one pertains to the use of public transportation. so we have, i would offer, some empirical data on who uses public transportation and who doesn't. our survey, which is very current, because we update it every month, shows this -- we have 991 residents that live in -- that are in our leases, which are the market rate portion of what's out on the island. they are all over 18. of that amount, 80% use the bus. of that 80%, that would be 700 -- [chime] president olague: thank you. >> 80% use the bus. president olague: thank you. >> good evening, commissioners and board members. i'm scott with the bay area council. we'd like to strongly support the project, certify the e.i.r. and approve the project

tonight. the council is a member organization of about the top 300 businesses in the bay area, with about 4.5 million employees and approximately $2 trillion in worldwide revenues. the problem here is the region in his trouble. there's a lack of housing, a lack of affordability, there's congestion, conflicting regulations. there's different growth projection that is are not going to be able to sustain the region. one of the best ways to solve a regional problem is to look at infill projects that are significant, that are positive, and that will reduce our carbon footprint. this is in line with all of the state-mandated sp-75, all of the community strategy goals. this project -- it's fundamentally and it significantly moves not only the city, but also the region forward in what we're trying to accomplish. in addition, it creates jobs, it creates housing, it creates retail and commercial space and improves not only the business

environment, but also the quality of life for the region. so i strongly urge you to certify the e.i.r. and approve the project tonight. thank you very much. >> good evening, commissioners. i'm tim, executive director of the action coalition. it's fair and balanced and addresses the environmental issues appropriately. on the question of housing, which we strongly, strongly support, we deeply mourn the loss of those 400 affordable housing units. but that's much more the fault of the economy and the questionable status of the redevelopment agency than anything else. we would support doug shoemaker's suggestion that if the economy improves and conditions improve, that first call be put on funding to restore the affordability as it was before. on the question of transportation, what we really, really like is the sharp emphasis that has been placed on reducing private auto use.

this is clearly the direction development like this and re-use of old bases like this has got to go. we hear controversy about the bridge, but the idea that commuters are going to go out to treasure island and then say, great, i'll get on the bridge and drive down 101 to go to silicon valley doesn't make any sense. they won't come here. similarly, that folks would come out to treasure island and say, great, i'm going to drive my car to downtown san francisco, where there's 15 minute of headway ferry service doesn't make any sense. we like that they're dee emphasizing it, providing other alternatives, not making it easy for driving and charging for it, and using that to funds trance it. because the success of this will stands or fall on how it works on transportation. and then on the question of -- well, i think we shouldn't be bound by what exists today in terms of cars and bridges and what not. it's a 20-year buildout, and $6 to $8 gasoline will take care

of a lot of problems, which we might very well see at the time this is finishing being built. and then on the question we've heard some stuff on the seismic issues, a tsunami. in a former life i was a geologyist. those are engineering calculations, not environmental impacts. president olague: thank you. >> good evening, commissioners and directors. i'm peter, representing the san francisco planning and urban research association. spur has been supportive of this project for many years. we work very hard to make sure that the density increased enough to allow for commercial and for ferries and so on, which it wouldn't have in the original project design. so we urge you to support the -- vote for the e.i.r. and the other items on this agenda.

and i want to point out that treasure island is very special because there's no other land in san francisco where you can create a wonderful 21st century sustainable transit-oriented neighborhood. because we're out of land. so this is the opportunity to show the world what we can do with our talents and our abilities, and so we should do it. thank you. >> good evening, commissioners and supervisors. my name is mimi manning, and i'm a member of the board of directors of the treasure island museum association. over the last several years the developers have been very supportive of our organization as we re-envision our museum for the next chapter of the island's life. we look forward to working with the developers and citizen groups in making treasure island a wonderful new neighborhood and resource for all of us.

