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Yes, I understand. It passed this morning. As you know, the first time I saw that international proposal, I was against it because the design I thought was too oppressive so far as its harmony with Telegraph Hill was concerned. And the second time I saw it, we

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were still opposed to it. But we sat down in a meaningful collective bargaining session with the developers and they tailored that design so that now, in my opinion, it gives us not only great economic development in terms of the expenditure of $100 million but gives us

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urban beauty as well, that rooftop and landscaped garden that we're going to have in an area that now is a desolate blighted area. Anyway, you look at it, it's going to be an important addition to urban beauty now. In addition to that, As I say, there's

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going to be $100 million dollars of construction, the construction jobs and more important, a great number of permanent jobs. And many of these permanent jobs will be taken by representatives from our minority areas.