Climate emergency, and trying to figure out how to sequester carbon. Finally, the ficus order fails to make up for the loss of canopy at Washington Squares in terms of tree species, size and proposed planting schedule. I would like to ask Telegraph Hill dwellers and all largescale removals going forward, because they didnt this time around. Yet, we are the largest, oldest, best known Neighborhood Organization in north beach. If the city wants to build a relationship of trust, and transparency, especially after what happened at the playground on the loss of our little fore forest, it makes sense to work with the neighborhood. Now, we have heard all of us are the replacements of choice for the ficus along the 600 block of columbus. We were not consulted as to the species, even though all of dusn that magnolias, i hardy evergreen street tree, which sequester ten times more carbon, and they soak up four times more stormwater. We would like to be consulted on these kinds of decisions. Thank
Appeal asks for massive treeplanting in this era of climate emergency, and trying to figure out how to sequester carbon. Finally, the ficus order fails to make up for the loss of canopy at Washington Squares in terms of tree species, size and proposed planting schedule. I would like to ask Telegraph Hill dwellers and all largescale removals going forward, because they didnt this time around. Yet, we are the largest, oldest, best known Neighborhood Organization in north beach. If the city wants to build a relationship of trust, and transparency, especially after what happened at the playground on the loss of our little fore forest, it makes sense to work with the neighborhood. Now, we have heard all of us are the replacements of choice for the ficus along the 600 block of columbus. We were not consulted as to the species, even though all of dusn that magnolias, i hardy evergreen street tree, which sequester ten times more carbon, and they soak up four times more stormwater. We would lik
That these new options that you have come up with are fabulous if, in fact, theyre going to happen. But based on this report that im reading, i dont think that they ever will. I dont think february 1st, 2013 is near enough time to take on these new options. And i think that its funny that february 1st, 2013, is probably two days before youre going to start digging the trench on columbus avenue. Also it seems like to me, based on our future or our past business together, that this is an item to a bees us when the real serious matter is paragraph 3, which says, if we cant do options 3 or 4, were going to do what we had originally intended. I think thats all i had to say. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Lance carnes, steve taylor, lorenzo petroni. Mr. Carnes. Good afternoon, mr. Carnes. Yes, nice of you to hear us today, board members. Id like to underline again about the Community Input and the communication to the neighborhood. Ive gone to maybe five or six meetings over the last
Meeting was attended by approximately 90 people. And based on the above option review, only option 4 addresses the construction concerns of the Community Without impeding a possible future extension of rail service to north beach or Fishermans Wharf. Now, the challenges with this option include a very tight timeline to secure the access rights to the private property, would require the appropriation of additional local funds needed to secure the property access rights. And then a bit of additional engineering review. And approval, if necessary, to remove the tbms from private property. Now, if option 4 proves infeasible, option 3, leaving the tbm head under columbus avenue, would respond to the disruption concerns raised by some members of the north Beach Community. The challenges with option 3 include also a tight timeline in which to obtain the additional project funding, complete the additional Engineering Work and execute the necessary contract modifications to move this work forwa
Real. Right. The downside of option 3 is that in order to accommodate for north beach station, you would the likelihood would be that you would have to remove these machines, which would be from a difficult operation in the future. Were currently looking at, though, to look at ways of perhaps diverting the machines, kind of off the path so that would either minimize or, you know, prevent the need to remove these machines. And normally when you use a tunnel Boring Machine at the end of the project, that tunnel Boring Machine comes out and it i guess goes onto another project somewhere to dig again . Yes. Typically these machines have a useful life. The particular machine thats being used to construct the central subway are brandnew machines. So, they have a significant quite a bit of useful life left in them. All right, thank you. Other members of the board . Mr. Reiskin . Yes, i guess i want to add a bit more context and explanation and perhaps offer that, since weve been working very