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Spent a lot of time over the last 15 years working where we think the growth it anticipated. Now were shifting change about come in some form so i think this is a good way to get involved in the commercial neighborhoods to look at less dramatic a change but supporting the exciting commercial districts. It represents a shift in the departments work and an interesting one thank you. Yeah. As a final note i think its good to look at the best practices if other cities that have neighborhoods similar to the ones we have and the suburbia areas find out why their successful. And i think the idea that...

The first would be changes to the geography areas. That includes moving the controls such as argue downtown 3 district and supervisor kims to the changes by supervisor cowen for the bay view areas. And other changes that are a foot are structural changes. This includes definition changes. And what should we look at when reformulaing rail. Those structural changes are best done at the citywide level and we would like them defined across the city and wheres theres a demonstrate need but generally we find feel that overall it should be consistent across the city. And in addition to the proposals ...

Article was not to diminish the night life on the polk street corridor. We feel like the vibrantcy is important to the residents and obviously to the existing businesses that are already there and we want to make sure that we are protected and like i said we are very open to working with the Planning Department and exploring what an appropriate density control alternative would be. And looking at whether that is 100, or 200 square feet and what that would mean for the neighborhood. Okay. Any other commissioner comments before we open it up to Public Comment . Okay, lets have Public Comment on ...

Having a pg e light green option. So, from that standpoint were going into kind of uncharted territory. The other thing is that to the extent that the local build out is the reason people might sign up for us, we do have to recognize that for all of the Unanswered Questions that we have on this part this is the simple one. This is by comparison a piece of cake, both to analyze and to implement. Much more difficult. The program thats been put forward for the local build out, this is a very aggressive program. How many what was the bond size . A billion dollars. A billdollar bond issue, thousand...

Operationalize what had been a longstanding problem for the program and that is, that the city puts up a matching amount of money for the surty to back it with a letter of credit with a bank agreement. And as part of the project, the individual project bidding, the contractors sometimes could not take advantage of the program, because the project was already at capacity. They did not have the money to put aside for the actual backing the citys piece of doing the program. And so, we worked with the hrc, the Controllers Office and the City Attorneys Office and we came up with a solution to creat...