i'm bob executive director of japantown task force. and with me is our new president of the board of directors alice. joint powers authority task force will be insinuating a written process by the september 15th deadline it's not telling you anything you've not harder similar concerns we have a very, very significant senior resident amount of senior residents? neighborhood and similar concerns overshadowing the wind, noise and traffic particularly during construction. so details will be following in our letter. the task force had a presentation by the developer at the board meeting on august 20th we'll be submitting comments at the future meetings >> thank you, commissioners for giving us your attention today, i want to add i'm a resident in japantown. i live one block away actually half a block away from the site. and the noise issue is going to be difficult for many of the seniors i wanted to add that many of the seniors or just a minute and russian folks the noise level is going to stress them out and bring back experience of the wa

i believe that japantown needs important customers but not more through traffic. the 3 alleged drivers on post street are extremely dangers to the older pedestrians occupying the adjacent retirement facility. whom i often see walking on post street and often slower moving and hearing impaired the proposed reduced tower and height alternate will somewhat reduce the impact of the traffic by reducing the population of 1481 post reducing the number of allocated parking under the building and number of access driveways i remind the approval of the post should be avoided >> thank you. sir, your time is up. >> n time. >> okay. >> next speaker. >> michael kent of michael kent associates i'm a sequa consultant working with the presbyterian. the draft for the project uses the cities standard method doing for the environmental impact report it is in the case of the unique circumstances of the skilled nursing at the seway didn't account for the impacts of the proposed for the nursing facility including frail older residents an example of what i mean is this shadow impacts fed

with living with the lamented effects of the previously entire community that's the fillmore and japantown. the facial situation and the disjointing from the 1950s and 60 of those neighbors although documented are lamented i believe that the post tower with the height will effect all attempts and current attempts to revitalize and receptionist the streetscape of the larger neighborhood including its effect on the fillmore and the sustainability trying to address in the commission. i urge that those comments will being passed on and claufbd and in decision making form a corner stone that sequa did not help us in addressing the facts of this project. >> thank you commissioner antonini. >> following up on what commissioner moore says it has a destating neck the 50s and 60 when geary was kaefrd out and is with us today and we have to as a city address that regardless of the project and because what we're looking at here is the delta change that will happen if this building is built and the changed in whatever form it takes we have to evaluate in the environmental impact report but we have to k

. >> myself or our manager japantown's. >> and the outreach you did how what was that conducted i don't know if you have the union square go association but there's a letter from them we did outreach to the golden gate valley association we've done outreach to the police department, and talked to 0 couple codify neighbors you're going to have opposition to everything we are very responsible with our business we stopped doing major crawls for the neighborhood because the last of the neighborhood you've got to respect the neighborhood we've done quite a bit of outreach everyone know we're applying so thailz. >> commissioners other questions commissioner perez and you mentioned you're going to book the art district. >> yes. >> how how are you going to inform from one musician to allocate. >> as far as what levels. >> what type of speakers they use or, you know, were not going to make a crazy sound and as far as some sort of level with everyone not totally sure we have to get in there and see how it is and sound and see how it sound from the outside and be responsible that with and go from

they were doing a sting at the first street station in japantown. they hoped to spread a message from homeland security on the anniversary of 9/11. the see something, say something campaign is raising awareness to potential threats to transportation systems. >> it's not something they need to be concerned about every time they get on a bus or train, but something that just as a general practice, is part of everyday life, it's good to be alert and to be aware of a suspicious package. just like at an airport. just report anything that you see that's going on. >> it's easier to report suspicious activity thanks to a mobile app called vta alert. it came out in april last year. 600 reports of suspicious activity, unattended bags and other possible crimes were made to law enforcement. while a terrorist threat makes the headlines, daily crime is more of a concern of the riders we spoke to today. >> this is more of a viable threat than a package. suspicious bag. theft and violence on the light rail. >> reporter: the vta alerts app is available for iphones a