my name is tobias. i don't want to take up too much of your time. i'll be brief and i don't want to be redundant. i don't need to say too much because i don't want to take up too much time. the number of people here today that kind of speaks to why this center should not only be renovated but should include these extra 42 units of housing. this is an overwhelming population and we don't see the at-risk kids, but it's a small fraction of what was promised in the t.a. task force. so to be brief, i totally support the renovation of the center and the addition of the 42 units. thank you very much. >> thanks, commissioners. my name is mario and i'm the director on staff at the youth commission. i think the commissioners kind of articulated our points pretty well. we are charged bit voters of san francisco with representing young people in this building and in policy and legislative debates. i'm chart -- quoting from the city charter which sar voters voted on in 1995. right? we're supposed to identify the unmet needs of san francisco youth and what you ar

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tobias serrano, naomi, accompanied by mario yadida and in the mean tomb i will call some folks' names here. brad paul. donald stroh. gary brown. >> my name is brad paul. i'm here today as an individual, as a father of an 8-year-old son, and as somebody who spent 35 years wrestling with the ideas of affordable housing in neighborhood. i have a lot of sympathy for you today. but having said that i'm here to support the project as you have seen it now in its current size. i urge you not to reduce it. not nine units, not one unit. for economic reasons, design reasons and humanitarian reasons. as jack gardner from the john stewart company said, if you reduce this at all it has tremendous impacts both on the development costs but more importantly on the operating costs over time. if you reduce it i think you also affect the design as a previous speaker showed. you go to a blocky building without the setbacks and for humanitarian reasons because you would serve nine fui -- fewer of some of the most vulnerable youth in the estimate i drove by the site the other day just to remind myself -- i'