i am joan wood, speaking for the coalition for a better north beach library and playground. the reason the library is tied into this is because in order to eccentric the master plan library you have to go 19.5 -- to accentuate the master plan library, you have to go 19.5 feet into mason street. supervisor chiu said there had been a lot of public hearings about this. there had not meant any hearings about the street. it did not have story polls indicating the purpose of this demonstration. that is a gross oversight, and it never happened with anything else i ever participated in, when people want to go over the height limit. in the building always has story polls. i saw the director of the planning commission and directly asked him in public comment about them, and 10 years later there were put in, and 10 days after that the pot -- the project was demolished. there was no writing, no legend, no explanation to the public about these raw poles standing up on one side of this park. incidentally, it is not a park being talked about. it is a playground. the park is what people lik