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Appeals and im sort of seeing it here, is and this is an appeal under ceqa, its not an appeal on the merits of the project. And so i think there are times when appeals ceqa appeals come before us, and you sometimes arguments about the merits of the project get mixed in, and that may be because thats the only way for the item to come to us. And whether agree or disagree with it but in 1999 the voters gave the policy authority over these kinds of issues to the mta board of directors and took that authority away from the board of supervisors. So im hearing, both in the written submissions and als...

I cant imagine being clearer than that. What i dont understand is just, again, how are you proposing we get around what is clearly stated statutory if that is the question. The preamble says minor alteration. In both exemptions, they have to be a minor alteration, and bike lane is listed as one of the examples of a type of minor alteration. But just because its a bike lane doesnt therefore mean its a minor alteration. Its a twopronged basically the criteria its got to be a minor alteration and then bike lane is listed as one of the possible types of minor alteration. But that doesnt mean every...

Alteration. But just because its a bike lane doesnt therefore mean its a minor alteration. Its a twopronged basically the criteria its got to be a minor alteration and then bike lane is listed as one of the possible types of minor alteration. But that doesnt mean every bike lane is a minor alteration. That was the as i understand it, that was the argument that the city made on the big bike plan and they got slapped down by the dort when they made court when they made that argument. President chiu if i could respond to that the code refers to what is described as quote minor alterations for exa...

Sometimes struggle with in these appeals and im sort of seeing it here, is and this is an appeal under ceqa, its not an appeal on the merits of the project. And so i think there are times when appeals ceqa appeals come before us, and you sometimes arguments about the merits of the project get mixed in, and that may be because thats the only way for the item to come to us. And whether agree or disagree with it but in 1999 the voters gave the policy authority over these kinds of issues to the mta board of directors and took that authority away from the board of supervisors. So im hearing, both i...

Supervisor wiener welcome. So one of the things i think i sometimes struggle with in these appeals and im sort of seeing it here, is and this is an appeal under ceqa, its not an appeal on the merits of the project. And so i think there are times when appeals ceqa appeals come before us, and you sometimes arguments about the merits of the project get mixed in, and that may be because thats the only way for the item to come to us. And whether agree or disagree with it but in 1999 the voters gave the policy authority over these kinds of issues to the mta board of directors and took that authority...