rasoulovich? >> thank you for hearing this today and thank you for bringing this forward. "we were trying to do with this legislation -- what we were trying to do with this legislation -- there has been a lot of rezoning. that left a bunch of holes in soma. there are areas with and acquited zoning. this makes them consistent with one another and the adjacent districts. this plan will change some of these controls. it will mean that any interim development is going to be more in keeping with the way we would like to go with the eastern neighborhood. the other thing it does is it removes a few catch-22s we put in the planning code. there are things we say we want people to do like preserve historic streets, or we want them to retrofit. this allows a process to create exceptions. if a project owner wants to save a tree or do a retrofit and change the parking, there is an administrative process they can go through. it will help advance the other goals of the city and remove conflicts which create for project sponsors when they try to do the right thing. they can remove the his