mr. wertheim, the director, the commissioners. this must be a thankless, thankless job to sit here day in and day out. but thank you for your attention, and we hope our project brings joy and hope and happiness to the people and the community of the south of market. thank you so much for your attention. mr. ionin, jonas, i've known you for god knows how long. we're still looking good, and could you put that on the record, please, and give that to the commissioners and director. thank you so much from our family to you. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, everyone. my name is lauren burnham, and you represent the tuolomne river trust. the central soma act will early exacerbate the acute imbalance we're facing in san francisco and the bay area. this will contribute to further gentrification of our unique neighborhoods, increase traffic on our already congested roads, and increase the demand on the resources that sustain certain things, namely, the tuolomne river. as you may or may not kn

mr. wertheim, is that all for the presentation? you want to wrap it up. >> thanks, everyone. >> president hillis: thank you. so we will take -- we'll open it up first for public comment. >> we did receive a late request for organized opposition. >> president hillis: so -- from mr. drury? [inaudible] >> clerk: okay. you get three minutes. >> president hillis: we'll just call you during public comment, because i know i've got a card for you. we'll just call names. [names read ] >> president hillis: you all can lineup on the screen side of the room and speak in any order. >> good evening. happy bike to workday, commissioners. my name is yee wan. on behalf of the san francisco bicycle coalition and our more than 10,000 members, we support the central soma plan's goals to prioritize working, biking, and transit in the central soma plan area. we believe this will help relieve the traffic in the area and make all road users, not just people biking, safer. at the same time, we are delighted to see there are planny proposed improvements for

mr. wertheim for all the work that they've put in over seven years. it is truly an aachievement, and finally, i have a letter for the board. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker. >> commissioners, good afternoon. joseph smook with the south of market community action network. despite many hours of meetings and hours of testimony and public hearings, we in soma feel that the plan does fail to address the very real and persistent problems and pressures that are facing the south of market community. excuse me. we keep hearing about the increase low. we of course would contend that many projects have come before you in soma already that have created significant impacts that have been far shorter than 160 feet, and we would argue that they're not being ministerial approvals. i think what's more concerning that the housing sustainability district seems to be a late but significant entry, so we would ask for your consideration of continuing this hearing to fully consider what that means for the whole plan, so thank you very much. >> presid

mr. wertheim, good luck in sacramento. it's been a pleasure, and a pleasure in seeing this plan move forward. >> self-planning works to preserve and enhance the city what kind hispanic the environment in a variety of ways overhead plans to fwied other departments to open space and land use an urban design and a variety of other matters related to the physical urban environment planning projects include implementing code change or designing plaza or parks projects can be broad as proipd on overhead neighborhood planning effort typically include public involvement depending on the subject a new lot or effect or be active in the final process lots of people are troubled by they're moving loss of they're of what we preserve to be they're moving mid block or rear yard open space. >> one way to be involved attend a meeting to go it gives us and the neighbors to learn and participate dribble in future improvements meetings often take the form of open houses or focus groups or other stinks that allows you or your neighbors to prov

mr. wertheim did in the middle of the presentation of central soma is take what you heard today and start to have an expa expanded discussion with targeted to what was discussed today. i think it was fair, but i think the public also indicated next week is the beginning of a very big holiday. it's the first part of summer holiday where people go away, and in order to have those people who are unavailable continue in this dialogue, hear you basically, give some really strong feedback. that is what we can do, i think that would be a strong robust standing in the dialogue, and i would personally appreciate it if that's what we would do. >> president hillis: i just want to make -- there's so much good in here, i wouldn't want to make it feel rushed. i think let's just continue it for two more weeks next week and give us a little more time to have one more community meeting at the department and hear it in a little more, you know, get answers and get them out with the commission packet which goes out tomorrow. i'd say let's give us two more weeks after next week just to get it right, 'cause i