the next speaker card i have is from jeanie walker. >> my name is jean ye walker and i'm happy to be here. i have been involved in many people -- representing russian hill we moved to san francisco over 39 years ago i'm a retired teacher after teaching 35 years. >> good for you. >> when we started having children i asked the neighbor mr. and mrs. wong where should we go take our kids to play baseball and they said there's 2 parks and well i took the kids up to the alice mar gold for basketball and tennis that's all and then went to bay street and the ball went into the street i go after him before the traffic gets him that was the first and last time we were on bay street. we are fortunate to have this area. it is so beautiful and can be made so so -- san francisco is fortunate that families are moving here from all parts of the city and recently i know that from our street alone on francisco we have 7 more kids on on the block so these children need a place to play we are getting a significant fluks of people. >> this has been zoned for open space for sometime we've been working for