. >> don turner, mitchell berry. >> good afternoon. good to see you again. my name is don turner and i'm with the association and also working with the neighboring merchants in our safe street coalition. on the 18th we did have mr. ruskin come to our meeting and being very concerned about the plans of polk street and that would be a drastic reduction in parking on polk street which would change the quality of life for both the merchants and residents there. parking is not a wonderful thing. it's not a fun thing to talk about, but it is essential and it's essential for the health of our neighborhood. what we are asking for is that yes, we do have safety and we do have pedestrian safety. we do have bicycle safety. all of those things are important to us as well. but it's also important to us to keep the quality of our neighborhood and keep our neighborhood together and unfortunately, the plans that we've seen so far do not provide nearly adequate parking in order to support the neighborhood. i have every hope that we'll once again work with mr. ruskin and have