mr. freedman. welcome. >> thank you.opies of the materials that we submitted. >> go ahead. >> okay. good afternoon. i am mayor joan cox. thank you for allowing me to speak. i hope you've had an opportunity to review the materials submitted for thursday's staff report. we tried to get them in as quickly as possible given the large amount of information. we're here to request three things. one, continue the hearing of the planning commission to a date that's at least 30 days out or two adopt the additional mitigation measures that we've listed in our letter, or three, sustain our appeal and prepare the requested eir or sever the fort baker from the project. continuing the hearing is our preferred approach, and we believe it should be the port's and nps's preferred approach as well. unfortunately, as explained in more detail in the follow up correspondence we transmitted, we believe that the project description in the fmnd is inaccurate. we've given you concrete examples of that in writing, and our counsel, art freedman, wh

mr. freedman. mayor cox, we'll hear from the project sponsor next. >> hi. good afternoon. thank you all for having us here this evening. my name is kerrie sarobin. i'm the deputy secretary of golden gate national recreation area, and i'm here on behalf of our superintendent who's vacation this week. i want to acknowledge my colleagues both from the national parks service as well as our partners with the port and the parks conserveancy who are behind the project here. we appreciate the planning department's very thoughtful plans to this project. the national parks service supports keeping the national park service 'em brkation port where it is and we've worked several years closely with the port faf to make this a reality. -- to and from alcatraz island, pier 31 1/2, we heard earlier discussion about experiences and that is certainly one of the highlights here. it's unfortunate that we do have this disagreement with the city of sausalito, who is a long-standing partner to the park, who we've worked with for many, many years, and this is around this proposal to send two boat

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