thank you. >> commissioner wolfram: thank you. are there additional speakers that would like to speak to this item? >> good afternoon, president wolfram and members of the historic preservation. i'm sandy morry and i'm the new japantown board of directors president. i am here to encourage you as you consider the resolution that you are looking at today that you consider the fact that this particular plaza remediation is a huge undertaking for the city. it involves many departments, departments such as rec and park, the mta, the cao's office and district 5 supervisor's office. and you may have received some emails from members of our community who are very active in our community from ben nakogo, steve nakshima and richard ha hashimoto, if you would consider doing the pagoda presently and plaza later. we do have plans to do a community process of a design process, so we can add many more cultural elements to the plaza. right now, it's very lacking in cultural aspects of the plaza. i also attorney from the city attorney perspective,

. >> good afternoon, president wolfram, and members of the comment. i'm jenny delumo, environmental planner for the proposed project. joining me today are my colleagues, joy navratti, marcel boudreau, and pillar levalet. members of the project sponsor team are present as well. the item before you is reviewing the 150 eureka street report or draft e.i.r. pursuant to the california environmental quality act or ceqa and procedures for implementing ceqa. chapter 31 requires a planning department to schedule public hearing that the historic preservation commission may have on a draft e.i.r., and prepared for projects that contain a resource determined on sub stfrjal evidence to be a resource the public review project began on december 6, 2017, and will continue until 5:00 p.m., january 23, 2018. the commission members had electronic members of draft e.i.r. and background reports, including historic resource evaluation and response. the commission secretary has also distributed a handout, which i will refer you to later. copies of this handout are available