and at what point should they be dealt with with the subsequent approvals. even though there remains issues around the traffic and shadows the adequacy of the eir is there along the lines that was explained by supervisor kim. i also hope that in the course of this process as we're going through the remaining approval process that we use that opportunity for the project sponsor to have more communicationss with the appellants. i think it's important to have that dialog and i know there is an exception on the part of many of us that the issue around that i had safety and a traffic and around shadows that those issues be addressed.

that's the expectation that many of us on this board have and i really hope the project sponsor takes this opportunity and otherwise the appellants take the opportunity to sit down and have those meaningful discussions. the last thing i'd like to say and this is not relevant to the issue around the sequa appeal i really appreciate the comments in from the latino community to speak about this project. we're not talking about the merits of this project today but i think it's important to provide some that context as to why this project is so important to us in the latino community. and there's many in the latino project that have embraced this

importance of this project for many of us this is the vindication of the importance of latino culture in san francisco. it's very difficult for us to imagine a san francisco that has the full it potential when it comes to its culture richness not to have the mexican culture. it's so important as someone who recommendation district 9 it's especially important for us given the history of this city and this state. it's taken a long time to be here we can actually have consideration of this project. many, many years to even get to this point and not to take anything away from the appeal i think that's why people feel so

strongly and passionate about this. i hope he have an at any point to perhaps find more common ground as this most of forward and i'll be supporting the position by supervisor kim >> i also want to take a moment to thank all the members which the public who came in here today not only for your presentations but i know those appeals are not easy and i want to echo supervisor campos's ideas i don't think there's no one that doesn't support this mexican museum. that being said i think it's probably fair to say that some of us do not feel quiet as

strongly on the rest of the project i have a problem with the shadows on parks. let me state that my interest in standing up foreshadows or not having shadows in parks is not just because people approved the as opposed to k to insures that we have the coming in our parks but really the neighborhoods we're talking about especially supervisor kim's and mine have the least amount of space in them and you say 16 million people come every year with those little open spaces. if those parks is so important to the quality of the life to the residents and once the

corner of the park goes dark it goes dark forever so to be careful of the quality of the life for the residents. i also am concerned about traffic congestion and the pedestrian impacts we already see sixth gridlock inors o those areas it's not okay to say traffic is already bad so what's the problem. i appreciate the city staff in their analysis and i want to make sure we're going everything we can to mitigate the impacts on our pedestrians and folks who ride their bicycles in those congested corridors. i plan to support the supervisor in this district but want to suggest that the project sponsor will be gaem with the community as well as those with us on the

board as we move forward to the projects approval that's an entirely different questions. i know that supervisor kim will continue to take the lead i look forward to working with her >> thank you supervisor wiener that you. >> i also want to thank everyone i'll be sporting the motion. i think the eir is complete and addresses all the issues it needs to address. i want to just briefly address on both here and on the board level the issues around pedestrian safety and traffic and congestion. i truly appreciate the importance of evaluating those

thoroughly and appropriately as part of the eir as with any project. we also need to be very clear that the eir at best just points to what the impacts are. ultimately when we talk about making pedestrian upgrades for pedestrian safety, traffic improvements, public transportation improvements that's it not really fundamentally a sequa issue that's a policy choice about how we collect fees impact fees where those impact fees go and what budget choices we make. we can study things there an eir null the cows come home but if we're unwillingly to devote the

fees inform the traffic upgrades we're not supporting it, it's just a document. we know that for advertisement there's a maximum load of fees that you can charge at some point the project becomes empty i think we're good in san francisco at testing the limits of those impact fees. but if you look at where the fees are going we're making policy choices about where the fees are going. for example, the eastern neighborhood impact fees relatively a small amount of fees go the transportation budget. when he look at the western sylmar we had the same thing. and we have made a policy choice that we're going to do put a lot

of our impact fees into affordable housing. we all value affordable housing and a a critical need. it's really important that we invest in that. we're not making a similar commitment. actually we're actually putting our money in the funding there it's just a study about what the pedestrian issues are. i think we all want those changes to happen but we want to make sure it's going to happen and that's by funding that. >> thank you, president chiu i

want to thank the public for being here and your dialog on this issue and especially want to thank supervisor kim and it was devil into subjects but the ones we really need to look at how we conduct the environmental review. i know that president chiu has problems with the shadows and i know there's still movements on this project to go forward. i expect we'll be engaged in that and the approval process moves forward. i also want to go some the comments on supervisor campos and i'll speak as an chicano american and someone whaets whose been a fan of the museum. i first came when i had the time

i was often a visitor of the mexican museum and saw it as a great culture that was looking for in my lay off at that time. i know that people need that resource. the fact that the museum for a long time has struggled with the space issue and looking for a greater home i was very excited there was a solution to that project. i wouldn't necessarily support this type of a building when i know it's monthly housing that's being built and housing that doesn't meet the needs of san franciscans i'm willing to over look that that somewhat knowing they're pretty high and low fees

for affordable housing off-site especially the mexican museum is part of this and i look forward to seeing the mexican museum being in a place where it trial can be in the middle of the jewish museum and the other museum i think it's a significant place for it to be. i look forward in the process it being approved. i i want to have that in my comments >> thank you i'll make some final comments. i think overall my comments were targeted at eirs. and when you look at the high-end of the neighborhood we

