my name is james lewis falletti, known as tick falletti because my father and my uncle started fallettioods back in 1941. we moved into the what was called petrini plaza at the corner of fulton masonic in 1956 and started serving, the neighborhood, the panhandle, the western edition. we were there until the year 2000, and i could tell you stories for hours about all the fun we had there. from the summer of love to the earthquake to santana to robin williams doing a stand up comedy routine in the produce department. but to get you to the point, we lost our lease and the neighborhood help us put together a program where we made an offer and purchased the land that became, 100, became 70 units, and, falletti plaza, below which is a lot like the old petrini plaza in that it has predominantly, local and odd small businesses. in 2004, matt gonzales, the supervisor, then, wrote a letter confirming how much he wanted us to be there. and he also made it clear that the we were excluded from the restricted use district because we were preexisting, somewhere along the line that got lost and here we