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And organized sportss in their own neighborhoods. Those students have grown up to be youth organizers and a new generation of kids have been asked to be prioritize over corporate teams. The youth have repeated asked to play baseball even the residents who have tried to go the permitting route have gotten no response or Transparent Communication from our rec and Park Department. Our office was recently told that when the soma youth collaborative tried to apply for a permit to use the baseball diamondback in september, for baseball, that he this they [speaker not understood] we ask for commitmen...

It offends me as a resident to see that something as precious as a park that is available for the youth, continues to be visible in the community as being targeted. I would like for the panel to acknowledge that the diversity in the city, the latin culture, the africanamerican culture and even the asian culture has made this city famous for the culture that is here. But that is exiting, because we know inequalities do exist in the city. We would like to see a stand taken against that. So we can continue to be present in the city. But any choices that you are making in regards to for instance o...

Visible in the community as being targeted. I would like for the panel to acknowledge that the diversity in the city, the latin culture, the africanamerican culture and even the asian culture has made this city famous for the culture that is here. But that is exiting, because we know inequalities do exist in the city. We would like to see a stand taken against that. So we can continue to be present in the city. But any choices that you are making in regards to for instance our parks, please be considerate these are impacting to our future. These children are our future. These youth are our fut...

seems like a lot of office development -- if we could look into that -- >> i suspect it is mission bay and hunters point shipyard. >> there are a couple of projects that will build out over a longer time. commissioner sugaya: those projects are skewing the numbers on the city-wide side? it isn't distributed evenly throughout commercial areas? >> no. commissioner antonini: in addition to the housing projects in the pipeline, there are quite a few under construction. one would expect the 2011 drop was an anomaly and there will be big changes in 2012. the transit use mentioned only 36% ...

downtown area in the first six months of this particular year. there are newer figures that will show quite an increase which is encouraging >> absolutely. president fong: is there any public comment on any item in this report? commissioners? any comments or questions? >> if we can move forward on your calendar to the general public comment for 50 minutes. at this time, the public may address you on any subject matter in the jurisdiction of this commission. however, for this category, each member of the public may address you for up to three minutes each. keep in mind the entire cate...