thank you. >> thank you. >> again, steve wertheim, planning department staff. since everything i wanted to say has been said, i will end my presentation. thank you. [laughter] >> thank you. >> thank you. [laughter] >> so, i believe that we had agreed to give sf made a small block of time to give a presentation. >> thank you for having us back. we know he it's late so we will try to be brief. i think all of you probably have already received our letters of support and thought process. you know that we are no manufacturers are very much in support of this legislation. we also want to recognize the collaborative efforts of those who had ideas that we've now worked hard to incorporate into the modifications that you see before you. we were asked by a number of folks that it would be helpful at this point to make sure that you all have a clear understanding of the nature of the kinds of manufacturer we have and the kinds of spaces they need. so, briefly i'm going to give you a quick overview of that and then we brought three of our powerful manufacturers to you toda

steve wertheim, planning department staff here to talk about our pdr legislation. thanks for having us back again. i'm going to introduce some of the members of the team who will speak for a couple of minutes and then i'll come back and give more of the presentation. so, hopefully ken rich from the mayor's office of economic and work force development. >> good afternoon again, commissioners. ken rich with the office of economic and work force development. i can't resist just taking a moment to remind some of us who were there when we were going through the eastern neighborhoods process and we were called every crazy name in the book for thinking that it was important to preserve room for pdr space in the city, industrial space in the city. and people thought we were crazy and they thought that was a dying industry. and we persevered and i think we caught a pretty good balance between opening up areas for housing and preserving some areas for pdr uses and here we are seven, sick years later or so dealing with a pretty you are gent need to provide more space. it is a