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Wonderful thanksgiving. Good evening. This is a meeting of the San Francisco commission on the environment. The date is tuesday, november 28, 2017, and the time is 5 01 p. M. Reminder that the ringing and use of cell phones, pager, and similar producing sound electronics are prohibited. Please bed a vie advised the chair may order the removal of anyone using a sound producing electronic device. Note there will be Public Comment on every item as well as an opportunity for general Public Comment for items that are not on the agenda. If you would like to speak, we ask that u yo fill out a speaker...

Card and hand it to me and i will hand it to the president and they will have folk who is will be called in the order that they are received. You also have an opportunity to speak anonymously. So with that, well start item one and roll call. President bermejo. Here. Vice president wald. Here. A commissioner ahn. Here. A commissioner hoyos. Here. A commissioner stephenson. Here. Commission commission wan is on her way. There is a quorum. The next item is item two, president s welcome. This item is for discussion. Good evening, everyone. And hope you all had a very nice thanksgiving. And welcome...

Public comment testimony that are not solid facts. This body transitions. Supervisor yee will no longer be the supervisor. Things get lost. I want to go on the record early. I believe avalon bay will create a lot of problems for us, those of us who have relationships in labor. Many times our labor partners have come raising concerns that they havent hired union labor to do the job. Im talking something that is years down the line. But i just think that that funding that this is just not the right direction we need to go in and we need to reevaluate. Supervisor yee did a great job getting city ...

Cohen. Supervisor cohen thank you. I walked in today to support this. Im thinking im going to be voting no on this. I am uncomfortable on many fronts. I think we need more parking. I think we need to provide more infrastructure for the college. I think there needs to be more Due Diligence. I think its curious we dont have any stakeholders to talk about this from city college. I personally have experience with avalon bay, the very difficult development company. We will have problems with them. This is just like the beginning, yes. Its a study. But thats how things start. And thats how developme...

Another huge area of concern, of course, is parking demand. And here we find that the consultants and the city consistently point to the ineffective existing Residential Permit Parking Program as a swlugs to parking demand. Solution to parking demand. One of the big problems with that program is it doesnt work which is one reason the city has been attempting to revise it the past few years. The other big problem with it is that it puts the entire burden of cost on existing residents. The coast for the permits and the time to collect signatures. The program should be borne by the Developers Jus...