it's trying to make that the intersections, lake merced boulevard. these are a part of the city with -- where we do have a lot of kids and we need to be protective. if we can move that to m street, we can bring the number down to 8%. that's how many go east. these are pressing issues, things we ask you to look at. yes, i feel for some of these people that are going to have to be he locate -- relocated. we do have to look for progress. western denied any type of growth. we have the world cup coming. other things are happening on the other side of town. what's going on in west san francisco? our supervisor is here telling you this is our chance. please listen to him and do not uphold this appeal. thank you for your time and have a good evening. >> good evening, jim lazarus, san francisco chamber of commerce. business and labor will be before you tonight urging you to reject this appeal and certify this e.i.r. clearly you have been presented a defensible e.i.r. that shows that any substantial impacts or significant impacts from the project will going to

>> i was a founding member of the lake merced task force. i also have the privilege of serving with the recreation chair of the task force for a number of years. regarding a joint management of a lake merced track. it did not work. we have learned from experience the proposing a shared or joint responsibility. how can we help support programs for high-school student athletes? it is time to move on. san francisco reconed park has no reason to be fearful about taking back full control of the lake and the recreational component. with your of mr. and of the water project, it is just a drop in the bucket. the organizations will be happy to work with sfpuc. we can provide you with the experience, he leaders that have long-term experience in serving our community. thank you. president vietor: think you for your comments. we look forward to seeing the evolution of the mlu. >> the plan is to have it here on may 28. president vietor: other comments? next item. >> any new business. president vietor: next item please. >> the report of the general manage

i grew up across the street from lake merced. i took classes at san francisco state, right next door. i strongly oppose the demolishing of affordable housing in san francisco. >> good afternoon. my name is maria elena. i am a resident of parkmerced since 2003. i used to live in manhattan. one of the biggest reasons i moved back to san francisco was because of parkmerced. maybe you don't understand, but i actually pay $2,017 a month of land. that is for me, my partner, and my dog. i live in a home where there is rugs, a bathroom, a living room, a dining room. if you could please just looked at me, because i am actually a resident and i have a home there. if you could come to parkmerced one afternoon, i would love for you to come with me and i will take a tour with you and you will understand why there is so many people here opposing this eir. i know many people have spoken and actually have said much of everything i wanted to say, but i am just asking you for a chance, since i am a boater. the developers of this plan, which is a h

but there is substantial difference in the grade from 19th avenue down toward the west, toward lake merced boulevard. as soon as you move up 19th avenue, the site drops about 30 feet almost instantaneously. what that means is that the taller buildings on the western side of the site barely rise above the level of 19th avenue. the prevailing height does not rise at all. it barely punctuates it. so the existing views from the surrounding hills, from residential neighborhoods from the east, will not be altered at all. there will not be viewed blockages, or anything of that nature. i mentioned that the bulk of the units is located on the eastern half of the site. we will hear a little bit more about the community realignments and transit investments. i would just like to point out that 50% of all the units are located within a couple minutes walk of the proposed realigned streetcar line and other transit resources that are focused on the eastern portion of the site. the density diminishes in a slightly graduated way as you move toward the west. parking also follows this pattern. while this is

there is a major open spaces as a spine that leads down toward lake merced. that includes a new stream that has recreational and ecological benefit. it will be a new organic farm. a new athletic fields complex. the redesigned juan batista circle. a new transit plaza. this will serve ocean view. it would be the major stop for this part of the city. we will talk about that in a second. a substantially enlarged community gardens. this would exponentially increase that in size so more residents have an opportunity to participate in gardening. all these new streets and walkways throughout the district would be designed to meet our new better streets standards. that means not just in terms of sidewalk widths and bicycle infrastructure, but ecological function in terms of storm water and so forth. the major transportation investment on the project is the realignment of the m oceanview light rail line. it currently runs along a busy corridor, with major pedestrian safety issues. we probably consider it an overburdened stop. people overflow into 19th ave. it is a dang

into a new creek system, which is essentially a restoration of a historic watershed that fed into lake merced. the stream would run southwest. along the street corridor, there would be an extensive system of passive open space, and programmed, whether it belongs, wooded programs, or pathways to enjoy, as well as an expansive organic farm. the project proposes to engage a professional former -- farmer to take on this project. the value is not to provide food for all the residents, but to allow for educational opportunities and for residents to get their hands dirty and learn about agriculture and food production, as well as provide some opportunity for selling locally-grown produce to residents and others in the neighborhood. this stream corridor would terminate in what is called the belvedere gardens. right now, the southwest corner of the site provides no access between parkmerced and the major open spaces that surround it. this project would create new access through a stairway system that connects down to the public street system, which would be a major new access point to connect resident

system, which sort of filter it through natural buyer remediation and carries it eventually to lake merced, and they are restoring the original flow of the watershed. this would also substantially reduce the stresses on the southwest treatment plants and would reduce the amount of -- overflows into the ocean and improve water quality. it is also important to note that you can see on the map on this slide, the city has a recycled water ordinance. certain geographic areas of the city are part of the ordinance area such that any new development has to be eventually serve buy recycled water, once the puc make that available. you can see most of the area is not in the recycled water area, but parkmerced is. so this project would not be just dual plumbing the buildings, which is a legal requirement, but would be installing distribution systems in the streets with piping so that once the puc makes that recycle water available, it would be a simple connection problem, rather than the puc having to go back 20 years from now and say, "we need to rid of all the streets again at the cost of many milli

