amy bynard here to speak on the legislation before you. i was going to say almost exactly what you just said. and in the interest -- you said is so well. i'm not sure i should go through that once more. so, i would just like to reemphasize, i guess, is part of that that what this does is adds 12 new named n.c.d.s to the existing 30 named neighborhood commercial districts and neighborhood commercial transit districts in the city each of which are very distinctive and neighborhoods in different ways and that along with the ability then to move forward and find ways to support our neighborhood commercial districts through very specific controls, none of which are changing in this legislation, just to be very clear, it does not change any of the underlying controls. we know in findings ways to encourage property owners to keep the storefront occupied is essential and so we wanted to make sure that in having a measure on the ballot that would allow for the city to use a tax strategy, that we knew that residents would be assuming that other neig

amy bynard here to speak on the legislation before you. i was going to say almost exactly what you just said. and in the interest -- you said is so well. i'm not sure i should go through that once more. so, i would just like to reemphasize, i guess, is part of that that what this does is adds 12 new named n.c.d.s to the existing 30 named neighborhood commercial districts and neighborhood commercial transit districts in the city each of which are very distinctive and neighborhoods in different ways and that along with the ability then to move forward and find ways to support our neighborhood commercial districts through very specific controls, none of which are changing in this legislation, just to be very clear, it does not change any of the underlying controls. we know in findings ways to encourage property owners to keep the storefront occupied is essential and so we wanted to make sure that in having a measure on the ballot that would allow for the city to use a tax strategy, that we knew that residents would be assuming that other neig

amy bynard here to speak on the legislation before you. i was going to say almost exactly what you just said. and in the interest -- you said is so well. i'm not sure i should go through that once more. so, i would just like to reemphasize, i guess, is part of that that what this does is adds 12 new named n.c.d.s to the existing 30 named neighborhood commercial districts and neighborhood commercial transit districts in the city each of which are very distinctive and neighborhoods in different ways and that along with the ability then to move forward and find ways to support our neighborhood commercial districts through very specific controls, none of which are changing in this legislation, just to be very clear, it does not change any of the underlying controls. we know in findings ways to encourage property owners to keep the storefront occupied is essential and so we wanted to make sure that in having a measure on the ballot that would allow for the city to use a tax strategy, that we knew that residents would be assuming that other neig

amy bynard here to speak on the legislation before you. i was going to say almost exactly what you just said. and in the interest -- you said is so well. i'm not sure i should go through that once more. so, i would just like to reemphasize, i guess, is part of that that what this does is adds 12 new named n.c.d.s to the existing 30 named neighborhood commercial districts and neighborhood commercial transit districts in the city each of which are very distinctive and neighborhoods in different ways and that along with the ability then to move forward and find ways to support our neighborhood commercial districts through very specific controls, none of which are changing in this legislation, just to be very clear, it does not change any of the underlying controls. we know in findings ways to encourage property owners to keep the storefront occupied is essential and so we wanted to make sure that in having a measure on the ballot that would allow for the city to use a tax strategy, that we knew that residents would be assuming that other neig

amy bynard here to speak on the legislation before you. i was going to say almost exactly what you just said. and in the interest -- you said is so well. i'm not sure i should go through that once more. so, i would just like to reemphasize, i guess, is part of that that what this does is adds 12 new named n.c.d.s to the existing 30 named neighborhood commercial districts and neighborhood commercial transit districts in the city each of which are very distinctive and neighborhoods in different ways and that along with the ability then to move forward and find ways to support our neighborhood commercial districts through very specific controls, none of which are changing in this legislation, just to be very clear, it does not change any of the underlying controls. we know in findings ways to encourage property owners to keep the storefront occupied is essential and so we wanted to make sure that in having a measure on the ballot that would allow for the city to use a tax strategy, that we knew that residents would be assuming that other neig