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Willow J. Solomoni, Jr · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
- He is concerned with the negative effects this project will have on the school.
William Wortsen · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
- He noticed that something was overlooked or omitted regarding transportation in the neighborhood.
Therese McGovern · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
- She urges that this draft EIR not be accepted.
W. Schneider · spoken · 2003-02-27 · support
- Built out, this project is a full 14.7 acres.
- He urged the Commission to deny the conditional limit on height, setbacks and density.
Bud Wilson · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
- As a senior, he supports senior housing, but it should not destroy the integrity of a neighborhood.
- There are a lot of alternate locations that were not included in the document.
- He is concerned with the parking and traffic areas.
- This document has not adequately raised the issues presented by the public.
- He requested that the public comment period be extended.
Sue Chin Chow · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
- She has many concerns regarding this project and the draft EIR.
Nancy Hagen-Crawley · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
- She has children at St. Stephens and has concerns about traffic.
- Some guarantees need to be established regarding the grocery store.
- There are a lot of senior assisted housing units vacant--although she is not discounting the need for senior housing.
Robert Blandis · spoken · 2003-02-27 · support
- Housing is severely needed.
- He urged the Commission to support.
Ted Theotis · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
- He has listened to the traffic situation. However, his personal concern is that crossing Junipero Serra and Winston Drive is the most frightening thing in his life. He does not wish to die at the present time. He hopes the Commission will keep their eyes open on the traffic situation.
Bette Landis · spoken · 2003-02-27 · support
- She supports the draft EIR.
- This project has some very important aspects that are greatly needed.
- The kids going to the schools in the area are going to need places to live.
- There will be an increase in revenue from property taxes and commercial exchanges.
(-/+) Robert Bender - Park Merced Resident Association
- The Commission should get more information from this draft EIR.
- There have been some thing… - She supports the draft EIR.
- This project has some very important aspects that are greatly needed.
- The kids going to the schools in the area are going to need places to live.
- There will be an increase in revenue from property taxes and commercial exchanges.
(-/+) Robert Bender - Park Merced Resident Association
- The Commission should get more information from this draft EIR.
- There have been some things that have been glossed over.
- This housing should be built.show more John Frank · spoken · 2003-02-27 · support
- He urged the Commission to adopt the draft EIR.
Catherine Russo · spoken · 2003-02-27 · support
- She lives in Stonestown.
- The traffic from the market is spread out during the day.
- Housing is desperately needed in the City.
- This is a big under used piece of land.
- Housing for seniors is greatly needed. Some seniors need to go to other counties because they can't receive housing or services here.
- It is a fact that there will always be noise when there is construction.
Tim Colen · spoken · 2003-02-27 · support
President of the Edgehill Way - He is a geologist and has helped prepare many EIRs.
- The geology has been adequately addressed in this document.
- A lot of the other issues have been address quite adequately.
- This project brings senior assisted housing, 200 units of rental housing, and better retail services.
(-/+) Dick Morten
- He has supported the construction of housing in his neighborhood.
- He is disapp… President of the Edgehill Way - He is a geologist and has helped prepare many EIRs.
- The geology has been adequately addressed in this document.
- A lot of the other issues have been address quite adequately.
- This project brings senior assisted housing, 200 units of rental housing, and better retail services.
(-/+) Dick Morten
- He has supported the construction of housing in his neighborhood.
- He is disappointed in the process because he could not understand where the rental units will be.
- He would recommend that a better break-out be established by type of use.
- He also agrees with a lot of the concerns from the previous speakers.show more Stephen Wilson · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
St. Stephens School and St. Stephens Church - As a parish and a school, they are concerned with the safety of the children.
- His three summary points: 1) this development has become a moving target because it is incomplete and inconsistent; 2) there is a problem with (not) presenting a cumulative impact; and 3) the project alternatives are weak.
Michael Garcia · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
Board member of Merced Manor - He is concerned with the traffic impact this project will cause.
- He would like the Commission to insist that this document be accurate and objective.
Susan Calapietro · spoken · 2003-02-27 · support
- She is happy to see the Stonestown project become a reality because she does not drive-she takes public transportation.
