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To meet the standard of our city rather than us conforming to whatever their Business Model is. Thats the reason i attended the preapplication meeting and thats why ive been in communication with project sponsors. Ever since then to try to assure that this had a greater street presence to what they originally proposed. Bear in mind those fancy architectural renderings youre looking at are only appropriate if youre in a helicopter hovering over the project site. The reality on the ground is blanch street is a oneway street going eastward towards the embarcadaro. And in general, what you will se...

Approved, the Commission Must grant conditional authorization allowing the formula retail use within this umu Zoning District. The department believes that it is a necessary or desirable project because it will not affect the concentration of formula retail uses existing within the contiguous umu Zoning District because it is replacing an existing formula retail use. Because the project will improve the pedestrian experience along bryant street, and because the project is consistent with the planning code and showplace square, potrero area plan, and the general plan overall. Therefore, the Dep...

There will be a much larger volume on brannon and [speaker not understood]. One of the biggest problems with kate street using it as a loading dock is the street is very narrow and along that street is everybodys driveway and entrance to their building. In the past sfpd has recognized anybody using that loading dock is blocking my driveway and we have ticketed and towed cars in the past. It is not a legal loading dock and its not really designed to be a loading dock because of how narrow it is and how it obstructs everybodys ability to go from their property. Id like to see a traffic study don...

Next speaker. Hello, my name is rick carp, im the president of Cole Hardware here in San Francisco and im asking you to please reject this project based on the formula retail issues. Its been my passion since the early 80s to try to keep big box and formula retail out of San Francisco. Im the veteran of the home depot wars that went on three to four different times when we finally lost about five years ago. They left because of their Business Model that screwed up at the time. Lowes came in. My whole deal for that whole time period was if you let one big box into San Francisco, then all of the...

Good evening. Im kate baldwin in for erin burnett. Lashing out, president obama diving into the gop war of words and calling out donald trump. In fact when asked a question about Mike Huckabee the president seemed to go out of his way to turn his remarks to trump a number of times. When you look at whats happening with mr. Trump, when he has made some of the remarks that for example challenge the heroism of mr. Mccain, somebody who endured torture and conducted himself with exemplary patriotism the Republican Party is shocked. The latest cnn poll makes it clear, though that trumps remarks didn...