the presiding officer this evening is the board's president, ann lazarus, and she is joined tonight by commissioner frank fung, commissioner darrell honda and commissioner chris wong. the vice president, arcelia hurtado will be absent this evening. to my left is deputy city attorney robert brian. he will provide the board with any legal advice tonight and at the controls is the board's legal assistant victor pacheco. i'm cynthia goldstein, the board's executive director. i am joined tonight as well by represents of the department that have cases before the board. in the front row is corey teague, existing zoning administrator also representing the planning department and planning commission. jeff was here