. >> good afternoon, casey asbury with the demonstration gardens, and d-6 sustainable open space coalition. i want to thank the city agencies for their presentations and for all of their hard work. i want to -- i'm here to underline an issue of equity -- >> please direct your comments to the panel. >> sure. sorry. i just feel like i'm in a round room. we have -- as it has already established, we have tree emergency in san francisco, particularly in our downtown neighborhoods. i would recommend -- i'm here to recommend an equitable approach to planting trees. we need city support for green, informal and interim spaces in our downtown neighborhoods. we need to expand our natural areas plan, to plant for diversity from throughout the metropolitan by a factor of five, to account for the vandalism and the difficulty that trees have in getting established downtown. we need to reexamine our criteria for removal of trees, to maintain as many existent ones as possible in our downtown neighborhoods. we need to support this canopy expansion by working with stewartship from within the communities. and