California i just want to say that we strongly encourage you to accept the cir. Thank you. Next speaker. My name is michael byrd. I have no plans. I have no toads. I have no tadpoles to show you. Im here on behalf of the seniors and other golfers that use sharp park on a regular basis. I have used it for many, many years. The program and the plan for sharp park has been in development for years. I would urge that you would reject the appeal and i would point out also that the wildlife Equity Institute was appealing on the basis of the sharp park plan and they have withdrawn their appeal and its just an indication that in fact that eir should be approved. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. And i just want to say before the next speaker speaks that the appeal for the plan for sharp park has been withdrawn but i just want let you know that before the next speaker speaks. Thank you. I just wanted to speak on behalf of our golf course. I just wanted to say that myself growing up playing golf and the speakers here the Public Access and opportunities for children here there are a lot of opportunities for me and i thank for your time you and for the work that recreation and park has done and continuing to work with the golf course and seeing the potential that is there and hopefully just fill all the obligation to the wildlife and to the recreation users. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. I have waited about five hours to comment on sharp part. [laughing] my name is paul sure way and i am president of the Historical Society and the Sharp Park Golf Course is a significant historical and cultural resource. Also the city specific and general plan officially designates the course as a historical site and San FranciscoPlanning Department determined in 2011 that sharp park was a Historic Resource property under ceqa this is as it should be. Sharp park was designed by dr. Alastair mckenzie one of the greatest and influential architects in the history of the game. He built sharp park as a rare east side municipal course. A links land course. Like the legendary old course and st. Andrews where we earlier worked as a consulting architect. The golf course is a living entity evolving over time and seizing the season and year to year. Trees grow and bend to the wind and storms rush in and recede but after 85 years of wind and weather and heavy use and minimal maintenance of a public golf course, sharp park today is as beautiful as the day it open. As just as enjoyable. [timer dings] that is the unsolvable mark of an Alastair Mckenzie golf course and night urged the supervisors to deny the appeal and except the eir thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Thank you. I live in district 5. I have been playing golf in sharp park since the early 60s. Im here to urge your board to reject the appeal. I am here to thank the recreation and Parks Department further careful balancing that they have been doing with the golf course with the need for human use and the need for preservation the native species. Golfers, are recreation is in nature we are nature worshipers as well. And so, this working together of the human use and the Natural Resources is important to us as well. Rec and park has done a good job on thatand the historical architecture of sharp park. You live most of your life and you live in this historical architecture and it is great architecture and it focuses energy and if you notice those who participate in it and who work in it that is what this golf course has done. And we support the recognition [timer dings] and the historical nature of this golf course. Thank you very much. We urge you to reject the appeal. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good evening. Denise louise. Native san franciscan, 40 year resident of Mount Davidson. Neighbors and i live in fear of fire, falling trees and winds and our planet a long time ago and they were stressed out by five consecutive years of drought and they are just not what they used to be an autobody who is working with the one for as to those that we need this plan to banish the trees in Mount Davidson. Now okay the word about that term biodiversityit was quantified by renowned scientist eo wilson to promote a semblance is of naturally occurring species of plant and animal life and species and california is a biodiversity hotspot meaning that we are so fortunate to have diverse, naturally occurring species throughout the state. San francisco is no exception. We are an important part of this biodiversity hotspot which is california. San francisco was named after st. Francis, our patron saint of ecology reminding us that we have an obligation to care for all of the special species that live in california and in San Francisco. In my backyard, i have all vegetation that is in my backyard is native to San Francisco including, for example, the miners lettuce that you saw earlier. And its called miners lettuce because it was discovered by the gold miners. And now you see the flowering ox alice which is the nonnative species and it took over the habitat for the miners lettuce. I also have locally rare plant called a fiesta flower and its flourishing and it will occur only in my backyard in San Francisco now and what my neighbors goes i gave her some seedlings thank you maam. Im sorry, your time is up. We made a mistake with the clock. Im sorry, thank you for that information. Next speaker please. My name is linda shafer and im a San Francisco resident and i am a former member of the San Francisco open Space Committee and today i speak only