sequa sequa issues. none of them will result in a significant impact to the environment. for the reasons stated at this hearing the department finds it complies with the requirements of sequa while the department appreciates the appellant's concerns they have not provided the substantial evidence therefore the department recommends that the board up upholds the exemption and denies the appeal. >> thank you. seeing none we'll now proceed with the project's sponsor. you can have up to to 15 minutes for a presentation. >> >> good afternoon madam president and members on behalf of the project sponsor, i want to digress a little bit from my prepared notes and i wanted to say and i was going to to emphasize this later i would have thought i must have walked into a hearing at the board of appeals or perhaps the planning commission. none of those issues are sequa issues. for the members of this board the neighbors here today this will be the 6th administrative hearing they will have had and another one scheduled in january to deal with the release of the suspension of permits and this is the second sequa hearing that these folks have had and the important thing here today this is

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 implementing what sequa says and what's in the sequa guidelines so as i think through the length of the period i'm thinking about the appropriate comment period based on circumstances with a particular a eir that makes the period inadequate to fulfill the purposes of the comment period those circumstances are due to the timing of the eir and the complexity and maybe the opportunity for public review that have already occurred in the environmental review process on the project in my view if the comment periods need to be longer 45 days we can establish that at the time before publication of the eir i think this is a much better practice and there are circumstances that are known at the time of the draft eir politician take into account i've spelled out in my memo some of the reasons a longer than 45 day comment period one involved multiple sites in multiple locations throughout the city one a situation in which we not prepared an issue study when

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sequa rules you can have may i see it, sir? what's that maximum on a comment period. >> the sequa requires 45 day minimum review period generally, the environmental review officer asks to stick to that unless there's a purely reason to extend it but seeing no reason to we kept it at 45 days but the ero said she'll comply with the request to extend it. >> we went through this on hunters point years ago we were told there have a maximum that is customary or loud i'm not sure what is it if it were 90 days to january 16th i believe i believe that's stooep long. >> i don't believe there's a maximum but generally 45 sometimes 60 day review period under sequa requirement. >> okay. so thanks for your information i'm probably more inclined to extend to 60 days that's more than enough time if you're interested in making comments it's a long one but we have to get in it and read our comments i've working in december and i think most of us are i'm favor of 60 days another comment talking about things that are not typically part of the irs associate impacts are not analyzed eir and gent indication so we've discussed part of the approval process we've dealt with at the appropriate time but not something that's dealt with in eirs we're dealing with subjective eirs in terms of things generated by this project in particular not the things that have existed for years the impacts have to be might be only the ones that it creates there's a question is there enough. >> (speaking chinese.) the staff can answer but a question to whether the open space is, in fact, compliant with what is required and second-story that's not an important question but the sa

the step that preseeds sequa getting the project into environmental review on new years eve we'll have the alternatives analysis delivered to us and next year we'll beginning sequa and our conceptual engineering report i know that the crews alone here 27th of january on the outcome of aa r are we on track and schedule for the project southeast where all the flows are converging we have our grit challenges and draft alternatives and draft report at a previous meeting crow low will be our designer and we'll be wrapping when they come on board we have the improvement project that provides the invent and our back up we're looking at various options for work and advance and completed our analysis for pump stations that are critical to the projects success. >> precontradiction updates on green infrastructure we have one project in construction i'll show you a picture in a moment and 7 in planning and design we applied within an upper fund for the hallway e p is a low interest money the next project in construction is a flagship st. is the valencia gastroway it represents a lot of departments working together on the urban waterside we've completed the bay side alternat

the step that preseeds sequa getting the project into environmental review on new years eve we'll have the alternatives analysis delivered to us and next year we'll beginning sequa and our conceptual engineering report i know that the crews alone here 27th of january on the outcome of aa r are we on track and schedule for the project southeast where all the flows are converging we have our grit challenges and draft alternatives and draft report at a previous meeting crow low will be our designer and we'll be wrapping when they come on board we have the improvement project that provides the invent and our back up we'reoo

