we have elaine forbes who's executive director of the port of san francisco.and your help. [applause] >> we have many reps from bank of america. liz, thanks for coming. [applause] >> we have bruce cantor who's a member of the northeast waterfront advisory group. [applause] >> and we have bob carrier who's a member of the barbary coast neighborhood association. so thank you for coming. [applause] >> this group that's sitting here today sort of does represent a neighborhood inside of a village, the village of san francisco. and two neighborhood associations, a waterfront advisory group, and partners with the city, with the mayor's office of housing and jayesco have really made this happen during the development period. i know that john stewart is going to comment on some of this, but i know there are 26 neighborhood meet -- there were 26 neighborhood meetings that made this happen, and i want to do a special shoutout to john stewart who lives in this neighborhood and wanted to make sure that these two developments reflect the values of this community, and i thin

and the port, we've already done that, elaine forbes. mickey tuzanni and michael martin. gail gilman and victor makras are on the commission, and they're here today, and thank you for attending. cindy's staff are what we call our intrepids. thank you, mayor breed, for causing them to be so totally active. i would start with kate hartley, kudos to you. you were with this thing from the beginning. we appreciate it. you've got a great team. luther from social services, cushman and wakefield are all going to be contributors to this. we do have a cafe and a restaurant going in here, and you're all expected to come and be big tippers when we open up that restaurant. bridge side, and i have to say, i'm looking at cynthia, marie tabor, give her a raise. she paid me to just say that. you owe me, marie, and in our office, several people have dedicated a large part of their lives to this. lastly, there are some empty chairs who represent back in the day. olson lee, we'll have the cobblestones along with the make america great caps. last, mayor ed lee. he loved this project. i rememb

questions, most of whom were aimed at jeff kosinski, director of homelessness and supportive housing, elaine forbes, director of the port, and ron ewashima, the port's engineer. supervisor haney did not believe the comments raised by the appellant were related to ceqa, and therefore voted to uphold ceqa. just to let you know, i had been reviewing the hearing from last week. i had a long-planned family vacation, so i couldn't be here, but i did want to be here, not necessarily for the four or five-hour hearing, but i wanted to be there to support audrey, who did spend a tremendous amount of time working on that, and i wanted to support her in that, so thank you. >> vice president koppel: thank you, mr. starr, and i have no questions from the board of appeals. >> clerk: and at this time, we'll move on to general public comment. [agenda item read]. >> clerk: i do have several speaker cards. [names read] >> good afternoon. i'm going to resubmit this e-mail that i sent you on june 24, 2015, and i was -- it was about public comment that i made on june 25, 2015, so almost precisely five years ago. and wha