mr. hamaguchi this, the task with the cdc is a daunting one of course. the different functions of the cdc can be either incubated or fiscally sponsored by an existing nonprofit. i know that there's always different personalities or tensions within a community and those have to be managed. i think instead of starting from scratch there may be the ability to get more leverage. and i'm interested particularly in the access to peace plaza. i think that with geary brt, with transportation and certainly emerging as a way we're organizing our land use to think about the connection of possibility of stop on geary and opening up that geary edge to the plaza, i think really could do a lot for the transit connection. >> commissioner sugaya. >> yes, thank you. i think we've been at this for a long time now and according to the community, we did the right thing by sending it back the first time. i think commissioner antonini, myself, and commissioner moore were on the commission at that point. in any case, i think it's quite a different kind of document than we're ac

mr. hamaguchi kept me very much informed. got a chance to respond to e-mails and there were a lot of e-mails and continues to be a lot of e-mails. i will be able to be a little more active in the meetings now, but i was pretty active in that. and one of the things i want to thank this committee for is they immediately recognized and honored the long-term relationship between japantown and the african-american community, which has been a long, healthy partnership. and i think people -- most of you younger folk don't realize that these two communities are more segregated since redevelopment than they ever were before and in actuality. you know, all my friends who grew up in japantown, when you ask them where they were from, they said fillmore. now, they were from japantown, too. everybody -- but everybody from japantown was it from fillmore and not everybody from fillmore was from japantown. everybody recognized that. businesses were next to each ooh african-american businesses, for you young people we actually used to have the