addressed in the eir to my recollection. and secondly, to say this project will not have a devastating effect on lifestyle and quality of living in the neighborhood defies one imagination, please consider the quality of life for the residents in our area. thank you. thank you. next speaker. thank you president chiu and members of the board. my name is jack and we are full-time residents. first we are in favor of having a mexican museum become a reality in our neighborhood. however, our apprehensions of the presently proposed format would be lost within a residential building and not easily found and enjoyed by neighbor and visitor rather than a freestanding easy identified area. in your deliberations, you consider it to be restored to a low format rather [speaker not understood] it s ill-conceived and will treat multiple problems. thank you very much. next speaker. good afternoon president chiu and board of supervisors i m john combs. i m in the business of buildings
thank you. thank you, next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. can you hear me all right? we can. thank you. i am alicia duke. i now live in one of the senior houses, mendelssohn house. i have always been involved in the area since i moved to the city in 1988. and even though i didn t live in the area for a while, i have always come back to it to do what i could. one of the main problems i see is the huge groups that are there, the conventioneers who do not realize that when they are walking five abreast down the sidewalk, it s very difficult to get by them; let alone someone in a wheelchair. if they had more ramps coming and going off of the sidewalks, so that if someone is being driven, they could get out of the car, get onto the sidewalk. things like that are not being done, and the museum that is proposed, wonderful, but in the various drawings they don t show like at the end of the block eh they have a ramp and it s a long block there. and cab drivers have sa
substantial evidence and discloses the impacts from the proposed project. so i know that we have heard this, but i m going to quickly summarize the project. the project site is on the northwest corner of 3rd and mission streets and the proposed project consists of the construction of a new 47-story, 550 tall tower consisting of 520 tall building with 30 mechanical penthouse. there would be three floors below grade. the new tower would be adjacent to and physically connected to the existing aaronson building. the new tower would have 44 floors of residential space and approximately three floors of museum space. in addition, the jessie square garage would be conveyed to the project sponsor for a total of 470 parks spaces. the eir analyzed access variance for the project site of the project sponsor would provide $5 million endowment for the mexican museum contributed to the yerba buena garden maintenance and provide affordable housing housing, additional to planning code requ
i have a question for the supervisors and all the people present here, you all heard of the emancipation proclamation? it was a time if i had the means and the desire by the way,, where is my supervisor? where all of the supervisors, especially my supervisor. where are you? if i could remind members of the public to be silent and we have a rule that we ask the members of the public to applaud. thank you, ma am. if i had the time and desire, i could own slaves. i could own you, usually the black people, i could own them. yes, i could. you belong to me. when it became illegal, everyone said oh, how horrendous, how terrible. how inhumane. how today, is it legal to kill babies in their mother s womb? when will you take action, so we can all say how horrible is this? it s murder. it s killing. when will you take that action? how can you take the action you have taken? excuse me, it s so much worse. so what i am asking you, supervisor, you said it s a blessing. when is it g
20 is a meigs affirming the certification. item 21 is a motion reversing the certification. item 22 is the motion directing the clerk of the board to prepare findings reversing the certification. to the audience, we will continue public meeting. because we have a special item and many individuals from the public who have come here for, that we will take up that hearing. with that, as we have done with other appeals of final environmental impact report we will consider the adequacy, accuracy sufficientry and completeness of the final environmental impact report of which you all have copies. today s hearing will proceed as follows: we ll hear from the appellants and i understand there are two groups of appellants and collectively they have up to 20 minutes in total to describe the grounds for appeal. if the appellants want to use their time, ten minutes apiece or divide their time up as you see fit. we ll then take public comment from individuals that wish to speak behalf o