Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We begin in asia. Chinas economy stabilized last quarter, showing greater than expected strength if december. Fourth quarter g. D. P. Rose from the year earlier. Joining us now on the phone from beijing is james, bloombergchina economy editor. Walk me through the details and where the question marks are still Going Forward . Reporter looking at the data that came out today, it really was a surprisingly strong finish for 2019, for chinas economy. I think if we look past the g. D. P. Numbers, chinas g. D. P. Is more a political target than a real indicator of whats going on. If you look at the retail sales, Industrial Production and fixed investment numbers, there was a bit of a rebound in december. Sort of ending the year on a high note. A part of that was, i think, the chinese numbers efforts to sort of support companies is working and also i think the optimism you may have seen in december from the signs that the t
Many of the projects endearments we have quality of life issues more flat by the commission in an by the department itself those issues are about profess and issues about noise and intrusion the captains of roof decks and where other issues i qualify under the quality of life issues if indeed were moving the review process more and more into a process for the department i believe that criteria which guarantees those ordinances for me will be critical including a dry run of how that works im of two minds im interested in shortening unnecessary review but keenly interested in creating nor neighborhood confidence those issues are for the quality of life and more and more as we dense, if any, the community i want to put that out there and well talk about it but think another set of criteria that basically guarantee that those things are considered. Commissioner johnson. Thank you. Yeah, real quick i was on the next time clarify the over laptop of the process and the dir one dr still equivo
Sizings it is something which ill agree with neighbors comments i know by the Zoning District and the particular neighborhoods the average parties is far blow 3 thousand had opened the door to unintended consequences so i believe there is indeed just as commissioner president fong said the difference deny our different neighborhoods the vintage of the homes and topography and ongoing r so on. The trends is amazing in larger new scale construction we have demolishing minimum unit size, however, at that very moment in our discussion today, we are trying to protect that remodel under our doing calculation and encourage the baseline significantly bigger units im concerned eyes and ears as commissioner Vice President richards not combining the challenge for densification for the city largely and some affordability discussion in this particular case the simple discussion about density and its will be primary will result the other different keechz legislation but densification is a challenge
People in the alleyways means maybe not the most beautiful alleyways but salesladies it is Public Safety improvements it is meeting the needs of People Living there i made this comment similarly theres a possibility those kinds of things make it more attractive for other people to come into the neighborhood and noting not serving the needs of the resident and we get into the questions of the implementation or decided placement not a oneonone coordination wanting to make sure were investing in the needs of community. Commissioner hillis. A question on funding you mentioned theres funding available is that only from octavia or is will im not sure of the eastern neighborhoods im not sure if this years for alleys but market octavia is i have to say they have to be spent. Yes. In fact in the 345ushg9 octavia. There was a project on ralph on fulsome and ralph people were complaining about objecting to the development because of traffic though we thought the traffic was you know they could ha
That and alleyways are certainly a need well loaf love to see the hayes valley alleys Going Forward and one of the challenges every one is a project you have to go through ages 33 and they reinvent 0 it can be re1ri7bd so on and so forth so if you blt build it in this way the review is important so moving forward with the standards is great and the commitment to doing this in the neighborhood our office is 0 on potrero street this is what it looks like weve got a robust alleyways program that came out of the selma Development Planning and some the western selma planning so some of the planning dpw, Transportation Authority were involved in planning the alleyways other than our part of selma, however, theres a Robust Program in chinatown as well to have the alleys built outburst weve got great example of the neighborhood programs there are a lot of folks ive met with to the southeast chiropractor of selma around the caltrain station around the south part a lot of alleyways there are a l