i also want to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to beverly ing and abigail maher so supportive in structing through the complicated process. we did not know what we were supposed to do navigating the public consultation process, so i want to make sure that we publicly acknowledge their support and their guidance on this project. thank you very much for letting me speak. >> thank you so much. >> alright. we are now through with general public comment so i close public comment. we are on item 5, consent calendar. i do have one card for consent calendar for public comment, so before i do that, commissioners is anything you like to remove from consent calendar today? >> no. >> i'll call the first speaker, richard rothman. >> hello richard. >> good morning. richard rothman and i wanted to speak on the grant proposal for the upper great highway and i support it. i attended and listened to the board of appeals hearing and won't comment on what the commissioners say, but i'll leave that to somebody else. i will comment on the presentation by the staff and nobody-they talked about traff