. >> good afternoon, good evening commissioners, sophie, hayward thank you for having me here. early they are summer president fong requested that the planning staff make a presentation to the planning commission about the current state of formula retail controls in san francisco. that request was timely, given that at that point, i believe that there were seven proposals and now, it may be closer to ten or eleven proposals. that have been recently enacted or are bending at the board of supervisors related to formula retail, those changes and proposals that are floating around right now could be characterized in two ways, one is the changes to the structure of the formula retail, definition, and implementation in the planning code and then the second category are changes to the geologify. and typically the formula retail controls have been applied in neighborhood commercial district and proposals to extend those controls to c3 and pdr districts as well in certain circumstances. because of the number of proposals in the projects currently under consideration, the planning depart

sophie hayward from the department. >> good afternoon chair wiener and members of the committee. planning staff. i will note that the planning commission considering the amendments last week thursday at the regularly scheduled hearing. they passed the resolution in support of the proposal and the vote was 6-0. the commission did as you noted make a association of proposed modifications and those were intended to clarify implementation for planning. the overall proposal was supported by the commission and i am available for questions if you have any. >> thank you ms. hayward. seeing no questions we will open it up to public comment. is there any public comment on item number three? yes please come forward. >> i am not seeing resistance on this, just to support it. i am herman [inaudible] and own the elixir and owned the property for 10 years and the property and a commercial condominium and i own both of those so i have not been able to expand my bar to complete. meanwhile this law allowed all the new restaurants to open in the mission with full liquor licenses and have cocktail b

sophie hayward planning staff. i don't have much to add to the discussion due to the fact they're interim controls we didn't have time to present this to the commission but we will include them in the presentation next week which will address formula retail as an issue across the city including the mid-market area so we will produce the controls with your amendments to the planning commission next week and the department is generally supportive of the controls. thank you. >> thank you ms. haywood and i also want to state that through discussions with several of our property owners we want to make sure that this legislation impacts business that are fronting market street, and so we just wanted to make that clear as well. >> thank you president chiu. >> that was the national question i had. >> >> initial question i had and the language says that the if any services, the french financial services, restaurants, limited restaurants and pharmacies and egress and aggress market street. is that for the five categories or

hayward from the planning department. >> thank you chairman wiener and supervisors. sophie from the planning department. i want to reiterate and we looked at the ordinance and passed the resolution in support of the proposal. the planning commission considered the item last thursday, july 18, and did make a motion to approve supervisor kim's proposed legislation but that motion failed. they did want me however to convey to you the votes and that is commissioners moore, sugaya and [inaudible] approved the legislation and an tiny and fong voted no on the legislation and they need a majority so they need four votes to pass the resolution and without that the commission wanted to convey how the failed votes were divided to this body. thank you. >> thank you ms. hayward. we will now open the floor for public comment. if you want to make public comment please come forward. mr. brooks. >> good afternoon one last time. eric brooks representing san francisco green party local grass-roots organization "our city" and as coordinator for the ceqa improvement team and make sure and i think we reached an agreement and