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come in car did not and will take years to change hadn't it will effect our local businesses and visitors traveling on the freeways and the visitor to the city's venues the traffic will pill over into the adjoining neighborhoods the folks with well aware of the issues that's why the developers have been working with the boosters we've had to engineer our own solutions we explicit bargain for this in the neighborhood man, i could go on you see how we're digging ourselves into bigger hills it was unfortunate we have to raise those issues their broader in scope but this is what we're
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left with we need our help to insure the neighborhood plan lives up to its promises and not a one-sided proposition for the eastern neighborhoods thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. . >> hi can i project something my name is sarah i'm a 20-year resident of san francisco and 7 year resident of potrero hill neighborhood i live directly across the street from the project i have 3 points i wanted to make regarding the draft eir and state i'm not anti development i'm pro responsible development conclusions in the draft eir conflicts that the defendant plan and general plan, which many people have mentioned further the draft eir states aesthetics and noise and air
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quality s are considered quote less than impacts i drawing interest recent errors in the calculations of percentage of open space on packages 54 and 69 pardon me any phone rang 2, 3, 4 both plays 37.5 percent is the percentage of open space and actually, it's 26.8 percent when calculations are done the developer will be asking for a rear yard exemption it is important to look at the open space proposed for the project they claim they're providing 35 thousand secret accomplice but the majority is mid block and
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according dot planning department the substitute for the rear yard is not acceptable as only american people approved authorization project looking at the rendering there is really very little open space because potrero hill lacks open space it needs more and jackson park is already over utilized we would like to see the open space improved of improved and provide really recreational opportunity finally, i'd like to say, i support the environmentally superior alternative to the project. >> as the next speaker comes up i'll call more names
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(calling names). >> good afternoon my name is carol i'm been a potrero hill resident for almost 50 years and i'm not going to go i agree with the pause from the community about further investigating the eir report bus this concern is this project is way too large i've seen any godson and family have to move out of the neighborhood to where we can find affordable housing it is salgd me that the project over half of which studios and one bedroom is not take into account what the mayors call has been for more family housing i'd
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like to say i strongly support the reduced alternative plan thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi my name is sarah i'm the apartment of a first time grader at live oak class of 2022 i used to work in city government with projects similar to this and teach a class i spend a lot of time in the neighborhood i am concerned about the long periods of construction i'm worried about the safety of our families and the traffic from an air quality our kids spend a lot of time here as well as at home the ability to have our kids philosophize twield see that
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happy in the summary please consider that live oak has begun a major project that will double the school this is relevant first traffic and come back and double our naubz and second whether jackson park facilities are sufficient for the dents site of our neighborhood they have pe there i'm confident their slooigsz solutions that what work for everyone in addition to the items i'd like to to understand we're working with the developer trying to have community space we need our help we'll not be able to remain the only school with a full-size give him we want to open the second passage this will provide
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a buffer during construction and afterward and girlfriend our kids breathing room we provided ourselves with the community i love the woman that mentioned the jackson park clean up our kids are told not to touch needles or con domdz or syringes or poop. >> we love the neighborhood thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. thank you for having us i'm virginia the head of school at live oak you can tell that our community has been paying attention to the development of 1601 mariposa as you've heard from many parents i
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won't repeat but undermine what the parent said as they ask you to prioritize this and the education for the children as we work on the 1601 mariposa project i want to help you understand how important it is that our community is considered as the defendant neighborhood has developed live oak is a kindergarten through 8 we have 2 hundred and 90 students our school is expanding last year 14 applications for every single spot in kindergarten increase not enough qualify education programs in the city of chicago and we need to prioritize the experience of our children in good schools we're growing our enrollment and building that live oak is part of the
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character our parent volunteer we work, work with rec and park and host days to service the playground and the field spaces we buy at local stores live oak has collaborative relationship with the folks in the neighborhood and serve as potrero hill only middle school because of the generosity of our community our kindergarten through 8 grade is socially to is a diverse county we have to prioritize extraordinarily environment as we develop our city live okay has spent a lot of time thinking about this and given hopes for the development you've heard
