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so there aren't any benches in the plan. >> there's places to sit. >> oh, yeah. >> ok. commissioner lee. commissioner lee: thank you. yes, i know that there are -- there have been many ideas for activating this space. roller skating and so forth. and i know it's difficult when you're competing -- you're looking at limited space, with competing interests. but i do think this is a great project. and i want to thank local 261 for stepping up and participating and helping us make this possible. now, i have a question, in terms of -- from the diagram, it looks like -- is there a fence aro...

and i'd urge you not to ok it at this meeting, to wait and see what other people have to say about it, to be fair and not to exclusively grant them this precious piece of land that i fought so hard for over the years. thank you. president buell: thank you. >> david. >> good afternoon again. commissioners. david miles. you know, this saturday, you know, i do sunday streets, we close the streets off. a lot of parks in there, a good thing to demo bocce ball with that and get the public involved. but this saturday i'll be out in hunter's point. at the hunter's point youth community park....

the nonplayers can sit and relax. and is that accounted for in this plan? >> well, there's an expensive seating wall basically all around or -- that would be the water side. so there aren't any benches in the plan. >> there's places to sit. >> oh, yeah. >> ok. commissioner lee. commissioner lee: thank you. yes, i know that there are -- there have been many ideas for activating this space. roller skating and so forth. and i know it's difficult when you're competing -- you're looking at limited space, with competing interests. but i do think this is a great project. and i want to thank...

thing to demo bocce ball with that and get the public involved. but this saturday i'll be out in hunter's point. at the hunter's point youth community park. they came to sunday streets and they said, nobody comes out here and does anything for us. and so i'm bringing my 300 pair of skatings, my family, my friends, we're going to go out and do a free thing for these kids who have a fiscal responsibility, it seems like they don't want to work with them, the people that's trying to do things out there, they're not like college educated and smooth and suave. they don't go to these meetin...

just up for grabs for people like that. and the homeless are going to stay there in the afternoon. who's going to police them? there is no such thing. so i urge you to let public comment on this for the neighborhood groups, phil ryan, who's head of the golden gateway tennis, that's a small group of people. they do not represent all of us. and there are thousands of tell ants in that building where i live. so please defer this until the wider public has a chance. nobody knew about this, including myself. this comes as a great shock. and i'd urge you not to ok it at this meeting, to wa...