Known for the lawn that leads up to the tower at the top of the hill and the fringe of trees that surround it, its known all over the city, you can see it all over. And part of what the university is proposing as a mitigation is a landscape plan to make sure that those large mature trees are secure and safe. While one mitigation in order to be a mitigation, the trees have to exist. They have to survive the process along the way. And ill give you the example of what went on with loyola village. We were told at an imp meeting there that the campus landscape plan will protect those large mature trees. We didnt have to worry about them. We asked that they be marked during the construction or conditional use phase. They were. But that didnt stop the fact that my wife came home one afternoon and of the eight trees that were 50 to 70 feet tall right directly behind our property, six were already down and one of them stripped. It took her the rest of the morning to get some attention from usf
It needs to include the fact those trees will be platted and marked on the site and given to the planner ahead of the design process so he he can avoid them. That was not done the first time around and i dont think its too much to ask that we go to that next level in terms of making sure those trees survive. I really feel that these need to happen at the imp process because if we await conditional use, once the building is designed its hard to change. And if you look at the plan in there a lot of those trees they show on the metric around the landscape excuse me, around the dormitory, will not be there. Theyll be gone. It will be too late. So, the screening that theyre proposing as a mitigation will not happen. I ask you to make them provide that before you accept the imp. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please, and let me call a few more names. Tanya solomon. Bob lee. Ruth levy. [speaker not understood]. Christin chris wall. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is ruth levy. I l
Plan will protect those large mature trees. We didnt have to worry about them. We asked that they be marked during the construction or conditional use phase. They were. But that didnt stop the fact that my wife came home one afternoon and of the eight trees that were 50 to 70 feet tall right directly behind our property, six were already down and one of them stripped. It took her the rest of the morning to get some attention from usf and some attention from the contractor. She saved one of those eight trees. That was all that was possible. Now, the university accepted that it was a mistake. They accepted that they really had some culpability here. So, what did they do . They offered to plant six fast growing tree. Ill tell you those six Fast Growing Trees have grown very fast. Theyre 20 feet tall now and dont block what they were supposed to block 13 years ago. Ill be dead before they become the screen theyre supposed to be. The issue is how can we prevent this from happening again . I
So, we also reached out to the community. We brought Task Force Meetings down into the neighborhood as often as we could. We sat in a night club on 11th street when we launched the whole idea of the social heritage district. We had a fourhour seminar type saturday that was held in the Community Room at the folsom door apartments where people we published a schedule and people that wanted to address various issues like affordable housing, transportation, a whole range of things, could come in and share their thoughts. No topdown sort of presentation. Simply come in at a given hour and lets talk about this subject. And most importantly, i would have to really acknowledge the generosity of friends of city planning that we were given a 10,000 grant from them, which enabled us to not only do extensive publicity. If i could show you a series of slides here related to the town Hall Meetings. But this 10,000 grant funded extensive publicity, including three mailings, ultimately to as many as 7
Anything else like that. We actually looked at what was there and if it could be adapted to reflect this fine grain community, we adopted it or we tweaked it. And, so, i think that what youll see is this is a plan that allows for the next 20, 30 years of the growth of south of market, that reflects our planning principles and grew out of all the nuance pieces of it. Thanks. Thanks, toby. Once upon a time in planning, transportation came first. They would build a streetcar line out into the wilderness, and then the housing and the commercial would follow and it would build around that. Today it seems like we engage in a Community Plan and we slap on transportation after the fact. Tom radulavich, director of Livable Cities served on the task force for the first four or five years, i believe, representing transportation advocacy, working with chester fong from Transportation Authority and mark solomon, as i mentioned. They wrote the transportation element of the plan. Its onefourth of the