commissioner dooley >> i just have a question on noticing. do the notice goes to the building's owners or the businesses if they are not the same. >> that is a good question. >> generally we will pull from a data base so the notices will go to the property owners. and so in many cases we have staff that will go door-to-door and actually hand the notices and be there for questions, especially in the highly sensitive area or a place that may need special attention. >> i really like to encourage that. because often times there is just sort of a lack of interaction between the owner of the building and the businesses. there seems to be a big time lag. so, i urge you to do that out reach to the actual businesses. >> i want to do the best to make sure that they get that information. >> and encourage them to visit our website where we are posting updates as often as we can about the construction. >> commissioner rilely. >> i notice a lot of those small islands in the middle of the street with the plants coming out. what are those for? >> yeah, they

. >> dooley? >> yes. >> dwight? >> o'brien >> yes. >> white? >> yes. >> rilely, aye,. >> the motion passed 6-0. >> great, thank you. >> next item. next president would you like to call the next two items together? >> yes, i would call to item 8 and 9 together. >> commissioners, item eight, discussion of possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on board of supervisors file number 1 20796 planning cold establishing the divisadero street neighborhood commercial district. in your packet on the file number along with the digest. presentation by we have chris... on file 120814 planning code establishing the fillmore street neighborhood and commercial district and i well introduce supervisor lugy. >> welcome. and >> thank you. >> thank you for coming. >> thanks. >> yes, we had a meeting early on with a member of the public who was interested in opening a brew pub on divisadero. he came across this problem where the second-floor uses were not allowed that were commercial and he was interested in using the second floor of a fo

>> commissioner dooley. >> i wanted to know what your out reach plans were for the residents and the merchants. i assume that you will be doing a lot of out reach? >> trying to. >> so that is another thing, one, so originally, we just really wanted this to be a basic shell. what exists now but put it into the named ncd format and in the meantime go to the out reach to the different especially the merchant association to make sure that it is not going to be negative effect which is not the purpose of this and to go out to the neighborhood association and try to get a mixture of different meetings in the neighbors to address this and just recently we are going to work with commissioner white to hopefully identify ways to strategickly activate the engagement in the fillmore district. i should... i know that the supervisor mentioned this is lower fillmore, but it is actually called the fillmore ncd, not the lower fillmore, so i want to make that distinction. because there is an upper fillmore, but this is the fillmore. but we are hoping to try to start that process up. and this is like i

good commissioner julie, -- commissioner dooley, i will let you make note, and commissioner dooley willlaborate on that, and scott has been promoted to the commission on disability access, as a business representative, and i am very pleased, because scott is very knowledgeable about the situation and i think it will push the commission to start picking up the pace. they have a heavy work load in front of them. i did a tent -- attend one of the fairs. but it is interesting to know there are a least 10 different vendors, three of them right in san francisco, or very close to the bay area, so the car and foot print is not far in terms of getting this delivered, -- they carbon foot bridge is not far in terms of getting this delivered. there already have been clients in san francisco, businesses that have purchased from them, so they are working with the businesses to make this transition, so the next step is because the implementation date is october 1 does do what is going to be the consumer campaign -- as to what is going to be the consumer campaign, because businesses have a good idea of

. >> kathleen dooley a florist out of north beep. >> steve adams, managing director of sterling bank and trust in san francisco and i am also involved in a lot of neighborhood merchant organizations here in san francisco. >> and commissioner luke obrian founder of the real estate company called obrien investments as you can tell it is a chinese company. and very proud of it and also a member of the san francisco coalition for responsible growth which is a small business in san francisco. >> irene riley and a retired bank executives after 35 years and i have been working with small businesses through my tenure with the bank and i grew up in the small business environment. my family has been in small business for 30-something years. >> so, thank you, for taking the time to come and introduce yourself at the commission meeting and thanks so much. >> and you are certainly welcome to stay and watch the meeting. >> oh, yeah. >> you don't have to. >> really. >> next item. commissioners, item number three, presentation of a small business commission statistics of honor recognizing a city emp

when you read these books thomas dooley especially the campaign of 44. the campaign in 44 as well and that is one i'm working on and i'm finally getting into a nonfiction book that i've been meaning to read for some time about a friend of mine. he wrote a book called pinched and it was about, about the great recession and it is chronicling sort of how it's culturally changing is not just in the pocketbook but what kind of long-term changes taking place in many places around the country, talking about a white male underclass. is one of his in there, but it's a good way and i'm thinking about making it required reading frankly for a lot of my folks internally but every politician not to read this because it's really, it explains as well as anybody that chronic pessimism that's out there. we see it in all the polls but that is something, why is it we are so pessimistic about the future? we don't have a optimist many more. were stuck about the importance of optimism in a presidential candidate that but there is just a pall of pessimism. it's not necessarily

commissioner dooley: this is pretty much the same as supervisor mars? >> yes. >> it looks good to me. >> this has been part of market, some of the district's but are not part of a large and rezoning -- some of the districts that are not part of the large rezoning. good ultimately, i think it would be great for the planning department to take on a comprehensive look of the neighborhood commercial district to see where the height increase is appropriate, but for now it is left of to the discussion of the supervisor's office. >> any other questions, commissioner emm? commissioner riley: chris mentioned we have heard it at the committee meeting and recommended approval. taiex i am trying to remember -- >> i am trying to remember how we dealt with that. does it just result in the taking of so did, or does it result in potentially raising it? >> the entire building depends on the amount. the floors above do not become smaller, or they would become uninhabitable, because of tight controls -- because height controls for levels. the entire building can be pushed

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