i don't know if i'm allowed to ask mr. bruno a question, president breed, or if i have to wait until later? >> president breed: for the? >> supervisor tang: for the appellant? >> president breed: no, you can ask him now. >> supervisor tang: ok, i have a for the appellant. >> supervisor tang: just one question. how long have you lived in your current house? >> i've lived in nobles alley since 1985 with travels to los angeles and other places, but 1985. >> supervisor tang: how many different owners have there been? >> mr. yee has owned the property for 50 years with his family. i knew them because they were there when i was living there. he sold the property in 1997. and that -- >> supervisor tang: i'm sorry, one speaker at a time. >> just so -- so that everybody knows, people feel strongly -- >> supervisor tang: just answer the question, how many people have owned -- >> i believe there have been four or five owners. >> we believe this garage was established in 1997, this current owner, we saw e-mail saying she came into ownership

. >> next speaker and after mr. bruno there is joanne hillary, rudy.ali jm ma and susan king. >> thank you, lora thomas a member of the state legalization task force. and i have faith that san francisco can do it both right and fast. this is not actually a new issue for us. and we have a lot of expertise in our city to build on. some of my concerns are related to our priority around ensuring that equity applicants are able to be supported. thisthat they're able to have both job and entrepreneurship, students in all of this. one of my concerns is that any buffer limits or caps are going to have a disproportionate impact on equity applicants by limiting their opportunities. i think that limits, caps, buffers, are based in very outdated assumptions about what a cannabis dispensary is or does. we've heard a lot about in previous conversations about messages to children around this. i think honestly the primary message that a retail cannabis dispensary provides to young people is that this is not for you until you are older, which i think is exactly the mes

i was standing behind this group of people as i walked in to city hall today, and i saw mr. brunosaying, don't worry, i have a script for you. and it really hurt me. it personally hurt me he would sit there and try to besmirch my family and say we're foreigners, coming in for a bad notion or bad idea to do this, when it's completely and utterly false. and as my brother showed you, it's his own self-interest to keep his private park space. i hope you see through this charade. and you do what is right here and follow the law, thank you very much. >> president breed: thank you. next speaker, please. if there are any other members of the public who would like to speak in opposition to the appeal, please line up to your right. >> good afternoon. excuse me, good evening. my name is rick sa vary, i live in north beach. i was born in san francisco, my dad -- 92-year-old dad was born in san francisco. my mom grew up here and passed away a few years ago. i want to iterate what was said here, was that the family has lived here for almost 100 years. his mom lives up the street from me and has