Was something similar that happened to seattle and sacramento they lost their japan town. So i hope were stronger and will allow japan town to prosper for this and future generations. In fact, i think its the most important thing we have a basis we are cognizant and i urge you to adopt the dhs. Thank you good afternoon, commissioners and director ram. Im karen. Im a member of the japan town organizing committee ive been cochair of the land use and built Form Committee and ive served on all the committees. Youll heard about our process its been collaborative its been open and its been arduous. I mean, we get in their we fight, we try to educate he each other and Work Together we check things we go over and over wus we have a process but a its produced a good document. The same thing goes for the resolutions that are before you. We worked on those we thought about the language what was included and not included and its very disturbing that yesterday we had a member of our committee blind
Detrimental to future japan it up. First of all, i want to thank many people involving the commission. Because which this came to the commission the commission realized it was a plan that the community really didnt agree b upon and the community really didnt have a chance to respond to the original plan of japan town. So with the Community Process it took much longrange than anticipated i think it was about 4 years. We were told and thanks to director ram he allowed us enough f t es to carry on. I want to thank all the planners that were part of this and paul was hes made this so the community can grasp. Steve really become very valuable to us even in the 11 hour so steve earned his keep and shelly thank you for your efforts of the heritage portion. So thank you to all of you. My greatest fear when it first came out i was afraid the result was something similar that happened to seattle and sacramento they lost their japan town. So i hope were stronger and will allow japan town to prosp
So to echo my congratulations. I know people have worked for decades on this. Ive had the pleasure of working with many of you and. Ill alleyway agree with commissioner bordens comments that one of the biggest Property Owners wasnt involved in this so hopefully, theyll see the benefit and come around and get engaged or sell their property, you know, and get someone who is somebody whos, in fact, engaged. Theres great bold ideas in here establishing a Community Development corporations but im glaltd to see the big ideas. The city owns the garage which is a huge asset and mta has got to get involved but one of the assets we can use to implement japan town. So i support this commissioner moore. Im touched and moved and inspired it the Community Came together as a community and a planning was able to play a major roll in this. This is a wonderful outcome. Im obligated we saw it mutual in all its aspects. I personally want to thank the commissioner who as a commissioner helped us keep the a
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