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It's been a couple weeks since Mayor Breed submitted the Save Our Small Business ballot measure. I really like what I've read in it.

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This is the presentation Rich Hillis, Director of Planning, gave before the Small Business Commission on June 22.

It contains an easily digestible summary of the legal text.

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The ordinance starts with findings. And as the numbers show, San Francisco is not helping small businesses to open. It can take two years for a business owner to complete the permit process 😬

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Hello, world. I'm blown away by the response to my thread last night about ice cream, and how San Francisco planning works—or, uh, doesn't. This thread will explore some parts of how we got into this mess. I don't have much prepared, so this thread may surprise you AND me.
I'll start with the hearing itself. The Discretionary Review was item 17 on the agenda for the weekly Planning Commisison meeting. Note the bottom line in parens. This item was continued from a previous meeting.

That's normal—many items are continued multiple times.
The DR next on the agenda was continued from June 11th...

and June 4th...

and May 14th.

Last evening, it was continued again!
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Hello San Francisco. I'm at City Hall for a meeting of the San Francisco Board of Appeals. The Commissioners are taking a five-minute recess before the last item of the night: the appeal of a HOME-SF project at #3945Judah.

Here's an explainer:
Surprisingly, the room is mostly empty. There are some folks from YIMBY Action, but not the huge crowd which gathered for #PalmCityWines. This thing might end by 9!
Mike Murphy is speaking now. He lives close to the project with a small family. His 12-year-old "wished to state for the record that he does not drink gasoline."
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Hello San Francisco. I'm at a meeting of the Board of Appeals to support #PalmCityWines. The City mistakenly told them not to go through the neighborhood notification process, and a neighbor reported them. Construction has been stopped, and owners may lose their permits and money
A report commissioned this year by Supervisor Mandelman showed that this expensive process can add 4–6 months to the permit process. Owners of #PalmCityWines do not have enough money for this process and the permits they'd have to get again.
Owners speaking now. They spoke to Supervisor Tang, who told them they could proceed without neighborhood notification.

The City was wrong. Their permits have been suspended.
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