together. item 39 is the board of supervisors to convene a committee of the whole scheduled kmoont to a resolution adopted on july 24, 2018 contained in file 170879 and continued from september 11, 2018. item 39 is the public hearing to consider the items contained in items 40 through 45. for items 40 through 42, it's a are you lugs proposing the financing the infrastructure forming and financing plan of the hoedown yard at pier 70, providing for future annexation for item 43 through 45, we have a resolution to declare the results of the special elections for the ifrd, number 2. for item 44, it's an ordinance to create city infrastructure and to affirm the ceqa

determination. to affirm the findings under the california environmental quality act and to approve other actions there with. >> president cohen: all right. thank you for that. so colleagues, we now turn to a number of items related to the formation of the infrastructure and revitalization financing district for an area in the vicinity of pier 70. it's commonly known as the hoedown yard. these items before the board today are critical to a promise that the city have made to affordab affordable housing connected to the site. forest city's pier 70 project will include 40% affordable how's, the irfd will allow the

city to commit a portion of the property tax revenues generated in the hoedown yard for affordable housing. so an infrastructure and financing plan, also known as an i.f.p. has been prepared and made available to the public. and the board of supervisors in its capacity as a legislative body of the only taxing body that will allocate a taxing increment to the irfd has already approved the i.f.d. it will undertake a fairly lengthy process, a fairly lengthy proceedings required by the california gore code required to form the irfd and formalize issuance of bonds which includes a public hearing and a landowner election. we will hear a staff report on the matter from the staff as well as consultants about the

proposed irfd, followed by comments. then, we will open up the hearing for public -- then, we will open up the public hearing. we've got brad benson here this afternoon from the port authority, who will begin this discussion with a brief presentation. >> president cohen, members of the board of supervisors, brad benson, representing poured director elaine forbes. thank you for hearing this -- altogether of these items today, and president cohen, thank you for your sponsorship of this. so i've got a brief presentation. pier 70 is a project that the board approved last fall through a disposition and development agreement and a financing plan, all of which presumed trailing approvals of the public financing to build this new neighborhood. today, we're here with one part of this public financing, a key

strategy to develop affordable housing at pier 70. so just a brief reminder that the pier 70 special use district is a 35-acre mixed use development site with approximately 1600 to 3,000 residential units, 30% of which will be affordable, and a mix of commercial, retail, arts, and light industrial uses. we expect 470 units of affordable housing at the site. this is -- will be accomplished through 20% inclusionary on-site in the residential rental buildings and three 100% affordable housing parcels developed by the mayor's office of housing and community development. those parcels will be developed through fees generated by the project and the irfd funding that's before you today.

so the infrastructure resi revitalization district is going to be formed over what is currently a privately owned parcel, currently owned by pg&e known as the hoedown yard, shown here in purple. it's estimated to generate $18 million for housing at the site. the remainder after debt service is paid will go to the city's general fund, and we would respectfully request your -- your adoption of all of the measures before you today, including adoption of the irfd, the financing plan for the irfd, calling the special election, declaring the results of that election, creating the irfd, and and authorizing the issuance bonds. with that, i'm available to

answer any questions you may have. >> president cohen: all right. colleagues, are there any questions for mr. benson? all right. well, at this particular time, the board will hold a formal public hearing on the formation of the irfp and a creation of the i.f.p. all right. do we have any public comment on items 40 through 45? public comment is open for item 40 through 45. you'll have two minutes to comment. thank you. mr. wright, the floor is yours. >> last night, there was an educational show done by professional investigators pertaining to this area, the whole shipyard. it demonstrated how in 1936, on or about 128 battleships were in

the facility of two nuclear atomic explosions. as a result, the explosions took place in the ocean around all these battleships -- sfgov, please. as you can see, where my fingers are pointing, these are commercial military battleships that were in the vicinity of one of the nuclear explosions. this explosion contaminated all the battleships in the area where the explosion took place. there was a second explosion that also exploded and atomic cancer materials and radio active activity was penetrated through all the area and ships in the ocean. moreover, there was ships that came back to the hunters point shipyard and were so badly n

annihilated by the explosion that they were towed to the shipyard at hunters point. this is one of the ships that were damaged, and this is one of the articles that explains how the contamination takes place at the shipyard. moreover, this place is used for guinea pigs as animals were given rao active materials, and here's one of the letters from his staff explaining to his superior how they were testing dogs and using radio active material. here's another -- [inaudible] >>clerk: madam president, the speaker's time is conkplcluded.

