College appears ready to move AMT program to Evans
Last year, CCSF lost the lease on the Airport Campus and did not find an alternative site. Plans to move the program to the Evans Campus were wholly inadequate. The District failed to consult with the community around the Evans Campus. They failed to address noise, air quality, pollution from aircraft fuel, and the needs of other programs at the Evans Campus.
At the same time, our students are suffering. Around 75 AMT students have been left out in the cold since the program was halted in March 2020.
CCSF has now published a study that claims that although the original plan “could have significant effect on the environment”, the revised plan mitigates these issues “to a less than significant level.”
We’d like to believe them. But since we haven’t seen the revised plan, we don’t know. This study comes along with a “mitigation monitoring” document, which addresses only two issues: potential disruption to migrating wildlife, and the construction noise of setting up the AMT program. There is no mention of how the ongoing AMT program would impact other Evans Campus programs or the neighboring community. At the Evans Campus forum on 9/1, we asked about the revised plans and what other mitigation they had in mind. The District said that if we knew of anything else requiring mitigation, they would like to hear about it by email. The public has until 9/22/21 to comment on the study.
We need to do right by our students. We need to protect the AMT program that serves working-class San Francisco. But that requires transparency and community input.
Here are the details:
•Mitigation Monitoring & Reporting Program
•Email your public comment to: facilities@ccsf.edu by 5:00 pm on 9/22/21
•The Evans Forums page has all these links and more.
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