PRESENTATION
Proposal 1: Lift time limits on reactivating vacant storefronts
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Proposal 1 would eliminate the current 2-year time limit that prevents some vacant but previously legal storefronts from being reoccupied. This time limit would be lifted citywide to enable vacant commercial spaces to be reactivated more easily.
Dan Garodnick
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Goal 1.
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This is the 1st goal of the presentation to make it easier for businesses to find space and grow.
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Now I'm going to run through each one of the 18 proposals with you and talk to you about what they actually mean.
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So let's go to the next slide.
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Proposal 1 is to lift time limits to reactivating vacant storefronts.
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Right now, there is a 2 year time clock that exists in some areas of the city that prevents legal but nonconforming storefronts from being occupied.
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What does that mean?
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If you were a legal business, legal to be there before 1961, and if you continued on, if you actually become unoccupied, then you cannot reoccupy that space in some areas of the city.
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And as a result, you're stuck.
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It stays vacant.
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Today, our zoning resolution permits reactivation of this sort of a business without any time limit in only R 5 to R 7 districts and does not allow it in historic districts.
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Our proposal would expand the geography to allow for Riyadh patient of vacant commercial office space city wide.
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R 1 to R4, R5 to 7 within historic districts.
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And R8 to R10.
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So we want to eliminate what is today an obstacle to reoccupying a vacant storefront.