. >> good afternoon commissioners dee dee workman's from the chamber of commerce i've been before youalking about formula retail we've worked formula retail roishgz across the city and i wasn't planning on speaking i thought i would because i would really discourage you from voting to support a foreign ban of formula retail on polk street or anywhere i understand the need to retain small businesses and the love we have for small businesses and our neighborhood commercial district with individuality and so on but a ban removes the flexibility that our neighborhood commercial indignity need to be thriving you need the mix of small businesses and large businesses and local businesses and national businesses for a commercial district to thrive the conditional use process i dangerously disagree with my colleague steve you are allowed to weigh in a ban takes that away from them and you i would actually use hayes valley as an example how i think the ban can be envertically or maybe otherwise - a ban leads to gentrification we used to have small serving businesses in the neighborhoods people