my name is mark bruno, i run a program for the homeless in north beach where i live. before we discuss the appeal itself, and that will be presented mostly by an architect, brent mcdonald, and mataas, before we discuss this, i would like to request that the city attorney permit our elected representative, aaron peskin, to debate today, to vote and otherwise engage in this appeal. let me introduce you to some of the people whose absence of supervisor peskin is being harmed today. those people here from district 3 and not represented. could you please stand? if you are from our district, or simply here for the appeal, if you could let us see who you are. so you'll see there is quite a bit, a few people here familiar with this project, and thank you very much. and thank you for coming. some of them will speak after the ten minutes. so, again, we know there is a 500 foot prohibition and it's from the state law, ethics code. we claim that we, this, does harm to us and unconstitutional. we believe it's a violation of equal protection, that it is substantively different to h