for myself. In my opinion all allegations in the remaining appeal before you were for early discussed in response to the comments document which i have actually read. There are no ceqa violations indeed the final eir is admirably complete and accurate. I would also like to add first of all to what i had prepared to say expecting one minute, first of all, my thanks to all of my people who were involved in arranging the resolution to the sharp park resolution i think that is really, really wonderful news and secondly i would like to reiterate that if today the appeal is rejected and you affirm the certification of the eir that is not the end of the process. There is a whole another new process that then get started and it will have lots of opportunities for public input so please everyone keep that in mind. Please vote to affirm the Planning Commission certification so the implementation of this badly needed Management Plan can proceed. The city must be able to protect what little is left of our natural heritage. Those ecological areas that still support interdependent, locally native species of plants, insects, birds, and other living creatures and preserved for future generations the bio diversity that good evening supervisors. My name is dave gar. This has one through 10 years just to create the Management Plan in the eir and part of that we had to acquire many of the sites going back to 1974 when the open Space Program was first set up. And then it was him to the grateful dead but more delays will cause more degradation of these 32 natural areas. These parks must be managed. The most beneficial action that our species can do to heal mother earth is habitat restoration. So please reject the appeal. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker please. Hi, i am matt blain i am with the chair of urban riders and these allow people all to ride their bikes through the citys. We just are to do this in love on the and weve read a lot of these we are pleased to see this protects our Natural Resources and provides the use for san franciscans. Him in terms of access issues people have been riding in our parks for decades but the plan does not say that these will be a problem and we will work with this potential plan in this process and with that we urge you reject the appeal and allow this plan to go forward. And thank you for staying so late. Thank you. Next speaker please. My name is nick wallace. I live in supervisor peskins district three. Im a patron of the San Francisco municipal golf course. Im here in support of the final eir for the program that will restore the Sharp Park Golf Course and the maintenance of this plan i would just like to make the comment that i have closely followed the sharp park controversy for over a decade including making comments in front of this body in 2009 when supervisor wanted to kill this course and in 2013 when supervisor David Alvarez wanted to kill this course and now them are still here but i still am so im just saying. Even though sharp park is within the plan as it should there is still an important issue here. We have a golf course operation at sharp park for 80 years. This has included a habitq of the california of the red legged frog and i urge the board to move forward and start the process to improve this habitat and manages habitat for the frogs and the snakes in sharp park and for the golfers. We have many San Francisco recreation and park employees that have have a right to do this and are great stewards for the park and for the frog and the snake. Lets move forward and get started with this plan. [timer dings] thank you. Next speaker please. Hello my name is shannon dawn. And on behalf of the Northern CaliforniaGolf Association honorable supervisors, sharp park is a unique, highly significant golf course and Historic Resource. This preservation is of the highest priority for that mpg and the world golf. This provides a reasonably priced seaside recreation and a community outing for visitors of San Francisco. We reiterate our support for Sharp Park Golf Course and for San Franciscos Natural Resource program and for the eir. We request that your board deny the appeal an except the Planning Commissions final eir. I support sharp park and these are the homes of the places that i learn to play part. It represents Stanford University as a representative of the community and i know how important this is as a Community Gathering point and i can ask now that i have a few seconds left is to support all of you that have any young people in the room that love the game to bring them to the game, we would love to help them but support the eir, reject the appeal, and allow as much native supporrt as sharp park to receive. To sport wildlife in San Francisco based in terms of programming and in terms of what is here. I want to zoom out. I will zoom out and just acknowledge some of our fellow cities. We mentioned some of theseearlier. Chicago sports many. Arm they have a plan, a comparable plan. I will read with this says chicago supports many native ecosystems from prairies, savanna, and dunes to wood learns and supports many ecosystems for birds reptiles and 50 and and i am moving over to hong kong and their Nature Conservation policy includes activities that have adverse impacts onn their ecosystem and these would include threats to their ecosystem and finally i will discuss 2011 plan diversity which has certain goals of connecting people with nature and the city. I want to implore you to trust your city agencies here 10 years of planning i have known lisa and her stay after 15 years, i