@p >> this is the regular meeting of san francisco small business commission it is monday, july 13, 2015, and the time is 531 meeting is toifd in a small business commission thanks 2 to 3 the media services and the

sfgovtv staff for toifg today's meeting members of the public silence our phone and didn't see and use of cell phones and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. completion of a speaker card while optional will help to insure the spelling of the names please deliver the speaker cards to me and additionally a sign in shoot for the people to be added to the mailing list. >> all right. call to order. >> roll call. >> commissioner adams commissioner dooley commissioner dwight commissioner ortiz-cartagena

commissioner tour-sarkissian commissioner white and commissioner yee-riley mr. vice president we have quorum shall we move on. >> let's move on general public comment at this time, members of the public may address the commission jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when do we have any must be of the public that wants to comment on anything noted on the agenda seeing none item 2 is closed item 3. >> item 3 is approval of the june 22nd regular meeting minutes. >> i move to approve. >> second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> all right. item 4 >> item 4 is discussion and possible action to make the recommendations to the board of supervisors on the b o s file

planning code and zoning map rerezoning the properties on ocean avenue this is to rezone the properties facing ocean avenue between tfa listen and half street between rh1 district to the ocean avenue transit district and to include them in the existing ocean avenue we have a presentation tonight by the gentleman legislative aide to supervisor yee. >> well. >> thank you, commissioners for hearing (inaudible) special presentation (inaudible) in the neighborhood (inaudible) ocean avenue (inaudible)

rh2 and (inaudible) law the properties facing the ability to transform their garages or combrrz into retail space to expand storefronts and businesses along ocean avenue around the balboa park station it is between the balboa that has the support of the local cv d the local association and the unanimous planning commission and supervisor avalos that represents a couple of those properties that we are intending to rezone basically allows the flexibility for those property owners to develop ground floor retailer we hope this could be small businesses that are particularly

positions between balboa park and city college and exciting to see a creative way to see the garages and the ground floor spaces. >> okay. >> has there been any public opposition. >> no. >> commissioners. >> commissioner adams. >> thank you very basically we the probability this in the castro or 18th street what was very much a success if not for this castro country collaborate i club as the downstairs space that helps a nonprofit out and several other of those embarrasses that are being unuses that are now turned into small businesses and does turn into small businesses this is a great idea singularly 72 hour

the avenues people coming up to city college and that this is a great idea. >> commissioner yee-riley. >> how many reports belong. >> i have a map actually, if it is helpful we'll get the overhead so it's the black yeah, like - i think that is 3 properties two between ocean and half and geneva and half and you know one property on the side of geneva. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> any other questions or comments. >> public comment. >> so seeing none is there any any public comment on this item?

yes. >> no? just movement in the gallery in public comment seeing none public comment is closed. commissioners a motion >> i'll motion to support this like i said i've seen this in other neighborhoods done very, very successfully sea increases the small business a chance store will not come into i like the good restaurants and retail stores out of it is working really well. >> i'll second. >> okay. >> all right. roll call vote. >> commissioner adams commissioner dooley commissioner white r commissioner dwight commissioner ortiz-cartagena commissioner yee-riley commissioner ortiz-cartagena and commissioner white all feather 7

to zero. >> item 5 and is discussion and possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on b o s file planning code allowing on existing restaurant or a bar to open a second bar with the conditional use authorization in the north beach special district this is an ordinance amending the planning code for an restaurant other than bar in the state and federal special district with the conditional use authorization provided that it meets certain criteria and this evening a presentation by commissioner burns legislative aide to supervisor christensen's. >> good afternoon commissioner president dwight i'm a legislative aide to jooishgz i'm happy to present the special district f u d restricts the

restaurants from occupying retail or service use not previously a restaurant or bar and restricts the spaces that were recently restaurants and bar the sud the neighborhood has been to fill you will f fulfill long term vacancies this allows an existing bar to open a second location with the approval from the following criteria are met the existing restaurant or bar has operated in the area for a year the second location opens must be ground floor and at least 5 thousand fiat square feet and vacant for 15 months at least 40 percent felt space must not be restaurant and the ground floor will be provided to provide a subsequent benefit to the neighborhood we found 22

elevated storefronts that are too large for retail and two small for a grocery store that allows moms restaurant to open a second location the sanchez family has deep routines in north beach vince sanchez as listened to the concerns and provides a model for a restaurant as well as providing a grocery store he's built areas for this and has letters of support the proposed location is a prominent location on the corner of vallejo and columbus creating impacts in the neighborhood that is past time to fill the vacant with the neighborhood we hope you will help us close the gap by supporting in legislation today if it's okay. i want to ask mr.

