commissioners, for the record, john rahaim with planning department staff. it was a long presentation. we understand this has been before you a number of times. we are indeed asking for your approval today of a seven-year process, and the products of that process. i think i won't spend a long time talking about this, but i do want to just remind us all why we did this to begin with. we came to the idea of doing a central soma plan during the eastern neighborhoods process when we determined that this corridor was a central subway and nearby other transit improvements was a valuable corridor to look at for an expansion of jobs and housing in the city. and we, after a lot of initial discussion with the neighborhood, were very careful to create a plan that we think is not an extension of downtown but is kind of a special district of soma that allows high-rise in a number of key places in the neighborhood, but generally maintains the quality and character of the neighborhood that's there today. in addition, we felt it was very important to us to make sure that we

one of the things that was not mentioned at all was the mayor died a couple days after john rahaim's memo got to him. i don't know that he read it. perhaps his staff did. the public and the city has been in upheaval because of an election that's due. cramming this is indefensible. you are the public. the planning commission should not be fooled around like this, and you should not reciprocate the public. i have to do an analysis of this in writing. i have no time to do it because it would have to be there today. no one can act on this schedule unless you're totally intending to shutdown public input. and if you're going to shutdown public input, you should state so. one of the things that i know is that very few low-income people have computers and have printers and can do the jumping through hoops that you're assuming that everyone can do because they have computers and printers and can understand and have 11 by 17 plans at their computer. people who have got to pay to use computers are poor people. they use libraries, and they have to print out at mission and chinatown and tenderlo

but just to reiterate what john rahaim said, you know, we're really striving to maximize the value capture in this area, so just to give a sense of how we often do this for area plans, we calculate what all of the needs are, what the public benefits are, and then we cal clalt how much we believe benefit can bear, and how much value we're creating through the upzoning, and we're trying to capture a certain amount. so in this case we're trying to capture between 50 and 75% of the value that's being created by the central soma upzoning. so that's what these numbers are showing in kind of the pass tepass -- pastel. the pink is the more marginal, 75 to 100% body capture, and then the green is showing the prototypes that are no longer feasible after we apply the exactions. so the first line that i want to point out in green, this is referring to kind of the level that we had set back in 2015. this was when we believed that the adoption of the central soma plan was imminent, and so the 2015 development assumptions were still more or less valid, at that point. the next line shows in yellow what ha