thank you in advance for addressing these matters any final eir. -- in the final eir. >> hello. my name is brian gilbert. i will be honest with you. i have a serious personal interest in this thing. i am partially disabled by joint pain. one of the only things that is efficacious is it immersion in cold salt water. if you have never had this kind of pain, then congratulations. [laughter] it is a wonderful therapy. there are a lot of people in the dolphin club and who are themselves in the same therapy. it is mental therapy as well as physical therapy. the project that is proposed with impact -- would impact this really severly. you can not seriously put these things inthe cove and not seriously impact the swimmer's. it is a great comfort to me. i go down and i am hours myself in the water, and for some reason, in better. there are 1000 members of the dolphin club who will come to my assistance and help me out. this will not have been with the jumbotron kind of thing that is going into the cove. as george pointed out it will have to be supported by cables from the shore, for to b

that hearing will follow the final eir. we are here today to receive comments from the public and commissioners regarding the draft eir. also pertains ceqa. comments will be transcribed, and they will be responded to in writing in the comments document which response to all comments received and makes revisions to and makeseir -- and makes revisions to the eir. there is a court reporter here today, and we ask that all, enter speak slowly and clearly. after comments from the public, we will take comments on the draft eir from the commissioner's. the hearing began on july 11, 2011 and continues until august 25. this concludes my presentation. are respectfully ask the public hearing on the draft eir be open. president olague: thank you. we have several speaker cards. jan bloom, dennis mackenzie, terry shore, kate coleman. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my address is on lenworth street. thank you are holding this hearing. i am prepared for a one-minute time limit, so i will speak to that. de d-eir bills to mitigate or recogn

i was astounded to read the draft eir. many of my concerns have been voiced, and i do not need to voice them again. it does seem that aquatic park is being turned into a carnival for several summers, and i cannot understand why. i was an historian for many years at san francisco state, and i would like to know the history of this. i wonder what promises must happen made to the america's cup people to get them to come here and expect that that could happen in san francisco, that this great recreational area could suddenly be turned over to them. i saw in their everyday in the morning. we are very concerned. thank you. president olague: thank you. [reading names] >> hello. i am polly rose. i live at 1423 clement st.. most of my concerns have already been voiced. i am a resident of san francisco. a recreational swimmer and a san franciscan. i value the presence of the america's cup here. however, there are aspects that are concerning. one is aquatic park. it is a venue for kayaking, family outings, picnics, other things. is t

that hearing will follow the final eir. we are here today to receive comments from the public and commissioners regarding the draft eir.

today, there were six from the environmental council that is working with the city on eir. a number of issues were raised. one of the port is supportive of, reflects the impact to the aquatic club and the ability to mitigate impacts so there are not interruptions to the ability to swim there. we were pleased to hear those comments and look forward to working through them. there were other comments as well, many of which were reported in the press. we appreciate everyone's willingness to work with us further, commitment to these projects, which are pretty big milestones for the port. a number of those concerns had to do with the impact of the shoreside power system at pier 27 come offline, as well as the difficulty to analyze the long term development rights as currently drafted, since we are still working on those. the high school academy proposal, which you all have written about, has been presented. there were comments about problems for ferry building and other businesses, if the embarcadero were closed to vehicular traffic. it was a very informative discussion. i believ