of like to put in a word with mary nichols. she sent supporting letters previously for this and she owns two properties that actually back up to avoid street. they are both in the 40 foot range and she is a very supportive of this project. thank you and have a nice evening. >> thank you. >> the could have chose to build a single family. i think it was a smart decision. it is difficult to make two units work. there has been a significant amount of pushed back. a lot of that is due to the fact that this is an empty lot and people have to get used to the fact that they might have this lot for a long time that there will be a building there one way or the other. i would urge you to move forward on this project and not to take discretionary review. thank you. >> i am a resident of the neighborhood. my part and i live around the park and i want to say that i feel the proposed development is extremely high quality in design and it the most current iteration, the developers heavily tried to address the concerns by tangling some of the

appointments he made as former assemblyman john laird to head up the resources board and keeping mary nicholsthe california air resources board. we don't know yet. but it's not -- i don't think we're in the kind of climate where you can have sacred cows. everything's going to be on the table. certainly prisons. i mean, the three biggest parts of the budget are education, prisons, and health and social services. all those things have to be up for discussion. >> belva: you're ending talking about some of the people that he's bringing into government. we're going to move now to the man who's just moving out of government. but he too brought some people into government. we're talking about arnold schwarzenegger, the outgoing governor. part of his final act -- >> and that was one of his more controversial acts in the seven years he spent in office. in his final hours as governor, governor schwarzenegger issued a number of pardons and commutations. and one of them that really has drawn a lot of controversy was he reduced the sentence of a 21-year-old named esteban nunez. and mr. nunez stabbed a man

first panel, which is rising seas and coastal challenges, that moderator of our first panel is mary d. nichols. she is currently director of the ucla institute of the environment. she was appointed by mayor antonio villarugoso, commissioner of los angeles and serves as its president through september, 2006. we all know mary as a very capable secretary for california's resources -- california resources agency where she was the head of that agency from 1998 to 2003. those of us who remember back far enough recall the days as a senior attorney for the environment now foundation. she was also co-founder of the first environmental justice working group in the state. we are very pleased here in san francisco and i believe all of you should be very pleased to have mary as the moderator of our first panel. mary, it's time for you to take it away. thank you. . >> thank you so much, susan, for that very generous introduction and also to the city and the public utilities commission for hosting this landmark event. it really is wonderful to see water utilities taking a leadership role in discussing this k