And so, theyre able to space them out very far. I mean bart is the same way. When were running short, twocar trains we have to deliver the same number of people. So right now, were running about 42 were scheduling 42 trains an hour and thats a signal of muni to run as many trains to fit into the tunnel. What this graph is showing is that were falling short of that because the tunnel is not able to handle the volume of trains that were scheduling for it. And so we need to provide upgrades to the tunnel in order to increase the capacity of the tunnel. As a comparison, cities like boston are running 15 trains an hour through their most congested corridors and were running 32. So were about double some of the other larger cities with major metro systems. And the result of that is that we run fewer, longer trains, which is something that were looking into. And that is one prong of the strategy and the other prong is increasing the number of trains that we can run in the subway, so looking at this, trying to get that actual number up to the scheduled number and through investing in the train control system, we can run those trains closer together and eliminate the primary bottlenecks at embarcadaro and have vanesse te what were scheduling. So the traincontrolled system is not really the issue in us not meeting the number of scheduled trains and its more the physical issues with the tunnel and so, are there is there also a separate plan to address that. The solution to that will be capitol intensive and more tracks, more opportunities to turn back trains at embarcadaro, its the most effective way to achieve an increase in capacity. I would call that a modest increase in capacity. Were looking at, probably, 20 as opposed to a paradigm shift of changing capacity which would require a major capital expend tour oexpenditure and the train control is not to blame for the situation were in now but more the physical layout of the system, but what were limited in the options that we have with the capital that were able to expend at this time. Thank you. Thank you for that cojent answer. Any other questions from members of this body . Seeing none, any members of the public who would like to comment on this item number 6 . Mr. Patrick . Im with pac patrick and comy in sanfrancisco. Do we do a failure analysis of parts and therefore predict what the failure of those particular parts will be . Also, im curious if we do a simulation of what were talking about here. There are lots of programs that are available. I remember back in college, that was a long time ago, we did simulations of these systems. These are all discrete systems, predictable and they have vary variability but by tweaking it, you can prohibit where these problems will occur and if you do have a problem, you run a Simulation Program and boom it seems were learning this all by trial and error and not using our head. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public who would like to testify on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Miss kirshbaum, if you would like to respond to the member of the public, you may do so but neednt do so but you are given this opportunity, if you would like. Insofar as youre not underring one bjumping up,is there a motim number 6 . Item is approved and next item . Item 7, authorized executive director to increase the amount of the professional Services Contract with civic Edge Consulting for media and Community Relation services for the connectaccess program. Mr. Young . Good morning. I have two parts to my presentation and the first is an action item requesting and increase the amount of a consultant contract to enable additional engagement for connect sf. The second part of my presentation is information vertebralal,giving an update on. Connect sf is the longrange planning process with the mta and sf planning to build an effective, equitable and susta Sustainable Program for San Franciscos future. For the contract amendment, last year on behalf of the team, the Transportation Authority awarded a 150,000 contract to civic Edge Consulting for assistance in Strategic Communications and outreach. We would like to increase this by 100,000 for further consultant support. Specifically the additional funding would be directed to various outreach between now and 2021. Those activities would include staffing for general Public Outreach events, staffing for focused workshops alled at youth and southeast neighborhoods of the city and an Online Survey popup engagements and the Transportation Authority cac and board previously approved the additional 100,000 in prop k funds as a part of the connect sf Corridor Study. The action before the board today would enable us to amend the consultant contract to add the prop k funds. And now for a quick update on connect sf outreach. These are the phases of connect sf, phase one, we have completed throughout outreach across the city establishing a vision for San Franciscos Transportation Future over the next 30 years. Phase two is where we are now. During this phase, we will work with the community to determine the project concepts and policies to move us closer to the vision. During phase two, well complete the statement of needs which details where we are in relation to achieving our Transportation Vision and we will also complete the transit Corridor Study and those two studies will outline project concepts to pursue us closer to the Transportation Vision. Phase three will take place in 2021 and this is our citywide long range investment and blueprint for sanfrancisco. Now to the current outreach for sf, we have multiple goals in in current round of outreach to