The exiting issues and i am sure that if he is going anywhere soon, he is going to keep us on our toes on that and so we are expecting that, i already had that discussion with him this morning, prior to the hearing, he brought up something there, but a second means of egress from a third level that is the first that i heard that have and the discreptcy on the plans. I think that all of those issues will be sorted out at the addendum stage, process. Thank you. Thank you, good evening, president hwang. The project remains compliance and we see no reason to grant the rehearing request. I am available for any questions. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, commissioners, the matter is submitted. Just a point of clarification, i believe that i made a more general statement at the hearing with respect to this project that i felt it was in general cocompliant, i dont think that i have made a specific statement, if i did i try not to. With respect to exiting from the garage.
Presentation. So, i am also a park user and i would like to say thank you for hearing the appeal and considering our concerns. It is absolutely not correct that spending a half Million Dollars for a repeated Community Workshops replaces the compliance with the Environmental Control regulations. The workshops are more about marketing a product, rather than the project so that they can make sound decisions. If you look at the certificate of determination, it is specifically says that there is no work in the natural areas, and that there is work on the hillside. There was a quick email that was sent after we filed the appeal saying that well that was not going to change their determination from the department of planning but that is not a valid, evaluation that would go to the departments to come to that certificate of determination. So, regular citizens and others have to comply with the Environmental Control regulations and so too should the city. So i have to say, ask yourself, where i
Presentation that chris made. First of all, i have a question about whether it really is work putting in so much pesticide into the natural areas. And the fact is that i dont think that the numbers that weve showed on that graph for Pesticide Use are accurate. Going back to what i said in the database, just off the top of my head, there were two months of data missing in 2010. There was at least one month of data missing in 2013. There were three or four different reports that didnt get included in 2012. So, i think the database is working to its greater accuracy. I dont know if its there yet. Certainly at the little subset i looked at which was natural areas, its still not right. So, i cant speak to what happened before 2008 and 2009. Thats the earliest information that ive got. But certainly in the last few years the Natural Areas Program has been using a lot of pesticide and i understand why. Their job cannot be done without it. The question is, is that job worth doing . Is it worth
For moe mosquitox, for example, that we really cant control. ~ its something that is driven by mosquito outbreaks, west nile virus outbreaks, various Public Health issues, and also those are almost universally very low toxicity products. They are mike robial products that are in storm drains or hormones that are in tiny, tiny amounts ~. So, thats the rationale for not looking at that. These are the top 10 most used hazardous products in the city based on active ingredient, pounds of active ingredient. Youll see most of them are for golf courses. Joining us now is [speaker not understood] which is an herbicide used for the really tough weeds, the woody, woody weeds that you would maybe need a backhoe to dig out or that you just himalayan back berry, cut down the stump and kill the roots [speaker not understood]. The good news is since we i think in 2008 identified garalon as one of the products we wanted to find substitutes for, there has been some decrease in our usage of it. This is N
Conference we cosponsored, the city of crest and Parks Conservancy and many thanks to them for helping out in that effort. Based on the Design Training which is the first of its kind in San Francisco, we had this past year, and every year we have a complete round of annual pesticide safety and ipm trainings for anyone who is remotely involved with pesticides. And, of course, our monthly meetings at the ipm Technical Advisory Committee which its about 10 times a year is what it amounts to. I also wanted to mention we launched a project to turn the pest prevention by Design Guidelines into a lead pilot credit. So, this is what the u. S. Green building council, were using the same National Committee that helped put this these guidelines together to try to turn it into something thats permanently enshined in leed. So, im crossing my fingers about that one. And as i mentioned, we completed, i put quotes around that. We completed the [speaker not understood] database. There are still some bi