Landmark. Laurel hill gardens cemetery. As well as the cemetery, for San Francisco pioneers u. S. Senators and civil war heroes, its a treefilled park for San Francisco residents. Since i noticed the Historic Cemetery plaque missing from the red brick wall a few years ago, i wondered why would anyone want to erase this history. It made me sad. Well, as a result, it seems that the job of marking and memorializing this important San Francisco landmark has been left to its survivors, the trees. Some of these large, old growth trees are monument to this lost history. In addition to the history, many studies have reported that the loss of large, old trees leads to an over all loss of urban biodiversity. They are critical ecological structures because relative to their size, they are disproportionate providers of resources crucial to wildlife. Its times of Necessary Development and help preserve the landmarks that define your cities rich history. Concern neighborhoods are not anti developmen
Consistent with the policies and objectives of the citys general plan. The appeal also demands specific modifications to the project including the following. Limiting the height and modifications to the reuse Center Buildings and a reduction of the new building near laurel and euclid to preserve more open space and further limits on the types of nonresidential uses proposed. Related to the height of the Center Buildings, the Planning Commission supported the overall scale including the height because their placement in the center of the site set back from the public rights of way was a project objective. The project would place shorter buildings along the perimeter between 40 and 65 feet to serve the transition to the taller buildings in the center. A reduction in height of the Center Building would result in a reduction in dwelling unit count or to keep the unit count consistent, 744, and increase to other proposed New Buildings along the perimeter and compromising the compatibility.
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 we
Welcome. Next thing on the agenda, please. Number 2. General Public Comment. Are there any Public Comment . I see none. Next, please. Three Consent Agenda approving the minutes of the june 18, 2019 meeting. I move approval. So moved. Second. All in favor. Item 4. Ybi ramps project update. Hopefully you can hear me. Eric cordoba with the San Francisco Transportation Authority. I will give you an update where we stand with improvements. I have a slide show and then we will get into questions. First a little context. The Transportation Authority led the ybi westbound ramps project. We opened in october 2016. That was approximately 100 million in total primarily funded with highway Bridge Program seismic retrofit funds as well as proposition 1b seismic funds. Something we are proud of in that regard. What we are starting to move towards is the south gate road realignment which i will get into more details as well as the west side bridges project. Very happy to, frankly, announce we have re
Good morning, everyone. I would like to welcome everyone, especially those that are up this morning and watching remotely. Good morning. Thank you again for being with us, and also to my colleagues in the audience. Welcome. Next thing on the agenda, please. Number 2. General Public Comment. Are there any Public Comment . I see none. Next, please. Three Consent Agenda approving the minutes of the june 18, 2019 meeting. I move approval. So moved. Second. All in favor. Item 4. Ybi ramps project update. Hopefully you can hear me. Eric cordoba with the San Francisco Transportation Authority. I will give you an update where we stand with improvements. I have a slide show and then we will get into questions. First a little context. The Transportation Authority led the ybi westbound ramps project. We opened in october 2016. That was approximately 100 million in total primarily funded with highway Bridge Program seismic retrofit funds as well as proposition 1b seismic funds. Something we are pr