sanchez to provide some comments. >> thank you, commissioners i was going to ask i guess i get 3 minutes can i by chance get four and a half. >> we have public comment. >> part of the presentation so i said to mention as the project sponsor i came here on behalf of my brother michael that owns moms and in washington sandwich give you a little bit of background any mother and father and brother opened the business on that corner in 1951 and burn a community member and many of the families living in the area i was one of the 8 that grew up working in the restaurant and many momma's over the years we serve 6 hundred people a day

around the calendar year a next generation is skoup in part that is the impetus for having moved on to the project once this is brought to our attention in june of 2012 genesis of this project is commissioner yee-riley that braikt brought this to the attention attention of our family as a long term business in the area we'll be suited for the location she of the that like coming together with a restaurant that would take a portion of the space and a grocery that indeed with her help and the help of others in the neighborhood we might get modification in the zoning my brother reached out to me to come to check the feasibility of that project it took a very quick time to understand that this will work very well for our

family and i signed the lease contingent on getting city approval we have the baking the commissioners and the city and the city attorney's office and the directors of the planning department along with many of the neighborhood associations we feel that this synergy we'll bring with momma's restaurant and little momma's especially the grocery is unique to the area we'll offer the more towards organic towards grocery stores and a salad bar not not area and mow is right around the corner i grew up with those people we both have italian items that will compete i took the time to listen to the neighborhoods needs when i came up with this concept of momma's and little momma's you have a corner that is dark of the last

9 of the 11 years it didn't help the merchants open grant street bracing are supportive our local restaurant tours are supportive and most of them said are you going to do dinner they said if no. we're glad to have you it will hundred people to the area that will benefit the local merchants both restaurants and retail the biggest change and the reason this is been entry for so long in my opinion has been the emerge of the technology my reading allows me to use the corner as my office i watch amazon and google and safeway up and down the hills the small retailers briz

businesses are struggling and we have this luxuryy of mixing the units a restaurant and spelt market because of the ability to rotate the groceries through the volumes we can afford a little lost leader in this space you wouldn't other groceries who have the luxury to exist under so i think it is the right time and we're the right people for this the zoning agency it is in all of the studies that i have you put together will show that will remain entry the grocery industry didn't want it you have 36 thousand square feet supply hardware that opened up one $.3 million from the store you

don't need another one everything that you would want for that corner bringing more business to the area offering goods you don't get in other local areas makes sense for the neighborhood and i this is a project we're very excited about as a family to put forward that's why support of neighborhood both merchant and the people that live there and i ask for your support also in recommending this change in this cu and change in the amendment we're putting forward a narrow amendment didn't work for us it goes back to the original like the original zoning so with that i will leave it to any questions you have please feel free to ask thanks very much. >> thank you. any questions

commissioners? our residents expert no >> comments. >> any thank you very much is there any any public comment on this item? >> i do have several speaker cards first up is (calling names). >> then i have a few after that. >> oh, i see a written script i encourage everyone to write out their comments in advance your read into the record and the more you collect our thoughts in advance the more concise and to the point. >> i'm ethel fox a resident of san francisco for the last 50 years and a resident of north beach for the last 27 years i've been a patron of momma's i like the food very much and have famous with the neighborhood i patron in itself a lot of places

in the neighborhood in that a no-brainer 9 of the past 11 years there's a place that's been vacate you have a tenant it is popular in the neighborhood that will bring more people into the neighborhood and more importantly increase the tax revenue because of the business will be successful that's all i have to say it speaks for common sense for the people here thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next. >> following mr. lee is janet and sandy good evening, commissioners i don't have my notes with me i'll speak out but you know hello and you know i'm here today to support momma's restaurant i am a resident of san francisco for the last 65 years and i

spent 28 years of my life a block away from the location where momma's is hopefully going to be occupied and great for the neighborhood i'm also still a property owner down in that district i think this is good for everybody good for the tax basis and the people that are visitors coming to san francisco to come and visit momma's they are one of the highlights of the whole city i hope you all approve that thank you very much. >> thank you for coming out next. >> who explicit love momma, huh? >> greetings. i'm janet although i can't i've been living in san francisco for 50 years i've been here a decade and pga by the neighborhood in north beach i thought that was sad to see a