have worked in Resource Management myself for 20 years and excellent and leadership in the realm of thank you, next speaker please. Hello my name is bill wilson in august of this year will mark the 20th year of my arrival in San Francisco and almost my first volunteer opportunities were with the National Program in Mount Davidson. And, through sweat equity i have learned what this means in Mount Davidson because that natural actuary program had exist. So these people that talk about these telephone ethnic cleansers and i have yet to meet those people and i am not one of those people. And so, i would urge you to very respectfully urge you to reject respectfully urge you to reject the appealbecause lets be frank here because it has been 15 years and the oppositionhas not really come up with anything that needs to be changed at this late hour and i am not sure that even if you approve this appeal that it would in fact be one more round to go that you would be finished. I think today is the day to finish it. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public who would like to speak in opposition . Im sorry maam, youre ready made a comment. You can only do it once. Are there any other members of the public there would like to make Public Comment . Again, the appeal, this is last call. Seeing none, Public Comment is now close. [gavel] okay so we will have a threeminute supervisor peskin is right here. A threeminute rebuttal. Thank you. So, there will be a rebuttal. There will be three minutes for the appellant. Please come forward. Good evening supervisors im d feldman i am the president of the San FranciscoNatural Resources alliance. I want to thank you for your attention and your patients but particularly your attention. The city of San Francisco is 7. 7 miles of open hills. Are open space is limited. Where did we lose our way is a forward thinking cities. If we certify an eir that [inaudible] global warming, if we ignore impacts on air quality and erosion of groundwater if we ignore spending large psalms on destruction of land and destruction of wildlife rather than maintenance of those trees and regulations. If we use the arborist term of thinning this is actually deforestation. If we spend 5. 64 million per year to implement this planned to sell trees and use herbicides and close trails and close all play areas. If we require of you to get permission for recreation and park eir without having project level information. If we do a costbenefit analysis of Public Health versus using cheap herbicides. Please, send this eir back to planning. There is too much land at stake to have a controversy over whether this was done correctly. We dont want to have no choice but to live with the mistakes that we made for the next 20 years that planning should otherwise be able to correct and mitigate. In the remaining time, i will turn it over to my colleagues. The projector is not on. It is not on. Sfgov tv, please. It is on. First of all i would like to say what lisa wayne said that trees need to be removed because their aging, unhealthy, and dangerous and here is a map to mark the tree areas and they are being removed just to clear an area and they are not sic the onetoone replacement is supposed to be 1 to 1 replacement and they never address the axis we identified. They said if you go from these trails and these trails [timer dings] that thank you sir. Thank you very much. Thank you. And so with that, this hearing has been held and is now closed. [gavel] this matter is in the hands of the board of supervisors. And with that, i will call on supervisor peskin. Thank you mme. Chair andsupervisors and colleagues at first i want thank all of the members of the public for sticking it out for your passion of the park and i whether it is rather the plan was through the last decade i think there was maybe three or four general managers to go but dawn was there and i think that it speaks volumes to the quality of our citizens that everybody is so passionate about the parks, i have taken this. Seriously. I spent leery is lee all day sunday reading the Forest Alliance appeal reading the wildlife equity appeal on the responses from the Planning Department i did not claim that i read the entire eir but looking at specific things in there that were brought up in the appeals that reference the comments and responses and, i have to say that while i had some questions about piece mailing and alternatives as related to sharp park because the sharp park portion was not a Program Level eir but was a project level eir in so far as the general manager was able to Reach Agreement with that set of appellants and address their concerns as it relates to raising the height of the fairways which i think they had some colorful sql arguments as far as that appeal has been withdrawn and i do not think those issues are any longer before us. Forest Alliance Appeal and let me separate the difference between the issues of policy that are being analyzed that a programmatic level in the eir versus whether or not the eir was adequate in evaluating those impacts correctly. Inasmuch as i would like to find on their behalf i dont, i have not been able to find on their behalf and would respectfully, i know with disappointment to many of my friends, and i have to say i dont think there is any single issue that this body has gotten as many emails about,we didnt get this many emails about the and nass and the streetlights and nass and the streetlights on van nuys and i would respectively supervise or say that i think that we should table all items 61 and 62 and move item 60 and