. >> charlie salter is designing this new structure from the ground up. he wrote the original sound ordinance. he is the dean over at the sound engineering department at berkeley. he is the one who build the -- did the sound attenuation on the disney symphony hall in los angeles and a lot of major venues. he is the best sound engineer in america and he thinks it can be done. if he says it can be done, it can be done. >> how does this fit within the west soma plan that was introduced to us? >> it is the grandfathered use. the problem with soma in 1989, the entertainment was zoned out of the neighborhood. you have a number of bars, mostly gay bars down there. along the 11th straight corridor. a little bit on seventh street. there were turned into nonconforming uses and that is the issue here. we are about a year and a half into no entertainment. it is three years that you lose your right to do it again. it looks like any time soon. it is imperative that we pres