george irving and the advisory committee have stood with us and for a long time and planned with us. and the plan before you is the result of five years of hard work in the community and i would ask you how many times have you had private xexecutive come before the commission with the kind of community support that this project has and there were a number of people who thought this was going to happen at 1:30 and hat to go back to work because ours is a working community. and there were a number of people from little hollywood and bayview hill neighborhood association who asked me to mention they were here and wanted to log their support. thank you so much for your support and the staff has been tremendous for once and we had a city staff that worked and listened to the community in the process. >> thank you. walker, the pastor for the executive park and also with the development of the candlestick point plan and the shipyard plan, i can see these projects koch complementing one -- actually complementing one another. one of the disturbing things that i have lived in the neighborhood

the work you have done over the last five and six years and not only staff to direct and i am george irving, the original developer of san francisco executive park. i would like to give a brief history of 35 years, very brief. and on january 13, 1975, the irving company entered into an agreement with two companies to development the 70-acre site owned by the two companies. we knew this would be a pioneering effort and needed all the support we could gather. i first met with mr. tom millen, then the chief executive officer at the city of san francisco. mr. millen told me to seek out is support from the community and i may be bayview hunters point coordinating council to prevent the vision of the office park. at that meeting i met shirley jones, eloise westbrook, ethel darlington and others. mrs. jones and jackman suggest wed form an advisory committee and include the residents. and as a graduate of balboa high school, i contacted parents of the former students who lived in the valley to present the plan. the head of the merchant association gathered merchants and residents together and the s