dr. kalika,. thank you very much, thanks for staying so late also, of course you had to be here. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening, my name is edward romonof, i'm a real estate broker since 1985 and i opened my own office in 1989 and part of the business i'm doing in san francisco in the laurel village area, specifically i manage a medical building at sacramento and laurel and i would like to say that i've been in the area as a manager, property manager, as a sales agent listing agent i know the market is very, very hard in the area and in the same time, i'm noticing that in that particular area, specifically on sacramento street, there are some properties, commercial spaces are vacant and in my opinion, professional real estate opinion, it's due to a slow foot traffic and i think that my request actually is to reinstate the existing building permit for dr. kalika's office and i would say that that would increase the foot traffic and would attract the business owners, would make them more c

dr. kalika could not put his medical service there and that was not true either. what is true in area is that the code is very clear that you cannot have a medical service as an original use in any building except if you are replacing an office, a professional office and service and on the ground floor. now, no medical office is accepted or allowed in this building or any other building in this neighborhood on the second, third or fourth floors. it is not allowed at all, it is illegal. you are allowed on the ground floor and below, dr. kalika bought a ground floor he bought it and below that and tried to put his office and he was stopped. the grief we have here from the neighborhood, we have strict zoning laws that you try to keep, if you have strict zoning laws you want to keep, dr. gar n*et who's leading this particular effort has two offices on the second and third floor on the buildings she lives in, why [inaudible] they have singled him out for whatever reason, i don't know, but he will be with your help the only second orthodontist in this neighborhood and w

dr. kalika bought this unit, before it was purchased, that's when mr. lindsay would's one of our senior planners for the northwest team he sent them that information from to the real estate agent say hating's what the requirement is at that time, that art gallery was operating. i think they would have known the existing use was not a business and professional service, it was an art gallery. >> thank you. >> commissioners, the matter is submitted. >> just a reminder [inaudible] the discretion voting to administrative decision. >> i can't hear you. >> [inaudible]. >> i wanted to ask a couple of questions but nobody answered it. you know, it isn't my purpose to make the case for them one way or another but when you look through the permit history, going back 15, 20 years there actually is no office, a permitted office use. there have been permit applications taken out for an office use but they all expired or the last one was suspended. the ones that showed active permits was -- there was a beauty salon there was a spa, there was a little bit of a retail a