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How north beach is different from union square, thats persuasive, different kinds of business, different kinds of support from corporation, all that kind of thing. So, those would be my comments. Ill open it to members of the board. Director heinicke. I have a question, which is based on these presentations and the goal of extending the project further north and the goal of obviously accommodating our neighbors to the extent we can, i certainly favor option 4. I think weve heard a lot of comments of people who were just generally opposed to the project overall. Those arguments continue to. Som...

Fares will increase, and this has not come up at all that i know of, not at this meeting or other meetings. What are we going to do in the future when we cant get around the city with Public Transit and that train system is just a big boondoggle . I also fear what the 1906 earthquake could not do to destroy chinatown, this project will. And my favorite place to go is north beach. And im just horrified to think that i will not be able to access some of those wonderful restaurants and bakeries that are there because of the disruption of this construction. Thank you very much. Next speaker, pleas...

Asked the last meeting, why section 1 have to be done after 2, 3 and 4, cant pick any of those . They said, well, thats what you need. You need a station in north beach so more people coming in. When the station going to be done . Its not even on the books. Its not even money, nothing. 10 years from now, 15 years from now . This is 1989 to 2012 to be starting. When the station north beach going to be . Theres no money, theres no plans, theres nothing. Im going to be retired. Im not even going to make it work. My business is going to go down. Theyre not going to listen. I asked mr. Funge to tal...

Okay. This question is for staff. On third street along that block, whats on the other side of the street . The opposite side of this is an existing condominium oh. The bossa tour and they have bottom retail. There is a chain and they are working on that. Small market is what i have heard, but i havent seen anything come through yet. Yeah, the chase is already there. Okay. Thank you very much. Are there any questions or comments . I just have a comment. The color is very nice. You need more of it. Yes we do. I would say that general comment as well. Thats a great design. Its challenging to pro...

After our action today. I wanted to jump into a little bit of detail about how we are going to resolve some of the issues. In particular ground floor activation. So, commissioner ellington got to a little bit of that when you were talking about entrances on first street. I would like to hear more thoughts maybe from the architect on how we are going to get to some compromise on ground floor activation because the parking is on the ground floor that lovely sort of courtyard which i understand is for private use. Thats above peoples heads on the ground floor and that does appear to be that activ...