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Legislation Details
File #:
Version:
1
141131
Name:
Planning Code - Formula Retail and Large-Scale
Retail Controls
Status:
Type:
Ordinance
Filed
File created:
In control:
10/27/2014
Land Use and Transportation Committee
On agenda:
Final action:
11/4/2015
Enactment date:
Enactment #:
Title:
Ordinance amending the Planning Code to amend the definition of Formula Retail to include
businesses that have 11 or more outlets worldwide; expand the applicability of Formula Retail controls
to other types of uses; require Conditional Use authorization for Formula Retail establishments in the
C-3-G district with facades facing Market Street, between 6th Street and the intersection of Market
Street, 12th Street and Franklin Street; provide a method for calculating the concentration of formula
retail establishments in a certain area; require Planning Department staff to recommend disapproval
of new formula retail in the Upper Market Neighborhood Commercial District based on concentration
of existing Formula Retail; delete the requirement for Conditional Use authorization when a Formula
Retail establishment changes operator but remains the same size and use category; define
intensification and abandonment for Formula Retail uses; require Formula Retail uses to comply with
performance guidelines; amend the Conditional Use criteria for Large-Scale Retail Uses, and for
Formula Retail uses of 20,000 gross square feet or greater except for General and Specialty Grocery
stores, to require an economic impact study and establish new fees for said study; require 30 days’
public notice for conditional use hearings on proposed Formula Retail uses; amend Neighborhood
Commercial Districts that required Conditional Use for Financial and Limited Financial Services to
principally permit Financial and Limited Financial Services except in the Castro Street Neighborhood
Commercial District, Upper Market Neighborhood Commercial Transit District, and 24th Street - Noe
Valley Neighborhood Commercial District; delete the Conditional Use requirement for Walk-Up
Facilities that are not set back 3 feet; and correct various Code provisions to ensure accuracy of cross
-references; and adopting findings, including environmental findings, Planning Code, Section 302
findings, and findings of consistency with the General Plan, and the eight priority policies of Planning
Code, Section 101.1.
Sponsors:
Eric Mar
Attachments:
1. Leg Ver1, 2. Leg Dig Ver1
Action By
Date
Action
Result
Ver.
DUPLICATED
Land Use and Economic
Development Committee
10/27/2014
1
Pass
AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE
WHOLE BEARING SAME TITLE
Land Use and Economic
Development Committee
10/27/2014
1
Pass
CONTINUED TO CALL OF THE CHAIR
AS AMENDED
Land Use and Economic
Development Committee
10/27/2014
2
Pass
REFERRED TO DEPARTMENT
Clerk of the Board
12/3/2014
1
TRANSFERRED
Clerk of the Board
10/27/2015
1
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 3.41
Clerk of the Board
11/4/2015
1