Continued Health Threat posed by the pandemic. I am doing today by head of the cdc dr. Rochelle walensky to help us make sense of the latest virus surge and what is to come. Welcome to Washington Post live. Dr. Walensky thank you so much. Delighted to be with you. Host lets start with the president s health. More than 500,000 americans have tested for positive for covid this week. Joe biden is one of them. If we cant protect the president from it, what does it say about how we protect the most vulnerable americans. Dr. Walensky a really important question. Good wishes to the president for a speedy recovery. We know he is on paxlovid. In addition to receiving the vaccine and booster shots. We know now that there is a lot of covid out there. A 500,000 documented cases this week. Hospitalizations have been on the rise ands early april. And what we are doing is the messages we have been sending all along. If you are in an area of high covid19 community level, that is about 60 of the popula
That will be the order. [gavel] madam clerk, please call item number 2. Item number 2 is a resolution imposing interim zoning controls for an 18month period requiring conditional use authorization for limited Financial Service and business or professional service uses in the upper market neighborhood commercial Transit District; making environmental findings and findings of consistency with the general plan and with the priority policies of planning code, section 101. 1. ~ Transit District thank you. Im the author of this legislation. Colleagues, today before us are interim controls that i have that im proposing to address potential challenge relating to the significant new development occurring along the upper market corridor. We have quite a few developments happening along upper market between octavia and castro, and with a significant amount of new retail space that is going to come online. This is an exciting opportunity for the neighborhood in terms of a new retail space, more ac
Okay, thanks. And unless there is anyone from the city administrators office, why dont we now go to Public Comment. I have a couple of Public Comment cards. I want to first acknowledge eli [speaker not understood] from spur. [speaker not understood] from the San Francisco urban agriculture alliance. And then andrea i think its jag win from the white Spring Community garden. And anyone else who would like to speak in Public Comment, if you can please line up on the righthand side of this room. Eli. Thank you, supervisors. My name is eli zegas, im the [speaker not understood] program man erupt at spur. And im here in support of the resolution. As the recreation and Parks Department pointed out in their presentation, we feel that the department has a number of strengths that makes sense for the program to be housed there and were also encouraged by what youve heard, that the department sees the program as supplementing and coordinating among agencies and also serving all types of urban ag
Mr. Kwong. Thank you, john kwong [speaker not understood]. Tunnel under winston drive to connect two portions of the campus. If you can give me the overhead, please. Please note that the location this is lake merced boulevard, this is winston drive. San Francisco State has campus is divided by one moment, mr. Kwong. Can we please close that door back there . Thank you. As you can see why dont we just wait for people exiting. Okay, go ahead. Thank you. As noted, this is lake merced boulevard. This is winston drive, san Francisco State has portions of this campus divided by winston boulevard. One of the issues is they want to interconnect these two portions of the campus on both sides. The distance from the intersection at lake merced boulevard to the approximate location is approximately 350 feet or so. So, whats been happening is obviously students and other people that use san Francisco State would jay walk across winston drive with san Francisco State being determined that is not the
Permitting process, but also on the outside looking at the enforcement of our own guidelines, how do we enforce those, how can we do a better job of it. Right now were seeing the city failing in its shall, but how are we Holding Private companies to the same standards . So, thank you for beginning this conversation. I know its going to be a long one, but San Francisco beautiful, were happy to be a participant and work with the community. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is drew howard. Im a native san franciscan and actually formerly a staff member of sfmta but i am now retired and i am speaking to the issue at hand. It is a very important one and its one that should be looked at in terms of requirements, needs, and desires. And i know that a lot of times the desires have a tendency of overriding the real requirements. Specifically, in terms of our operators and their rest room needs, we run muni service 24 hours a day in a lot of busin