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Planning-code changes to ease small-business permitting cleared with amendments; continued to Nov. 27
Summary
Supervisors adopted amendments and continued wide-ranging planning‑code amendments designed to allow more ground-floor commercial uses, expand flexible retail citywide and incorporate a new Type 90 music-venue liquor license. Committee members welcomed the measures but stressed persistent interagency coordination problems for small businesses.
The committee on Oct. 30 approved a package of amendments and continued a broad planning‑code overhaul intended to make it easier for small businesses to open and adapt storefronts across San Francisco, while asking staff to produce clearer consolidated text for public review.
Katie Tang, director of the Office of Small Business, presented the ordinance on behalf of Mayor Breed. The package would principally permit additional commercial retail and restaurant uses on the ground floor in many neighborhood commercial districts, expand flexible retail citywide (allowing businesses to switch among a set of six uses without repeated city approvals), create a consolidated…
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