engage the public in a discussion about what works well and what doesnt when it comes to local and citywide travel. We want to learn more about what it would b take to get more peoe into travel by more sustainable modes and ideas for Public Concepts and policies to reach the Transportation Vision. And the outreach will happen during workshops aimed at youth and southeast communities in november. In january, well have two public workshops and an online susurvey that will parallel much of the workshops and we will offer presentations to any neighborhood or Community Groups that request them and we continue to engage with our futures task force which is croiscomprised of over 100 peope representing different perspectives of San Francisco. And that is my presentation. Im happy to take questions. Before i call on commissioner furer and with no disrespect to you mr. Young or my staff, my concerns about sf and efficacy remain and i want to let you know on behalf of myself and commissioner tang, i will be voting no. Commissioner furer . Looking at this outreach and i am wondering when you said it will be in language, are we including russian . Yes. And when i say inlanguage, for workshops, language assistance, we will provide that. So meaning that it is going to in english and if they want to participate, they can have teainterpretation, is that corr. Interpretation, yes. I think this is so important for my neighborhood and this is why im pushing back. What i have learned very few russian speakers come out, but if you hold one in russian because i have so many russianspeaking folks in my nakedneighborhood that are 100 dependent and i feel their voices are not at the table. If youre doing it in language, then you should do it in language, meaning that it shoul everything should be in that language and if people want english interpretation but we know its 70 at best. I wanted to give a plug for not such a passive outreach but not if they just request it but actually working, you could work with my office about spots where they could actually you could actually hold a miniworkshop, even, that would be a russian language one or a chineselanguage one and you could get a robust participation, just fyi. They dont do webinars or all that stuff. Pui think that if we so in order for us to do it, weve had to do it just for russian speakers. If we want to be totally inclusive. Thanks. Thank you. Are there any other questions or comments from members . Seeing none, any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And mr. Kinania, could you please call the role . Could we get a motion . Good point. A motion to move item number 7 made by commissioner furer and a second . Seconded by commissioner mandelman and a role call. role call . Peskin no. We have nine ayes and one no and the item has first approval. Next item, please. Item 8, internal accounting report and dead exposure report for the threemonths ending september 30th, 2019. Miss fong. This is a quick update for the First Quarter of fiscal year 1920. As of september 30, 2019, total assets equal to 205 million, liability at 332 million and revenues at 37 million and exposures were 14 million for the First Quarter. Both revenues are on target and expenexpenditures are low. 50 are in the city treasury pool and in compliance with the california government code, as well as the tas fiscal policies. As a quick update of debt compliance, the second year of our 2017 sales tax revenue bond and we have spent approximately 74 of the proceeds at this point. We have one year remaining and i have no doubt that well be able to spend these funds. We have currently spent approximately 70 of the bond proceeds on the Radio Communications system and cad replacement and trolley and motorcoach procurements. With that, ill answer any questions you have. Now. Thank you, miss fong, for yet another clean bill of health. Any questions from members . Seeing none, any Public Comment . Seeing none, the Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion on item numben item and there are no motion required. Is there any introduction of new items . Commissioner safaye. I spoke with the chair, the ta the other day and i think we had this conversation a few months ago and it got lost in the overall conversations, but i think its time to reignite the conversation about the ta allocating money to Purchase School buses for the School District. Many children are spread all of San Francisco and its not i dont think its 100 fair to ask them to rely solely on mta. We see some buses, but i think theres an underfunding for those and i know that during the great recession, the sfusd had to make decisions to cut those buses. I know we have the ability to purchase or allocate or replace, so id ask through the chair, ta to investigate how we can use some of our ta money to work with the sfusd to bring school buses back to sanfrancisco. Im follow up with that and sorry, commissioner marr. Thank you, chair peskin. It actually. I did want to say te with your point and, in fact, i started working on a new School Transportation study with the ta, the mta, the School District, dcyf and others and i think expanding our school bus service, you know, is something that will be a key part of that and would look forward to working with you on that, as well. And then colleagues, today, im requesting a presentation and discussion at a future ta Board Meeting on the citys electric vehicle roadmap, which was released in june. To reach our goal our citys ambition goal of Greenhouse Gas emissions, we need an alloftheabove reproach and that means public transit, walking and biking. But it also means expanding