george christopher was only in office two weeks when he found out that this was a way of too much, and he was tired of them dickering round. when the neighborhood boggess, it ended up on joe dimaggio playground. we have been working to try to make this better since 1999. that was willie brown's term, thye -- the dot com boom, and we started and to try to figure out what to do. it was in 1999 when kids today in high school were just toddlers when their parents formed this, we started working on that. when i hear people say that we should look at this along, i really want to go ballistic, because i think after 10 years, i think we have looked at over 60 different possibilities and configurations. we've gone through a three-year eir, and what do we have to show for it? we have the unanimous approval of the planning commission. we have the unanimous support of the park commission, rec and park. ms. neighborhood deserves a new park -- this neighborhood deserves a new park. i do not know what is going to happen to north beach or what will become of our neighborhood, but i think we have a lot