>> director rahaim: i think there's a couple of points of misunderstanding. one, the preservation planners have always been in the quadrants. they have for a number of years, and one of the reasons for this restructuring is they were essentially reporting to two bosses, and it was creating a lot of confusion in the department because they were reporting to the community as well as mr. frye. secondly, i think we have triple the numbers of preservation planners that we have on the staff now than we did five years ago, and all of them have the same technical experience that tim frye had. so for the workload function as well as the staff, we think this system worked better and more efficiently and actually brings consistency into the program and more closely ties the work in the quadrants otherwise. having said all that, i think what we've said to the his torque presidenter -- historic preservation commission is we're willing to hear from them about how it's working, and we're willing to rehear this in a few months if they think it's not working. but i just wante

. >> director rahaim: certain hoping that every day, my family and i can get around the city safely and benefit from all the services that you helped deliver. maybe i'll show up in public comment, and i can start grilling you guys in exchange, but i just want to thank you all for the partnership and the work and the high expectations you've created for me and my colleagues, the rest of the department heads and for all that you do for all of us who work here and live here and visit here. so thank you very much. it's a great honor, and i appreciate it. [applause] >> president yee: director peskin, would you come into the chambers? [applause] >> president yee: that concludes our special commendation for today. madam clerk, let's go to our first special 3:00 p.m. orders, item 46 through 49. >> clerk: item 46 through 49, this is the appeal for the tentative map for 2146 through 2150 union street. item 46 is the decision for persons interested in the decision of public works to approve a tentative map for a three unit subdivision. item 47 is the motion to approve the tentative map for the uni

and director rahaim, you live in the neighborhood, and you see the conversion of these houses. we're talking about strategies that we're going to be talking about at the end of this summer, but we're just moving ahead without any of these things in place. where we going to learn? we can't up zone until we have robust area plans and strategies to keep our communities impact and to stablize. we can't just continue at this pace until nobody's left. thank you. >> vice president koppel: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. first, i want to thank all of you for, you know, always taking in the community concerns on a number of different projects and lending your ear to some of the community concerns that we're seeing play out on a daily basis. we do want to kind of look at this under the equity lens. this is a pretty big plan. to me, if you drop a rock in a pool of water, the ripple effects, they bubble out in the areas nearby there. i work at the edge of the market octavia plan. we're seeing businesses moving in that use the police to push their agenda o

. >> director rahaim: certain hoping that every day, my family and i can get around the city safely and benefit from all the services that you helped deliver. maybe i'll show up in public comment, and i can start grilling you guys in exchange, but i just want to thank you all for the partnership and the work and the high expectations you've created for me and my colleagues, the rest of the depart h