[inaudible] san francisco. we should show as much concern for those that died on memorial day as we do for fun and kbaims on beta breakers. this is nob number composition from the 40's. far away from friends and loved woens [inaudible] gather round for all his buddies raise his head and heard him say. there is a lamp light in the window, where a angle from above, gently rocks by babies cradal with such tender care and love. mother there is [inaudible] it would ease this awful pain [inaudible] until i'm sleeping, rock my cradle once again. [inaudible] on a island far

away, though the earth pass on in sorry i still recall these words today. there is a lamp light in a window where a angle from above,gently rocks by babies cradle with such tender care and love. mother dearest darlly mother it would ease my awful pain if she sang until i'm sleeping, rock by cradle once again. thank you for listening >> thank you, next speaker, please >> we only live so long before we die. we only live a certain amount of days before we die and only make a certain amount of money before we die. tomorrow is 7 thousand days from the jube lee year and i got through to tom evans in family radio and took [inaudible] place and i

was trying to convince him to start up the open forum once again and disagreed with mr. camping on his jube alee years and tom is starting to come around to my view, which is the biblical view. the dead sea scrolls talk about the 70 weeks of daniel 9 and say that is 10 jube alees. if we know that christ was babatized 7 years before the jube lee year ended and we do and know it was 29 ad and we do recollect then we can know when the jubilee year is. jeess was about 30 years old when he began ministry and baptized and they are about at the thee 0th jubilee. they were 7 years before the jubilee. when i say march 21, 1996 began the 70 jubilee year it is easy to determine i'm correct. we had 2 things happen at that time. the

times of the gentiles ended. this is forshadowed when [inaudible] of babylon went crazy for 2520 days. if you go a day for a year yoi have 3670 and so you properly understand it, 360 sabbatical cycles. this is called the king of numbers because it is divisible by 1-10. you are looking at my like i'm crazy. you are 50 years old and we are going to die soon and face god and you can't get away from him. some say all religions >> thank you. next speaker, please >> tom gillburty.

corporate buss 2 months become accessible, big fines. i hope that comes in the moment of time. these corporate buses for 5-10 million can buy 10 bus squz lease them to the drivers. muni is common, it is illegal to do anything by munee at these commons. when the muni drivers would appreciate if the corporate buses pull forward in the baus stops so they can pull behind them and not wait acrauz the intersection and wait for the bus to pull out. common courtesy thrmpt insured license safety standards regulated, uniform price, professional drivers [inaudible] byubeer and what nots. we need to protect our taxies. last year we have 69

accessible to vans or wheelchairs. we are going to lose or taxies. i don't want that to happen. muni, i'm hesitant about removing seats. it is a long [inaudible] old people are old people. i don't think we should do that. paratransit needs refinement kwr development. avenue shuttles to get the long block tooz a main line, is that possible? buses, new remodeled heating systems that make more noise that heat. what is the most rattles bus we have? we can make a contest and let them ride on the eastern side of van ness and see which is the best and worst rattling bus. use the elevators, especially at civic and the people out there that use our stuff use

the elevators. thank you >> thank you very much. next speaker, please >> matdm president, my name is auto duffy and north of market neighborhood activist. i live in the north of market. years ago i love lived in group housing for a couple years. it was bonifyed group housing. there was a shared kitchen facility and shared lobby, a tv area, large bathrooms, well not large but spacious is sufficient. i am not sure how you make that housing these days. the building i lived in, the cooperative it was under collapsed about now it is transitional youth housing so it is still there. i don't know how you would use it for the general population. i just don't think it is right a company

is just using this group housing to scrirt inclusionary housing cost to create suben stadered yuts that are incomplete and small. i don't see how that is the right thing to do. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please >> lord jesus christ. good afternoon madam president and members of the board. my name is jason washington. i'm a resident of oakland and i'm enjoying my visit to san francisco. if you would be patient with me, i would like to comment on the previous motion that was brought forth by madam supervisor. i believe it is irrefutable to contest there are infact members of the african

american community who are also members of the lesbian bisexual gay and transgender community. i have seen a trend happening inside of many chambers where they associate the plight and struggle african americans have gone through with the transgender community. i would like to disassociate if i may on 3 grounds. the first ground is one, the nlsh civil rights movement spear headed by several courageous african americans inside the 1950's and 60's was a result of tedious and detrimental and fierce oppression that we had indured for several

centuries and several generations. our brothers and sisters [inaudible] have not experienced that that i know of. second of all, we had no closet to hide into. you can see i'm a member of the african american community proudly. unfochinately there was no closet african americans. we were african americans and subject to that >> thank you. your time is up. thank you. are there any other member thofz pubplic who would like to provide public comment? >> [inaudible] mta. i think we need to look at this very closely and see if we have a department of the sate that may be out of control. i'm seeing cookie cutter decision being made for all neighborhoods that might not be right for one or two

