my name is abel silva. i have been living in a precarious situation here in san francisco for seven years. i'm a member of the faithful fools, and even though this is about windows, i do support the historical regional windows, but at the same time, i would ask that you look at the greater scope of this and not see this as a local business as usual situation. i'm here to support that there be a better venue to have time to present all the information about what has happened. if you could do that for us, we would feel that you're part of the community supporting us. and the rest of my time, i would just like to read something that i wrote, just some expression -- forgive me. well, while it's good to keep the character of the building, you are going to destroy the people who have given character to the city if you allow this. there have been rumors at the greater scope about the death of democracy. i am from puerto rico. historically, the crown of spain called the shots there, so we have been a bit slow to un