my name is deaon garcia, and m family and i live in the outer sunset and have since 2003. i've been an active member of our community through a business i owned as well as volunteering at community events. what brought me out today is the familiarity of the situation that the owners of palm city wines are confronted with. in 2015, my brother and i acquired a cafe in the neighborhood. by september, we did what we felt was due diligence required by the planning department and obtained a building permit. we started our buildout, and in january 2016, we found out our permit had been suspended by the request of the planning department. it took us from january 2016 to december 2016 to get in plan of the planning -- in front of the planning commission where our permit was approved. we estimated this to cost us a lot of $70,000. we opened and maintained the business until march of 2019, when we shut our doors. i sincerely feel that we were never able to recover from the delay and costs of the delay. all of our plans for opening were completely blown out. we had several adjustments