Robert bonnie, former Agriculture Department undersecretary for Natural Resources. Thank you for joining us this morning. Forest service; correct . Guest yes, undersecretary for agencies t at two under the u. S. Forest service and conservation service. Ost what do you make of what you have been seeing out in california recently . Uest its terribly tragic, weve obviously lost a lot of lives, a lot of homes and resources, as well. But its part of a larger trend that weve seen over the last bigger fires, more catastrophic and deadly ires and that is very concerning and it means investments at the federal level are critically important, both firefighting aspect and to do more work, educe threat of catastrophic fire in the first place. Host headline in u. S. A. Today the nightmare, the worse may be over, perhaps they corner. Rned a it doesnt mean they dont have a lot of work to do and people of struggling, but in terms the money spent, what are the on the federalds government in places like
Commission embraced responded to that need there could be this could be an opportune time to look at the fresh controls as they pertain to the pdrs and other tools that can provides Additional Space in the city so pdrs use is displaced and perhaps the urban mixed use have a place to come to tie in the city of San Francisco i will like to chat about the second overarching goal to provide a significant amount of Affordable Housing for middleincome families the plan i think producing a significant amount of mixed Income Housing in San Francisco we want to see higher levels of affordability but the other aspect of the plan to produce significantly higher impact fees what pertains to other parts of San Francisco so the city has access to a infrastructure money to create those complete neighborhoods so from my point of view were pretty fare into this current connective cycle i worried about the pressures from more Affordable Housing and higher impact fees perhaps mandated pdrs and umu distri
Temptation in many areas of leave by something not are working out with the vulnerable you Community Members time to look at what we intends to do about this at this point. I think this didnt actually necessarily mean there were any significant problems with the plan at the time but it was simply not amended highly amended most of us didnt anticipate what was is going to happen and significant adjustments are needed ill say that were looking at another project another major project with the latino cultural district that will have serious impacts on the community and before to keep the residents are in place i think projects like that should be held while protection are put in place that is critical at this point, i thank director rahaim and his staff continuing to meet with you guess to look at the opportunities available for us we think that moving on an immediate policy measures including protections is what we need to do at this time and in the meanwhile see these promotions especia
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