>> president cohen: yeah. next speaker. >> tome gilberti, 1600 to 3,000 affordable housing units, and where are the units for the seniors? where are the units for the people that are on social security? we are are the units for section 8? where are the units for the graduates out of the navigation centers? we need to reweave our society, take the pressure off our housing, and every building's going from a plan to a project. we now need to introduce this 20% or less of dignity housing. i mean, where are we going to do

it? somewhere else? people that are going to develop this property need to know this is a new direction, this is a new standard. we need to include more housing for the less fortunates of our world that won't be able to take care of ourselves. thank you. let's start now. >> president cohen: thank you. next speaker, please. >> board of supervisors, let me tell you that pier 70, which is not hunters point shipyard but was kind of an annex, ships were built, but what you supervisors do not know but mr. benson and the port knows about it but has kept very quiet about it, is 1

million tons of coal tar linked to the power plant, and you have people who kind of listen to conceptual plans. my definition of a conceptual plan is kind of like a dream. you get up from your dream, and you face your worst nightmare. so we have the board of supervisors, we have the mayor, we have the other authorities that the department of building inspection, they have been caught again and again and again asleep at the cockpit. now who's going to cleanup the 1 million tons of coal tar? who's going to cleanup the huge two spots of ammonia spills? how the heck do i know that? 'cause i worked at the presidio. i had a position over there, and

i had access to information that some dumb fools don't have. but yet, they say they represent. who do you represent and why don't you represent without doing your homework? thank you very much. >> president cohen: are there any other member of the public that would like to comment on these items? all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. the hearing is also closed. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: we'll now begin considering items 40 through 42 which adopt the i.f.p. and call the special election. and before considering these items, i may -- may i have a motion to amend these items to change the hearing date to today's date being october 16? motion made by supervisor fewer, seconded by supervisor yee. and without objection, these amendments are approved. thank you.

colleagues, with can he take items 40 through 42, same house, same call? madam clerk, has the house changed from the previous vote? >>clerk: it is the same as the previous vote. >> president cohen: all right. we'll take it same house, same call. without objection, these items are adopted. all right. at this time, i'd like to ask the clerk to open the ballots and announce the results of the election. >>clerk: yes. we are in receipt of the canvas and state results for the special election regarding the infrastructure and revitalization district number two, the hoedown yard, which the director of election has certified today, october 16, 2018. there were three landowner votes cast 100% in their favor, the i.f.d.'s favor, with no majority protest. >> president cohen: so we may know consider and adopt certain resolutions and one ordinance related to the formation of the irfd, is that correct?

>>clerk: that is correct. >> president cohen: again, before considering these items, may i have a motion to amend the hearing date to today's date, october 16, 2018? motion made by supervisor fewer, seconded by supervisor yee. thank you. without objection, these amendments are approved. colleagues, can we take items 43 through 45, same house, same call? all right. without objection, these items are passed. madam clerk, please call the next special order. >>clerk: the next items are items 46 through 49. these items were heard and public comment was taken on the certification of the final environmental impact report on october 2. the board continued this item to today's meeting specifically for further narrow discussion from the public regarding the air quality mitigation measure report submitted october 2 by

the by area air quality and item 46 is the certification of the final environmental impact report. item 47 through 49 are the motions that are associated with the feir. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. colleagues what we have before us are two appeals for the final environmental impact report for the proposed india basin mixed use project. these appeals involve analysis of adequacy, sufficiency and completeness of the final environmental impact report. however, pursuant to the motion approved during the last board appeal hearing, all comments and discussions will be limited to new air quality mitigation measure. again, we're not taking general public comment but we're taking comment on air quality

mitigation measure, air quality impacts, and any further mitigations. we will proceed as follows. first, they'll be two minutes for the commenter to present the facts of their appeal, and then, we will have two minutes for michaelly from the planning department to present the planning department's analysis for the reasons why they're certifying the feir, and there'll be up to two minutes to present the bay area management district to present their reasons to certify the feir. we will up have to two minutes for public commenters to speak in support of the affirmation of the environmental impact report.

