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/0,A29 Mayor Richard S. Claire Vice Mayor Jeff Ira Redwood City Council Members February 3, 2003 Page 3 There are a number of permitted uses in immediate proximity to the proposed CosmoProf D store which serve narrow segments of the population. There is a police and firemen's uniform store in the same block and a bridal store across the street. There are street level offices at 2611 Broadway, the Anvil offices, and 2603 Broadway, the Bottom Duvivier offices, which are not really retail at all and do not really intend to sell to the general public. The requirement that the store be open to the "population at large" raised by the Zoning Administrator is not found in the Code, but the principal of whether the existing permitted uses cater to a small segment of the population or the population at large is an issue that is inappropriately raised in the Zoning Administrator's decision. The businesses in immediate proximity to the proposed CosmoProf0 store do not cater to the general population or public as do Wal -mart and Cost Plus stores. Therefore, the issue as to whether the general public is served by the existing businesses is clear - =with the. exception of the restaurants, a substantial number of the businesses in the immediate proximity of the proposed CosmoProfg store cater to small segments of the general public. As a result, there seems to be no reason to exclude the CosmoProfm store on this basis. (3) The Zoning Administrator found that her decision was consistent with past interpretations and applications related to the use of West Coast Beauty Supply ( "West Coast "), whom it is alleged requested to -expand and locate elsewhere in.. the CBR- However, when Innovations personnel made inquiry of Planning personnel as to what documents were available to demonstrate the past interpretations or that a'request was formally made by West Coast, Planning could not provide any documentation supporting West Coast's original objections. Likewise, Innovations personnel requested that any documentation of West Coast's original complaint regarding the opening of the CosmoProf0 store be disclosed and shown to Innovations. No documentation was ever provided concerning West Coast's original complaint made in August 2002 nor is it available on the City's microfiche records. Additionally, Peninsula Beauty Supply commenced business at 1043 El Camino in the CBR in early 1994, after enactment of the Code in 1991. The subsequent amendments to the Code would not affect or prevent the opening of a similar business. Peninsula Beauty Supply sells some of the same beauty products as does CosmoProffl. There are also beauty salons in the CBR, which sell the same beauty products, as does CosmoProffl. The CBR is no stranger to the sale of beauty products, and CosmoProfg's sale of beauty products is certainly consistent with these other permitted uses.