mr. schumacher from the mayor's office of housing. >> i am perfectly suited for three to five minutes. that is the limit of my knowledge on all topics. i guess i want to just jump off where this started. i think the challenge and are facing is a complex process that is ceqa. in the case of federally funded affordable housing, what i came to talk about is how we need to understand our local decision making, whether it is in the creation of district or review, in light of how it interacts with those other processes. i think there are lots of things we could say about how effective inappropriate landmarking, surveying, and historic district creation is. but we also need to be cognizant of how it interacts with other systems, especially one that is clearly a very broken tool. one of the things i've heard coming up to this that i think will happen after this hearing is that we need to be cognizant and thoughtful -- if we know we are acting with a broken tool, how do we work together to fix the tool? that is the real culprit, and not just this aspect. that would be my request as we get throu

2009, addressed to maybelle schumacher trust, regarding the legal expansion of the restaurant and bar space without required conditional use authorization. if we can start with mr. maloney or whoever is here to represent the appellant. parks commissioners, i am the owner of mark 10 mac's restaurant. -- martin mack's restaurant. one thing that did happen, code enforcement had come out and give us an all clear. we had taken that. we realize we have to go back to the planning commission. we are quite willing to do this. we're willing to do that. we know that we had this very safe. this is the way should have been forced 21 years ago or 22 years hopefully, that is what happens. if you have any questions, i'm available to answer them.

2009, addressed to maybelle schumacher trust, regarding the legal expansion of the restaurant and bar space without required conditional use authorization. if we can start with mr. maloney or whoever is here to represent the appellant. parks commissioners, i am the owner of mark 10 mac's restaurant. -- martin mack's restaurant. one thing that did happen, code enforcement had come out and give us an all clear. we had taken that. we realize we have to go back to the planning commission. we are quite willing to do this. we're willing to do that. we know that we had this very safe. this is the way should have been forced 21 years ago or 22 years hopefully, that is what happens. if you have any questions, i'm available to answer them. >> it is there anyone here for the subjects property owner? >> i appreciate the efforts of the appellant to work with the planning department to come into compliance with the code and to make sure that the board understands, it it is my understanding to do with the penalties and of the board would be willing to reduce the amount of the assessed penalties. we september a notification on june 15, 2009, notice of violation and penalty was