Hi all,
Please pass around to others. Supervisor Alioto-Pier is proposing
changes to local CEQA processes. As yet, we don't have the text, but
here is a message from Sue Hestor that gives her brief assessment..
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:15:36 -0700
From: hestor(a)earthlink.net
To: fjosephbutler(a)hotmail.com
Alioto-Pier CEQA amendments at BOS Land Use Committee Monday, Sept. 27
Please spread the word that the *Alioto-Pier amendments to SF CEQA
procedures will be heard INITIALLY at Land Use on Monday Sep 27 at 1pm
at Land Use*. They do NOT foresee sending it OUT from this hearing, but
_it all depends on people actually showing up and raising issues_.
PLEASE COME. Importantly it includes *TIMING AND BRIEFING SCHEDULES
FOR ENVIRONMENTAL APPEALS TO BOS*.
Among the issues I know or is the current practice of handing/HIDING
environmental exemptions (aka as Categorical Exemptions -- "Cat.Ex.").
I personally have had the ENVIRONMENTAL FILES in TWO New Construction
case - on difficult sites, sloping sites - not produced when neighbors
ask for the project files. I have sent an email to staff demanding that
the practice of not automatically producing environmental files be
HALTED. (If you do not know who handles these files, Brett Bollinger is
the custodian. But Environmental Review is where records of
NEGOTIATIONS ON A PROJECT OCCUR.)
Please spread the word to anyone who might should be paying attention to
this.
Sue Hestor
