this spring and summer, it was not just players adults only. thank you for your support of the viking kids and parents. they loved it. there has to be some opportunity for that for our kids. thank you. >> good afternoon. suzanne. the eir is deeply flawed. i think all of you know that. the win-win hybrid solution is the perfect solution, so what is the problem. the big question here today is are you going to stand up to the

lobbyists and their crops at recreation and parks. they believe you will do the honest and fair thing. show your courage. the city needs you more now than ever, and we will all be watching. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> this is not about soccer. 06-0255. as a lawyer, the public-private corruption that has brought us to this point is beyond belief.

there is an ethics committee looking into, the foundation and their attempts to influence. as a native san franciscan. as an american, i cannot believe that the city has not learned the valueof dirt. [laughter] has not learned that there are microorganisms for the grass, the birds, the children who play in it. what has happened to what i consider my city? i was born here. that we would consider doing this. golden gate park, our crown jewel. president chiu: thank you.

next speaker. >> president chiu, supervisors, guy m. arthur feinstein, the chair of the club. we are one of the appellants, so we think eir is legally flawed. we hope you do not approve it. it will likely lead to litigation, which is costly to everybody, and the city cannot afford to throw away dollars. it is pretty clear to us that you are at risk. this challenges to our ability to trust our government and our agencies. they have been working for 20 to 30 years. but this area is in the coastal

zone. you would assume that the coastal commission understand what its boundaries are. it has written a boundary to the planning commission, in yet they ignore that. they say they do not have to tell the public. obviously, the commission believes it is the arbiter of what is in the coastal commission's done. -- commission zone. secondly, to have been claimed that this does not consist of violations of innumerable different ordinances, the master plan, the west sunset, the western shoreline area plan, all of these clear indications that the western end of golden gate park is supposed to remain naturalistic. 1,000 ft grandstand, parking

areas, new parking lot. all of this is not a huge enlargement of the project and not just what recreation and parks called a restoration, since you start losing faith that you can believe what our government tells us when they start using reality this way. hopefully, you will correct that and send the message that government does work. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> the first time i encountered a large expanse of artificial turf, it was unable to emergency response teams were having a neighborhood drill, and i thought this does not look healthy or safe for kids, and i cannot believe they want to put something like that about five minutes' walk from my home.

i've lived in the sunset for 23 years, and in the parking lot, including the trail that goes right through the beach and a leg. i am also in business owner and active registered voter. i urge you to go with the alternative. it is the best you can do for the city plan and the best you can do for the kids. i give out -- gave up hundreds and hundreds of fliers during the past six months or so, and i can tell you that most of the residents out in the outer sunset where i handed the flyers, it may be only about 10 people wanted this. everyone else had really strong feelings about it, including

their families with kids. there are a lot of dog walkers. they just automatically did not want to cede more traffic or more lights and another in basic project. the best you can do for the kids. traffic is not good for kids, to have more traffic, and any of the kids i have asked, including the soccer kids, including some of them here tonight said no, they do not want to see more traffic. i wonder if anyone has ever asked them if they want more traffic. thanks. president chiu: thank you. >> good afternoon, members of

the board. her iowa live in san francisco for the past 25 years. the supervisors actually have a very easy task. they can of paul gallant, the ceqa, and they can send this eir back to the drawing board, or they can pass it on, and the courts and the coastal commission will overturn it for sure. so the outcome is ultimately going to be the same. there is. the draft eir. the comments. what do they add up to? so much poundage.

if i thought this product was typical of the planning commission, i would recommend that you close down the entire floor on mission. but this is the first time i have looked at and eir prepared by those people, so i am reserving judgment. however, there is another agency involved here, and it is plain to see what they have accomplished. i am referring to the recreation and park commission and department. they are a rove agency. they are totally controlled by special-interest. they could care less what the public thinks. they have no notion about stewardship of the parks. it is so much real estate as far

as they are concerned. so -- president chiu: thank you very much. thank you very much. next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. my name is noreen. i am a resident of san francisco. i am here to reject this at golden gate park. this would replace the natural grass with artificial turf. today, people collect with nature in a variety of ways at this site. the western end of golden gate park was planned to be naturalistic. been shoreline plan and the general plan for the coastal commission were all approved it to retain the naturalistic landscapes and connect ocean beach for visitors. today, the area fills the

