here to explain are san francisco chronicle city hall reporter and elaina smidt. ome to you both. >> thank you. >> elaina, a key finding is recent activities have been strongly influenced by the mayor's office. what are some of the critical projects that have been strongly influenced and what impact has that had on the public? >> i think that the influence, the projects that we've looked at recently were the america's cup, 8 washington, the warriors arena and when we looked at it, we were looking basically to see how they were developed in terms of who came together to kind of create the project, what was the dollar flow in the project, what did it mean to the port, and what we found was that when the projects were moving away from the waterfront land use plan, which the port has done, is that they usually got into trouble. the projects got into trouble because there was not public input. there was not citizen input. so basically, the port was handed a project. here is the golden state warrior, put it on piers 30, 32 and we'll use the seawall across the way and the