SAVE San Francisco Small Businesses

San Francisco Mayor London Breed, All San Francisco District Supervisors

***UPDATE***

We are one step closer!

Let's take this ORDINANCE TO THE FINISH LINE as we FIGHT to SAVE our SF SMALL BUSINESSES at the SF Board of Supervisors Hearing on Monday 11/9!

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The fight continues!

San Francisco Small Businesses need your HELP.

They are barely hanging on! Each day, more and more San Francisco small businesses are forced to close shop and leave behind empty storefronts and the communities they represent.

THE PROBLEM

COVID-19 Shelter in Place Orders forced our small businesses to close for over six months. Although the current City Moratorium on commercial tenant evictions are in place until November 30 2020, it does not specify the terms to provide a reasonable rent repayment program.

We are a City that pride ourselves on our unique and diverse business community. These businesses put their heart and soul into their stores. It is their life. Please help us retain this important and vital aspect of what makes us “The City”.

THE SOLUTION

San Francisco Board of Supervisors Aaron Peskin & Dean Preston introduced an Ordinance providing further protections for small business tenants at the upcoming Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee Meeting on Monday, November 9, 2020.

THIS COMMERCIAL EVICTION MORATORIUM ORDINANCE would:

  1. Provide protection to small businesses, not office tenants or formula retail tenants.

  2. Extend rent deferral to the date of the Governor’s order, currently March 31, 2021, as may be extended by any future order by the Governor.

  3. Provide Options for tenants with less than 10 employees so they would also have the right to terminate the lease upon payment of the sum of (x) any delinquent rent prior to March 2020.

Details: The rent deferred would be based on the size of the tenant:

  • Tenants with less than 10 employees would have 2 years to repay the deferred rent

  • Tenants with more than 10 employees but less than 25 employees would have 18 months to repay the deferred rent

  • Tenants with more than 25 employees but less than 50 employees would have 12 months to repay the deferred rent

TAKE ACTION NOW

1. SIGN & SHARE our Online Petition on all of your SOCIAL MEDIA (FB, IG, TWT, etc and don't forget to @the supervisors and Mayor)

2. LIKE, FOLLOW, & SHARE our social media posts leading up the San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing on November 2nd.

3. EMAIL SF Supervisors expressing your support for the ordinance in its entirety by joining our letter writing campaign (we’ve made this step easy with just a few clicks).

4. CALL your district supervisors expressing your support for the ordinance and changes/additions highlighted above (roster with contact info)

5. SPEAK UP-Make a public comment supporting the ordinance at the Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee meeting this coming Monday, 11/2 starting at 1:30pm MONDAY, 11/9 starting at 1:30pm.

Board of Supervisors Meetings Agendas & Minutes- https://sfbos.org/meetings/42

Can you join me and take action? Click here: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/save-san-francisco-small-businesses?source=email&

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Save San Francisco Small Businesses
San Francisco, CA

To: San Francisco Mayor London Breed, All San Francisco District Supervisors
From: [Your Name]

Dear Mayor Breed and the SF Board of Supervisors

I am a resident of the City and County of San Francisco.
I strongly support the Ordinance in its entirety to help small businesses introduced by Supervisor Aaron Peskin.

The Ordinance in its entirety is essential. San Francisco is composed of thousands of merchants who own small businesses in every single inch of our City. We are a city that prides ourselves on our unique and diverse business community. These businesses put their heart and soul into their stores. It is their life. Please help us retain this important and vital aspect of what makes us “The City”.

Please save our City's small businesses.

Thank you for your continued support with this measure.