i would like to read a letter from wells whitney and ann halstead. dear commissioners, my husband and i are long-term residents, 42 years of a 24 years of telegraph hill. we both of participated in many community organizations and in community improvement projects. we are swimmers and tennis players to belong to the club affected by the project. unfortunately we will be out of town for your meeting. we're familiar with the project. we have written letters in support and testified previously on its behalf. we have studied the plans in detail and that over the past few years with the developers and other neighborhood people and groups. we ask the support this project. we know there are concerns about the project, but we believe that the height and height progressions are consistent with the years of planning efforts in the waterfront land use plan and any embarcadero study. we believe the benefits to the city and neighborhood will vastly outweigh any losses perceived now in the immediate neighborhood. there are many community -- you have already heard