. >>: richard hamlin has already been called, lance carin. >>: my name is lance carin (sounds like), a resident of the north beach. for the information that we have received as north beach neighbors of various meanings the northernmost station of central subway is chinatown, washington in stockton. the mta is hell-bent on one, tunneling 2200 boars into north beach and two, digging a hole to pull the machines out. this project seems to be cast in stone. mta has not provided rationale to my knowledge. the cost is far from being cost effective. using the pagoda as central subway corporation yard if you will, raise the building, put a shaft down, is fraught with instruction problems due to the water flow problem in the basement pointed out by letter from sav e muni. there are lower cost alternatives. unless this information we don't know about % leave the tunnel-boring machines buried, under the pagoda theatre or extract them from the chinatown station. extracting them or burying them at chinatown would save 80 million dollars. by doing that it would not impact the people, residents, bus

>>: my name is richard hamlin longtime resident of north beach. i want this project very much. extraction down at the pagoda and perhaps someday having a station there. >>: -- we submitted a legal letter to the planning commission. -- opposes and objects to the extraction at the pagoda and zoning map amendment and special use district on the grounds of this project is obviously very different from the original project that was approved in the eir by example the geotechnical engineers letter included in the package points out the very high water table and the de-watering and pressure on adjacent buildings not evaluated on a previous eir. also,-- >>: this public comment is only to the continuance itself. >>: should i make comments during the general comments? >> president fong: any further comment about the continuance? >> commissioner antonini: move to continue item 1 to feb. 14, items 10 a, b, c, d to feb. 14. >> president fong: commissioner sugaya. >> commissioner sugaya: i would like the commission to continue an extended continuance time. there are enough issues raised in th

. >>: richard hamlin has already been called, lance carin. >>: my name is lance carin (sounds like), a resident of the north beach. for the information that we have received

. >>: richard hamlin has already been called, lance carin. >>: my name is lance carin (sounds like), a resident of the north beach. for the information that we have received as north beach neighbors of various meanings the northernmost station of central subway is chinatown, washington in stockton. the mta is hell-bent on one, tunneling 2200 boars into north beach and two, digging a hole to pull the machines out. this project seems to be cast in stone. mta has not provided rationale to my knowledge. the cost is far from being cost effective. using the pagoda as central subway corpoti