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Known for the lawn that leads up to the tower at the top of the hill and the fringe of trees that surround it, its known all over the city, you can see it all over. And part of what the university is proposing as a mitigation is a landscape plan to make sure that those large mature trees are secure and safe. While one mitigation in order to be a mitigation, the trees have to exist. They have to survive the process along the way. And ill give you the example of what went on with loyola village. We were told at an imp meeting there that the campus landscape plan will protect those large mature t...

Campus housing will have a Significant Impact on future student veterans like myself who will be proud and thankful to have usf to come to after service. Thank you. Hi, thank you for having me here today. My name is eva long and i am a junior attending the university of San Francisco majoring in politics and minoring in public service. I am a First Generation College student from honolulu, hawaii i am also a pell grant recipient who highly depends on Financial Aid to go to usf and i am very fortunate to attend a university that cares about academic success and individual growth inside and outs...

Getting involved on campus. There are two large reasons why i support the building of a New Residence hall. One, i had no choice but to move off campus my third year at usf. It is difficult finding an apartment because it is a competitive area to search for housing. I found myself homeless through july and would often find myself web caming my roommate who would visit apartments. I was 2,500 miles away and it was very hard to communicate. Often [speaker not understood] skeptical for having me as a tenant because my parents did not speak english so they werent sure how to keep my family account...

It needs to include the fact those trees will be platted and marked on the site and given to the planner ahead of the design process so he he can avoid them. That was not done the first time around and i dont think its too much to ask that we go to that next level in terms of making sure those trees survive. I really feel that these need to happen at the imp process because if we await conditional use, once the building is designed its hard to change. And if you look at the plan in there a lot of those trees they show on the metric around the landscape excuse me, around the dormitory, will not...

Plan will protect those large mature trees. We didnt have to worry about them. We asked that they be marked during the construction or conditional use phase. They were. But that didnt stop the fact that my wife came home one afternoon and of the eight trees that were 50 to 70 feet tall right directly behind our property, six were already down and one of them stripped. It took her the rest of the morning to get some attention from usf and some attention from the contractor. She saved one of those eight trees. That was all that was possible. Now, the university accepted that it was a mistake. Th...