where is permeable pavement used today? >> it is a fairly new process. if you have been walking down the sidewalk, where we have trees in our sidewalk, and see those little square bricks that have replaced the cement, that is an example of permeable pavement. >> my dog loves that. >> right. it is an example of another environmental benefit of permeable pavement. it allows water to soak into the water table instead of running down into the ocean. as to the central valley, if they have issues, especially because agriculture is taking city drinking water in another direction, i think we all know agriculture still is not doing what it needs to do to conserve water. problems like that need to be handled in the regions where the problems are created. in agricultural areas, sometimes there is brackish water, we'll brackish water in a water table -- real brackish water in the water table, which could be used for water supply. that is not where san francisco is at. i do not understand why we would spend $200,000 on this one we could install permeable pavement wit

we could be taking this $200,000 and hiring a crew of workers to install permeable pavement right now. that would put a few people to work. that is the kind of thing we need to be doing with $200,000 in the middle of

we could be taking this $200,000 and hiring a crew of workers to install permeable pavement right now. that would put a few people to work. that is the kind of thing we need to be doing with $200,000 in the middle of the great recession, which many are climbing is over, but obviously is not. we need to pick people to work, -- put people to work, not do a study when scores of proposed desalinization projects in this country -- only one is going forward. that is because when environmentalists like myself come forward and make the case, we prove the case. this is not an environmental way to solve our water and global warming problems. vice presiden

they were then sent to the lab, a check for strengthened permeability. everything past. so we moved into the production phase last month. some general utility shots. this is just about complete, which will be a big phase to get behind this with the utility relocation. these of various sites around the project. and just an update on the craft hours, about 55,000 hours total completed by the evidence brothers without accident or injury, and about 88% of that was bay area local craft labor. so far with the work packages, they are running about 71% of total local craft labor of the bay area's. that is my presentation. i would be happy to address any questions. >> the statistic of working 55,000 hours without an accident or injury is phenomenal. i am just wondering, with -- was this luck or were there specific strategies that use that for that these are to create an environment where you could have that kind of track record? >> there is some luck involved, obviously, but the evidence brothers teams retard at it. we work with them in some areas to remind them to keep their saf

identified in help the -- helped the development and control the flooding in the neighborhood and have permeability so the neighborhood does not fly all the time when we have the 100- year storm in the neighborhood is to try to create more park space. we have seen a tremendous opportunity on these large parcels to provide on site, in kind part space, community facilities. in many cases, as was referred to from the county transportation authority, there is the opportunity to do improvements in the public realm as well. that's another real opportunity that we have. i wanted to stress those points and i hope if we come back to u.s. some point down the road, considering possible amendments or modifications of in kind benefits that you adopted last october, for these large sites, you would consider that and give it its due consideration in this special context. i am really hear more to try to answer your questions in collaboration with the people i've been working with since 2005 on the task force that are represented here today. if you were to ask them to make a presentation about planning in 2004 when

the test will section in order to convince us all that they have the right mix designed for both permeability of the water and the strength of the wall. they did a test wall section, completed that on june 18 in eastern zone. we are waiting for the 20-day care of that. that is this friday. it will start taking core samples and verify the strength of the wall and be able to move on to the production will shortly. you can see this moves on to about the middle of next year. again, this work will be monday through friday for the most part. might be some we can work if we need to accelerate. it is atypical the ship, although the plan to work a long ship because once you get the equipment going, it is difficult to stop at any one point -- it is a typical day shift, although they plan to work a long shift. the buttresses are designed to protect the money and power during the excavation. it is made up of 207 interlocking 7-foot diameter 240-foot shafts. i want to show you pictures of how those get drilled. that is basically the layout. the top of the picture would be the millennium property, the 301

and we're also going to attempt, if possible, to do permeable paving in the new sidewalks. this project currently is going to supply up to 20% rental b.m.r. units. the parking, as you know, we have maximized the 75%. i know there have been some complaints in the neighborhood but that's all we can do according to the zoning rules, 80 parking spaces and two service vehicle spaces on top of the 80 parking spaces and on top of that, well, included in the 80 is one car share space. there's no density, and we do the 40%, two-bedroom units, which is also required. and there are some impacts to 700 illinois. there's going to be a taller wall against their southern portion. and we've worked, embellished that wall with windows and some articulation and we're willing to work with them on colors and trying to make that wall as less of an impact as we can. the building facades on both illinois and 3rd street, we worked very hard to break up the massing, and we are planning a high quality modern materials, brick, panels and wood exterior paneling on the base. we broke each elevation into