says celia lim and norm fong, marlene smith, joe majur and margaret gund. when you're ready. >> good afternoon. i moved 25 years ago. after looking at the presentation on paper it looks interesting but you need to be on site to see what the design really is. first of all, i just wanted to say there's a lot of us here. we are not against building something on the loss. we welcome something new in the neighborhood. we want housing. we know that we are in a part of the city that is dense. that's why i moved there. i knew that would be the little manhattan of san francisco. we all want that. i saw the whole neighborhood grow around us and there are beautiful places, beautiful towers with spaces in between. i mean, it just sounds astonishing to me that a block -- because that building is a block that goes from beale to main from side to side, 10,000 square feet of open space, no, mostly private decks. it's not a building that's friendly to anybody. if you walk to the south and look north, what do you see today? you see three beautiful courtyards, mature trees th

and i have a statement from -- from marlene smith, who is a resident of bay crest that had to leave a little while ago. she gave me her statement to make for her. she has an apartment on beale street. this will force my windows and vents to be sealed. sealing the windows will create stagnant air in my unit because we have no central air in our units. stagnant air is hazardous to our health. it will also create mold issues in my unit as there would be no way moisture created from showers, laundry and cooking could reap wait. i already have health issues. this project will only enhance my health issues. she wrote a second letter to the commission, as well. thank you very much. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker. i'll call some other names: gary winters, hue mclaughlin, cathy turnquist, rihanna miranda, cameron noburg, george with a z, darcy kovak. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is kristin hall. i feel very lucky to are a resident and worker? san francisco. i agree with the residents that this area has a lot of crazy bridge traffic but at the scene ae a transit rich