the soma west skatepark and dog park. >> good morning commissioners nick [inaudible] director for the parks department. the item before you is an important step towards creating the new soma west skatepark and dog parks. as you know we have four skate parks in our system. they're popular. if you had the opportunity to visit the new baboa skate park or at waler street and attest for yourself just how incredibly popular the sport has become and how important it is for us to fill that need so we're exciting to bringing forward this item and another skate park and fills the ever growing need to accommodate dog users in the city. the new or the proposed skate park and dog park would be built underneath the central free way at mission street and stevenson streets. this project came out of a very long community process really ging after the 89 earthquake. there was a significant dialogue whether the central freeway should remain or torn down. eventually it was decided to market street there would be elevator freeway and beyond octavia and the citizen's community identified projects to be com