San Fran Supervisor Goes After Stifling Regulations After Locals’ Dream Of A Cafe Goes Up In Steam

San Fran Supervisor Goes After Stifling Regulations After Locals’ Dream Of A Cafe Goes Up In Steam

San Fran Supervisor Goes After Stifling Regulations After Locals’ Dream Of A Cafe Goes Up In Steam Danny Sauter, District 3 Supervisor – credit, Sauter After small businesses became frustrated with San Francisco permitting laws, a district supervisor has stood up to try and strike it down. His proposed ordinance—filed after a dozen small business owners reached out to explain they were being harangued by regulations—would remove the “prior use” requirement, as well as those preventing businesses from uniting storefronts and moving into adjacent, empty spaces. The story began as CBS news found it, in the hills of southern India, of all places. Himanshu Bhaisare and his wife Milana Ram sell coffee beans from her family farm in a lovely hilly area of Karnataka ten thousand miles away in the farmer’s markets of San Francisco. They rent time at a roastery in Berkeley, but their passion for the coffee of India saw them locate an old dry cleaners on Lombard Street near to their home, and plan to c…