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from our families as is currently proposed the 16701 project will place suppress have on the recreational facilities and public campus pubically on space need to be part of the environmental impact report in an additional study thank you for your time we'll photocopy with other comments. >> thank you. next speaker. and. >> thank you commissioners for listening to me my name is mark i live with an one block of 1601 mariposa actually 5 hundred feet this is concerns for our community my role is the pass take care i'm a minister and many of my pawar riches live in
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potrero hill you've heard why the draft eir conflict with so many concerns of the neighborhood the citizens and the city potrero hill if you've never been there is a rare treasure i come from australia sidney a little community likes potrero hill can i tell you that everyone goes to my home in australia they don't visit the bedroom contingent to build large structures they go to australia we need to keep the community 70 families live in our community my concerns are that this escape of the development is so out of character and identity with the
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current community it is so dense, in fact 4 times and dense as vic are a menus 5 times and dense as my own community the complex we have 60 units on 2 hundred 8 hundred square feet they're proposing 3 hundred and 20 on the same sequentially and the impacts are incredible good by to our parking lot and say goodbye to the restaurants there are there getting a table potentially seven hundred 0 one thousand occupant will live in 3 hundred and 20 unit here it's just too overreaching i'm pro development and for development in our community but responsible 1re6789 this thing
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needs to be scaled down i'm not - i'm looking at this from our community and also our city in preserving the heritage and character of our city thank you very much. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on the draft eir? >> you called my name. >> go ahead if you want to speak please line up on the screen side of the room. >> hi, i'm joyce i've lived in the neighborhood 25 years dog patch and on potrero hill plan that i've reviewed you know and hearing about for years like our neighbors seems obviously flawed when you look at the instantaneously and the citations being used 2000 data 10 years to get the completed plan and referring back to items
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that are 15 years old so from a took up line this project and many projects are discussed in our private and neighborhood important to tell next door we use our real names and talk about those project alison who has talked before we talk about issues we couldn't talk about so i'm extremely grateful for the hard work honestly for anyone to pick up this plan and look to the data you're referring to if it is very clear it jumps out the data is too old we've not been prepared with a picture of what our neighborhood will look like in 5 let alone 10 or 15 years. >> commissioner moore i've heard you speak on television
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asking a basic question mates the basic plan what will this neighborhood look like in 5 to 10 years we still don't have that we continue to see those options what can i can thrill the neighborhood is listening and we count on you to paid attention we're vp a hard time keeping with the status i'm grateful to the friends at live oak an important partner our friends at rec and park grateful to see the partners come forward because of the shadowing effect at&t's and i'm the public safety advocate i didn't know you could shut down a project that's
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wonderful only the shadowing in one of 3 parks is extremely important to our neighborhood i've got 25 seconds oh, i'm done anyway. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is holly friedman i live on arkansas street a half a block away from the proposed development i'm here to talk about the deficiencies in the draft eir and urge the commission to take action to support in group assembled here to build a better community we're working hard to do that we need our support so peppering i commute everyday by public transportation i'm a pedestrian address commuter and bicyclist i'm here to talk about traffic you've heard a lot about the poor timing of the draft eir
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the poor timing is a reflection of the developers rush to justify to not do dmruns on this project traffic impacts will result in 2 hundred one hundred and 912 car trips 23 percent are at a failing service of the intersections what is a failing level of service according to the draft eir study it's greater than affordable unit a stop time of 50 seconds 50 that's a delay it states the number of pedestrians will more than double because of the recipe living in the context and i'm calling this out because the
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eastern neighborhood eir the final eir of the eastern neighborhood hierltd that potrero hill pedestrians injuries are 2.6 times greater than than the average in san francisco and the eastern neighborhoods plan attributed this greater occurrence of injuries to the esteem lack of signals in intersections as well the parking of large trucks that interfere s with calibration you saw a number of photos peppering any commute route is the muni line and the number of years this commission has not served me well, it goes if 20 to 40 minutes commute each way the 20 line is the only line that runs north and south the new lines
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run east and west i'd like to sum up on the parking study it was found there was payroll available parking spaces of 6 hundred during the day and 13 in the evening this is i guess hard to believe i don't believe we have that many haven't spaces in san francisco i think i've made my point commissioner, i urge you to take action. >> thank you. >> your time is up. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners hi, i'm andy blue representing the plaza 16 coalition we are a coalition of nearly one hundred labor and small businesses across the mission district formed in 2013 to oppose the market rate towers for the mission at 16th street a project we've seen a monster in
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the mission as many said about 1601 mariposa it will have a anyone centers negative impact on the community our coalition is here to support the many members of the potrero hill community that raise significant issues with the eir report for 1601 mariposa and with the impacts this project has on the community among the impacts we share our concerned for the eir and open space each neighborhood has its own specific needs our coalition is building alliances across the neighborhood and city we find there is overlap in the issues in the current development boom you've heard in previous testimony this eir ignores the cumulative impacts and this final eir we understand and insist that individual
