the revisions to the draft eir comments should be directed towards the accuracy and adequacy in the eir for the members of the public who are here at the hearing please state your name for the record and for those who are front yard if commenting in the draft by mail or e-mail they may submit in their comments on mission street in san francisco by 5:00 p.m. on february 17th when the response to the comment document is complete the planning department will provide comments to those who have commented on the draft eir we'll request certification in the eir is certified the planning department may consider the project public works and letting unless the commissioners have questions i recommend the commission on up public comment.

>> before i do those persons standing in front of the doorway are going to clear the doorway and for members of the public who are here for items after this one this item will take about an hour at least and then after this item the commissioners will be taking a 20 or thirty minute break so if you're not here for this item you'll gov. an hour and a half before the next item will be called and free up some seats thank you. >> so i'll call names if i call your name, please line up on the screen side of the room (calling names). >> if your name has been called feel free to approach the podium

and. >> hi, i'm david stewart this is any first time in city hall so i'm not as the first speaker i hope to do this the right way and take two minutes and 48 seconds i'm here actually, i live about 8 blocks from this site i work near there, too and don't have a particular i guess i don't know the developer i own a small business and as part of that i've seen people on my team try to find housing when we come to san francisco some of them have lived here a a long time and some newcomers it is catastrophic how hard it is for people to find reasonably priced

homes in the city i understand people having may have a vetted interest iengsz e i'm not going to be the majority of opinion this is important for the city to move forward we've heard about the people and jobs moving here we need housing we need this sort of project i've reviewed it and you know this is in an area that has you know there's no perfect place to not disrupt some place in the not a space that is utilized it is not a 20 aspire building so being so central in the city it's in an area that is central and pretty well served by public transportation and there's stores and areas nearby i think

this is one of the best place in the city to build something on this scale i hope this get built i hope because some people i work with are desperately trying to find places to live if you're not lucky enough to get into a rent controlled place we need this opportunity for people to find homes in san francisco. >> i'd like to remind members this is about the accuracy and adequacy of the project itself. >> i'm a parent of two kids and a heights resident and a small business owner looking at the dog patch neighborhood specifically for the addressing the draft eir i'd like to taking

talk about transportation the availability of public safety i notice the public safety count were taken in late june that's unfortunately, when school is out of session this doesn't accurate accurately effect that often around 8:30 in the afternoon an analysis at the peak times will show a different impact of public safety for example in the report there was a statement that said pedestrians were not on the sidewalks sidewalks adjacent to the site especially, when we have young kids who pay attention in crossing streets we need to be aware i want to ask for counts during the times as the true peak hours for the neighborhood especially in the morning and the public safety

including flash walks and crossing lights that could help with public safety another those important times and similar with the talking not down in the busiest times i frequently volunteer at the school and it's hard to get parking it's difficult at the pickup times i was shocked to see the 33 hundred per day if you see how many during the typical hours it is something like 4 cars per second and like highway 280 changes they're not 90 in the report they're very, very different for traffic in this area and the high degree of

traffic the eir should include those changes in traffic flow and in the highway planning and consider the expansion of the high school it will be announcing the plans to increase the enrollment the number of kids and adults walking and will only go up this is any first time i was moved to get here to get off work to come and speak. >> as the next speaker comes up i'll call more names. >> if i called our name please line up on the screen side of the room so can i project things.

>> yes. you may. >> so my name is judith i'm a parented of a kindergartener my parents live in the burr no heights i have a younger daughter i want my daughter to return to live oak live oak is a very special plays in a special area an area rich in educational resources this eir conducted a traffic study which did not account for 3 schools when are win the block and -- excuse-me. commissioner johnson doesn't account for kip on 18th street so the real

problem is this shows why doing a traffic study is important we have city hall's which are two blocks from the air pollutant exposure zones this is an area we need to insure our children's air quality is inaccurately measured and we've enforced all those pedestrian because they did that too late in the day and in june and july when the schools were not in session 0 both the public and private schools. from those estimates are pedestrians at risk and the traffic and the circling for parking i i cannot understand

