i am also concerned with glen park canyon. i had the pleasure of attending a couple of the meetings out there between the department and the community. it has been a prime example of how things should go. my to disappointments are the fact that the earthquake that took down the central freeway and embarcadero freeway did not deal with san jose avenue. i consider it the same as the freeway. it has delighted those communities for years and we see what happens when they have gone from the embarcadero and when the central came around and what hayes valley is now. i can envision a resurgence, not necessarily in the same manner, one is more grand than the other, and this could be a third one down the line, but the concept of connecting the communities is there and i realize you are working on it. there's nothing that can be done now. my big disappointment, however, is nine years in the making and bart is still sitting on its ass. i can do nothing but criticize them for not joining in a cooperative planning process. the comments i ha

we could do a further designed to save the glen park village and to glen canyon. one of the ideas is under part of the greenway -- there is an idea circulating about is it feasible to do they lighting of this project and we really don't know. there are some complications. has a combined sewer system. it's not like regular daylighting where you just uncover something. the plan stays open to that. while there should be some further study to determine if this could happen while also recognizing some of the concerns of residents and adjacent property owners, we could address that in this further work.

the other major piece of the neighborhood is its close proximity to glen canyon park, over 60 acres of open space. this is an amazing place -- there are coyotes and owls and a recreational facility and hiking trail. there is also a creek, the last one of the city's free flowing creeks that flows freely into glen canyon. in transportation options, to have such a great abundance of transportation options is special. there is a bart station, a number of bus lines and the j. church can next to glen park. the freeway access to 280 -- this is a picture of one of the first electric streetcars in the city built at the turn of the century. we talked about this last time. this is transit first period when the real-estate developers decided to bring people into their area, they would build of the transit line. this is an interesting digram from a feasibility study we conducted about a year ago. it shows how people arrive at the bart station. there are approximately 9000 transit riders they use the small area around the station every day. what is amazing is that about 80% of them are arrived not b

that is going to be and port project, the same thing with glen canyon that is going to undergo a lot of work. one of the most challenging parts of the new district supervisor is that we elect the supervisors by district. it is very important to pay attention to the district, be engaged in the projects in the district. we also represent the whole city. any district supervisor that focuses on the district without addressing the citywide issues is not doing his or her job. every day, i make sure i am working on the major citywide issues and the district issues. i try to be disciplined about that. >> how will you approach the tough choices? >> i think we have to start by looking at the most critical city services that we cannot do without. what are the ones that if they deteriorated, we will pay the price on? public safety falls into that category as a basic critical service. transportation, making sure we have the functional muni is critical. core public health services like dealing with mental on this on our streets -- with mental illness on our streets. if we do not provide services,

i live near glen canyon. too many times i have not been able to walk there because the natural areas program was engaging in another round of toxic warfare, laying waste to new generations of hapless and helpless flora and fauna and exposing local neighborhoods and everyone moving through the neighborhood to these poisons. i oppose this unfettered increase of the natural areas program into more and more of san francisco's park land and open space. i ask that you all as members of the planning commission recognizes program removes shared space from the community on the basis of sharply and scientifically contested assumptions about what is needed for natural pant and makes equally unfounded assumptions about what actions, such as walking with one's pooch can or cannot occur in our shared and all too limited and san francisco open spaces. please oppose any expansion of this program. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is linda shaffer. i'm currently the vice-president of the local chapter of th