NO To Saint Ignatius Permanent Stadium Lights

"WE DO NOT WANT THE PERMANENT STADIUM LIGHTS, PERIOD"!!!

These PERMANENT STADIUM LIGHTS is going to ruin the QUIET SUNSET NEIGHBORHOOD! The Noises, Traffics, Parking, Litters, Urine, the Bright Glaring Lights! The peoples hanging out after and before the Games! S.I. doesn't care about the Sunset Neighborhood! All they care about is S.I. making money in renting out the Football Field!!! Now they're using the Verizon Cell Tower excuse to get the Permanent Lightnings! BOTTOM LINE IS "WE DO NOT WANT THE PERMANENT STADIUM LIGHTS"!!!

I am opposed to the installation of lighting on the SI field. In case of a major seismic event, 90’ poles may fall, easily spanning the street, and cause damage to private homes & vehicles, and/or physical harm to residents. Where is the environmental report? 30 foot deep foundation construction for the poles can cause ground shifting that undermines home foundations, disrupts ground water flow (there is a well at 40th/Quintara), and interferes with underground water pipes, gas lines, and phone and electrical wiring. Increased noise and light will disrupt home life and increased traffic will add to pollution both in the air and in water runoff on the streets. There is no educational value to this project. It only serves the financial wants of the school. There are no benefits or considerations for the residents and neighborhood. Please stop the light project.

This project would be extremely disruptive to the character of the neighborhood with lights on until 10 pm, increased parking and noise. All of this would only benefit a small minority for private use at the expense of the public. Not a public benefit!

As an older senior who is a 64 year-resident home-owner near the perimeter of the St Ignatius football field, I am strongly opposed to the installation & use of field lighting. Our family home will go to my adult children upon my passing; I want their inheritance to be similar to the environment and atmosphere they experienced growing up. As it is now, my family cannot park near our home from around 7:30AM – near 6PM every day that SI is in session because students take up all the neighborhood parking. The same is true for weekend field use times, various evening & weekend SI events, and extends until after 10pm when the field has been used at night with temporary lighting. From experience with SI use of their facilities at night, sound from the games & field disrupts conversations, TV watching, and more not only inside our home, but into our backyard. Litter (including beer cans, tobacco products, food & wrappers, and even urine) is left on our street and in our doorway by field activity participants. Even with shades plus curtains, light from the field and cars illuminates the interior of my home. Please: NO LIGHTS or night use of the SI field. Thank you.

We also have concerns about SI setting school hours later with school ending at 9:00PM and 400+ cars not leaving our neighborhood. Where are we to park?

This is not an area like Beach Chalet or Kezar Stadium. St Ignatius chose to build their campus in the middle of a vast, well established residential area. This is a family neighborhood with residents including new borns through 90+ year olds. Family homes are passed generation to generation. The residents of our neighborhood deserve quiet evenings, parking availability, safe streets, and clean sidewalks. The night use of the SI field will destroy all of those aspects of our homes – that has been proven by the nights SI has held events under rental lights on their field. Other schools manage their sports programs for both boys and girls in daylight hours after school and on weekends. As home owners within about 200 feet of the SI field, we strongly oppose the installation of lights and excessive night use of that field.

This project is clearly against the wishes of the surrounding neighborhood.

We live across the street on 41st and Quintara. When there are games, there is excessive congestion and noise in the neighborhood. Cars are already blocking part of my driveway! For this reason, I am against installing permanent staduim lights at the school. -Priscilla Fong

I would like to add that my family is not able to park in our neighborhood on Saturdays and Sundays, as it is. We don't want the towers because we won't have a place to park after a long day during the week. That is not fair. I am a teacher who knows that extra-curricular events are a part of growing up, but to the expense of a whole neighborhood is not a way to be a good neighbor.

I think it is a travesty of Justice that S. I. intends to "sneak" through a building project during this pandemic crisis. This speaks volumes to S I 's Character. Sincerely, James R. Clark 2194 40th Avenue, S. F. CA 94116.