friends took off for new york and took a lack at the buildings that -- look at the buildings that jane jacobs saved in gren itch village. there are a lot of them. i don't know where the h.b.c. came from, historic preservation commission, but i know the voters voted on it. and it seems to me it's a precious resource for our city. in fact, it's amazing that it happened. and it seems to be getting hit on a little bit recently. some of the people from the library commission called them weanies publicly. and think some other things happened where per happens the commission knew -- perhaps the commission knew without resources gets kind of pushed around. and i would hope that we could all think about that commission being equal to all the other commissions in the city and not perhaps draw powers from it that it needs to perform its duties. thank you. president miguel: thank you. >> hello, president miguel and commissioners. and director rahm. i'm here, i guess you could say, to scold you for your vote on thursday about the changes to the planning code. it was insulting to the historic preservation

i've read jane jacobs and "life and death of great american cities" and it seems to me that even the most well-intentioned large-scale projects can go awry. maybe the lots could be divvied up just a little bit smaller? you could have more of a real neighborhood, like you see in certain parts of new york city, where clearly there are tall residential buildings, but they're smaller and next to each other. and it creates more of this vibrant neighborhood with different interests, where you have museums and residences and commercial interests and all different things are right there. that's what keeps a community vibrant. my worry is... what if it doesn't work? what if one of them doesn't work so well? what if it doesn't sell out? what if they end up being kind of empty? what if they're just totally filled up with yuppies? you end up with a very one dimensional neighborhood and that's kind of my great worry. chris: well, i think we're going to get two things. we're going to get new market rate housing in densities that are actually going to impact supply and demand in terms of market-rat