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In 2007 when i retired for my 35 year career in Investment Real Estate i met my friend phil tang saying i want to get more involved in Government Services oh was initially appointed in the fall of 07. From that point on it was a complete roller coaster. As you know we entered the initial downturn and the number of appeals went from 1000 to less than 2000 year at the assessment appeal board one by dan to ran up to 5000 appeals in 21 201011 could swipe witnessed the actions of the board and don durrant and the Assessors Office under phil tang and no carmen chu and chief appraiser matt thomas as ...

now the developer in this project repeatedly disparaged the community that was involved here, in fact told all of us privately and publicly that there are only a handful of local members opposed to eight washington. i think the coalition did an amazing job of collecting 31,297 signatures in 29 days. i don't think 31,000 voters in 29 days is a handful of local neighbors. now there was a suggestion today that these 31,000 folks represent most of the opponents of this project and colleagues, today, we have a chance, i believe, to vote with the majority of san francisco, as i think some ...

many signatures gathered. let the city decide and however it turns out, go with it. thank you for your time and consideration. >> president chiu: are there any other members of the public that wish to speak at this hearing? at this time, colleagues, this hearing has been heard and is filed. and item 23 is in the hands of the board. >> president chiu. >> president chiu: thank you, colleagues, and to members of the public, i want to thank the community that has come back again to talk about this project. i'm frankly sorry that we're here. i'm sorry that we weren't able to resolve this ...

date. as you've heard though, i also want to thank the community that is here, the coalition that has worked to bring this vote to us for tremendous accomplishment. for the first time in a generation, san franciscans are going to place a referendum on the ballot. utilizing our constitutional and democratic right to referendum. now the developer in this project repeatedly disparaged the community that was involved here, in fact told all of us privately and publicly that there are only a handful of local members opposed to eight washington. i think the coalition did an amazing job of c...

the community that was involved here, in fact told all of us privately and publicly that there are only a handful of local members opposed to eight washington. i think the coalition did an amazing job of collecting 31,297 signatures in 29 days. i don't think 31,000 voters in 29 days is a handful of local neighbors. now there was a suggestion today that these 31,000 folks represent most of the opponents of this project and colleagues, today, we have a chance, i believe, to vote with the majority of san francisco, as i think some of you read, there was a recent survey by david binder t...