if you could line up on the left side of this room -- jim lazarus, jamie windlow, peter nassir, and howard chabner. >> good afternoon, supervisors. jim lazarus. i will wear my former recreation and park have to, because this project came up while i was on the commission. the commission unanimously approved by in the triangle lot under eminent domain. there was some controversy over the acquisition of this project. because of the law, we really could not develop a vision at that time for how this piece of property was used for recreation purposes and how it was tied into park planning. but you see it here today. i think this is what the commission had in mind when we acted on this five or six years ago. it allows you to consolidate park uses and create a new library, making it up to a situation for the uses of both facilities. i think the street closure mimics what we have done throughout san francisco when we have had the opportunity to expand park property with these unusual street grids. market street during the rebuild -- during the bart metro development in the late 1960's -- we closed