have more eirs coming up i'll be looking at the at the corridors. i know is one thing i like about the transit corridor i felt like we had more proposals for its litigation. i want to say i've worked with project sponsors who were more responsive and less responsive i do appreciate the sponsors have exhibited a high-level of issues around pedestrian safety and our main point of impact serves on the other developments in the area so they're a more of a

stakeholder in the interest to make sure we might be for pedestrian safety i think that's why sequa is an important document. as well as the city we have to play a role in holding yourself be responsible for the growth. i know there is going to be a study that will come by the building permit so we look forward to that and we're going to look forward to having that discussion as well as having discussions about potential that modifications and it's shadow been union square >> i wanted to add one thing that hadn't been said it's an amazing home for the mexican museum i know so many people

have spoken today in support of. i agree with my colleagues in engaging the residents around the site and especially the seniors to address accident safety pedestrian issues on the crosswalk or whatever. i also want to thank so much the staff for the hard work on the eir and for ms. burn for breaking down sequa law i know that's been a 6 hour meeting but i appreciate the answers to all the tough questions from my colleague supervisor kim but i'm totally in agreement with the traffic combing in the area a non item but thanks so much

inform the staff for testifying >> any more comments? with that supervisor kim has made a motion to have a roll call vote >> roll call. >> the motion to affirm the final eir certification has been approved. any members of the public if you could please step up to the

microphone and those who are leaving please leave quietly >> i want to speak about item 26 that i'll be voting on in just a few minutes. we've worked hard to work on the reform so we thought we'd get a referrals to a committee. we've done hearings with lawyers and also used the service. bill our president couldn't be here today but he said can you found out what happened to our original resolution. this is going to be an ongoing thing and the governor said he won't included imply illegal

gnltsdz in his medi-cal program. we're going to need some support. we're going to noted nor support so we'd like to at some point have some of our matters referred to a committee for more thorough discussion. my two minutes. jenny lamb was here but she had to leave and they're concerned about the comment the change in emphasis about anyone who needs focus to come to this on high skills and the high merit and the low wage earners comes way down on the list

>> thank you. next speaker please. >> good evening i know this is an emotional issue but i think there's better ways of dealing with this problem. i believe that life begins at conception and we should be supportive of life it's the greatest gift. the mother delivers life and i believe our society should be hively supportive. once the child is born the child and a mother should think supported by the society and we should respect mothers. i have heard supervisor speak

about rights and i believe an unborn baby has rights it's vicio viciously a terrible violation of human rights we all as people and society can be much better. our humanity must be more humane. thank you all very much >> thank you any other members of the public that wish to speak in general comment? if not it's closed and colleagues could we have the adoption calendar >> is single roll call vote a

maturate can be moved to dealt r with separately. >> i'd like to severe item 26 and 27. >> (taking roll to serve ). >> the motions are approved. why don't we call item 25. it's to pass the senate bill that would levy a one cent tax

to prevent childhood obesity >> thank you. i want to have a brief, brief conversation about this urging the california state senate to pass a bill 622. i have a couple of southerners it has to do with the attacks on sugary drinks. we don't have healthy food options in the south they're very, very compromised. i see this as possibly a regressive tax on poor communities so i'd like to ask the sponsor of this to talk and walk us through this a little bit

>> supervisor campos. >> let me make sure i put my diet coke away. colleagues any suggestion is we continue this item for a week to have the opportunity to have a meaningful conversation >> supervisor campos has made a motion to continue this for a week. >> call next item. >> mr. president, the item 25 will be continued to be for next week. and this is urging the united states senator to pass the comprehensive immigration reform a focus on family unification to creating a citizenship >> and is meeting continues

president chiu. >> thank you very briefly we know as a body have passed many immigration reform this is immigration reform this is in front of the u.s. senate given the speed we very much hope we can adopt this today. it doesn't address a number of issues particularly around employer visas and agricultural workers in a better way to lay the law enforcement and other witnesses to crimes. that being said as the inhabitation the immigration relevance commission states the counter legislation does a number of things that are quite proveng it eliminates visas to

make it harder for families to petition for adult married children and especially for latino and aligning families and it continues the discrimination for the latinos community and we want to send a message to our federal representatives that while we do support comprehensive immigration reform we believe it should be done the right way and i ask for your support >> madam clerk can we take this. >> thank you for your comments i think one of the things that needs to be said is right now some of the legislation that's

being proposed doesn't include the lgb families and the senate has not agreed to add that i think that's unfortunate. >> colleagues can we take this same house same call. this motion is adopted >> yesterday today's meeting will be adjourned on behalf of of the supervisor campos and supervisor cowen and on behalf of supervisor yee. >> madam clerk any more business in front of the body? >> no mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen we are

>> it was an exciting event for those who wanted some long needed improvements. >> they saw it and they took care of it.

>> the project is expected to open in spring, 2013. for more on the playground, includ today we are going to talk about fire safety.

we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. it's a wonderful display. a little house in the urban center exhibition center that shows what it's like in a home in san francisco after an earthquake. one of the major issues that we are going to face after earthquakes are fire hazard. we are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> we talk about the san francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the city. how do we avoid that kind of problem. how can we reduce fire hazard? >> the construction was a lot different. we don't expect what we had then. we want to make