egons report the formula retails can afford to pay higher represents like the jack spade model the store is a loss leader that pays higher represent and backed by a parent corporation. i'll ask what impact that has on the commercial rents in the neighborhood i think you can guess what happens in the neighborhoods when that type of higher end chain moves in what's the negative impact of the money going to the rent or not going into the economy. i respect mr. egons analysis but ask you to treat his analysis with a grain of salt and your only study look at the those for the impacts on the jobs and prices by also on commercial rents as well. lastly i'll you're going to euphoric on your own statistic study i think the testimony provided by itself community members from our various are hearings and later today in 2006 prop g for the neighborhood to have reasonable restrictions on chain stores the loss of neighborhood character as the chains start permitting in this city thank you to the committee and mr. egon >> thank you. let's open up for the public comment but we're going to take the public

we all were involved if the fight of jack spade that drug through a number of city agencies and took a lot of neighborhood advocacy time to fight this loophole that vufblg we won and they left town. we want to see those loopholes closed and at this point where the planning department and commission are looking at redefining formula retail and what inturdz mean and how at the play into this is important this particular issue in the castro needs to be addressed now so that we don't have more of those types of businesses popping up and san francisco becomes the place if you want to open up formula retail all you have to do is call it something else thank you >> thank you, ms. beach nelson. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm allen i'm the president of the castro valley association it's the oldest continuously operating operation established in 1978 we represent over 5 hundred members. i actually thought i was coming to talk about scott's protections but this is more about their project instead of interim controls for 18 months while the planning department goes through the

changes it critical in upper fillmore and more than i's it so global chances are involved and like jack spades and starbucks owns upper juice but some subsidiaries that be owned i know we'll work with the plaintiff planning department number 3 including the retail uses new uses that the proposal has is excellent we've had good agreement on including the gyms and different types of uses left out i've mention we had already included banks but check cashing use is include that's a good thing. i think i'm going to not talk about the measuring the concentrations i'll leave that to emily rogers and others but in the impact reports not to look at the 50 thousand square feet and above stores that leaves out teh safeways and best buys they're much smaller on the 50 thousand square feet and will have an impact on the citywide or recreational be level if they come in but i hope we look at the environmental review reports as a key tool that's used by you and others that makes decisions. i think the key difference that many from the neighborhoods and small businesses will raise in a moment is keeping the f

so, it's me david spade, molly shannon, sarah silverman, jack handey, dennis miller, kevin nealon -- all over the country. it's opening up now. >> both: beyond the comics. >> jimmy: i know you -- you're doing the voices for a a bunch of them? >> yeah, i do a bunch. i'm doing a church lady one. i'm doing one i guess we're gonna show. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. i do a newsman. a live action newsman, tom rabcrite, you know? [ news voice ] "this just in -- the man who coined the phrase 'it's all good' has issued a a statement that it's, in fact, not all good. and some of it is actually quite horrible." [ laughter and applause ] that's in there. do you want to show the clip or are we out of time? >> jimmy: no, you can show it. what's the hippie one? >> this is a -- hippie who just can't get away from the '60s. here he comes. >> jimmy: "i, hippie." take a look. >> i remember getting on board ken keezey's bus and we'd drive down to big sur and listen to the music of our time, man. or some of the latest beat poetry laid down by jack kerouac or ginsberg. we were changing the way it al

jacks, queens are or kings. >> the one you name is the one we use. keen queen of clubs or spades?change your mind? >> fold it and paper clipped. the one and the only, the queen of clubs. >> wow! okay. >> i'm so glad that worked. >> me too. >> souvenir for you. >> in my mouth, okay. >> i'm impressed. i can see why you're on "america's got talent" and doing really well. >> yeah. >> so far, so good. >> a lot of magicians produce doves. >> a dragonfly. >> it could be a cia drone, i don't know. when you realized you made it this far and the judges liked your act, what was the response? >> it was amazing. we got told by heidi klum that we're moving on to the live rounds. and she would come out and, be, like -- she kissed us on the cheeks. >> big moment for us. >> we messed it up a few times so we had to do the take over and every. >> you were able to bring it to the next level. are you ready for the whole thing? >> that's the plan. >> that's the idea. >> what would you do with the money if you won? >> we would do a touring show, buy bigger stuff. >> i read you guys have used magic in cr