It’s a relatively quiet day for San Francisco’s Land Use and Economic Development Committee with only two items on its regular agenda, a resolution related to proposed water pipelines and another informational hearing on the proposed Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island Redevelopment Project.
In terms of legislation in the works, the item headline that couldn’t help but catch our eye: Prohibiting Formula Retail Pet Supply Stores in the Geary Boulevard Fast Food Subdistrict.
∙ Land Use and Economic Development Committee Agenda: 3/14/11 [sfbos.org]
∙ The (SOM) Master Plan For San Francisco’s Treasure Island [SocketSite]
∙ Prohibiting Formula Retail Pet Supply Stores Along Geary [sfbos.org]
Hmmm… Could this measure have been proposed by a current non-formula purveyor of pet food in the neighborhood?
Don’t you just love the jargon?
“Be it ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco”
Somehow I have the feeling that the People would not ordain half the nonsense the Supervisors inflict on us.
Hmmm… Could this measure have been proposed by a current non-formula purveyor of pet food in the neighborhood?
Or perhaps by their customers who appreciate the wide range of products at lower prices.
Only in the People’s Republic of Yerba Buena do you have NIMBYs trying to keep a pet store out of a fast food subdistrict, along with the irony of naming a subdistrict after what’s not allowed in it.
Does it bother anyone else that a group of store owners are using Supervisor Happy Meal to erect a Berlin Wall to keep more efficient competitors out? First kids, and next dogs will be priced out of San Francisco….
I think the fast food subdistrict is around 4th-12th – KFC, taco bell, jack-in the-box… There’s a nice little fantastically overpriced pet shop on geary around 12th that’s pushing this measure.
I like the store at 12th and Geary. It isn’t overpriced and I want the big box stores to stay in the burbs where they belong with the rest of the non-culture.
Who says a better pet store needs to be a big box store? There are plenty of non-big box pet stores in the Bay Area, shockingly many in the suburbs, that are far better than some of the overpriced pet stores I’ve seen in SF.