The determination by the Planning Department that the proposed project is categorically exempt from further environmental review. Item 38 is a motion conditionally reversing the determination, and item 39 is the motion to prepare the findings. I believe you may be muted, mr. President. President yee i believe these items were continued to a later date. Supervisor mandelman, did you have any remarks . Supervisor mandelman yes. I did not anticipate we would be continuing this today. Weve continued it several times. Yes, this has been pending for us for sometime, initially, it was delayed because of shelter in place. More recently, we have continued it a couple of times because of the because of health issues. The counselor for the appellants is sue hester, who i think folks know, and she believed that she would be able to present and participate today, and then turned out, for reasons beyond her control, that she would not, but she promises that she will be available if and will not ask
Else. Im here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to Parks Program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. Parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a Community Driven program. The program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted were here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. Yeah. We partnered with the pavement to Parks Program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot Community Ga
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Would the secretary please good morning, commissioners. [roll call] all right. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Please note that, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public at the Commission Room at city hall is now closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely at the same extent as if they were physically present. We ask for your palm beachsinger and we may experience some issues. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. Each speaker will be given two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunities to speak are available via phone by calling 8774029756 or 6366513142. The access code is 5713184. When you are connected, dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the queue to speak. You will be lined up in the system in the order you dial 1 and 0. The slm notify when you are in line and waiting. All callers will remain on mute until their line is open. Everyone must account for the time delays and s