niclas o'neill and then after that catherine o'neill. gregg's good afternoon, commissioners. i am an immigrant -- >> good afternoon. i'm an immigrant to america. a proud citizen. i'm sure you've heard the line, "paved paradise to put up a parking lot." i'm sure you are also familiar with the film "chinatown" and the corruption in politics and how l.a. was built on it. it seems disturbing to see a similar process taking place in san francisco. i had dinner with a developer, a much larger developer than our gentleman here, in january of this year, who assured me that this was a dandy appeared in had not gone to the board of supervisors. -- a done deal. it had not gone to the board of supervisors. he said, forget about it. there's someone in chinatown that has the board of supervisors in her pocket. he did not say that she has the port in her pocket. but he said it was a done deal and we were all wasting our time. i hope that is not the case. this seems to be the last chance, last stop to prevent such a farce from taking place. it reminds me, i guess, on a smaller scale of how i