supervisor farrel has reached out, including a meeting with the supervisor, representatives of both organizations, and a member of the planning department staff, ms. rogers. during the meeting, several suggestions were made to craft legislation as it is now. the ban on formula retail came out of our discussions with the merchants association and others and is intended to preserve the unique character of the upper fillmore area. the supervisor also checked in with the former executive director of the golden gate restaurant association, who expressed his support of the legislation. our office continues to receive feedback and will continue to listen before this is heard at the land use committee. this is on the agenda for march 2011 at that committee. we look for to hearing any conditions and consideration gma's. thank you for your consideration. president o'brien: commissioner adams. vice president adams: i totally support this legislation. i have seen this in other areas, particularly union street, castro street, elsewhere, where this has gone forward, and in these economic times, there are vacant storefronts, in union street in particular has be