how you make those decisions for public safety and children on a fundamentally flawed data you need to do new counts and rise the air quality if you were trying to count songbirds in the middle of winter don't grant parking for off-street this is the entrance on 18th street that was not mentioned in the eir and this is all the double parking which happens in school zones and the developer would like here's the school zones there's the double parking the development wants an exception in the off-street loading this creates additional traveling risks and i would urge for much

is a large building 38 they not be grant the exception >> thank you ma'am our time is up. >> next speaker >> i apologize. i was out of order i'm shawn i've been a 17 year resident half a block away from the proposed development site i'd like to share a few photos to illustrate my speaking points today personally one - what i'd like to see this is an enormous space even though the eir neglected to look further an open space and

extension of jackson partk for the residents there's a pipeline in the scope i'd like to talk about first of all the issues i think are imminent with a project this size first there's going to be the traffic problem a picture from this morning at an intersection we get to an any way to the peninsula this was at 840 this morning i took the photograph and it's at mississippi and mariposa this entrance the only entrance and exit we have for this part of potrero hill in our neighborhood we have anticipated you see in the background the new c s f on

the same access point and going to have a kaiser permanente hospital and load of projects in the pipeline without addressing the issues of the existing congestion for problems in our neighborhood second point i'd like to address so overall the traffic impacts i feel the environmental impact report can't be mitigated another problem we have is the existing construction we look at this the cranes in the background this is a street to get to downtown from our neighborhood the cross street that connects 7 it is completely filled with construction equipment and construction vehicles are parked on site this issue has to be addressed in the cumulative effect we have too much projects at the same time i urge the committee to halt the promotions and look at the

impacts where we allow the projects to catch in time not to have the impact on the streets also finally, i'd like to address the construction and air quality that was this morning i do this once a week. >> thank you. sir, your time is up. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is is alison i'm here to talk about the cumulative impact thanks for the opportunity to speak there's a significant error in the draft

eir on page 87 which marketplaces the projections made in the eir and includes this cumulative irs have been addressed they've made an apples and oranges project for the eastern neighborhood and compared them to developments just in shipley square and potrero hill loolth the reports in the area without filling the units that are constructed the fact we've already exceeded the potrero hill projections and show case square by 20 percent we don't need to wait for the 2015 monitoring report we were promised a few array of public benefits to show the completeness of neighborhoods including the open space and

improved transit and the community facilities and the affordable housing so where are those promised benefits? improved public transit the traffic study for the project has a number ten bus running at 98 capacity at rush hour before the 7 thousand neighbors arrive as the 22 we leader we get to keep it for 2 to 5 years to have it it rerouted after the projects traffic we have several intersections at potrero hill with that are another unacceptable levels our air quality is rapidly sdlain what happens when we add warriors stadium and pier 70 to the mix new parks we know we're

deficient the potrero hill area promises 4 acres of new open space we're still waiting meantime jackson county park that is heavily used and didn't provide open space to the neighborhood will soon be severing not only seven hundred neighbors but more than 33 hundred new residents within 5 blocks of park we recognize the need for new housing we get that we're building luxury unit and this project must be considered in the context of other development and address the things we need like better public transportation and open space as well as housing for middle-income earners and, of course, the families thank you as the next speaker comes up i'll call for names

(calling names). >> my name is cashing i can't a mother and nurse a resident of potrero hill over 20 years although the city wants to build in fill housing this is two small for the project the amount of assess cease and the ucsf mission bay development a emerging on this real estate adding over 3 hundred units and cars lloyd the area is too great for an impact for this location thank you and good afternoon, commissioners my name is stephanie i'm a san francisco

resident for almost 15 years and the mother of a live oak kindergartener and seems like a all my friends with kids are leaving what keeps us in san francisco we were one of the fathers and mothers that found a great school i'm worried about the noise during construction any daughter is sensitive to sound i'm worried about the learning the draft eir is inaccurate on page 26 it says live oak is a good summary program we need to have the noise it activities like demolition done during wants summer breaks and other breaks like winter i don't know how the kids will learn the draft eir does not care the

impact of sound mitigation measures that are being considered like sound link daylight is so important for people's health and if we cover up if we use the sound blatant i don't understand how the kids are going to have access at that daylight thank you very much. >> next speaker >> afternoon i'm jimmy live on arizona this is across the street from the property project while i agree with the need for new housing and i'm not opposed to the the reduced density option that the environmental impact report suggested i sees major failures in the report the

