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Up to them typically if you look at other trees when their cared for one of the ways to protect the sidewalk the size find the hole evolved so the sidewalk concrete is cut out to make a larger had he larger baseline to be for the tree to grow into mapped from my reach that could be done to increase the health of the tree there also were recommended by the gentleman putting in balance arrested to keep the cars from coming up to the trees so i think it just seem like to be a legitimate question why not do some of the smaller things to preserve what is an asset we all agree will take many, many y...

Construction. I thinkthe challenge today is not identify what we can do to make jobs but we need to make with Climate Change our whole game is changing. We need to be become aware there is tremendous waste if we dont recognize the history we have and build on that. We have done that in the past but i think ever since some call it the greedy 80s or nasty 90s things are kind of mean in this town and we havent paid attention to some important factors and that is called environmental embodied energy. I dont know if you have heard of this but existing buildings represent the resources that went int...

Thank you madam president. I just had a couple of questions coming from a place not being a Historic Preservation expert i wanted to ask about this project in particular, so to me its new to see a building or a parcel where one side is deemed a Historic Resource and other is not and i am curious how often do these determinations happen and what leads to that determination . Tina tam for the Planning Department. The subject building is a Historic Resource. We called the facade on embarcadero and steuart street [inaudible] and based on why its significant and association with the longshoremen an...

The area and i have nothing against New Buildings or construction. I thinkthe challenge today is not identify what we can do to make jobs but we need to make with Climate Change our whole game is changing. We need to be become aware there is tremendous waste if we dont recognize the history we have and build on that. We have done that in the past but i think ever since some call it the greedy 80s or nasty 90s things are kind of mean in this town and we havent paid attention to some important factors and that is called environmental embodied energy. I dont know if you have heard of this but exi...

Department should prepare. It should layout the kinds of questions the board would like to address and leave it to the department to whether those would be addressed in a negative declaration or whether they need an Environmental Impact report or the board could be more directive and say we dont understand this and there is a fair argument that this project does require an eir. If the board would take that, i would advise the board to give some planning on the direction there on where the lack of substantial evidence is. So by voting against the negative declaration we are not voting against t...