San Jose SEIR out
- 02.12.10, 16:28
- 105 Comments
It’s 137 pages and will take much of my weekend. The rest will be either sleep or SF Beer Week events.
If you’re wondering what happens next, here it is:
E. CEQA PROCESS
The SEIR is being circulated for public review and comment for 45 days. During this review period, all interested parties are encouraged to read the document to inform their understanding of the project and its anticipated environmental effects, and to submit written comments regarding the environmental issues and analysis presented in the SEIR.
Every comment letter received on the SEIR during the 45-day comment period will be reviewed by City staff and the environmental consultant team, and the City will provide a written response for every substantive comment received addressing environmental issues associated with the baseball stadium. The SEIR will be revised as appropriate in response to comments received, and the City will prepare a Final SEIR, consisting of the SEIR, the public comments received, the City’s responses to substantive environmental issues raised in the public comments, and any text revisions resulting from the responses to comments. The Final SEIR will act as a supplement to the previously certified EIR.
The Final SEIR will be released, and a copy provided to all commentors, a minimum 10 days prior to the public hearing before the Planning Commission of the City of San José to consider certification of the Final EIR. If the Planning Commission certifies the Final EIR as complete and in compliance with CEQA, the Commission may then hold a public hearing regarding any recommendations related to the proposed baseball stadium. The decision of the Planning Commission to certify the Final EIR may be appealed to the City Council. Instructions on filing an EIR Appeal can be obtained by calling (408) 535-3555 or at http://www.sanjoseca.gov/planning/applications/.
The City Council will hold a public hearing to consider certification of the SEIR, in the event of an appeal. If the Council upholds the Planning Commission decision and certifies the SEIR as complete and in compliance with CEQA, the Council can then consider approval of actions for a stadium project as described in the Baseball Stadium in the Diridon/Arena Area EIR, as revised by this SEIR. It is anticipated that the City Council will place a ballot measure before the San José electorate regarding the use of public funds for construction of a stadium. Pursuant to provisions of the San José Municipal Code, the City may utilize tax dollars to participate in the building of the stadium only after obtaining a majority vote of the electorate approving that expenditure.
See you on the other side. Of the weekend, that is.
“Latinos don’t make a difference? I guess if you take away 20k attendees every Dodgers game doesn’t make a difference.
“10 millions people doesn’t make a difference? …… are you serious?”
You’re just not getting it, DaveinSm. Of course, the number of people as well as ethnicity make a difference. They make a huge difference. But this thread isn’t about touting the relative advantages of LA vs San Jose or Oakland or wherever. It’s a given. LA is a megalopolis, with more Latinos than anywhere else outside of Mexico City.
The thread is about whether the A’s can make it in San Jose, not LA. LA (and New York) is important only as an example of a metropolitan area that can easily support two MLB teams. And, yes, specifically because of those Latinos and those millions more people.
In a discussion of whether the A’s can make in Norcal, why in the world would you waste your time complaining that someone’s drawing unfair comparisons between Norcal and SoCal? I’m not talking merit here, I’m talking numbers. From the A’s perspective, those numbers are the only thing that matters, not which city’s “better.” Fact: SoCal has more people and is therefore more capable of supporting professional sports.
Would Lew Wolff or any other businessman rather be running the Dodgers in LA than screwing around with trying to keep it together for the A’s? What do you think?
Hey, the infamous Fremont Citizens Network published some of this discussion on it’s webpage.
They claim to support the citizens of Fremont but censor and filter out posts all the time. The claim they are “editors” and think they are a “newspaper”. They are a propaganda page is all, run by a crazy bunch of baseball haters and shut-ins.
Some new guy went on a few days back and didn’t even take a side on the issue and they kicked his ass, acusing him of being other people and all sorts of crap. If it wasn’t so sad, it would be funny. These people think they are omnipotent and powerful because they put up a website and had 10 people shout down the mayor. They are truly a creepy bunch.
Two people who claimed the above mention poster was not a Fremont citizen by checking his name online (it was listed, twice, as a Fremont resident BTW) use fake names because they are afriad someone will “settle a score with a brick through the window”. Cowards and fringe luntics who deperately need a sense of power, that’s the makeup of the FCN.
Thanks for NOT censoring like they do!
bipes and FremontA’s,
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Please provide more constructive arguments instead of many offensive languages. “You’re doing your side a disservice by going on like this.” And remember you are also a part of FCN community.
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FCN Admin do not filter out or censor member’s posts. We seldom use the moderate feature unless it violate our policy (“You must follow proper etiquette of this community. No profanity, no personal attacks on any other member, no posting of offensive and pornographic material.”).
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Many FCN members are long time A’s fans too, and are trying to find the best home for the A’s.
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http://FremontCitizensNetwork.org/
I will never ever be a Fremont Citzens Network member that are anti-stadium. Fremont Citzens Network has been soo disrespect at Pro Stadium that’s why I and the mayor called you a mob. I agreed with the mayor that you write a nasty to the city council and the mayor. Fremont Chamber of Commerce and a pro stadium to do ever thing to get the ballot passed.
Bring the A’s to Fremont!!!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/astofremont
FCN admin,
How costructive is it for you to filter out certain people’s opinions on your website? How constuctive is it for you to allow bullying and shouting down of alternate opinions? How constructive is it for you to all ignore honest requests for answers to simple questions from the opposition perspective?
You get all up in arms becausde the mayour called you a “mob” but then you act like a mob. What do you expect?
Your assertion that you do not filter and censor is a untrue. Certain members are automatically censored from the front page so no one ever knows they posted. These members have not cursed, or violated any of the rules. I read an attack on an pro stadium person today and you did nothing about it. You show only one side of the issue and when someone says something about it, he’s attacked and called a liar. You made the incorrect assumption that because a few people shared a pro-stadium point of view, they were the same person. Will you also make this judgement of the anti-stadium people?
What type of disservice do you do when the opposition begins to get some good points across so you decide to filter them out?