Premier Railroad Museums in the United States. And also the birthplace of american railroading. Railroading began in 1827. The b o was in Continuous Operation until 1986 and is a legacy now. The museum is 40 acres and five buildings. The 1884 roundhouse is the jewel. Inside the round house are some of the most significant pieces in our collection. We have a Rolling Stock locomotive collection of approximately 180 pieces. The roundhouse is filled with some of the most unique, worldclass, oneofakind locomotives you are ever going to find anywhere. Railroading began in the United States in maryland, the baltimore and ohio was the first common carrier, the first to carry passengers and freight on a regular schedule. The baltimore and ohio was basically formed because of the canal craze in the 1820s. The success of the erie canal lead people in washington to propose the idea of the chesapeake and ohio canal, which would leave baltimore out of the loop. A bunch of businesses were very famili
Public comment testimony that are not solid facts. This body transitions. Supervisor yee will no longer be the supervisor. Things get lost. I want to go on the record early. I believe avalon bay will create a lot of problems for us, those of us who have relationships in labor. Many times our labor partners have come raising concerns that they havent hired union labor to do the job. Im talking something that is years down the line. But i just think that that funding that this is just not the right direction we need to go in and we need to reevaluate. Supervisor yee did a great job getting city college free. And now we have all these people that want to go there. We need to be mindful and respectful of the people who have been living around the college for generations. And weve heard from our citizens advisory commission, a policy body used to advise us. They are against it. I dont know anybody in support of this other than the Police Department Planning Department. Im going to be voting
Cohen. Supervisor cohen thank you. I walked in today to support this. Im thinking im going to be voting no on this. I am uncomfortable on many fronts. I think we need more parking. I think we need to provide more infrastructure for the college. I think there needs to be more Due Diligence. I think its curious we dont have any stakeholders to talk about this from city college. I personally have experience with avalon bay, the very difficult development company. We will have problems with them. This is just like the beginning, yes. Its a study. But thats how things start. And thats how development happens in this city. It starts with a study and then we build from that point on and on, developing facts that as you heard earlier from some of our Public Comment testimony that are not solid facts. This body transitions. Supervisor yee will no longer be the supervisor. Things get lost. I want to go on the record early. I believe avalon bay will create a lot of problems for us, those of us wh
Another huge area of concern, of course, is parking demand. And here we find that the consultants and the city consistently point to the ineffective existing Residential Permit Parking Program as a swlugs to parking demand. Solution to parking demand. One of the big problems with that program is it doesnt work which is one reason the city has been attempting to revise it the past few years. The other big problem with it is that it puts the entire burden of cost on existing residents. The coast for the permits and the time to collect signatures. The program should be borne by the Developers Just as the shuttle to operate during the city college and balboa park station should be included. Thank you. Chair peskin next speaker. Public steve park. The balboa reservoir project will bring a traffic bomb the likes of which the neighborhood has never seen before. It is crucial that this be managed correctly. The tdm reports to reviews vehicle mile trips in the balboa project site. It makes no r
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