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
Head out to thursday. If youre trying to get out on the road, lets go up and see what we have to see here. Traffic is doing well approaching the bridge. Has been nice. No major problems getting into San Francisco. S a looking at the commute here on interstate 880, the traffic continues to move very well as you drivethrough. Checking out the south bay commute, and all the freeways here, 85 northbound, 101, all those freeways into the silicone valley, and even out of it. All the freeways, period, are doing well. Its 5 01. Lets go back to the desk. San jose police shot and killed a man yesterday. He was accused of going into someone elses house, and the investigation in the shooting is far from over. Ktvu fox two reporter georgia mean de la vega joining news san jose where friends of the suspect say police did not have to use deadlyers. Reporter they are upset about that. Quiet in this neighborhood where this all happened. S it near downtown, near south first street and alma. Earlier poli