. >> my name is francisco dekosta. as one of you know, i'm very familiar with this area. in this economic times, we have to be very careful to look at this area in a holistic way. most of this area is where the small businesses are, and i do not know if the businesses and some of the homes that are in this area were brought together as a focus group to address the concerns. in all the development that's going to happen over here, if you have eyes to see, you see a freeway. and whenever you have a free way -- freeway, you have the issue of particulates. now, i didn't hear anybody speak about this, but the area around silva is a hot spot for saturated particulates. and so the area from silva on old bayshore going down, we need to get some testing. we need to get some air testing. and some of you are sitting on this board know about the requirements because you represent the bay area and quality management. i'm bringing this because i'm the director of environmental justice advocacy. you can look at development, and development is good, but more than development, quality of

. >> my name is francisco dekosta, and i just want to make a general statement. the first time when this agenda item came, portions of it were left out. now the city attorney has clarified that that was so. simultaneously there are some amendments that we did not know about, the public did not know about. and i know during public comment you cannot reply to me, so apparently there was some amendments, that listening to the city attorney, are holistic in nature. butt remark i would like to make is that we have to be careful. when things come here and are put on the agenda, that everything is included, and secondly amendments were made because there were some loopholes on this issue which were not brought out the first time around. and we have to be careful, because such amendments affect a lot of people, especially in some of the corridors. and i say this because some of us who attend the planning meetings, we know that after going to the planning meeting, it has to come here before it goes to the board. and the time has come first for those at home especially, th