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City of Redwood City <br />- City Clerk <br /> August 21, 2002 <br /> Page 2 of 3 pages <br /> <br /> 2652 Broadway, violates the right of Innovations to receive due process and eqnal <br /> protection in the application of the zoning code, and any ordinances, regulations <br /> and rules attendant thereto. Such application is therefore nnfair, biased, and <br /> unlawful. <br /> <br /> Innovations has signed a five-year lease on the Property and has spent over <br /> $50,000 in improvements to the Property in reliance on the publicly available <br /> information regarding zoning m the area in which it desires to locate its store. <br /> Additionally, there is another store selling professional beauty products, to <br /> professionals only, nearby in the same "zoning dishict". Looking at the businesses <br /> in the area and the available zoning information, it appeared to us that the use was <br /> a permitted one. <br /> <br /> Innovations operates seventy-six CosmoProf® stores in eight states selling <br /> professional beauty products. Fifty-nine of these stores are in California with <br /> fourteen in the Bay Area. Innovations has notified its local customers and potential <br /> customers in the Redwood City area of the local CosmoProf~ store opening as <br /> well as its manufacturers and has spent considerable advertising dollars in thi~ <br /> regard. Additionally, the reputation of Innovations and Cosmoprof® with its <br /> customer base and its manufacturers would be severely damaged by its failure to <br /> open the Redwood City store, scheduled for opening on August 26, 2002.. <br /> <br /> Innovations' sales at its two stores located m Sunnyvale and South San Francisco <br /> average over 78% in retail sales (for which sales tax is collected) as defined in the <br /> Redwood City Zoning Code, Article 2, section 2.17, which defines "business, <br /> retail" as "any establishment for the sale directly to the consumer of any article, <br /> substance or commodity..." Innovations believes that its proposed store comes <br /> within this definition of a "business, retail" establishment, as it expects that <br /> between 70% and 80% of sales in the proposed Redwood City store will be retail <br /> sales as defined in section 2.17. As set forth in the Redwood City Zoning Code, we <br /> <br /> <br />