finally, each appellant will have up to two minutes for a rebuttal argument. colleagues, without objection, may i open the hearing? all right. thank you. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: the hearing is now open. i'd like to acknowledge any of the supervisors that are wishing to open up any remarks. all right. seeing none, i'll share a couple remarks. so colleagues, at this time, we've had an opportunity to meet with bacmd. they came in two weeks ago with a memo about air quality mitigation suggestions. the project sponsor, most of the appellants involved in the appeal were all caught off guard. we've discussed this project at length in committee and before this full body, so i think everyone is pretty much familiar at this point. so i'll just offer a few highlights about the project

just as a reminder. so this enveloped the 700 innes avenue, and 900 innes avenue, and india basin shoreline. it is compromised of 20 acres of privately owned land, six acres of park and rec open space, and six acres of unimproved and unaccepted right-of-way. it has the possibly to provide over 1500 units of housing and a host of community benefits through the life of the project. without desire for any further delay, i'm looking forward to this hearing. i see no names on the roster from my colleagues. i will now ask and invite the appellants forward to present their case. the appellant, please come forward to present your case. as a reminder, all comments and discussion will be limited to the new air quality mitigation measure, and just as a reminder, again, you'll have two minutes to do so. well come, mr. bradley angel.

>> first of all, giving us two minutes, it's ridiculous. it's insulting to democracy and engagement. secondly, as president of the board cohen acknowledged, that when the air district, you know, talked behind closed doors, while we were in here at -- two weeks ago, and it was decided to continue this hearing, i want to remind you, notice did not go out, there was no language access once again, violating civil rights, and -- but it gets worse. that you're considering this, yet the air district and the planning department agree that the alleged mitigation that never went through ceqa, even if it could be done, even if it was feasible, but it was not, it doesn't appear, would not reduce

the impacts to less than significant. the impacts -- you know, you talked about a host of benefits for the community, benefits like significant, unhealthy, unmitiga unmitigatable, unavoidable pollution in a community that the air district, san francisco and the state of california all acknowledge have too much air pollution. i want to add if one other thing. that's a benefit that can kill people. this morning, myself and my colleague had a discussion with two air district representatives. you know what? they didn't even read the e.i.r. because they disputed what the e.i.r. says, which is that it could result in exceedances violations of air quality standards. they literally said they disagree, so i sent them the exact quote. this is pathetic, and i don't

know what's going on here, but the planning department and the planning commission -- [inaudible] >> president cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> yes, madam president, board of supervisors, i'm the general manager for archimedes banya. i am here today on behalf of mikhail brodsky because he had to travel for work. we've been in this since 2015. we believe we are the descendants of suit raback. i'm really worried about the construction that's about to happen in our back yard. there are a few reasons why, you know? first of all, the dust that's going to come up, it's going to be sucked in that building.

it's just right where the construction starts. there's a few things that's really concerning me. what happens when you dig in or they dig in, and they find something in there? what if it's released in the air, and what if it's sucked inside my building? what happens to us? what happens when the trucks with -- big trucks with big engines and fumes and big generators are just going on and on and on right to where our business? it's going to kill us. the other thing, you know, talking about radio active materials, you know? couple of weeks ago, they said how, if you find something, there's a contingency plan, but no one planned what it is. is it a contingency plan to give us a coupon for a doctor? i don't know. now, yesterday if you saw the bay area news yesterday, you saw a portion where the navy left contamiation. it's the land right next to where these buildings have being

built. it's just a single wire fence that's in between these two lands. so you know, think my big concern, you know, please save archimedes, it's a really good business. we have really good employees working there. i'm not saying construction shouldn't be done or we don't need housing, but do something sensible. [inaudible] >> president cohen: thank you. next speaker, please. >> marie harrison with bayview hunt ers point and green acti hunters point green action. i i'm puzzled because here we are

