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support the appeal, but do endorse the comments of ms. hester. i have been hearing these for years from bike coalition, tom, and i have been having these convictions as long as i have been here and it is time we start tackling the issue. call the question. secretary avery: commissioners, the motion on the floor is to uphold the preliminary mitigated negative declaration. on that motion, commissioner antonini. >> yai yai. >> commissioner borden. >> aye. >> commissioner miguel. >> aye. >> commissioner fong. >> thank you, commissioners. that motion passed unanimously. commissioners, you...

neighborhood, three with the design review board separately. about muni, i am not going to go into it. as you probably know, the family behind me that is building this army and the people. the can tell you there is a bryant street stop two blocks away, and there is a turn -- [shouting from the audience] this is a case about parking and units. the design review board could not have said it more clearly. that board is not an overnight organization. it has been around a long time. i respect it more than some groups that just arrived overnight. your staff thinks that are wrong about comp...

practically, but what is more significant, is the number of blocks is not the point. the fact is that either way you go, one of those blocks is vertical. practically vertical, very steep hill. i walk it. i carry my groceries as a substitute to going to the gym, but i can only do that because i am partly retired in don't have to be at work at strip times, because it is nearly impossible. i never met any of my neighbors on this bus. people think i am crazy, because i think i am the only person in the neighborhood in our section up the hill who regularly takes transit and does not have ...

that is the peak of 1569. lastly, i have done my best to keep this to scale. this is a close-up view. down below that is the deck, a full 40 feet down. president olague: thank you. >> my name is gabriel. a few years ago, the mayor had a town meeting and took my question about muni. we have the transit. the streets are narrow. it is very steep. he put me in contact with the guys at muni. we e-mail back and forth. after a month of doing this, the answer is we are never going to have transit in our corner of the city. recently, the proposed even doing away with 27 bryant for physical re...

done was part of this parapet project, cosmetic. when we applied for the permit to be adjusted, that opened us up to a design review, and that is when the neighbors asked for a design review. it is also important to note that your planning department recommended against the d.r. >> i think you have answered my question, and i think what you said was that it was built without a permit. >> it was built during the pendency of the permit process to get a change in that plan as far as i know. that is what i understand. >> thank you. >> counselor, in your brief you mentioned that you had t...