i'm joined here today by my colleagues sarah jones environmental review officer, also england flannery from the mayor's office of housing and comment development. members of the project sponsor team are also present. the project site is located on the south slope of potrero hill between u.s. highway 101 and 280. the site is generally bonded by connecticut street, 26th street wisconsin street, 23rd, texas street and 23rd street. the project site within the potrero hill neighborhood and southeast quadrant of the city. in go public housing developments the potrero terrace and potrero annex. the proposed project would include demolition of existing 620 public housing units, and development of up to 1700 residential units for a range of income levels which includes replacement public housing units. the project also includes new vehicle and pedestrian connections, new street and block layout, new transit stops, new water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure, and new retail uses, community facilities and open space. construction of the proposed project would occur over approximately 10 y

i'm joined here today by my colleagues sarah jones environmental review officer, also england flannery from the mayor's office of housing and comment development. members of the project sponsor team are also present. the project site is located on the south slope of potrero hill between u.s. highway 101 and 280. the site is generally bonded by connecticut street, 26th street

. >> just to add sarah jones we keep referring to the volume of applications we're getty thought it might help to character one example typically 5 to 10 exemption applications per week this point we're getting 5 to 10 per day and another piece of information we established a couple of smoul small environmental reviews and assigned out about 20 cases in our cue and got our cue down to 25 projects we now have 29 more we have not had a chance to input it is very hard to keep up would this type of volume. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much first of all i'd like to thank commissioner richards and commissioner hillis and all the commissioners for bringing an expertise on this it is great to have a few minutes type of person looking at this stuff just one i have a quick couple of things i do want to add my $0.02 on the expediteer connoisseur issue i agree with commissioner president wu the expediting should be a matter of policy of outside money but more to the point i think of we didn't care about that particular issue i don't think we'll realistically be able to expediting the se

in georgia last year 27-year-old sarah jones was part of a film crew shooting the movie "midnight rider ♪ catch the midnight rider ♪ >> reporter: moments after filming began on this dream sequence, set on a train trestle bridge, everything went horribly wrong. >> i just kept saying over and over, lord help us. god help us. >> reporter: instructed to place their equipment and a metal bed on these railroad tracks, only to see a train coming towards them at 57 miles per hour. >> we need ambulance. someone got hit by a train. >> reporter: startling evidence shows dramatic video taken by a camera mounted inside that oncoming train. the "midnight rider" crew racing off the bridge as the train rapidly approaches the bed that's been left behind on the rails. >> i saw the light of that train. it was like the train was right here. so you had seconds to figure out what you were going to do. >> reporter: three seconds before impact it's too late to get the bed off the tracks. on impact the bed becomes a deadly weapon. >> sarah was the first person i saw. she was lying on the side of the tracks, dea

. >> good afternoon, commissioners sarah jones environmental review officer, i'm here today and happy to live thank you for the opportunity and explain one aspect of our sequa work at the planning department for people that don't do sequa everyday it seemed sausage is making inside a black box i'm giving you ingredients there's been lack of clarity about the issue of common periods on draft eirs there's uncertainty about the who is responsible for granting that extension and the circumstances under which it would be extended i don't feel there's a need for a lack of clarity and happy to have had the opportunity from the here level of confusion around the 5 m issue to mitigate this situation i'll talk about my considerations and this questions come up and also talk about how the planning commission might act on this issue so the standard review period and i prepared a memo on this issue that's excluded in our packet hopefully, you've had a chance to review that i'll go over it the standard review period on a draft eir established in sequa is 45 days the eros roll in general and impleme

sarah dallof nbc news. >>> you can join nbc 10's own keith jones and john clark today on the nbc 10 facebook page at 1:30.they'll be answering all your super bowl questions live from arizona. >>> septa will be getting a makeover in the next few years. philly.com reports the $150 million project will begin early next year. it will focus on the 15th street station on the market frank furt line and the city hall station on the broad street line. septa says it will make both stations roomier, brighter cleaner and equipped with more elevators for accessibility. >>> say cheese. this morning drivers in delaware some having so smile about. officials lifted the ban on smiling in driver's license photos. that ban on smiling had been in place for about 5 years after the state installed new facial recognition technology. officials lifted the ban after an upgrade to that system. >>> new exhibition opens at the philadelphia museum of art this weekend. we have a sneak peek for you. nbc 10 got a tour of the collection called drawn with spirit. pennsylvania german frontier. it includes more than 230 works of folk art dist