i live right at the border of glenn park and noe valley, and my dog park is the upper noe rec center. we are a dog run, decompressed granite. i do go to upper douglass occasionally. it is closed i think about four months, maybe longer, and when it is closed, our dog run and the surrounding ones do feel pressure. people are always welcome, and we don't mind it, but it does impact the smaller parks. i think there's been a little bit of a disservice the way the department has represented the resolution to you. it actually, this resolution, has three different or four different now time recommendations. one is from the department staff, one is from a friends group, one with is from a neighbors group, and the other is from your own operations committee, and what's missing here is more of a debate and a real community-driven process. i know the department likes to call it a community-driven process, but there hasn't been an opportunity for a majority of the park users and neighbors to really come and give you some feedback or meet as a group. i think there is a solution. i think you've hear

and jackson said, you know, you should come down to echo park, rent's real cheap. >> glenn got the apartment one door. it was really an illegal place, just a cubbyhole and that's where jackson lived with jd and i above. >> that was it. there was a stereo, a piano, a bed, a guitar, you know, a teapot. >> we slept late in those days except around 9:00 in the morning i'd hear jackson browne's teapot going off, this whistle in the distance. then i'd hear him playing piano. i didn't really know how to write songs. i knew i wanted to write songs, but i didn't know exactly -- you just wait around for inspiration, you know, what was the deal? well, i learned through the jackson's ceiling and my floor exactly how to write songs. because jackson would get up and he'd play the first verse and first chorus and play it 20 times until he had it just the way he wanted. and then there would be silence. and then i'd hear the teapot go off again. then it would be quiet for ten or 20 minutes. then i'd hear him start to play again and there was the second verse. so then he'd work on the second verse and he'd pl