Karen Niglio · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
Preserve Our Neighborhood - There is nothing wrong with promoting the project, but she has a problem with promoting the EIR.
- She asked the Commission to extend the comment period.
- She does not understand how many of the facts of the draft EIR were computed.
Kate White · spoken · 2003-02-27 · support
Director of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition - Stonestown village will provide a mall with much needed housing as well as neighborhood-serving retail.
- She would like to grow old in this town and the senior units are the kind of support housing that is desperately needed especially right near services and transit. Seniors own less cars and will not have such a traffic impact.
- The project sponsor has &… Director of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition - Stonestown village will provide a mall with much needed housing as well as neighborhood-serving retail.
- She would like to grow old in this town and the senior units are the kind of support housing that is desperately needed especially right near services and transit. Seniors own less cars and will not have such a traffic impact.
- The project sponsor has "bent over backwards" to accommodate the neighborhood's concerns.
- This DEIR takes a very careful look at the impacts. This project replaces a surface parking lot with a very-much needed transit oriented development. It is perfect for this area because it is right near MUNI. The community needs a grocery store.
- She urged the Commission to support this project.show more Rick Quire · spoken · 2003-02-27 · support
Preserve Our Neighborhood - He requested a continuance of this case because of the newsletter that gave erroneous information.
- People have been misinformed about this project. Who knows how many people have read the newsletter and the draft DEIR.
Bill Chionsini · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
West of Twin Peaks Central Council - He is here on behalf of this organization and other citizens.
- He agrees with the previous speaker regarding continuing this project.
- He submitted a letter that asks to discuss certain sections of the draft DEIR.
Adena Rosmarin · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
Preserve Our Neighborhood - This project will have significant negative impacts on areas that have not been included in the draft DEIR.
- They have submitted factual evidence and expert opinions regarding these impacts.
- This document is very incomplete.
Jim Herlihy · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
Preserve Our Neighborhood - There are critical areas of study that have been left out of this draft EIR.
- Noise is not covered in this document.
Cristophe Niglio · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
Preserve Our Neighborhood - He has extensively reviewed the draft EIR.
- Although he will be submitting his written comments on the draft EIR, there is one critical and damaging error regarding traffic impacts that should be addressed.
- He urged the Commission to request an accurate transportation study.
Len Stefanelli · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
Preserve Our Neighborhood - He feels that this draft EIR is incomplete.
- There is a possible landfill site in back of the Stonestown mall.
- There was a revene that has been filled in with something over a period of time.
- There has not been any testing on the soils on this site.
- He recommends that this document be reevaluated and submitted for review.
Roy Chan · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
Preserve Our Neighborhood - The neighbors are all here to respectfully request that this commercial developer answers all the questions (required) by law that should be discussed in a draft environmental impact report.
- This neighborhood approved the creation of the Stonestown mall that (that exists today), and made it the success that it is.
Stephen Johns · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
Preserve Our Neighborhood - He also spoke on the negative affects of noise during construction.
- There is no noise report in this document. This makes it completely inadequate.
- This document is supposed to provide something that the neighborhood could look at and not have to figure things out.
Richard Levino · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
St. Stephens Church - The direct negative impacts of this project on the schools in the area are not addressed.
- The document also does not give correct information on traffic impacts.
- He has read other impact reports and they are very detailed where this one is not.
David Dawdy · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
Merced Manor - He lives one block away from the project site.
- Hydrology is not considered in the impact report.
- The good points and the bad points should be covered in the draft EIR, but they are not.
Maureen Bender · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
Preserve Our Neighborhood - There is a park located in the area and she is concerned with open space.
- This project would come as close as 9 feet from the park. This would cause damage to the trees in this park. She is also concerned with the birds and animals of that park.
- She is concerned with the church and how it will be impacted.
- She is also concerned about noise.
- She and her neighbors are concerned about neighborhood character.
Doris Dawdy · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
Merced Manor - She is a freelance writer and researcher and has done a lot of research on this project and this document.
- She is concerned that the document does not provide all the facts.
- There has been unfair advertisement of this project.
Gregory Bayol · spoken · 2003-02-27 · oppose
President of the Sunset School Board - Nowhere in the draft EIR does it discuss the issue of noise during construction and how it will affect the schools in the area.