now the rec and park department public school commissioner president buell/rec & park commissioner low commissioner anderson commissioner bonilla commissioner harrison and commissioner mcdonnell. for the benefit of the public an overflow room and for those persons viewing in the light court you ll having an tunnel unity to submit your public comment as we accept public testimony. commissioners you re special calendar i will note the joint commissioners will hold one public hearing for all items listed below the commissioner will look at the final you were for the name resources management plan and the rec and park department will consider adopting the ceqa plan and consider approving the plan item one a significant natural resource area management plan certification of the i went the public hearing on the draft eir closed the comment period ended june 2012 public comment will be received when the items are received you, however, comments may not be included in the final e
public access. over 2,000 pages of the documents the eir never addresses the impact of confining the public to trails. there are lots of comments about this during consultation on the draft but no response from planning. eve inen in the response memoes they never address this ground of our appeal. small. rpd smalled the signs in the natural areas in 2015. do they mean we cant walk off trail? the ramp says off trail access isn t allowed in ma 1 and 2. the signs indicate this applies to all the natural areas and last weekend i had the opportunity to watch lisa wayne leading a walking group in mclaren park and fielding questions from a grup of 30 people. when asked of the intent of the sign the least sensitive areas will be off limits. this means the plan asks us to give a quarter of our park land in the city to this program instead of parks wealver a few trails to walk through the areas where we used to play, picnic and explore. these maps show two things, they show trail closu
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 a
sepd it back and thank you for your comment . next speaker, please. karen bruslen a merea loma park resident and lived there 50 years. this plan i know says they cut down about 18 thousand plus trees, 1600 of these are in mount davidson and the long term goal is slowly convert the area to scrub and grass land so this is deforest station which is a contributing factor to global warming. this is pretty well documented by now. the herbicide use is scary because it is documented they are using herbicides and this mount davidson is two plaucks from a elementary school where they take the children on field trips quike frequently and this is a area where people can take the children and let them run around. if they close the trails they won t be able to geoff the trails anyway. that is a huge issue and think a health issue that they allow this many herbicide to be used. i was at a commission on the environment hareing and stated they must use herbicides to keep it natural and t
to 20 years not a 200 years from now when the forest become carbon sinks. because of the late addition of the carbon information in the eir, i did not get a chance to see the argument in the formal al eir prautss and it is critical you sepd it back and thank you for your comment . next speaker, please. karen bruslen a merea loma park resident and lived there 50 years. this plan i know says they cut down about 18 thousand plus trees, 1600 of these are in mount davidson and the long term goal is slowly convert the area to scrub and grass land so this is deforest station which is a contributing factor to global warming. this is pretty well documented by now. the herbicide use is scary because it is documented they are using herbicides and this mount davidson is two plaucks from a elementary school where they take the children on field trips quike frequently and this is a area where people can take the children and let them run around. if they close the trails they won t be