neighborhoods or other things like that. i think we better look at, how do we be able to handle the fact that the mta has no one that can over rule them. i think we need to look at that legislation and see if we can modify it to make it better for this city. i heard from polk street and heard from all over the city now, they are very upset with these plans they pull from had neighborhoods. this isn't just one neighborhood, this is multiple neighborhoods. we need to really decide what is right for the city, for neighborhood character, the economic development of our different neighborhood districts. we are saying the planning department if you walk in they say you can't do something that runs in with

the neighborhood, you have to do a modern building. some places modern buildings work and some places they don't. if anyone wants to see one that doesn't go to [inaudible] in san francisco. i would look at the mta and planning department. thank you >> thank you very much. next speaker please >> good afternoon mrs. president and supervisors. i hope you liked the [inaudible] it was like, no where to run, no where to hide from those costumes. no where to run, no where to hide from your cost yums baby. every i step i take, victory i seek and i'll meet you at the ocean beach on the cover of sports week. no where to run, no where to hide from the city. no where to run, no where to run.

[singing]. if you are going to san francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. if you are going to san francisco you are going to meet? some gentle people there. everything you do with strings viberation, people in motion when they run all through the ocean for those who run, the [inaudible] san francisco, summer time will be love there. if you are going to san francisco summer time will be a caring and loveen

there. thank you >> thank you. are there any other members of the public that would like to provide public common at this time? seeing none public comment is closed. madam clerk can you read the adoption without committee reference? >> item 28-33 are considered for immediate adoption without committee reference. a single roll call vote [inaudible] >> madam clerk can you please call the roll >> on item 28-33 supervisor farrell, aye. mar, aye. tang, aye. wiener, aye. yee, aye. avalos, aye. breed, aye. compose aye. christensen, aye. cohen, aye. there are 10 aye's. jrblshz those itemerize

adopted unanimously. okay colleagues we are pretty much done with our agenda, but we are not at a point where we can call the 3 p.m. specialeredero 330 comidation so at this time i'll resess the meeting until 3 p okay, colleagues, we are back from resess. it is now 3 o'clock p.m. time for our first 3 aclock p.m. special ord. colleagues before us we have an appeal of sequa categorical exemption for the project located at 2251 grinage street fire station 16 in district 2. can you call items 18-21

>> comprise the special order for a public hearing for persons interested of the appeal for environmental review under california quality act issued by the planning department 2014 located ot2251 grinage street. item 21 is the motion directing the prepation of fooindings reverses the finding >> for this hearing we'll consider the adequacy accuracy and sufficientancy and completeness of the planning departments darmation that the project at 2251 grinage street is exempt from environmental review from sequel. up to 10 minute for presentation by the appellate or representative.

up 2 minute of the speaker in support of the appeal, up to 10 minutes from the planning department, up to 10 minute for the project sponsor or representative, up to 2 minutes per speaker in opposition of the appeal and finally, up to 3 minute for rebutal for pael appellate or appellate representatives we'll bein good the hearing. first up we have the appellate or appellate representative, you have 10 minutes. >> thank you. good afternoon president breed z members of the board. my name is steve william jz represent the paepts who are the immediate adjacent neighbors of those proposed project. first let me start by saying that the neighbors have a wonderful relationship with the fire fighter squz this is not about opposition to having a neighbor that is

a fire house or even the reconstruction of the fire house. it may surprise the board to learn this is the first hearing today, the first public hearing which the neighbors are afforded a tonight to attend. usually by the time a praunlect gets to the board of supervisoratize is fully vetted. the planning commission heard or t or the board of appeals or historic presserivation or building and inspection commission. not in this case. because this is a public building there is only one forum for resue of the project before a permit issued and that is the art commissions. this project was on the arts commission agenda 4 times including the final review and approval february threne, 2014. not one neighbor or member of the public attended any of those hearings. the project sponsor which in this

case is the department of public works actively concealed those hearings from the public. concealed the dates and times and locations while at the same time falsely informing the arts commission the public was notified. the reason i bring this to had attention of the board is it ilkraits just how badly squl j groussly negligent dpw handled this project fraumg the bip gg. they ignoreed the neighbors, they refuses to work with concerned memberoffs the public and sought to have the permits issued for this site without complying with the most fundamental and basic environmental review requirements. the initial environmental application failed to note the presence of leaking underground storage tanks even though the project description includes the removal and replacement of those tanks or ust. dpw

also fay failed to enroll the project in the mar her program with the department of public health. again, a basic mandatory requirement. for any project that has ust or located on bay fill and this project has both. here is dpw and the fire department, the city departments that share responsibility for issuing permits for removal of underground storage tanks and failed to follow the procedures for this joint project. if you look at the hazardous materials survey in addition to the undergrouchbd storage tanks at the site there is asbesto containing material throughout the build{led is also found at the building in samples throughout the building in concentration far in excess of the federal standards. the subject site is a

haserdize waets site on the cor taizy list which is a state wide list of sites compiled under 659 .[inaudible] the language of the statute forbids the use for any project located on a site included on this list. we quoted that statutory language in our appeal and by the way, our appeal was filed more than 10 months ago in july 2014 and because of the mistake squz errors made throughout the process, it has taken this long to get a hearing scheduled. the same express language forbidding use of a categorical exemptions for projects located on sites on the cor taizy list is found on the planning departments website on the page explaining the application and use of