recreational needs of many people, but this proposal is for only a single use, and eir does not properly address the impact. the irrigated gravel covered in plastic and crumbled tire materials which stadium lights will be a huge loss to san franciscans, park visitors, and wildlife. he heard it will increase the amount of those that migrate along ocean beach. there was a casual survey conducted, finding 70 species of birds at this site. the city paid for in eir where this was conducted briefly in the winter and reported -- the eir has no mitigation for birds or other species. there is no other place for birds to go. this has not been evaluated by the eir. there is a park where people

can -- they depend on dark skies for navigation. san francisco boasts of being a green city, but this proposal is the wrong type of green. the proposal is expensive and short term. i urge you to make a thoughtful and board thinking decision. -- and forward thinking decision. president chiu: thank you. >> thank you. i am with the audubon society. sometimes we did lost in the mix. there is always a need. there is always a need for more, to do housing and other sorts of things. thus far, to remain true to the

heritage, particularly big distinction would be more pastoral setting. as people, , you can actually be for this project, but i would ask you to look at the adequacy of the eir as essential. i think you can send the eir backed. it is legally inadequate, as was pointed out. much of the mitigation measures relied on in the eir relied on different litigation. for example, the artificial turf to be taken out, the promised a recycling program before it has to get pulled out. there is no plan now, and there is really no assurance that

something like that exists in the future. there are no parameters to assure that will happen. there is also a process to address toxic storm water runoff. the eir provides no process for this. i would ask you, supervisors, to ask the city, with the foundation continued to partner on this project if this product was cited -- and one president chiu: -- president chiu: thank you. >> i live in the mission, and i have two school-age children. i strongly object to this as being family friendly, it is

unfriendly. it is not family friendly to destroy the natural resources that we should be holding in stewardship for our children and their children. this is a great way for children to play, soccer. this is to make sure our children have a world to grow up in. the water, air, soil, living things aside ourselves. i strongly, strongly urge you to rethink and reject this characterization of this project as the only family friendly alternative. families like to play soccer. they can keep enjoying it for years to come. thank you very much. president chiu: next speaker.

>> hello, my name is kathleen stern. i am a resident of san francisco. this will have a monumental impact on golden gate park, which i think has been largely ignored in the eir because they have not paid attention to a lot of statements in the golden gate master plan. this is a jewel. it is anchored by a historic and windmills. one just underwent a restoration. this is not a dangerous and forsaken area as some have said. it has become a destination for tourists and locals. the big changes are the opening of the beach shall lay, the restaurant. go out there on the weekend, and the grass is full of families.

2006 and 2007, they made improvements to the land's end trail. people come there, and they find out close it is to the park. my favorite one is in 2011. there was the copper drum. dramatically initiating the transformation of the southwest corner of the park. even now, it receives more visitors than it has for many years. when the area is landscaped and seating is provided, i believe this will be one of the most visited sites in golden gate park. please, do not certified the eir. thank you. >> high. good afternoon, supervisors. someone has done a good job,

because it has taken from 1999 to get me back to testify in this fine room of hours. it has taken this issue to motivate me to come out and get involved. i certainly will say it is an earful. it is ironic that a lot of the press is that a bunch of people with nothing better to do or a guy who said in a column, gee, we have got bigger fish to fry. what are these people all about? well, i can tell you, it is hard to stop a moving train. and this has been orchestrated by the fisher family, setting up fisher field, your general manager as well as your chairman of recreation and parks, going through a sham hearing where not even one question was asked. i live halftime in wyoming and

have time in san francisco. my daughter played soccer on the soccer team before they had soccer fields, and my grandson played for the vikings, but i want to tell you, it is a shame. do not accept the eir. who did the work on it? the california recycling commission. they are doing their job. other cities have cut it out. our kids are exposed to chemicals which are threatening them. they may not eat a tiger -- tire, but the chemicals and all aspects of their life add up. there is a major deficit disorder. there is optimism. we all ought to be most outraged about is that the kids were lied to. my kids say, granny, you are some kind of not.