again, asking for the same thing. we're asking, board of supervisors -- excuse me. i have this weird thing going on. i would really like for the supervisors to face me and see me when i'm talking to them. it's only respectful, okay? i have not disrespected you, and i would like for you to respect me by facing me, all of you. you want to ask them to be a little respectful here, please? now, as i was saying it is difficult to come back here again and again and again to keep telling you that you keep ignoring the health risk for our community, and people like myself who are already sick, who can't take anymore. are we supposed to be

discounted? are we? are you going to cast your vote to allow a property to move forward that your own e.i.r. states will cause damage and increase the amount of damage to the human reseceptors within ou community in we're not just talking about seniors such as myself, we're talking about youngsters, and we're talking about babies. and i think you guys owe it to us before you do the wrong thing and listen to all of this garbage. and i call it garbage because it will not -- nothing that they have said so far will limit the damage that is going to happen to us. and i think that you owe it to us. you didn't follow our lead with the shipyard, and look what's happening. you're going to do it again or

are you going to do it again? your vote will tell me. [inaudible] >> president cohen: all right. thank you. again, this is an opportunity -- this is not general public comment, this is for the appellant. >> i've been coming to city hall for a long time, so there are some people, they themselves do not know how to conduct a meeting. now, number one -- and this is for the city attorney and the controller. if anybody has taken money from the developer, they should recuse themselves. i know about three or four people that have taken money from the developer. they should recuse themselves, so that everybody should understand that. now, having said that, the first time i came here, they made me sit down there for seven hours, and we didn't have the hearing on this. then, the second time, right in the middle of the thing, oh, you know, the bay area released these documents, so you guys all have to come, so this is the third time. [please stand by]

>> what we're living with already is enough. we don't need any more buildings going up right now. i appreciate if you agree with us. >> president cohen: thank you, next speaker. >> hello. i'm leo dispitin a long-view res

dents -- resident of bay view point. i was 6 years old and i've seen a lot of people come and go but my mom passed away from cancer in '99. the damage in bay view is so outstanding we have young kids that have problems in schools. they can't play p.e. and stuff like that. we have kids that are born with cancer and stuff like that. it's not about the buildings. i don't want to stop nobody from working. everybody needs to work to support themselves and to be self-sufficient. that's fine and dandy but lives come first. we have to matter. we matter to us and we should matter.

if they can come up with a better way like the shipyard. the shipyard was cleaned but it turned out not to be clean. we knew that in the beginning. you can't leave all the chemicals in the ground and take off the top dirt and say it's clean. it doesn't work like that. i didn't know nothing about this i didn't care but now i know something i care about the lives being lost in bay view hunter's point. >> i don't appreciate what's going on either and i'm trying to stop this. thank you. >> my name is pokey and i'm a bay view resident. my parents and i grew up and

never knew nothing about my dad is or long shoreman but didn't know what was going on back then. from my fathers and me, we used to hop fences, go and we never paid attention or whatever. my thing is this is health. we need -- we have a sewage dump over there and we have what's going on what we're seeing out here. it's not about building. because like this man said there's plenty of jobs for everyone. if we can get along and try to get this going on with our health situation because it's hard to get medication as well. please work with us. >> i have a daughter and she's

12 years old and i'm afraid the leaders right now are not thinking about the future. they're just thinking about right now. so please think about mother earth, the environment, everything we do now deeply affects the health, mental, physical, spiritual of everyone, the animals, the sea levels. everything we do affects something or someone else. so your decision today will matter. please, think deeply about green lighting all of these corporate actions and it's not trickling down to the people who really need it. there's a homeless population, high cancer rate, diabetes, we need to open up health and wellness centers not expensive 14-level corporate offices. please, take in consideration the heartbeat of third street

and the families that need to survive and don't move them out. we do not need gentrification. we need unification. >> next speaker please. >> i'm with green action for health and environmental justice. i'm going talk about air and i'm here to talk about life and i'm here to talk about a mixed development project that sits in bay view hunters point when developed that sits in a community that is already burdened by pollution. it is a care community. you can look it up. in the 90% to 98%. when we talk about the impact of air and life, if you can't breathe you die. there is not one person that i have not spoken to in the community of bay view hunter's

point which includes in the basin that does not know someone who has asthma or has died from asthma and i have been to a funeral of a 10-year-old who died from asthma. it's not just a decision. we need to think about life and the environment. i have spoken on this project more than once and a have witnessed the decision that has been made between beautiful views and the life of a community that constantly gets impacted by these decisions. and yet, here we are. the same decision making and what have we improved in our decision? and when has the quality management control ever said no? i want to know that. i don't want to go to another funeral for a community member who does not deserve to die. thank you.

