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Backstreet Business Advisory Board urges city steps to retain San Francisco’s light‑industrial businesses
Summary
Supervisor Sophie Maxwell and the Backstreet Business Advisory Board presented a report urging the city to take coordinated steps — on business assistance, land‑use certainty, infrastructure, workforce training and employer development — to retain light‑industrial and PDR (production, distribution, repair) jobs in San Francisco’s southeast and corridor areas.
Supervisor Sophie Maxwell opened the Commission’s presentation on the Backstreet Business Advisory Board report, saying the group was created to draw attention to the city’s small industrial and service businesses that provide steady middle‑income jobs.
The board’s chair, Peter Cohen, summarized the project and the report’s approach: mapping a “hidden” industrial footprint concentrated in the southeast sector and along major corridors, identifying 12 subsectors of activity, and pressing policymakers to treat PDR (production, distribution, repair) uses as a distinct…
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