they started here and you mentioned super dooper. let me tell you that the people who own super dooper and the other restaurants, they are heroes. look at what they have opened up and what they have done. in my personal opinion, we should up that limit for local businesses. i mean, it's sad that san francisco soup company those go through the torture of our conditional use permit and it is torture because i was thrown into that last year. let me tell you, it takes eight months to a year to even get heard. >> yes. >> which is scary and to me, it's like you are torturing local businesses. san francisco soup company in my opinion should be able to open up on every corner. i mean they are local. same thing with super dooper and that conglomerate and even the gap, if the gap has a subsidiary, they employee thousands and they have a new concept to be able to put it out there. that would help local business -- in a lost cases where something like that, like upper fillmore, brooks brother opening up that other place. that street is crowded a

because i think the issue, you bring up super dooper. we all like it and it's an expanding change, but you know who won't like it? some competitor hamburger store whether they have nine outlets or 12. it's not any of us or it's not most of the neighborhoods, the residents. it's time and time again, neighborhood character being used as an excuse to argue against a particular competitor and that is something that we have to be careful about and with any new change by the board of supervisors sometimes, they are franchisees, to give them a fair chance through the cu process and not have two arms -- both arms tied behind their back before they even get an application filed. thank you. >> thank you. any other members of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. so can we continue then to our may 5th meeting based on your recommendations that christian typed up based on our discussion today? >> and do you have any questions for the commission for clarification that you may need to be able to summarize? >> well, we only made it through