like outside lands get even larger and louder to make more money. today s hearing is rec and park s unkindest of all, selling ten years of unlimited and unappealable boom, boom, boom for three days, noon to night. residents don t have $3 million to buy our right to peace and quiet inside our home. don t violate your sworn duty. don t let money trump the law. thank you. president yee: thank you. next speaker. thank you for your patience for standing in line and allowing the other three gentlemen to come before you. good afternoon, president yee, board of supervisors. currently, i m the secretary and the chair of the government elections committee. when andrew and steven came to our committee last month, we heard their presentation and were moved by it, so that we forwarded our recommendation that it be heard to the general assembly, the whole coalition. they came, and as those of you that have had business with my committee and my association now, we always like to have
we ve also issued categorical exemptions for other temporary such uses throughout san francisco. supervisor fewer: thank you very much. and then also, we heard about a shoreline theater and that there is a numerical threshold for the shoreline theater. how is this different than that? the examples provided by the appellant are for facilities that do have many events throughout the year. that s why in my response i m describing the duration of such events, and for event facilities that have events multiple times per week, that is when the city will look at ceqa impacts from a substantial increase in noise levels. and that s also where the police code regulates the noise that is persistent and occurs either 24 hours a day or is occurring persistently throughout the city. supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i do have a question for rec and park, if you don t mind, president yee. president yee: sure. supervisor fewer: is there a representative from rec and park here?
trying to understand this, the more specific sort of legal question on when ceqa would apply in terms of sound impact from outside lands. the question under ceqa regarding noise is, would the project result in the substantial increase in the ambient noise levels. substantial, we look at in many different ways, because noise is something that is experienced differently by different people, and we look at what s the increase what s the existing ambient noise levels, what s the increase that the project would result in, what s the duration of that activity, and those questions are based on primarily health impact definition, and so we do, you know, we do acknowledge in our appeal response that this three-day event is loud. it can be subjectively interpreted differently by different people, and it definitely rises to annoyance, but it s not to the level that s going to be having a substantial permanent increase in the ambient noise levels. supervisor mar: thank you. and the
engineered to be transinducing beats, which some people really like to listen to, yeah, not too healthy if there s a lot of noise pollution. everybody said, ace, what the hell you getting up and saying? you don t stay nowhere near there, but i got something to say, because it s public comment, right? well, most of these people got up here, i m about in their age range. i just made 65. i know i don t look that old, but let me just say this here, y all got to understand this is the city by the bay. you talk about the boom, boom, boom, we re talking about money. this city really don t care about you if you ain t making no money. that s why it s the boom, boom, boom. i understand they have a ten-year contract in advance already, so that s boom, boom, boom. somebody making some big, big money. and all these politics in here, they are playing politics full of tricks, makes you turn to a lunatic. you going to get dicked, oh, excuse me. that s policy in the city by the bay. i m ace
question on when ceqa would apply in terms of sound impact from outside lands. the question under ceqa regarding noise is, would the project result in the substantial increase in the ambient noise levels. substantial, we look at in many different ways, because noise is something that is experienced differently by different people, and we look at what s the increase what s the existing ambient noise levels, what s the increase that the project would result in, what s the duration of that activity, and those questions are based on primarily health impact definition, and so we do, you know, we do acknowledge in our appeal response that this three-day event is loud. it can be subjectively interpreted differently by different people, and it definitely rises to annoyance, but it s not to the level that s going to be having a substantial permanent increase in the ambient noise levels. supervisor mar: thank you. and then i just had one other question. so in your presentation to