and those opposed to the eir or the plan okay. thank you very much. >> and we'll go ahead and read more names. >> it's okay. thank you very much yeah they'll get to chance to come up (calling names). >> go ahead, sir. >> thank you, commissioners my name is aaron frank from the founder of california wildlife center and teach environmental law at the time san francisco state university and here to speak on my own behalf and oppose the sharp park portion of the environmental impact report. >> you've seen this map already that's the 2006 restoration plan that was put forth as you can see and other speakers have said all of the restoration program took place outside of golf course portion of the park and during the scoping plan the city said clearly in their report the cause of eliminating sharp park is a separate proposal being studied not included or elevated as part of s n r portion of the eir should changes to the sharp golf park they'll under go a separate report including the environmental impact report should any changes to the

in all park areas so they claim they're less moving 16 hundred trees when i read this section of the eir it says the first to existing trees like mountain davidson and adding the long term goal of forest management in m a-1 and two areas that compromise most of naps argues to convert those areas to a grassland notice this sounds like deformatiestation i don't how anyone p can advocate taking down trees but the herbicides use there's a preschool not a preschool but a grandmother school where in any grandchildren go they're in the neighborhood and take field trips i mean i've seen posting of herbicides how can you have children touch or feel everything in the parks they open and do that without problems once the trees are gone their gone and what i heard he read once that 2re falls that carbon going and mental illness into the air not only the tree not there but ads 3 to i recommend anyone that hadn't gone interest you should all the trees dead people. >> you're out of time. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hi commissioners, thank you for allowing me to speak the audubon society a

and, yes we're going to have to do stuff to keep it as natural as potential i strongly support the eir and plan that will for what i've seen will do stuff to keep those areas as natural as they possibly can be thanks very much. >> next speaker, please. >> hello i'm sorry robert and i'm here a concerned citizen and representing myself and several neighbors in the davidson area i'm a parks lover where soccer fields for the kids tree covered housekeeping trails are part of city i think the rec and park for the good work what's lost in the noisy debate over when species deserves priority in san francisco are some very significant well, concerns that need to be addressed and have not namely the damage to the human heartache concerns of the impact think the water supply and changes to the landscape for erosion and run off purposes i've not heard anyone talk about i'm shocked you know what the use of herbicides where do they ends up they don't breakdown they accumulate in the environment starting in 2017 the san francisco water supply we'll be mixing in ground water into the taps to underscor

to comments of the eir states that all removed trees will think replaced the eir says arriving on to one to one not necessarily at the same location or within the areas the actual plan the s n or plan didn't talk about the replacement under story scrub in any case which a a tree it removed from a last week it impacts that area in the mclaren park the trees lie between the freeways and help to improve the air quality if over 8 hundred trees are removed replaced in golden gate park the impact will be significant mitigation measure is a requirement to keep a log of all trees removed tare locations and species height, diagram and date of remove and a log with the same information for all replacement trees he wish to endorse the alternative for the natural areas 20-year management plan as promote by the san francisco forest alliance this will limit the number of trees to be sold to the plus non-nature trees principally eucalyptus, montgomery pine and cypress that will discourage - will limit the trail closer to 9 miles and reduce or eliminate permanent fencing and will discourage the rec

thgoon th will become to salty the salt intrusion b will occur as sea level rise if you approve that eir you'll permanently place the lagoon in mortal danger by creating had been tablet two close to the ocean endangered the species a you're trying to protect areas their moss more at risk the long term effects on the lagoon and resident will be disastrous the communities of the golf course are too important to be hidden within an eir please extract the renovation plan from the final eir thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon early evening i woken one block if mountain davidson park in a home i walk in the forest areas almost daily the thing that is so wonderful about the forest none has mentioned it is so dense you can't see another building or hear traffic can't hear or see cars only the greenery and forest the javpz called that been proven to say a calming up literally effect on people that's what it side to you i'm against the cutting of 16 hundred trees in mountain davidson and don't support of eir everyone has talked about the 82 plus trees fell and the horrible releas

