i'm giselle gelvin, owner of rare device and president of the newly reformed divisa de ro merchants association the merchants association voted to not support corepower yoga for the following reasons. first, because divisadero is a unique corridor. knowing that corepower yoga is opening a lot of studios in san francisco, we want our street to remain unique. we want it to remain diverse in terms of age, gender, ethnicity and skin color. if we keep allowing big businesses to open up on our street, divisadero will become less affordable for us mom and pops that own businesses. i will read a letter from someone who could not be here today. he has been there for 14 years. he is an owner -- property owner and business owner on divisadero street. they welcome investment in our corridor and his concern is mostly because corepower yoga has an aggressive expansion footprint in san francisco, with two locations within 1/2 mile of yoga garden. and issues of employee treatment has made news locally and nationally. we also want to acknowledge the nassers and everything that they've contributed to the communi