. >> commissioners, goofrn and thank you for the afternoon -- commissioners, good afternoon, and thank you for the opportunity to address you. san francisco is the oldest largest city in the western united states and as such we have a wealth of historic resources and of great buildings and great stories and sometimes we need to step back and remember that this city is unusually blessed in the west with these resources. it is only in the past couple of decades that the general conversation has become aware of particular stories such as the japanese immigrants in san francisco and black history and spoke about black san francisco and which surprised me and the complexity of the history and which has been -- has tended to stop at 1860 and the context statement and the history that have generally been done. and a lot more work needs to be done about the chicano movement and so on and so forth. i think it is important to remember that, yes, cities need to change and grow and become more advanced and so on and so forth, but we do have a particular heritage here that is as unique and certain