traffic and safety i have a small child i use oars arkansas and the fact that that emergency the report said not impacted by traffic is sixth didn't make sense to me personally i don't see that all the building that is taking place in the mission bay area is take into account i understand no mitigation for the already impacted intersection down near the freeway that will only get worse i'm in favor of the new housing and the reduced densest but a new report needs to be

done. >> next speaker >> good afternoon. i'm steve sacking a 15 year resident of potrero hill i live near and my child goes to live oaks school and my business is also in potrero hill i'm got firmer roots the main concerns i have with this project are the inadequatecy of the study of traffic something you're hearing a bit of i think that the study needs to be done during the morning rush hour times i've lived by 18th and mississippi that intersection that was earlier shown and that is typical traffic for that area it's a huge problem and being studied by this commission as well we need to be aware of the fact that children are going to be crossing the streets alu at all

hours of the day i think that certain mitigation measures need to be take into account i think another major conditioner is jackson county park my children use that it is going to be severely impacted by the shadow that is going to be cast 40 percent shadow on this park and 25 percent during summer most this was not mentioned in the draft eir arrest not only is the smood going to have an impact but the use of residents on the park is going to have a significant effect and while i welcome new resident to potrero hill i think it's fantastic place to live over the course but i think this project needs to add mitigation measures to either provide a reservation

facility a come municipal recreation facility something that the live oak school has discussions or some other form of recreation area that can mitigate the impacts on the park the last item i'd like to talk about is the observation that hazardous materials will enter into the air there is not a way to control the hazardous materials are going to i understand up in the air in live oaks and the 10ur7bd community. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. rob with the housing coalition speaking on blood with 0 of the one hundred and 40 members i want to state this project was presented

to our project review committee i believe that commissioner fong was present at the meeting we're that in support of the project we believe it's adequate and thorough and completely, however we don't think this project we think it's unfortunate that project has its own eir we spent 10 years trying to put this plan together the goal a to add more housing to meet the housing goals for the city and add more certainty intents in exchange increase the impact fees that meets the requirements for affordable housing and creating a more dense walkable environment we think this is capable and should move forward as is thank you.

>> as the next speaker comes up i'll call for names (calling names). >> hi so i'm in support of this project i wish it could have been finished we're in a housing crisis and there are a lot of people that need housing now it occurs to me that the eir taken literally sound like isle you'll be considering air or water quality maybe something industrial by clearly people are talking about traffic you'll see social effects what's the problem with traffic it's crowding and has the downsizing crowding and increases the time. spent traveling somewhere so if you get the credit the eir the social impact of traffic

cumulative impacts then we should be considering the cumulative impact of not building over and over again we've one decreased crowding and force people to spend more money our the unit that exit so no eir is more adequate if we can't look at the cumulative effect of not building thanks. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, i'm katie live across the street from the proposed project i have the following issues with the following i believe the area plans are too big at surrounding development at the moment are outstanding and difficult to negotiate the traffic and concerned about the lack of public transportation in

the area recreation packs are not fully addressed we need nor open space and parks shadowing will impact all the areas around the project hazardous material needs further study and the study of air quality is not included i support the eir thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is is nick noise i'm the president of the homeownership association at 18th arkansas we'll not anti growth or anti development we think the developers is an excellent developer and the architect is excellent i have here a petition that we gave to the planning commission in may of 2013 which states that

we are extremely concerned about the offer scale proposed for our neighborhood the height and densest are completely out of scale with our neighborhood i've had a lot of meetings with the developers i'm an architect i understand what we're talking about it become observe they were trying to max out the project and start off at the starting point and become very, very contrary there was not going to be a change until someone said see i'm here to support the reduced density alternative listed in the draft eir always the environmentally superior alternative it would simultaneously reduce the impact

of the large number of resident and better respect the character and scale of the neighborhood thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello i'm sharon daniel i live in the 16 hundred block across the street from the development project i've been a resident of san francisco since 996 i lived in potrero hill i wanted to ultimately live there it took me to this past summer i'll a new resident of this block i'm not anti growth i support that but i have serious concerns with the draft eir mr. taylor from my own prospective with the lack of study of air quality that air quality study was not inclu