>> i'm here to speak for my friends that have already spoken and have been working with green action for a year and a half. about a year ago we had a resident by the name of lisa who used to come to all the events an was in the community and came out and sported and came out against the environmental use in bay hunters point and she stopped showing up and i asked my colleagues, what's going on with ms. lisa. the response i was given was a hand wave to the sky. look around you, what do you think happened to her. of course i know. we all the. the pollution, the issues.

so there's a u.c. santa cruz study that talked about the residents of bay view hunters point live less. how are you going support us? thank you. >> before we go into other dispute i want to caution you you're liable criminally by causing wrongful death and the dumping of hazardous materials. the explosion that took place that caused the radio active material ta took place in the shipyard in an area that's predominantly black. one of the ships in the sea had to be towed to the docks and you can see it's annihilated and the sailors themselves put keep

clear danger, very radio active materials. here's one of the buildings where radio activity and laboratories were taken place at the hunters point shipyard and here's a proposal in an area of blue and you propose equal opportunity and housing. here's further review of that area enlisted in red and each and every one of those areas is contaminated with radio active material. is that clear? i want to be sure you're clear on that because when you get reports you won't be able to say you don't know nothing about it. these are buildings that are in red that are full of radio active material and you want to jeopardize people -- and it's not only black people who you've already annihilated and fixed the income for the majority of white people will be living in the building and they'll start dying off like black people. you got that? i want you to be clear because i'm speaking up for all

nationalities and this report demonstrates all the tests that were done out there is contaminated. is that clear? here's another building, 253 that was also involved in that radio active material. so for you to get up here and say that area is safe to build is an insult to my intelligence and everybody here and demonstrates the people are not dealing in good faith and you never had intentions on reaching a legal agreement on this matter. >> thank you for your comment. >> my name is derek morris. i'm working at the city college. what i find is that every issue some many people don't like it and if you do what many people

don't want you to do nothing. now, i've had free education and somebody has to pay for it and it seems the city or the state or country is trying to get money to take care of business. i leave that up to you. do i what i got to do and try to do something else. take care of my business. gentrification in my view seems to be illegal. these individuals deappreciate the building over time and that's one time in the books and it's valued zero but with the depreciation they have trips and all that. now they come and spend money and the building wants to charge it off to the tenants. i think it's wrong. they've already gotten the money before and shouldn't charge anybody because they have to fix the building because in the

depreciation scheme they received all the money in advance. the building is zero and fixed up and perhaps the state should say, the depreciation money should go to a fund so when the funds are needed have you the money to you don't have to get people out of the living situations. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. >> supervisors, i've worked in green action for a long time. and i think part is we keep inflating the issues when we think we shouldn't. in some ways i'm surprised it's continued with the drama and the new proposed measures of mitigations it's not clear to me how many are being accepted or

actually happened and maybe just one or a couple out of the half dozen >> i don't have two minutes to list all the toxic sites in bay view. but as long as we consider this project by project, we're condemning the neighborhood to continued pollution and

continued degradation even as we grow. so supervisors at some point, when do we say we're going to work on this. when did we say we'll try to clean this up and help people's lives. is it today, is it next week or next month or after someone's term in office? when. for many years it has always been pushed off and at some point we have to be serious about what we're doing to the people at bayview-hunters point. >> my name is julius coleman. i'm a long-time bayview resident and have been in san francisco for 55 years and my mom died of cancer. i say no to the building and i say no to gentry -- gen --

gentrification. >> >> president cohen: i want to remind people not to clap in the chamber. if you want to support use hands like that. >> i'm jesus flores. i've been coming to the meetings over and over again even land and use committees. this project is not nor the community. this is for the pockets of those to make more money. the air quality measures introduced last week would just fix one mitigation measure the maq1a to reduce the on and off-road usage of vehicles to renewable energy. you have particle matter with cancer risk and you're introducing high buildings.

