commissioners, i'm eric messier smith, i live in the marina for over 23 years, i'll go down to cal fawner ya store or drive my truck down to market and that's a distance and i live in the marina, this location is closer, it's more convenient, i'm also very familiar with lombard street, all of you i know are too. it is vacancy after vacancy after vacancy and it looks just terrible and that location has people sleeping there in the evenings, there's crime at that location and this particular business, it looks like it would be a perfect fit for -- it would be certainly convenient to me, i would urge you to go ahead and grant their petition. thank you very much. >> good evening, my name is gail mametska, last weekend, we celebrated our 40th anniversary and for the past two year, we had a doggy pageant and parade, i reached out to many small businesses, even franchises to help support this event, the only organization who ever responded was pet express. pet express donated prizes, pet food, pretty much anything we asked, they were able to give to the event. i'm here in support of an organizat

commissioners, i'm eric messier smith, i live in the marina for over 23 years, i'll go down to cal fawner ya store or drive my truck down to market and that's a distance and i live in the marina, this location is closer, it's more convenient, i'm also very familiar with lombard strt,