it resolved that the neighborhood stropg oppose this to refine the first and foremost from 11 to and on a personal level i'm from jordan park association i walk up and down the cord in supervisor mar's district >> what i see in regards to the subsidies in order to have a level playing field if i'm a chain store one and open up chain store 1-b and c if you're talking about ownership the owner that has the deeper pocket will be able to take hold of the land use space its very important and relevant that 9 planning department look at the subsidies issue in sxhaifrz

legislation when he support. thank you. i have an extra copy >> good evening, commissioners eric brooks here representing san francisco green party and the local grassroots our city began that's organizing in 2004 working on the first formula retail legislation passed by the board of supervisors. and has followed this issue ever since he can tell you there is not one supporter of formula retail controls in this city this is as in in any way, shape, or form told you the staff we want those controls reacted r relaxed first of all, noticing i

found out a couple of weeks before i doesn't get good enough notice if i had i would have turned out my neighborhood we didn't want the store so making the noticeing worse is not not program. on the 20 stores issue again we've never and we made the 11 stores deal that was a compromise to then is you're not quote/unquote compromising above that is an unacceptable session and the subsidys up to 20 store theirs crucial we need therefore to support supervisor mar's protective and noted put forward our staff legislation one reason

it's crucial not to allow subsidyries large subsidy subries are to out compete their competitors and to increase cut their prices that's crucial to the formula retail restrictions and now i want to get to what has turned me extremely troubled with staffs proposal now being opposed to it that's the non sever ability clause it 38 they threw in they know if and when this went through we're going to sue on little 20 stores and as soon as that goes out supervisor mar's proposal go out out good

instead of proposing tests taken the gauntlet and they've struck us across the face we can in the morning compromise on staffs legislation because of the accuse so i'm here in strong support of supervisor mar's legislation >> i'm a board member of the arab association as well as a third-generation owner and operate of ted's market and deli since 1967. i'm glad we have this consolidation with the proposal, however, i feel that existing formula retail controls have not been strong enough if insuring the family opposed businesses in san francisco the cvs store a

threat my family uses a product not sold to that we've been with that distributor and they told you were not buying enough from them and the salesperson who sells to the walgreens and to us told us we get more delivered to our store than walgreens there's a lot of things having to the walgreens and the relationship and the impact on corner stores. so supervisor mar's legislation highlighted another protection for the small groceries one the formula retail on a neighborhood business and two an connective

impact report that helps to address the issues of downtown groceries around the pam street areas and middle market proposal. so we're in favor of the alleged notices prior to the formula retail project and staff recommendations prior to a planning commission meeting in which the project will be discussed i said be there's a fine line in regulating urban but maintaining the district into the city but good forget about the single-family opposed businesses the definition of small businesses has a definition but i sympathyize are

the arab groceries there has to be a distinction between what is a small business i speak on behalf of the small businesses they don't have the ability to capitalized to my more than one business we say still have families we give credit to and we start our pay is far beyond minimum wage so thank you >> (calling names). >> i think i so-called your name and good evening katherine north beach association first, i want to say out outrage for the planning department to through this clause into the decision

its it clearly not the spirit of working together to work things out just closing the door. as someone in north beach we have to say we've benefited from the limitation and we don't actually have no changes in our neighborhood and stealing successful designation we're in no way seeing the ccii process should be abandon it's been successful and 75 percent of the cruz that come in front of you are approved we depends on why we need to raise the threshold to 11. in our neighborhood i know phil is a lovely company but we have a lot of coffee shops to allow that opening of that many more

to be allowed into the neighborhood without guatemala input from the neighborhood we're taking away from want communities if it's a popular group that has a chain store and fulfills a need they're going to be approved it may take time it's more important to honor the community. and what the community wants and we need that input. so we urge you to support supervisor mar's legislation and we're supportive of doing more work on subsidyries and we urge you not to honor that blackmail from the mr. vice president they're saying unless its well presented it's going away. thank you.

