casey gilbert, stacy doom an. >> public speaker: i'm a neighborer to excelsior. i care deeply from my community. i graduate from san francisco state with a masters and i'm a medicinal patient. i immediately walked out without making a purchase. not only do i feel safe but it's the best places i have been to. i'm a neighbor of this project and i support sparks, and i beg you to please please please let them open at excelsior. >> public speaker: hello, my name is rodriguez. i live close to this. i don't want this place to be open without good competition. i live at 1912 and i support sparks. i'm not a patient of sparks. i think it would be good for our neighbor because they will force all the dispensaries to get better or sparks will put them out of business. as a neighborhood of the project i was very impressed and i noticed they are different from other dispensaries from the area of the mission. i have no problem with this opening up in my neighborhood. i am a neighbor and live in the mission and i support sparks. >> public speaker: hello, everybody. my name is c

>> public speaker: my name is casey gilbert. i didn't have a place to get my medicine. that's when sparks entered the picture. i have to take a long muni ride to get there. i'm greeted in a safe environment. the members there have taught me how to correctly medicate so i don't miss medicate anymore and that helps me. if they were loud -- allowed to operate in the excelsior it would be great for me and my other neighbors. thank you. >> public speaker: good evening everyone. i'm a lifelong resident of the community and i went to high school there and i have been a member of the spark community for a year 1/2 and as a neighbor of the proposed project i'm excited to be here and speak on the project. as a young 19-year-old man i'm able to make this commute. this is not the reality for a great deal of my fellow spark patients for whom i'm here to represent. many of them suffer many complicated impairments. it's the cannabis dispensary in san francisco. the majority of sparks patients are from here in our city. many are not able to make it to this place. it's a necessity for t