my name is regina tracy, from the office of small business, as the supervisor noted, the commission did support this legislation and, for many of the reasons stated here in terms of seeing this as a reasonable expansion of formula retail controls, to be able to deal with maintaining the unique diversity and visual retell, the daytime -- not daytime, but the retail environment for commercial corridors, the concentrations are like what you see and how that can affect -- affect the flow and traffic of a commercial corridor. in terms of the outreach, on behalf of the office of the small business commission, as with any piece of legislation that comes your office, we highlight it in our bulletin. we send it out to the key business leaders in the area. but we did not do a specific -- we did not do specific calls to reach business and organization. we did not pull them on this particular matter. -- poll them on this particular matter. i know that there were some discussions on this regarding the cost for financial-services. the commission noted that there are others that have to pay for the ad

my name is regina tracy,