>> good evening, commissioners and director. name dan i speak on behalf of the neighborhood association the message today is largely we support the changes to formula retail controls but the increased formula retail threshold from 11 to stores we support the change to include the personal and professional services to include entitled location and to implement a performance design review process that more closely recollects the signage and pedestrian assess we propose a change to remove the requirements for operator opening up under the cu and to

increase the threshold. the current process is working it allows for community careful inputs for the neighborhood capability and it is changes the one-on-one replacement made by important community feedback and lacks knowledge we've spoken to merchant the changes proposed don't come at the request of san francisco neighborhoods. in fact, in the castro neighborhood the vacancy is 8 percent twice as high as the city average the neighborhood associations are not asking so far the chunk eave cracked with a chain store that will help with the retention of existing desirable local businesses. we would like to keep the

neighborhood conversation the desirability of companies wieboblast blue bottle with $25 million of investment funding. this is overall the intention of the proposition g we believe that the climate is unique to each neighborhood in the castro neighborhood they voted unanimously 7 to zero for to the concentration guidelines in effect in our neighborhood we are willing to wait for the study. and we feel strongly the legislation controls the time to stand up with our folks is now we encourage the participation signatures ours in the working group. it's not a simple topic i

commend our fonts and fewer consideration is appreciate but we ask you support both pyritic's legislation and continue the dialog >> next speaker please one more card. >> good evening, commissioners and director ram i'm henry on the district association we did not make a decision on when a which way to work what makes a small business successful. if i open up a place whatever it is and it's public i have this successful model and go to another part of town i'm going to open occupy u up optional where it's going to be successful people that are successful know how to do that

once you have a phillips coffee those folks are local people but thank you they provide work and they provide health care, they reinvest into the community they do that and you look at buy right of they moved into a blighted area and now you go out there and they have crowds lined up if i were to open up 12 to 13 stoez they've employed people in our community. that's what makes bar life successful and the coffee stores successful all those local companies those are not big giant we need to support. formula retail yes i'm not crazy about them but sometimes when you have a big place 20 thousand

square feet who's going to move bro in there only walgreens were with let me tell you people in south beach the manager is a member of the south beach association and active and bank of america i know others that is where people meet. i fully support small business and it's what makes our city wonderful if we're successful here we're not saying when our 11 move to oakland we 23450ed to address do i think that 20 is a great number i'm not saying that but 11 is a bit on the low side we were first began that was

another store but time has changed. thank you. >> hello dear commissioners i'm ellen with the urban solutions our nonprofit has an, an active supporter we generally in support of this proposed legislation proposed by staff we understand is fairly ballads between controls against formula retail including some of the designer limits that's very much needed and just as henry express that is increasing the magic numberful from 11 to 189 is

keeping the bar low as far as the national or the original chain stores like starbucks overlarge retail stores. i'd like to recommend, however, from the commissioners is to take a little more study before establishing a permanent use controls on market street between 12 and 6th street we certainly look at the solutions we want to see the local small businesses thrive in that part of the city but in addition, we see it should be nuancesed they're very, very challenging from 5 to 8th street and formula retail could create a point that will benefit the local small

businesses in the website those can be prefer able to 3w4r50ig9d part of city particularly the most challenging blocks in market street. i want to point out the pharmacy at the corner of 7th and market there's a lot of crime going on in this location in addition to providing a pharmacy. last but not least where some of the buildings have been rehabbed in that area in the pipeline between 5 and 8th street will not be delivered until 2018 or latter perhaps we should have that occur in a few years toward

a vibrant retail area thank you very much. >> acting chair commissioner fong jude as was mentioned we passed the resolution too days ago you're going you to cap the number of i'm sorry to adapt the counter cap at 11 to dacht the formula retail businesses and not put it up to 20 ms. johnson congratulations on your appoint

