moving on, lance harriman. >> hi, good afternoon. i'm here representing ocean beach physical therapy and we are on taraval street. we are a community-based physical therapy clinic that serves residents of the sunset. and we wanted to come here in support of fair mitigation of the issues brought about by the taraval muni. changes that take into account the residents, the muni riders and the merchants. we are just one of many community businesses that are affected by the changes happening as a result of the muni island implementation project. there are many variables to consider. one of them is there are parking needs in the lower taraval zone that have not been completely seen at this point. there are four new businesses that have not opened yet. and many that are just recently opened. all of these will require parking and will benefit from the many muni riders that come to the area. one of the businesses is also quite large who spoke earlier, the northeast medical services. also, the entire block of parking along taraval between 45th

. >> hi, i'm lance harriman, i will just continue with what mary was saying. where were we? so if muni stands by its statement that all the options have been looked at and islands are not negotiable, seems a compromise would be to remove the stops to restore some of the parking. my question, is it possible to continue with the research for other options. think about maybe a block sign that comes down off the back of a muni or something like that. if that's not the case, the most logical option would be, if you remove a stop would be to remove the one in the middle. the limited parking that will be left, that is left at this point and will be left after the changes need to be protected in some way from the commuters that drive from the other parts of the city out of the city and use these spots to park and ride downtown. we support the idea to allow parking for residents in the time restricted zones advised to put in. we strongly support revisiting the angled parking idea, once the full impact of all these changes is complete and the need for parking changes. the opening of o