. >> good afternoon, my name is matthew schoenberg and i am the president of the friends of yerba buena. >> could you bring the mic closer, please. >> thank you, good afternoon i am here today to ask to you reject the 706 mission street eir, because it is inadequate. one of the major inadequacies of the eir is the fact that the city is not looking at the cumulative effect of creating new zoning rules for every major project that comes along for the purposes of achieving greater height and density. looking at the downtown zoning map can you see this process is well underway and the result will be increasing what one might call an manhattanization of san francisco. with all of the environmental effects that go along with that, the loss of sunlight pedestrian congestion, loss of skyline , the loss of historic character of neighbors and all of the pressure from the public utilities and their use. these are the characteristics of a poorly planned city and should not be the characteristics of san francisco. i often go for walks early in the morning at union square and i cannot imagine any add

residential owners association, the friends ever yerba buena and five individuals, paul wornick, matthew schoenberg, joe fang and margaret collins. i have written quite a bit of material on the appeal and i'm not going to try to summarize all of that within this limited time. i will try to hit high points and crystalize what i think are the critical issues for the board in thinking about the problem with the eir and its function to disclose to the project the environmental impacts to the public and those that are significant and those less that significant and for those that are circumstance to identify mitigation efforts that would substantially reduce the impacts. this eir does not do that in a number of areas and i want to start with historic preservation. and beforid get into that, i want to deliver to the board one more piece of paper. i received a supplemental response from the planning department yesterday. and a brief from the applicant this morning. and i have tried to pin a few responses to that in a letter and i have 13 -- 12 copies of that and then i have 12 copies of a letter from cath