we have been working closely with a supervisor campos's office, the t.a., the mayor's office to hone in on a a proposal that we feel would be ready to bring back to you. at this point, it looks like by the next meeting or another one after, we will have a proposal to come back, some of the open questions are really the same ones we started with, and nailing down a financing plan. it was a proposal that would not adversely impact muni operations. we are close to having a finance plan, and for what duration this would happen. we have also seen for the parking, a pretty significant level of communications via email. there are campaigns out there, the grass-roots support is quite strong. we should be coming back with a proposal on that. a couple of capital project updates. project continues. we did a shutdown of church and the market and replaced all the real and some of the overhead equipment, repaved the intersection that i think went very well. there was some service disruption, but we managed it and had very little complaints. we are starting our carl street track replacement project

someone mentioned preceptorship at princeton, basically like having a t.a. back in the way old days of princeton, very distinguished senior scholars would actually be the t.a.s for recently hired assistant professors. it's like having in the civil war if you put raw recruits in charge of the generals. it was sort of strange. it was an extraordinary experience, try to teach american social history in one semester, which is insane in itself. jim as my preceptor, he was already quite distinguished was gentle but firm in telling this raw recruit just how crude some of his lectures actually were. i've never forgotten that. both the lessons historically but also the lessons as we've all been saying of jim as a gentleman. most often we taught at a graduate reading seminar, history of united states from 1815 to 1877

and eastern neighborhoods concept that is working and with other things that the t.a. is up to, to more of a city-wide program. you lose that connection such that you're creating impacts that you're not necessarily mitigating. and some examples of those impacts are the additional delay and crowding to transit, but also the additional riders with the need for vehicle operators' facilities to provide the same level of service. so i'm very interested in the details of this and how it plays out. i suspect it would not be either as good as staff is suggesting, or necessarily as bad as perhaps i'm fearing. >> thank you. edward mason. >> i'm glad to see that there is some type of fee mitigation. i'll give you specific examples. in our neighborhood, within a block and a half of 24th and church street, within about the last five years. there have been a net increase of about 15 units that have been shoehorned into the neighborhood. some of these either through depligs and suddenly a single-family residence is now five units, or there's an illegal garage that was for storage on