wortheim? >> good afternoon, commissioners. steve wortheim, planning department staff. i feel like everyone knows a little bit too much about me today. but here goes. for the purpose of today's hearing is to initiate the general plan and amendments for the central soma plan. review the full packet that we submitted on february 15, including the proposed planning code and administrative code amendment and zoning map amendments. as you may know, as was mentioned here on tuesday, the mayor and supervisor kim introduced the planning code and administrative code amendments so you no longer need to initiate them. but you will still need to review them so we can act on them in a few weeks. we're pleased that the mayor and supervisor chose to introduce this legislation. i feel it is a strong endorsement of the plan and multiyear effort that got us here. so this presentation has two parts. first i'll walk you through the proposed legislation and then present the themes for discussion and possible amendment, foe cushion on issues and questions you raised at our last hearing on fe

and i don't -- i'm probably the second most excited person to see this come before you after steve wortheim i do want to recognize the hard work of steve and the planning department. over the last -- far longer than i've been in office actually for maybe the last eight or nine years t great work it took to get us to this point. and of course i want to recognize our late mayor ed lee who also has his fingerprints all over this area plan. of course, to our planning department and i want to recognize our incredibly active and engaged community residents. we're very lucky in district six to have residents and leaders that are well-versed on land use and housing and jobs housing balance and have been doing a tremendous job over the last year meeting on a regular basis, coming under the umbrella of we are soma to help ensure that this is a plan that also reflects the needs of our existing residents as well. this is our plan and we want to make sure that central soma reflects the needs of a lot of different stakeholders. district six has long held the burden or role of trying to fit the needs that