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smolinski: thank you. i'll be brief. thank you for presenting.ove a lot of the ideas, more white zones, reducing flag stops, et cetera. i'm curious, of course, the competing interest is parking. how do you balance that? curious what the analysis is like? [laughter] so one item i didn't touch on in the presentation is the framework. and so the idea of the framework is to say that in different parts of the city, there are different needs and priority. if we're in a residential part of the city, then, really, most of the curb space is for peoples' private vehicles. however, if we're in downtown, i think you may have noticed, there is virtually no parking for peoples' private vehicles on the street. it happens off-street in the garages, and the street is more muni, commercial loading, white loading. in the neighborhood, commercial areas, like valencia, it's kind of this mix of both. and so there it's really using our public outreach and planning process to work with the neighborhood to find a better balance and say, you know, you have a lot of loadin