thank you to corey teague for all the work he has done. we feel a strong sense of commitment to the neighborhood and serving diverse families not only through proving an excellent bilingual education in chineseand english, but a program and scholarships for students and early drop-off and extended care for families who work. we'll continue to be good neighbors. we treat each other nicely. we eat our vegetables and we wait in line and keep our neighborhoods clean and safe and we're happy to be included in this plan. thank you very much. >> thank you, and thank you for patiently working with our office. >> i have a short video for presentation. ladies and gentlemen welcome to 11th street between folsom and harrison. >> can we take another moment? >> sure. >> we'll take mr. lewis. >> good afternoon supervisor. i am here to plead to not let the pursuit of the perfect be the enemy to the good. not to let loud voices screaming for a single issue be the enemy of the plan. no plan will satisfy all constituents and all needs , but looking at the ei

we have reviewed our proposed changes with jim nicko, toby levy and planning staff corey teague and none of them have any objections to what we're proposing. so we hope you include them as an amendment to the plan. lastly, i would like to introduce dennis flaherty, the owner of 520 townsend. >> thank you. we are introducing -- we're going modify the restriction on the lot merger today. >> terrific. thank you very much. >> i'm dennis flaherty and i have owned the property for over 35 years. i occupied it many years running my own business and my son presently has an office there. in getting your amendment, we realize that we have talked to a neighbor who has a 50' parcel. ours is 138. we would like to merge those, and provide a -- the ability to introduce an office building that would probably project to high-tech usage. inasmuch as we would be limited in what we're planning. we're asking this change, which i feel would benefit the neighborhood, because we would be giving up a substantial amount to provide the thoroughfare through to harriet street. in occupying that property for so many

one of the things and perhaps corey teague, i know he is back there discussing, might be able to correct me. any understanding that the discussion where some fees go down by 33% and others go up does not affect the base line of any project that gets built. any project that gets built to permanent amount still pays what it would otherwise. the compromise that was reached and the compromise that eastern neighborhoods reached was how communities being impacted by luxury development, except increased growth and way people look at how do we create stability? how do we fight gentrification? we need to create more affordable housing out of that increased growth. and the decisions that were made through this tiered zoning was to allow developers the choice of increasing heights in exchange for providing more affordable housing. this is a plan for stability for neighborhoods facing large scale gentrification, discussed over many, many years. >> thank you, mr. marty. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is john nulty. the committee approved the plan because of it going through a community proce