i'm mc mars. i'm an artist, a writer. i live in the 800 block of bush street. i'm here to address something just alluded to earlier by jack edwards representing montgomery partners. he talked about the building being proposed next door to where we live and that building will effectively remove somebody like me from the city. i wrote a book called don't take me the long ways. i was also the -- i'm one of the people san francisco points to and i'm one of the artists creating the hard work in san francisco and i'm retired and live next door to a building that is about to be re-c re-configured. they're planning a six-story building adjacent to my wall that will prevent me from writing with the noise level and be a detriment to the neighborhood and destroy the human ecology. to define that term quickly, how people live within the particular. all the subtle aspects of keeping the neighborhood intact. one artist spoke about context. i'm just a concerned citizen that feels suddenly in the crosshairs of the developers and i want you to understand that. >> i wanted to su