if we go backwards to create an ifd, is it better financially than ifd? could we switch back to the redevelopment area? >> absolutely. we would have to switch back to a redevelopment plan, which we were actually doing. but it is prohibitive to go the other way. if we could form a redevelopment plan, we could not go to an i fd. supervisor chu: the budget finance committee had before us not long ago an ifd that was put forward as a pilot. one of the reasons i was comfortable with that proposal is that we said we would put together parameters under which we would approve future ifd's. under what circumstances would be ok for us, the city to, to forgo. given that the budget and current situations are always something we have to look out for. we said we would create protections with parameters, but we are not at that point. we have no parameters that have been approved in any draft. how should i think about this or feel about this even before we have considered it. >> a great question. this does not necessarily fit into what we were discussing before. we may h