aaron starr from the planning department will provide an overview of its tools as well that relate to store fronts. we'll close with considerations and next steps. so, thank you very much. >> hi. good afternoon. as mentioned, i'm sarah graham. i'm with strategic economic for an urban economics consulting firm located in berkeley. and i'm going to be going over the findings from our forthcoming report of state of the retail sector, challenges and opportunities for san francisco's neighbourhood commercial districts. and you've no doubt seen the headlines of the current challenges that the retail second is to is facing and these concerns about how national retail trends can impact us here in san francisco were one of the motivating issues that -- that led to this study. so other motivating issues are about the specific challenges faced by local businesses and how businesses and n.c.d.s may need to adapt to remain competitive in the change retail environment. so to explore these issues, we have prepared a study that includes three issue briefs and a related executive summary. i think you

now to talk about the planning department, i want to invite up aaron starr from the planning department. >> good afternoon, supervisors, aaron starr, manager of legislative affairs for the planning department. i want to go over the tools that we have to help the planning corridors, and help shape more inviting commercial spaces and corridors. so the first tool is the individually named neighbor commercial districts. there are two typed of nc districts in the see. there's general neighbor commercial districts like nc-1, 2, and 3, they're individually named like noriega, and folsom. unlike individual named nc districts, region district presents its own challenges, and there's not one set of solutions for every district. next, vertical zoning controls are utilized more in the city's nc districts although they are used to a lesser extent in districts like the downtown shopping district and our residential commercial districts. this type of zoning control can be used to encourage more active commercial uses on the ground floor and less active uses on the second and nird floors, depending on

aaron starr, manager of legislative affairs. first on the land use agenda was the mayor's office voted to add the amendments to the ordinance which included the inclusionary from 18% to 23% and requiring four car-share spaces. because these amendments have not yet been drafted and are suck stan tiff amendments, the item had to be continued to one week to february 5. next on the agenda was supervisor p/esskin's ordinance to amend the inclusionary housing programme to bring a local programme into greater come baselines state law. also known as the palmer fix. this commission heard this item on january 11 of this year and voted unanimously to approve the amendment. at the land use hearing there was no public comment and no significant comments or questions from the committee members. the item was forwarded to the full board with the positive recommendation. at the full board this week, the definition of article eight correction ordinance and commercial street transit district ordinance all passed through second read. and that's all

aaron starr. the board did not meet this week but they did meet last week. in last week's land use committee hearing, first on the agenda was the gearey-masonic amendment. at the hearing, two people spoke in favour of the item after public comment. after that, they voted to forward the item to the full board with a positive recommendation. next on the agenda was supervisor peskin's ordinance that would amend the controls for restaurants and bar uses in the jackson square s.u.d. you heard this item on january 11 and voted 6-1 in support of the ordinance. at the land use committee meeting, supervisor peskin discussed the merits of the ordinance as they pertained to the existing conditions in jackson square. supervisor asafai proposed a capping on the number of drinking establishments. both safai and tang made mention that any eating and drinking restaurant looking to locate in jackson square, but confronted with the cap are welcome in their representive districts. supervisors voted unanimously to recommend the ordinance to the full board. next on the agenda wa