john ram from the planning department. first, i just want to say that it is true -- and i will take responsibility for our noticing error that prevented this from going to the planning commission on april 12. it was the same noticing error that prevented the industrial so some -- central soma plan from being here earlier. i would like the committee to consider a continuance until the planning commission hears the matter, on may 17, a week from thursday. so having said that, i am joined today by a star from my staff, sarah jones from the sf mta, and lisa chen who actually is responsible for that financial analysis. the one thing that i just wanted to mention and lisa can get more into the details of that financial analysis is that we are -- we do have a very serious concern about feasibility with central soma projects. i fully understand the goal of this lemgs latio-- legislation. i fully understand the need to finance our tran set systems, and we were doing the financial al

. >> john ram, i'm taking an unusual step to give you brief background on the project. this is an unusually large site for you to be considering and us to be looking at. i wanted to give you a quick background on a project we've been working on for two years and talk about that in the context of the nomination that you're considering. if i could have a -- i guess it's up. so the site is of course, it's almost 11-acre site in the northwest part of the city. it's proposed mixed use residential development by laurel heights partner. i think those representatives of those firms are here today. it would partially retrofit the existing office building and add new construction for total of 558 housing units to the laurel heights neighborhood. this gives you a quick review of the data for the site. there is as i said, 558 units, about 50,000 square feet of office would remain under the proposed project. there is variant being studied that would increase that to 740-some units with no office. you can see the retail and childcare components on the screen. it would be a number of

we welcome director john around the from the san francisco planning department. mr ram, i said you would be on at 10.09. i am eight minutes off. my apologies. for the long-awaited rail alignment, and is now renamed, benefit study. the floor is yours, and with you is susan geeky wh kiki who has e program manager on this long-awaited study. we look forward to your presentation. >> thank you. i'd also like to recognize a man in the audience who is our chairman of our citizens working group who will make a few short comments after my presentation. thank you. drawn ram, planning department. i'm pleased to present to you the update on the rail alignment. i want to thank the staff and the tee -- tee dot a dot. we think there are serious land-use implications and analyses we wanted to make as part of this process. it was a great joint partnership. i am here today to not only give me the update, but to give you stats, and a recommendation for our preferred alignment. so that has been something that we have not presented in the past. we want to give you that. our thoughts on that

back now with our panel, evan perez, john diehl, jeff zeleny, carrie cordero and anne mi lg ram. about potentially a two-hour interview and answering all these questions but other questions that might be follow-on questions to -- to these ones that were given out already by the mueller team. michael zeldin is saying you could be looking at a two-day interview or more. >> i mean, certainly look at all the topics and all the volumes of information. i'm struck by just going through these questions again. we should point out they are not verbatim. they are just topics, as we've been saying, but they are using the president's own words in many respects, almost like going through his schedule, if you will, day by day and the key moments of when he fired comey and the tweets he sent out. just asking the president about the tweets he sent out and the interviews he was doing would take a kshld amount of time so this, of course, the president's lawyers will want to limit this as much as possible here. i've been reaching out to the white house officials to see if they have any reaction to t