the ev adoption and infrastructure so that what car traffic remains in the future is cleaner and greener. My district is among the most car dependent in the city and yet, we have only one publically accessible evcharging station, with a second now on the way. Evadoption rates are improving but slowly and we know we must do better and more to switch to more sustainable options to address our climate crisis. So my hope is that this public discussion and presentation will help to provide insight as policy makes as ta as an agency and the public. Thank you. Commissioner furer. I wanted to mention commissioner safyeys request for transportation of school buses, i would caution you that this is an area that we have no jurisdiction over. Only the school board has jurisdiction over. And net are redoing the Student Assignment process to give more preference and actually assigning students to their neighborhood or their attendance area schools. We should give that a chance first, and also, i think, the full choice, we also know that choice is not equitable and i think the school board has now realized that full choice is not equitable. If you have three children, going to three different schools and you dont drive, you have no choice to get them there. Parents choose to take their kids to schools outside of their district, they should be carpooling with other parents, but actually, theres very little effort to even form carpools at school sites or even in classrooms. I think theres other things we can do as the School District spends about 20 million on transportation. Thanks. I may just also, in a different venue, suggest a hearing at the joint city School District board of supervisors chaired by supervisor hainey may be in an appropriate form. I dont wante want to get stan y talking about something not on the agenda. I know commissioner safaye will say something. I wanted to say thank you to all of the other commissioners and i know we have a lot of members that served on the school board. Because weve reignited the joint committee, we could have a fuller conversation about this. There we go. Commissioner ronan. Yes, i just wanted to chime in. I have been communicating with a lot of my constituents who have a really hard time or the neighbors surrounding the schools dropping their children off. Its an unsafe situation. So that seems like an area where the ta could take a larger role. I know we had set aside a small amount of funding, but i think almost every school in my District Needs some help figuring out how to create a safe system for dropoff and pickup of kids and its long, long overdue. So im hoping, maybe theyre innerrelated discussions but im hoping to combine that and would love more discussion in that area. Thank you, commissioner furer. So me again. I wanted to commissioner ronan, that the program that commissioner yi implemented, and they are doing at our schools, its excellent it gets them in and out in a safe bay. Way. And theyre doing the dropoff with students that yeah, so it works well in my neighborhood. I have say that we have blocks of traffic for dropoff and now it the traffic moves quickly and smoothly and students arrive safetily and parents love it and the neighbors on the block love it. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment, general Public Comment, mr. Patrick . I was disappointed you didnt move item 4 to a vote, where i had a chance to at least make a statement before it was voted upon. I thought that was a bad policy. I would like to talk about item number 4. I know its a done deal now, but this is my observation of whats happened. Pout we formed this committee and well, first of all, i will call your attention to a calendar. This represents a year. You may have seen these hanging around. Guess what. Weve had a chance to form this committee and now weve wasted a year in getting the dtx built, constructed and going. Now what well be doing is were going to study this problem and create a body, somehow or another, to do this. This is next years calendar. Weve wasted another year. It will take us a year, then, to hire the people to implement the program. Guess what . Weve wasted another year. Three years, ira one year down e drain and two more going. This is dtx to the third and were not making this successful. So i think this board has not performed well in bringing the best Transportation Systems possible to the people of sanfrancisco and especially the 60 or 70,000 riders from caltrain. Im very disappointed and thank you. Thank you, any other members for general Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is close oh, come on up, maam and ill say, mr. Patrick, when you write a 6 billion check, well build it right now. Go ahead, maam. Good morning. My name is annie vung and im here with my classmateses from the school of pharmacy. Were here to draw your attention to a bill that would create Safe Injection Sites in San Francisco to help combat the increasing rates of opioid overdoses and we would like to express our advocacy for this bill, particularly maam, you are totally welcome to do this, but this is not the San Francisco board of supervisors. This is the San Francisco county Transportation Authority and at 2 00 p. M. , we will be the San Francisco board of supervisors and ab362 is totally in that policy bodys world. But here, we deal with transportation issues. You are welcomed to continue talks, but i want to let you know, youre in the wrong venue. So we would like to express our advocacy in light of the issues that San Francisco faces with exposed needles and unsafe drug use often happening in public sites like muni and bart stations. We