i think steve cornell laid out a lot about the traffic situation on our street, and i think it impacts us, our patients, our neighbors, and i think it's a very serious concern for keeping small businesses on polk street. i hope that you will please vote no on this permit application. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker. i'll call some more names. ester, janet, claudia, izzy, john, paul, and jim. welcome. >> good evening. i'm roy chan. i represent chinatown community development center, and we stand with our neighbors at mutt will polk neighborhood association in opposition to this proposal. allowing a stand-alone big box formula retail at the site would simply disrupt the independent retail ecosphere that has defined this part of polk street and coincidentally chinatown. for over 40 years, chinatown cdc has a history of maintaining quality of life and neighborhood character, and we understand well the negative impact of formula retail moving in to established commercial corridors and we've even put into place zoning that restricts use size as well as formula retail.

cornell university, also a fellow at brookings institution. what is your assessment about how things got off last week with steve mnuchin and wilbur ross? not a lot of progress was revealed. washington, what the trump team put on the table was not a basis for a negotiated settlement. one can think of the u.s. starting off with a tough are getting solution, but it seemed an unreasonable set of demands. isthe other side, it promising, traveling to washington next week. that would suggest the chinese do want to move toward some conciliate -- negotiation at least. eswar: i think they would -- stephen: i think they want to negotiate, but not capitulate. appearhe wants to conciliatory come a but make sure the message does not come back to china that the chinese side is capitulated -- capitulating, as you put it. china is trying to show it is responsible, trying not to ratchet up the tensions, but bring them down. they at least seem to be willing. the chinese are willing to negotiate, they do not like outright confrontation. does the approach many have described the trump administration as being too aggressive, li daokui we just heard saying t