what was said earlier about lake merced is true. it was part of the pacific ocean in 1952. there was an earthquake. it is not a fresh water lake. that area is right next to the san andreas fault. it is a dangerous area. you do not want big construction right there. thank you very much. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> supervisors, my name is ronaldo visali. i have lived in parkmerced for 40 years, since i was 3. today was a beautiful day. it was sunny. birds are chirping. a demolition of my home would be really a sad day for me and my brother. i grew up there. those of the streets i have lived on pretty much my whole life. i just can't see this happening. this whole plan is just the outrageous. i don't know whose pipe dream this is. i believe that someone's 6 -- sick and

shopping district, luxury hotels on 19th avenue, museums along a boulevard, and art centers along lake mercedpact number three is the destruction of habitat and tranquillity along parkmerced and at 800 brotherhood way. we ask that the board's vote to reverse this for the eir. there is a mass of carbon footprint that will be left by the project. thank you, mr. president. president chiu: thank you. mr. barack's? >> good afternoon. this is very, very simple because this is a very simple issue. this does not have the dates, but i had to write it in. this is very easy to understand. the existing homes start way down here at the bottom of this graph. starting at the beginning of the installation of the project, as you can see, these will produce a lot more greenhouse gases at the beginning of the project. they do not start lowering the greenhouse gases until you reach around the year 2036. that is 24 years of increase emissions. president chiu: let's hear from the coalition. >> the planning commission should be limited to 10 minutes. i would just jump into this. president chiu: i will say for the r

locations that are not as congested now, there would be an indication of more auto trips, talking lake merced in particular. and in some cases there are significant impacts that are identified and mitigated. in other cases there are significant impacts not mitigated because of unfeasibility or uncertainty of the mitigation measure. supervisor avalos: so it's quite likely we go forward with a project like this, 20, 30 years from now we'll have the kind of congestion that we've been wanting to avoid in san francisco for many, many years. >> um, i don't think there's -- that's a farrakhan conclusion. i think 19th avenue will be no better than it is now and possibly worse. sunset and lack merced will be more congestioned -- congested. supervisor avalos: our obligations around greenhouse gas emissions, traffic increases creating more greenhouse gas emissions don't matter because we'll move this project forward regardless of what the law would be in the state of california. >> that's not true at all. the impacts are full li --fully identified and qualified. supervisor avalos: but it could get worse

but there is substantial difference in the grade from 19th avenue down toward the west, toward lake merced boulevard. as soon as you move up 19th avenue, the site drops about 30 feet almost instantaneously. what that means is that the taller buildings on the western side of the site barely rise above the level of 19th avenue. the prevailing height does not rise at all. it barely punctuates it. so the existing views from the surrounding hills, from residential neighborhoods from the east, will not be altered at all. there will not be viewed blockages, or anything of that nature. i mentioned that the bulk of the units is located on the eastern half of the site. we will hear a little bit more about the community

but there is substantial difference in the grade from 19th avenue down toward the west, toward lake merced boulevard. as soon as you move up 19th avenue, the site drops about 30 feet almost instantaneously. what that means is that the taller buildings on the western side of the site barely rise above the level of 19th avenue. the prevailing height

is that we create new intersections that allow pedestrians to cross between parkmerced and the lake merced area appeared on the southwest corner, there is a major axis point to the recreation area from brotherhood way, which would be a major axes point. also in the southeast corner, where there is the -- right now, there is this sort of cloverleaf between brotherhood way, we make sure that this pedestrian connection safely get you across their here and help you get to the churches on that corridor as well as going across highway one into the existing omi neighborhood. >> before you leave that slide, i did not want to let that be the northeast corner with the transit plaza is going to be -- you cannot skip over the walking benefit. not to say that this is the solution to all things, but, you know, the six, seven years i have been on the board, the number of pedestrian fatalities we have had at that intersection because of the transit. now with transit on the left side. just that pedestrian benefit alone and the walking that happens, you are not going to have it as congested with pedestrians

if you are heading into the city maybe check out the dragon boat races at lake merced and also the cherrysom festival in japantown is going on right now for the second weekend. >>> another key hurdle is just about complete on the new eastern span of the bay bridge. crews are installing a 15-foot tall, 480 ton section called a grillet. caltrans provided animation. it's used to hold together the legs on the tower. >> the main tower is self-anchored bridge and four legs and think of it as a stool, we're right putting the seat on top of the stool. >> janelle: it will help secure another 500 ton section known as the saddle in a video supplied by caltrans. it will hold the cables on 3525 foot tower in place. caltrans says the new $3.6 billion span is expected to be completed in 2013. >> competitors from across the country and overseas will be climbing into cages and engaging in mortal combat but the contestants are robots. there are more to robo games than meets the lie. >> this looks like fun and games but the cost to build one of these combat robots can run upwards of two grand, not to mentio

at lake merced in san francisco. you can go there and check that out as well.commonsense point of view and also from the record of what is known about behaviors of al-qaida terrorists. >> civil liberty watchdogs say using what people say as a screening device violates free speech but the tsa says no single behavior by itself would be enough to draw increased security, scrutiny. 5:43 now. let's check in with lisa argen with the forecast. how's it looking? >> always reminded to behave yourself, right? >> absolutely. i just smile and give them my driver's license and don't say anything else. >> good rule of thumb. pretty good weather. temperatures above normal in some spots this afternoon. as we head out this morning, getting dark out there. sun not coming up for oh another 45 minutes or so setting at 7:46 and we do have more clouds around the bay area in the north bay but they will be thinning out in the east bay and south bay and temperatures there will be a little bit above normal. good morning half moon bay, 54. it's 54 in redwood city with upper 40's in napa