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77.7 million gallons a day. we have an available supply of 81 million gallons a day from our watersheds, plus about 1.5 million for pumping groundwater. that is our available supply, and we have contractual obligation to keep under that 81 million gallons a day. the allocation itself up 31,193 units by 2014 is going to require 3.7 million gallons a day more. the annualized units that can be built under existing zoning will require 7.3 million gallons a day more, and eat you go all the way of to the initial vision scenario of 90,114 new units, you need 10.8 million gallons a day more....

i am a resident of the marina district since the 1970's. my understanding is that under the 2009 housing element, rh1 and rh2 zoning will be changed to allow up to eight-story buildings to be erected where i think four is the current height limit. such as in the marina cal hollow districts. i understand the current requirement for yard space is to be eliminated as well and that the requirement for adequate parking space will also be done away with. these changes will destroy the livability of our neighborhoods and will seriously damage the need character of this city, allowing the de...

is two years late in a vain attempt to placate opponents who cannot be placated. you have a clear choice in front of you. this is being opposed by folks, and this is difficult to say -- many from the nicest neighborhoods in san francisco, was clearest and most defining civic values seems to say, "we have got ours. let's close the doors and prevent anyone else from coming into our neighborhoods. that is wrong and should not be condoned. it is a weird, like the birthers, for whom no evidence can persuade them. there is no evidence that single-family homes are at risk because of this. t...

-- just to remind you, how many more people do you think would want to come and live in san francisco if it is not beautiful anymore? the question was where do we put more people. do you think that more people would want to live in such high density neighborhoods? supervisor mar: thank you. could the last couple of speakers please come forward? >> hello, supervisors. as i mentioned last week, the residential design guidelines approved by the planning commission in 1999, i would just like to focus on one procedural point, and that is that all of the community organizations with which ...

>> i am a former elected member of the order directors of the association of bay area government. i was elected in 1978. 1974, 1976, and 1978. we were a group that was supposed to supply input to hud. we were elected spontaneously. i was one of the once elected. we found themselves in a strange situation. the pressure was to build, build, build. unions like the ones you have seen today, many of them would gladly repave golden gate park with the pyramids in egypt if they could get the scale, let's be honest. the same situation with men developers and spur. they want to build, build, b...