board member elberling. >> thank you. first i do agree that an extension of the comment period would make sense. this clearly is a very complex, technical document and if the organizations that are most able to provide expert comment on it feel they need an additional two weeks to do that, i really think we would all benefit from that input. on the document, reading reminds me of when back in the late 1980's an organization i was a member of that sued the city on the downtown plan settled with them and one of the settlement provisions was that e.i.r.'s should be easy to understand for lay people. as i was reading this document, i got the distinct impression that that vision has been lost. it's very much a document written by consultants and experts and engineers for other consultants and experts and engineers. our hope had been the summary would really embody the essence of the story about the project. and i don't find that adds to the story here. this project, of course, is creating a whole new neighborhood, actually the

elberling with his observation with respect to the navy's evaluation. and since my area of expertise happens to be in that direction, some of my comments will be focused on that as well as perhaps transportation and other land use. thank you. >> very good. thank you. the other comments i was going to make although i will probably submit it in writing as well, one of the reasons that i felt and agreed with a number of the speakers, including commissioners and board members regarding a two-week extension, is the fact that although this has different situations than what we just went into with hunters point, it has very serious implications to the city and certainly an additional two weeks or 60 days is not out of line. here rather than being a superfund site, which was one of the major situations at hunters point, we had a totally different area not connected to the land other than by very tenuous transportation roads. what i'm concerned about is the density of the project as it's proposed. density transportation services are intimately linked. i'm not po

i do want to echo commissioner elberling's comments about the east bay link to the east bay and those jobs. i think that had not been adequately addressed in this document. and then the comment that we heard today which are new to me about the athletic fields and the tideland trust interpretation, i do want that to be looked at my staff. hopefully when we revisit this in september we can look at that further. thank you. >> thank you. just a correction if i may. i was looking incorrectly at my calendar. two weeks extension would bring it to september 9. that is a jewish holiday. i don't think we should include that. so arbitrarily i'm going to make it september 10. so everyone understands you have until september 10 to submit your written comments. the close of business on september 10 to be official about it. thank you. anything else from the commissioners or board? anything further? all right. with that this public hearing to take comments on treasure island is closed. i thank everyone and ask them to please submit as in the normal manner their comments. thank you. >> get this ceremo