Open space task force, the open space committee, and also as a councilmember. And in the process, we preserved more than 500 acres of open space through our efforts, political efforts in our community, our preservation efforts in our community. So, i just want to say that as a preface to my comments about Sharp Park Golf Course, in the entire time that i worked on these projects in our community, no one ever considered taking away the golf course. The golf course was always viewed as kind of an ideal situation where you had endangered species, habitat that had actually evolved over time by the creation of Freshwater Habitat there. And the issue of the work at Laguna Salada which really began i think almost six years ago was to remove some of the tooling around the edges so frogs could get to the edge more easily and prevent flooding because Laguna Salada was filling in. And that was the beginning and it was a very sensible thing. And i really want to commend San Francisco for bringing
Council which represents, i believe, 20 plus neighborhoods west of twin peaks all unanimously oppose map. Theyve communicated that through the recreation and Park Department and to the mayor. Mount davidson, aside from sharp park which i dont know anything about and which is not within the boundaries of San Francisco, Mount Davidson is the most affected by map. I mean, their proposal is to cut down 1600 trees on Mount Davidson and the neighborhoods surrounding Mount Davidson all are opposed to this plan. Spending another 200,000 to make this plan possible is throwing good money after bad. I believe that Mount Davidson, based on the neighborhood response, should be excluded from map. Apparently there is a proposal to exclude sharp park from map, too. While people are trying to get huge parts of this program excluded from it, can you please not spend precious funds on this program and instead spend it on thing that are really needed like basketball courts and tennis nets. Thank you. Than
Staff resources for planning, design for the sharp park safety Infrastructure Improvement and Habitat Restoration project. This is the project that don was describing a little bit earlier. The sharp park sharp park is a unique project, a park for the city. Its located in pacifica but [speaker not understood] but is owned by San Francisco. It includes 27 acres of wetlands. You can barely see it in the image above. Thats the entire area of sharp park and the wetlands located to the west of [speaker not understood] in the blue area next to the coast. It also has a number of special status species including the california red legged frog and the San Francisco garter snake. As don mentioned the fish and wildlife has provided us with a biological opinion and that includes 32 mitigation or cultivation measures. One of which is the up land Habitat Restoration. And to comply with the biological opinion, we need to complete that work by october 31st of this year with a short window during the su
Replica of a prewhite colonization of the habitat. Because this designation [speaker not understood] as environmentally superior supporters were furious with the draft eir the is this why we now need a third consultant . Is rec and park going from consultant to consultant at great cost until they find one that will [speaker not understood] data similar map maintenance alternative is better . In the august 5th, 2013 we wall street journal article, [speaker not understood], native and nonnative plants would be environmentally superior. There are officials at the citys rec and Park Department that said the report used a no definition of environmentally superior set forth in california law. So, with this third consultant, is rec and park consultant shopping until they find one that will tell them what they want to hear that [speaker not understood] is better, not what the law and the facts dictate, which is that the maintenance alternative is better and will cause less impact on the enviro
Species. The up land Habitat Restoration work includes three locations for a total of a half acre. You can refer to the diagram up here. Two of those locations are the horse stable pond and one is near Laguna Salada. Primarily its to remove ice plant anacacia an Invasive Species and will be replacing those with native vegetation that will provide more robust habitat for the special status species. The second request that we bring you today is for the removal of sediment and vegetation within the channels connecting horse stable pond and [speaker not understood] and in Laguna Salada itself. The [speaker not understood] were requesting is for four location and will help us determine if there is any acidic soul fates, its unlikely, but if there are, we want to actually start to mitigate our construction so that we dont have an adverse impact on the special status species within the channels or horse stable pond. Our final request is for additional funds to provide Staff Resources for desi