president and commissioners, my name is john vargas. it's really pretty strange to see a process in this city of having the housing element being somehow slowly prepared and put in some sort of official shape over a 10-year period and still not be in place. we have a housing plan that has not been in place 10 years. and then when it comes to the point of reviewing in the environment or impact report that is supposed to address the ceqa aspects of these proposed housing elements, and we have two of them. then when it comes to creating a public review period, we choose to do it in the summer vacation period for our families and students and everything else. i have to now appear to express apologies for hiroshi procuda of the san francisco neighborhood. he's on an alaska cruise and has been there several months and usually takes them in the summer. but after labor day he'd be here. and it is really unfortunate to see something that's so fundamental as the housing master plan of the city be -- that it would be heard adequately in the public