president chiu: -- you are some kind of nut. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> i am a voter and taxpayer. i resent being told i do not like children. i worked 37 years and the recreation and parks department, so it is not that i do not like kids. i m blown away by what is being proposed. in a city that does not allow the plastic bag, i was going to bring one, you want to put enclosed to 8 acres of plastic tire crud in the wildlife refuge. nowhere in the bond that i voted for, i even had my heart surgeon vote for the bond, did it state

anywhere that you're going to take the natural field and put in plastic. trust me, i will not vote for a bond again because that just cannot trust them. i want to know where all of the soccer people were. did they go out there and fight for it? i was told that they did not have time. ask yourself what we want your legacy to be. what will be your carbon footprint? somebody already took this, but i remember supervisor avalos singing this. ♪ they paved paradise and put up a parking lot ♪ not those who had a vested interest in this. whatever their names are, they are the ones that put the lights

in the park. i have a better idea. if this is such a great idea, bring it to the voters of san francisco, as we have with this problem, and you will see that you will get probably 99% of people who will not vote for it. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hello, supervisors. my name is miriam. i have been editing research papers and medical information, so i was particularly shocked by the lack of data presented in the hazardous materials. my comments on these issues were not adequately addressed by the planning department. my main areas of concern are the inadequacy of the so-called study about artificial turf of facts on the environment. it is clear that those reports have been chosen selectively.

and the latest data is 2009. in terms of medical research, this is outdated. 3, the finding of the task force should be deleted. there is the fact that the ecosystem -- ecosystem would not prepare a summary. i quote, the departed should continue to request feedback rather than relying on manufacturers. they will know more about the safety and longevity within the next three years. it has been years since this has been issued, and they have not collected this information. there is the data for the eir, and 5, the inability of the

planning department to do basic math. there will be a 6% increase in the area where it is less. i am submitted a bid to i am submitting a slightly longer version. please, supervisors. do not make me have to speak in public again. i really do not enjoy it. send this back to the planning department and instruct them to use only scientifically valid research. you -- president chiu: thank you. >> that afternoon, supervisors. my name is robert clayton. they followed state law in certifying the eir. been flouted the law.

there are many serious deficiencies. it is your responsibility to do this differently. i was among 40 individuals and 10 others who asked for this alternative. this was not provided despite all of these requests. the nightlife at the beach shall lay. artificial turf, such as west sunset. that is what we are proposing. as you heard, this hybrid alternative meets the criteria about what the eir can consider. it should be considered and analyzed.

by selecting the alternatives that were inadequate from the outset, the eir prevents people from being elected judge whether that would be a better solution. i would also like to say that we do trust in you as our elected representatives to do the right thing in these matters. supervisor mar and president chiu. i know you use the same consultants to promote this project, but we trust that you will be independent and maintain your integrity. i know you never received campaign contributions from one man and his wife. we trust you will make it good. president chiu: thank you very much. i should mention that there is a board world that prohibits

comments being directed to individual members, so i'd like to ask folks that make commons to direct them to the board. thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, board of supervisors, and thank you for doing it tonight. it is a very important issue. i thank you for -- i want to say that i am opposed to this project. i ask you to look at it objectively. i am a frequent user of golden gate park and a native san franciscan, and i never lived consistently in the sunset district. the project is a misuse of the natural beauty of golden gate park, and what is not mentioned because it is not supposed to be mentioned in the eir is to it on to pay for the maintenance and repair and replacement of this field, once the natural light

has been used up. the project will result in a loss of trees, while blood habitat and an increase in traffic. the soccer project turns what should be a metal available to all into a single use area, and the renovation is not equitable to everybody who likes to hike, picnic, and enjoy nature. in particular, it has been proposed that the soccer field is our children that i believe it is our stewardship to protect the natural part for the trees and the nightlife, and every natural beauty that you can find there. the lighting will be tracked from ocean beach. we have all been there. we know what that means. the lighting will take away from the night sky and our ability to see the stars, and

particularly the migrating birds. this is natural between the park and the beach. the beach should not be marred with a soccer complex that will serve a few. respectfully, i thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is john s. -- ho -- joph -- johanas. we are so glad this protect the east end of the area from the freeway. now the west and is a controversy. to adhere to the master plan and keep its natural character or to use artificial turf. i am including a photograph of a sign on the south sunset sign on the south sunset playground