kraska afternoon. i am -- good afternoon. i am co-president of the business association. we have spoken with the planning commission and stated our position on this matter a couple of times. last time being a year ago or last year when we were discussing the issue of chase moving into divisadero. we had the merchant association who thought the banks were already in the formula retail ban because of the retail and service component. that aside, we wanted to restate that it is crucial to preserve and protect our small business community to add financial institutions in the former -- and the formula retail band. we are opposed to having the retail component removed from the wordage and would appreciate for the discussion. i wanted to reiterate how important the small-business community is on the vibrancy of the city. i moved into the neighborhood in 1990 when hayes valley was lumped under the western addition and was at that time pretty much one of the worst neighborhoods in the whole entire city. we in the small business community have taken hayes valley from the worst to t

kraska i just add one -- >> could i just add one, the cathedral hill is at o'farrell. not in the draft but in the current boundaries. that area is in district 2. just an observation. >> there are six proposals on the table. commissioner tidwell: going with your similar last point, let's start with the panhandle. >> we can go back to the panhandle, please. we will have to find offsetting population but that is the next phase. the first phase is this phase. can we overlay current boundaries again just so everyone can see? >> they are overlaid. >> what are those street boundaries? >> stanyon, hayes, grove, fulton and [inaudible] >> thank you. commissioner tidwell: yes. mr. alonzo, yes. mr. schreiber, yes. mr. leigh, yes, ms. melara, yes. ms. mondejar, yes. mr. pilpel, yes. -- not at this time. >> could i ask a process question? at the appropriate time. please make this change. commissioner leigh: the process question or suggestion that i would offer is, is it possible for us to use where we were prior to this move as a starting point or launching point that we could possi

kraska afternoon. -- good afternoon. most of our work is for multi in a housing project eric -- anywhere from two units to 106 units. thething that is -- the thing that is so poor and to me is my experience in san francisco, most projects of any size, anything more than six or eight units that has to go through environmental review can take up to four years to six years from inception to actual sales. and so proud six that are in an section now probably will not see the light of day and tell twice 16. the economic times right now are not very good. there is a little more activity. i did also attend a couple of presentations by ted egan, who predicts things will not come back to the level they were at the truck -- top of the mark in 2007 until 2016. and so in my opinion, i believe this deferral should go on for another three years until june or july of 26 teen. because again, there will be projects that will be anchoring themselves all the way up to 2016 in a lesser economy than we're used to. the other part of this is th

kraska afternoon. i'm a resident of district 2. supervisor mark farrell is my supervisor. i have been working with his office and the planner regarding this legislation as it impacts the park and i read all these pages, 300 + pages and i have gotten most of my issues regarding jordan park's concerns addressed. i am putting on my other hat. i am a member of the japantown organizing committee and we had a meeting and i invited -- asked planning to please explain some of these things to the japantown team. after going through a lot of trying to get people to show up, i was told that tom is the expert on this. he is the only one who showed up to help the japantown organizing committee. he was very helpful on some of the questions we had. one of the things you're discussing today is the limited corner commercial use and in japantown, i think the legislation reads currently, it is up to 1200 square feet with a bump of 1200 square feet would would be the old version, a total of 2400 square feet. the proposed is a base of 2500 and if you have to corners within one block, you can b