to comments of the eir states that all removed trees will think replaced the eir says arriving on tone to one not necessarily at the same location or within the areas the actual plan the s n or plan didn't talk about the replacement under story scrub in any case which a a tree it removed from a last week it impacts that area in the mclaren park the trees lie between the freeways and help to improve the air quality if over 8 hundred trees are removed replaced in golden gate park the impact will be significant mitigation measure is a requirement to keep a log of all trees removed tare locations and species height, diagram and date of remove and a log with the same information for all replacement trees he wish to endorse the alternative for the natural areas 20-year management plan as promote by the san francisco forest alliance this will limit the number of trees to be sold to the plus non-nature trees principally eucalyptus, montgomery pine and cypress that will discourage - will limit the trail closer to 9 miles and reduce or eliminate permanent fencing and will discourage the rec an

use changing with tons of co2 the grassland will have more carbon in the forest this is false in the eir this 73 metric tons in terms of emergency vehicle that he run considerate in the green house ordinance in the ordinance under ceqa any green house gas emissions is significant if it conflict with any aubrey abrakasa applicable regulation of an agency for the purpose of reducing green house gas emissions i'll continue we didn't get started right now i'd like to highlight the failure to address the significance on the limits of access to untrail use only they cover less than 5 percent of parkland that is off limits to the public that is from the free assess we enjoy today, the eir fails to identify it program. >> when you have 18 thousand trees cut down and the stumbles treated with herbicides there is no way there will not be a magnificent increase in herbicides with the natural area program is ready to use them, and, secondly, the eir talks about about the replacement of trees at present no proper record of trees cut down with size and species and location no way that the replacement

and later in the year probably the summer on the central soma 9 draft eir was released at the end of last year and 4 large eirs those will be coming our way and finally you will have at least two hearings perhaps more on proposed changes to inclusionary housing requirements probably at supervisor kim and supervisor peskin contributed to the legislative at the end of last year we were looking at that and proposing a at least one informational hearing in february perhaps another one of the 90 day clock it ticking we have to take action by the end of march so several large projects coming our way in the first quarter we'll keep you up to date thank you. >> commissioners item 6 review of past events point board of appeals and the historic preservation commission i have no reports from any of those. >> which places us in general public comment general comment not to exceed 15 minutes. at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda

open up for commissioner comments on the eir. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much this eirspecial so for use it is one of the last neighborhood plans that we'll be seeing more quite a bit if ever and congratulate the staff on a job well done a lot of comments i heard that are reflective of good questions i'll be looking forward to the responses i personally have a number of comments related to transit capacity and population and some of the findings that are in the draft eir but to save time i'll provide those in writing and if there are changes that are needed for about the final eir we'll have that discussion to see where we are so thank you, again to the staff and everyone that came out really great public comments have a lot to think about toy. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> two weeks ago i said i read do controllers recorded these on the fiber economic for the economic report the two things that struck me the limits the city is sitting on housing and transit and limiting the companies coming in here because poem can't afford to live here and hard to get ar

in order for any comments on the draft eir to be respauntded to comments on the draft eir must be submitted orally to the planning commission or in wrileting to the planning department environmental review officer by 5 p.m. friday february 13th. so, in other words, if anyone wishes to comment on the eir at todays hearing they will not be responded to in the eir process other than the comments we received from you. after the planning commission hearing the planning department will publish a document containing responses to rel vents coms on the eir. that conclude my presentation and hear if you have questions. >> thank you, commissioners any questions? seeing no questions we will go to pub luck comment. any member wish to comment on the item? seeing and hearing none we will close public comment and bring back to commission. commission, do we have comments to make to the planning commission about the adequacy of the draft eir for the stral soma plan? >> adequate, inadequate. >> i do have a question. sorry i didn't get your name. >> jessica range. >> thank you. you talked about sig consistent

in order for any comments on the draft eir to be respauntded to comments on the draft eir must be submitted orally to the planning commission or in wrileting to the planning department environmental review officer by 5 p.m. friday february 13th. so, in other words, if anyone wishes to comment on the eir at todays hearing they will not be responded to in the eir process other than the comments we received from you. after the planning commission hearing the planning department will publish a document containing responses to rel vents coms on the eir. that conclude my presentation and hear if you have questions. >> thank you, commissioners any questions? seeing no questions we will go to pub luck comment. any member wish to comment on the item? seeing and hearing none we will close public comment and bring back to commission. commission, do we have comments to make to the planning commission about the adequacy of the draft eir for the stral soma plan? >> adequate, inadequate. >> i do have a question. sorry i didn't get your name. >> jessica range. >> thank you. you talked about sig consistent

