hi, my name is stephen cornell and i own brown use hardware on polk street. i like the rest of these businesses have been in san francisco a long time. this is our 107th year. we have 12 people working in our business. 90% of them are full-time employed. like everybody else we pay our people more than minimum wage. we pay them health benefits. not because the city-mandated it. we've been doing it for years. all these companies are coming in, asking to come in. they have to pay health benefits because the city makes them do that. we are here for a long period of time. we help people. i'd like to address the issue of how there is not hardly any other businesses that this is going to affect. i think in the map that you got from the planning department, it was very gerrymandered. i gave you a map that is perfectly square by blocks around. the first one is for two blocks around square. the second one is four blocks around, five blocks around. and the third one is 10 blocks around. within that area there are 33 businesses that are -- can be affected. some of their