i consulted with charles sullivan. there are some additional changes that staff at puc power want to continue talking about. we intend to continue the dialogue with the city attorney, charles sullivan, to confirm that they could make them prior to the sf puc's approval and we plan to continue the dialogue. additional clarifications were made based on the feedback from finance staff. specifically, the biggest changes are monitoring and implementation of how the credits and the subsidies would be received. we want to make it workable with the new cards. secondly, any remaining funds from the program that are not used for transit subsidy passes -- a change was made to make sure that they enhance the proposed plans on the project site, things like the low emission struggleshuttles and cr sharing. i'm available for specific questions, if you have them. supervisor mar: thank you. questions, colleagues? seeing none, let's open this up for public comment. thank you very much, mr. yarne. >> thank you, colleagues. i want to than

. >> i will ask charles sullivan to address that. >> the amendments were actually discussed and agreed upon by the developers. the point of what sherrill said earlier -- cheryl said earlier is that this was a contract. the board can condition approval of that contract. they cannot force the developer to address those -- to accept the changes. it would require that the developer consent to change the contract, ultimately. the question is are the changes being proposed something the developer would accept. if not, the board could pass a resolution approving an agreement that never enters into. supervisor avalos: since the developer has already accepted that agreement -- >> the developer discussed the changes introduced by president chiu and agreed to those. supervisor avalos: and on the tenants side, they do not have a say? >> we are entering into an agreement with the developer, not the tenants. supervisor avalos: that is some catch-22. supervisor campos: let me first of all respond to supervisor elsbernd. that is one of the fun things about having all of these lawyers on this board. fo

at this time, i would like to ask our deputy city attorney, charles sullivan. i want to thank thim for the countless hours of sleepless nights to work on these amendments. if you could discuss the amendments we provide id. i know there have been a lot of questions as to the enforceability of this development agreement. i would like you to address that and whether you think the development agreement is enforceable. i would also like you to discuss, if it turns out in a small is a sensinstance it is nn you explain the amendments in making and what impact they would have. >> thank you. this has been discussed for a long time and a lot of people are concerned about that. we've added a lot of bells and whistles. i'm going to walk through that quickly. then i will get to your questions directly. the first thing we did in the development agreement -- the law which everybody knows about does not allow the city to impose rent control on new units. it has a couple of exceptions. one of them is where the city provides a direct financial assistance or when we provide the f

so these people that went over, these young men like richard morris hunt, louie sullivan, charles kim, and h.h. richardson, changed the look of america. they all went there to study architecture and came back different from what they had been. go to boston, the square. trinity church on one side, h.h. richardson. look across the square, the boston public library, charles mckim, and very similar in many ways to a building in paris, and he said so. you used the word earlier ins playstation. inspiration from paris. they all wrote they wanted to bring something home to make things better here. they were doing something they felt was a service to their country. >> you have not mentioned george healy, and i am going put up the painting on the screen. who is george healy? >> george healy to me is a great american story. george healy was an irish boy who grew up in the streets of boston, no money, for education, but talent to paint and draw. he was told you're good. you could go all the way with this talent. but he knew he had to go train with somebody. there was nobody to train with, no art