forn asked- -- mr. fong asked me to submit. they had it on file, but it was a very big copy. i was not aware i had to submit 12 copies. but it was included in the approved plan. i made those copies so each one would be able to review. i did not have to provide any additional documents due to the fact that we have discussed everything, i think. i do not know whether we have to keep going on and on and on to explain how these things would get approval, because it took us a year with the woman who checked the plans and make sure we complied. but i think the issue here is the new drawling that i gave to her had a door on the ground floor, which should not be there because the approved plan did not have it in the first place. originally, it was not there. but my structural engineer was trying to get us an addendum. last time we had this meeting, they would not approve. so we had to stick with the original approved plan. any questions? >> good afternoon. i am engineer of the project. -- the electrical engineer of the project. i sent a letter to the city of san francisco and talked

forn asked- -- mr. fong asked me to submit. they had it on file, but it was a very big copy. i was not aware i had to submit 12 copies. but it was included in the approved plan. i made those copies so each one would be able to review. i did not have to provide any additional documents due to the fact that we have discussed everything, i think. i do not know whether we have to keep going on and on and on to explain how these things would get approval, because it took us a year with the woman who checked th

fong: thank you. veronica sanchez. >> mr. president, members of the commission, veronica sanchez speaking on behalf of the inland boatmen scene of the pacific, the marine division of 40 lw -- for the lw. also, for the master mason pilots. as you know, both of our unions crew the ferry boats on the day, and we have the following steady process very closely because the design guidelines that are being provided certainly provide an opportunity. we will release some of these parcels, particularly 337, for future development that is needed. the replacement parking in the ferry building area which is needed to expand the ferry terminal, and we worked very hard to go and get that public funding for this project, so there is a lot at stake here. we complement the efforts of the planning department in this study in balancing the need for public spaces, recreational uses, the community benefits, and most importantly, the ports need to be profitable so that it can continue to subsidize maritime operations. like the ferry services, ferry

fong: thank you. will travis? >> thank you, mr. president, members of the commission. i would like to offer bcec's staff support for the study. i think we can all be extremely proud of what we have accomplished here on the waterfront. in fact, bcdc regularly takes credit for the good work you have done here. [laughter] i think we have to acknowledge that we have only partly done the work. our goal is to reconnect san francisco to the waterfront. you have done a great deal of work here on the water side of the embarcadero. your executive director and i regularly engage in quality control assessment at the many restaurants along there. [laughter] obviously, i take my responsibilities more seriously than she does. what we have decided to do is look at and the determination of what this side of the embarcadero should look like. what do we want? and then we went about doing what we said we wanted to do. the embarcadero was the same thing. we made choices. what do we want to achieve? we went about implementing them. we need -- we need the same thing for the inland side of th