also analyzes the mast are plan, plan use recreation, esthetic, shadow and transportation effects as well as provide alternative but reduce the project's impacts on historic resources to less-than-significant levels. commissioner published the draft e.i.r. august 25th and it has the 48-day public review period which closes october 12th. for those interested in commenting on the draft e.i.r. in writing, they may submit their comments to the environmental review officer at 1650 mission street, suite 400, san francisco, by 5:00 p.m. on october 12th. for members of the public who are at this hearing this evening, please state your name for the record and address comments to the adequate and completeness of the e.i.r. all comments will be transcribed and responded to in a response to comments document. when the comments and responses document is complete, the planning department will provide copies to those who have made comments on the draft. we will then return to this commission likely in the spring of 2011 to request this commission certify the e.i.r. commissioners, this concludes my

doesn't really analyze the esthetics of what is being done to the playground itself and what is being done to the playground itself and the -- wherever the park is on the surrounding context. on the historic resources around it. the analysis of the new estheftics of the new library on the historic resources around it. there's absolutely nothing about that. i mean we're talking about an existing older neighborhood and we're putting in this huge project has landscaping and a new building and extent of the historic resource analysis is just the -- about the building they want to tear down. there's nothing about the buildings around it and how this -- this new landscaping and building is going to affect the resources around it. there's detailed stuff about the measures need to be reviewed by commission and planning before the issuance of the permit. files the new library will be certified, the most sustainable is always use existing structure than build new ones. so that wasn't really brought out that the greenest thing to do is reuse and retrofit our existing building. and the draft e.i.

. >> i find it interesting that -- what happened to the anti- esthetic movement? maybe it is too complicated for people. but is hurting a taboo category. that is senior citizens. the fed's strategy right now has senior citizens on fixed income and they're making nothing on its bread -- on it. nobody is ringing the alarm bell. >> i thought you were going one way and you went another way. the anti-fed thing has quieted down a little bit. when you look back on employment, -- when you look at unemployment, you can see how people come to that conclusion. i cannot answer the question why there is not much of -- mach more of a rebellion. the bar words have been -- the borrowers have been enjoying refinancing. it is a good point. it really shows up. i do not have a good dancer. -- i do not have a good answer. >> i will risk a little generational war. as a group, i am not surprised that they're not angry. they did not have much to be angry about. they got to really benefit from this huge run-up in the american real-estate and stock market. it is something that the younger

animals that we study into a brand-new context, a context that really allows people to appreciate an esthetic way of the idea that we might live in the world without these sounds or sites. >> in the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. we get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. >> when i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. so, just getting people to wake up to what was just literally there 200 years ago, 150 years ago. you see the object and say what is that. you come out and hear these intriguing sounds, sounds like i have never heard in my life. and then you step closer and you almost have a very intimate experience. >> we could link to different institutions around the globe, maybe one per continent, maybe two or three in this country, then once they are all networked, they begin to communicate with one another and share information. in 2010 the website will launch, but it will be what you would call an informational website and then we are goi

i guess lastly would be the esthetics of it. the ada, or comfort height, as they call it -- >> let me interrupt you. hey, how're you doing? are you shopping for a toilet? walk right over here. are you in a shopping for a toilet? if you were, were your shopping for a toilet, what would you look for? >> i don't know. some banks eco-friendly. -- something eco-friendly. >> do you have a lot of people say that? >> yes. water savings, and most have rebates, so you are saving on costs. that is important today. >> let's talk for a minute about aging in place because it is such an important issue. we have a seat height to be concerned about, but a lot of other things. for example, people worry about getting into bathtubs because they are slippery. how do you deal with that? >> it all depends. the most important thing you can do is have a grab bar for the tub and shower. we think about the toilet heights. we think about having barrier- free back from -- bathrooms. if you are in a wheelchair, a shower curtain would be a barrier. thinking a

whenever you enter a hospital, most buildings of the arts, and entertainment, and esthetics, those buildings were brought to you by, and by the way, when you just walk down the street, and most of you can do that better than i can, as you can see, that's okay. that's partially because none of you had polio. you dent give that -- you didn't give that to yourself and that didn't happen from the pharmaceutical industry itself. that happened from hundreds of millions of american citizens who joined together to collect money a dime at a time, and that could only happen because this is a country where everybody takes philanthropy seriously, and people had an idea, the first time in human history, maybe at the set of people get together and they decide to fund science, it would be possible to actually get after the disease and knock it out. imagine people thinking in 1933 that individual gifts freely offered by individual people who are just stepping out barely in 33 from the great depression, they were asked to just give a dime, and they did. they cloacted from all -- they collected from all citiz