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Business owners and neighbors are sounding the alarm on a proposed Club Pilates studio on Valencia Street that they say would change the corridor’s character.

The pilates studio, which follows a franchise model and has more than 1,200 locations across the country, has an application to open at 1034 Valencia St. between 21st and 22nd streets. It has a hearing at the San Francisco Planning Commission on Oct. 2, where merchants will ask the city to shoot it down.

“People are really concerned about it,” said Eileen Rinaldi, president of the Valencia Merchants

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