. >> good afternoon, supervisors peter cowen speaking as a citizen of upper market castro i was involved in the 10 year anniversary mark you think it's appropriate some peaks and strelgz because of the formula retails it's incredibly successful with the critiques it is working it's done exactly when it is opportunity to do i also wanted to point out some data we've found back there i think it is a unique concern in san francisco that's you roughly about 90 percent of our retailers have 5 stores or less 5 stores are less and 80 percent of our rail yards are single store locations which means the real really fine fabric of san francisco is the retail experience in our neighborhoods that's what the folks want to remain so going forward it is not about planning san francisco as though we were an international market we're in a san francisco unique aquarius or character of retailing i'll be careful to think that someone is determiningizing formula retail it's about being careful of a balanced mr. mayor field with the localized businesses so the scrutiny is quite successful that said the mid s

makes san francisco so unique character of the small businesses are at the core and the data that peter cowen raised at the last minute how large in many ways the smaller sector chain stores and the critical nature they play in the community is critical and i want to knowledge from my offices work we came from a different position than renew from the the mayor's office and the department of workforce development and the chamber moving towards this this is striking that kind of balance not the last words on the chain formula retail but a good place where the balance of preserving neighborhood character and a look at how chain stores and smaller businesses can both co-exist in the city and also is that the amendments i've mentioned earlier i want to add two the first one in the all the time packets and again as supervisor wiener said those will be made available it's up to the last minute we've been working on those we'll do our best to have those cleaned up on page 8 lines three to four an important amendment i'll read into the record we're striking the one phrase it strikes the words analysis

peter cowen is an associate professor of epidemiology at north carolina state's college of veterinary medicine. he has advised the cdc and world health organization on transmission of diseases from animals and the cdc itself tweeted it's working to develop guidance for the u.s. pet population. dr. cowen, did x caliber have to die? >> there has never been a known transmission from dogs to humans of the ebola virus. so we really could have learned a lot by, you know, trying to move in another direction with this animal. >> why couldn't the dog be quarantined, like understand is the case with the husband of the nurse in spain who tested positive? >> we needed to learn whether that woman had transmitted ebola to the dog before we even know the next question, which is can the dog then transmit it to others. so once the dog is euthanized, we never get an answer to that. and we really need answers to these questions. you know, when we study the ebola virus, we study it mainly in humans, and we do a little bit of work in wildlife to find out that bats and other chimpanzees and other animals a

. >> eyewitness i'm peter i support home sharing i own a condominium on katrero hill in the supervisor cowen district i use my spare bedroom for home sharing i'm on the neighborhood katrero next door community i saudi in a home sharing unit when i invested my x home country london it struck me i could use my spare bedroom for that it soda empty for several years my children are grown it is unused space. i'm semi retired this makes it possible to continue to live in this very expensive city. which i've grown to love so much over the last 25 years. i love the idea of using an asset and being able to offer visitors in a place where there's no hotels i have an elderly come up that are living one block away with children they have their own place. this is also an economic committee i want to make a couple of economic points i have been to afford a cleanerer and she also comes and changes the guest room in addition, i buy supplies food and breakfast it from a local grocery store opt the library so i'm helping the city multiple this thousands of other hosts and the economic impact is substantial so