. >> i am linda chapman, speaking in a general sense because we don't have an overall organization like we used to have, but it is formed on years at of housing. i am quite impressed with this plan compared with what we used to have back then, and i feel, though, under community plans it does not acknowledge the van ness plan as an adaptive plant -- i don't know why. the policies are in place, the cmpc and the rapid transit that was proposed, and that would have liked to have seen that included. it does not mention that van ness tis is a housing opportunity and the definition of a transit corridor. i would like to keep that in mind. we really need to uphold the policies and project review in dealing with these issues on van ness, because we have conflicts in the proposals right now. what is the van ness potential? it does not show their what was achieved, what is remaining, so forth. we need to update that planned to them eliminate the parking requirement that has been talked about. flexibility and the number of units, 1.6 policy is excellent for densely built neighborhoods. if you were

>> i am linda chapman. i will comment on the issue of adding cars with the one-for-one parking which came up on both of these last items. i want to remind you when i came in to testify, i brought in a summary of the traffic study that we had done on nob hill o . it established that one of our high-rises with 72 units and 1.5 parking spaces per unit generated more traffic than 10 blocks of single-family homes. this was done by our traffic engineer. i with me today to read to you. in addition, the pattern was so different from the pattern of the rest of the neighborhood in terms of how people traveled. in that building, 80% of the peak hour trips were done by automobile. in our neighborhood at that time, the census data showed overall that 80% of commutes were done either by muni or on foot everywhere, throughout the neighborhood. also in that neighborhood, two- thirds of households had no oldsmobile because there was no parking. this has probably changed a bit because there have been some buildings at it, an