, for environmental analysis and preliminary engineering for the van ness avenue bus rapid transit (brtubject to the attached cash flow distribution schedule, and amend the brt/transit preferential streets/muni metro network 5-year prioritization program, with a commitment to appropriate $574,000 in fiscal year 2010/11 prop k funds to complete this phase of work. supervisor campos: public comments on this particular item? supervisor mirkarimi: -- public comments on this particular item? >> k is extraordinary ♪ supervisor mirkarimi: seeing a more public comments, public comment is closed. without objection, motion proceeds. next item. >> item number 11. appropriate $1,647,515 in prop k funds, with conditions, for environmental analysis for the geary bus rapid transit (brt) project, subject to the attached cash flow distribution schedule, and amend the brt/transit preferential streets/muni metro network 5-year prioritization program. supervisor mirkarimi: discussion? public comment? take your time. >> like i told you before, the bus rapid transit project on van ness and the one on geary h

geary, we hope, is going to get brt, so there would be more transit capacity. -- vrt, so there would be more transit capacity. >> we have looked at some of the services available to support that. i should note, not all of our planned housing and jobs will happen in this area. 90% of the growth is anticipated here, so 10% approximately is going to happen elsewhere. there are discussions now in the masonic site. there are examples like that, where development and growth are still expected to happen, in places that can support it. commissioner wiener: are there any significant opportunities on the west side other than parker sai merced? >> occasionally, you will see proposals come up in the major corridors. for the most part, there have been a consensus to look at which neighborhoods they are going to strengthen. current make, we are working on making mission day as little as possible. commissioner wiener: thank you. commissioner campos: thank you very much. any other questions? why don't we open this up to the public. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this i

geary, we hope, is going to get brt, so there would be more transit capacity. -- vrt, so there would be more transit capacity. >> we have looked at some of the services available to support that. i should note, not all of our planned housing and jobs will happen in this area. 90% of the growth is anticipated here, so 10% approximately is going to happen elsewhere. there are discussions now in the masonic site. there are examples like that, there are examples like that, where development and growth are

brt is not far behind. i know that japan town is greatly waiting for this. we have a report on the low -- mobility appraising study, trailed blazing in the look at ingestion prices in california and the nation. we will have an opportunity to discuss this later in the meeting. not since the passage of proposition k has the transportation authority tried to advance another revenue generation measure that we just did in the recent ballot of proposition 8a. we received well over 55% of the vote to generate an extra $5 million per year to help us with our transit needs. last but not least we are wrapping up the year with another clean fiscal audit. this has been another productive year. i would like to thank the committee chair for his excellent work and commissioner mar for his hard work that has made this possible. i would like to thank all of you in your help in working through difficult issues. i would like to thank the

he gets his brt. doctorate. the problem is what's interesting is at age 21, he gets his doctorate, but the question in theology, the larger question he was trying to answer as a thee theologian was what is the church? that was his question. in the course of answering the question in a very impressive way, he finds that he actually enjoys working in the church, not just working in the academic sphere, he loved that, but he also enjoyed working in the church teaching sunday school, enjoyed preaching, not just teaching, but preaching. he decides not only to have an academic career, but also to get ordained as a lutheran minister. this is difficult because you can't be ordained in germany until the age of 25. when you are really precocious, you're stuck and you have to wait. he goes to barcelona being in a german speaking congregation. the bonhoeffers love to travel. they couldn't help themselves. they were culturally very, very curious. they knew every painting and opera. they were extremely impressive. i didn't sa