the first item on your regular calendar. case number 2006.085tm. japantown community planning process and a national and initial recommendations. get afternoon. my name is paul lord from the department of staff. before i get started, i would like to apologize to the commissioners, because, for the first time since perhaps 1977, i have got speaking notes in front of me. typically i am familiar enough with projects that i can address you directly and maintain eye contact to see how you re responding to various points that i may. it has not been since 1977 when they presented the 16th street revitalization plan and wrote my notes out in ink and was so nervous presenting to you that my perspiration bled all my notes and i cannot read them anyway. so i am back to notes again, and i hope this is not a sign of things to come for me. but nonetheless, i am happy to be here today. it has been a very rich experience working in japantown since assigned. but to refresh your memory is,
commissioner olague: right. it was not to modernize. it was completely wiped clean of any art deco. commissioner olague: i thought that is what i heard. it is a combination of both. definitely the commission decided something. we would all appreciate something. thank you, commissioners. we can move forward on your calendar to item number nine, the first item on your regular calendar. case number 2006.085tm. japantown community planning process and a national and initial recommendations. get afternoon. my name is paul lord from the department of staff. before i get started, i would like to apologize to the commissioners, because, for the first time since perhaps 1977, i have got speaking notes in front of me. typically i am familiar enough with projects that i can address you directly and maintain eye contact to see how you re responding to various points that i may. it has not been since 1977 when they presented the 16th street revitalization plan and wrote my notes o
materials that the board of supervisors is that they re hearing, weighing evidence presented before it and then using their discretion to decide the matter. in this case of your decision to approve the wireless antennas was based in part because it was a preference one location, or the highest priority for these antennas in the city. supervisor cohen if there is any action the supervisors could take in the future if they did not like the existing locations of the antennas to the staff advised the board that the wireless citing guidelines is in the document that was developed through interactions with the board of supervisors, which resolutions and in response to how they settle appeals. and the board could suggest a further refinement of the guidelines through a resolution or they could codify the guidelines in the planning code if they wish, and you might appreciate that as a commission because it is very controversial here. the hearing ended with a request to continue the i