finally, i really want to commend paul lord, steve wirtheim and shelly whose last name i will tangle up terribly, for the incredible collaborative outreach with the community. it's outstanding and they really are to be recognized for that. thank you. >> thank you. >>> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is alice kamahatsu and i've been a long-time resident of japantown. and my husband is a minister for [speaker not understood] church of san francisco which is on laguna street. my family is [speaker not understood] terrace which is a complex. it has a tower for seniors and then town houses that surround that complex. so, i've been there a long time. when we first started to go to the meetings, my kids were in grammar school. now they're in college and my oldest daughter has graduated from college. so, it has been a long journey for all of us, but i'm glad that we are back here. i fully endorse the documents that have been set before you. and i know that september is just around the corner. so, please take a look at it closely. i also, since working at the church, i also do a culina

for that we're grateful and also to steve wirtheim who took over and also to shelly [speaker not understood]. and there is no bnp development plan which was very -- to us, to many people in the community, we thought it was going to be the end of japantown because it involved demolition of japantown center garage which would have shut down the center garage for many, many years, which would have cut business or [speaker not understood] out of business. and japantown would have been probably -- evolved into an international town. as you know, japantown san francisco is only one of three in the whole country. historically -- i was born in japantown and i spent most of my life in japantown except when i traveled, not by choice. we were sent to topaz camp, concentration camp and crystal city department of justice camp 1987. when we started school, i skipped kindergarten. [speaker not understood]. but now -- so, after that, it was redevelopment. and that was really disastrous. not only the japantown community, but the african-american community. the historic two communities that now after all the