To come up i think our residents wants to know this work is great were excited about the pilot we want to see that permanent and the next steps peter albert from the mta i work with aaron there were recommendations that came out of the pilot but i want to go back to the assessment a lot of what liz has shown it is one piece of the puzzle but they all interlock when we look at the recommendation of making it a permanent project how do we take that point and look at the future those waves of development and the abstraction multiple modal incentives i have a lot of confidence if we talked about the 3 workers the transportations demand management is brown where you make headway we work with carlly right now trying to codify regular Transportation Management measures that help people understand what is laws are and the benefits of using easiest modes and behaving in a civil way i will refer to cameron but i want to make a plug for Transportation Demand management we reach to the giants and
Off the site. Why was that a criteria . Did you consider moving it within the 5m site . This is something we can respond to in writing in the comments and responses document and i believe what you are ruefr r referring to is the alternatives considered but rejected section. We will provide some more detail in response to your question in the cr anything else . I have a lot of comments but i can wait until later. Okay, commissioner johns. Has there been a presentation of this item to the commission before i arrived . There hasnt . I guess im surprised about that and was expecting that today, that there would be a presentation in order to, that we can look at the environmental document in context and particularly environmental documents, while absolutely critical to the understanding of the project, they can be kind of mechanical and kind of functional and what you miss is an overall vision for what were trying to achieve here. Because this is a huge change in the city, its very exciting
Think the Historic American Landscape survey would be helpful here. Theres a lot in that part of the city that the geology, the land forms, the landscape, basically that would be helpful to understanding the context of how were looking at the buildings and the infrastructure that is being proposed for change and renovation. So those are my ideas at the moment. Thank you. And i will just repeat commissioner wolframs comment about the alleyways. They have completely taken out the character of the alleyway. Thats my comment and i will draft this into a letter. Seeing no other questions or comments into the commission we will move on to the next item. I have one question and its a followup from what commissioner johnck was talking about. What is the process for because, you know, i opened the document and saw the 740 pages and almost fainted. I had to dig to find out where is the information that i need to look at this. And, you know, found one or two pages like that that, you know, talked
Be one count here in stead of six and possibly none, if they had paid off their debt and cleared out their bank, before that first filing deadline that they missed, you know, we take it retroactively terminate and that would have been the end of it but those obligations do exist and we are pretty clear in the training that the election day is not the end of the campaign. And for example, the public finance, candidates they have even more obligations and so we have to be sure that these folks know what they are, and but it is that syndrome that i just described that contributes a lot to this. Understandable. And the other thing that i would say and what is the number, and it is 9,000 that the staff is recommended and the 9,000 penalty, is that right. Yes. And if you will allow me to try to add a rationale to a number. And in our last ruling there was 10,000 and we got to 2,000 and we somehow talked ourselves through that that we got there. And we have 9,000 here and i am thinking someon
Advice than necessarily, you know, permits or approval, but id just like some clarification on that and then theres some other ideas that i have but for now those are my general. Thank you. Commissioners, any other questions, comments . Well open this up to Public Comment. Any member of the public have a comment . Seeing none. I would like to recommend we wrote a letter with our comments. I found this eir to be sort of unsatisfying, i guess, in terms of the preservation alternative. It was 740 pages and there was one drawing of the preservation alternative. Of all the 740 pages i believe theres only 11 drawings of any building at all, so there was a lot of text and as commission johnck said, a lot of it seemed very mechanical. But theres 3 Historic Buildings on the site and they are destroying one of them so thats onethird. It felt to me there were a lot of other alternatives that could have been explored which was a very sweet building. If this concept is all about revitalizing the al