. >> linda chapman from not hill -- nob hill. supervisor mar said he wished he had more opportunity to look at this. some of you are lawyers. i had to study the ceqa guidelines in connection with writing a support document for the appeal about live nation. it is very easy to read. it is plain english. it is very vanilla. it would be very clear to you, what they were intended to do was not to chop big hunks out of ceqa or have something handy for the planning staff. it is really four things that are common sense. -- for things that are common sense. i am not surprised the judge expects planning to return the decision to use a cadex in that case. the second thing is i used to be a civil rights specialist. i dealt with disability. one of the things that concerns people is having impediments' like this in the public right of way for people with visual impairment are using real tears. even i run into an impediment all the time, outside the theater. every time i come to it, i have to decide whether to walk into traffic or go under this

. >> linda chapman. there's no more grim practice than reusing historic buildings and nothing better for affordable housing than saving the affordable rental housing that we have that is under rent control. in the '70's and '80's, knob hill neighbors saved thousands of rental buildings from the high-rise developers who wanted to tear them down because they were essentially historic district. but the condo developer that you heard, who wants to tear down the methodist church, he sounded pathetic, didn't he? the methodist church wanted to build affordable housing. we can't. tndc is ready, david baker, mayor's office of housing and so on but he stands in the way. instead of appealing the denial of his plan to you, he sued you, mind you. the methodist church actually wanted to bailed forwardability housing. we have the ability to do that and reuse the church and have a community facility there. often it's a choice. the city of paris, for example, was torn down but retailers wanted to use it, they wanted to r