. >> good afternoon, commissioners iveng brooks speaking on behalf of the green party and especially the grassroots in our city. as a resident that lives a block away from the location in strong opposition to the conditional use. as the previous speaker noted there's already a g n v c and another chance within a couple of blocks. this location has been a local business location and the idea i'm sure you're aware of we've discussed the idea with retail in san francisco is towards local businesses not toward opening up that used to be local biz businesses to chain store they're the first thing we've worked on we head in the direction of local sustainable businesses are that this particular part of polk street is going on an amazing renaissance and almost all the new businesses that are coming in are new local proprieties not chain stores and that's an interesting place to be. i live on the block of endearing i did not find out about this my block didn't get outreach i found out walking past the store front and had a consumer crisis and couldn't get more people aware i think more people