Slightly outside of park 105. If its possible and if its appropriate we ask the board of supervisors to consider something that would include us to be able to work with this developer in full cooperation to make sure that our students or faculty and our school can operate and function in its normal way that were supposed to. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to mention, colleagues, that ive had conversation with my staff has had conversations with usfd and with the project sponsor and i do want the project sponsor specifically to address the issues around garfield at the appropriate time. I want to welcome our colleague from the school board, [speaker not understood]. Thank you, supervisors. I had in class to be conducted an Environmental Review at 115 telegraph boulevard. The staging of the cement trucks is going to be on filbert and kearny and this happens to be also the location of Garfield Elementary school that educates 250 children. We had not heard about the staging location unt
And if there are significant impacts whether, in fact, this project should be approved or not. Just to say a little bit more about the geotechnical report, weve had some reports going back and forth and theyre very technical. Im just a lawyer. I dont understand all the scientific matters here, but its a classic dispute among experts. You have experts that are looking at similar facts and disagreeing about the consequences. In that situation you need an Environmental Impact report to assess in fact what the impacts are going to be, whether theyre going to be significant and whether they can be mitigated to a level of in significance. Also relating to traffic your Staff Reports that and esthetics as well, you have a lot of opinions of local residents in this record. That those are not evident that you need to consider ~ because they relate to argument and speculation. And thats not what the law provides. Its very clear that certain very technical areas of environmental analysis like geot
Fail. You dont want a project that has for mitigation measures to be approved by exemption. In the cases say thats not allowed. Here there are a lot of mitigation measures. Project conditions and the geotechnical report indicates a lot of other conditions and mitigations to be added in the future. Because there is a potential that those mitigations to fail or not be adequate, we dont know. We dont even know what they are. So, this board cant make a finding that no mitigation is me. By approving a categorical exemption, what this board would be saying is that this project has no potential significant Environmental Impacts and youve got a record in this particular situation that proves the contrary. So, in this particular situation its imperative that there be environmental analysis to include the concerned public and to give the city and your staff the information that it needs to consider whether this project should be altered, whether it can be approved without significant impacts, an
That proves the contrary. So, in this particular situation its imperative that there be environmental analysis to include the concerned public and to give the city and your staff the information that it needs to consider whether this project should be altered, whether it can be approved without significant impacts, and if there are significant impacts whether, in fact, this project should be approved or not. Just to say a little bit more about the geotechnical report, weve had some reports going back and forth and theyre very technical. Im just a lawyer. I dont understand all the scientific matters here, but its a classic dispute among experts. You have experts that are looking at similar facts and disagreeing about the consequences. In that situation you need an Environmental Impact report to assess in fact what the impacts are going to be, whether theyre going to be significant and whether they can be mitigated to a level of in significance. Also relating to traffic your Staff Report
Potential to that mitigation to fail. You dont want a project that has for mitigation measures to be approved by exemption. In the cases say thats not allowed. Here there are a lot of mitigation measures. Project conditions and the geotechnical report indicates a lot of other conditions and mitigations to be added in the future. Because there is a potential that those mitigations to fail or not be adequate, we dont know. We dont even know what they are. So, this board cant make a finding that no mitigation is me. By approving a categorical exemption, what this board would be saying is that this project has no potential significant Environmental Impacts and youve got a record in this particular situation that proves the contrary. So, in this particular situation its imperative that there be environmental analysis to include the concerned public and to give the city and your staff the information that it needs to consider whether this project should be altered, whether it can be approved