discussion and possible action item and we have kanishka burns from the planning department, who is kind enough to give us an overview of the report and answer questions. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon. so i'm going talk to you about the planning department's study of formula retail controls. i have a powerpoint. i don't know if it's going go on the screen for you. there it is. this is an overview of our schedule for this study. the study was in response to a number of pending board of supervisors proposals seeking to expand formula retail controls in their districts, as well as one proposal to expand control citywide. the planning commission asked the board to study the current control and what the actually affects have been like in the neighborhoods? so some of the questions that they wanted to answer included the employment characteristics of formula retail versus independent retail? a lot of the community was concerned about the hiring practices and difference and benefits in wages. our study wasn't able to answer that question clearly. mostly because employers can't colle

so before you is just making sort of saying that we coalesce around certain conditions and what kanishka is bringing forward those are current legislation that is on hold. so i want to make sure that you are clear we are not commenting on legislation, but making recommendations or suggestions or directions to the planning department, to the mayor and to the board of supervisors. so move on to item no. 3 in terms of the 11 and we talk about the conditional use process. and i think we need to -- one thing to keep in mind is the conditional use process whether you are formula retail, or whether you are an individual restaurant with a full liquor license is the same process. and the problem is the process. and the amount of time. so even if we increase the formula retail numbers, we still haven't solved the problem of improving the process. so you do have the ability to make recommendations in saying that if there is going to be an adjustment, there has to be a correction and analysis to improve the process, so it doesn't take six, eight months or a year to get through that process. >> right