no new or needed community serving retail. displaces an existing small business, and will increase retail rents in the district, thereby negatively impacting the potential for new and local small businesses. thank you for the extra time to speak today. thank you. we have a number of speaker cards here, and we did allot a 15-minute period for, as we just heard, for three different neighborhood groups and three groups to share a combined thought. so, if you find yourself of like mind, we want to hear what you have to say, but you might want to nod and keep your comments short and try not to repeat the comments. we see there are a number of folks in the audience with stickers. so, we under this is a large group here. go ahead and call some names. gary virginia. mikael meg. [speaker not understood]. alex coulter. hali hail. lena coulter. max coulter, the whole family. trisha hickey. any of these names, if i called your name come on up. it might be easier to line up on that side
very much in favor, and i would urge the commission to approve it and the conditional use, because this started a 70 foot wide boulevard, with four car lanes and two bike lanes and hundreds of thousands in a block or two and exactly this kind of a business, a business that can accommodate that kind of a scale and. you have to think of the context, and this is market street, this is not some lane on the side of hase valley, this is major like mission avenue, and so i welcome the proposed design and i liked that they let you hang out there, and these are all benefits that are not available at other cafes. if you sit and hang out they besinger will usher you out as soon as the coffee is over, i go to the starbucks and meet people and there th is not a parallel business to places that are being claimed to be coffee stops. there is already one nearby, the distance is almost a mile. coffee is a hyper local business, you would not walk in a half mile to get the coffee. to me this
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