commissioner ortiz-cargagena: yes. >> commissioner yee riley? commissioner yee riley:. where he yes. >> that passes 7-0. president adams: great. >> commissioners we're going back to item number 5, discussion and possible action to make recommendations to board of supervisors onboard board file number 120083, planning code and zoning map, 9th street power retail special use district, 555 9th street. in your packets is your list of questions, some data for you, the legislative sponsor provided a list of square footage and then there is a description of the district, a map and picture just for any of you who need to become familiar with it. we have legislative digest and lastly we have the ordinance. supervisor kim's office was scheduled to present. they regret that they had a last-minute thing come up and they're unable to be here. if you would like to move forward, they did advise me that there is a representative of the property owner here. i don't know if you would like to begin with a presentation from them or if you would like to take that during public comment? pres

commissioner yee riley? >> mr. president, all commissioners are present and before we go to the next item would you like to make some comments? president adams: i want to welcome monetta white and william ortiz-cartagena. welcome to your first small business commission and welcome to the commission and this is exciting. we have some really good people with mark dwight now on the commission so i'm looking forward to working with each and every one of you so thank you very much. and i want to apologize to regina -- and i'll get to this. but regina and i were in a meeting just now dealing with small business impact for the new -- not new but payroll versus gross receipts tax that's being floated around. so thank you all for accommodating us and scheduling this meeting an hour late. that's it. >> all right. >> president? can we ask the new commissioners to tell us something about themselves. president adams: absolutely. thank you, commissioner riley. commissioner bhite: i'm owner of 1300 on selmore. we've been i

commissioner yee riley: can you review some of the discussions from businesses that happened outside and transport products and goods inside and around the difficulty of the city, capturing that payroll tax? i thought was an interesting discussion that we had, that if we moved to a gross receipts tax, that is what we would be able to do. >> i would be happy to, to the extent i can speak to it. any business doing business in san francisco has to pay our payroll tax. you do not have to have a physical office here to be responsible for our payroll tax. if you are making deliveries into the city, you owe us a payroll tax because you have a physical nexus that allows us to tax you. the issue of a physical nexis continues to apply in a gross receipts world. however, it is slightly different because if you have a physical nexus in sentences go -- in san francisco and are selling tangible property, you may be some -- apportioning more gross receipts into the city than you are payroll. let me give you an example of a retailer that delivers hardware across san mateo and san francisco counties

commissioner yee riley: great job, jordan. you gave us a lot of information. i have to go home and study it.k those specific time line here regard we have worked with stakeholders to identified 2012 priorities. i would say overall there is a five-year time horizon for this work. >> when is twitter moving in? commissioner o'brien: i would like to weigh in my appreciation of the endeavor. gooi have taken walks down ther, and it is not too pleasant, even in the middle of the afternoon, so anything that would better the airing it is great with me. i think the mayor is sincere about this, because we have learned in the past if we are able to do this in a way that does not involve massive displacement -- i know it is a tricky puzzle to put together, but i know it can be achieved, and it can be implemented with that in mind, people will remember what happens with too much gentrification and economic booms, and some people are still remembering about, so about would be a great part if we could keep that in place. gootracks we are working with a nonprofit organization