number of city agencies and took a lot of neighborhood advocacy time to fight this loophole that vufblg we won and they left town. we want to see those loopholes closed and at this point where the planning department and commission are looking at redefining formula retail and what inturdz mean and how at the play into this is important this particular issue in the castro needs to be addressed now so that we don't have more of those types of businesses popping up and san francisco becomes the place if you want to open up formula retail all you have to do is call it something else thank you >> thank you, ms. beach nelson. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm allen i'm the president of the castro valley association it's the oldest continuously operating operation established in 1978 we represent over 5 hundred members. i actually thought i was coming to talk about scott's protections but this is more about their project instead of interim controls for 18 months while the planning department goes through the