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From YouTube: San Bruno City Council Meeting February 22, 2011 10a. Oppose Closure of CalTrain Station
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San Bruno City Council Meeting February 22, 2011
10a. Oppose Closure of San Bruno Caltrain Station
A
B
You
and
good
evening,
honorable
mayor
and
city
council
names
Aaron,
acting
on
the
community
development
director
and
before
you
tonight,
we
have
placed
the
draft
letter
to
caltrain,
as
well
as
the
proposal
or
the
PowerPoint
presentation
that
Caltrans
made
during
a
several
public
hearings
related
to
their
current
proposal
and
just
to
give
a
little
bit
of
background
for
those
who
may
not
have
what
caltrain
is
proposing.
Caltrain
is
now
like
many
public
agencies.
Faced
with
a
large
budget
shortfall
in
their
case
is
about
30
million
dollars
and
is
primarily
because
of
an
unstable
revenue-based.
B
If
there's
one
thing
that
I've
worked
on
or
I
know
that
we've
been
working
on
as
a
city
for
the
entire
time
I've
been
here,
which
has
been
about
ten
years,
is
this
partnership
with
caltrain?
As
you
know,
the
great
separation
process
involved
dozens
of
community
meetings,
hundreds
of
hours
of
residence,
time,
hundreds
of
hours
of
staff,
time
and
hundreds
of
thousands
of
dollars
of
staff
time,
as
well
as
a
project
manager.
This
partnership
with
caltrain
to
facilitate
the
great
separation
to
happen
to
happen,
and
it
started
to
happen.
B
As
you
know,
we
broke
ground
on
this
project
just
a
couple
months
ago,
this
decade-long
partnership,
and
now
we
get
the
news
that
were
on
the
short
list,
sations
that
could
be
closed
within
San
Mateo
County.
In
addition
to
this,
every
single
land-use
policy
that
the
city
of
San
Bruno
has
adopted
over
these
ten
years
in
anticipation
of
this
public
partnership
with
caltrain,
has
been
gone
towards
increasing
ridership
for
caltrain.
As
you
know,
in
2009
we
adopted
their
general
plan,
which
created
a
new
transit
oriented
development
area
directly
surrounding
the
train
station.
B
So
we
could
add
residence,
so
we
could
add
workers
within
this
area
that
could
take
caltrain.
We
then
took
the
next
step,
investing
hundreds
of
thousands
of
more
dollars
into
our
transit
corridor
plan
and,
as
you
know,
the
draft
plan
is
done
now.
It
includes
is
raising
residential
densities
and
increasing
the
amount
of
land
uses
that
can
surround
this
train
station
to
directly
impact
the
number
of
riders
that
will
ride
on
caltrain
trains,
and
this
one
thing
that
I
think
we
need
to
remind
caltrain
is
the
land
use.
That's
allowed
to
be.
B
The
tallest
is
allowed
to
be
the
most
dense
in
this
area
as
a
seven
story
office,
building
directly
above
the
old
san
bruno
lamber
site,
which
is
owned
by
caltrain.
So
obviously,
not
only
would
this
have
a
positive
effect
from
a
real
estate
style
for
caltrain.
It
would
add
up
to
1,200
office
workers
directly
on
top
of
a
train
station
that
could
take
that
train
on
a
daily
basis.
So
a
train
station
closer
within
San
Bruno
would
obviously
be
a
short-sighted
decision.
B
It
would
be
one
that
you
know
would
not
benefit
caltrain
in
the
long
run
and
would
not
benefit
san
bruno
sandra
no
residence
in
the
long
run.
So
with
that
in
mind,
caltrain
is
hosting
a
public
hearing
on
march.
Third,
I'm
going
to
attend
this
meeting
and
as
know
a
couple
of
the
council,
members
are
too,
but
I
would
really
encourage
san
bruno
citizens
to
go
out
and
come
to
this
meeting
or
write
letters
to
caltrain
voicing
their
opposition
to
the
potential
closure
of
the
San
Bruno
caltrain
station.
A
C
All
I
says:
you've
touched
on
the
let
the
letter
the
draft
letter
signed
by
Mayor
roulain,
touched
on
every
every
point,
like
you,
Marouane
and
I,
and
a
couple
of
other
colleagues
have
been
been
there
for
the
whole
ten
years
and
we
were
very
proud
a
couple
of
months
ago
when
we
broke
ground
and
now
to
hear
this.
I
can
understand
their
point,
but
we've
got
a
lot
invested
and
we
are,
we
are
what
they
want.
D
Mr.
equal
Robert,
Rico
Jimmy,
seventh
Avenue
can
I
suggest
that
this
last
slide
on
the
back.
We,
the
city,
consider
taking
the
first
line
off
and
adding
the
actual
time
and
the
street
address
and
running
it
on
ceremonial
cable,
so
that
you
can
get
the
information
out
more
to
the
public.
I
will
be
there
on
the
third
and
hopefully
say
something
too.
So.
Thank
you
very
much.
A
Good
good,
you
could
take
care
of
yeah.
This
is
a
moment
with
Ken
on
this
and
other
councils
prior
to
this
one
for
close
to
ten
years,
and
it's
unconscionable
in
my
mind
that
that
they're,
even
considering
San
Bruno,
went
in
fact
there's
so
many
pluses
in
this
whole
situation.
So
it's
a
strongly
worded
letter.
We
might
make
it
a
little
bit
stronger,
maybe
but
we'll
get
it
down
to
them
and
I'm
sure
mr.