the proposed expansion will eliminate the vacantcy and furthermore it will not increase the number of formula retail use or lock or stores in the area, it preserves the resource and consistent with the plan as well as other plan objectives they are informed that the community out reach is conducted today due to the last minute inquiries into the project from the polk neighbor association. and the project sponsor is prepare to speak on that and we also have an aid from the supervisor chiu's office will be making a statement after staff presentation. and no additional comments have been submitted to the department following the publication of the packets. the staff would like to recommend that condition number four, addressing the older controlled unit to be clarified as follows, in order to insure that any, odors to keep from escaping, they shall include air cleaning or odor control equipment and details and manufacturer specifications on the plans if applicable. odor control, shall not be applied to the facade of the building. >> project sponsor, please? >> supervisor, representative?

and we certainly want to look at economic impacts, and issues that we are considering include vacantcy rates and retail rents, and the availability of goods and services to meet the daily needs and the provision of quality jobs for residents and we also would like to reconsider the geographic boundaries. two proposals will extend the formula retail controls beyond the nc district and two pending proposals but i realized that there is one set of in terms controls that may have already been effective and that is in the mid market area from fifth to van ness, i believe. and it would extend them beyond the nc district and into more industrial pdr districts and the city's downtown c3 district and we are hopeful that it will provide data to extend the districts where formula retail controls apply. >> and on july 25th, the planning commission passed resolution, 18931, recommending to the board of supervisors that the issue of formula retail be studied further and to that end, the planning department is partnering with the office of economic workforce development to over sue a prepared study t

if this space opens up again it will lower our vacantcy rate to 4 percent which has a significant impact on the neighborhood and the vibrantcy of the neighborhood and you can read these statistics in the next newsletter, thank you. >> is there any additional public comment? >> okay, public comment is closed. commissioner moore? >> i have a question for you, during 813 which will show the current configuration of the restaurant ready for opening still indicates four tables outdoors. and i understand that there might be a carry over from the previous life as a patio restaurant but there are apparently, and there are four tables,; is that correct?? >> at the bottom right-hand corner of the diagram is that what you are looking at? >> it is... >> yes. >> so they are actually just on the far top right corner. >> got you. >> you see? >> i see that right now. >> if those exhibit and i am not quite sure why because they would add very long for asserting them they will fall under the same restrictions of the roof closing at night and i would like that to be properly expressed at this moment i do n

i mean i understand that there are at least 17 vacantcy on lumbard and i have heard as many as 24 for supervisor ferrill's ofce and so you know if there are that many vacantcies do we want to create a storefront that can go vacant, we may want to, instead allow a couple of more parking places and you know, not allow them to not have the storefront there that are often hard to fill. >> we have walked the street, what you find is a lot of sites where you have very little commercial ground floor retail space and the nc3 district is supposed to be a ground floor commercial retail linear street where that is a prominent factor in the street scape and with all of the hotels and motels mostly, along that, retail frontage is very, very disruptive and so it really does not act like a nc3 district. and so there is that consider that we acually to promote these ground floor retail spaces and that is why the code is written as it is for the requirement of this ground and this active retail frontage. >> and i can understand that to try to compare lumbard to chest nut and union they are entirely di

how does the presence of a formula retail impact rents vacantcy rates and positively and negatively and how does it impact the small businesses and the other question that we are hoping to answer is to what degree does the existence of the cu process serve as a barrier to entry itself? how much do people fear the cu process? >> i am sure that some formula retail activates corridors that are good. is there any data, currently in regards to that? >> in our very short time line we had to produce our report and we have found that there have been some studies produced that include san francisco, data, and those tend to be a little bit one sided and we are looking for a broader picture and we have very little hard data to use to analyze to develop, a policy and that is really why we sort of felt a lack in the information and so we needed to commission a study. >> okay, thanks. >> commissioner dooley? >> i know that i think that you guys are kind of using it as your starting point for 2007 retail formula retail study. >> are you going to kind of basically update what was in that? >> we certain

