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apartments, landscape designers and you can go through a process of six months to do the construction documents. then you go through the process of submitting the building -- [speaker not understood] building department which takes another nine months and youre paying the fees for all that. and it would be just infinitely easier to have the action tied to the first approval and not at the end. theres no reason to spend all that money and have the building department clog up the line if...

the fact of the matter is the planning department really needs the publics help and thats one of the beauties of preserving ceqa the way it is with the long-timelines, with the multiple opportunities to participate. we are actually helping the planners as we are helping the supervisor pass this legislation. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. hello, supervisors. my name is michelle meyers. i am the director of the san francisco bay capture the sierra club. first, i want to thank s...

the community ceqa improvement team. first of all, i want to reiterate what a couple other speakers on this side of the aisle said, which is that we realize that there are some problems that for a few people really cause a nightmare and we realize that this needs to be fixed. we realize that cat exs and negative declarations need an improved process. and let me assure you that the legislation that we have helped craft that will be coming from supervisor kims office is not going to be a...

we appreciate their hard work right alongside coming up with a new form of contract. the next wont spend a lot of time on this one unless i get the dreaded beep-beep from the president. in the terms sheet, there are key parts i wanted to highlight. it addresses how the electronic transaction information would work. what the contractors role would be, and the term sheet does specify that they would be locating because interactivity is in san francisco. there is even a date specified of ...

commitment to that happening. i would respectfully disagree with the advocates, but i know that they have a very important role to play, and i want to make sure that when the matter comes before the board, they have an opportunity to be fully heard to the extent that the changes have to be made to strengthen the component. i believe that can happen if you take action today. i think is an exciting opportunity for us. a lot of years have gone into this program. many of elected officials ...

this program. many of elected officials have spent a lot of time on this, and i want to abolish their contributions. but more importantly, the contributions of the environmental community pushing this forward. let me say that there are still some components that need to be worked out. you are still going to have to come back and deal with the issue of rates. we still have to do better work in terms of energy efficiency. obviously, the build out is a key component of this. the duration ...

is consistent with a robust build out, and as we go forward, this process will allow for it to be incorporated. i am not going to support anything that does not make a commitment to that happening. i would respectfully disagree with the advocates, but i know that they have a very important role to play, and i want to make sure that when the matter comes before the board, they have an opportunity to be fully heard to the extent that the changes have to be made to strengthen the componen...

component. i believe that can happen if you take action today. i think is an exciting opportunity for us. a lot of years have gone into this program. many of elected officials have spent a lot of time on this, and i want to abolish their contributions. but more importantly, the contributions of the environmental community pushing this forward. let me say that there are still some components that need to be worked out. you are still going to have to come back and deal with the issue of ...

before the board, they have an opportunity to be fully heard to the extent that the changes have to be made to strengthen the component. i believe that can happen if you take action today. i think is an exciting opportunity for us. a lot of years have gone into this program. many of elected officials have spent a lot of time on this, and i want to abolish their contributions. but more importantly, the contributions of the environmental community pushing this forward. let me say that th...