Good morning Missionites, it’s Saturday morning, 7:40 a.m., 47° and headed to 64°. Details for the next 10 days are here.
The Bay Citizen reports on a small business owner for whom it took two years to get all the paperwork done to finally open her ice cream shop. Her experience seems to contradict what the city is promoting. Last week Mayor Ed Lee announced that the city will make $1.5 million in funding available to help small businesses, characterizing the sector as the “backbone of the SF economy,” according to the Bay Citizen. From the article:
The ice cream shop’s travails are at odds with the frequent promises made by the mayor and many supervisors that small businesses and job creation are top priorities.
The matter has also alarmed some business leaders, who point out that few small ventures could survive such long delays.
“Someone of lesser fortitude would have left three months into it,” Ted Loewenberg, president of the Haight Ashbury Improvement Association, said of Pries. “Through these hard times we’ve heard all the rhetoric about streamlining the process, about one-stop shopping. It hasn’t happened.”
That could soon change. An ordinance easing the process for opening a small business is expected to be considered by the supervisors within weeks. It has already been approved by the planning commission.
If you’re looking for something to do tonight, MAPP is back. And according to this article, you should easily be able to bring a date.