if you create higher buildings you'll create a significant and hazardous wind to the area. do you think the wind will just stop in the bayview. you don't think it will go to district 9 or other districts around you? it will go all over san francisco. it won't stop there. you guys are here to benefit the lives of the people of this community. you shouldn't get us more sick. you guys should take care of us. you have to remember we're the ones that put you on this board and we can easily take you off of it. you should be taking care of this community. we don't need higher cancer risk in the area. we don't need more respiratory illnesses. you are here to vote and vote no on this issue because we need to have better lives and better health. please protect the people of the community. the whole e.i.r. should be

redone and meet california state standards to be can at a good healthy level because this project is just going to endanger more lives than you're going benefit. thank you. >> i'm a resident of the shipyard and live there with my wife and two children. i'm sharing a picture from the navy and the pink buildings is where the navy has identified probable nuclear waste and this was not identified as having radiation and it was recently tested and radiation was found. the red area is the plot that's going to be developed which is directly next to an area the navy has identified as having

radiation which is a radio active dumping site. there's no border between these two properties. there's a chain link fence. it seems inconceivable given the information we've gotten since the draft e.i.r. nine -- to the fine e.i.r. that this could release radio active particles in the area. i'm not 100% behind how this revision to the e.i.r.'s happening. i don't think it follow city rules. the planning commission has the responsibility for reviewing all mitigations and referring that matter to you recommending it or not. in this situation, the planning commission has been bypassed with the mitigations an the planning department has come to you to augment the e.i.r. i don't think that follows procedural rules. it should be sent back. all the mitigations should be

reviewed by the planning commission. the planning commission should be able to independently recommend them or not and you can approve or reject that recommendation. it's inappropriate to bypass the hearing and notice that is part of the planning commission by bypassing them and having the planning department directly change the e.i.r. at this stage. thank you. >> i go to ibana for my health. it's the healthiest place in the world in terms of my cardio and respiratory health and i find it it will be ironic it will be

impacted by environmental consequences. secondly, as a long-time resident of san francisco and someone who comes from a background of privilege, this community is not a privileged community and about to be impacted by a project which is furthering many corporate interests and has a massive budget. it's appalling to have environmental impacts at the last minute and not go through proper process. i feel this say -- is a chance for the supervisors to make sure the community residents if they don't get help to improve the project at least make sure they don't suffer. thank you. >> i'm from golden gate university school of law. supervisors, this process stinks and you know it and planning knows it and everybody knows it.

we get mitigations. we get them all completely written on october 10. today is october 16th. six days. the planning department has had two weeks to study this. when has the planning department studied anything in two weeks. they've done a completely inadequate job and i think everybody knows it. now, i'm a ceqa lawyer. when you violate ceqa rules, there are consequences. i suggest to you i don't have the chutzpah to give you legal advice but i suggest to you you

should think about whether you want to violate the rules of ceqa and suffer the consequences or do the right thing and let them study the mitigations and, by the way, the planning department missed all the mitigations for a year? a year and a half? two years? how do we know there are not additional mitigations? they have looked at this less than a month. maybe two, three weeks. they haven't had time to analyze. you cannot rely on what they are saying because they haven't investigated. you cannot rely on what planning is saying because they have not investigated. do yourselves a favor and do it right. >> dear supervisors, my name is james faye. i've lived in the bayview two

years and in my alarm i said everyone is a liar. i have three points. one, one newspaper said the land in hunter's point was sold to the navy by the city of san francisco for one dollar and then sold to the insider and this mean the insider or menar is responsible for the cleanup of the land. and nancy pelosi claims the land is still owned by the navy and therefore the navy is responsible for the cleanup. three, over $1 billion of federal money was fraudulently wasted on the cleanup as records were faked and radio active land was hauled to various locations around the bay. two people are going to jail. i'd like to pose a direct question, who owns this land? if the u.s. government sold the land to the city of san

francisco and san francisco sold it to lenar on an insider deal why is government money being spent on cleanup? it would help to have transparency on the issue. please tell us who owns the land they're proposing to develop? it is the city of san francisco, the navy or who is responsible for the cleanup of the land. if you don't know who owns the land especially not an insider, why are you allowing the rezoning? if radio active material is found on land, who is responsible for the cleanup? please respond. thank you very much.

