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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 hear...

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 se...

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 ...

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. ...

We will begin this morning with the city of detroit and your thoughts on the federal bailout for them. What is your take . Michigan residents, we want to hear from you let me begin with detroits mayor who was on the sunday talk shows and was talking about the prospects of a federal bailout. [video clip] i know the president has a lot on his plate. This will add tremendously to that. We are not the only city that is going to struggle through what we are going through. There are over 100 major urban cities having the same problems we are having. We may be one of the first. We are the largest. Th...