Okay, good afternoon and welcome to the San Francisco Planning Commission hearing for Thursday, July 9th, 2026.

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At this time, I'd like to take roll.

Commission President Campbell.

Here.

Commissioner Braun.

Commissioner McGarry.

And Commissioner Sow.

Thank you, Commissioners.

First, on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance.

Item one, case number 2026.

Hyphen 004685 PCA for the Shade Act legislation, local implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act.

Further Commissioners under your under commission matters item five, election of officers is proposed for an indefinite continuance until such time we have a uh full host of seated commissioners.

And then under your regular calendar, commissioners, we have a late request from the sponsor for item nine, case number 2025, hyphen 010921 CUA at 5300 Third Street.

Conditional use authorization.

The request is to continue to July 23rd, 2026.

Members of the public, this is your opportunity to adjust the commission on their continuance calendar only on the matter of continuance.

You need to come forward.

Thank you, Commissioners.

Uh Tom Tunney on behalf of applicant auto zone.

We're the on the regular calendar requesting the convenience and just wanted to express our support for that for the continues to the 23rd.

We're a tenant of the property.

If I could, the landlord would like to convey his agreement as well on the record.

Good afternoon, Commissioners.

We're proud owners of the uh property at uh 5300 3rd Street in the Bayview.

Thank you for the opportunity to for letting us speak.

Um, it's been proposed to continue the matter to uh July 23rd.

Uh we are uh agreeing to that with a few comments that uh we the building has been empty as an empty building goes.

Uh it's inviting uh vandalism, graffiti, all kinds of bad elements in the neighborhood.

It's not good for the community or for anybody else to keep the building vacant.

Uh the good use of the building is uh with the responsible tenant, and we have found auto zone to be a very responsible tenant.

We have seen other buildings that they they have been tenants at.

We have done our due diligence and we think they are a perfect fit for the community.

So we would urge the commission not to delay uh the hearing any more than July 23rd, given that there's a uh there is a break coming up uh in August because there is a big burden of uh uh financially carrying the building.

Uh you know, we had to we have mortgage to make, we have uh insurance to pay for an empty building, which is very expensive in this environment.

And then we have vandalism and other things that then go on.

And we want to be a good neighbor.

We have always been a good neighbor in the community.

So we want to keep the building clean.

We have a professional management company.

At times they have to call the police department to help uh keep the building clean.

We didn't have any of these issues when Walgreens occupied the space.

So please uh help us to keep the matter on uh July twenty-third.

Another thing I want to mention that we have been working with local communities since 2020 when um Walgreens had uh decided to pull out of the city.

They they closed shuttered a number of stores in the city, and we have been proactively working with uh uh Supervisor Walton's group, uh economic development group, and I'm really glad that uh Larry McLendon has been a great help.

He has introduced and opened a lot of doors for us to talk to every potential tenant, every potential resource within the city.

So um, and I'm so glad that there is a pharmacy coming up, and they're uh starting construction in about a week, two blocks away from our building.

So uh which is which is a great news for the community.

We're thrilled about it.

So we want to have a bin bin for the community.

We have always been involved with the community and will stay involved.

Thank you very much for your time.

Thank you.