. >> my name is julie christensen. i am a member of the friends of joe dimaggio playground. thank you for your patience in this very complicated issue. our board does not just recommend this, but enthusiastically supports it. why should you care? it is an interesting case study. joe dimaggio playground was one of the first playgrounds in the city of san francisco we had the first publicly financed pool in the city. when they put it on par koran, it was because of the strong system. george christopher was only in office two weeks when he found out that this was a way of too much, and he was tired of them dickering round. when the neighborhood boggess, it ended up on joe dimaggio playground. we have been working to try to make this better since 1999. that was willie brown's term, thye -- the dot com boom, and we started and to try to figure out what to do. it was in 1999 when kids today in high school were just toddlers when their parents formed this, we started working on that. when i hear people say that we should look at this along, i really want to go ballistic, because i

. >> my name is julie christensen. i am a member of the friends of joe dimaggio playground. thank you for your patience in this very complicated issue. our board does not just recommend this, but en

>> commissioners, my name is julie christensen and i'm asking you to certify the e.i.r. and to rule positively on the street vacation and the rezoning of the triangle. i'm taking up your time only to underscore the importance of your decision today, to my neighbors and friends in the neighborhood, to chinatown, north beach, telegraph and russian hill also. we started this project in 1999. we were all word about the y2k bug. there was no 9/11 yet, there was no 2008 crash. those are a lot of years when you're measuring them in the lives of children. the kids whose parents started this project in the last sentry are in high school now, and we hope that library will be built before they get out of college. the needs that we had 10 years ago that made us work so hard for this have only gotten worse. the library is more crowded, more decrepit , less safe, less sound than it was a decade ago. the playground is more cracked, more rusted, more in trouble than it was a decade ago. and we have waited for this day, to stand in front of you and ask for your approval, so that this pro