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Committee backs rebuttable presumption excusing some small businesses from COVID shutdown rent
Summary
The committee advanced an ordinance introducing a rebuttable presumption that qualifying small commercial tenants who were legally required to close during COVID‑19 may be excused from rent due in that shutdown period; the measure excludes rent already covered by negotiated landlord‑tenant agreements and was forwarded as a committee report.
San Francisco — The Land Use & Transportation Committee voted July 19 to forward an ordinance that would create a rebuttable presumption allowing certain small commercial tenants to be excused from paying rent that fell due during government‑mandated COVID‑19 shutdowns.
Supervisor Dean Preston, the ordinance sponsor, said the measure targets small businesses with annual gross receipts at or below $25 million that were fully ordered to shut down…
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