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There is such a degree of uncertainty with it when you dont even know at the end of the day after months or maybe a year of going through the process whether youre even going to be able to go into that space, that it its very discouraging for potential retailers to come into our neighborhood commercial corridors, so i hope that were going to be taking a look at expediting the process to increase the certainty and enable retailers to be able to get in as quickly as possible. Also, i think flexibl...

In place to fast track that, thats something id like to look at. Yes, supervisor, thats a complaint we do have often from the Supervisors Office and applicants. We do have a program called cb three peat. If you do meet certain criteria, with you expedite your petition. Not all uses meet that petition. If youre massage use, formula retail, we dont expedite those. It is a limited program, but we have had success with it. We are looking for ways to speed that up, especially for smaller businesses. ...

Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is deidre vonne rock. I am the president of the rest portal rock merchants association. While im proud that we have the lowest vacancy, that is not how it appears on an objective view. In west portal, absentee land lowers who have no interest in the block of a huge problem. For example, we had a discussion in anchoring a project on the west tunnel because they were still collecting rent on a formula retailer. We had a radio shack that sat vacant for years bec...

Supervisor fewer yes, ill be very brief. Supervisor yee, ill be very happy to work with you on more aggressive tactics. And also, i did not hear from oewd that icon staptly hear from my Small Businesses is that they are having a harder and harder time getting employees to work in their stores. Many of our businesses have wanted signs, and the retension rate is abysmal. They cant keep people working in their Small Businesses because they cant compete with the wages, and quite frankly people arent...

Or districts might be rather large or several blocks long and requiring ground floor retail on every piece of that corridor might be too difuse, so there might be places in a district that are more strong locations for our retail, and perhaps retail could be required in those locations. But in other locations that may be weaker will not be appropriate locations for new retail. Supervisor fewer okay. Does that explain it . Supervisor fewer yeah. Okay. Supervisor fewer got it. And then i have anot...

Present, supervisor campos, present, supervisor cohen, present, supervisor farrell, present, supervisor kim, present, supervisor mar not present. Supervisor peskin, present. Supervisor tang, present. Supervisor wiener, present. Supervisor yee, yee not president. Madam president , you have a quorum. Supervisor london breed thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it st...

Residential building requirements] 160946 [electrical code repeal of existing 2013 code and enactment of 2016 edition sf 47 sf 48 sf 49 supervisor london breed good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors for september 6, 2016. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk, please call the roll. Supervisor avalos, present, breed present, supervisor campos, present, supervisor cohen, present, supervisor farrell, present, supervisor kim, present, supervisor mar not presen...

Supervisor london breed good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors for september 6, 2016. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk, please call the roll. Supervisor avalos, present, breed present, supervisor campos, present, supervisor cohen, present, supervisor farrell, present, supervisor kim, present, supervisor mar not present. Supervisor peskin, present. Supervisor tang, present. Supervisor wiener, present. Supervisor yee, yee not president. Madam president ...

Residential building requirements] 160946 [electrical code repeal of existing 2013 code and enactment of 2016 edition sf 47 sf 48 sf 49 supervisor london breed good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors for september 6, 2016. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk, please call the roll. Supervisor avalos, present, breed present, supervisor campos, present, supervisor cohen, present, supervisor farrell, present, supervisor kim, present, supervisor mar not presen...

Its so striking to me it bodes well for me and the commission moving forward there wasnt much of a divergence as to what they wanted to see that, to me, yeah it was safe there was much more divergence on what they wanted to see, which is great. That means were going to include everything in this process that is good to see. What i would say we do have all of these comments theres a lot of data to take in. So colleagues, the way this is processed as we discussed in july was designed is over the n...