vice president olague: thank you. >> my name is zach stewart and i wanted to talk about the hpc. the word is out that there are a bunch of weanany is that are trying to preserve san francisco in amber. my opinion of the hpc is somewhat different. i think it was supported by the voters. mandated by the voters, and established as a separate commission equal to the other commissions of this city. and i think the people that are serving are brave because no matter what they do, the maddening throng is going to attack them for doing the wrong thing. the hpc probably needs staff. all the history people are still in the planning department. maybe they should be moved over to hpc, because i think the voters decided that the planning department was not doing its history job. so i feel very good about the hpc, and i think my own personal experience is darren houghsman, robert monthsen, and the freeway guys in san francisco, even the big, black, 40 story building by nathaniel owens are all products of the demolition people. and the demolition people often times do great things for cities, b

. >> my name is zach stewart, and i wanted to mention some conditions where it has taken longer -- it has not been streamlined. for example, there is something that others did. all of these individuals slow down the process of getting a new piece of the environment for the city. i would like to speak to the idea that the environmental impact reports should be made more difficult and make it slow down the construction and the development process. developers worldwide salivate to have a project in san francisco. it is crazy tune of a project in st. francisco. we do not need to make things more streamlined for them -- note is crazy to have a project in san francisco. the new urbanists, basically los angeles, go too fast to get a good result. chair maxwell: all right, next speakers, please, and also this other. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is sue vaughn. the sierra club opposes weakening ceqa. i do not know if people knew about the 11 changes and the additional ones from the historic preservation committee, but the sierra club opposes weakening ceqa. thank you. >> david. i agre

. >> my name is zach stewart and i kind of wish i hadn't come out here and learned about this book. i've been giving it way to a lot of people and it's cost me a lot of money. one of my friends took off for new york and took a lack at the buildings that -- look at the buildings that jane jacobs saved in gren itch village. there are a lot of them. i don't know where the h.b.c. came from, historic preservation commission, but i know the voters voted on it. and it seems to me it's a precious resource for our city. in fact, it's amazing that it happened. and it seems to be getting hit on a little bit recently. some of the people from the library commission called them weanies publicly. and think some other things happened where per happens the commission knew -- perhaps the commission knew without resources gets kind of pushed around. and i would hope that we could all think about that commission being equal to all the other commissions in the city and not perhaps draw powers from it that it needs to perform its duties. thank you. president miguel: thank you. >> hello, president miguel