my name is linda lee. i have lived in san francisco 25 years. i am a teacher of chinese and dance. over the years, when i need supplies for my classes, i always go to chinatown. and over all these years, there have been many businesses, tourists that i've seen come to chinatown. and i think of chinatown as the jewel of san francisco. and with the recession, i don't want to see business is in san francisco, chinatown close one by one. and i don't want to see 605 kearny street

my name is linda lee. i have lived in san francisco 25 years. i am a teacher of chinese and dance. over the years, when i need supplies for my classes, i always go to chinatown. and over all these years, there have been many businesses, tourists that i've seen come to chinatown. and i think of chinatown as the jewel of san francisco. and with the recession, i don't want to see business is in san francisco, chinatown close one by one. and i don't want to see 605 kearny street boarded up with an ugly black cover in chinatown. and i support this project, thank you. >> thank you. is there any other public comment? ok, if there is no other public comment, go ahead. >> i hope it is possible to touch on everything that needs to be in these three minutes. i have elected to try and keep this all in a positive level, and i ask the commissioners' understanding of that in narrowly focusing on the matter of the expired conditional use. i am not simply nitpicking a minor thing. while there are a lot of people here who are friends and families of the project sponsor, i don't believe they are all

commissioner lee: thank you. linda avery: ok. thank you. commissioners, if we can move forward on the calendar, to director's report, announcements and review of past week's events at the board of supervisors, board of appeals and i will announce that the historic preservation did not meet this week. >> thank you and i want to add thanks to commissioner lee, and thank you for your service to the department and the commission and i especially want to say thank you for your support to me being a newcomer to the city two and a half years ago and how much you have helped me make the transition to a wacky city and it's been a huge help to me, so i appreciate that. the other announcement that i have for the commission, we are going to be reconvening the advisory group on the department's action plan and those in the improvement plan that we put out two years ago now. that group has met several times but not in recent months, and we have a more detailed worked out proposal that we would like to share with that committee in the coming weeks on how