my name is rodney hampton jr. a live long resident of bayviewpoint and vice president of the consortium for partnership and the cofounder and president of the organization social group we help our people. three things, first of all our community, myself, we do not want alternative programming. secondly, my community and myself, we do not want housing there. and thirdly, it's shamely to say but when esponola was here, none of us was talking about this. and it's sad to say my sister, my elderly wisdom sister is gone, now you have some folks that has been in the community over -- you know several years along with outside contenders. very influential folks. and i consider that is just -- you know, part of front stage gentrification. that's a part of that. and when you have that type of group come together and start making recommendations on behalf of the communities and others that have been here over 40 years, 50 years, 60 years... and i've only been here for 44 and i'm tired of smelling the stuff too. so i mean, tak