to certify the geary brt eir today. it's essential that eir be approved to continue with transit improvements which has already been on hold. however, we could not support the designation as a hybrid as the local hybrid alternative. we urge you to approve sections 1-4 of your clause but delete sections 5 and 6. the geary corridor includes a bus rapid transit and we should improve our recommended alternative. if we could not afford the subway at this time. we must develop a brt for a subway on the surface. that's what high quality brt is supposed to be. the staff recommendation does not provide this vision. you heard about the reluctance of giving the true rapid service in favor of the design. we do not believe it is necessary and we have discussed with staff, other transportation professionals and other designs which does not result in significant parking removals but does allow a center lane brt project while still retaining a true service. we would like for this to be further developed. again, we urge the eir be certi

the eir total 1065 pages. to review the responses and comments with all their disclosures you would have to read 870 pages. nobody believes you did that in 2 days which was full of meetings and nobody believes you did it during the holidays. and with the other 833 pages with the resolutions and documents presented. we don't believe you read any of those. ask yourself what a judge would believe. he or she would see an effort of the political will of the voters, second an impossible size to the judgment. she would see the fix. suspend this meeting and allow the voters to be heard in subsequent hearings. thank you. >> thank you. i can't make representations on behalf of my colleague, but i was only out of town for 4 days over the holidays and unfortunately went through that entire document. mr. hiller? public speaker: commissioners, i don't know what is the rush. now we have this coming in 3 days. we all want better transportation. we as first of all, i am the person of the geary merchants association. we represe

open up for commissioner comments on the eir. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much this eirecial so for use it is one of the last neighborhood plans that we'll be seeing more quite a bit if ever and congratulate the staff on a job well done a lot of comments i heard that are reflective of good questions i'll be looking forward to the responses i personally have a number of comments related to transit capacity and population and some of the findings that are in the draft eir but to save time i'll provide those in writing and if there are changes that are needed for about the final eir we'll have that discussion to see where we are so thank you, again to the staff and everyone that came out really great public comments have a lot to think about toy. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> two weeks ago i said i read do controllers recorded these on the fiber economic for the economic report the two things that struck me the limits the city is sitting on housing and transit and limiting the companies coming in here because poem can't afford to live here and hard to get arou

comments may not be responded to in the final eir. the planning commission will be held on december 15th. 2016. the comments will be heard on january 14th. >> would you mind handing this to the commissioners? >> good afternoon, president wolfram and members of the commission. my name is chelsey, planning department staff eir coordinator. joining me are my colleagues historic preservation specialist and tina tam preservation planner. the members of the eir and members of the sponsor team are also present. the item before you are to view and comment on the draft impact report or draft eir for the environmental quality act and ceqa. specifically chapter 31 of san francisco administrative code was amended in 2013 and require the planning department schedule a notice of public meetings and obtain comments on the historic preservation commission may have on the draft eir for a project containing a resource that the environmental review officer deems based on evidence. the issue of the eir draft will continue until january 14th. a selection

the eir total 1065 pages. to review the responses and comments with all their disclosures you would have to read 870 pages. nobody believes you did that in 2 days which was full of meetings and nobody believes you did it during the holidays. and with the other 833 pages with the resolutions and documents presented. we don't believe you read any of those. ask yourself what a judge would believe. he or she would see an effort of the political will of the voters, second an impossible size to the judgment. she would see the fix. suspend this meeting and allow the voters to be heard in subsequent hearings. thank you. >> thank you. i can't make representations on behalf of my colleague, but i was only out of town for 4 days over the holidays and unfortunately went through that entire document. mr. hiller? public speaker: commissioners, i don't know what is the rush. now we have this coming in 3 days. we all want better transportation. we as first of all, i am the person of the geary merchants association. we represe

to certify the geary brt eir today. it's essential that eir be approved to continue with transit improvements which has already been on hold. however, we could not support the designation as a hybrid as the local hybrid alternative. we urge you to approve sections 1-4 of your clause but delete sections 5 and 6. the geary corridor includes a bus rapid transit and we should improve our recommended alternative. if we could not afford the subway at this time. we must develop a brt for a subway on the surface. that's what high quality brt is supposed to be. the staff recommendation does not provide this vision. you heard about the reluctance of giving the true rapid service in favor of the design. we do not believe it is necessary and we have discussed with staff, other transportation professionals and other designs which does not result in significant parking removals but does allow a center lane brt project while still retaining a true service. we would like for this to be further developed. again, we urge the eir be certi

