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reduction plan is something new that has come out of the air district's process and is similar to a greenhouse gas reduction plan. if a fee or county has prepared a community risk plan and a project comes forth and complies, then that project's health impact could be less than significant. san francisco has been actively pursuing this concept and we have formed an interdepartmental group of planning staff, public health staff, department of the environment staff, as well as the mayor's office. at this point, we have roughly outlined our approach and have secured funding for our missi...

modeling being done by the public health department. because community risk plans do not exist we are working very closely with the air district we hope that development of the risk plan will alleviate the project by project health risk analyses that would be required. instead this would focus on air quality solutions and mitigation measures that could be adopted by individual projects. we also feel that by addressing the community health risks through this plan, san francisco will take a leading rule in furthering in fill development and by protecting the quality of our in fill comm...

measures that could be adopted by individual projects. we also feel that by addressing the community health risks through this plan, san francisco will take a leading rule in furthering in fill development and by protecting the quality of our in fill communities, we are furthering other state goals such as 8032 and sc35. a systemic approach would alleviate unintended consequences of the air district's threshold. so i am going to touch upon criteria air pollutants, and these thresholds are intended to answer a question whether a project would violate an air quality standard or result ...

because of these concerned, these thresholds could push development to suburban locations, or outside the city unintentionally. as i have noted here, the thresholds for health risks for new receptors are not anticipated to be implemented until january 2011 and the reasons for the delayed implementation is so that the air district can develop a more accurate data base of the stationary sources and so that cities and counties can development a community risk reduction plan. the concept of a community risk reduction plan is something new that has come out of the air district's process a...

group of planning staff, public health staff, department of the environment staff, as well as the mayor's office. at this point, we have roughly outlined our approach and have secured funding for our missions modeling being done by the public health department. because community risk plans do not exist we are working very closely with the air district we hope that development of the risk plan will alleviate the project by project health risk analyses that would be required. instead this would focus on air quality solutions and mitigation measures that could be adopted by individual p...