john rahaim. planning department staff. nice to see you tonight. so we go from 1200 square foot adu's to a $6 billion project, so it just tells you the range of projects that the planning department is working on. i just want to take a moment to thank all of the amazing partners on this, besides the staff you see behind me, mta, t.a., and the high speed rail authority, and caltrain, and tjpa has been involved in this. just as a reminder -- and i don't know -- [inaudible] >> we started this for a couple of reasons. one is there were serious concerns that the city had about the preferred -- the existing d.t.x. alignment. the d.t.x. is the acronym for the tunnel that would connect the existing caltrain tunnel to the transit center, and the concerns were a number of things. one is the crossing at grade of several intersections through the city. the second was the coordination of several different activities that were going on in that area at the same time, so we felt it was important -- we received a grant from the metropolitan transportation commissio

john. commissioners, president hillis, director rahaim, thank you for having me today. my name is john fisher, s.k.s. i'm the project manager in charge of 1 de haro. i'd like to thank the nicolai family for choosing to partner with us. four generations is a long time to operate in san francisco, and only 26 years for s.k.s. seems like a short amount of time. most of our experience has been with far long architecture. just a little bit about the site. it's in the show place square potrero hill neighborhoods in the eastern area neighborhoods plan. as you can see, the site is currently occupied by several functionally obsolete warehouse buildings, and the former gravel yard is really past its useful life, so it's ripe for opportunity. in terms of planning and zoning, this is a code compliant -- or a zoning compliant project, and we are seeking a conditional use authorization for an office allocation under section 2103(c) of the code. this commission approved it on may 3, and it received unanimous approval on its first reading at the board of supervisors tuesday. the legisla

john nicolai who's our partner in this project. >> good afternoon, members of the commission, director rahaim, and members of the community in attendance. my name is john nicolai, a