i am speaking today for myself, but i am currently the president of the glenn park association. my comments are based on over 10 years' experience at project review at the neighborhood level at glenn park, and full disclosure, i am retired from previous employment in c-e-q-a consulting. i believe the proposed c-e-q-a procedures are needed and beneficial. over my years with the glenn park association, i have seen virtually every 311 or 312 notice, discretionary review request, zoning appeals or adjustments and major building permit applications. these are all projects typically processed under c-e-q-a categorical exemptions or in some cases negative declarations. the widely distributed mail or posted notices typically have a 20 to 30-day appeal period. state c-e-q-a law and guidelines call for disclosure and review of environmental effects early in the project process. the proposed chapter 31 amendments would clarify that the c-e-q-a appeal clock would start at the first approval. and i know there are some discussions about exactly how that would be defined. this makes complete s

there are system wide delays due to a deadly incident at glenn park station. bart says a man jumped in front of a train there, run over and killed. no trains are stopping at the station for the moment. bart is tracking trains through glenn park affecting service along all bart lines. >> there are new concernses about safety tonight. 30 giant metal bolts snapped. the rods part of the system that connects the bridge deck to the cap that sits on the pier just east of the bridge tower, 96 rods have been tightened and a third have failed. >> when rods do snap they pop up. >> issue isn't one that is going to be a load bearing issue but it's one they're going to have to solve. >> the rods discovered this month. caltrans says there is a teamworking on a solution. eastern span is scheduled to open labor day weekend. 159 days from now. stay with us for latest updates as construction continues. >> sanc;uuv6co investigators want to know whether a massive blaze threading through three buildings into the bay view this morn kog have been started on purpose investigators say

. ~ i was also going to close with the example of the c-e-q-a appeal of the glenn park recreation center. supervisor wiener brought that up. i just want to add that while i and many, many others in glenn park were pleased with the recreation center project, was sustained and is underway, a clearer and earlier c-e-q-a appeal process would have been the right thing. this legislation would have avoided the confusion. thank you for your time and please move this ordinance forward. >> thank you. >>> good evening, commissioners, tim colin on behalf of the san francisco housing action coalition. you've heard us many times over the years express how strongly we feel in our deep frustrations with the crying need for change and reform of c-e-q-a. it is repeatedly used against proposals that embody our best principles of sensible land use and appropriate urban infill. this is not a theoretical harm. the abuses that used in c-e-q-a's name raise risk and uncertainty which makes good projects take longer and cost more to build. these costs have to be passed somewhere. the price of spurious appeals is

we have lividdo from the glenn park bart station. we don't have any details yet on that person's condition. it does appear serious. this is causing system wide delays. bart tells us trains are not stopping at glenn park while investigations are underway. >> documents about the 2011 tucson shooting rampage shed new light on the gunman. six people were killed and 18 others injured including former congress woman gabby giffords. the shooter's parents say they had to tick a shotgun away from their son after he was kicked out of community college. he made a statement about abortion so disturbing place were called into the classroom. on the day of the shooting he was pulled over by a traffic violation. he cried and said i've just had a rough time. he is serving life in prison. >> attorneys for colorado shooting suspect james holmes say they're client will plead guilty to enable holmes to escape the death penalty. he was in court last week to have a not guilty plea entered on behalf of him by the judge. >> still ahead at 4:00 bus driver's c