[applause] >> my name is mark buell and i have the pleasure of being the chairman of the america's cup organizing committee. nice to see you today. a number of distinguished guests in the audience and on the podium, and i will do my best to knowledge most of them, so do not get your feelings hurt. today, we are presenting one of the conditions in the host city agreement. when mayor newsom and i signed that agreement, we committed to doing certain things to enable the city to put on the best of it possible. one of the most -- i cannot imagine a more critical element to this plan than how we move people during the event. if san franciscans care about anything, it is traffic, parking, movement, and i think today's press conference at the beginning of this effort acknowledges how seriously we take this situation and how much we want to get it right. there is a provision that by march 31, we begin this with a document, and it will continue until the environmental impact report is finished. there will be plenty of chance for people to comment on it, contribute to. we want that. it is really

my name is gail gilman, the executive director of the community housing president buell: and a provider of homeless housing on treasure island for the last 10 years. . . i'm here tonight to urge you to approve the e.i.r. and also to understand that my comments extend to the rest of the hearing on matters of approving the plan. this is a great opportunity for the city and county of san francisco to create a green transit-first community that will have over 400 units of housing for formerly homeless families and to give those families an opportunity to integrate into a safe, state-of-the-art community and break their cycle of homelessness and poverty. as we all know, many of our supported housing sites in san francisco are in disenfranchised and poor neighborhoods. this will be the first time that an emerging community will embrace individuals living in poverty and homelessness. this is an exciting opportunities as a stea and i urge you to support it. groups like community partnership have been working for over a decade in this partnership, in partnership with lennar and the treasure isla

president buell: thank you. -- troip thank you. >> the historic preservation commission did not meet this week. you now have general comment that has ha 15-month duration. at this time the members of the public may address you on items of interest to the public. they fall within the subject matter jurisdiction of the planning commission. with the exception of agendas items. they may only be addressed at the time they're reached on calendar and may not be addressed during this category. each member of the public may address you for up to three minutes, keeping in minds that entire category has a 15-minute time limit. president olague: we have one speaker card. patricia voy. commissioner moore: i need a technicality on this before we start this comment. i'm talking about the pro jess. nothing to do with the project of item up in 17. and the planner told one of the neighbors -- wait a minute, linda -- that you guys were going to throw these files out and she needed to copy it. this lady's on fixed income. if anybody can leave the files back with linda or with the planner, we'd appreciat

buell a wreath at the site of the world trade center and meet with family members of 9/11 victims and first responders. the trip comes days after all, the leader osama bin laden was killed the in a rate in pakistan. >> america will not forget and will ensure that justice is done. >> the president has decided not to go public with pictures of bin laden's dead body because of concerns about the graphic nature of the photographs and the back last they could create. >> it is important to make sure very graphic photographs of some one shot in the dead are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence or as a propaganda tool. >> some in congress agree. >> in my opinion, there's nothing gained by releasing a picture of someone killed. >> others believe the images should be made public. >> to put down the conspiracy theories, it would've been better to release it. the administration, some people in the administration thought it should be released. >> the president's choice to keep the photographs sealed comes as a new cnn poll reflects more than half of americans support making