the city. they had businesses on divisadero street. in the '70s and '80s, it was a place to be. and some of them have suffered physically from it. throughout my living in the city for 47 years, i bought a business in 1992 and we were doing good. and then we had the opportunity to buy at 619 and 621 on divisadero. i was picked out of seven other people because i told them i want to open a health food

the city. they had businesses on divisadero street. in the '70s and '80s, it was a place to be. and some of them have suffered physically from it. throughout my living in the city for 47 years, i

and then we had the opportunity to buy at 619 and 621 on divisadero. i was picked out of seven other people because i told them i want to open a health food store. from that moment in time, my concern was to help change the neighborhood and i think i have played some part in changing that neighborhood to what it is right now. i was doing good until 2013 when one of the good, respected businesses opened. they have a good reputation and good service. they affected our business big time. i have partners in the business. three families used it live off of his business. and we can't sell that business because nobody wants to compete with buy right. so we decided to rent that -- >> president hillis: 10 more seconds. >> i was planning to rent that place. we could not really rent it because they didn't want to compete with buy right. other people come in and try to build a chocolate factory. we had opposition from the homeowner association. some they were so picky, they have to change their plans very, very often. and we found out through our lawyer that some m

i want to take another tact, looking at the divisadero. it is a large number of years now that various struggles of that community and corridor have been in front of this commission and it was always impressive to me how the community stood for values that created the corridor as it is today. there was a long, protracted value with the harding. and what was the right fit, together with the discussion about housing, appropriate housing, etc., etc. i also have used some of the private yoga studios on divisadero. in this particular case, i stand with those smaller studios and their survival. they've provided the services that are needed and it doesn't necessarily have to be replaced by a formula yoga studio to continue to support that tradition. i voted for corepower at dubose and there was no opposition. in this case, i would support the corridor and the sense of their own future and not support co core yoga in this location. >> president hillis: i think we're looking at this as a use and if it tips the balance of formula retail in the neighb

divisadero? >> commissioner richards: correct. >> we're planning to bring the case to full calendar item. i will have an approval and disapproval motion prepared, depending on how the commission decides to move forward. >> commissioner richards: is this standard practice, where if we hear something and we make a motion, project sponsor gets a second chance at a second hearing? >> president hillis: if we have a motion to disapprove, we'll have a hearing on the motion to disapprove. that's always the case. sometimes we put it on consent. i think the project sponsor indicated they would pull it off consent, so i think that's the reason not to have it on consent. one of the reasons we asked for it to be continued is i realized we had a heavy calendar today. so we asked a couple of projects to continue so we could clear some room on the calendar because we knew we had mission and central soma back. so that was some of the calendar reconfiguration. we can have it on consent, but i think that people would want it pulled off consent. so we took that step in advance. >> commissioner richards: i wi

the base density would be to get to that number. i know this because we have a very similar project on divisadero, which i've mentioned here before, 9-story building in our 65-foot height limit corridor. we have a prescriptive planning code that defines how to calculate base density why should any project be exempt from following the planning code? if any project can use the density bonus, then the planning code must be amended to provide a way to calculate that bonus density limit. thank you very much. >> president hillis: thank you. ms. sorenson. >> marie sorenson. i haven't been here for the tillman in a while. and it still fries me that he fights all development in sausalito because he doesn't want his views blocked. well, i just think it's wrong. really, would you send your kids to a -- this is essentially a preschool, that their recess is in a moldy, dank yard that's probably going to be cold because of the shadows? the new shadow study has found that the proposed project will cast a shadow up on 63% to 67% of the playground up from the current 3% to 8%. the consequences of inadequate sunlight for children, small children in p