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That flows through sharp park as its implemented. The easiest answer to explain is look at the project description. The project description says on page 4 the primary purpose of this project of the proposed construction includes to remove impediments to water flow within the wetland. It goes on on page 6 to say the sediment and emergent [speaker not understood] cat tools and bull rushes [speaker not understood] removed in order to reduce obstructions to water flow into the pump intake structure....

Supervisor tang, thank you for waiting. Thank you. Ill be very quick. Today im introducing a piece of legislation that really seeks to address the issue of commercial vacancies here in San Francisco and it really builds upon the work of the vacant abandoned building ordinance that is currently in existence that was passed by this board in 2009 by introduced by supervisor david chiu. We found that there have been issues when were trying to address the issue of vacancies when there are buildings w...

A closed session. Motion to kick a closed session. Second. All in favor, say i. Great we will now move to close. Thursday, january 9, 2014. Happy new year everyone happy new year. Id like to take roll president fong commissioner wu. Commissioner antonini. Commissioner borden. Commissioner moore and commissioner sugaya. Commissioners first on our calendar is consideration of items for continuance. Item one the sharp park safety sfwra improvement and habitat it is a negative declaration it propped...

Station of horse stable pond within the project description would result in significant environmental alteration of the threatened species habitat. [speaker not understood] the california red legged frog season would impact reproduction, drying leg masses, further decrease of the population. Not only will this activity be environmentally damaging, but it would require regular maintenance that would be costly. There is an alternative which is why water levels high enough to dry [speaker not under...

With all due respect, yes. Okay. And if there is just a question for the City Attorney, if there is in terms of, you know, legally if there is a difference of opinion as to whether or not there is an impact, you know, where theyre saying that pumping op raytions are being increased and the department is not saying that thats not true, ~ if there is a difference of opinion legally, where does the benefit of the doubt fall . Deputy City Attorney marla byrnes through the president. I think what you...

They need an environmental report, a complete environmental report. Probably you all know that these are going to take at least a year, more likely longer, up to two years to complete the Environmental Impact report. Its just another tactic, there will be another one to follow that. Dont fall for this. This is going to resolve it because its never going to be resolved. The city staffers have worked hard. You hired them to be experts on this and they have presented their expertise here tonight an...

Alternatives. Alternative that are costeffective and more environmentally friendly to sharp park and the surrounding areas and endangered species that call sharp park home. A very modest ask to ask that San Francisco look at those alternative through a full eir process, particularly when the current mitigated negative declaration includes measures that weve learned recently have no way to be implemented by the federal agency. So, i would ask you to for a full eir. Thank you. Next speaker. Thank ...

As approved by u. S. Fws and cdfw. So, it doesnt list it as an option. Says shall implement as approved by. ~ it says so if it is uswf is saying they dont have the capacity, Staffing Resources to [speaker not understood] the mitigation effort by sfpd, then how are we implementing measures as approved by them . Sarah jones, Environmental Review officer. Ill respond to this. First i want to state that this communication was not we were never party to any of this email communication. So, we really ...

But he kept going and hes taken bite after bite of the apple. They concluded that commission and the appealed that [speaker not understood] at the golfers report. The lawsuit was dismissed on the motion for summary judgment. He lost that lawsuit. Now theyre trying to say that they need an environmental report, a complete environmental report. Probably you all know that these are going to take at least a year, more likely longer, up to two years to complete the Environmental Impact report. Its ju...

This mitigation measure requires reliance on resource agencies with no evidence that they have the Staff Resources or commitments to comply with that mitigation measure. As you know a lot of Government Agencies are underfunded these days. The fish and Wildlife Service is no exception. They have an extraordinary amount of federal obligations under the endangered species act and not enough sources to implement them and dr. Beah lerted the park and Rec Department about this potential concern in oct...