[ applause ] good morning. Thank you mary. What an amazing opportunity to be here. Today i live here with my family and raising two young daughters in San Francisco. Uf for those who dont know me, i am not a religious person. But i think we should all take a moment and say a prayer of thanks for the environment we live in. For all of us who touch bay area real estate, its really incredible how quickly things have changed. If you go back two, two and a half years and think about what the environment was in the middle of 2010, we were in a terrible environment. Values were down significantly. We couldnt lease space it save ourselves and we felt it would be a long, long slug to come out of the hole we were in. Here we are, barely two years later, in one of the strongest Office Markets in the country. The growth for is overwhelming a shrinking of real estate needs and were not seeing that kind of growth in new york or washington. Its very select markets that were seeing the kind of growth
They are going to encourage to operate we had an injunction, let me step back. Regulated industries are typically, the regulation is used, the industry and the government complicit in trying to stop Disruptive Technologies because they want to protect what they regulate and the regulation becomes a crutch for the industry. When you come along as something simple as being able to use your cellphone to call a cab, people who already have this service, dont want that because they control it and they dispatch their cans cabs and they want revenue. We have two systems of cabs. Yellow cabs only work in manhattan south of 9th street. There is no other reason to hail a cab in the other burrows. We have allowed for the rest of them to puck pick up in the rest of the city. The industry sued to stop us and the judge ruled in favor of the industry and the high Court Unanimously through out the judges decision and we are going ahead to selling medallions to yellow cabs and the other cabs in the oth
Departments or Public Transportation agencies. And i asked for a copy of the comments from the scoping and planning was very good and they gave me a copy and i went through it. [speaker not understood] bart, caltrans, golden gate bridge, et cetera. And very few comments from the public were there because not many people knew about this. And i think its a very important issue. Axile outreach should have been better. Im hoping that the commission will ask the department to extend the scoping Comment Period for another 30 days. There are several organizations and coalition neighborhoods that would like to make comments and the problem is that they dont know exactly what the issues are and how to get the questions answered. So, if you provide us with another 30 days, it will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Is there any additional general Public Comment . Seeing none, well take the first item from the consent calendar. Thank you, commissioners. Item number 1, case no. 2012. 207c, 201 fol
And then supervisor kim and i and david chiu had been fresh off of helping the Company Called twitter sustain the city and i want to thank supervisor kim, who is here today and were working closely together to make sure were doing it right. That all of the impacts that we can generate positively, not only on Central Market, but throughout her district and throughout the city. I also want to acknowledge other people that are working really hard, because my feeling in a yearago was that after all of those things that we did, and the work that we had done that first year, rest was my major focus. And after i met with you last year, rest was not on the agenda. Absolutely not. In fact, we had gone right to work because there were so many of you who had also felt that the city could turnaround. You have given me and our staff Investor Confidence in this city as we move forward and there are so many things to report on. And i couldnt get much rest because i had a lot of other people who wante
Speakers, three members of the public who spoke and made comments. All the other people in the room i think were probably from departments or Public Transportation agencies. And i asked for a copy of the comments from the scoping and planning was very good and they gave me a copy and i went through it. [speaker not understood] bart, caltrans, golden gate bridge, et cetera. And very few comments from the public were there because not many people knew about this. And i think its a very important issue. Axile outreach should have been better. Im hoping that the commission will ask the department to extend the scoping Comment Period for another 30 days. There are several organizations and coalition neighborhoods that would like to make comments and the problem is that they dont know exactly what the issues are and how to get the questions answered. So, if you provide us with another 30 days, it will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Is there any additional general Public Comment . Seeing