Held on november 2nd, 2014, supervisor kim. Thank you we peshtd the additional time we were norwalk down to the last minute of the details of the major aspect of the passage today. Its had a long journey it didnt stop today, this is part of a longer road that i am per diem committed to walking with a Broad Coalition to help to make San Francisco more affordable for residents we came out of the selma plan and the concept is simple we should commit to have Affordable Housing in our neighborhoods the goal was thirty percent was to be built for 60 percent of san franciscans this was what the developers b will commit to the dialog in action that needs to take place neither starts or ends with the compromise im announcing with the Mayors Office weve done a lot in the past and have more to do. I agree with the mayor who this morning said at the opening of 474 project one the last remnant of the selma plan we must be more aggressive in achieving our vision. Over the last week a working group o
Didnt stop today, this is part of a longer road that i am per diem committed to walking with a Broad Coalition to help to make San Francisco more affordable for residents we came out of the selma plan and the concept is simple we should commit to have Affordable Housing in our neighborhoods the goal was thirty percent was to be built for 60 percent of san franciscans this was what the developers b will commit to the dialog in action that needs to take place neither starts or ends with the compromise im announcing with the Mayors Office weve done a lot in the past and have more to do. I agree with the mayor who this morning said at the opening of 474 project one the last remnant of the selma plan we must be more aggressive in achieving our vision. Over the last week a working group of our office and Mayors Office and Affordable Housing advocates met and agreed on a Neighborhood Stabilization plan that will achieve the housing balance legislation achieving 40 percent of Housing Affordabi
Housing units. We want to build more Affordable Housing and this is something that obviously all of you share as well as all the people that spoke before us. We want to build more Affordable Housing. We also understand the supply of housing. Its a competition. The competition is based upon how many dollars you have in your pocket and those with the most dollars win. So, if we limit the supply of the housing, then and then the people with the most dollars will win whether its existing housing or new housing. The other thing we talked about is how do we do this faster. Thats part of the working group and sarah talked a little bit about that and its not just about focusing solely on the building of new Affordable Housing but how do we get to finish faster. Thats one of the concerns that people have raised, not only the Affordable Housing developers have had to go through a constant environment or reviews our appeals. That is the concern, the question of how quickly can we bring of product
On height and density. Why not remove those barriers, and why not build the housing and get more Affordable Housing if we are getting a value of all these variance, why not get all of them . I would refer that to planning. The whole notion of there are building forums that are important, right . I think there is urban design issues and other issues that are important. We have a different way of doing that in the redevelopment context. We have a design for Development Document that is there. We have the heightened bulk that is set out there as part of a larger study. The issue there again is not to say that those limits are unimportant an we should just do away with it. Its the question of handout you do we balance all of those things in terms of the additional capacity, the additional public benefit, the height and shadows and all of those things that we are all concerned about and the number of parking spots and do it in a way that provide certainty for those folks so they can move qu
National institute on aging promising signs of alzheimers disease will be supported. We have a distinguished panel of experts here today and family members and also quite a and audience. I will welcome the representative of the Alzheimers Association summit you came along way to be here today we thank you for your tireless worker about the need to do more for your loved ones. Also we have students from the university of virginia spending the day learning about budget and appropriations. On the first panel will hear from dr. Francis collins distinguished director of National Institutes of health and what kinds of research are most likely to benefit from our appropriations and we will also have dr. Lee and this and also from the National Institute of aging also here to answer questions on this second panel we go to the researcher who underwrote the study that i mentioned earlier and joined by two individuals impacted by this devastating disease. Finally congressman is here today as a lon