peskin, he was extremely helpful and we worked together and we were able to move that item forward so we now have a much better process with the planning department, with the assessor's office, and so it's now actually feasible for these small home owners to be able to move a contractor. in the past because it was so difficult and expensive and lengthy a process, it was only the larger major projects that really htd wherewithal to be able to do that so that's why when we worked with sf heritage and others on the legislation that was one of the goals to try to expand access and it looks like it's happening because we actually have contracts that are moving through the process. >> are there any differences between what types of properties are subject to mills act in la compared to san francisco? predominately, what, single homes? >> no, it's the same types of projects but la and san diego, for example, just had really simple straightforward processes. we had a really awful process which we now improved which is why we're seeing some contracts going through but maybe mr. fry can elaborat

released the auction on the property and unwilling to devote the [speaker not understood] supervisor peskin and the neighbor. they employed the same objection, none of them reasonable nor viable, more or less as a smoke screen to thwart this application. this type of obstructionism ha become a true menace to san francisco and we are sick of it. please give your usev approval to this worthy project. thank you. ~ unanimous approval >> next speaker. >>> good afternoon. my name is linda spence. until recently i lived on telegraph hill not far from this project. i don't believe that telegraph hill dwellers speak for the residents of telegraph hill or north beach. i support this project and i think it has wide community support. i particularly support the right of the property owner to develop had i property, particularly when the proposed development need ~ meets all of the planning and zoning requirements. those who oppose this project say they are working to preserve san francisco's character, quite the contrary. i think the opposition represents a high degree of nimbiism. the strategy of thos

the areas that the city will apply and in terms of the castro legislation, you know, we supervisor peskin in the new inlaw unit city wide, ten years ago and when he fought the good fight and the valiant fight and he lost. and i give him a lot of credit for trying. and so, i just decided to proceed on a previous legislation, so let's start with a neighborhood that tends to be more accepting of new housing and of density and a neighborhood that has an aging population or a particularly a larging lgbt population where people are really looking for different kinds of housing opportunities and ways to be able to stay in a neighborhood if they can't get up the steps any more or if they are displaced from their housing and also a neighborhood that tends to have a lower car ownership rate and that is relatively one or more of my colleagues said that let's try my district and i have been trying to encourage them and no one has beat me up, but i am hoping that will have, but i can and i will not name them but i think of the neighborhoods that will be really good candidates for it. so it is going to