>> thank you places, dates, and times arnold townsend. i'm a board member of the african-american complex the representatives from this effort made a presentation to us. just wanted to commit briefly that i think this is an exciting and outstanding proposal before you. it's something that desperately needs to happen. the people in japan town had the benefit or the strange benefit from watching the other part of their community the phil for being destroyed and is it will be if this is not approved and a they'll find themselves was we do when with have events on fillmore street they'll find the cherry bloom festival in an almost hostile environment as we find ourselves now. it's important this become law and policy because the same meetings, the same discussions were held in the fillmore, the same kind of decisions were made to maintain and keep our heritage but the problem was they were just suggestions. and they were totally, completely go forward. and you then watch our culture and your memories and future being bulldozed. with the idea

townsend. >> thank you members arnold telephone number send. >> today, i'm representing the naacp and the san francisco economic opportunity council. just a couple of things. i can tell you about marcus books. i've had a wonderful history i can tell you some things about june i can't tell richardson. we have a wonderful relationship but i want to tell you about some history this buildings was slanted e slides to be torn down and some gentleman showed up and decided he was going to buy r buy the buildings and move forward them to fisherman's wharf. we started screaming why can't we have historic buildings in the fillmore. so the redevelopment agency was going to let him cut off the facade and slap them on the building and that would be victorian. we were able to stop the community created the victorian village. we came up with the african-american community there were 10 buildings involved and everyone of the original owners was african-american. over time and difficulty this has changed. you heard the gentleman say that most of the icons of the african-american people are gone from fillmore n