>> tom gilberti. we're having the kavanaugh revisited. something stinks and we just need to get it through. how many of you are taken dollars, campaign contributions in deciding this issue? that doesn't sound kosher. i second everybody that was ahead of me. dust travels where ever -- everywhere. radio active cleanup. if you want to buy a house, this used to be radio active. thank you. >> what is the rush here since we know as time goes forward in our culture and our society we get better and better technical

improvements. our engineering gets better and our response to illness and pathology gets better. we get better responses so what's the rush? >> are there aany other -- >> are there any other members that would like it speak? seeing none, public comment's closed. i'll turn to the planning department at this time. >> good afternoon president cohen, members of the board. i'm lisa gibson on behalf of the planning department. i'd like to start acknowledging the community they're concerned about the effect of the environment and the neighborhood has been impacted by air pollution and designated as a

care community and the district has worked with president cohen and the board to pass legislation that reduces some of the main sources of air pollution. it's been a vital technical partner including legislation reducing the number of cars to and from new development and requiring cleaner construction equipment. year exploring and researching other measures through a comprehensive risk reduction plan and we'll have community outreach as part of the effort starting in 2019. today, the question is whether we have done our job in the e.i.r. by disclosing impacts an mitigating them as best as we can. given the air burden in the past, we used more health protective significance criteria than guidance to assist impact. the e.i.r. identified insignificant and unavoidable impacts and six mitigation efforts.

our memo to the board explained should the board uphold the e.i.r. and concede consideration of whether to approve the project it could incorporaty -- incorporate a recommendation to use reusable diesel to measures maq1 and 1e. and the other four air district recommendations would be redone dan -- redundant for reasons in the therein. my staff and i are available to answer questions. >> president cohen: colleagues, do you have question for planning? all right. next we'll hear from a representative from the bay area air quality management district.

welcome. >> good afternoon, mad madame president. i'm a deputy air pollution control officer for the air management district. two weeks ago we expressed concern about the mixed-use project localized air quality impact. today i'm here to thank city staff for working with the air district to address our concerns. as stated in our october 10 letter, with minor adjustments we believe the e.i.r. reduce the localized impact as much as feasible. the air district supports mixed use to reduce vehicle trips and emissions. the air district is also concerned about localized air pollutant exposure and identified bayview-hunters point under our health protection program because this area experiences disproportionate negative health impacts, increased vulnerability and

exposure to air pollution. new sources of air pollution in a community like this is always a concern. the air district's role when reviewing land use development projects such as this is an advisory third-party expert and we applaud the work to protect venerable communities through the risk reduction plan under health code article 38, the construction dust control ordinance and others compared to other districts in the bay area and the country, san francisco say -- is a leader in health protection measures. there's a range of mitigation measures and within this context of the conservative analysis and aggressive city health control programs we believe the project is sufficiently health protective. the district enjoys working with city staff and we continue to meet with city staff to improve

our relationship and we'll soon collaborate with cities and others on an emission plan for bayview-hunters point. thank you. >> >> president cohen: thank you. at this time i'd like to invite up ms. mary murphy or the project sponsor. >> i'm not mary murphy though i'll try to be. madame president, i'm with build inc. a local developer. as you heard our last meeting, there were issues on the air quality mitigation ambassador. i want to assure that you we will do whatever we can to minimize the impact the project has on air quality in the basin and surrounding neighborhoods. there are local regulations such as the dust control program administered by the wbh and

d.b.w. requiring us to minimize dust and adhere to a minimization plan to reduce emissions during construction and once occupied the project must comply with the transportation management demand to reduce sole yo dorn solo car trips and builds infrastructure such as the dedicated class 1 bike lane through the project and signalized coordinated intersections to reduce traffic around the site. furthermore, building housing in close proximity reduces the main source of pollution in san francisco automobile traffic. and there's a comprehensive sustainability plan for on-site battery storage and neter