clark, supervisor preston, the floor is yours. thank you, melgar, and thank you for scheduling the item today. i also want to thank, veronica flores and audrey maloney from planning and deputy city attorney rob coppola for their work on this item, the intent of this, item before you today is to implement the initial planning commission recommendations from back in 2004, a full 20 years ago, to exempt the mixed use project known as faletti's plaza. from the alcohol restrictions of the nearby divisadero alcohol restricted use district. the ruddy. so the ruddy places strict limitations on new alcohol establishments, including a prohibition on new liquor stores and when the planning commission heard this item back in 2004, they actually recommended at that time that the mixed use development at 1275 fell street, flooding plaza be exempt from the restrictions of the ruddy. in retrospect, i think that exemption was a good idea back then to that would have maintained flexibility of the site, but it was not ultimately adopted into the ordinance that established the ruddy at that time. this was not an issue for many years because th