Hi all, Please see below the CEQA message that I just emailed to the Board of Supervisors, and then email similar individual and group communications to our two key swing votes on this issue, Supervisors Malia Cohen and London Breed at: Malia.Cohen@sfgov.org london.breed@sfgov.org Hi Supervisors and staff, Tomorrow you will be deciding on a piece of trailing legislation to the CEQA procedures that you passed on first reading last week. This important trailing legislation is agenda item 65, #130464. Please know that this trailing legislation embodies a -vital- assurance that members of the Community CEQA Improvement Team must have, in order to support of the overall agreement on CEQA procedures that you began putting into place last week. Specifically, because the main legislation now requires that CEQA appeals must be filed after the -first- approval of a project, the public will completely lose the ability it now has, to appeal any project that substantially changes after its first approvals (when the Environmental Review Officer determines that the project change does not require a new environmental review). The Community CEQA Improvement Team considers it absolutely essential that the public have the right to seek a public hearing with the Environmental Review Officer in cases in which we feel that the Environmental Review Officer has erred in deciding that a substantial change does not warrant a new environmental review. Such a right is the backstop that the public needs, to prevent projects from becoming harmful to the environment and San Francisco neighborhoods due to error, neglect, or bad action. It is very important to note that because this new appeal procedure is merely administrative, and not an appeal under CEQA law itself, such appeals of project modifications will not in any way delay projects moving forward during the appeal period. Because this trailing legislation will give us an assured ability to challenge significant project changes, in return we feel we can support the full package of CEQA procedures legislation and trailing legislation together. This at last, after a 10 year delay, will form a groundbreaking compromise that will ensure vast improvements in CEQA procedures in San Francisco so that they are better for both project sponsors and project appellants. We strongly urge you to vote 'Yes', and show your support for this crucial trailing legislation, so that all parties to these CEQA procedures negotiations can finally reach a fair and productive compromise. Thank you, Eric Brooks Coordinator, Community CEQA Improvement Team 415-756-8844