There are two callers. First speaker, please. So, again, commissioners, this pandemic, as you can see, very few people want to participate in any of these major projects. So we leave it to you, our representatives, to do Due Diligence based on third street, which is a mess, the central subway, we are waiting for the opening, the van ness bus rapid transit, the businesses that needed to be helped have gone. And we havent learned anything what happened on Market Street before. We always dont seem to learn something from the past projects and we dont seem to have a checklist. We just live it to become project managers, who are not really project managers, because they cant do a needs assessment. And then we love to have our fire chats, the Public Comment period, where we allow them a couple of minutes and you dont seem to be paying attention to us. Its going to come to bite you all in the back. Supervisor peskin next speaker, please. Thank you, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Thank y
Including the council of coalition and others and id like to thank planning director rich hillis and planning staff and finally my legislative aid who did a tremendous amount of work on the complex and important resolution. I urge your support in moving this forward today. Unless colleagues have comments or remarks, i move to amend. Mr. Clerk, are there callers on the line . Operations check if we have callers in the queue and ill go over the routine the last time. For those who connected via phone press star added by 3 to be added to the queue to speak. For those on hold wait until you are prompted to begin and youll hear the system inform you your line has been unmuted. For those watching on cable channel 26 or through sf gov tv. Org you can dial 14156550001 and enter the meeting i. D. By 146 706 3442 when prompted then press pound twice and then press 3 to enter the queue for the item and were ready to hear from the first caller if they are also ready. Supervisors, this is david wu
A recall a building on post street he and a walked on back in guessing 2005, 2006 which presented some very similar issues. It was a tax credit building. And what happened was and this has not happened a lot but it does come up, what happens when you take an Affordable Housing model and allow for protections and plot that on a place where people either were rent controlled or thought they were rent controlled tenant and that raised issues and complications and we worked through that and did legislation and supervisor peskin made clear tenants werent losing the protections even if you overlaid Affordable Housing. Honestly, colleagues, if midtown had been build in 2014 and everyone had come in we wouldnt have that problem and thats a shift in people with rent control protection to another program. Many protections of rent control exists in the program for example eviction protections, you dont need the rent board and frankly theres more loopholes in the rent control that allow people to
Continued spread. As some students attempt to return to campus. Colleges and universities in 37 states have been hit by coronavirus more than 25,000 cases and counting at the university of missouri more than 420 students have active cases. Officials at Utah State University say theyve discovered evidence of the virus in a different way in waste water samples collected from for residents halls on campus. Prompting mandatory testing in quarantine for students living there University Leaders in illinois say they are working to stay ahead of the Virus Testing everyone on campus often with testing that if twice a week everybody faculty staff of which actually a lot of asymptomatic areas just as doctor blix said in that in that age range. So we put them in what i like to think i was comfortable isolation, the need to be working with Public Health authorities where they can continue their studies and they have food and they have all the medical attention on daily bases and anybody whos be exp
A transit hub in a densely populated community serves as a covid19 testing site for highrisk essential workers at locations been part of the ucsf study focusing on the alarming impact of covid. On the Latino Community kron 4 says he can you reports the doctors are now examining that studys results. The ucsf Mission Plaza covid19 pilot study preliminary results are in researchers say the lobe area called the testing at this major transit hub at 24th and Mission Street fines ongoing high transmission inlet next essential workers. So what we find. We definitely found that this that this low barry approach was acceptable during the 6 have these we tested 2,622 we were testing of 200 persons per hour in the field of testing was hot. 9 of the percent who prefer to be tested with pcr positive. This to give some if you look at the embarcadero. That test positivity yield great theres about one percent a low barrier covid19 study was done in partnership with the Latino Task Force for covid19 Hea