hiroshi fakuda. >>> good afternoon. my name is hiroshi fakuda and i am the job representative to the j chess program, [speaker not understood] japanese merge [speaker not understood] federation. first i want to thank the planning commission because it was with your comments that returned the program, the original bnp back to the community. so, that, i'm really grateful for that. and secondly, thank director ram who has been very understanding, for this very long process. he said he wanted to start in 18 months or [speaker not understood] this dragged on as always. also i want to thank, most of all, paul lord because he changed the direction of our plan. for that we're grateful and also to steve wirtheim who took over and also to shelly [speaker not understood]. and there is no bnp development plan which was very -- to us, to many people in the community, we thought it was going to be the end of japantown because it involved demolition of japantown center garage which would have shut down the center garage for many, many

my name is hiroshi fakuda. just a few comments in regard to the healthy s.f. master plan. i'm not sure there is enough emphasis being put on mental health services. i saw a line in connection with behavioral health medical services. and i think there needs to be a stronger emphasis on the mental health aspect. it is a major problem in the country. we're having a number of veterans returning from the war and i don't think it's being addressed enough. for example, the cpmc matter, they tried to i think reduce the number of mental health beds. in fact, they should be increasing them for the future. now, in regards to the western side of the hospital -- the western side of the city, there are very few -- there's no hospitals on the western side of the city except for the veterans hospital. they're not capable of doing emergency services and i think there has to be a plan in the future for some type of emergency services in the event of an earthquake. we know that it's going to happen some time, and we don't have a plan for that type thing. when there is an earthquake, the west

my name is hiroshi fakuda and i'm the chair of the coalition for san francisco for neighborhoods land use and housing committee. [speaker not understood] and i was part of this -- the going to c-e-q-a coalition. this whole process as stated before is a long time coming. it's been 10 years and there have been three other supervisors who attempted to make changes in the c-e-q-a process. and the three previous attempts do not deal at all with first approval. it did not change the final approval trigger for ceqa appeal as a trigger point. now, this one does. and this was a very important, very important issue for the coalition, for the community coalition. we drew a line in the sand and said, this is what we want. we cannot accept anything less. and it was adamant. we all said, yes, that is the first thing we want and we cannot give that up. well, guess what? as always, you know, times change, situations change, and we are forced -- we are told that that is not possible. and, so, in order to accept that, [speaker not understood] and we said, well, then as a compromise, we have to have the

my name is hiroshi fakuda. just a few comments in regard to the healthy s.f. master plan. i'm not sure there is enough emphasis being put on mental health services. i saw a line in connection with behavioral health medical services. and i think there needs to be a stronger emphasis on the mental health aspect. it is a major problem in the country. we're having a number of veterans returning from the war and i don't think it's being addressed enough. for example, the cpmc matter, they tried to i think reduce the number of mental health beds. in fact,