thank you. >> my name is dana pearls. i support pesticide watch. i will keep this short. pesticide watch is a nonprofit organization seeking to prevent pesticide exposure, build healthy communities, and advocate for sustainable solutions to a broken food system through the advocacy of urban local agriculture. thank you. we are actively promoting non- toxic alternatives to the current food system which will support economically viable job opportunities, connect communities to nutritional and health the options, and allow people the option to consume non-toxic food. this ordinance will provide equitable access, proactively promote our visions for healthy

dana pearl. fred rinney from the urban agriculture alliance. karen heissler from mission pie. is eli here? two minutes per person. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for having this hearing. i am co-coordinator of the urban agriculture alliance. we are a volunteer community group with over 30 members that advocates the growing of food in san francisco. a number of our members are here today. they are not all planning on speaking. could the folks who are here to support this please raise your hand? a lot of people here to support this proposal. i hope you will. that is the main message i want to bring today. the corps proposal as well as the amendments are great additions to san francisco zoning code and i hope to support them. the bill's sponsors, as well as the planning department, drafted a proposal that is very well tailored to san francisco. i would like to emphasize that as much as i use the language of urban farms, what we are really talking about is gardens. they are not going to be huge farms like you might think about in the country. most of them are going to b