Dear Planning Commission,

We are writing as small businesses rooted in our communities in San Francisco, who are relied upon to provide linguistically, culturally, and economically accessible goods and services.

The current pressure to displace small businesses comes from upzoning mandates to build more housing in San Francisco. Local small businesses would benefit from prioritizing the approved equity-based actions to address the City’s affordability crisis. The Race & Equity in all Planning Coalition worked with San Francisco's Planning Department staff to get dozens of equity-based actions to guide the City’s housing policies.

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

Thank you for your consideration,

Race & Equity in all Planning Coalition (REP-SF)
Small Business Forward

1010 Wash & Dry
Alembic
Alimentari Aurora
Alla Prima Lingerie and Swim
Alushe Coffee Bar
Amazing Fantasy
April in Paris
April Powers Interior Design
architecture + history, llc
Artisans Of San Francisco
Bakana LLC
Bangin Hair Salon
Bar Part Time
Barrow Salon
Bay Laurel Solutions
Bi-Rite Family of Businesses
Birba Wine Bar
Bob Reinheimer's Richmond Auto Repair
Body Philosophy Club
Books & Bookshelves
Booksmith
CARE CLT
Chloe's Closet
Christopher’s Books
Church St Cafe
Cup of Java Coffee
Dana Pluck Accounting
Dark Garden
Day Moon
Durty Nelly's
Easy Breezy Frozen Yogurt
Eats
El Rio
Fibers of Being
Fireside Bar
Fleetwood SF
Fruit Barn
Gallery 444
Gamescape
Geary Print Shop
Gravel & Gold
Great Basin Land & Water
Handy Deli
Happy House
Heartland Healthy Food
Heirloom Cafe
Hockey Haven
Howells
Indie Darling
JAG's Art Studio at the Beach
Joe's Ice Cream
KJ Produce Market
La Lucha Coffee
La Méditerranée
Lomo Libre Peruvian Kitchen
Looking Sharp
Lotus Bleu
Lotus Tao Culture Association
Lucho's
Many Veils
Marina Supermarket
Mercury Cafe
Miel
Modern Design Salon
Mother
Mothership
Nicole Album Illustration
No Shop & Nowhere
Noe Valley Market
Nue Beauty Inc.
Ocean Cyclery
Outer Orbit
Palm City
Pelican Media
Primrose Skincare
Relic Vintage
Rising Star Laundry
Ritual Coffee Roasters
Rock Bar
Rotations SF
San Francisco Vintage
Scarlet Lounge
SF Beauty Network
Sour Cherry Comics
STEMful | STEM Education for Kids
Studio Aurora
Sunset Music Co
Sunshine Art House
TANTRUM -toy store
Ten-ichi
The Front Porch
The Golden Hour
The Laundry Corner
The Pizza Place on Noriega
The Plough & the Stars
The Ruby
The Yellow Submarine
Thee Parkside
Valencia Street Vintage
VERA Skin Studio
Vesuvio
Wave Collective
Woodenman Muay Thai
Yonkers Cafe
Yumma's Mediterranean Grill