leaders was held on may 31 and they presented to him the plan that they are starting to work on stephen cornell has presented one of the items to you a couple meetings back. we will provide more information on that. one of the topics is the by local and there is by local work happening. i'm not participating in that but our representation is through president dwight who's been participating in those meetings. a couple other notes, i think, in terms of wanting to highlight that come up in relation to the formula regional meeting we did here is that the commission did hear about affordable housing bonus program we did have some discussions about space in new development. so, perhaps that's kind of a continued discussion. that we might one have with the planning department that something you're interested in, but we will be revisiting those incentives to work originally talked about this new development. then, lastly, i also want to maybe just remind commissioners that perhaps some of the vacancies that were noted on polk street produce a soft story orders. things are covered in carver and there m

stephen cornell. i just want to point out that proposition 13 was passed. a lot of us think it might be a bad thing, but it was passed. that's the will of the voters it was real specific. you need two thirds vote to pass a tax. this is a way to get around that a little bit. i think, in the spirit of the law, that something we should be thinking about. i didn't i lived here all my life. i can remember unfortunately when it was 3% sales tax. remember, it's a percentage. it's not $100. it's a percentage and every so many years ago is up and up and up taking more bigger piece of the pie. sometimes we might have to live within our means. thank you. >> any other comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, any other follow-up? well, we can take action or not. i think even this is the first that we've heard of this, great, thank you very much. appreciate you informing us those numbers who showed up today. so, if we want to discuss this further awaiting with the meeting we can agenda. >> pe

stephen cornell. i just want to point out that proposition 13 was passed. a lot of us think it might be a bad thing, but it was passed. that's the will of the voters it was real specific. you need two thirds vote to pass a tax. this is a way to get around that a little bit. i think, in the spirit of the law, that something we should be thinking about. i didn't i lived here all my life. i can remember unfortunately when it was 3% sales tax. remember, it's a percentage. it's not $100. it's a percentage and every so many years ago is up and up and up taking more bigger piece of the pie. sometimes we might have to live within our means. thank you. >> any other comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, any other follow-up? well, we can take action or not. i think even this is the first that we've heard of this, great, thank you very much. appreciate you informing us those numbers who showed up today. so, if we want to discuss this further awaiting with the meeting we can agenda. >> pe

leaders was held on may 31 and they presented to him the plan that they are starting to work on stephen cornell has presented one of the items to you a couple meetings back. we will provide more information on that. one of the topics is the by local and there is by local work happening. i'm not participating in that but our representation is through president dwight who's been participating in those meetings. a couple other notes, i think, in terms of wanting to highlight that come up in relation to the formula regional meeting we did here is that the commission did hear about affordable housing bonus program we did have some discussions about space in new development. so, perhaps that's kind of a continued discussion. that we might one have with the planning department that something you're interested in, but we will be revisiting those incentives to work originally talked about this new development. then, lastly, i also want to maybe just remind commissioners that perhaps some of the vacancies that were noted on polk street produce a soft story orders. things are covered in carver and there m

. >> stephen cornell. i just want to point out that proposition 13 was passed. a lot of us think it might be a bad thing, but it was passed. that's the will of the voters it was real specific. you need two thirds vote to pass a tax. this is a way to get around that a little bit. i think, in the spirit of the law, that something we should be thinking about. i didn't i lived here all my life. i can remember unfortunately when it was 3% sales tax. remember, it's a percentage. it's not $100. it's a percentage and every so many years ago is up and up and up taking more bigger piece of the pie. sometimes we might have to live within our means. thank you. >> any other comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, any other follow-up? well, we can take action or not. i think even this is the first that we've heard of this, great, thank you very much. appreciate you informing us those numbers who showed up today. so, if we want to discuss this further awaiting with the meeting we can agenda. >> perhaps we should get the timeline of when you could provid

stephen cornell. first thing i want to say i heard earlier of 11 boundaries was sold to ace hardware. bonnie's whistles will link a local person who lives in the excelsior in san francisco for the last 25 years. i stop a little piece of this. it is not a chain store. it's owned by an individual. i'm here to represent the polk merchants tonight. polk district merchants have asked for this. the council district merchant have agreed with dos and their have asked for this. except for one, every single neighborhood association is in favor of this. the coalition of san francisco neighborhoods is in favor of this. it is quite overwhelming who wants this. you've heard a lot of speakers from one district next to-which was the whole foods argument, but everybody else wants this as a group. they vote on it. at the planning commission, the planning department came out and said, there's 7% formula retail in this district. that 7% is a little on the low side. maybe 10% would be a little bit on the high side. i obje

stephen cornell. first thing i want to say i heard earlier of 11 boundaries was sold to ace hardware. bonnie's whistles will link a local person who lives in the excelsior in san francisco for the last 25 years. i stop a little piece of this. it is not a chain store. it's owned by an individual. i'm here to represent the polk merchants tonight. polk district merchants have asked for this. the council district merchant have agreed with dos and their have asked for this. except for one, every single neighborhood association is in favor of this. the coalition of san francisco neighborhoods is in favor of this. it is quite overwhelming who wants this. you've heard a lot of speakers from one district next to-which was the whole foods argument, but everybody else wants this as a group. they vote on it. at the planning commission, the planning department came out and said, there's 7% formula retail in this district. that 7% is a little on the low side. maybe 10% would be a little bit on the high side. i obje