Retail in the commercial business areas if not monitored and regulated will have a diverse retail base with distinct retail and personalities compromised with a mix of businesses, pet food expresss conditional use application would be a complete disregard of the section, pet food express has attempted to paint a picture of a general local business merely trying to serve the community and serve animal welfare, pet food express purposefully utilizing their because. At the same time, they have whether intended or not created an extremely decisive caustic at mot fear and employed questionable tactics of this project. First, pet food express recruited pets unlimited to be a partner in this application, but pets unlimited but the pets unlimited portion of this partnership will consist of 4. 6 of the available Square Footage, i ask you to consider when does charity when achieved to ceasing f seize selfinterest goals have a desired function, their first application in 2009 for a conditional us
Last september, we heard presentations from two local pet store owners, based on their, our board of directors voted 71 to deny pet food expresss conditional use permit for this location, we are against locating a pet food express at this particular location on lombard street but not against pet food express, not formula retail and not other pet food stores in San Francisco, the mca board decided we wanted to take a vote because of the dangerous precedent that this could set for the marina and other residents, if it has your vote of approval today, it sends a message, which is come to our city, buy a lease, try for a permit but if you dont get it, leave your building vacant to rot, dont be a good neighbor, dont clean up your mess and dont try for a permit, this can happen with absentee tenant, since pet food express presented to us, we tried to get them to take responsibility by maintaining their building by painting over their graffiti or cleaning up their litter but these have gone t
The behavior which has been harm f to the community. In october of 2012, the Marina Community association informed pet food express they would impose the [inaudible] on lombard street, from sf weekly yesterday, pet food express has been instrumental of the lombard merchants business association, an organization which appears to be to support their project. One of the first orders of business of this organization was to take up cause amongst the Small Business commission, i hope you will send a clear message that this kind of manipulation in pursuit of a permit will not be rewarred or tolerated, according to the Planning Department recommendation, in 2010, the commission made a find hating the pet food express should work with city in order to identify neighborhoods, there would be no negative impact on existing local businesses. I question how exhausted that search could have been if after it, their answer was to once again try to open on lombard street. A location which was roundly re
In our San Francisco coalition, pet food express has 50 stores all located in the bay and surrounding bay area, most importantly, pet food express is the fifth largest pet supplier in the u. S. , as the fifth largest supplier in the country, they use their significant buying power for their 50 stores and warehouse their projects in their 150 Square Foot Distribution Center located in oakland. This means they can buy for substantially lower prices in the San Francisco independent store, they can sell their products for what i can buy them for which leads to a direct impact to our community. Id like to read an excerpt from a letter of a store that went out of business in part because of pet food express. My name is liz pack, im a San Francisco bay manufacturer and until february, 2013, i owned a pet store kauld chingu on union street, i urge ewe to deny pet food expresss application for a conditional use permit on lombard. My opposition to this lombard street location is based on my expe
Animal welfare, pet food express purposefully utilizing their because. At the same time, they have whether intended or not created an extremely decisive caustic at mot fear and employed questionable tactics of this project. First, pet food express recruited pets unlimited to be a partner in this application, but pets unlimited but the pets unlimited portion of this partnership will consist of 4. 6 of the available Square Footage, i ask you to consider when does charity when achieved to ceasing f seize selfinterest goals have a desired function, their first application in 2009 for a conditional use permit at this location, pet food express began buying multiple pages of advertising in each issue of the mar wraen na times making them the largest buyer of ad space in the paper, they testified in favor of the project and offered a series of one sided articles for pet food express in our paper, for months, regular pieces have been written vilifying our pet stores and our owners which have b