Good afternoon. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules now we have set up any mileage us to which members can send anything they wish to submit they wish to submit in writing in any of her hearings or markups. Our hearings or markups. Has been provided to staff. The first order of business is consideration of the energy and Water Development appropriations bill. For fiscal year 2021. Captornow recognize this ms. Captor to present the bill. Please let me also add my you for your honorable and dedicated service to our community and nation and for your recognition of the full potential of this bill. You will truly be missed. I am pleased to consider the energy and water bill today. It is a good bill. A bill that captures the spirit of ingenuity and independence of the American People. Are actually able to provide the most important Climate Change bill congress will pass this year. This bill provides the foundation of critical investme
Insufficient or inadequate. They believe the circumstance eirs were not enough as well as a different project to be approved. Sequa requires study of a reasonable range of potentially feasible alternatives, promoting informed decisionmaking and public participation. Here, the eir presented circumstance alternatives including two full preservation and too preservation alternatives. Lhias position is that ten alternatives should have been study. This is unnecessary and not required by sers qua. Sequa. This contains the legally required reasonable range and provides ample information for analysis and consideration by you, the decision makers. And for an additional alternative not in the eir to be legally ar required, it must be different from those presented in the eir and must clearly lessen the projects significant impacts. On the last day of the Public Comment period, lhia submitted narratives and sketches for two projects and followed up with two more after the final er was published
Reduce loading impacts as dwell times for trucks and loading times would be reduced so they could get in and out of the building. This is not sequa issue. The appellant fails to meet the burden that the record supports reversal of the Planning Commission and dpw. It did not and cannot provide evidence in support of its evidence. The records supporting the determinations is thorough consisting of multiple years of study and analysis and based on facts and evidence rather than argument and infect allegation. Speculation. This project will transform and underutilized wallofftioff tens sites with 744 new homes. , 185 affordable units for seniors, childcare uses and neighborhood serving retail and commercial uses. We ask you reject these appeals and move forward today. Thank you, supervisors. Thank you. Any questions . I have a question of the proje project, is there a reason why it was infeasible to make a family unit affordable . So this project through the Development Agreement, it was d
City, especially anywhere somewhat close to us and finding housing for my son, he wanted to be a neighbor he grew up with and theres very little housing. I know that this development wont help my father whos passed away or my son, because its going to be a few years before its here, but it will help the neighborhood and it will help the area given the transportation node. Im i in support of the retail. As it is now, off can do is the bank and market. You have to walk down to philmore enjoy vibrant retail. I urge you to support this development, thank you. Next speaker. Good evening, supervisors, staff and members of the community. Im the director of organizing for the Northern California Carpenters Union and here to talk on two issues. One is housing. California is short 3. 5 Million Units of housing. We build roughly 100,000 units a year. Were falling behind. Yet we put on hold 744 units, of which 187 of the units are affordable to seniors. Half of those units were designed with a fam
He met people all. We seen him on a daily basis and he. He did more for the city since he was fired seven months ago. The city has not filled the top job. Good evening, everyone. Im mike mibach and im julie julie haener. Tonight, the Police Commission met at city hall discussing who should be the departments next chief. Ktvu zac sos was at that meeting. Zach, what did you hear from those in attendance . Well as you heard there, the vast majority of people attending tonights town hall very much behind former chief Lauren Armstrong calling for him to be re instated to his position, that being said, there was a Smaller Group on the other side which characterized tonights meeting as less about finding a new chief and more about undermining the mayor. I believe that he should be reinstated. And what happened with showed that he dot support Police Accountability one by one. Oakland is stepping up to the mic at thursdays Police Commission town hall weighing in on the february firing of chief