we hope that this project will move forward, in spite of the existing conflicts, which we hope can be resolved fairly. thank you very much. >> good evening, i'm andy thornly with the bicycle coalition. i'll limit my comments to the transportation issues of the ceqa analysis. we're concerned and skeptical. the parking ratios are probably too great. but as previous speakers have said, we are evolving towards unaffordable driving, and the peels of this project that compels us to afford -- piece of this project that compels us is the pricing. this product has the state's first roadway pricing strategy in place. it is legislated as ready to go. and we have faith and will work to make that the control. if you own a car and live on treasure island, i will have to pay to drive off of the island. we will be able to turn up that

number until it is not appealing for you to drive off the island. that's an important planning aspect of this project and it's part of why we're excited about the project. we did review the e.i.r. we make comments. you know we come and we speak to you and all of our comments had responses that we were satisfied with having to do with bicycle circulation, and especially anticipating pedestrians and bicycle access on the brinl. that access does not exist today. we're certain it will. we will work to make that access exist. it has to exist. and in 20 years it will exist. in 10 years it will exist. so we can't be planning for next year. we have to plan for 10 and 20 years from now. so, again to, the extent that the transportation analysis had any issues that we commented on, our comments were responded to, we look to the pricing control to be effective and a pioneering measure in

discouraging private auto ownership. thank you. president olague: thank you. >> good evening. i'm abby and i work with catholic health care west at st. francis memorial hospital, and we are here tonight to urge you to pass the e.i.r. and the related legislation. we have been impressed in the planning of the treasure island community that's taken so many considerations and factors that impact health and are really looking forward to working with the various community agencies and our partner, mercy housing, to ensure that the health delivery system is there to serve the very healthy population. we won't have much to do. so thank you very much. >> good evening, commissioners and directors. my name is john, and i'm the general manager of rubecon landscape. our mission is to prepare low-income people to achieve

national independence. we support the development and urge your support of all the issues being considered tonight because our presence at treasure island has helped us provide numerous opportunities for very disadvantaged people. we've been on treasure island since 1992 when we did landscape work for the u.s. navy. and we've been there ever since. all our hiring and entry-level workers is through the tie-dye and we have created over 70 long-term jobs for disadvantaged san francisco residents. we focus on individuals with a history of homeless and similar barriers. we help them by providing steady employment, a supportive environment, medical and other benefits, job training to make them professional landscapers, and this builds confidence and determination. we strongly support this development because it gives us more opportunities to help more people. thank you.

>> hi, my name is dave alexander. i'm an employee of rubecon. nine years ago i was at rock bottom, homeless, jobless, etc. within those nine years they offered me a job landscaping. i now ha help of others, to be able to keep the island clean and green. thank you. >> good evening, board members and commissioners. my name is peter mccaffrey, the owner of wine valley catering and pavilion by the bay. i'd love to encourage you to support the e.i.r. and the whole agenda this evening. we supply real jobs to real people that live on the island, and in this economy, it is so needed. some positive news for so many individuals. i feel that this project is wonderful for the environment,

it's wonderful for san francisco, and i just strongly encourage you guys to support it. thank you very much. >> good evening, commissioners. i am currently owning a business and a resident at treasure island. the address is 2 avenue of the palms. and i'm there on a daily basis. i see a fair amount of people, tourists and other people. most of the customers are tourists. they come to the store. and when they come, they ask me what's on this island, can you pass through the gate? i told them yes. it's residential. and they ask if there's restaurants, is there shops, is there things that we can buy on the island? and i have to tell them no. basically you get the feelings and you feel how they -- the look on their face, that they're kind of disappointed. as far as san francisco, why is nothing here? they ask a lot of questions that i'm not able to answer,

except tell them that there's some new development coming soon. that's all i can tell them. they are really excited. i think the island will be a good place for tourists and people to live and businesses as well, and i'm very supportive of this project. thank you very much. >> good evening, commissioners and title board members. my name is betty mackey. this is my seventh year of residence on y.b.i. i live with a lifelong disability and i'm hanging on by my fingernails to hang on to my apartment in a safe neighborhood. i'm asking you for the disapproval of the transition housing plan as it exists today and for the creation and fair and reasonable plan which will include rental housing offered on y.b.i. for returning residents and affordable purchaseable housing offered on y.b.i. for returning residents as well. in addition, i'm asking for relocation options in safe, clean housing throughout san

francisco, not just on treasure island. i am an older woman. i'm living with a disability which makes me incapable of outrunning anybody. i simply cannot move to a higher crime-rate neighborhood. the relocation must offer an option to relocate me to an equally safe neighborhood. please don't make me a victim with this existing transition housing plan. i offer for your perusal crime-mapping statistics which compare yerba buena island versus treasure island and the crime rate on treasure island is 2500% higher than yerba buena island. thank you for your time. >> hello supervisors and commissioners in. my name is brian. i've been on the island for three years. i currently am on the island due to commercial ventures. i come from a different

