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Stop Urban Outfitters coming to Haight Street!

by m. kat
Don't Mall the Haight! Help stop Urban Outfitters plan for a giant store on Haight Street! Call/write/fax the planning commissioners, and come to the Planning Department meeting on January 15! Picket from 12:30 to 1:30, meeting at 1:30.
Help stop Urban Outfitters plan for a giant store on Haight Street! Urban Outfitters is attempting to get an exemption from the Planning Commission to build a huge, 8700 foot store at 1728 Haight Street (across from Amoeba). This store will endanger independent neighborhood businesses, by undercutting them in sales and driving up rents, as well as leading the way for more chain stores in the neighborhood.
The opening of an Urban Outfitters would also go against the neighborhood master plan.

In addition, Urban Outfitters, despite it's "alternative" image, is owned by Dick Hayne, a conservative Rebuplican from Pennsylvania who is a financial supporter of Sen. Rick Santorum, whose recent comments about homosexuals equated gay sex with incest and bestiality.

Urban Outfitters also relies on sweatshop labor for its overpriced, "alternative" clothing.

Community opposition is strong, but at a planning commission meeting in the past Urban Outfitters bussed in young, hip employees from all over California to testify before the commission.

On Thursday, January 15, there will be a picket outside City Hall on the Polk Street side from 12:30 to 1:30 pm. At 1:30 the Planning Commission meets. Please come join us and show your opposition to the malling of Haight Street!

Please also call/write and/or email the Planning Commission:

Michael J. Antonini 558-6615,x6, fax: 558-6409, wordweaver21 [at] aol.com

Rev. Edgar E. Boyd 558-6615,x5, fax: 921-4966, bethelamec [at] aol.com

Shelley Bradford Bell 558-6615, x7, fax: 558-6409, sbbpr [at] pacbell.net

Lisa M. Feldstein 558-6615, x7, fax: 221-8552, commissioner [at] lisafeldstein.com

Kevin Hughes 558-6615, x4, fax: 558-6409

Sue Lee 558-6615, x2, fax: 558-6409, msuelee [at] yahoo.com

William L. Lee, 558-6615, x8, fax: 554-4849, bill.lee [at] sfgove.org



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