A small-business owner is hoping for a strike in delivering a new bowling alley for the Mission neighborhood, but city fees could send her plans down the gutter.
Transforming a vacant Mission warehouse into a vibrant bowling alley may sound like the kind of idea a city would embrace, but San Francisco is socking Sommer Peterson with $44,000 in special fees, which she says could derail the project.
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An 8,000-sqaure foot Mission warehouse could soon be a thriving bowling alley and restaurant judging by the warm reception from the Small Business Commission Monday.The commissioner recommended approval of legislation that would permit the sale of alcohol in the bowling alley.
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Bowling and boozing — two inherently related activities — are the subject of city legislation designed to clear the way for a proposed new six-lane alley and bar-restaurant in the Mission district.
Supervisors Jane Kim and Scott Wiener want to tweak the planning code to make way for the new locally owned business, which wouldn’t otherwise be allowed because past problems with the area’s drinking culture prompted restrictions on new liquor licenses.
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