hope that the ta will work with other legislators to continue improving Public Safety should this be passed and for those who use public transportation. Thank you for your time and consideration. Thank you. Any other members who would like to speak . I would like to make a comment, as well. This is regarding embarcadaro station specifically. My concern is regarding item 6, i should have spoken earlier, but i do want to make a comment about that. Regarding the congestion in embarcadro, with operator changes in that station, delays can occur with, like, two to five minutes, making like a backup of four to five trains occasionally. So i was wondering there was another way change the information on how operators change regarding muni so they can change elsewhere, such as church in dubois where its service trains or farther out, for example, the end line, they could have change at ocean beach, instead. I was wondering if the community could take a look at that, perhaps propose a change in that regard so that congestion coulding fixed, at least in the shortterm. Thank you. Thank you for those comments and we will make sure that they are looked at by the appropriate body, which is the sfmta and seeing no other members for Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. And the ta is adjourned. Dont forget to vote. Good evening and welcome to the november 6, 2019, meeting of the San Francisco board of appeals. President rick swig will be the presiding officer. At the control is the boards legal assistant, katie sullivan. And im the executive director. We will also be joined by representatives from the city departments. We expect joseph duffy, senior building inspector, representing department inspection. We have the analyst with San Francisco public works and we expect carlo short and chris buck, forester from San Francisco public works. The board requests that you turn off all phones and other electronic devices. Please carry on conversations in the hallway. Appellates, permit holders, and respondents are given seven minutes to present their case and three minutes for rebuttal. Members of the public who are not affiliated with their parties have three minutes each and no rebuttal. Please people into the microphone. The board reserves the right to not call an item after 10 00 p. M. Please speak to board staff during a break or after the meeting or visit the office if you have additional contents. This meeting is broadcast live on sfgovtv. The video is available on our website and can be downloaded from sfgovtv. Org. If you intend to testify at any of the proceedings and wish to have your testimony given weight, please stand and say i do after you have been sworn or affirmed. Do you swear that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth . Yes. We are on item number 1. General Public Comment. If anyone is here for the 24th street tree removal cases, those are rescheduled to january 8. Is anyone here for those cases . Those four cases were moved to january 8 on the agenda. I apologize, we posted that information on our website. Unless you want to stay in here for the rest of the items, you should leave. Thank you. Item 1 is general Public Comment. This is an opportunity for anyone who wants to speak to a matter in the boards jurisdiction but is not on tonights calendar. Please approach. Good evening and welcome. Thank you for letting me speak today. Is there a way to make the clock show me how much time is left for my time . Three minutes, please. Thank you. Im here to speak just on the overwhelming problem of this city being deforested right now by department of public works and department of urban forestry. We have a huge problem going on right now. 2,500 trees were removed, public trees, in frisk in this past year. There is 100 trees slated for removal by parks and rec over at lake mersed. Its happening all over the city, trees removed. Its the polite way of saying removing and killing. These trees provide a lot of benefit for our communities, especially during the air quality problems caused by the recent fires. Bureau of urban forestry has not done their part in responding to the public. It took almost a year to get them to come into a. D. A. Compliance with notification for these tree removals. It took almost three months to get a reply from them just over email. Chris buck and other people at that department simply reply to the public whenever they feel like it and they dont reply in a timely fashion. Even after i involved the Mayors Office on disability, i still couldnt get a reply from them. A lot of times they say these trees are being removed, but well plant new ones. It took five years to get four replacement trees for 3500 mission street. Thats five years after i wrote numerous emails and spoke in person. The amount of work it takes to get these replacement trees is wild. I dont believe theres been a sufficient budget for replanting of new trees. Also, according to the United States department of agricultures report from 2016, over 17 of urban trees dont live past two years. A lot of the trees that are replanted get sick, theyre not cared for. Theres no budgeting to water them and put proper Irrigation Systems and mulch and pruning and they die. Our city is quickly becoming an urban desert. We have the smallest urban canopy, we fall behind chicago, new york, los angeles, and its getting worse in a climate crisis. Parks and rec doesnt have a successful notification system for people with disabilities, those who cant leave their homes and canvass parks to look for tree notices. Thank you for your time. Thank you, sir. Clerk is there any other general Public Comment . Seeing none, we will move on to item number 2. Commissioner comments and questions. Next monday is veterans day. Thinking of all the folks who served in our armed forces or are currently serving. I would also like to thank all the people who participated last night in our voting process and to the people that have successfully got new jobs and retained their jobs. Clerk is there any Public Comment on that item . Okay. Seeing none, well move on to item number 3, commissioners before you, discussion and possible adoption of the october 23, 2019, minutes. Do i hear a motion. [ indiscernible ] clerk we have a motion from the developed to adopt the minutes. [roll call vote]. Clerk to motion carries 50 the minutes are adopted. We are now moving onto item number 4, this is appeal number 19096, Maureen Maring versus San Francisco public works. 