categorical exemptions y. attached that as exhibit one to the supplemental brief and have hard copies for anyone that wants to take a look at that. the same expressed statutory language is included in sequa hannbook squz policy on the major institutions such as ucsf. i attached that as exhibit 3 if anyone wants a copy. we have extra copies which have these exhibits attached. i was able to deliver a few to the offices, but--the ucsf handbook on sequa, their environmental hand book is the part using the same statutory language attached

is exhibit 3. this same statutory language is afirmed time and time again, in fact many jurisdicks throughout california amenlded their project application process so as to screen for project sites located on the cor taizy list so that those project sites may be excluded initially from any consideration of a categorical exemption and attached many such applications on the supplemental brief as exhibit 4. this includes san diego, santa barb raw u atus cudairy, napa, tuhatchopy, hum bolt, kern county and countless other jurisdictions afirm a categorical exemption may not be issued for sauch site. additionally, courts and other decision making bodies have also conformed the statutory language means just what it says. we attached as exhibit 5 to the

supplemental brief a 2009 order from the regional water quality control board granted a petition from the citizens group and reversed the san francisco bay board decision to adopt clean up and abatement order, for a site in richmond california. the local board when it adopt thd cao found thudungez the cao was categoryically exempt under sequa. again, this is exhibit 5 for the supplemental brief. let me read you what the state water resources control board said. because the site is currently on the cor daze taizy list the use of categorical exemption isn't proper and evaluates sequa. the board went on to say, the sites placement on a cor taizy list precludes the use

of a categorical exemption. i use that word, precludes in our appeal and the departments response took exception to that. the department stated that it doesn't necessarily preclude the grant of a categorical exemption and offers no explanation, no authority, no statute and case law sopt that the department says well, if we have a closure letter then we can use the categorical exemption. that is incorrect as well as a matter of law. let me reever you to a case only 14 mupths old from the first district cout of appeal. we attached that as exhibit 2. this a near identical situation and near identical case. the parker shaddock neighbors case was decided november

2013. a near identical situation of development that involved underground storage tanks. they had a closure letter from the berkeley department of health. they had a closure letter from the water resources control board, the exact closure letter the department is referring to. the department affirms clearly without any doubt that you may not use a categorical exemption for a cor taizy site. on page 6 of the decision, it states, we agree that the ledge slaichier intended projects on these sites should not be categorically exempt from sequa because they may involve significant effects on the environment. the first go round in the berkeley case they had given a categorical exemption. when it came back the city

realized its error and took away the categorical exemption. in this case the city hasn't realized its error. there is a over weming mount ochb statutory authority case law, administrative body decisions all which state clearly and aform the plain language of the stute which says you may not issue a categorical exemption for a site appearing on the cor taizy list and that is what the department has done here. we urge you to grant thupeal. thank you >> thank you very much and at this time we'll open it up to those who wish to speak for public comment for those that support the appeal. if you can please line up to my left, if you are in support of the appeal. first speaker you have 2 minutes. >> i was hoping i was on

your left. members of the board of supervisors, president, thank you for hearing my comment. i name is naib nob i grew up in san francisco and went to high school here and have lots of friends who are fireman. i vote ed for the bond that allows the reconstruction of the fire house. i love the fireman i bring them cake with my kids on sept11 so i work in the city and pay taxes in the city. the way it went down this rabbit hole is i was informed they would rebuild the fire house and ask k they access our back yard. i was accommodating and let the department of public works in the back yard and look around and measure.

i was told they allow participation and comments on the dezibe. i hired a lawyers and asked when that opportunity would be. the next time i was a at a meeting with department of public works, i was shown a design with objectionable problems. one was a elevator next to my bedroom and the second was a garkage corridor next to had front door and the last was a wall covering up a window in my childrens play room. [inaudible] they have not been a friend or collaborative, they have [inaudible] as has some visor fairp, but have not seen any change and as the lawyer pointed out there are health and safety issues i'm gravely

concerned about and hope that you'll help protect the neighbors. we are unincluded in this process watt so ever >> thank you very much. next speaker, please >> putitia [inaudible] this case has annoyed me for a long time. the public was not informed. they called meetings at the last minute, told people to go to the arts commission at the last minute. in fact, there were 2 art commission meetings before we ever saw this. we asked for modifications at the first meeting, they haven't given modifications. [inaudible] they are going to have 2 very dark room tooz sleep in after they have been in a fire. i really think that this needs to go back to the drawing board. i do not think it passes sequa. steve just did a brilliant job on this and i have a feeling this will go to court. if

you guys really want to say something, send it back and saying r let's go back to the drawing board and that is what really needs to be done. it doesn't pass sequa and i just hate seeing everyone going to court in the city. i think we can work it out, but i don't understand why they were doing station 16 when station 48 has multimillion dollars worth of problems and safety problems for the citizens as well as for the fire department. they have to go to the bathroom and encounter rats isn't fun. i think this is a misappropriate of money. if anyone says i can't understand sequa, it snlt my real