they're interested in pet food express and pet food express only. everything else that's been said to you, i hope you do not let them come in for obvious reasons. thank you. >> good evening, my name is marlene sansiloti, i was raised in the marina so i saw it in the old days when it was all small shops and it was enchanting, it is no longer that way though it is very clean and a lovely area. we don't want that to happen in san francisco. we don't need anymore big chain shops. i have nothing against pet food express but we have enough of pet food express. obviously they're doing very well and they can help a lot, thanks to them, but we don't need another store, and i hope you consider this. thank you. >> president fong, members of the commission, except.er the lady who just spoke ahead of me, for the record, my name is mar -- mare yo*n mazuka come -- thomas, i've live ined the marina for 50 years and for all of those 50 years, i've had dogs and pets. over the past 50 year, i have seen the many, many evolutions and iterations of the marina. there was

thank you very much, please support pet food express. (calling speaker names). >> good evening, commissioner, commissioner fong and fellow commissioners, just for the record, right, pet food express never gave me any money, never gave me any food or any type of donations, okay, just for the record. my name is hanley chan, i've been born and raised in san francisco, i own a small business on the bayview, i'm a member of the bayview merchant's association, and i would wish that they would come and build vibrance in bayview. >> excuse me, folks, please refrain from any outbursts. >> i got three thing, pet food express, good for small business, good for the resident and good for san francisco and that's it, i'm in high support of pet food express, you've seen the diversity of the people speaking, right, and this is what san francisco is all about, it's about diversity and pet food express getting their permit and a vibrant business, alright, thank you. >> for those members that are actually still in the overflow room in room 416, there's a l

connector in the community anymore, i am in favor of pet food express. thank you. >> hello, my name is mark pricipa, i live in san francisco, i find myself confused as to why we're having the debate as to why we should let pet express into the marina, just a few years ago, the *f you rejected this same application, what has changed since then, the threat to small business is the same, the laws are the same, just about the only thing that's changed in this equation is that there is even more opposition to pet food express since 2009, what is the point of having laws which limit the introduce of large chains if they can bully the laws and into our neighborhoods, not taking no from the community is an answer, please say no to pet food express because of that. >> come on up. (calling speaker names). >> good evening, commissioner, president fong, my name is anna teal, and i work with national pet foods, we operate two locations in san francisco, one in the castro and one in north beach, we offer caring specialized customer service, we donate to animal causes

i can usually buy a lot of my products at pet food express. i don't think a company should be penalized for the great work they do, they should be rewarded and i ask you to listen to the merchants as well as the people. thank you. >> hello, commissioner, my name is em rocket and i am a small business owner and resident in san francisco. i am the owner and publisher of a monthly newspaper for dog lovers called bay woof, pet food express has been an advertiser with me since i started the paper in 2007. pet food express, they are one of the few companies of stores of any type who put their money where their mouth is and that they not only donate all of the food to sfn or care control, most of the food to sfspca but they support organizations in a multitude of way, one of the ways they supported me in my small business is during these difficult economic types, they purchased initially advertising in addition to their regular ads and gave it to other rescue organizations, it had none of their logos on it, as part of the community that also supports

my primary support of pet food express is thousands of animals lives have been saved by pet food express and i love animals, i hope you do too, compassion is an important value in our society and in our world, i support pet food express. >> good evening, my name is stephen cornell and i've owned a business in san francisco for 37 years and it's been in san francisco for 108 years and i've been a member and president of certain merchant groups in san francisco. from the planning department's website, under formula use, it says "in an evident to protect san francisco vibrant small business sector and provide an environment for business innovations, it mandates specific controls of formula use". the pet food supply is already oversaturated, there is no benefit for allowing this to occur, pet food express is one of the major causes of major saturation in the market. they already have three mega stores already, and there are 50 locations in the immediate san francisco bay area. the primary impact of allowing pet food express to have this conditional use permit would put small businesses out o

they're interested in pet food express and pet food express only. everything else that's been said to you, i hope you do not let them come in for obvious reasons. thank you. >> good evening, my name is marlene sansiloti, i was raised in the marina so i saw it in the old days when it was all small shops and it was enchanti,

stores on union and lombard will close if pet food express opens on lombard. if you open other pet food stores, you will contribute to the demise of the independent pet store ins the city and the demise of other businesses like my manufacturing company. the city must realize by now the domino effect of the closing of independent pet stores in san francisco's neighborhood, end of letter. this is a current one mile radius map of the five independent pet stores in which chingu used to be the sixth store but since no longer since pet food express opened up, lastly, i believe it's important to note the planning department's executive summary square footage of approximately 7 thousand square feet is a discrepancy from the 9514 square feet from the sf tax assessor's report. this in part is due to the lack of the disclosure to a basement with a walk-out and exit area to the back of the building which could be used for additional storage facility, this could be used for storage, thank you for your time. >> good afternoon, commissioner, my name is susan land ri, i am wi

pet city express operates three locations in the city. the pet tore is proposed for the site and is code compliant is and it would not require a hearing or notification, it is located in the m3 district one block north and the union street two blocks south and three blocks east. and nc3 districts are intended to offer a wide variety of comparison and specialty goods and services to a population greater than the meet neighborhood. other streets, include geary boulevard, mission street and portions of market street. the union street is intended to provide the convenience goods for the residents of cal hollow, and pacific heights and draws from the larger community. also, the nc3 districts is supposed to be developed, to function as a very active shopping district, with larger uses that are attractive to the broader population. through the current mix of formula retail and independently owned retail outlets, on chest nut and ununion it appears that they can co-exist as the streets enjoy a robust commercial activity, and are considered destin

i don't believe that pet food express is a good fit for the marina district. we already have enough mom and pop stores to take care of our needs as we did four years ago. san francisco is a world class tourist destination and when they visit our beautiful city, they want to shop in a unique, eclectic stores with merchandise that's fitting. i just feel that any shop that would pay rent on a blighted store for four years and kind of hide behind that, i'm not aware of politics or anything as far as an activist, but when i heard that, i just -- they could have used that money, i do not know how much the rent is per month, but four years, that money could have been well spent in other ways such as their adoption and such as their helping out the community. i never heard anything in all the years of them renting this as being a benefit to the marina district and this really upsets me. thank you for allowing me to speak. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is sharon hefsky and i have lived in the marina for 36 year, i am in support of my ne

both on the part of the small businesses and pet food express, i'll first address the pet food express and the stewardship of the site and the issues around that site which is very frustrating and i think that wasn't well taken care of. i want to express somewhat frustration with the community groups because i don't see the marina merchants active on the formula retail stuff, you don't come out, nobody cared about g rof star or all of the other stores along chest nut street but all of a sudden there's some interest in pet stores and it would have been better if it was more external look, other neighborhoods did a better job, i think that's really important because the dialog is a bigger picture dialog, i would love it to create a business not to have any competition about it, it is about a bigger picture issue, to have legitimacy, you must be active on the issue whole elastically, -- whole list i scantly, i know the site well, i used to live close to site, walked by it all the time, i used to go to the blockbuster when i was the blockbuster store, after the pfe was not approved, there