San Francisco business owner concerned community interests are becoming barrier to opening stores

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One small business owner recently went in front of the SF planning commissioner to talk about the challenges she faced opening her store in the Mission District.

SAN FRANCISCO — One of the biggest challenges San Francisco faces is how to make the city more friendly for businesses. One small business owner recently went in front of the SF planning commissioner to talk about the challenges she faced opening a plant store and wine bar in the Mission District.

Opening the restaurant, wine bar, plant store and event space was never going to be easy. Then came the pandemic, the delays, the mounting bills, and Khorram's journey through San Francisco's permit approval process. "And they were pushing me to close at 10 p.m.," she explained."I have been told I'm not allowed to be a vegan and vegetarian restaurant. If I want to have a mural on my parklet or if I want to have any art inside my business, they're gonna provide, like, a list of artists for me that I should pick from that list."

That, she says, was her real frustration — that the process left her feeling like she had to play by a set of rules that weren't entirely written down. It is not the first time this concern has been raised, but it is rarely raised so publicly. "The numbers tell a story," explained Arguello."From 2000 to 2022 we lost over 14,000 Latinx individuals in the neighborhood because of gentrification and displacement. We went through the dot com boom, which was big. But the tech boom was much bigger, and had a much bigger effect, negative effect, on the community.

 

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