trust for historic preservation, in books such as "the future of the past," written by professor steven symms of notre dame and elsewhere. some years ago, i mentioned to your planning director that it might be good to invite some of these people to san francisco and have a big conference to discuss the status of preservation. as you are well aware, there is some frustration in this town over this subject. after several months, he reported back to me that he could get an attraction, but the preservationists he talked to indicated that things were fine the way they were, and there was not a need to have any kind of discussion. i think what you are seeing today and what supervisor winner this -- weiner is trying to do is reflective of the issues that have been raised in these papers and discussions, as well as the frustrations among constituents in san francisco. i think he has worked extremely hard to take these motions and put them in legislative form, and work them through in a manner which, in my opinion, will serve the public well. i urge you to move this forward with his amendments, as he