Quality of life issue. I urge you not to allow the forest to be destroyed by mismanagement, dont allow trail tooz be closeed restricting access to parks stop the use of poison in the parks and vote to snd the eir back to planning deparchlt. Thank you. Thank you for the comments. Next speaker, please. Commissioners, my name is vick malhone a resident of mera loma park and want to underlying concepts that might be influencing how this whole remodeling of the eco system is going on. The conspt of restructuring a ekey system to a prior time may appeal to personal vanity but challenges realty. Applying the label Invasive Species sumes there is a no baseline or eco system populated by non native species. Is this realty . Who defines what constitute said a eco system. What date was choseen. 10 million or 5 thousand years ago or yesterday . We are dealing with a artificial contruckt here and obvious the definition of a native habitat is artificial construct and simply a guess. It also implies
On the trash left behind. steve kron4s Lydia Pantazes joins us live tonight with how their plan turned out. Lydia . lydia the difference this year is that there was a promoter for the event. His name is alex aquino, hes a local business owner. lydia because of that there were sponsors who are helping pay for clean up, fencing, porta potties and even security. A spokesperson for the city parks and Recreation Department that helped take some of the burden off the city. Also, you may remember last year there were 11tons of trash. This year, a spokesperson for the city parks and Recreation Department says much of that trash will be diverted. Aquino organizer i think that we had a good game plan and that the infrastructure that we said made sense but again the bottom line was to keep it safe and clean right and so thats the main focus. steve one man is in the hospital tonight after being stabbed during a fight. San Francisco Police say it happened near haight street and central avenue. You
Reporter obrien is not alone, similar incidents last year sparked concern, outrage, and efforts to make the trail safer. We will be out there helping people. Reporter last june Eyewitness News was there as City Partners announced creation of the Schuylkill River trail watched a volunteer based Community Group trained to be eyes and ears of the trail but after multiple meetings. There are 12 people that signed up to patrol the trail. Really frustrating. Reporter that is why it never got off the ground despite support from leaders and police said john lion, founder of the local Running Organization run 215. Arm chair quarterback is easy, axis harder. Reporter that is challenge Kenyatta Johnson whose district includes part of the trail is asking the community to take up. When people see something, they should Say Something but come on out and get involve. It is all of our trail. Reporter those trail watch never came to fruition city dim prove and increase light ago long the trail, they sa
Reporter obrien is not alone, similar incidents last year sparked concern, outrage, and efforts to make the trail safer. We will be out there helping people. Reporter last june Eyewitness News was there as City Partners announced creation of the Schuylkill River trail watched a volunteer based Community Group trained to be eyes and ears of the trail but after multiple meetings. There are 12 people that signed up to patrol the trail. Really frustrating. Reporter that is why it never got off the ground despite support from leaders and police said john lion, founder of the local Running Organization run 215. Arm chair quarterback is easy, axis harder. Reporter that is challenge Kenyatta Johnson whose district includes part of the trail is asking the community to take up. When people see something, they should Say Something but come on out and get involve. It is all of our trail. Reporter those trail watch never came to fruition city dim prove and increase light ago long the trail, they sa
Time winds are coming from the northeast. Those winds will quickly shift to the south moving into the work week. Clouds will begin to thicken back up bringing the chance for showers and well bring in warmer temperatures. Mondays chance for showers will be light and mainly late into the day. As soon as this system moves out our temperatures are dropping back into the upper 50s and low 60s for highs. Today mostly sunny. Wind ne 510 high 67 alo 66 dbq 65 iow 68 64 to 70 tonight partly cloudy. Wind se 510 low 49 alo 48 dbq 49 iow 50 46 to 52 tomorrow slight chance high 72 alo 72 dbq 73 iow 73 69 to 75 tom. Night slight chance of showers. Wind s 510 low 53 alo 53 dbq 53 iow 53 50 to 56 tuesday partly cloudy. High 74 low 53 wednesday chance of showers, mainly early. High 57 low 57 thursday partly cloudy. High 58 low 36 friday chance of showers mainly early. High 62 low 42 saturday partly cloudy and mild. High 72 low 52 sunday showers and storms possible high 74 low 56 monday partly cloudy. P