there are no goals relating to abag numbers, any of the above. just wondering, again, the methodology. what commissioner kim raised. that is where i have concerns, when we say we are meeting these equity goals, i am not clear what that really means. i know there have been some projects in certain districts that have captured more on the affordability level. i am not sure how some of these projects relate to the workforce, workforce needs. that sort of thing. i know we have 315 locally. the issue of equity, as it relates to sustainable communities strategies is, i think, made at this point. i would like to see more specificity, as i mentioned, around that. even just including that word, what does equity mean? i just have some questions. thank you. >> ok. >> i am sensitive to the time. i will go through this quickly. we will be back before you next month and the following month because we are getting into the exciting part where the water is actually boiling on the rtp process. i also want to credit liz and william for spending too many nights work

the short of this is, we are asking mtc representatives and abag to please ask mtc to restore safe routes to $17 million. we are fine with lending everything else, but safe routes is different and young and special enough that we need to give them special protection to make sure it all go to safe routes. commissioner avalos: thank you. next speaker please. >> when the young lady spoke about equity, we had everybody jumping and asking questions because this city does not like to hear the truth. now, if in the southeast sector, which is the last frontier, we know there is a high incidence of cancer, asthma, and other chronic diseases. it is a requirement -- i will push for this at the mtc. i will push for this at a congressional hearing. you folks, if you dare to build so-called affordable housing on contaminated soil, and in an area where the bay area air quality management district daily shows a report in excess of asbestos structures, this has to be reflected in our decision making. now, there are some agencies, because they are governed by state laws, which you have not read, and which

phase in the process is that we can identify that issue, and as the planning effort moves forward, abag will come back with some strategies on how to mitigate that. the second component of the analysis was a project-level of an individual projects. today advance three equity measures that mtc has defined? and do they support a community of concern? with respect to that analysis, san francisco is looking very good. 80% of our projects are identified as ones that have strong equity outcomes and support community concerns. that is good news as well. commissioner olague: can i have more detail with that? >> at the project level or scenario level? commissioner olague: to see that it was actually meeting the equity outcome. >> we can also forward to your office more information. they looked at three specific targets for equity. one was related to whether a particular project would help support housing and additional, affordable housing. the second was whether the project would reduce vehicle travel in the areas that have a high concentration of particulate matter. the third was whether it wou

abag did change their allocation formula to more heavily with the production and planning for low- income housing, which benefited us directly, but is also an important recognition. commissioner avalos: i did not realize there were anti the placement -- there was anti despite the language removed. >> good point. it was originally included as a policy suggestion. we suggested that this be a mandatory policy. mtc has taken it out of the revision in january. i know that this was discussed at a joint committee. mtc commissioners and others asked that this be added back, so there is an opportunity to do that over the next couple of months. commissioner kim: what does it mean, the removal of the affordable housing production policies? >> the original framework. it was about four policies. in order to be eligible to receive funds through the block grant, a jurisdiction would have to be two of the four policies. mtc and abag was getting a lot of push back from others who felt like they had a week influence of the land use side. unfortunately, that is what we try to incentivize. they eliminated th