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Include an anchor that drives foot traffic to the district, and an anchor could be a fullservice Grocery Store or another large retailer or it could be a cluster of smaller stores, related Retail Stores or restaurants; some sort of use thats a little cluster. Other businesses in a healthy mix include restaurants, nightlife and entertainment that compliment retail sales and provide gathering spaces for potential customers and potential services and Fitness Centers that provide needed services and...

So what all this means, diversifying the mixes in an ncd so that retailers can support their customer base, is it should include a range of storefront sizes, and storefronts should be designed to adaptablity, and be able to serve a wide set of uses. It also means that the office uses that that are not open to the general public could be located off the ground floor or on the periphery of an ncd. Limiting ground floor retail requirements for new development to the strongest locations for retail c...

Storefronts are vai cants or abandoned. A number we thought would be relatively easy to get. But it was not in a number of reports and measures made by both city agencies and, of course, private sector real estate companies. But none of them capture the totality of all commercial buildings and storefronts and their vacancy rates. We can get certainly a lot of information about downtown commercial properties and their van can si rates and we can get commercial spaces throughout the city that are ...

For way toss appeal to this increased emphasis on experience by doing things like Holding Classes and events or serving food and drinks in a retail location. And on the slides here, we have a couple of examples of this in San Francisco the retailers. On the left is a store called byrd and beckett with a music event. It is a record and bookstore. And on the right is san francycle with another event where people are encourage to come from the event, but these types of veterans draw in shoppers and...

Questions you might have. Thank you. Thank you very much for that overview. I know that our office work add lot on the registry issue. Given that a law was passed but we also noticed that it wasnt really updated as well. And i think as we go on into our other presentations, one of my observations now is that even if we were to have this wonderfully filled database of all the vacancis that that still might not address the issues that were dealing with in terms of the changing nature of retail. I ...

[gavel] good morning. Good morning ladies and gentlemen, i would like to welcome you to the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. I am supervisor malia cohen, chairperson of this committee. To my right is the vice chair supervisor norman yee and to his right is supervisor tangand i would like to thank our friends up at sfgtv that are assisting us in broadcasting this meeting. Mme. Clerk, do you have any announcements . I think we have Catherine Mcguire from sfpd. Mme. Chair would ...

This meeting. Mme. Clerk, do you have any announcements . I think we have Catherine Mcguire from sfpd. Mme. Chair would you like me to call item number one. Yes yescall item number one. [calling item 1] ms. Mcguire welcome the floor is yours. Good morning Catherine Mcguire with sf pd. I do not have a formal presentation but this is item to one your agenda and this is that we have received or been offered a donation of a large amount of furniture and we would like to receive it. We have an immens...

Cases and this would be an inexpensive opportunity to do that. Great, thank you. All right lets go ahead and are there any questions . S is a pretty straight forward matter theres no legislative analyst to speak up so we will go ahead and open Public Comment. So i open Public Comment, does anyone from the public have a comment on this item . I do not see any so i will close Public Comment [gavel] mme. City clerk can you please call item number two. [calling item number two] ms. Mcguire did you w...

This meeting. Mme. Clerk, do you have any announcements . I think we have Catherine Mcguire from sfpd. Mme. Chair would you like me to call item number one. Yes yescall item number one. [calling item 1] ms. Mcguire welcome the floor is yours. Good morning Catherine Mcguire with sf pd. I do not have a formal presentation but this is item to one your agenda and this is that we have received or been offered a donation of a large amount of furniture and we would like to receive it. We have an immens...

Good morning and welcome to the march 15 meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee. My name is jane kim and im joined by our vicechairman supervisor aaron peskin and present london reed. I want to of knowledge and think our community clerk erica meijer and also think the folks at sfgov tv Jessica Larson and jim smith for the courting our meetings and making them available to the members of the public. Mdm. Clerk any announcements . Yes these make sure to sounds all the phones and e...