my name is reesa titlebalm. i remember in 1981 when a small group of people got together to develop a committee to research our neighbourhood and in 1984 i became president of what is now called the liberty hill historic district. over the last 37 years, i've been a neighbourhood activist and i'ves been very, very strongly working towards preservation as we modernize for this time. we have seen many different plans come and go. i have been in this room many times. and i don't think that there is anything more valuable than people who are living in the neighbourhood who know what's going on. right now, we have valencia street that is called a transit corridor and there is no transit on valencia street. all the buses have been eliminated. in addition, it's very, very important to understand that in our neighbourhood, the commercial areas are largely residential. and according to a realtor, recently, he is saying that all the residential neighbourhoods are really part of this commercial district. the commercial dis