i am bruce bowen from the san francisco land use coalition. with great surprise and distress i heard this project was coming forward to the commission last week in the comment form and distress full to see it with a department recommendation for approval with the prospect they could approve this as proposed not take advantage of the possible remedies available to you for remm deeing the situation created into the unpermitted demolition. in our neighborhood within a couple blocks of my house there are seven demolitions going through approval process. i emphasize there are seven going through the approval process. that is seeking approval for demolition before proceeding. i can't imagine what would happen if the developer realized they could go avoid the lengthy process and get the bulldozers out directly as a first step. what confidence can the public have in the protections that are available to the public by the city? i would like to add to the list of demolitions you heard a minute ago 1068 florida. i believe that is the right address was il

my name is bruce bowen. land use coalition. in addition to the excellent comments, i'd like to focus on two. the director should lead the department and the city into the future, but also should be able to lead in what i would call a manner of planning in the present tense. recently a group of neighbors was meeting with a planner about the unnecessary demolition of a house in order to replace it with a wildly unaffordable box. the planner told us that the department recognized that it couldn't resist the pressure of maximizing the potential economic value of that lot. and so the project would be approved, which it was. this considering value only with a places economic worth pervades real estate capital where the city is seen as only a generator of return on capital investment that leads to the city we know now, the city of displacement and destruction of communities. instead, we need a director that understands that the neighborhoods and communities and families and the value of a place derives from being useful to people now