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Commission backs Supervisor Tang's vacant-storefront registry to track empty commercial storefronts
Summary
The Building Inspection Commission voted unanimously June 19 to support Supervisor Katie Tang's ordinance (file 140284) to register vacant or abandoned commercial storefronts and impose a registration fee, aiming to improve data for business attraction and targeted neighborhood assistance.
Supervisor Katie Tang told the Building Inspection Commission she introduced an ordinance to capture commercial ground-floor vacancies that currently fall through gaps in the residential vacant-and-abandoned registry. "We actually hope to not have to charge these property owners," Tang said, describing the registry as a tool to better populate StorefrontSF and connect small businesses to available spaces.
Tang said a 2013 manual count by the Office of Economic and Workforce Development in 25 neighborhood corridors…
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