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RECEIVED September 17,2021 September 17, 2021 P21-0820 Planning Commission City of Pleasanton CITY OF PLEASANTON 200 Old Bernal Avenue PLANNING DIVISION PO Box 520 EXHIBIT B Pleasanton, CA 94566 Subject:Appeal of Staff Denial(560 Main Street) Case P21-0820 Honorable Chair and Members of the Commission: This letter,and the appeal form filed with Planning, is to serve as my appeal to the Director of Community Development's determination to deny a requested exception to the Active Ground Floor Use Overlay requirements for my business at 560 Main Street. This letter,and my appeal generally, is consistent with an appeal approved recently by the Commission for a business immediately adjacent to mine at 550 Main Street. In some respects, I believe my appeal goes further into the heart of compliance as detailed below. Background This case is a result of COVID,which caused the prior tenant of 560 Main Street, a children's clothing store,to close and terminate its lease for the space. In August 2020, 14 months ago, I signed a lease for 560 Main and began setting up my shop. My prospective launch was in stark contrast to many retail and other businesses downtown that were closing under government order or because of COVID and the associated business climate. This Business My landlord was unaware,and I was uninformed prior to signing my lease,that personal service businesses had been recently restricted by the City of Pleasanton. Once this was communicated to me, I invested an additional$25,000 to partition my boutique retail shop more definitively from my body sculpting operation. You may recall that no such physical partition was required or erected for the mixed-use exception this Commission granted next door. I also diversified the product offerings available (see attached photos) in my retail shop to make it clear these offerings went far beyond the scope of products my sculpting clients would likely purchase. posted regular business hours of 11:00am to 6:00pm Tue-Fri and 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm Saturday, painted on the front door. I installed a point-of-sale checkout counter. I obtained a Reseller's Permit for the shop from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. Truly, my shop window makes an inviting case for passers-by to explore my cozy health and beauty emporium. For reasons I don't fully understand, my application to do business on Main Street has been politicized. As a result,the discussion about what I am proposing to do has been blurred. Page 1 of 2 , Sculptsations, for an Zoning Certificate and related determination as to conformance with the Active Ground-Floor his report. Primary Author: Melinda Denis, Planning and Permit Center Manager, 925-931-5631 or mdenis@cityofpleasantonca.gov P21-0820, 560 Main Street Planning Commission 9 of 9 P21-0820, 560 Main Street Planning Commission 6 of 9 reet. The front building is a multi-tenant, one- and two-story structure with the two-story portion adjacent to Main Street, stepping down to one-story behind. The other building on the subject site is a one-story, single-tenant building. A private parking lot is located at the rear of the property and has seven parking spaces. The appellant's tenant space is located on the ground floor of the front building and the tenant space is approximately 1,065 square feet. Figures 1 and 2 below show an aerial photograph of the subject site and a street view of the Main Street frontage. The subject site is bordered on the north, east and west sides (across Main Street) by commercial and office uses and on the south by a parking lot. P21-0820, 560 Main Street Planning Commission 3 of 9