i'm kathleen dooley. we feel the pain of having all of those visitors coming in not knowing how to get to our lovely commercial district. we were very active with this community development plan and are kind of creating the new corridors that would bring not only tourists, people from the terminals, and our neighborhood has a real lack of recreation. we would love to be able to find a way to get our neighborhood people to come down and more easily utilize the waterfront. we just want to add our enthusiastic support. we do reflect a large, broad groups of people and the northeast waterfront. >> i don't want to waste time talking about my background, but i was around the waterfront before some of these people were born. one thing that i want to focus a bit more on today, that is the unfinished business following the demolition of the freeway. that being traffic, transit, and parking. there have been numerous failed attempts over the years to produce a comprehensive study of these issues along with a plan to

dooley from the small business commission. i'm not sure if you'd like to address us at all, at this point. >> good evening, commissioners, kathleenall business commission. at this point i want to talk briefly more about that it's really time for us to get together and discuss formula retail and the controls, talk about what's working, what's not working. things have changed in different ways and i think that we would all be kind of tweak what we have so there isn't a constant running battle between small businesses and big box stores. we are very concerned about the cvs prototype. we're also concerned with the pet stores, the predatory pricing. they are just a beast of another kind. in fact, we just recently heard information that the denial of the pet food express on lombard, we are hearing that they've continued to lease the space and will be coming in front of you again and reapplying for that same space despite thesoi outpouring from the community on that. so i just really want to request from our commission to your commission that we get together, have a committee, talk about that, you know, offline and get some productive s