dollars to conduct a rate study that has been done several times that is going to completely drain the stoerplg capacity we have and absolutely put the city further back tomorrow than where we are today? >> we're talking about lettinging the rate payers decide for themselves. it gives the rate payers the information they need in 2016 if it gets back on the ballot. the controller's report is actually quite inaccurate. it projects if prop f passes, a plan is implemented, adopted by the voters and hetch hetchy valley is restored that it will cost $10 billion dollars. that's not what people are voting on here. they are voting on prop f which is simply an $8 million dollar planning process. it's not just an $8 million planning process, it's voting for san francisco's future and i urge people to go to restoreyosemite.org and read about it. >> this is a measure hoisted on san francisco by outsiders. every san francisco political group across the political spectrum opposes this measure. this will cost us billions of dollars and it's an unnecessary complete waste of our rate payer dollars. we've done th

this unit has always been used for stoerplg. there's a permit from 1916 to say this is explicitly a garage space in the basement. there's a permit from 1982 that says we're going to install sprinklers in the basement, makes no mention of any other purpose for this basement. we have a pest control report from 2007 that says they couldn't even enter the space because of excess storage. i have several other comments in my brief about the importance of doing this now because not only are we concerned about the safety of the appellant but we're concerned about the safety of all the other people in the building, in which case there are 6 other units in the building who are depending on the city it make sure their living space is code compliant and safe. and i think the safety issues make a compelling argument that this situation cannot be allowed to continue, let alone for any other damage to the building that might result if, for example, there was an accident or some other incident that would affect our property rights as the owners