1653 17th avenue. Appealing the issue. Announcer on august 14, 2019, to extenet systems, llc, of a personal Wireless Service facility site permit. Installation of a box facility in a planning protected location. This is permit number 18 wr0195. Welcome. Clerk you can move the microphone down. Thank you. Im Maureen Maring and i live at 1653 17th avenue, frisk, our family home. Im here to present my appeal in opposition to the wireless cell set up. I would like to mention in all the information first of all, i would like to thank you all for being here and letting us talk. Our home is right by this the pictures dont depict it accurately, its closer. And in the information sent to us, it would be slightly defective. Truly, our block has no wires. Thats why families and people live here, moved on the block. Theres families, my neighbors paid hundred thousand dollars, millions in mortgages. My neighbors have families and children and they work at home. This wireless cell in front of our home would really, truly detract when we see other places down the street what it looks like. Also, i just wanted to say some of my neighbors didnt come here tonight because theyre working. Also, they feel defeated. They say no ones listening to us. We had to pay a 300 fee to come here again to ask for someone to listen to us. I just say, if you had your home and you paid all of this and then someone, a Large Company comes along and say they theyre going to put this in front of your home without any say so, i wasnt informed. I do have the date when i got it in the mail, but it was posted on a pole in front of us before we ever heard about this. So i think thats what i wanted to say. Thank you for listening to me and my neighbors and families. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Maring. You have all that pg e work going on . But thats necessary and theyre doing a good job. Clerk thank you. We will now hear from the permit holder. Good evening and welcome. Thank you very much. Im joseph kanisha with x and f systems. We are the permit holders. You, im sure, read the brief and visited the neighborhood. I will be brief in my summary of what i consider the primary issues with this appeal. They are the assertion that public notification did not occur properly, that the planning determination planning approval determination was made in error and that the planning approval determination was made in error. In each case we believe that they were correctly done. We believe that the applicable agencies correctly approved the proposals. Real quickly, id like to demonstrate how these things were true. Regarding public notice, article 25 requires that we both post notices in a variety of locations around the subject proposed installation. We did that. We actually posted six notices on 17th between lot and maraga. We were also required to mail notices to all owners and occupants within 150 feet of the proposal, which we did. We also mailed notices to all neighborhood groups or all contacts on the neighborhood Groups Associated with the inner sunset neighborhood. We uploaded affidavits confirming that both the postings and the mailings were done correctly. Public works reviewed those and confirmed that everything had been done correctly when the tentative approval was issued. That was protected which is some evidence that somebody received some notification, but in any case we did upload affidavits proving that we adhered to all the elements of article 25. Moving on to the planning approval determination, the Planning Department reviewed and ultimately approved the proposal in its april 5, 2019, memo. They specifically cited that the proposal would not detract from neighborhood character. They actually subsequently rereviewed their approval during the protest stage and reconfirmed that they agreed that it met all the comrapplica standards. We believe the Planning Department has taken all these factors into consideration and correctly approved the installation. Finally, the department of Public Health also approved and reviewed the proposal. Their review is based on a few factors, the operation of the antennas, the proximity to adjacent recipients, residences are about 17 feet away. Daniel roe of hammond medicine which is a third party can discuss the human exposure to radiofrequency. The highest exposure levels that would result from this installation were 2. 5 of the f. C. C. s limit. 