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Committee amends and forwards proposal easing use‑size caps in some commercial districts; Castro excluded by amendment
Summary
Supervisors approved amendments and sent, without recommendation, an ordinance that would remove strict nonresidential use‑size caps in several neighborhood commercial districts and make it easier to subdivide large storefronts; the board president’s amendment excludes the Castro NCD and the committee duplicated and continued the original file.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee on July 28 adopted amendments and voted to transmit, without recommendation, an ordinance that would eliminate certain use‑size caps for nonresidential uses in multiple neighborhood commercial districts and make it easier for large retail spaces to be subdivided into smaller storefronts.
Sponsor Supervisor Mirna Melgar said the measure is intended to give flexibility to evolving retail markets and to allow property owners to subdivide large, vacant storefronts so they can be rented to multiple small businesses. Melgar said the proposal…
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