With Brian Williams, reporting tonight from camden, new jersey. Good evening. Were coming to you from just across the Delaware River from philadelphia tonight. More on where we are a bit later on in the broadcast. But first on the mayhem that unfolded in the skies over this country today and the passengers who were affected. They were headed to meetings and weddings and vacation and college. A lot of folks simply trying to get home on a friday when air travel across this country was disrupted by what appears to be sabotage at an faa facility that just happens to handle the critical routing in the air space above and around chicago ohare. By the time the damage was done, thousands of flights had been canceled, delayed or reroute. You can see it on flight tracker software. The air gap in the air traffic space over chicago showing a hole in the sky that is normally full of aircraft at this hour. And right up to air time tonight the disruptions continue. Its where we begin tonight with nbc
Store policies to make them fair for neighborhood character and Small Businesses with a mixture of businesses we dont end up like a city with industrial strip malls with a lack of character i want to ask a quick question on the consideration of the Housing Element which we passed at the board 5060 percent of the housing u housing united 60 percent affordable i know as we passed prop k the goal set in the housing Balance Initiative were measure was set at 33 percent as a goal i think some view it as pa strong mandate im wondering how were inadequately meeting the Housing Element i know our regional needs arena suggestions are 60 percent Affordable Housing how are we doing in meeting those important goals. Your question is really an important one given the housing situation youre right prop k is a goal of having a citywide balance of roughly 2 3rds Market Street and 1 3rd affordable so one of the things were doing is keeping close tabs on the numbers by the end of this month youll see a
Important one given the housing situation youre right prop k is a goal of having a citywide balance of roughly 2 3rds Market Street and 1 3rd affordable so one of the things were doing is keeping close tabs on the numbers by the end of this month youll see a report on the first reporting period of that requirement i think that the other issue is related to how were achieve a higher percentage of affordable and middleIncome Housing obviously requires more the Planning Department and process it requires major funding and major resources this is what youll hear from the Mayors Office of housing but it involves a lot of enter Departmental Agency work and work with the private Investment Community a couple of the steps eave taken to entice the developers to increase the project by offering project requirement up to 20 percent but those are things were trying to do but the need is on the finance side of how to get those units other than the marketed before the board the airbnbs and rb o your
Our policy over the years we think that is less about the small neighborhood plans. Focusing on growth and on existing neighborhood coordinators and ill talk about that in the second ward to the shortterm rental program ive spent more time on this topic i think many of you have also the legislation that was adopted, of course became effective february 1st of this year weve hired 3 people it work on modification of the program and enforcement weve thats not been enough we are using existing Staff Resources to cover some of the work to give some numbers as of may 1st nearly 6 hundred applications that have been submitted for shortterm rentals 6 heed and 79 and issued three hundred plus registration certificates and about 50 in review and another 2 hundred are waiting review because the application process requires us to meet in person with the applicant to look at materials we have to schedule appointments and im sorry to say 25 percent of the appointments made 25ers percent are no shows
The public much greater access to the project and what phase and where they can be involved in the process we think this system over time actually ruled in efficiency a lot more data to work with in terms of reporting and once dbi goes live we anticipate in the next three to four months well go live with the public disagrees and be able to have the public track the approval of projects but staff and manages track whether the pinch points are and where their hung up in the process just get into now the details of the current. Commissioner tang. Sorry just before we move think you mentioned a new online appointment system for the shortterm rental program can we do something similar for people that want to set up appointments with planning in general. We have some appointment that we can set up on line not off the top of my head. I just think many say again i dont know if it it curling or currently exists i know when you go to the the countered you have to pull a number and not have the t