40 times below the limit. The exposure levels for anyone on the ground for folks walking by on the sidewalk is less than 1 . Its pretty clear that these levels are well below anything that would be beyond noncompliance with f. C. C. s limits. Barring any other evidence that these determinations were made in error, we respectfully request that this board deny the appeal and uphold the decision. What happened to the regular counsel . That was verizons counsel. Even though weve had quite a few of these cases before us, what is the overall reason of the upgrade on the antenna poles . Upgrade . I mean, what is the purpose of the installation. Oh, what are these for, why are we installing these . Extenet is a provider. We work with all the major providers in the United States. We work with our clients to help them improve our wireless networks. As technology evolves, im sure youve heard this many times, the sites go from being way up in the day, now you need smaller facilities dotted throughout the landscape so all the users have the ability to be able to be using the system at the same time. We helped the wireless carries install those facilities to continue to improve wireless capacity. Are these 5g capable or just 4g . This is just 4g. This particular installation does not include the new technology. We dont know if and when in this case this client is sprint for this particular installation. We dont know when they might want to start looking at 5g technology. We expect it will happen, but we dont know what their plans are. Given the situation that we had recently in kinkaid with the fires, the older Cellular Technology had huge tower backups. These would not be functioning if the power to them is cut. There are no backup generators. They are large and loud. One of the deficits for having slim line. Yes. Clerk thank you. Well now hear from the department of public works. Welcome back. Hello. Good afternoon, president , Vice President , and members of the board. Im leo palasios representing public works. We believe this permit was issued in compliance with the public works code 25 for personal wireless facilities. Article 25 requires wireless application to be submitted to the department of Public Health and the Planning Department. Public works subsequently issued a tentative approval in the applicant mail and posted notice of this approval. Public works posted a public hearing. Following the hearing, the director of public works approved the permit and notice of this was distributed to the public. The Planning Department is in attendance and can speak more about plannings review if it has questions. The Health Department isnt in attendance, but is available to respond by email. Youre getting good at this. So as of june the regulations have changed and a permit like this would no longer be a permit but a license. Is that correct . Yes, our jurisdiction regarding poles, pg e and the other poles, this falls back to the pole owner. And i dont know if youre the right person to answer this, but if for some reason we upheld this appeal, would it have any significance, given that the applicant is now entitled to go and seek a license directly from the p. U. C. . All i can say is at the time of issuance it did follow the article. Any decisions made under your jurisdiction is up to you guys. If there is a modification to this, that it would have to go through sfpuc for installation of 5g, for example. Clerk thank you. Mr. Sanchez. We will now hear from the Planning Department. Scott sanchez Planning Department staff. Before you is an image of the plan for this district. This is a planning protected location because its on a street with good street views. The Planning Department did properly review this and their analysis is consistent with past practice for similar applications. Also, its my understanding that given the law that is in effect today, this permit would not be required and Planning Department review would not be required in this case, given the current state of the wireless controls. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on this item . How many people are here for Public Comment, if you could raise your hand. Okay. Please, someone, approach. Maybe if you could just line up on the side over here. Sir, do you have a speaker card . No, i do not. Clerk maybe if after you speak you could write your name down. I live at 1647 17 avenue. My neighbor is maureen. I would like to present an objection for a violation and an infringement on california penal code 372 and 373 p. C. Which gives citizens in our neighborhood and our community the right to appeal and reject any infringement on our senses, specifically sight is involved. I dont know if youve seen these devices that they plan to put in, but they are ugly. In our neighborhood, we have a beautiful neighborhood. These homes are milliondollar homes and we have a beautiful view of the hills and everything and they will obstruct our view. They are despicable looking and they give boxes and signs to give warnings to be around this energy. Thats number one. Number two, the poles in our neighborhood are not wood. Theyre concrete. Okay. So whoever is stating whatever theyre saying has nothing to do with those poles. All right. Weve been told that, my neighbor and i polled the neighborhood. 52 neighbors. 49 signed signatures that they oppose this because it is an obstruction of their views. It is an infringement on their rights for their senses. That is just a sampling. So the majority of the neighborhood oppose this. I think it is gross negligence on the part of the planners and other people for not taking into consideration these our benefit of having a neighborhood that is a beautiful neighborhood and our sense of beauty. San francisco is known about its culture and its sophistication. This is just being obliterated by a company thats installing it. Theyre not even from the United States. Theyre from britain. All right. So esthetic sensibility to them means nothing. Its the bottom line for 5g which they say is 4g. There is a doctor from israel, a genius, who has shown that these short waves are dangerous to health. Clerk you have 30 seconds. