ms. brandt hoy. >>> good afternoon, president chiu and members of the board, supervisor wiener.an holley, i'm here representing the appellants. and i'd like to start out by talking about categorical exemptions in general and of course as they apply to this project. and then i'll take some time to submit in pictures and documents for the record. i know the board is particularly familiar with categorical exemptions recently in light of the chapter 31 proceedings that are the amendments going forward. so, i won't take a lot of time. but basically the legislature that's allowed categorical exemptions because some projects are so minor that they don't warrant taking the time or spending the money to do environmental review. there is just to reason to do an environmental review for a lot of projects, thousands and thousands of them go forward in this city and around the state all the time. and so it should be. there are, however, circumstances when a project, even though it fits into a categorical exemption class, is not appropriately categorically exempt. and that's when you have an