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And will continue to evolve and as San Francisco grows and extremely important that fewer people drive or our lives will become unbearablely grid locked and unhealthy. Most of the customers come by here walking and transit and cycling and stand strong for our best interest with the understanding that there are many other merchants who feel as we do that everyone will benefit if San Franciscos plans are smart and forward looking, there is another one that also with the same things in different terms, but they do contrary to popular opinion, they do understand that a lot of the customers do not arrive by car and they are willing to adapt and change to any loss of parking and changes in loading. Thank you. Any other members of the public that would like to make a comment . My name is Mitchell Berg and i am a Business Owner on polk street and actually this evening, is the District Association Christmas Party and that is why most of the merchants and i am the only one here and the vast majo
Business owners are cyclists and this is an either or which is not true and this has been underlying some of the arguments i will start with the first note, we are owners of a Small Business and, we have seen it change often. We know how important it is, sorry. We know how important it is, for businesses to anticipate and adapt to change in order to thrive and know what really effects our business and we change our shop design seasonally and the city and the public spaces have a longer cycle and it is at the beginning of a new cycle with the new design. And we want to see the best design of how the city has been and will continue to evolve and as San Francisco grows and extremely important that fewer people drive or our lives will become unbearablely grid locked and unhealthy. Most of the customers come by here walking and transit and cycling and stand strong for our best interest with the understanding that there are many other merchants who feel as we do that everyone will benefit if
Personally and they could not be here under normal circumstances but this is their holiday time. But several of them actually volunteered to write notes for how they feel about changes. Okay, i would like to first of all just dichotomy and several of them, cyclists are families and cyclists are customer and Business Owners are cyclists and this is an either or which is not true and this has been underlying some of the arguments i will start with the first note, we are owners of a Small Business and, we have seen it change often. We know how important it is, sorry. We know how important it is, for businesses to anticipate and adapt to change in order to thrive and know what really effects our business and we change our shop design seasonally and the city and the public spaces have a longer cycle and it is at the beginning of a new cycle with the new design. And we want to see the best design of how the city has been and will continue to evolve and as San Francisco grows and extremely im
Workers. And who are hop on bikes to get to work, and not because they have to, cycling is no longer an alternative means of transportation, it is a means of transportation. And it is if anything, becoming you know, people are almost bragging that they are actually choosing to take a bike, we are selling nice and her nicer bikes, and you know the people that would drive a nice car or take a nicer means of transportation are getting really nice bikes and they are getting out there and finding traffic despite the number one concern being their own safety. And beyond these folks, there are thousands and thousands more who would ride their bikes, and if they felt safe on the roads and we need, safer infrastructure for cyclists and we need to be aable to accommodate more cyclists and the nice effect of that is that will ease the load on private vehicles and more importantly public transportation. My name is Kristine Winsor and i have been here for four years and i walk, i bike and i own a c