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sorry, repeating myself, does the mta integrate of the plants with each other? in my area, polk street, there is something called the vaeness plan (sounds like) they will take up parking, take out left turns, all kinds of things but that plan has nothing to do with the plant they are looking at on polk street, window is only one block away. the cta says what happens on polk street has nothing to do with the vaness plan. a spokesman for the mta says that what happens on polk street has ...

you -- we do our regular serve pro forma of the regular legislation, this is a 17 hear that you have sponsored this small business sidewalk encroachment, i want to extend my appreciation to dpw director -- and his team john quong phn (sounds like)-- who work hard in doing this permits every single year to thank supervisor farrel, we have 17 margin organizations participating this year, it is very exciting and two of them will hold the sidewalk sale on may 11, and the remaining will be ...

it wont be funny. it might be funny, because there are conventions. a lot of them will say, "san francisco -- dont go there." this is a lovely, lovely city. it should not become a mega strip mall. somebody goes from the airport to downtown san francisco and do not know what city they are in. the could be in denver or albuquerque. they could be anywhere. that is the big picture, which i hope is what we are thinking about, not just pet food express. was that a bill? -- bell? president ob...

economic money back into the city. citizens of san francisco spend $100 at a chain pet food store. statistics say that $25 goes back into the san francisco economy. if the same hundred dollars is spent at a locally-owned cut store, $43 is reinvested in the community. aside from the other reasons you have heard, there is an economic benefit to supporting the locally-owned businesses for san francisco. thank you very much. president obrien: thank you. next speaker. >> we had a battle goi...

strip mall. somebody goes from the airport to downtown san francisco and do not know what city they are in. the could be in denver or albuquerque. they could be anywhere. that is the big picture, which i hope is what we are thinking about, not just pet food express. was that a bill? -- bell? president obrien: 32nd morning. >> this can spread like a virus, you know? in five years, the entire area -- the chains are waiting to do this. this is what they do. president obrien: thank you. an...

that is what is going to happen. it wont be funny. it might be funny, because there are conventions. a lot of them will say, "san francisco -- dont go there." this is a lovely, lovely city. it should not become a mega strip mall. somebody goes from the airport to downtown san francisco and do not know what city they are in. the could be in denver or albuquerque. they could be anywhere. that is the big picture, which i hope is what we are thinking about, not just pet food express. was t...

i went down to low celtuce the other day. -- los altos the other day. i dont know where i was. i some miles of chance. someone gave me this. -- i saw miles of chains. someone gave me this. you have these other cities with chain stores and formula retail. if we dont put a stop to this, our lovely city that some of us may take for granted, will start to look like this. that is what is going to happen. it wont be funny. it might be funny, because there are conventions. a lot of them will ...

it wont be funny. it might be funny, because there are conventions. a lot of them will say, "san francisco -- dont go there." this is a lovely, lovely city. it should not become a mega strip mall. somebody goes from the airport to downtown san francisco and do not know what city they are in. the could be in denver or albuquerque. they could be anywhere. that is the big picture, which i hope is what we are thinking about, not just pet food express. was that a bill? -- bell? president ob...

next speaker. >> we had a battle going on, and we won that one. we are a member of the coalition 6 san francisco pet stores. we also helped that were involved with the california pet food express. when they did open -- i know this is not about pet food express, but i am letting you know what the impact has been on us. when the opened on california street, we have been impacted, definitely, in the marina. the business is down. what pet food express is doing -- what they used to do was s...

i dont know where i was. i some miles of chance. someone gave me this. -- i saw miles of chains. someone gave me this. you have these other cities with chain stores and formula retail. if we dont put a stop to this, our lovely city that some of us may take for granted, will start to look like this. that is what is going to happen. it wont be funny. it might be funny, because there are conventions. a lot of them will say, "san francisco -- dont go there." this is a lovely, lovely city. ...