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Planning Commission approves lifting hard storefront-size caps in several neighborhood commercial districts, keeps conditional‑use review
Summary
The Planning Commission voted 5–2 to recommend approval of an ordinance removing historic hard caps on nonresidential use sizes in several neighborhood commercial districts and making it easier to subdivide very large retail storefronts; the ordinance preserves conditional‑use review for new large-format spaces and drew both merchant association*
The Planning Commission on July 17 voted 5–2 to recommend approval of an ordinance that would remove hard caps on nonresidential storefront sizes in several neighborhood commercial districts (NCDs) and regional commercial districts and make it easier to subdivide preexisting super‑large storefronts into smaller leasable spaces.
Supervisor Mearna Malgar (transcript spelling) introduced the ordinance and said the measure responds to small businesses that find the city’s historic “hard cap” restrictions prevent reasonable reuse or expansion, forcing one‑off legislative carve‑outs. Planning staff said the amendment grew from prior carve‑out requests (West Portal, Bob’s Donuts on Polk) and argued that removing caps while retaining the conditional‑use (CU) process for proposals that would create or merge…
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