to san francisco state and finish my degree it when it first moved up here i would take that 26 valencia bus, which is no longer in service. i would take it for state and go to valencia street where if i wanted a burrito i would go to welcome break. it's still there. were i would go to, if i wanted a cocktail i might go to commies, one of the i couldn't believe the name. as i continued my foray into the city, as i got to know it, i discovered dollars, which was done. i never had a bakery like that i grew up a town of 3000 people and 28 churches. you think they would've had sweet tooth. i would go and get a pastry. if i took the train through i could go to buena vista cafÉ. that's still there. businesses are being lost to our legacy businesses are being lost. if we want to be fresno we can be fresno. by bringing in big chains and multistate companies, but that's not who we are. one of the things i loved about san francisco when i first moved here was, if i wanted to get something i had to go to wine stains. that's no longer here. we have no change. we had macy. that was pretty much it. now, w

my name is a jefferson jefferson a manager of a bus company and run that company for the last 6 years on valencia street i'm a resident in the neighborhood for 12 years i cherish the mission district i have a lot for the mission district some people don't understand that's why i'm here because of the my passion for my neighborhood when i saw the building go up i'll reserve for comments for the architecture aspect last year's of the building whether i found out that it was going to be one big long block of a medical facility i was concerned again, i'm in the merchant association to there was discussion the people approached us and asked us for our support we said we want to see morality in the street small independent retail makes mission special it is the only place in the united states that has a mile-long stretch of the chain free it is special tourists come to see it, the people that live there cherish and value that in spirit we're going to lose that with the medical facility coming in i appreciate i've gone right direction by offering tiny 3 feet wide not a huge step in the right direction b