i hope we've learned some lessons through the vanness b.r.t. construction and hope that we can mitigation some of those issues. >> chair peskin: miss chang, you want to respond? >> we're certainly listening, and before we get to the geary, i think we -- i'm sure geary, lombard, and 19 avenue will experience some impacts. geary, the more intense impact would be on the west side, but we have a few years to get ready for that. that's something that public works is aware of, and as we're heading into that environmental approval period, are trying to make sure that we're being thoughtful and using lessons learned and trying to get ready for that fifth through seventh segment of better market street. >> chair peskin: and colleagues, just so you know, i had this conversation with ed reiskin last week. it's just going to be very hard for us, as appropriators whether we're at the board of supervisors or the t.a. to appropriate money for these kinds of projects when there isn't sufficient real mitigations. i've lived through it on the central subway, and

van ness, which is what i'm focusing on today, has another issue, which is the b.r.t., which is supposed to open before the hospital opened to transport our 3,000 daily employees to that hospital is delayed for two years. transportation is a problem and it does affect staffing. and we'll talk more about this with the city and the planning department, just to get some updates. wanted to let you know. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> i worked at laguna honda for years. and i work with this coalition and my area of expertise is long-term care and i am working on submitting keeping track of out-of-county discharges and transfers from hospitals and from nursing homes and post-acute care settings. and i ask for your support in this and i ask that this be placed on your agenda if at all possible. i'm not quite sure how it works, but i've sent you an article i wrote. it will be published in "the west side observer" sometime in the next week and it's about the fact that -- even the san francisco healthcare master plan in 2013, although it didn't halves much about long-term care, it did say,

b.r.t. being more than a year behind, which would perhaps be a way of getting there, and going down van ness is one of the biggest challenges that you ever encountered. i happen to live on a bus line that could get me from my home to city hall, but 35 minutes or 40 minutes to do so, i say, forget it. i'm just trying to create a little bit of a slice of reality of where that location is, what it tries to do, tries to do the right thing, and i think that it's a good animator but there are a couple of additional questions that i think that leave it a little bit limping. >> commissioner melgar. >> vice-president melgar: thank you. so i support this project. it's a conditional use authorization and i on the whole support changing from, you know, a car dealership in the long scheme of things. i'd rather have people to be healthy than to add to global warming and our climate crisis. even though minis are pretty good for that. you know, i like it that it's going to be respectful, that this really beautiful building and it's an iconic building for san francisco. i do believe that eventually, you know