Hi all, It is very important that we all contact Board of Supervisors President David Chiu immediately so that by Monday morning (before the Monday afternoon Land Use hearing) he has heard from us and our member groups. See contact info below. As you know, Supervisor Chiu's amendments to Scott Wiener's CEQA legislation (though they are a marked improvement) are not nearly enough. The Wiener/Chiu text still forces appeals on the -first- project approvals, does not contain a strong enough process to define first and last approvals, does not have strong enough language to guarantee rights to appeal major modifications in projects, and is much weaker in general on noticing and other responsibilities of the Planning Department. We must now refocus to insist on the following points: 1) The primary CEQA appeal must be allowed to be filed up to the -final- approval in multi-approval projects. 2) So that first and final approvals for projects are completely clear and understandable to the public, all planned approvals of multi-approval projects must be clearly listed in project application documents and environmental determination documents which are noticed to the public. 3) A second appeal -must- be allowed following any substantial modification in a project. This modification appeal trigger must be very well defined in the new ordinance, and the opportunity to appeal a modification must be available regardless of new environmental determinations by the Environmental Review Officer of the Planning Department. 4) The Planning Department must be the entity responsible for making and noticing the final environmental determinations on projects sponsored by other city agencies; not the other agencies themselves. 5) Jane Kim's public noticing requirements throughout her CEQA legislation are far superior to those in the Wiener/Chiu compromise and must be chosen as the core noticing provisions of the CEQA ordinance. IMPORTANT: We should all contact/call David Chiu's office from now through Monday morning to insist on these points, and to insist that we wait until May 20 to complete any CEQA ordinance in the Land Use Committee; this so that Jane Kim's legislation can be fully incorporated as the foundation of our CEQA improvements. TO CONTACT Board President David Chiu, write and/or call -both- David and his aide Amy Chan at: David.Chiu@sfgov.org Amy.Chan@sfgov.org Chiu's Office Phone: 415-554-7450 cheers Eric Brooks -- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." Che Guevara