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Commission approves cannabis retail conversion at 500 Jones after rejecting request for discretionary review

San Francisco Planning Commission · December 5, 2019
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Summary

After competing testimony from Tenderloin neighbors and service providers, the commission declined to take discretionary review (no exceptional circumstances found) and approved the building‑permit application to convert a corner market to a cannabis retail store at 500 Jones Street (equity applicant), 5–1.

The Planning Commission on Dec. 5 declined to take discretionary review of — and effectively approved — a building‑permit application to convert an existing corner market at 500 Jones Street into a cannabis retail establishment operated by an equity applicant.

Planning staff recapped objections from neighbors who sought discretionary review on the basis that the Tenderloin is an extraordinary context with…

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