. >> commissioners, i'm michael michael skolnick. i don't think i will use three more minutes tonight. i have some great neighbors with me tonight. i mean, these people have put a lot of time and energy and thought into this project and i have lived in the neighborhood since 1997 and, yeah, i have seen it deteriorate, but i think that the day i walked into the planning department and had a meeting with them, the zoning administration, larry babner that i knew i was going to take on this site. you know, gordon eakin will talk about a meeting that we had with neighbors in january of 2000. that was a tense meeting. we said to him, you know, there are lights on that property. turn them on. he said, you know, i'm going to go back and i'm going to look into that. you know, i saw an electrical contractor go out there. one day i got so tired checking d.b.i. records. i noticed this electrician. he set up for the lighting. he did the electrical work and the lighting was never turned on. i'm just amazed that we have, you know, this football tea