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Committee extends interim controls to protect ground-floor retail on Second Street
Summary
Supervisors voted to forward a six-month extension of interim zoning controls requiring conditional-use authorization for new office uses on Second Street between King and Folsom to preserve ground-floor neighborhood-serving retail amid office development pressures.
The committee moved with a positive recommendation to extend interim zoning controls for a portion of Second Street in the South of Market to preserve ground-floor, neighborhood-serving retail.
Supervisor Kim, the author of the resolution, said the interim controls—originally enacted in 2014—require conditional-use authorization for new office uses on ground-floor spaces between King and Folsom, a corridor seeing increasing office conversions. Kim said the controls are intended to preserve retail and neighborhood-serving businesses while the larger Central SoMa plan is completed.
Merchants and neighborhood representatives told the committee that rising office demand has pushed retail landlords and driven rent pressures, creating a risk of long stretches of inactive storefronts. Pat Valentino, co-president of the South Beach Mission Bay Merchants Association, said stores face competing rents and delivery and sidewalk challenges that threaten small businesses’ survival; Alice Rogers, vice president of the South Beach Rincon Mission Bay Neighborhood Association, and other community speakers urged support for the six-month extension to complete permanent legislative work.
The committee voted to forward the resolution with a positive recommendation to the full Board of Supervisors without recorded objection.
