st. luke's, which will make it less viable as a hospital and has close some units also at st. luke's. @'smore likely that st. luke's will not survive. they are proposing no psychiatric beds in their new hospital at van ness. they should at least be required to restore the 32 mental health beds at the rebuilt st. luke's or put at least 30 to psychiatric beds in to the new hospital on van ness. and most importantly, the supervisors should challenge the not-for-profit status of them. they pay salaries annually, and there ceo gets over $4 million annually. they are paying such outrageously high compensation's while crippling st. luke's and cutting back mental health and other health-care,boco servicesn san francisco. it is odd scene. we ask all of the supervisors and the mayor to be vigilant continue to bargain hard now, and please enter into the record -- chair mar: thank you. we still have about 30 more cards. we asked if there are seniors are people with disabilities to come forward, so, next speaker. >> board of supervisors. my name is marion. my husband and i, paul, owned a business in s

that it deals with, it basically has a smaller cathedral hill campus, a larger street louis,'s campus -- st. luke's campus. can you explain what that looks like? >> it considers a smaller hospital at cathedral hill and takes the women and children's center from cathedral hill and says it will be at the st. luke's campus. it was analyzed in the alternative of of how they would fit a larger program at the campus. we looked at how it would change the environmental analysis and we came to the conclusion that it did reduce certain environmental impacts and then it was the superior alternative. it is feasible even though it does not meet some of the project's sponsor objectives. it is still feasible. supervisor campos: let's talk about why 3a looks the way it does. it is my understanding that it will be having in their facilities something similar to what is being proposed for st. luke's. how did you include that combination of services? >> to answer your question, the patient base is not the same as ucsf. i need to do further research to answer that question that they would expect they would need to tra

s business plans. there is an unrealistic project alternative, 3a, that was set up to fail by possiting that st. luke's sits on the women's and children's hospital which makes no sense. it is not a serious attempt to look at alternatives good for san francisco. are there sufficient overriding considerations to ignore these flaws? the answer is no. your colleagues and many of you and the room have participated in the land use committee hearings on a number of the items involved with the development agreement. what we have learned is that there are many health care needs for charity care, cost control that are not met. the need for permanent jobs going to residents are not met. housing and traffic the same. we thank you for your consideration and ask that you uphold the appeal. thank you very much. >> are there any other members of the public that wish to speak on behalf of the appellants? seeing none, at this time, let's go to the city staff. i am not sure who will present on behalf of planning. why don't we get started? if we can turn on that mike. >> good evening, president, members of the board. i am