. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm jessica fisher aim a born and raised san franciscan and i grew up all my life in this neighborhood and i'm not going to talk about you being a smoker or what it helps to quit smoking or not the real issue is whether or not you guys are going to allow a local family you know to open a business that benefits the community we're talking about attracting people to this area would make it more attractive to the other types of businesses that you know the neighbors want to see, you know, capitalized in this area or come to this area i've known blake and fong for 12 years their trust worthy people that are their taken out the backyard you know the proposal to have people smoke in the backyard and i think it's a good thing to have local businesses you see a lot of other cigarette companies and people coming from other places to establish those things in san francisco and the bay area it's important to promote local businesses people that are from here and glutin up here to have the opportunity to expand and open you know whatever kind of business they wa