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Small Business Commission backs Family Zoning Plan with recommendations to codify tenant notification and incentives for small-business retention

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Summary

The commission approved recommendations on the Family Zoning Plan (files 250,700/250,701), asking planning staff to codify early tenant notification, track small-business impacts, pursue incentives for warm-shell retail buildouts and advocate for state-level relocation assistance.

The Small Business Commission on Aug. 25 approved a motion supporting the Family Zoning Plan ordinances (Board of Supervisors files 250,700 and 250,701) while adding a set of recommended protections and incentives for small businesses facing redevelopment.

Planning Director Sarah Dennis Phillips, presenting the zoning and planning-code amendments, said the package is part of the city’s response to state housing mandates. ‘‘If the homes mandated by the state…are built over the next eight years, we'd see $5,600,000,000 in spending to local and small businesses,’’ Dennis Phillips said, adding that even partial buildout would generate meaningful local spending.

Commission recommendations

After extended discussion and public comment, commissioners voted to approve the zoning files with specific recommendations that planning staff said they will…

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