through it's an expensive difficult and time consuming process and the small merchant who don't have the means or time or knowledge will go to another city that they're in demand of. also the bigger brands that can afford to come to san francisco go to union square.

many of the smaller merchant don't want that kind of environmentalist and want to be in our neighborhoods. another point a lot of the international tenants have very, very unique and creative concepts that would be a shame not to have our local merchant to not been able to travel not be exposed to those ideas and our consumers can't afford to travel to those unique countries should have the exposure. san francisco is a very diverse city and hate to see the eliminating the diversity and making it more cumbersome to do business in the city it's a huge mistake >> mr. johnson from supervisor

breed's office. >> you stole my first line. good afternoon, commissioners legislative aid to supervisor breed we've been anticipating a report from our staff your staff has done an excellent job. last year supervisor breed wrote legislation for has a valley it will include the international locations and two include the subsidies or affiliates of formula retailers. thank you for your careful consideration and exploring the first element now at the risk of sounding disagreeable let me explain the logic behind subsidies there's nothing from

stopping 7-eleven to buy pause all the retailer codes and stopping gap as we saw in a recent determination large corporations can circumvent by creating a new names it is not fair to other formal formula retailers the companies rent they can pay and the diversity or lack therefore don't chang because it changes its name a formula retailer is still a formula retailer so supervisor breed asks to treat them as such. the staff sdpragz first, it could impact new concepts it is linkage to effect not the subsidies in san francisco