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projects must be viewed in the context that have a larger cumulative view of the - and the concentration across the eastern neighborhood whoops the eir for 1601 mariposa found at certain time of year 40 percent of the parks will be shaded and this is, of course, a serious issue, however the draft eir did not adequate the fullness of the shading and didn't indicate the shadow impacts will be significant in the areas of the park most heavily used by the folks and last thursday i himself testified on behalf of our coalition down the hall at the
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rec and park commission in support of selma community that is resisting the project that casts a shadow upon selma's only park they made it crystal clear our park space is precious as the development boom hits the eastern neighborhood hard we share the concerns and support the defendant community and i'll be{to talk about affordable housing at a later hearing. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, i'm stephanie i'm a live oak parent and small business owner and architecture designing firm i'm on the site everyday on a different project i've working at a preschool
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we've been spending about the last year investigating noise and the impact of noise on children and so when i start to think about live oak and my kindergartener and saw the project what do i care of but, however i looked at the information i could gather pea what i came to there's a few things i know will help i'm i think we can go into 30 this responsibly i think i'd like to see a week corresponds if we know something t is coming up we have to keep our children you know learning and the noise i don't want to increase estimate how much which an impact it has a huge impact so that's one thing i think we can do the other things if by the put the
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project include to rise the project to include the second passage way through carolyn so again keeping that in mind and if the sorry we could do the noise it part of the construction outside of session that will help again, i'm a new apartment to live oak i have a kindergartener and thought those are the two things i thought we could try to do. >> is there any additional public comment? >> yes. i've lengthened for nearly 40 years a block from the project i'm familiar i think this the first eir i've read since i was sitting where you
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are commissioner antonini and commissioner moore are mayor ed lee have famous as i with the eastern neighborhoods eir this is in my opinion in full conformity i expect it to change ravrd the actual project for those who are concerned with mta i think it's allows you didn't i didn't as far as conflicts destined for potrero hill are admittedly by caltrain some of the worse they've designed in northern california this has nothing to do with to with the eir this of the envisioned in the eastern neighborhood eir is a neighborhood in transition as it has been for years right across is a project called
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pioneer carrier the old smokestacks of the industrial soap pioneer company are still there in transition for probably one hundred years and this is just another part of that transition as i say i fully expect the project to change but as far as this eir is concerned having read it i do building it is adequate it is complete and i urge you later on when the draft comments come in and read it again to probably okay. it and get on with the project as it will appear at a point. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you. i live my name
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is greg i live a bloke away right across the street for the record i'm not anti development or change in my regard i'll all for development that fits the spirit and cultural and scale in front i support the reduced density it is a spoiler alternative it will meet the project sponsors basically project while avoiding the impacts a lower dense e.r. density it is lower than it is - it will reduce traffic and better respect the character and scale of our neighborhood in other words a win within for the developer and the neighborhood it's at right way to move forward with a way it preserves
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the characters of the potrero hill thank you very much. >> is there any additional public comment on the draft eir okay public comment is closed. >> commissioner antonini. >> thank you all for your comments i actually visit the site last night about 4:30 and got to speak to a number of you and remind me how it was when i played softball and still students and i'll take your word times of day when its businesser but not issues when i visited it's a big site 3 hundred 36 acres and you know in general terms did hill was much more industrial as gil spoke to so when you talk about the
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environmental toxins there were smoke stakes i hope those maybe changes that are made to the plan i want to make sure that the environmental impact report addresses them adequately and usually when you make changes less i think tense no further environmental evaluation necessary one thing that's brought up i don't believe it's marveled in this report but the second diagonal walkway from the one going the diagonal this additional 1 connects arkansas street adjacent to the school that sound like it nighttime
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desirable because it will-less even the impact on the city hall about thirty to 40 feats there's a question about how much open space has been developed one the speakers 35 or 26 point they're asking for a rear yard exemption we want to make sure we have the figures on the open space we can create and still end up with the same project that has to be part of the analysis and obviously later on we'll talk about the breakdown of the unit it's not before a before us today i'll be all for two or three bedroom units that's nor another day other thing we're