building go entry and find a business that is san francisco born and family run that is tdr in wanting to bring life to the neighborhood it is definitely a positive it will have a positive oracle for san francisco and i just wanted to hopefully cheer them on along the way it is someone that times to build a life and family it is important to fight for the right cause here so thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> good evening, commissioners my name is sandy sue a san francisco residents please help 34078 mass we need them and the community need them thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening. i'm stefanone and a pro bono basis because i

wanted to see this space occupied by someone that is loved in the community mom medias fits that mode we have in the future legacy preservation with icon independent businesses that make san francisco a unique experience the sanchez family has younger family members sgrooup will work in the second location what is going to happen you'll see an increase in the pedestrian traffic during the lunchtime's and hopefully, will spill over and people can apron news some of the retail shops that will have been there but a little generation of more people coming to the neighborhood we are expediting with all the

other parts of the neighborhoods throughout san francisco this is one of those things on the list that people come to san francisco and want a san francisco experience those eggs benefit dick and the crab benedict and people that eat at momma's and go back to wherever and tell them they had something unique in san francisco locals with their time precious don't like to wait an hour in line so it will be amazing to see it quickly and instead of having i am going to wait about an hour i hope this protective amendment will be a bridge we can cross to get to the project sponsor so that the planning department has voted 7 to zero they like the project so it has to go before the full board i hope our recommendation is there this

project has ground swelling support is it so time this place has been vacant for a long time it is overdue. >> thank you. >> today seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioners. >> commissioner dooley. >> i think that everyone will agree it is a good choice for this space any only thing to address part of the legislation if any by chance momma's decides to move or it closes which is the following that part of this legislation says that if they leave then another person can come in which is great but saying it could be a restaurant or a bar i frankly does not people in north beach wants to see a one thousand foot

bar i ask to strike bar a restaurant is allowed to have a bar as part of its it's allowed to have it as a full service bar i'll urge that and the other thing momma's has been in the neighborhood for 6 years, however, the legislation says that an existing restaurant it is in continuous operation for at least one year will be qualified for the same use of this special piece of legislation we all know that one year and the world of a restaurant is like one minute i'll recommend in honoring how it came about it was for a long time restaurant we increase that to a minimum of 5 years those are my only comments. >> okay. >> commissioner adams. >> i total support this

legislation hundred and 10 percent when my parents come to town they stay in washington square to go to mammoth like this thing and the thing is openly up a second location is great you do i waited 2 and a half hours to get into that plays if i can get them into a larger space like a speaker said locals time is precious if we can get it shorntd great. >> any other comments do we have a motion or suggests. >> i'd like to move we support this change in legislation with the two changes of that if momma's vacates and another group times to come in not a

stand alone bar the other thing to say that the other second location that restaurant will need to have been in business for at least 5 years not just one year. >> can we entertain comments from the supervisors office. >> commissioners, if a bash was to go into that space in momma's closed it needs a separate cu and subject to providing 40 percent of the space as a neighborhood use so never a 6 thousand square feet bar but seats. >> 36 - >> okay and . >> i see one year one year is like 5 minutes. >> definitely something we'll consider. >> yeah. that might be worthwhile. >> okay i will second. >> you want to read back the -

so i still want to strike bar from the - and we have such a huge amount of bars in north beach the ideas of a large bar is not something the neighborhoods needs i don't know see why it needs to be included. >> so i think you, you can make the - make the words more efficient strike bar and increase the length of time that a business is open from one year is that your recommendation two suggestions to supervisors office. >> okay and do we have a second. >> second. >> okay. >> roll call. >> commissioner adams commissioner dooley commissioner white p commissioner dwight commissioner ortiz-cartagena

commissioner yee-riley commissioner ortiz-cartagena and commissioner white and the motion passes 7 to zero. >> thanks all of you thanks for coming out to public comment we appreciate it thank you. >> item 6. >> item 6. >> item 6 is discussion and possible action on analysis of the state and local sick leave law for the enforcement and comment. >> we've been grappling with this one. >> commissioner for the last meeting we introduced and attempted to review some of the key differences between the both the state and local and the fang that at this particular at this point in time there isn't a dive

active direction from the office of labor and enforcement combines our office in complication with the city attorney first by and i went around and around to best combine those two things to present to the office of labor standards and enforcement to get some feedback on it was our - the commissioners city attorney that recommended that we submit something officially to the labor of enforcement to get a responded from so the decision was to really sort of take staffs stab at if we were in an h.r. director what would we be recommending to the company in terms of integratin