sequa getting the project into environmental review on new years eve we'll have the alternatives analysis delivered to us and next year we'll beginning sequa and our conceptual engineering report i know that the crews alone here 27th of january on the outcome of aa r are we on track and schedule for the project southeast where all the flows are converging we have our grit challenges and draft alternatives and draft report at a previous meeting crow low will be our designer and we'll be wrapping when they come on board we have the improvement project that provides the invent and our back up we're looking at various options for work and advance and completed our analysis for pump stations that are critical to the projects success. >> precontradiction updates on green infrastructure we have one project in construction i'll show you a picture in a moment and 7 in planning and design we applied within an upper fund for the hallway e p is a low interest money the next project in construction is a flagship st. is the valencia gastroway it represents a lot of departments working together on the urban waterside we've completed the bay side alternatives wrapping in december had a well attend meeting for the west side the tenants for the residents on saturday and completing that analysis in june those two reports then i'll pulled together we're going to develop a phase implementation passage come back to the commission. >> when do you hear back from the state fund. >> i dependent it soon we put the application in a few months ago we hired as i said we hired a grant and loan corridor and she is the one putting all the applications in we're trying to build a nice relationship so we can push everything through it's exciting to have this opportunity. >> let us know. >> i'm going to spend a motioning moment on the construction project that is a question that came up from commissioner president caen terms the digestersism we s have 8 digesters operable and would be in construction and this is district 7 that will be back in service in 2015 we expect all the digesters complete by mark 2017. >> it number 5 out of service. >> it is used for gas storage. >> oh, this is a so shot of the windmill their installing the pavement and this is over the bio basin it is very exciting seeing this actually materialize that mr. glover project will be done after the holidays i want to spend a moment on staerld engagement in october we focused the meetings open urban watership prospective jurors promotions we heard from the community we like the solid projects concern about traffic and evans is a cash corridor we're adjacent to evans on the water shed everyone is interested in the green being part of the method and being available november was really existing we talked about the actual bio solid design and what the community values what heard was something that has since ability not necessarily a hard escape industrial design they want the facility for opportunity for education it's tourable and bring people into the facility so this was really excited to hear this feedback that will lead us as we go down the road in bio solids in december we'll be talking about sequa and we initially breakdown in groups and have smaller working groups to work on smaller issues and a b m crews presented and we've kept up our outreach with community groups and street fairs that's an ongoing thing and with that, if there're questions on my report. >> commissioners. >> i have a question on your first slide program wide statutes. >> uh-huh. >> under our the digester facilities is 3 trust we have construction from 2018 through half of 22 not to be completed until 23. >> we'll be starting in june 2017 and wrapping up in 20022 is it so many phases we have to go down and do the site work and demolish the facility if place and really this timeline you see commissioner president caen represents after we've proven the facility works and take the old facility off-line 53 we will have overlap we've been extending time look at other facilities and feel this is pretty aggressive route to getting this project in place. >> are you saying to me it takes about a year to make sure tha

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of sequa which can be while it's important law it can be a tool for individual occupants of important projects even for the board consensus so slow down the projects one of the things at metro the sequa form process that shifts you us away from the vehicle model towards a travel model that is the right way to do environmental review and a in a city in an urban environment this is all the things we're pushing hard to overcome the project delivery and in this urban community last year this is what is beginning to change in the project overall. >> thank you. i really appreciate the slide i know the last two subcommittees they were asking a lot of questions of the challenges and this is incredible important to have this discussion it is good to hear the values amongst the department when we have multiple agencies working on the same project it will sometimes include planning they have to go through the department if there is a conflict you you know understanding we're prioritizing the pedestrian safety and it is the highest mode we looked at whether there is a chflt or disagreement that's i what's the progress we're going to work that through. >> well, for - >> is there someone with a fi

