. >> now, let's meet the president of the dogpatch neighborhood association. she will tell us about life in dogpatch, a clean neighborhood on the eastern edge of potrero hill, and we will learn how the residents convinced the city to a vigil -- to designate the area a historic district. >> dogpatch and the health and cottages are the historic houses in the area. those were built for the union ironwork. this really is one of the most original live-work neighborhoods in san francisco. because of this mix of housing and industrial, they need to sit in terms of scale and mass and height for the neighborhood. during the whole dot-com boom, we saw many move into the neighborhood. we found ourselves in combat before the planning commission for one project after another, and that was actually an impetus for the community to try to become a historic district. >> the process took our community approximately four years. we made presentations before pretty much every single supervisor and educated them about dogpatch. it was an arduous task, but once we went before the pl

in that pier 70 area, dogpatch potrero area we were talking about, clearly one of the key reasons why we were even looking at redevelopment there is because of the historic preservation urgency. but it is also environmental. there are some open space and water recreation opportunities there that are unique to the entire waterfront for kayakers and power hand rowers. the contamination, the lead paint that was scraped off of the ships and deposited there was mixed in with the sand that was used to scrape it off with needs to be cleaned up. and there is no obvious answer on that. the port did with the help of senator migden get a piece of legislation signed into law within the last few weeks to create i a infrastructure financing district which is a financing tool that if we can get some development there that will raise new property taxes for the city will be able to capture some of those tax proceeds and put them into new infrastructure environmental clean up, open space and historic preservation improvements that otherwise don't pay for themselves. it's not an immediate thing, but we'