in order for any comments on the draft eir to be respauntded to comments on the draft eir must be submitted orally to the planning commission or in wrileting to the planning department environmental review officer by 5 p.m. friday february 13th. so, in other words, if anyone wishes to comment on the eir at todays hearing they will not be responded to in the eir process other than the comments we received from you. after the planning commission hearing the planning department will publish a document containing responses to rel vents coms on the eir. that conclude my presentation and hear if you have questions. >> thank you, commissioners any questions? seeing no questions we will go to pub luck comment. any member wish to comment on the item? seeing and hearing none we will close public comment and bring back to commission. commission, do we have comments to make to the planning commission about the adequacy of the draft eir for the stral soma plan? >> adequate, inadequate. >> i do have a question. sorry i didn't get your name. >> jessica range. >> thank you. you talked about sig consistent

that needs to be adopted, then the uc regular detergents voted to improve the eir those two documents you have for your review talked about the lincoln to the eir and also 3 transitional permits to answer this site you have investigation also to actually construct the building a license to construct and a utility easement you'll need to approve those are the list of 11 and the actions according to all the - so we were here this is our third time back we were here last year, we talked about a term sheet that went to the board and got approved we also contact in august and ghosts an update an october as bearing said reached a verbal agreement on the documents not dot all the i's and cross the t's the regents approved the eir along with the ground lease l d da in november those are some of the terms and conditions and those were based on a property both appraisals identified on granted street on the same side of entitlements about one and 75 square feet building there was evaluates to the rents to the accountability for the changed space and some other site conditions and just the graphi

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eis had to be finished before the eir could be considered. now what we see is that still remains open. you, as the commissioners, really need to inquire what is it about the federal problem that slows us down? we have had the er held up, the eir held up, because of the eis. and unless you inquire about that, you won't know. and if you are simply going to have a meeting on january 5th, and you won't know then, you will not have been able to prove your independent judgment. and independent judgment is critical in this, it is a requirement of sequa, it is not something that we invented that letter that i sent to every member, sets out what the standard is, it is easy to dismiss if you want and say that this has gone on for a long time, but that is not enough, there are flaws to this, which you ought to inquire about, and that is why i made the offer i did. to have a conversation right here about it. i think that you should be concerned about that. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker? >> if people could come line up to the right of the podium,

there were three or four eirs and we want to do justice from both ended and in the end we supporteds project that was properly documented and properly understand the reason the applicant fully responded to the drs i'm saying and asking you feel this particular opportunities is not given to me in the way the project is submitted from the other one i'm asking is there a reason why. >> i thought that the issue had been the subdivisions subdivisions you're asking why not a larger context shown sorry. >> that's; correct i'm for example, concerned in 2, 3, 4 participate project the most westerly parcel are taking on a lot configuration if all the lots are regular listed i'll you don't feel kick out to a broader shape i believe further interferes with the concerns with the easy package for people who may want walk along the west side and connect to the park and other spaces beyond i feel the context is for the as clear or the challenge to be asked i'm not saying i'm trying to understand and be sensitive to what this project is trying to do and where i feel didn't give me quite enough to fu

itself and also the response to comments of the eir on the preservation of the cultural aspects evenugh this building didn't maintain the spirit as far as the historic rental with the changes in the building over time i hope the interpretative program not debate in the eir will suv provide some of the feeling in association of this cultural district area i hope i'd like to see your report back when the interpretative report is done and some of the elements that make that program for a mitigation of that sortie think this will be a really great example for the future because they were a lot of acres issues for this project so i'll move to certify the finally eir. >> second. >> commissioner koppel. >> oh, yeah, thanks to the staff and the public for the work on the environmental impact report this project has been going on for a quiet some time and the more compliments to and scott in san francisco we like to keep things local in this town they did a fine job of supporting the local nonprofit we're using space to employ local family owned restaurants businesses and incorporating the lo

