. >> 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

. >> commissioners peter cowen housing organizations i think i'm going to be reinforcing the impact of the housing in general to the last speakers comment you need to look at the demands is that's going to be generated by this project both commercial and residential and understanding the workforce profile and their income levels whether their janitorial and what kind of housing and to what extent this proximately is mitigating that housing need not only paying the money but creating units or the combination so i think it would be valuable for this eir to look much more carefully at what really is the need generated by this project at the income level and hallway mitigating or 33 percent mite whatever that's something an erica do and secondly a lot of discussion about the impact at that particular time of other things south of market and the mission street and central city, etc. that's something the internal revenue can and should in this case look at we are not only losing residents but nonprofit service providers and the light industry this isn't because a building comes in and replac

. >> good afternoon, commissioners peter cowen i have a letter to submit and i'll paraphrase it we e-mails this to you a few hours ago we'll speak to the environmental review i want to put this project in context what we have as a new normal for housing balance of a minimum of 33 percent and specifically within that we also have a commitment from the city to look at the south of market and in particular, the central selma plan elevates the projects within that context we did data analysis to give you you an idea you look at the pipeline and the projects so you can have a reference point for on about this project we look at all the entitled projects from the department data the balance is 26 percent the inclusionary units plus one hundred percent affordable against the projects that are fully entitled for construction 26 percent is not bad it's been thirty percent the pipeline going forward is there's a lot of market rate compare that to the inclusions and we're down roughly hallway of the thresholds so whether the current 26 percent which is an increment below the third or the pipeline pro