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Planning Commission backs broad code changes to ease openings for small businesses, with carve-outs requested by Chinatown and others
Summary
The commission approved a major planning code amendment to expand flexible retail, permit more ground‑floor uses, and ease approvals for restaurants and nightlife; staff accepted several modifications and commissioners asked for size limits and neighborhood carve-outs to protect areas such as Chinatown.
On Sept. 7 the Planning Commission voted to approve a comprehensive planning code amendment intended to reduce regulatory barriers for small businesses and reactivate vacant commercial storefronts citywide. The ordinance — developed by Planning Department staff and the Office of Small Business — would expand flexible retail citywide, clarify that multiple uses can co-exist in one storefront, allow certain professional-service uses on the ground floor in additional districts, lift or ease restrictions on restaurants and bars in several commercial corridors, establish pathways to legalize long-standing outdoor patios, incorporate the ABC Type 90 music-venue license into code, and fold nighttime entertainment uses into…
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