. >> my name is greg patterson. i am a resident of second street. i speak on behalf of a number of people in the neighborhood, from my building and other buildings i have spoken with. the best way i can summarize this is that there has to be a better fit. this is a historic neighborhood. it is becoming a social center, a corridor from market street to pull some -- fulsom, which is planned to become a major social center as well. there are families in this neighborhood, as are monde -- as armand mentioned. people are not opposed to building, but they are opposed to buildings that do not make sense, that have not considered the character of the neighborhood. how are you going to feel 20 years later if you had the opportunity to maintain a very special area and instead, as one of the developers called it at the commission meeting, a fortress is stomped down into the middle of this neighborhood? it is not just a place. it is a neighborhood. i think one of the head designers of the project, with all due respect to their efforts, was asked by the commissi