. >> my name is ray holland. i am president of the planning association for richmond park. we are appealing this issue with at&t, which is laughing at what we say about it. i applaud using the better streets plan as a vehicle to get to the objectives, some of which we were appealing on. i think basically the better streets plan provides an opportunity to do a more effective and cheaper environmental redo. that is the bottom line. but there is also the danger of being in the forest and not seen the trees. you started this hearing talking about the sidewalks. i think better streets talks about the sidewalks, not just the streets, and the lighting in some sections of our city, and everything in between. one of the issues that precipitated the at&t categorical exemption in 2008 -- what really seal did this time was the installation in the last few months of last year of those awful-looking wireless data transmitters on the sides of our utility poles. they are black and brown. i think it only happened in the upper richmond district and in cal hollow so far. there are more to com