>> good afternoon, commissioner, any name is nick davis son, i'm the vice-president for the marina association, it was established in 1929 and is the only merchant's association recognized by the san francisco planning, and i would like to read a letter that was addressed to supervisor farrell, thank you for your continued support of our neighborhood and your ongoing [inaudible] of the marina, by a vote by the mma general membership, we are asking for your support in denying a conditional use permit of pet food express in the marina, after attending many meet, speaking directly to the pet food express own e we have concluded this business is not something that the maer chant's agreement can agree with, we feel the merchants have spoken and we are asking support from you on this issue. sincerely, mike [inaudible], the secretary of the mma, myself, nick david son of the mma and alex, our past president from the marina merchant's association. >> good afternoon, commissioner, my name is keith jerdano and i have resigned? the marina far years, in our planning code regarding formula retail state, th

not really make a presentation to us because what you heard before from the presence of the marina association, bottom line is what i did hear from most of the merchants around town, had pet food express reached out to the neighbors right from the get-go, if they didn't keep the place vacant, if they kept the main storage warehouse over here rather than moving it across the bay, they would have a lot of support from the merchants that i have spoken to, but however that didn't happen. did i deserve to be punished for that and not be able to open up, that's for you to decide. i'm really torn about this. i think they're doing a great job of what he's given to the police dog training and all these other things that he's done, the contributions he's done for these non-profits, he's done a great job in has ropt, but the other small businesses, what have they gotten with pet food express. i want to say that that's where we sort of came if we didn't come up to a decision, i would like to leave it up to your wise decision. thank you. >> hi there, my name is richard shu and i own a small pet boutique in

secretary of the mma, myself, nick david son of the mma and alex, our past president from the marina merchant's association. >> good afternoon, commissioner, my name is keith jerdano and i have resigned? the marina far years, in our planning code regarding formula retail state, the formula retail in the commercial business areas if not monitored and regulated will have a diverse retail base with distinct retail and personalities compromised with a mix of businesses, pet food express's conditional use application would be a complete disregard of the section, pet food express has attempted to paint a picture of a general local business merely trying to serve the community and serve animal welfare, pet food express purposefully utilizing their because. at the same time, they have whether intended or not created an extremely decisive caustic at mot fear and employed questionable tactics of this project. first, pet food express recruited pets unlimited to be a partner in this application, but pets unlimited -- but the pets unlimited portion of this partnership will consist of 4.6% of the available square footag

> good afternoon, commissioner, my name is ar y*el kelly and i'm the president of the marina neighborhood association, the mca was founded in 2006, we have over 500 members consisting of tenant, home owners and property owners in the marina district, the mca has an 11 member board of directors, a monthly newsletter and monthly board meetings, in 2009 when this commission denied pet free express its permit, the mca did not take a position. we felt it created a deep divide and our board decided to not take a formal position but educate our members and know what was going on. in 2009, pet food express was denied the conditional use permit but with two extremely different conditions, one, pet food express has since opened a store just one mile away on california street so any marina resident can access a pet food express store, it has been an absentee tenant for the last four years, since 2009, many neighbors have grown increasingly frustrated by the graffiti, litter and homeless chaserbacker camping taking place aon a regular basis on lombard street, we filed complaints with various city agencies but th

in october of 2012, the marina community association informed pet food express they would impose the [inaudible] on lombard street, from sf weekly yesterday, pet food express has been instrumental of the lombard merchant's business association, an organization which appears to be to support their project. one of the first orders of business of this organization was to take up cause amongst the small business commission, i hope you will send a clear message that this kind of manipulation in pursuit of a permit will not be rewarred or tolerated, according to the planning department recommendation, in 2010, the commission made a find hating the pet food express should work with city in order to identify neighborhoods, there would be no negative impact on existing local businesses. i question how exhausted that search could have been if after it, their answer was to once again try to open on lombard street. a location which was roundly rejected by the community just three short years ago, deny the request for conditional use, thank you very much. >> thank you, as a reminder, the commissi

is evan goldman and i am also a resident of the marina, you have already heard from the marina community association and other presenters opposed to granting the conditional use permit for the proposed project. i wish to echo these views and add a few points of my own, i have lived for over 8 years in the marina and i am deeply concerned about preserving the stores and other independent businesses, i am not alone in my views, the numbers as presented by the planning department shows that 3555 residents and associations oppose the project, and we have already been through this process once before in 2009 when the commission denied the first pet food exprez location for the first lombard location, have the things changed? just the opposite. in 2009, the neighborhood continues to overwhelmingly oppose the project, second, pet food express is now even more formula retail than before, this fast growing change has over 50 regional stores including opening the third san francisco store on california and presidio just one mile away from the project, the digital california store has ample parking, why would

come together around what can make wlom bard street bet e marina merchants are great, but they focus on chest nut street, the lombard association would not have needed to be made, i recognize you have a lot of owners, or absentee or motel owners who are not active but this is about stewardship of the community and we see other communities do a good job around coming together around businesses in their corridor, for some people, people have cast off lombard until it impacts them. i want to talk about that. i do think that i would love to see -- like i said the community come together around lombard street in general and really think about -- i know the invested neighborhoods is coming up and i know there's investments that need to come into lombard street, i think it's weird when pet food express should locate in the bayview or in another neighborhood, if pet food express has a negative impact if it's on lombard street, it will stale have the same impact in other place, you have to say you don't want pet food express at all, it can't be both ways, we have to make a decision about what is actually the place there. unfortunately,

a few weeks ago, i found out that the marina merchants, somebody went to lombard street with a piece of paper saying sign this, our association wants pet food express. we had to get a vote and try to figure out what to do. we found a girl by the name of diana smith who doesn't even know us who worked on the obama campaign and brook safrp son who's an ex-president of kalt ham association to come down the street with us to make sure we had a fair, safe vote on what the merchants really wanted, and in r

a few weeks ago, i found out that the marina merchants, somebody went to lombard street with a piece of paper saying sign this, our association wants pet food express. we had to get a vote and try to figure out what to do. we found a girl by the name of diana smith who doesn't even know us who worked on the obama campaign and brook safrp son who's an ex-president of kalt ham association to come down the street with us to make sure we had a fair, safe vote on what the merchants really wanted, and in four or five days just so find the legitimate owners and the legitimate managers, the vote came out 57 no, 8 yes and no abstention, here is a copy of all of it, also at the same time, we did the study of the vacancies, we found 12 vacancy, two of them work is being done, one for an office but we don't know who the office is, so we included it, another one is work being done and they would not tell us and harold hugatiana that has been vacant. no one has discussed the real issue that's in front of you. it is called if you overturn this legislation that you voted on a few years ago, you are opening up the barn door. where developers

coordinator forthe lombard master plan committee, cal hall association is involved, the mca is involved, golden gate valley is involved, marina merchants have been invited, this new group if it stays together will be part participant of it. we started it and supervisor ferrel asked us to slow down because of a study from the planning department. we will be reopening it, we discussed this a couple of weeks ago faster than supervisor ferrel want, the questionnaires will be out to the merchant and is the businesses concerning parking, traffic and their issues, and it is happening, it's just that we had our hands tied. i'm sorry we had our hands tied because we could have been a lot further along. i have talked to commissioner moore about this on several occasions and have invited her out, and gwyneth, i would love for you to participate. we have been doing it, our hands have been tied and it has frustrated me beyond comprehension, i'm coordinating it and we will get it done and we are working with the mayor's office of economic development. thank you. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment tonight? >> yes. i just h