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>> commissioner, if i could, maybe i could suggest some language that you support the intensity of the youth and family zone and you seek to strengthen that as a youth and family zone, but -- oh, shoot, but that you don't feel like this articulation is the best way to strengthen the zone. you want staff to work with the supervisor to find a way to strengthen the purpose of the zone. commissioner sugaya: and i think that, i know that the supervisor has been working probably with some of the other city agencies, but again, the kind of land use tools that we have sometimes are not quite...

because i think we can do a lot better job as we work forward with some other legislation. it also is premature because we just past eastern neighborhoods not long ago and i think a revision at this point would not be in line. president miguel: commissioner sugaya. commissioner sugaya: yeah, a couple of things. first on the corner of folsom and fifth, there are two parcels i think we just approved a project on and have we gotten -- and the other, across the alley. so it would be interesting to me if we could ask that developer what would happen if his project suddenly became subject ...

somewhat with commissioner antonini with respect to i guess the danger of trying to continue to impose higher and higher impact fees and affordability levels on development. just to think that you're going to then get affordable housing. there has to be a limit and a tipping point somewhere that says, you know, the developer isn't going to do it. so then you're in this conundrum where the community may be seeking community benefits, affordable housing, support for libraries, child care, open space, street improvements on the one hand, but, you know, it may not come to fruition becaus...

>> commissioner, if i could, maybe i could suggest some language that you support the intensity of the youth and family zone and you seek to strengthen that as a youth and family zone, but -- oh, shoot, but that you don't feel like this articulation is the best way to strengthen the zone. you want staff to work with the supervisor to find a way to strengthen the purpose of the zone. commissioner sugaya: and i think that, i know that the supervisor has been working probably with some of the other city agencies, but again, the kind of land use tools that we have sometimes are not quite...