i am sarah hoffman. our firm has been retained to represent the family who own the property who you have just heard from. they are surprised to discover with absolutely no official notice this application had been submitted and that there would be hearings on wednesday december 18th and special hearing today. it is impossible to prepare for or seek adviser participate in today's hearing with so little notice. this is our request. if the commission will continue the hearing by one month, the owner will extend the lease termination date for one month so the parties can negotiate to reach a resolution that works for everyone involved. this can only happen if the hearing is continued without a decision. more over, we believe that this application does not meet the criteria for registration as a legacy business. the applicant's business has not been in existence for 30 years. the ad ministrative code provides an exception if it would present a risk of displacement. we have a termination notice served, owners

i'm sarah hoffman. the owner of 2471 green street. this is a discretionary review hearing that's been scheduled to be heard by the planning commission since february of 2018. and it's been continued at least seven times since february of 2018. environmental review, which was a separate parallel issue was completed in june of this year. we had no choice but to file a writ petition in superior court to compel a hearing take place so this project can move on to the next stage of the permit process. even with a lawsuit pending it's now been continued again without a vote by the commission to january 9, 2020. we understand that last week's meeting was canceled. so all the matters scheduled had to be continued. but green street had already been put on the continuance calendar. and we don't know why that happened. so the meeting cancellation wasn't the issue. and the other hearings from last week's agenda were continued to much sooner dates, as soon as this week or early december. so all this to say this is an important due process issue. ou