i'm patrick valentino the vice president of the merchants association i live in the neighborhood close to where the new events center will be i've taken time to look at the traffic management plan and the draft eir and couple of things that are important to point out number one if you start to compare traffic management plans of arenas that are constructed in the recent decade you see this is probably one of the most in depth and forward-looking plan move to 0 transit first plan sooepts to prioritizing the all this will have the most bike parking spaces and in discussion from attending a lot of the public meetings talking about direct right-of-way for the emergency vehicles and workers this is extremely important to remember is it so not the case that the emergency issues have been taken off the table surface r as far as quality of life we're evolving and finding the city is green and this is a chance to put housing next to work and play and the place that this can happen can create a new place that is environmentally aware and sensitive to our surrounding a lead goal certified constru

. >> reporter: south bay resident patrick valentino says those traffic concerns voiced by hospital workers should be taken seriously. >> there's talk about having direct right-of-way for hospital workers and emergency vehicles. and i think that's extremely important to consider. >> reporter: and those concerns are addressed in the draft environmental impact report, but opponents continue to say they're not convinced that mitigation measures would actually take place. coming up i asked the attorney for the mission bay alliance why ucsf hospital officials are not as opposed to the arenas the mission bay alliance is. the answer may surprise you. it's a story we're working on for 6:00. mark matthews nbc bay area news. >>> we go back out to gilroy where a brush fire is burning. 40 acres now. you can see cal fire onscene and joining us on the telephone is pam tamaraman. you guys have been very busy. can you give us an update on the fire near gilroy? >> currently, we're working a vegetation fire and heavy brush. it's going to be west through highway 101 near the monterey frontage road just south