. >> good evening, commissioners, john kwong from the department of public works. the appellant and applicant holder did provide a brief to the board and i believe there is really nothing that the department can add to -- in providing a brief. what we can do is provide you some history of the process as it relates to this -- for this location. in september of 2011 the department received application for a mobile food to be placed in this location. we provide public notification number. we received two letters of objection from commissioner wakefield and from focacia objecting to this location in writing. we had a public hearing, a director's hearing in january 2012 where 7 individuals came and presented objections to the permitting of this location. the objections were similar -- actually, nearly identical as it relates to both the objections to the department and to the brief that was submitted to this board. in our review, we determined that there were no like foods specifically, that the suggestion that it would provide congestion to the sidewalk was not -- we d