you said earlier i did a fun run on sunday you can prison say good-bye to that and want to thank the formula retail staff. this was made possible by the modification will process of the planning department sf planning.org slash sign up i encourage everybody to sign up for notifications it works well, for the neighborhood notifications that didn't work at all. i attended the focus group as probably the only representative among the merchant that was well

attended by the two leaders burns and rogers did a good job of leading this group. some of my own constituents and hate ashbury improvement association had issues with this particular protective i think with capping the number of businesses of locations at 11 we can all concerns will be addressed. so thank you very much. and come on, sir. >> i'm sam hayes it's nice to see you again, i'm the vice

president of the telegraph hill dwellers board i'm here on behalf of the ph d to express our support of supervisor mar's proposed legislation. ems ta c has been a strong supporter of formula retail in the city and we still are, however, we're opposed to weakening the protection staff is trying hard to improve the formula retail process we are appreciate public utilities nice forest but ta c is worried about about increasing the threshold from 11 to 20 on balance has to weaken formula retail protections especially in neighborhoods where chain stores have prohibited will i like

north beach we believe that supervisor mar's proposal strengthens rather than weakens the formula retail that have been successful in the city we strongly support his proposal and hope i do too >> thank you. >> good evening, commissioners i'm the president of the muslim american program in self-and berkley. overwhelm here to say i love sandwiches particularly the local sandwiches her family makes local good sandwiches the

bread comes from a local bakery and you understand that people that work are from the community and people are vifrltd in those areas they go to the churches and their children to the schools and fund their nonprofits and make wonderful sandwiches. when i looked at the omission this is in house bakeries that make cheap bread and buy large produce cheap produce and they're not invested in those communities because their ceo's and their presidents don't live in the community their novelist invested in the churches and place reason them. the free market exultant is good but unless it's regulated as commissioners and people of

authority it's important i support those local businesses and help them they're the ones is support their local economies and institutions >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is susan i'm with the independent pet store in the city. and i support supervisor eric mar's one hundred percent first of all, 12 to 20 please keep it at 11 i hearing hear about the cost and time it's expensive for small businesses to go through the process but there's one thing no one has talked about the independent business that

has to fight those subsidize and changes coming in our cost and time we don't have the resources we can't find out things the expense is incredible we're having the employees work so we can run around and do our job to not have the chances move in the other thing as far as the slippery slope was mentioned to control the subsidize and the only slippery slope is for independent businesses that don't have the large corporations to support them. and the other thing that wasn't mentioned about is the internet and and it's effecting small businesses i know this is off the beaten path but just like a

chain moving in a huge, huge problem with small businesses. so to have somebody come in and get all the information about a certain product and go ahead and post it on the internet that's what a lot of small businesses are running into and also i was surprised at the last caveat with the planning department and i think it's outrageous and inappropriate. if that happens with all the tax dollars and all the money that went into f this you should be ashamed of yourselves that's it >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good evening. i'm paul worm eerie must say in my youth

i've shut down bars that's more fun than shutting down a planning department meeting i want to talk about the sub sisters which is one i raised many years ago when i observed things on fillmore they come in all levels the press points and the only way attire companies to grow it's hard to put in a new starbucks without can only implying the other ounces bus it's okay to put in a revolutionary store it's a suby has starbucks done anything though the not a chance if you look at nairz guarantee that was a cosmetics line you could buy

that in department stores and it doesn't mean it's owned by one of the large luxury houses. that's across the line and to say that those are not formula retail when, in fact, those are new openings of combiblts that that demonstrated their primer business is formula retail to ignore the very real realtime they're not going to open it in that name but many, many look alike stores we need to look at those who sneak that when, in fact, the entire evidence based

on the corporate they're going to be a chain and the presumption of the chains rather than than the proprietorship. is there any additional public comment oak seeing none, public comment is closed. public comment is closed. i want to thank the staff for their hard work it sound our skuven work there's been a lot of work from supervisor mar's office but the remaining issues we'll be discussing tonight >> commissioner antonini. >> thank you all for your comments. a few reflections and number of speakers brought up the fact they have trouble with competition