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Return after the writ was granted the city then issued a initial study and gave it a mitigated [inaudible] the courts ruling is directly on point and says that if you are on the cower taizy list it does want mandate a eir. With the same breath the court says the sites on the cor taizy list may not be grant adcategorical exemption and speak about a site like this site with 2 closeier letters thrks same closure letters the city is now claiming somehow exemps it from the law and creates annul the court put its opinion that you cannot issue a cad x for that site. The court makes no medication of t...

Words, the fact the site on the list. It could have easily done that. The parker [inaudible] case from the First District court of appeal speaks directly to issue before the board. Read it closely, the city gave the project a cad ex. It is on page 2 of the opinion. On return after the writ was granted the city then issued a initial study and gave it a mitigated [inaudible] the courts ruling is directly on point and says that if you are on the cower taizy list it does want mandate a eir. With the same breath the court says the sites on the cor taizy list may not be grant adcategorical exemption...

Xx. Thaset what the statute says. None of the multiple application ask is there a closeier letter. If the citys theory was cret that woorb on there. Finally these sites are kept on the list indefinitely for a reason. No one knows exactly wlut is down there. That is the point. The city itself admits this. The city itself says, one of the possible reasons why the sites are emain on the list because remediation techniques may include capping the site, that is qulaut happened at the fire house, the site was capped, subsquents praunlect including excavation can disturb that containment and expose t...

Disturb that containment and expose the public to haserdize materials thank you very much. Okay colleagues this hearing has been held and item number 18 is held and closed. Iteal 19, 20 and 21 are in the hands of the board of supervisors. At this time i would like to recognize supervisor farrell thank you for list toong the appeal and all the people that came to speak on this item. This fire house is on grinch street next to [inaudible] 3 dors down from the balboa cafe. It is what we are doing here through the easter phaund rebuilding a entire fire house. I know the Fire Department has gone th...

First, with Amy Hollyfield in oakland. Amy . Kristen, we met with passengers as they evacuated from the train. They say it was tough to breathe while they were stuck. They say it was a scary situation. Some saw people carried out on stretchers some with oxygen masks. Firefighters say nine people were taken to the hospital. Two people said they didnt want to go although firefighters were trying to get them to go. 700 people remain on the train that was stuck in the Berkeley Hills tunnel between rockridge and orinda. They were stuck on there for an hour. Many say their cars were filling up with ...