in place of diego sanchez who couldn't be here because of a death in the family. [speaker not understood] doing business as orchard supply hardware in a 33,000 square foot building that is currently occupied by another formula retail use doing business as pacific sales that sells domestic appliances. orchard supply hardware primarily serve retail do it yourself and commercial customers and core products consist of merchandise needed for recurring home maintenance and improvement in categories such as hardware, paint, tools, and garden. as part of the project plant nursery will be added -- also be added to the roof. other changes include a change in signage, change in paint, added landscaping in the parking area, a new bryant street entrance and an opening of the windows along brie street to increase transparency. orchard supply hardware projects to hire up to [speaker not understood]. within this configure with us zoning district consisting of four blocks and one partial block stretching from bryant street to barry street, there are several other formula retail us

diego sanchez in guiding us through the response during our preparation with this application. the group of 30 farmer approximately 50 miles south of here got together in the 1931 and formed a cooperative. this cooperative was an important part to the bay area horticultural industrial [speaker not understood] and the first decade following world war ii. in the 1950s it evolved into a retail operation. by the time it transformed into a corporation, it had about 2000 members. in the 1960s and 70s it was acquired and started an expansion program that started orchard supply hardware that we see today. orchard's main focus are household repairs, garden supplies, and home improvements. our project is located at 975 bryant street. it's currently occupied by pacific sales and appliance shop. the building footprint is ideal for our use as it's linked to debt ratio works very well for the retail environment we'll be providing. our project has many amenities for the community, including a revitalization of an existing building which i'll get into more depth on the architecture. 16-year lo

>> i apologize diego sanchez is not present and i believe jewel an is present. >> would staff like to introduce this project? >> yes. commissioners we don't really have anything further to add follow your intent to disapprove from last week. we drafted a motion for your review in the packets and i believe commissioner antonini wanted this off of consent so i leave it to you. >> okay. public comment on this item? you can leave that on the bench there. >> my name is jerry wolf. i am here again today to talk about what is proposed use of the property for new store but specifically i was here last time to talk about kate street, the alley that i own a property on and we were concerned that orchard would use that as the sole means for freight loading and i am here representing two of my neighbors and couldn't be here because of the short notice . they own the building at the end of the block and i own the other one and we own the last 150 feet of the street. in the last hour i talked to the gentleman from orchard and they made a concession that will change my speech now. we have been negot

meeting today to talk in favor of this development, but then i tried -- i reached out through diego sanchez and through anthony [speaker not understood], the architect, to talk to orchard. we had an agreement about kate street until about one hour before 12:00 noon today. the agreement was [speaker not understood] they want to use kate street from 9:00 to 5:00. the original plan was 6:30 in the morning to 7 o'clock at night. kate street has three residential buildings with 18 people living in those. all the commercial business on kate street is a small business. the profile is a far different thing than having an orchard supply hardware type of business. if they were to use kate street, kate street has got -- it's an 18 foot wide alley, has parking on one side with no limitations. you can park there 24 hours a day which means there is only 9 feet left for a vehicle it get down. they're talking, if you heard his words, he said that the trucks will come to load from orchard supply hardware down kate street and that the little door that's on the other side in the parking lot will only be used