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. We approach that we can in some way utilize the law, the penal codes that protect us and our community to have the esthetic life that we live. Next speaker, please. Clerk there should be a speaker card on the podium. Next speaker, please. Im sorry, maam, youre the appellant. Clerk youll have an opportunity to come up during rebuttal. Were taking Public Comment for your item right now. Thank you. You can come up. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening and welcome. Thank you. Im a resident at 1657 17th avenue. We the residents of 1657 17th avenue have checked installation on the personal wireless facility next to our home. Were raising children along with other neighbors on our block. The alleged study does not address at effects on children. Children have more permanentable skulls and bones, nor does the f. C. C. Study address the cumulative effects. This will be emitting radiofrequency nonstop to cumulative radiation leaving us with no choice. Even those with cigarette smoking had a choice. Erection of a wireless antenna next to our home will be a forced, not concelebritied to exposure to harmful e. M. F. S. Densefied 4g or 5g will result in child endangerment. Its beyond any rational dispute that a childs skull is thinner. It is also beyond rational dispute that due to this frai y frailty, childrens brains are more at risk of nonionizing radiation. This is of concern from the American Academy of pediatrics, as can be seen at the following link. Overhead, please. Thank you. This is the letter electric the American Academy of pediatrics, f. C. C. , demanding for asking for more studies regarding children. This is consistent with other scientific findings showing that kids are more at risk, as shown in the other link. Its all going to be in this letter that i will leave. Allowance of dense urban distribution of 4g antennas cannot avoid the placement of these towers immediately adjacent, as in the case where i live, to peoples sleeping quarters, including children. Respectfully and including as to the use of the penal statute as a template for the civil liability, such placement appears to violate the spirit and intent and likely the letter of law of california penal code 273 a. We have heard you giving advice to residents contacting state legislators and the Health Department. We have done this a number of times just to get a standard reply from the governor and other staff to thank you, maam. No resolve. Thank you. Clerk if you could write your name on a speaker card. Next speaker, please. I live in 1661 17th avenue. It seems like everybody who is here tonight, i dont have any graphs or charts and im not going to bore you with this mickey mouse. It seems like everyone who is here is one or two or three doors away from this antenna. I was born and raised in San Francisco. Ive lived here my whole life. I lived in this house for over 35 years. The other neighbors have been 30, 20, and the newest one in the back has been there about two years and he has a little boy about 8 years old. Cutest little guy. We were never asked or notified of anything except when the person decided to apply for a permit, came before you, came before you folks. In all my years here in San Francisco, i never had an incident to come down to city hall. But i think ive been here a couple times now and its quite unusual for Something Like this. I just wanted you guys to know that our neighbors werent in favor of this antenna and didnt want to take that much of your time. Clerk next speaker, please. Can i ask you a question. How far away do you live from the antenna site . Two stores. Within 150 feet . Right. So you received nothing in the mail . No, i received the notice. What i was stating is in all my years of living in San Francisco, i understand the gentleman that they went through the process, we were sent the notices. But we were never asked prior to installing this antenna. As a matter of fact, since you asked me that, my neighbor one day saw a guy in a hoodie standing over in the front. He was looking at the site and he ran out to ask him what he was doing there and the guy just kind of ran off. The next thing you know, we got a notice for this antenna. Just a little bit of incite there. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is edward braznikoff. We have two children. We live at 1567, pretty much outside of the light pole, which is a light pole, not a power pole, for the installation. I bought this place 20 years ago or so because of the location. I was looking for residential, singlefamily area that had a classic, historic look, appeal, views. I found it in the Golden Gate Heights neighborhood. The installation of this antenna would take away of the appeal from the wireless street that we have and also basically it just it looks as if its just a monstrosity put onto a pole. Sure, its dressed up to make it look less obvious than the installation down the street. Looking up at the pole would be a constant reminder that theres radiation coming off the pole. Im concerned about my neighbors and my children, the whole residential character of the whole historic neighborhood of Golden Gate Heights. Its a quiet neighborhood. I dont understand why this isnt put into a place like a galleria where you can buy cellphones and try them. We live in a quiet residential neighborhood. I spoke to about 80 neighbors in our area and only about two wanted this antenna. Everyone else said we have internet, we dont need this and dont wanhi