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Committee narrows cafeteria ban, refers revised employee-cafeteria policy to Planning for conditional-use framework
Summary
After a lengthy debate about small-business impacts, worker equity and permitting, the committee amended an employee-cafeteria prohibition to require conditional-use authorization for full-service, employee-only cafeterias and referred the ordinance back to Planning for development of CU criteria.
Supervisor Asha Safaie presented an amended approach to a proposed ban on employee cafeterias in office space, saying the goal was to protect street-level small businesses while allowing existing or limited on-site food uses where appropriate.
"When you have employees sitting inside their office buildings not going out to eat, the more eyes that are on the street the better for our local businesses," Safaie said, framing the policy as a tool to protect…
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