sequa which can be while it's important law it can be a tool for individual occupants of important projects even for the board consensus so slow down the projects one of the things at metro the sequa form process that shifts you us away from the vehicle model towards a travel model that is the right way to do environmental review and a in a city in an urban environment this is all the things we're pushing hard to overcome the project delivery and in this urban community last year this is what is beginning to change in the project overall. >> thank you. i really appreciate the slide i know the last two subcommittees they were asking a lot of questions of the challenges and this is incredible important to have this discussion it is good to hear the values amongst the department when we have multiple agencies working on the same project it will sometimes include planning they have to go through the department if there is a conflict you you know understanding we're prioritizing the pedestrian safety and it is the highest mode we looked at whether there is a chflt or disagreement that's i what's the progress we're going to work that through. >> well, for - >> is there someone with a final say each department has a different head. >> transportation department mta has the final say but the way we get to a point of consensus to get to a yes rather than force the issue is the principle level workshops having the senior staff at dph and mta getting together and hashing things out with the new line the vision zero is again, i think that is the point it happens it is our hope not to act as a power but act as a consensus builder. >> thank you supervisor mar. >> yeah. going to acknowledge the transportation authority and mta have done a good job giving us the grupts u updates and since the june be presentation the small project delivery i appreciate having it in front of us we're ten times smaller new york city that maybe why you're pleased that the managerable i appreciate our altitude i know that while we have someone to take think the leadership of the bicycle coalition we want to be as efficient as possible in saving lives thank you. >> regardless the scale of the city san francisco is similar to new york in its compleekt and the cultural city a lot of the lessons from new york on working through consensus and vision they do apply here it doesn't matter on size. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, madam chair and thank you for the presentation i have a few questions one following up on the question about coordination or sometimes lack thereof it is sometimes, we focus on a lot the legislation we passed unanimously a year year unlawful ago to create a design committee there was folks in the same situations one department would object and create unresolveable situations accident project would die it seems like from what i can tell this is more coordination but we still hear about situations where one department or another will voice is concern and it just becomes stuck so have has that improved obviously from what you can tell do you think we're moving at a good direction and are we avoiding some of the situations in the past and recently for example, with the fire department came in at the 11th hour and shipyard project and decided that the streets needed to be 1ib9 or significantly widower that was a lot of drama to get it resolved if we have a lot of public drama it wouldn't have gotten resolved can you comment. >> it's hard to comment on the before or after but i walked into a situation where the project was the primary challenge and you know what i've seen change over the last two months since i've been here maybe isn't representative of the time you're talking about but i'm impressed but you can compare every new york city we have issues there is a willingness to again for both staff and principles to engage in the mayor called us together another his working group some of the i've heard the issue you're describing hashed out i am hopefully it is moving in the right direction but i don't want to say. >> i appreciate what you said early on ultimately the mta has the final say i understand i'm in complete agreement you have to work hard to try to achieve consensus but don't want to achieve consensus at the cost of a project you can find agreement through watering something down but it is important to take a strong run at agreement we saw a situations where the school pulled out last year, i was proud of mta the fire department was obtaining and they went ahead and acknowledged the agreement i don't know if that would have happened before i've had a lot of discussions with the fire department for some reason the fire department has its own interpretation of the fire code and makes a decision g about what the city can and can't do under the state law even if the city attorney has a different view so for example, something called the appendix fee to the fire code this idea instead of 24 clear a 26 clear he o 13 foot lanes appendix fee does not apply in san francisco the city attorney says it didn't apply but the fire department keeps trying to apply it i passed ann an agreement amendment to a fire code with a bulb out and the fire department took the position to violated state law they don't have to follow it has the mta encountered those types of situations with the interpretation of the state law. >> i'm not familiar with maybe yet with the debate over appendix b i'll have to familiarize might have with it the issues with the fire department their concerns are real we need to acknowledge they're also cross examining on coming from a point of view the way i approach any sign progress to say the first one to keep everyone safe and to save lives i think that the way in which that is going to play out is going to be different for every project i don't have a specific examples to sort of counter what you're saying by one of the things i'm committed to doing is working closely with the fire department of going out into the field with the apparatus not the regulatory and the appendix can the state law says by the way, how the fire department realties to keeping everyone save if the abdomen strange versus realty is different. >> fire safety is important your fire department is one of the best departments in the country they don't a spectacular job in putting out fires we've made progress with the fire department there's been a collaborative process both they're continuing challenges and i won other question this came up on if you went i think that was the finance committee a couple of months ago a vision zero update i made a point it's not in this presentation a breakdown of the investment of the supervisorial district and i'll previous face this by saying i'm not a believer of taking the policy for example, to create surely we should be receiving a disproportionate amount of funds because they are having problems but at the time the breakdown was extreme i think we received something like one or two percent of the funds and district 4 was lower and other districts in terms of the viewers on the level of south of market or the tenderloin or chinatown they're serious challenges in those areas so i don't think we've gotten updates since then but i'm concerned about the extreme nature of that. >> this is something we can certainly come back maybe two points are we tabbed looking at the whole range of risks not only concern risks there are some very unsafe streets we've lost vehicles in crashes i think we can expect to see the focus of vision zero truly shift going forward with the priorities and the other thing if many cases the solution for street lights on alderman may not be of things about are expensive but rather clever work with signal timing and we'll certainly come back with the information to keep it separate. >> i agree the numbers that extreme so it caught my eye of my office can get an update for the new year about that particular issue. >> thank you. >> i'll go to my last slide this is the delivery message ta paper went on to talk about 5 buckets of issues that might be challenges those r were meant to look at the areas we're looking forward in the areas of funding we've talked about the strategies that mta or ta is exploring and improving the funding between mta and ta staff and, of course, the coming online of the prop a money next year will be a terrific solution to some of the funding issues and the coordination we've talked about the formal and inform o formal ways the agencies are taking steps to work together with mta as well we're making sure that as we make progress on our other initiative moving forward we're making sure we're luke all scoping projects as i said we're trying to raise our game how we deal with the public this might possess a change back the board of supervisors it is fantastic you made a strong early commitment to vision zero we're looking forward to working with you to make sure that you know that we're putting forward projects that you can support and we have to make difficult choices in community and finally the environmental review that is an important issue in san francisco but i think sequa remove will go help to streamline that and take the pain out of the process that's my overview of the progress delivery it is a work in progress i want to i'm going to turn it over to tim to the visionary level. >> we have one question from supervisor mar. >> just this one might be to this gentleman we follow new york and other cities he lead walk sf kickoff finding saying 3 people are hit in san francisco a day but what does the data show how did he do at the end of this year and is a lot of our efforts working from that short amount of time we've been it from 2013-2014 and i thank people for kifk this mta as come aboard it is a contingent driven process. >> we don't have official statistics up to date mayor ed lee is not here yesterday we were at 17 district fatalities and this year that put us to have a safer 2013 than 2018 but last year, we had a spike at the end of the year and hopefully, we'll have fire fatalities than last year. >> as soon as we received the day there's on chal