president, commissioners, mark greny. believe this legislation is a very positive first step and i'm happy to see it because it seems like for the last 20 years we've been going in the opposite direction and i guess when you have a $400 million budget you start to get -- or budget deficit, maybe you start to get serious. that said, i do have two problems with the legislation. one, is the exclusion of soma and western soma and some of the eastern neighborhoods in soma, being excluded from this. we had another speaker, scott had alluded to the tragedy and i was around when it happened. in the late 1980's, mid 1980's they were going to put an entertainment zone on folsom street, ninth street and 11th street and also down toward the first 300 blocks of townsend street. at the last moment the entertainment folks were running their businesses and a bunch of people who lived in the housing came and screamed and carried on and they basically downzoned the entire soma. big problem and mistake that the time. we've seen how tragic t