do want to recognize many of our residents who have been involved in the process, in particular jim mico who has chaired that process over the last seven years for his tenacious commitment to this plan. it is a model process where community voices were combined with technical resources from planning staff and outside consultants to yield land use, zoning and design solutions based on community knowledge as well as empirical data and mapping. while there are still areas of the plan that need further discussion and refinement, as a whole we feel that the community plan is thoughtful, comprehensive, forward looking and is worthy of your support. two areas that our office is continued to working with the planning department on and community stakeholders is of course the issue of 11th street which i know that the commission has heard a lot about with our entertainment stakeholders and that is something that we continue to find alternative solutions to and that hopefully we will come to some kind of middle ground regarding that. the other is of course the overlap with the central corridor plan

do want to recognize many of our residents who have been involved in the process, in particular jim mico who has chaired that process over the last seven years for his tenacious commitment to this plan. it is a model process where community voices were combined with technical resources from planning staff and outside