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Latino, overwhelmingly of color. Those people are being displaced. That is recognized by ceqa. We saw this on the fillmore redevelopment when the city was trying to urban renewal and displaced a population. These are serious impacts. There is mitigation available in terms of housing and low and moderate funds. Whether these residents are city of san city san franciscans or not. Im from chicago. I live now in west portal. People come in. Every new wave of immigrants is rejected by the old. Thats how things go. That doesnt make it right. Im saying its a natural thing, but when the government tak...

To base this appeal on the merits that are before us and i do think there are ways in which we can distinguish some of these other potential appeals and i actually think that whats likely to happen here if this appeal is denied as it looks like its going to be, i think that there will be a legal victory for the appellants in court because of the insufficiency of the evidence and the rational that has been presented. And what i would say is that i wholeheartedly agree with what has been said about the issue of tech workers. We could not in anyway demonize tech workers. They are San Francisco re...

They came here as a result of the shuttles, that there is some sort of outside invading force taking over our city and that they just arent one of us. Now, we know and anyone who knows people who ride these shuttles knows that quite a few of them have lived here for a very long time. Many of them used to drive and now take the shuttles. Many of them consider San Francisco home and are passionate about this city and in fact in the survey that you just cited more than twothirds of them said that even if the shuttles disappeared tomorrow they would stay in San Francisco and half of them would bra...

First, i thinkshould be clear that we believe the systems are safe. One of the safest mode of travel we have available to us in this day and age. Real also believe very strongly there are steps that need to be taken in order to address the safety, not just of the general public, but the employees who work for these diseases. There is no question that when youre dealing with an aging infrastructure and the needs that are required to maintain that infrastructure, employees will be working in Hazardous Conditions that can make for an unsafe situation, but there are steps that the Transit Agency h...

San francisco and make those quick connections and get to their homes down in silicone valley. Does that raise a ceqa concern around displacement to cal train and muni and say this is a ceqa problem because you are going to cause these Technology Workers to want to live in San Francisco and we are making it too easy for them to get to work. Absolutely. I dont want to mins words but everyday when the government does a Transit Program or fremont or San Francisco muni program, they do an eir. The eir analysis all the impacts including air quality, including growth, what is called growth inducing ...