alan, kevin kitchingham, kevin vallen, diane smith. >> good evening. i'm the ceo of emerit goodman and associates. we own the building that will be the most impacted of this project, cathedral hill. the emerit goodman building, probably the oldest wood frame building of san francisco. survived earthquake and fire because it was on the west side of van ness. we renovated after eight years of development and construction in 1985, serving residences and businesses for the last 25 years. your staff presented you, which i saw for the first time today, an august 27th four-page executive summary. i didn't hear any reference to that. in the executive summary it mentions the significant unmitigated environmental impacts and those are the items which should have been dressed in the d.i.r. is, how those impacts which, from an economic sense are called external costs. external costs mean the simplest example is pollution where you'd have a polluting facility putting dust and pollution in people's houses. and that's an external cost instead of the old days before t

. >> i'm kevin kitchingham with the bernal heights neighborhood coalition. we represent more than 30 organizations and have grown out of community members literally coming to our door step concerned about the long-range development plan for cpmc and its disproportionate impact on the community. there are many issues at stake here and the document before you is the result of a lot of hard work by the planning department. there are numerous criticisms of the study itself, glaring deficiencies. this is about fairness, whether or not san francisco is a just and equitable community and city for all. we have an extremely profitable corporation that have decided that health severances to the poorest san franciscan is not as important as profit. we have a developer that has decided that those who can pay 100% of the obligation for the impact that their project will cause, profit is more important. though cpmc bought their property on the van ness corridor years after the special use district was in effect, they decided that rather than honoring the law and the plann