consider a municipal masterpiece. thank you. thank you. richard. commissioners, i m richard harris, the san francisco public park alliance. we have 6,000 members. i m also a san francisco resident and have been a golfer in sharp park for most of my life. we support funding for the completion of the e-i-r which is what is good for you on agenda number 9 of the sun ramp. this is 18-year process. you hear the controversy here. there were two or three hearings here by the planning commission on the e-i-r. there was the extra hearing. i don t know how many thousands of comments there were, but there are a lot of comments which has engendered the meeting. to spend more money to finish the e-i-r. some of the comments you ve had today go to the ultimate merits. there will be time for discussing that. right now the issue is to finish the funding of the e-i-r. we support that. we are opposed to dropping sharp park out of that. sharp park has been part of it for 18 years. there is
commissioners, i m richard harris, the san francisco public park alliance. we have 6,000 members. i m also a san francisco resident and have been a golfer in sharp park for most of my life. we support funding for the completion of the e-i-r which is what is good for you on agenda number 9 of the sun ramp. this is 18-year process. you hear the controversy here. there were two or three hearings here by the planning commission on the e-i-r. there was the extra hearing. i don t know how many thousands of comments there were, but there are a lot of comments which has engendered the meeting. to spend more money to finish the e-i-r. some of the comments you ve had today go to the ultimate merits. there will be time for discussing that. right now the issue is to finish the funding of the e-i-r. we support that. we are opposed to dropping sharp park out of that. sharp park has been part of it for 18 years. there is a reference by a young woman earlier in the comment period, she though
but the very least, [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. thank you. julie. and then paul. and if there is anyone else, if you could just line up against the wall, that would be great. go ahead. thank you very much. i just i m here basically to thank the city of san francisco for moving forward on the protection of the species in making efforts to protect the species in sharp park golf course. i m a pacifica resident. i ve lived there for nearly 30 years and almost the entire time i ve lived there, i ve been involved in environmental projects as a member of the open space task force, the open space committee, and also as a councilmember. and in the process, we preserved more than 500 acres of open space through our efforts, political efforts in our community, our preservation efforts in our community. so, i just want to say that as a preface to my comments about sharp park golf course, in the entire time that i worked on these projects in our community,
commissioners, i m richard harris, the san francisco public park alliance. we have 6,000 members. i m also a san francisco resident and have been a golfer in sharp park for most of my life. we support funding for the completion of the e-i-r which is what is good for you on agenda number 9 of the sun ramp. this is 18-year process. you hear the controversy here. there were two or three hearings here by the planning commission on the e-i-r. there was the extra hearing. i don t know how many thousands of comments there were, but there are a lot of comments which has engendered the meeting. to spend more money to finish the e-i-r. some of the comments you ve had today go to the ultimate merits. there will be time for discussing that. right now the issue is to finish the funding of the e-i-r. we support that. we are opposed to dropping sharp park out of that. sharp park has been part of it for 18 years. there is a reference by a young woman earlier in the comment period, she though
time by the creation of freshwater habitat there. and the issue of the work at laguna salada which really began i think almost six years ago was to remove some of the tooling around the edges so frogs could get to the edge more easily and prevent flooding because laguna salada was filling in. and that was the beginning and it was a very sensible thing. and i really want to commend san francisco for bringing in actually the key scientific people who are experts in the areas of these species and their protection in the process. and i think we all know what controversy it has become, a lot of assertions have been made back and forth that contradict what i would say actually, i don t even want to go there. i just think it s been really difficult for me as an environmentalist to see other folks, you know, making assertions and claims to the contrary. so, i want to sincerely say that it s wonderful that san francisco is taking the step forward. i think it s in the best interest o