with things that are commonly before you, in particular dealing with the limited commercial uses, lcu's, which are often appealed to this board. this provides an alternate method for dealing with those requests and also deals with modifications to restore buildings and providing incentives to do that, so without further ado, i will turn this over to our current planning and legislative affairs division's aaron star. thank you. >> good afternoon, president, commissioners. i have a powerpoint presentation for you today. so the proposed legislation was introduced by supervisor chiu earlier this year. it is a very diverse piece of legislation that is about 351 pages and touches on just about every aspect of the planning code, so in order to sort of oil that down for you, i have put it into nine different sections. the first is coda simplification. reduced off street parking requirements, historic, and small neighborhoods serving businesses, reduced variance is, and -- variances, control changes, and additional map changes. so i am well aware -- i am sure you are well aware that this has bec