time. i would like to offer perspective based on my tenure as member of the landmarks preservation advisory board at that time. back in the 80 s, board of appeals member and now the planning commission. several suggestions continuing on from this meeting. i don t have too many things to say about preservation per se. but one thing you should consider is all of the talk of the surveys going on, perhaps it s time for the commissioner to look at having public agencies survey their own properties to see exactly what they have so we don t get into this discussion about, well, we didn t know this and we didn t know that. parks and rec rec parks credit they re doing survey work on clubhouses these days. so that s an advance i think of doing work on those particular buildings. secondly in terms of balance, i d suggest in order to have a really true balance and have the supervisor planning commission you can finish your thought. weigh the various policy issues between transpo
i urged you to continue on your spirit of inquiry but to consider, too, preservation is about managing change, integrating your historic preservation and planning department along with your incredible activities here and having making sure san francisco takes its place not only with los angeles, new york, charleston, but pasadena, san diego, riverside, fresno, all incredible cities in california that strive to do preservation planning and i know you can too.s0 we re here to help. thank you. thank you very much. next speaker. good afternoon. my name is ryan turner. i m a resident of the richmond district and practice environmental land use law. i m strongly in fanger of the program. i see it as embodiment and action of the precautionary principle which the board adopted in 2003, very simple motto, think before you act and choose the least environmentally harmful alternative. regarding sequa, i would highlight the prevention is getting the people we opportunity attract to
two new problems ma may come back to haunt you. thank you. now it s time to sing. i have graphics too, please. what happened to the city we knew when you were landing and dealing in the item like you do iester you,iester city me yesterday where did it go that preservation glow when you were going to fix it up so good , you would,iester me,iester you, yesterday now it seems the city dreams were going to fix it up history and save it like in the use all your tools, yester you are, yester city day, yesterday. yester you, yester me, yesterday. thank you. next speaker. mary ann miller. i m not on your list but thought i would step up. i would once a city planner with the planning department and we didn t have the tools we had today. we have computers. we have people who understand the historic context. at one point we have the downtown plan with its historic context, unquestionable. because there were landmark buildings but we as a city were not like denver for my real t
appreciated. the soul of the community focuses on what it calls community attachment. it turns out residents perception on public policy concerns like job, economy and safety show little correlation about how attached residents are 0 their communities. rather people consistently give higher ratings for ratings that relate to quality day-to-day life. the three main quality that s attach people to place are areas of physical beauties, opportunities for socializing and community s openness to all people. across all 26 communities studied, there s consistent anomaly while perceptions of the local economy do not play a significant factor in driving community attachment, those communities with the highest attachment also have the highest rates of economic growth. thank you very much. next speaker. supervisor james green. i m resident of the city and participated in the design construction of single family homes and i m responsible for creation in 1991 as the city s first histo
i think this city, people are representing their jobs basically and the preservationists like myself, we re representing the character of san francisco. and thraze good there s a good reason san francisco is one of the most popular destinations in the world. we basically stayed the same and that s what we like about it. i want to you think about that. thank you. thank you. although i would disagree about city staff, i think they re all incredibly committed to the city and a lot of them can be making a lot more money in the private sector and they re doing it because they love san francisco. i respectfully disagree with that comment. several or newcomers to san francisco also. next speaker. good afternoon supervisors, my name is marilyn cohen. i simply want to address what a wonderful idea it is to turn golden gate park into an historic district. the current president of the rec and park commission has stated that parks are assets from which we must extract value. i