But to say that it is going to make San Francisco more attractive is a read herring, we are an attractive place to be and we are moving it every day and our economy improves daily and people want to come here and Companies Want to locate here and the employees are demanding that they want to be in the city now and not in the suburbs at least some of the young ones and i think that the flights of the suburbs is a natural flight and sometimes, it is a temporary one for raising children and people want to have a yard where they can have the kids who want to run around and have a fence and want to live in the apartments and that is typically not a characteristic of housing in the city. It is just not. It is vertical and not horizontal and i think that some of those things just are natural. It is not about whether we are friendly or hostile. It is about we are different. And we are different at different phases of life. And so, i just dont feel that passing a law to assert something that we
Internally. There are still external factors that impact the deliverability of projects. Were a heavy process town. I know you get these issues at this committee and there is engagement in the process and sometimes it spreads the timeline of projects. The ceqa process some of the work were doing requires a full eir and can take two years and the ceqa process can be in the way as well so were trying to be effective and smart in planning for the ceqa process and the Community Engagement is effective but there is factors outside of what we can manage as an industry that impact the timelines but its something were focused on and want to make sure whatever resources we have whether from the federal government, the State Government or regionally or locally we put them into the ground and benefit the Transportation System directly. I appreciate your focus on this. We had so many transit related projects from Market Street to the subway and various other projects where initial deadlines and bu
An abomination down mission street. Nothing moved. Mission street doesnt have decent service. Additionally the one thing missing from every transportation seen that i have ever seen is a map of the hills of San Francisco. Until you grasp the fact theyre limited ways to get around the city because the mountains are in the way and the east is bay fill you have a Transit System and mind set that everything is flat and everything is walkable and bikable and its not true and the Transit System needs to be adjusted for that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Is there any additional Public Comment on item two . Yes, please come forward. Hi thank you very much. I am alice rogers, a resident in south park, and i want to thank you so much for holding this hearing. Its long over due, and all of the salient points have been made. I just want to support the need and the rincon south Beach Mission bay south park central corridor neighborhoods, the need, the absolute need to solve these problems. So fa
Hair though. For those that dont know what virgins are undyed or and i dont want you to change the waterfront because the warriors let them play in oakland because oakland wants them; right . But they want you to change the waterfront for them, so please dont do that. You see i cant even walk but my heart is in the right place. Right jim . You bet. Okay. Thank you mrs. Dearman. Okay. Mr. Lazarus and let me call i an additional card. Go ahead. Thank you supervisors and congratulations on supervisor chius engagement. The chambers work closely with members of the board, with supervisor wiener, with the department on a variety of revenue ideas to move forward mtas mission to provide effective transit for the city. As was mentioned earlier today the chamber is a cosponsor with the Labor Council allowing the state law to move forward next year with the vehicle license fee and we concur with the comments from supervisors today that need tos focused on transportation and transscpitd our own po
Budget and timeline so we can properly set the public expectations like the library and hospital projects and the rec and park projects. Thank you. And just a i guess we are tag teaming today and follow up on the issue of project delivery. I mean i will be the first to advocate that as important as our political process is that at times we allow the political process to go on with no end in sight and repeat itself and decisions never become public and shown with the major drama around a modest piece of ceqa legislation that i sponsored and that we just passed thank you colleagues. Its a hard issue, but beyond ceqa and process issues i know there has been some discussion about the mtas own process or multidesigns of process that some agencies dont have and maybe could use another look, and i am also glad to hear about the renewed top Level Management focus on moving Capital Projects through the mta, so i really want to encourage that. Its been my experience on some projects at least thi