kyle bronson, allen lucy >> my name is bruce hicks and i work at st. luke's hospital and i'm not a nurse. from listening to this, it's clear that the nurses don't support the project, at least they certainly don't support the downsizing of st. luke's. now, cpmc seems to be desperate to provide evidence that some workers somewhere support this project so we've been asked by our supervisors many times over the years to sign these little cards or make some statement that we support the project and of course everybody wants to support their supervisor, they want to make their supervisor happy, but they still haven't gotten that many signatures. so they've gotten the sciu which is a top-down run union, run from washington, d.c., to support them in this effort to try to provide evidence that there are some workers somewhere that support this project. and but sciu hasn't managed to come up with the presentations like the nurses just did. they just have a few of the top leaders saying, we support this, you know, but not a whole line of people. so i want to tel

rosa marquez, linda chapman, patresia from new community employment report, linda harter and bruce hicks. prosecutoreer >> linda harkin. i'm here representing the van ness plan. for more than 20 years, it's been the guideline that's directed what's developed on van nes and what cpmc has proposed violates every objective of the van ness plan. i also believe that a win-win solution is possible. probably, even though no hospital is supposed to be built there, no office buildings, nothing but housing with retail beneath, minimal retail, i believe that this is not a bad location for a hospital to replace an office building and a hotel provided that in other respects it follows the van ness plan. if it's going to completely violate the van ness plan with the height limit, with not producing housing, etset -- which is required of every developer at a ratio of 3 to 1 and of course will not be all located within the van ness area but could be located on many sites in the tenderloin or even south of market if they pay for that. otherwise, there is the no project alternative which means they can st