Were now able to offer to sixth, seventh, and eighth graders of economically disadvantaged families the opportunity to attend our middle school and college prep tuition free. 95 of our fsa students are children of color. They would not otherwise be able to april tend our schools. Were really proud and excited about this. They will directly benefit from the sf lights project. A little more about our schools. Please show slide two. Were the Oldest School in the west. Since its founding its been an integral part of San Francisco. We pre mote academic adolescence along with justice. Originally an all boys school. In 1989 we opened our doors to young women. To prepare promising scholars from disadvantaged economic backgrounds. We have seventy five middle School Scholars and 1475 high school students. 40 commute from san mateo kowny. Wcounty. Our mission is to form leaders who are men and women with and for others. We believe strongly that what happens out side of the classroom and sports drama and cocurricular activities. In almost ten years i stepped away from counseling i noticed staggering changes. I dove into the research as to why its happening because its happening all over the country. Our adolescents are being pushed to their breaking point to get into college, to take sat prep classes, advanced placement courses all while social media and social pressure to excel was blowing up. I began to fight for our students and initiated change to our school culture. Last year when i was offered the job as Service Principal i thought long and hard as it wasnt ever a job i aspired to take on. I believed i could implement healthy change for our students and no one could stand in my way of doing that. Along with my team, i look at every aspect to look at where we can bill up for protective measures. Weve done many things. Weve hired train therapies to develop a wellness curriculum. We restructured our crit lum at the same time in lie of equity and collusion. We asked teachers torigors have not been lost. We introduce fun and Exciting Events to our calendars that allow a safe and fun environment. I know that seems minor but its very important to our teams. Physical engagement and participation in sports is very important to our schools. It helps us to breakdown our large school into smaller family type social units. Physical activity increases blood flow to their brains, develop moods, passions, act responsibly and enhances the relationship among diverse dprawps of kids. Additionally team sports cut off oaf load. We know this through research sm it it helps them to sleep better. This is where the lights come in. Educational research, our teams are going to bed later. They only get six point four hours of sleep on average. We want to avoid morning practices. Allow for our students to sleep in an. This is all in an effort to improve the lives and Mental Health of our students. Improving the lives of our students would make no sense to me if we were taking away from the lives of our neighbors. What are our sports programs. Access to fields has been a constant challenge. We get less and less access to campus fields. During the winter months we have six soccer teams vying for access to campus. Were forced to rent lights in order to conduct practice. Having lights would also prevent the need to travel dailies. Out reach and support. Si is always conscious as part of our school culture. Were available now and well be available for ongoing out reach. We also created the Good Neighbor program that includes a unique website where neighbors can contact us for concerns. We do not only try to mitigate our impacts on the neighbors but try to invite them to our events. Links to the schools events. The more important details about the project, this project is an all union project. All of our projects here are all union. Please show slide nine. We understand the concerns have been expressed. We tried to address what we believe to bepractices not games. Students and parents from other schools will not be coming to our neighborhood more frequently than they already do. that is your time. The commissioners may call you back up for additional questions after we receive Public Comment. We did receive a request for organized opposition. Are you prepared to present . yes, i am. okay. You have ten minutes. before im timed may i ask a question. Jeff, will you confirm when each slide is up. Theres a huge delay. i would just speak to your slides, maam. If he doesnt, ill notify you. He not going to inrupt you everu every time. our neighborhood strongly opposes this project. Note the park and rec areas, the public schools, our library, community garden, an the close proximity to our homes. In addition to one hundred sixty five neighbors, we have the backing of the cr club. A petition now has two hundred twenty eight signatures. We want to mention that because theres very small number of students from our neighborhood, it its an schawsive private high school which as you know. The m campus is entirely private sm the lights will be nean feet tall with huge away of lights on top. Did. With possible additional use in the summer. Thats well over two hundred nights a year. For a lng time si had long timee to have successful sports games without lights. Its a marketing tool. Thats just what this is. Its marketing. Its a new claim to fame to enhance their exclusive Sports School status at the expense of the sun set neighborhood. No other San Francisco high school with larger student bodies has a need for such lights. Weve proposed a compromise plan but si will not engage with the neighbors to discuss this option or brainstorm any other alternatives. In the past si has brought in temporary lights for their football games. Blaring loud mowzic. Increasmusic. We couldnt get ouo bed. Once these lights are permanent and installed all bets are off. Enforcement will be left to the neighbors which is unreasonable and perhaps impossible. Slide three, please. Finally we want to show you the sheer scale of these light poles. The left hand image is looking east. These are well visible uphill. The next two images show the enormity of these images. We have no ill will towards si. They are Good Neighbors. This is just a new usage that going to severely gooding to impact our nights and evenings. Thank you. Marry alen will present next. thank you. Ive been a Neighborhood Association on the technical aspects. We have three sets of detailed comments. The lighting does not need the wireless installation for that. Both projects use each other to justify both. Further rksz the schoo, the scht conducted further studies and verizon has not conducted tests as they should. The approval is not correct. The lighting project is still described in places in the draft motion as being sim bli a shiftt in use, those impacts have not been addressed. In addition the c equa excepti exception. Without studies theres no basis to evaluate the impacts or to evaluate their significance. Further cumulative effects have not been considered. We know its a planned use development that has been amended over time but theres been a lot of school expansions and still on the table the potential extended use of lighting at the smaller practice field. A lighting study was done. It excludes some really important effects. Reflected glare that reflect light back up in the air thats been exacerbated by fog. Also the Study Reveals impacts that are greater than what they state. Ill refer you to our july 22 submittal where we included our lighting consultants report. I just wanted to point out on this slide this came fromhow dark the rest of the neighborhood is surrounding the school. In the lower left corner is completely dark and thats the area of the west sun set public fields. The play grounds and other garden the public schools. Those are all dark. Next slide, please. I will also say that the draft c ua motion misses the spirit and intent of some key planning provisions most troubling some general plan elements and policies. Under the general plan the Environmental Protection an urban design element are completely ignored as are some policies in the housing and din dust ri almosts sm the c ua motion miss applies general plan policies they do include and overstates the project benefits. We can find the only Public Benefit would be from the Verizon Wireless project. There is no local around the neighborhood Public Benefit to the lighting project. The school has told us that the request to modify their existing c ua on the practice field lighting schedule is not part of the current c ua. That information and request is still in the draft c ua motion and if it stays it needs to be assess as part of coupe active esks of the new lating. You will matily we feel that before any project decision can be made, the Planning Department really needs to require additional studies, traffic, parking, noise, and better lighting study and should require an environmental assess m report. The department really needs to conduct a full review to assess those impacts and again to assess the impacts of the lighting and the Verizon Wireless projects separately. Lastly, we dont believe they can be mitigated under any circumstances. Light spill over on the sky, effects of the lighting on human health. Especially the students who would be exposed to this lighting for several hours a night as well as the lighting effects on wild life including threatening and endangered species. Lastly a disruption of the quiet nair hood everneighborhood ever. commissioners we should open the hearing for Public Comment. hello. My name is bray. This proposal represents a radical change in use. Its only a benefit to a private entity an the public is being asked to carry the burden with all of the impacts. Its part of a private k through 12it is not a Public Institution or public resource. If it were a public park or field, i might not be super happyit would be a benefit to all the sir im going to stop you here. If you are part of the organized opposition, you dont get to speak now. i dont. They used up their time, okay. that was made very clear. Lets go to the Public Comment line. sir, are you prepared to submit your public testimony . yes, i am. okay. I knew you would. i play football for the entirety of my time. Its been really instrumental for me. In addition ive had a lot of family that have occurred or plan to in the future