my name is woody labounty. i'm the president and ceo of san francisco heritage, and we completely endorse and encourage the inclusion of the nihonmachi street fair to the legacy business registry. on a personal note, i used to sleep overnight at my best friend rich lanier's house on sutter street so we could get up early and hit the street fair early. i won't explain what we did at the street fair at the time, it might have been unauthorized, but we enjoyed ourselves immensely, and i can't believe it's 50 years now, so please, consider it for inclusion. thank you. last call for public comment. seeing none. public comment on item four a is closed and it is now before you commissioners. commissioner foley, thank you to all those who spoke. so i was at the cherry blossom festival both saturday and sunday spending money and drinking some world beer. so thank you. and full disclosure and i've been to the other fair multiple times, and i'm really happy you're here and we'll get this thing done. thank you. commissione

my name is woody labounty. i'm the president and ceo of san francisco heritage, and we completely endorse and encourage the inclusion of the nihonmachi street fair to the legacy business registry. on a personal note, i used to sleep overnight at my best friend rich lanier's house on sutter street so we could get up early and hit the street fair early. i won't explain what we did at the street fair at the time, it might have been unauthorized, but we enjoyed ourselves immensely, and i can't believe it's 50 years now, so please, consider it for inclusion. thank you. last call for public comment. seeing none. public comment on item four a is closed and it is now before you commissioners. commissioner foley, thank you to all those who spoke. so i was at the cherry blossom festival both saturday and sunday spending money and drinking some world beer. so thank you. and full disclosure and i've been to the other fair multiple times, and i'm really happy you're here and we'll get this thing done. thank you. commissione

my name is woody labounty.'m the president and ceo of san francisco heritage, apologies for speaking out. i was surprised that we were reopening this for presentation from the project sponsor and for planning to give its opinion, so i wasn't prepared that, public comment would be reopened. and i think we could have had a lot more neon supporters here if we had known the public comment was going to be reopened, san francisco heritage very much supports the retention of neon and not the approval of this project, as i said last meeting, this is very similar to how you would assess a historic property and the materiality of the historic fabric. so please deny this project. good afternoon. commission. my name is al barna. i'm co-founder of san francisco neon, which is a neon preservation organization here in san francisco. and i would just like to, address the fact that the safety concerns that were brought up and maintenance concerns won't be all that different from neon in the first place. you're still going to ha

my name is woody labounty. i'm the president and ceo of san francisco heritage.i also used to run an organization called the western neighborhoods project, and it was a nonprofit focused on the history of the west side of the history of the city, which we felt had a lot of resources and history that needed to be shared broader to a broader audience, with the parkside context statement, which i helped work on, and with the late mary brown's excellent residential builders context statement of the sunset district . this sort of completes, in my mind, an overview of analyzing how the sunset district developed, what it means to the city over its history, what it's contributed to the city in communities and in architecture and i'm just very happy that this has finally happened. it's like a lot of these context statements. it's been a long time in the pipeline, so i just want to quickly remind you that context statements are not the definitive document. they are meant to be living documents. so this one can be added to and updated after it has been adopted, to reflect c