In the face of threats of displacement for local San Francisco small businesses, the Planning Commission is having a hearing to focus on small business strategies for equity and protection. This is your chance to speak directly to the Planning Commission and ask for permanent citywide controls for neighborhood-serving businesses!

Please join us for public comment as we speak in support of equity and protections for San Francisco neighborhood-serving businesses.

Small businesses deserve a voice in our displacement. We are asking the Planning Commission to adopt the following permanent controls for neighborhood-serving small businesses in San Francisco:

• Require that no demolition can proceed unless the existing small businesses provide prior consent.

• Require developers to build new space(s) in their new development that conform(s) to the specifications and needs of the existing small business(es)

• Require developers to provide substantial relocation assistance to the small business(es) for when they move out temporarily (could be modeled after the Uniform Relocation Act)

• Require developers to pay the difference in commercial rent during the relocation period

• Require developers to pay relocation costs for the business(es) to move back in to their new space(s)

• Require developers to pay for marketing for the small business(es) for the period of relocation and for up to a year after the business(es) move(s) back into the new development

• Require developers to provide the new space(s) to the existing business(es) for their prior rent for at least 10 years with no more than Consumer Price Index rent increases annually

• Conditional Use Authorization required for displacement of neighborhood-serving businesses and Legacy Businesses

• Require and strengthen notice period asks

Proposed upzoning plan targeting neighborhood commercial corridors for upzoning, incentivizing demolition and displacement.

Upzoning means developers will rebuild with the goal of more units and taller buildings. It automatically makes properties more valuable for developers, incentivizing them to destroy and rebuild whatever to achieve a profit margin.

It is important to show up as small business folks and neighborhood supporters because this hearing focuses on small business displacement!