executive director of livable cities. here to purge you not to support this legislation. livable city is an organization, one of many concerned in the city with sustainability, which is really the challenge of our generation, the thing we must do if we are going to create a better world for our children and grandchildren, and see what is the most powerful tool that exists to really look at sustainability. it should be an amazing and effective tool, by which we can look at the effects of decisions we make and improve them and finally. we think that there is a lot of work that we need to do with ceqa to make it the tool that it should be. sometimes we are

executive director of livable cities. here to purge you not to support this legislation. livable city is an organization, one of many concerned in the city with sustainability, which is really the challenge of our generation, the thing we must do if we are going to create a better world for our children and grandchildren, and see what is the most powerful tool that exists to really look at sustainability. it should be an amazing and effective tool, by which we can look at the effects of decisions we make and improve them and finally. we think that there is a lot of work that we need to do with ceqa to make it the tool that it should be. sometimes we are appalled to see the amount of time and energy that goes into ceqa and c projects not emerging better. we are appalled to see some of the perverse outcomes. but that is not a reason to curtail the public's right to be able to review and comment and engage thru the ceqa process. there is a lot of reform we need to do to turn it into the environmental protection tool id needs to be. that is not happening in any other transpor

executive director of livable city. actually, commissioner antonini, your request to have a look at the van ess special use district is pretty timely and with cpmc and it bears looking at. the other thing, of course, that's driving all this is the importance and the increasing importance of van ess and polk street in the city's transportation system. polk street is a major transit corridor, bicycle corridor, pedestrian corridor. and van ess is the expenditure plan committee will be one of the first to bus rapid transit corridorses and the land use controls which were passed in the early 1990's really need another look. it was the last neighborhood planning exercise which actually increased residential parking requirements. there is a parking requirement of one parking space per dwelling unit and that's over the normal requirement of one space for every four in our c4 districts. why it was increased, i don't know. that is kind of an artifact of looked at. of course, there's also very, very high requirements in the van es

the greater good for the city and none of us have an agenda other than to try to live in a more livable city. to the extent that we can work together on some of the other orphan blocks and ceqa reform and if we could work on it together, then great. so thank you. thank you for all your work on this. president miguel: commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: i have some questions and concerns. anmarie, i have a question for you, please. thanks. part of many of the things that are in here, i think everyone agrees with. but there are a couple of things that the division of dwelling units. i think we talked about that and what happened was on market octavia, there was a hybrid that applies from the safeway west, i guess, and where they don't have the open ability to create unlimited number of units within the framework. in other words, they need to abide more by the particular zoning and that being rh-2 or rh-3 or whatever it is. am i correct about that? >> yes. commissioner antonini: that is what we're saying is going to be in here is the consensus has been we don't want that unlimited --

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