mr. hiller. >> thank you. >> commissioners, that will place us on item 10 for the urban design guidelines. informational presentation. [coughing]

mr. hiller. >> thank you. >> commissioners, that will place us on item 10 for the urban design guidelines. informational presentation. [coughing] >> here. do you want to run your copy? >> yeah. >> thanks. >> hello, commissioners. i have a small planning department staff and we're returning today, the urban design guidelines team, david winslow and myself, will be giving you an update about the urban design guidelines. they with respect here last may, in may of to 17 and we've been doing quite a bit of work since then. i'm going to give a little bit of background, just to get people up to speed who aren't familiar with the project and remind everyone what we've been doing and what the intention of the project is. design guidelines in general are implementation documents for city-designed policies and objectives. they partner with planning code to shape new development. they consistent of general principles of design excellence and neighbourhood compatibility to improve the way new projects will look and work. this specifically t san francisco urban design guidelines are intended to do thre