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Riders from new york to boston than all other airlines put together. 50 of people that travel this distance. And between washington d. C. And new york city, amtrak carries twice as many passengers as all Airlines Come bind. Today it carries 75 of inner city travel letters between new york and washington. Amtrak has done all this with the threat of funding cuts and privatization especially of the profitable northeast corridor hanging over its head. We know that in other parts of the world privatization of high speed Passenger Rail has tried and failed to solve the problems it was intended to so...

Representatives of new industries, really new green businesses that are thinking about how we can both do better by the environment as well as create new jobs here in San Francisco and throughout california. And then i did want to address a couple of the issues that were raised by the 0 billion industry and their testimony. First of all, the suggestion that somehow this ordinance might deprive san franciscans after an earthquake of plastic Water Bottles or somehow deprive those individuals with compromised immune systems of their plastic Water Bottles. ~ 60 as i said before, this ordinance doe...

I think ill just make a couple comments and thats just that i note there are a number of different issues swirling around this planning code change including both the design which is not before us and also the labor issues which are also not before us. But im really glad to see that through this process facilitated both with planning and president chius office we are able to resolve a number of those issues before the [speaker not understood] came before us. And i think it certainly will make for a stronger business presence on that corridor, having resolved many of those issues prior to this ...

Water. We saved tax payers nearly 500,000 a year and underscored the importance of our public water system. Supervisor chius ordinance build on that legacy by codifying this commitment into law and increasing access to public water on city property. It is an important step toward ensuring our community has access to choose clean and safe public water. And by reinvesting in and promoting public water over bottled water, San Francisco will set an important example for other cities and people across the country. The bottled water industry has had misleading marketing [speaker not understood]. Pub...

Ls Union Square Retail store is an important piece of this changing landscape and we urge your support. Thank you. Thank you very much. Is there any additional Public Comment on item number 3 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] supervisor chiu, i know you distributed some amendments. Yes. First of all i want to again thank all the stakeholders that have worked together and also thank apple for their discussions with the community to move this forward and very much hope that, colleagues, we can move this forward with full recommendation today. I do have a couple of technical amendm...