ms. hester, who have stayed on the problem to help us make progress towards a resolution. i want to thank the academy of art. to commissioner moore's comments, this is not the first submittal of the institutional master plan. there have been others that we have turned down. i think this is the first real institutional master plan that has been submitted and not something that reads like a pr document so i am grateful for that because, you know, it is being taken seriously. i think, you know, it is important to plan for the future and for how you use land in the city. i will say that i am glad that we are working towards the resolution. is it perfect? no, there are a lot of things we would all like to see in it, but i think on the whole, i am appreciative that we are making progress towards resolving a whole host of issues that have to do with land use and compliance,anticly the loss of land controlled housing which is important. director ram, did you want to say something? >> well to reiterate thanks to everyone, the attorney's office and scott and liz and andrew perry was

ms. hester's comments about the history of the uses of this project, and the current uses of it and whate have been able to capture and legalized? can you say more about that? >> so, the existing building that is there is basically considered legal nonconforming office space. >> so i can see, a few years down the line, this being an upside down b.m.r., and i'm wondering if your client is open to doing a little better than this. it just seems like this is something that i could see three -- a couple years from now will just not work anymore. >> let me adjust this first. we actually have talked with them about some of the specs we got from may 2018. we have worked with them. we did have an in-depth discussion with them last friday we went through some of the studies and how that fits in. so we all agreed that the next step would be for us to get a kitchen designer involved and get into the next level of designs. right now we have conceptual design, we have the specs for the space, we have the pricing for the space, but we need to engage a designer. they have been very busy. in june they ha

ms. hester. >> because this document came out on the fourth of july, i wasn't able to get people to come. there was about seven of us that have come religiously for the past 10 years they were all on vacation except paul, and i think theresa is going to speak. here is a set what you got by e-mail when you are in executive session. two things. this has been going on for a long time. i have been involved with this since 2005. no one from the planning department would be here except for the community, banking heads against to wall to start complaining. it is insulting. there were no notices given to any of the people who have spoken because you don't have to keep a list to give notices to so literally everyone is on vacation except for paul and myself and hopefully theresa is going to speak. the academy of art is for profit and it owns every site by an individual llc and makes it impossible to track them. the commission has been their stock and trade. you are doing the institutional master plan with no notice to the public over the break for thanksgiving, for the fourth of july. it is rubbin

ms. mitchell recognition in 2017 as part of the gary cohn award for antitrust scholarship. she received her ba from malik hester college and currently serves on the board of economic policy. our fourth witness is marino house in. a partner at baker botts llp. prior to that she led the federal trade commission as acting chairman and commissioner. and in the ftc from 2012 until 2013 and directed all aspects of the antitrust work and publish dozens of articles on the antitrust privacy ip, regulation, ftc regulation, told medications and international law issues. she has presented particular expertise minnows, antitrust, technology and privacy issues. she has received numerous awards for her work and scholarship including the ftc's robert petoskey lifetime achievement award. she received her ba from the university of virginia and george mason university school of law. today's fifth witness is vice president and general counsel at net choice. before joining that, he worked as an attorney at allen dixon advising clients on privacy, e- commerce and contractual matters. he has extensive expense and taxation, privacy an