is curtis bradford here? no. all right, didi workman? yenga kuom. nazim -- [reading names] >> good afternoon, didi workman representing the san francisco chamber of commerce. i want to thank the sfmta for the work they have done to improve the environment along 6th street and taylor streets. we support that portion of it, improvements to the pedestrian spaces. the lighting and so on. but we are not supportive of taking the southbound lane out of 6th street. there is so much congestion downtown right now. if you are downtown as i am most days you could barely cross a street as a pedestrian. our fear if you take the southbound lane out of 6th street it's going to exacerbate an already kind of impossible situation. and i think what ends up happening is drivers who feel really frustrated because they can't get where they want to go on time start to drive even more erratically and dangerously. i think it could end up being counter productive for the pedestrian safety elements. again, we support the pedestrian improvements on the sidewalks but we are oppo

my name is curtis bradford, i'm a long term tenderloin congress and a chair of the congress. and i'm against this, and the way that it stands. let me tell you why. a lot of us spent a lot of time and we came who hearings and sat on these hard benches for hours and hours so we could talk about this issue. we already spoke a lot about it and we had negotiations, we worked for weeks and months even on prop c to get it done. and we all came to an agreement, we found a way forward. and at that time the developers told us that they had other things in the pipeline and they needed to have a grandfather clause and if they had that they could get this housing built. so we gave them a special set aside and allowed them the space to get the work done and gave them that lower percentage and they still couldn't build the housing. and it's not even the incliewtionzary number. i think that the 19% is workable and working and that is to say that the housing crisis in san francisco is a housing crisis is not because there's not enough housing, it's because it's not affordable. the only way to