perspective. the new winery just opened six months ago. a lot of people encouraged me from moving forward and doing business on treasure island. it is difficult to get to and nobody will ever come out. we have seen a lot of support, not only from the treasure island development authority but also from the community. people are looking for reasons to come out to treasure island, if you look at what my pred -- predecessor said, people come to the gate and ask what is on treasure island. he has to tell them nothing. well, there is starting to be something. there are businesses that are bringing people out to the island. in our first six months we've had 10,000 tourists and people out to the winery and we have seen this development as being something that could be great for the city and something that we know are going to be transitioned and are going to

have to work with the developers with the transition but we see it as a good thing for san francisco overall. we have ended up hiring a number of people. we have created jobs and we have created something to do on the island, so we are in support of the efforts mere here to develop the island and we see it as a challenging and realistic goal and we think it could be a great part of san francisco. thank you. >> good evening commissioners, supervisors. my name is tony rodriguez and represent the fire union. i'm in support of the e.i.r. i feel it is a well thought out project. on another note, though, a lot of people, construction workers or represent construction workers who haven't worked in a year, a year and a half, during the recession, construction is

the last industry to come out of the recession. right now, a lot of these construction workers are hanging on and don't have a lot to look forward to. a lot of the work has disappeared now. that won't happen for maybe a year or two years. a project like this will supply a lot of work. i guess we're here to approve or disapprove of the e.i.r. i urge you to approve the e.i.r. and not delay the project that would allow many construction workers to work. thank you. >> commissioners, board members. mibling, construction and building council. i think we have read recently about tsunamis and the effect of earthquakes on the island. i recently had occasion to read a fairly detailed droichings how the island would be reengineered. the work that is involved is

work that we can do and do well. public transportation, there will be a brand new ferry terminal, a primary connection with the city of san francisco that does not now exist. that is work that we can also do well, the construction of that ferry terminal. there will be thousands of units of new housing that the city needs eds but in a neighborhood that -- needs but in a neighborhood that is well contained. it is work that we can do well and work that we want to do and work that we need. thank you. >> good evening. i'm here in support to have e.i.r. i'm also in support of getting our members back to work. we have to get them off the out of work list and often unemployment. this is very important. this is very important. i think it is very important that we understand what's going on here and that we need housing and that we need jobs for our

members. thank you. >> good evening commissioners. eric brooks speaking on behalf of san francisco green party and the local grassroots organization of our city. those of you who have already heard me speak about tsunami danger please listen. the san francisco green party in our city also just as sierra club insists this e.i.r. be recirculated. it is extremely deficient. you have seen my remarks hopefully about sea level rise. since those remarks, we have seen the japan tsunami happen. we have seen reports and n many newspapers about what would happen in the case of a similar tsunami from alaska which would raise at least by 10 feet the water level in an immediate sense around treasure island in

the midst of that kind of an event. since then, however, i have also learned, and please look this up before you make a vote on this e.i.r., you can look it up online. look up cascadia zone, the fault off the coast of canada, washington, oregon and california and it is a fault that if it had a serious earthquake, it had one 300 years ago. it has one ever 300 years. it is a tsunami events. we are due for one and it would raise the water levels much higher. instead of four hours from alaska, it would be less than 30 minutes. the idea that you're going to evacuate 20,000 people from treasure island in 30 minutes is absolutely crazy. this e.i.r. must be redone because of that factor. and in the e.i.r. itself, it says people will be evacuated on ferries during a tsunami. you have got to be crazy.

if you saw what happened in santa cruz, you know that people will die if that happens. it is also suggested in the e.i.r. that people can shelter in the higher floors of buildings. if you watched what happened in japan, buildings caught onfire because the salt water interfered with electrical systems. that is not an option. this e.i.r. must be recirculated. finally, staff has admitted to these inadequacies in these hearings and said this is a matter of emergency design and not design for the project itself and so it doesn't have to be in the -- that is insane. this has to go back. >> thank you. >> good evening. i'm president of the treasure island family center foundation, a non-profit based on treasure island for the past 10 years. i'm here in support over the

e.i.r. on behalf of our board and the children and individuals that we have served through our programs. we are very proud to put 1,200 kids through our programs each year. most of which have not had experience on the waters in the past and have some sort of form of scholarship, but we can do better. the plans that we have been working on for the past 10 years with the treasure island community development, will give san francisco an excellent resource, an excellent place for our community and our citizens to go sailing and be able to have access to the bay. there are cities across the country that have fewer citizens, less desirable places to sail that have done a great job of getting them access to the water. we can do better. we will do better but the project needs to move forward in order to do that. the time is now.