actually know that we have at least one advisory committee appointed by board members with a lot of vacantcy and it will by the time that all of people who are chosen today are notified there will not be a quorum and there will be fewer members than constitutes the quorum and so we asked the staff to help us to provide us with the names of people, and that might be interested or places that we might go to look for appointee and actually, it will be good if the staff were told, in those departments that we are looking for appointtees so they can help us with their knowledge and experience. >> and as, and in specifically the bilingual council and so anybody who is listening and wants to be appointed we are looking for people. always for all of our committees. but in particular we would like appointment for that. >> okay, yes, dr. murase. >> i wanted to announce that on september 9th, the curriculum and program committee will be meeting, we are going to go through the standing item moving forward on the waiver and just an update at the committee. and we will be talking about human trafficking a

resilient district and the report indicates that we have a rebounding development and declining vacantcy rates and increasing rents and stabilizing employment, and growing tax revenue and usage fee and stable mode share and we have a few lingering effects in terms of the slow down and development where we have not had any approved long term parking spaces or public art, in that redevelopment last year, the report that you have front of you has a summary page that has detailed numbers around these summary parameters and i would like to take you through and highlight a couple of those right now. you know that downtown has 72 million of office space and that is 64 percent and it has 9.7 million and which is 16 percent of the retail and it has about 20,000 hotel rooms which is about 60 percent of the hotels city wide. and in terms of residential, there are about 16,000 units located in the c3 district and that is about 4 percent of the city wide total. in terms of upcoming development in the pipeline, you can see that we have about three quauters of a million square feet of office space slat

control, i have had the privilege of last two days, walking down lumbard street and they are not 24 vacantcies. and i have done this study and i was not finished because i did not put it in the packet and look in your e-mails as soon as i finish it tomorrow block by block there is a lot of rentals that have happened in the last three months and some things that look vacant aren't like the old blue bore location so you know. >> and i think we will just do it block by block and take pictures and show you what is there and that is the most honest fair way of doing it. >> okay? >> to tell you the truth, i am tired of hearing conflicting things all the way around. and for me to have to walk the street a fourth time with witnesses. and i am not very happy. and 14 blocks on a hurt leg does not help me. bye bye, have a nice evening. >> thank you. >> any additional public comment? >> closing this meeting in memory of alice kay. thank you. please rise for the of allegiance. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> president i'd like

highway that has more than 20 vacantcies. we can provide parking and we hope that it will anchor and attract businesses to lombard street, it provides a great space for pet adoptions inside and out. and if approved, we also plan to open up a permanent cat adoption center in the store in partnership with the pets unlimited who we have worked with for many years. we have 6 adoptions centers in all of the stores. this year alone we will adopt 2,000 animals. the self-service animal clean service is the only one in the area. it will provide, 14 new jobs and grow from there. and i also have a poe pea petition signed by san franciscans in support of it at this location. over there. and i want to address the issue of big verses small. in our 33-year history we have never put a small independent pet retailer out of business, in fact, the pet food express is still independent as well. i run it with my business parter mark and we have no outside investors and never have had them and no investment banks making our decisions we are no lon

we don't have vacantcies for more than a week and you know, but i am saying that that is just that neighborhood and it does not always have to be that we are heavily visited we have a represent reputation and the haze valley folks feel like they are in the guides now because everything is san francisco or and so i do think that there is that side of the issue, the same thing with say athleta. they may be a one off store but they are not like a brand new person they are someone who has a major corporate person behind them, and i don't think that they have to be banned but i think that they need to be acknowledged as being formula retail. >> thank you. >> commissioner? >> director? >> i guess, commissioners i just have a couple of questions for you. so, a couple of things, that i know that i have heard from the commissioner in the past, is the formula retail that is evolving. and so let's say, like with walgreens, it is adding food, and so just question is there anything that would you like to see anything in this economic analysis and any kind of trending? and trending in terms of you know, form