>> i am grace martinez, an organizer for san francisco base. i urge for you to vote no on this. i have worked closely with a lot of families losing their homes to foreclosure. they are being denied modifications because the banks will not modified based on the current market value. golden gateway has avoided paying taxes because they have been using the old property value in order to pay their property taxes, which are about $30 million. this is irresponsible to let a development like this move forward, considering we are in a budget crisis and need the revenue stream, and we have people losing their homes who cannot afford a $7.5 million condominium. even those building this would not be able to live in these luxury apartments. we should figure out of these developments are for people who are living and working in this city. >> before the next speaker, let me call up betty trainer, benedict, jazzy collins, brian bass singer -- basinger and bob iverson. the next speaker? >> i am here on behalf of the 500 seniors that reside on the north waterfront. they have been using the tenni

. >> hi, richard martinez? i'm grace kwan from msnbc.mber we spoke on the phone and you wanted to sit down for an interview to tell us what happened with the brian scher and chris jackson? you told us you had a side of the story you wanted to tell us. do you want to explain your side of the story? >> he's a thief. >> who's a thief? >> brian scher is. you know he is. >> really? what about chris jackson? >> they both took advantage of me. you see the situation i'm in now. >> i want to hear. please, tell me. they took advantage of you how? >> because they saw me in my situation wearing a cervical collar and they took advantage of me. >> okay. >> not only did they take advantage of me, they took advantage of my crew and everybody else, and they know they did. i have plans that prove that brian scher's project was wrong. i could take them to the city and show them. i am a certified building official. i'm not a crook. brian scher is. thank you. >> he says that you cost him $300,000, 18 months and did you shoddy work. >> nope. nope! >> will you