the america's cup is coming to san francisco. we're all very excited about that, but let's make sure it is not just the professional sailors that are getting out there on the water and that the rest of our citizen consist go sailing. so, please, approve the e.i.r. let's move the project forward and support the rest of the measures that will be heard tonight. thank you. >> good evening. my name is becky hogue and i'm a resident of treasure island. i have been for almost eight years. i would encourage you to vote yes on the e.i.r. and the whole plan. i know people say they don't want to move down to treasure island but why not? we have a very good community on treasure island. we're safe. you're going to find crime anywhere you go. we look forward to the people moving down with us and being part of our community because we feel that both islands are a community. the housing transitional plan

that is in place now is really good. it really -- they didn't have to look after us as well as they have. i'm in a situation where a while back on treasure island there were 54 units that had to move because of the housing that went back and they treated us well then and i believe they will continue to treat us well. i encourage you to vote yes on the e.i.r. and the whole plan. it is exciting. we're excited that the island is going to be a very fun place to be and we want to be there to continue it. so i encourage you on a yes vote and i hope that these people will give it a chance and give us a chance. thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening commissioners and directors. i'm here to speak in behalf of the san francisco golden gate

rug by club in support of the proposal, particularly the open space in the recreational areas. san francisco golden gate rug by club is one of the premier clubs in the united states with. we support three men's teams. one of which was a national champion two years ago. last year we hosted a number of national events but more importantly, we also have three high school teams. we have. 300 kids from the ages 5-14 who play in the development leagues playing in the different brands of this game that will be in the olympics, the next olympic cup. we work with the developers. we developed this field and the clubhouse and built the field and renovated the old p.x. and i would advise any of you who have

not been here to come back, we have something going on. on saturdays we have the men's clubs playing on on sundays we have the youth league which brings kids from all over northern california in to play on this remarkable field that we have. we urge you to support the proposal. i have letters of support, which i will leave here. thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. directors. my name is christopher. i'm a resident for the last 11 years now. some of you have seen me speak and patiently, a lot of us are still there. i'm here tonight to express our enthusiastic support for the project and ask you to approve the matters brought before you tonight. we know that those issues are

not quite resolved yet. we know there is issues that will arise to make this a new community in san francisco. we know environmental impact reports must be based on what is important to us now and in 50 years from now. we respect your notions to take great care of the environment, traffic, low income and regular housing. we trust that you will make the right decisions in the future to make this a wonderful community and i hope -- may i speak frankly for the island residents which will get the notice to evacuate the premises very soon. we hope that you'll make it happen and that we will have a great place to live afterwards and stay together as a community. thank you. >> good evening commissioners in. my name is patrick from the athletic association. we very much support this project for the very many positive aspects of the project.

we feel that the positives far outweigh the perceived or real negatives to have project. but what we really like about this project is the fact that out of the 400-acre development, 300 acres are open space and out of that 300 acres of open space, 40 acres have been set aside specifically for sports fields. i represent an organization that represents thousands of children in san francisco and indirectly thousands more to the boys and girls club, ymca, etc.. what the kids in san francisco are literally crying out for is more quantity and quality playing fields. to help fill that void. it will also be a base for the local organizations, sporting organizations already existing on the island. the local and regional sports

facilities which will draw kids from all around the bay area. when the kids come to sport on treasure island when this facility is developed, they will bring with them their parents and probably their pets be they on leash or off leash. the parent also spend much nb local stores and restaurants. if they get bored watching their children play america's great pasttime, they can very easily take a short walk around the perimeter of the island and they will experience views that are unparalleled anywhere else in the world. i urge you to move this forward. thank you very much. >> my name is tony and i'm from the plumber's union and i'm here to speak favor of the approval

tho environmental impact report. i'm one of the representatives of the union of 2100 members. 35% of them are out of work on the construction side. many of them up to 2-2 1/2 years now. we need the jobs. the construction industry is the last industry to come back in the recession and i would urge your approval and try to get this thing going so that our construction industry can start to make a comeback here in san francisco. thank you. >> good evening. my name is tony cantnor. let me say it would ruin its iconic stature. there is no way to mitigate its impact, which would be monstrous. before you take action, you should be very clear where and to what extentra