Thanks to some last-minute organizing, the Land Use and Transportation Committee delayed approving a measure that would have threatened the city’s limits on chain stores in neighborhood commercial districts.

The bill, by Mayor Daniel Lurie, was flying under the radar until 48hills began making calls about it over the weekend and reported on it Sunday night.

Among those who contacted the supes to oppose the plan was former Board President Matt Gonzalez, who wrote the ordinance in 2004 limiting what the city calls “formula retail” in neighborhoods. From his letter:

While the legislation purports to allow flexibility for uses in historic buildings it would have the effect of reversing the formula retail prohibitions in the Hayes Valley and North Beach Neighborhood Commercial Districts and

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