Support. I also understand that your staff reported two weeks ago in their formula retail report that pet food express is typically not associated with formula retailer, it hurts regional retailers, your planning code says that retail uses are most critical to success of commercial district, it would be a catalyst for investment and upgrades on lombard, i urge you to supports your staff assist recommendation and improve lombard street and the Small Businesses on that street that need this project. Thank you. Hello, commissioners, my name is john toesh, i own a pet store on dairy boulevard and its good to see you again, i think its the third time in front of some of you. As far as ive heard a lot of people say or some of the reports say that pet food, independent pet Food Companies thrive under a pet food express existence. Well, let me tell you about some realities, when they opened up their store on california street, six months late e we experienced a 15 to 20 percent loss in busines
Large chains if they can bully the laws and into our neighborhoods, not taking no from the community is an answer, please say no to pet food express because of that. Come on up. calling speaker names . Good evening, commissioner, president fong, my name is anna teal, and i work with national pet foods, we operate two locations in San Francisco, one in the castro and one in north beach, we offer caring specialized Customer Service, we donate to animal causes and participate in community activity, we enhance and celebrate the neighborhoods we live in and we do the best we can with limited resources. We dont have people who lobby city hall on our behalf, we dont have lawyers to speak at public hearings, we dont participate in redundant neighborhood Business Associations in order to get our foot in the door, despite the work we do for local rescues including city agencies like the acc, we dont put them in a position to advocate for private business, we dont sit in the same location where w
Which limit the introduce of large chains if they can bully the laws and into our neighborhoods, not taking no from the community is an answer, please say no to pet food express because of that. Come on up. calling speaker names . Good evening, commissioner, president fong, my name is anna teal, and i work with national pet foods, we operate two locations in San Francisco, one in the castro and one in north beach, we offer caring specialized Customer Service, we donate to animal causes and participate in community activity, we enhance and celebrate the neighborhoods we live in and we do the best we can with limited resources. We dont have people who lobby city hall on our behalf, we dont have lawyers to speak at public hearings, we dont participate in redundant neighborhood Business Associations in order to get our foot in the door, despite the work we do for local rescues including city agencies like the acc, we dont put them in a position to advocate for private business, we dont sit
Good evening, my name is kelly, i run a private independent dog training company. And i have clients throughout all the neighborhoods of San Francisco. I drive a lot in this city back from kristi field to ocean park, and i walk almost all the neighbors with my clients and their dogs and i can tell you from first hand experience that once those dogs are adopted, they often need special care and training, and that i have had the most success in rehabilitating those dogs and adjusting them to an urban environment when they have a close relationship with their small neighborhood pet store. They dont always have everything that those owners and dogs need in that store but they bend over backwards to get it to meet the needs of those dogs and their clients and ive had the most tremendous time working with all of the small Animal Stores in San Francisco and i have also worked and shopped at pet food express. I dont think that they need a fourth store in the city. I think that the most unique
Neighborhoods, not taking no from the community is an answer, please say no to pet food express because of that. Come on up. calling speaker names . Good evening, commissioner, president fong, my name is anna teal, and i work with national pet foods, we operate two locations in San Francisco, one in the castro and one in north beach, we offer caring specialized Customer Service, we donate to animal causes and participate in community activity, we enhance and celebrate the neighborhoods we live in and we do the best we can with limited resources. We dont have people who lobby city hall on our behalf, we dont have lawyers to speak at public hearings, we dont participate in redundant neighborhood Business Associations in order to get our foot in the door, despite the work we do for local rescues including city agencies like the acc, we dont put them in a position to advocate for private business, we dont sit in the same location where we were turned down once before while we wait for the