eis had to be finished before the eir could be considered. now what we see is that still remains open. you, as the commissioners, really need to inquire what is it about the federal problem that slows us down? we have had the er held up, the eir held up, because of the eis. and unless you inquire about that, you won't know. and if you are simply going to have a meeting on january 5th, and you won't know then, you will not have been able to prove your independent judgment. and independent judgment is critical in this, it is a requirement of sequa, it is not something that we invented that letter that i sent to every member, sets out what the standard is, it is easy to dismiss if you want and say that this has gone on for a long time, but that is not enough, there are flaws to this, which you ought to inquire about, and that is why i made the offer i did. to have a conversation right here about it. i think that you should be concerned about that. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker? >> if people could come line up to the right of the podium,

package and finally the hpc provided had an opportunity to provide review and comment on the draft eir for the central soma area plan no comments at this time and commended the staff on a thorough and good job on the analysis and the mitigation measures with that draft report and will be in front of you as well that concludes any comments and presentation unless you have a couple of questions commissioner vice president richards. >> any portion on the inside as part of landmark designation. >> it includes the interior and the exterior not included the exterior of the commercial space. >> kibitzing. >> not relevant but it is the theatre department of the emergency management as well. >> no at the time of the designation we're not able to landmark the interiors of the polsinelli husch blackwell or privately owned space. >> maybe can i have you send us electronically the former on nomination for that. >> i'll be happy to. >> can you show a picture on the screen for us to look at some of the work being discussed for example, i don't have a visual image but secondly, this commission will he

doesn't define what bio diversity is nor the draft eir or management plan. by inserting the word native into the employed definition of bio diversity the meaning the term is high jacked. all trees and plants whether native or not native are part of our local bio diversity like people from everywhere are part of our sit a's diversity. adding the word native to bio diversity demonizing native species. the urban forest are part of the totality of variation in san francisco and have been all most 150 years rchlt we believe all trees and plants whether native or not native are part thof local bio diversity and valued. we traced the definition in the sustainability plan which was fed into the sin ramp and eir and came from eo wilson they say but says biediversity is the totality of all variation in life forms of earth. we believe that native and non native coexist together like pieces of the jigsaw puzzle and part of what are now called by scientist novel forest eco systems and these eco sestm provide essential services for all plants and essential to our bio dive

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eis had to be finished before the eir could be considered. now what we see is that still remains open. you, as the commissioners, really need to inquire what is it about the federal problem that slows us down? we have had the er held up, the eir held up, because of the eis. and unless you inquire about that, you won't know. and if you are simply going to have a meeting on january 5th, and you won't know then, you will not have been able to prove your independent judgment. and independent judgment is critical in this, it is a requirement of sequa, it is not something that we invented that letter that i sent to every member, sets out what the standard is, it is easy to dismiss if you want and say that this has gone on for a long time, but that is not enough, there are flaws to this, which you ought to inquire about, and that is why i made the offer i did. to have a conversation right here about it. i think that you should be concerned about that. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker? >> if people could come line up to the right of the podium,

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have enormous amounts of parking are portionly high dense cords speaking have been reading the eirsf you give a lot of parking at the initial time when you consider the project that will drive forever and we have to face a couple realities one we are developing a lot of housing in the corridor market and van ness and mission van ness as has a lot of park and two things have happened one is that we have a commute that is enormous and as the planning department goes through rezoning central soma as they go to 15 hundred mission and 1 hundred market that is the same thing as 1 oak street they're making decisions they can't undo by policies like this if at the give the market-rate that will be a lot of people from san mateo county their commuters in reality you'll not be able to out change the project by doing a project process tdm we've had area plans adopted specifically from central soma and the eastern neighborhoods called for a new muni line they were never implemented so we do grant printing calling for additional muni from potraro and to south of market and don't do these and put

we absolutely involved the city early in our eir process. both the city attorney's office and the planning department they were early reviewers of the administrative drafts of the department document. as well as the mta and so they are very much involved and our significant standards are the same as the cities as indicated in the eir and the approach to the analysis are the same as to what the city of san francisco were done. >> thank you, i appreciate it. colleagues if there is any other questions, i would like to go o to. we have a report that we will hear on this particular matter and then i have got 50 minutes worth of public comment there are 25 cards and that is just what i have in hand and so perhaps if there is no diversity in the perspective, and maybe there is other things that you would what they are be doing, you can feel free to stand up when you here someone that is articulating your position and we can shoot right on through these. but i would never dream of robbing u of u opportunity for public comment. i am just letting you