i am madalyn and i am a advocate for all of the people in the polk corridor and i have had the pleasure of getting to know many of the small business owners and talking to them personally and they could not be here under normal circumstances but this is their holiday time. but several of them actually volunteered to write notes for how they feel about changes. okay, i would like to first of all just dichotomy and several of them, cyclists are families and cyclists are customer and business owners are cyclists and this is an either or which is not true and this has been underlying some of the arguments i will start with the first note, we are owners of a small business and, we have seen it change often. we know how important it is, sorry. we know how important it is, for businesses to anticipate and adapt to change in order to thrive and know what really effects our business and we change our shop design seasonally and the city and the public spaces have a longer cycle and it is at the beginning of a new cycle with the new design. and we want to see the best design of how the city has be

i am madalyn and i am a advocate for all of the people in the polk corridor and i have had the pleasure of getting to know many of the small business owners and talking to them personally and they could not be here under normal circumstances but this is their holiday time. but several of them actually volunteered to write notes for how they feel about changes. okay, i would like to first of all just dichotomy and several of them, cyclists are families and cyclists are customer and business owners are cyclists and this is an either o

i am madalyn and i am a advocate for all of the people in the polk corridor and i have had the pleasure of getting to