sponsors for a project that i believe is before us next week which is going to be proposed for valencia st.. it was good to see everyone getting together and answering the questions ahead of time that were raised. maybe we can do more of that in the future. i hope that this will be beneficial. we had a meeting with the parties involved and i think it was quite successful. i would like to ask for a hearing on parking in san francisco. this is a writer -- a rather large issue. we need something well in advance so the public can be aware of it and people can come and testify about their issues across the city. we hear these issues with discrete projects in neighborhoods and we hear just the areas surrounding the particular project or the neighborhood and you end up getting people on either side of the issue that are just indicative of that particular area. the impact of parking is citywide and area wide. i think that we really need to hear from people who normally may not be involved but the same ones have a lot of issues surrounding parking and they would welcome the chance to express their