Thanks for your time. Hi there, my name is linda las ki and im a Third Generation san francis scan and im a veterinarian technician for over 35 years, we are unable to stock a lot of food due to the small size of the clinics so ims imperative where we can send people to get a different variety of food and one of the things that i value that pet food express does is theyre trying to convert to getting foods that are manufactured in the United States to try to prevent a lot of the tainted foods that come in and has to be recalled and causes injury to the animals. They are a Caring Organization that really is community minded. In my neighborhood where i live, if i walk four blocks one way, theres a small boutique pet store, if i walk two blocks the other way, theres a pet food express. They both kind of cover different things, you know, if you want a boutique pet store, they often will not have room for food as well. They might have very expensive beds and things like that. I think that i
Go ahead, maam. Hi, my name is patricia wave and ive lived in San Francisco for 30 years. I dont believe that pet food express is a good fit for the Marina District. We already have enough mom and pop stores to take care of our needs as we did four years ago. San francisco is a World Class Tourist Destination and when they visit our beautiful city, they want to shop in a unique, eclectic stores with merchandise thats fitting. I just feel that any shop that would pay rent on a blighted store for four years and kind of hide behind that, im not aware of politics or anything as far as an activist, but when i heard that, i just they could have used that money, i do not know how much the rent is per month, but four years, that money could have been well spent in other ways such as their adoption and such as their helping out the community. I never heard anything in all the years of them renting this as being a benefit to the Marina District and this really upsets me. Thank you for allowing m
Express is a good fit for the Marina District. We already have enough mom and pop stores to take care of our needs as we did four years ago. San francisco is a World Class Tourist Destination and when they visit our beautiful city, they want to shop in a unique, eclectic stores with merchandise thats fitting. I just feel that any shop that would pay rent on a blighted store for four years and kind of hide behind that, im not aware of politics or anything as far as an activist, but when i heard that, i just they could have used that money, i do not know how much the rent is per month, but four years, that money could have been well spent in other ways such as their adoption and such as their helping out the community. I never heard anything in all the years of them renting this as being a benefit to the Marina District and this really upsets me. Thank you for allowing me to speak. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is sharon hefsky and i have lived in the marina fo
Hi, my name is patricia wave and ive lived in San Francisco for 30 years. I dont believe that pet food express is a good fit for the Marina District. We already have enough mom and pop stores to take care of our needs as we did four years ago. San francisco is a World Class Tourist Destination and when they visit our beautiful city, they want to shop in a unique, eclectic stores with merchandise thats fitting. I just feel that any shop that would pay rent on a blighted store for four years and kind of hide behind that, im not aware of politics or anything as far as an activist, but when i heard that, i just they could have used that money, i do not know how much the rent is per month, but four years, that money could have been well spent in other ways such as their adoption and such as their helping out the community. I never heard anything in all the years of them renting this as being a benefit to the Marina District and this really upsets me. Thank you for allowing me to speak. Than
S, 40 year resident, i have a fair amount of experience now in doing assessments on things like the relationships of formula retail use. Two Small Business in close proximity, i just finished 400 hours on lombard street and i conducted 234 discussions with business and Property Owners and as some of you know, i do that very well, it takes me a long time. Along with that, i did 13 hours of Traffic Studies on lombard and i found 2600 cars per hour plus going by every hour and i went down to chest nut or to webster and buchanan and the other side streets out there all the way to divisadero and see how many cars went in there and turned left on chest nut, none, 2 , 3 maybe maximum. Now, back in june of last year, in june, 2012, i set out on my own without compensation on my own to explore the lombard corridor and find out what i could about the problems that it had, do some findings and get my own assessments from a sampling of about 17 bids owners, that ended up 234 and 400 hours by the t