Because after all, we have been taught that the pilgrims that squanto taught them to warn them of had a good crop that first year. In exchange 21 they wanted to have a big cities to celebrate and to give thanks and play a little folk all. And that is how all of this began. Our modern understanding of thanksgiving is very much a 20th century invention. It was not a holiday that was marked throughout the first 300 years of europeans being permanently settled in the new world. But now it is entered American Mythology as true and squanto as a central part of the myth. What is not so much a part of our understanding of this. Was king philips war which followed about 40 years after the arrival of the pilgrims was an absolutely devastating war between the english and the dutch and it was ferocious probably the greatest percentage of the population of all of these peoples was killed, more than in any other american conflict. So it was absolutely defining of their relationship in the historical
vehicular parking specifications are satisfying us and come here with market and octavia. thanks for working with us to develop specifications that are best practices for bicycle parking and access. we want the businesses and residents of this project to thrive in all senses. having very good bicycle access to parking is going to be a big piece of that. you will hear other, enter speak to some sort of programmatic refinements. you will hear other, enters you will hear other commenters speak to some sort of program at a performance. it is a reasonable concern that there might be some queuing with vehicular access to the parking. mea has brought you an innovative contingency that will bring a pricing mechanism to that. we think this is a great idea. we want to make sure that the monitoring of this is effective. you can speak to step about the particulars of that. not only is market street and important pedestrian and bicycle corridor, 14th street is very much so. you heard
activate more of the upper market street neighborhood. one of the concerns has been about affordable housing. when i first met with developers, much of my interest was seen the site. this is where to start out as rental. it is my understanding you are not able to do on-site affordable with a project that starts out as rental. but discussions i have had with the mayor s office of housing have been about obtaining a site. we have not had affordable housing built in my district since the one church project. it is frustrating to me because we certainly need it. we needed to maintain the diversity we have lost, people who were renters when there was a feeding frenzy on to unit buildings because there were outside the condo lottery. on 2 below-unit buildings because there were outside the condo lottery. we need housing. but there are other plots of land. take blockbuster. that is a business model that is close to a dinosaur. it is a gigantic parcel of land on church street. talki
the neighborhood. i am supportive of the idea of adding a land dedication option to the market-are to be a plan. the market octavia plan. in terms of 2001 market street, the product group prado group has been working to provide affordable housing. certain projects have been proposed that convert to ownership. this is a difficult project for on-site inclusionary housing because in many places tenants cannot afford to buy or do not want to buy. the purchasing power is different because the targeting for tenants is 50% and my and the targeting for buyers is 90% am i is 50% ami in the targeting for buyers is 90% ami. prado has been looking for sites for the past two year and will continue to apprise us on ongoing progress. this will be similar to the lan dedication in eastern neighborhoods. this will allow the project sponsor to purchase a site within a defined radius and transfer to the city. then they can offer it to the nonprofit affordable housing provider that meets th
we re working to make it more friendly and inviting for folks who moved by bike. initially, we were a little skeptical and critical of this project. i think thank prado group for working with us. we are tough customers. we worked and worked. i am pleased to see the vehicular parking specifications are satisfying us and come here with market and octavia. thanks for working with us to develop specifications that are best practices for bicycle parking and access. we want the businesses and residents of this project to thrive in all senses. having very good bicycle access to parking is going to be a big piece of that. you will hear other, enter speak to some sort of programmatic refinements. you will hear other, enters you will hear other commenters speak to some sort of program at a performance. it is a reasonable concern that there might be some queuing with vehicular access to the parking. mea has brought you an innovative contingency that will bring a pricing mechanism