>> lisa gibson. yes, to clarify we have a document that's a standard operating procedures from employees of the department. we are required to follow the city's language ordinance on separate ordinance. >> for what reason -- from start to finish, do then tying noticinthe the entirenoticing o? why does the appellant have to request -- >> it's what the ordinance requires. it's that the city must make available documents to non native english speakers upon request. >> president cohen: only when requested. supervisor peskin. >> through the present to ms. gibson, respectliful, i understand it's your position that the document is adequate. and you can make that assertion. it's ultimately up to this body to make that determination. i just want to kind of remind you of that and i understand that you have a lot of time invested in it and that you are a professional. i under to go back to the mitigation measure. >> whether it reduces the pollution you would consider significant, no one has had a chance to comm

lisa gibson, environmental review officer. i'm not going to say too much more, but i did want to first off acknowledge that we did hear very clearly from the board of supervisors and from the planning commission that we needed to take a closer look at shadows and the effect of the project on the adjacent school yard, and we also heard the remarks from the community about the community concerns of how the project would affect in particular school children. [please stand by] >> i want to make sure that we're clear about what that means. that thing -- is that there's not a significant impact does not mean there's no effect. there's an effect that we want to acknowledge and it's an adverse effect. it's clear that there would be shading in the school yard during the times when the children would be present, and that that shading is not desirable, and that shadow on school children is -- you know, can affect their development, their well-being, their sense of enjoyment, and some of those things are outside of the factors that we con

i'm lisa gibson on behalf of the planning department. i'd like to start acknowledging the community they're concerned about the effect of the environment and the neighborhood has been impacted by air pollution and designated as a care community and the district has worked with president cohen and the board to pass legislation that reduces some of the main sources of air pollution. it's been a vital technical partner including legislation reducing the number of cars to and from new development and requiring cleaner construction equipment. year exploring and researching other measures through a comprehensive risk reduction plan and we'll have community outreach as part of the effort starting in 2019. today, the question is whether we have done our job in the e.i.r. by disclosing impacts an mitigating them as best as we can. given the air burden in the past, we used more health protective significance criteria than guidance to assist impact. the e.i.r. identified insignificant and unavoidable impacts and six mitigation efforts. our memo to

>> real quick before you answer, i just want to pivot to lisa gibson, she is going to make a comment. >> thank you. i would like to note from record, they have the availability. that was done both for the india basin i e.i.r. as well as soma. we provide a note indication that this document was available for review and jessica would like to add something in that regard to the chair. >> i'm not questioning whether you did, i think that perhaps there's another layer of outreach we can do. we can send outpost cards and e-mails to people. i get a lot of them too. i'm a busy person. i'm going to miss some of them. and so actually i completely understand. i don't know. actually i don't know how backmed construction works. i don't understand why you missed it. perhaps, you know, for us, when we really want the community to know about something and we want people to come out to our meetings. we call people and call community leaders. [ please stand by ] -- this is a huge educational opportunity for me as one of the three representatives from san francisco that sits on the board. i was not awar