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We realize what a long process its been to put together the significant Natural Resource areas, managements plans. Weve watched that process for years, attended many of the meetings. And we hope that you can now go forward with that as it stands and not to remove sharp park from the plan. To do so and rechoirv a separate eir for sharp park would be to obstruct the excellent work thats going on right now and would just needlessly endanger what we consider a municipal masterpiece. Thank you. Thank...

Portal playground there was a woman, i think her name was pat, who was on staff every day starting early in the morning, and she would literally rake the sand every day, every morning so that when the kids got there, any objects that might be in the sand had been removed. And she would sweep the sand on the sidewalk so that the kids could run around. That person there is no person like that any more. Nobody cleans out the sand. The rec center is usually closed. Theres nobody there keeping the pl...

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 environment . The open space Contingency Fund is for acquisition of new park space. Its not a slush fund for [speaker not understood] ...

Commissioners, im richard harris, the San Francisco public park alliance. We have 6,000 members. Im also a San Francisco resident and have been a golfer in sharp park for most of my life. We support funding for the completion of the eir which is what is good for you on agenda number 9 of the sun ramp. This is 18year process. You hear the controversy here. There were two or three hearings here by the Planning Commission on the eir. There was the extra hearing. I dont know how many thousands of co...

Carolyn johnston. Hi, commissioners. I am the Vice President of the Greater West Portal Neighborhood Association and also the chair of the land use committee. And i just wanted to talk to you a little bit about west portal today and what i perceive to be the park needs of that neighborhood, which is a real family neighborhood. I mean, i chose that neighborhood because of the open space in the area, very green. It had two parks within each walking distance of our home. Mount davidson and West Por...

Negative Environmental Impact as existing habitat in the quarter of our citys park land is destroyed to create this 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 i...

Port for the golfers and most importantly for the protected species. We realize what a long process its been to put together the significant Natural Resource areas, managements plans. Weve watched that process for years, attended many of the meetings. And we hope that you can now go forward with that as it stands and not to remove sharp park from the plan. To do so and rechoirv a separate eir for sharp park would be to obstruct the excellent work thats going on right now and would just needlessl...

It is specifically intended to address the scarcity of and virtually lack of medical testimony presented by the rpd and City Fields Foundation partnership in the reports. The video tip is comprised of nationally recognized Public Health professionals including medical doctors, pediatricians, epidemiologists, toxicologists, neurobiologists, chemical engineers, as well as others. They are shown testifying about and commenting on the various Health Risks Associated with synthetic fields including k...

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 additio...

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 in actually the key scientific people who are experts in the areas of these species and t...