Recently, the Board passed an ordinance on a Bayshore Boulevard site that quashed Home Depot's planned 140,000-sf store there. The ordinance restricted any store over 65,000-sf being built on that site. Shortly afterward, Home Depot proposed to build the same size store in the Bayview Hunter's Point area, and Ammiano is again playing defense.
While the site has been zoned for large stores in the past and would create new jobs in a highly unemployed neighborhood and tax revenues for the city, the Board of Supervisors is resisting the development, saying that neighbors feel it will put smaller businesses out of business and create traffic congestion.
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