there has been no dedicated provider services for p.d.r. businesses, which we are trying to grow in it city. there is no provider. we need to make sure that exists. finally, we need to conduct further research regarding the climate for small business. a lot of the small business owners i spoke to wanted to talk about hot button issues like parking and taxation and streamlining the permitting process. that fell outside theper view of my research pocket, but clearly there is an interest there. finally, i wanted to close by saying this research is only a few months old, and we have already begun to take action on it. it formed the foundation of the city plan. it is our plan for -- our five-year plan for the city. it informed our 2010-2011 fwranlt-making decisions. there is an organization dedicated to meeting the needs of manufacturing businesses. we were their first funder, and we are really proud of the explosive growth they have seen and excited about what they are going to accomplish. finally, eowd has already been acting on some of those

people are still thinking about and talking about p.d.r. there is real potential for a great economic impact even for just one small business that can create 20 jobs. a lot of those jobs can go to people without a college degree, and they -- and that can have a great economic impact for san francisco. i appreciate the feedback. i am going to hand out my card. i would love to hear additional feedback in the future particularly around the issue of filling vacancies as that is something i am going to be spending a fair amount of time in the future. >> what professor at cal did you work primarily with when you wrote wrote your dissertation? >> i worked primarily with karen chapel. >> thank you. please let us know if there is anything we can do to help with the recommendations you have. and you come back and give us an update on some of your progress. >> i will. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. public comment? seeing none, it is closed. next item, please. >> commissioners, item number 15, director's report. >> commissioners, i need t

industrial, p.d.r., these are all changing, they're all moving. a policy document allows for a logical plan to be involved and allows for the specificity to come into being. and if we get beyond that, we're never going to have a document that works. commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: just a follow-up mostly for mr. edelman, but you were all very happy with the successes of hope six and looking forward to the successes of hope s.f. i guess we kind of like to have a look at the whole public housing issue regionally, and i don't expect an answer today. but as part of the whole presentation, i mean, we have to look at this thing and see which direction it's going. i'm sure that because i think a lot of progress is being made and hopefully we can continue to move in that direction and making sure that needs throughout the bay area are also being met by other municipalities and other counties to deal with housing problems in their areas regarding public housing and section 8, which they talked about a little bit in the presentation that we ha