Supervisors Push to Lift Formula Retail Ban on Van Ness — What About Other Neighborhoods With Vacant Storefronts?

Supervisors Push to Lift Formula Retail Ban on Van Ness — What About Other Neighborhoods With Vacant Storefronts?

Two SF supervisors are floating a rule-change that would lift limits on formula retail on the struggling Van Ness corridor. But the proposal prompts the question of why the Board of Supervisors isn't looking at more widespread changes to these rules.There has been a perennial debate in San Francisco going back many years now over whether continued limits on or outright bans of chain stores and restaurants should continue in neighborhoods where t…

This major S.F. street is filled with vacant storefronts. A new plan would allow chain retail there

In effort to fill large vacant storefronts along Van Ness Avenue, two of San Francisco’s newest supervisors are looking to get rid of red tape for chain stores.