Colleagues from the city are online today, john fitzky and john francis and the manager of our section at oewd. Well ask for a motion to accept the sud, addresses the number of technical corrections that the City Attorney discovered to help clean up at this time. So on to the presentation. You see the site today and thank you to both supervisors walton and peskin for those introductions. I want to set a little bit of context from a planning perspective, too. And some of you may have seen this slide before. Its the framework at oewd established, the southern bayfront framework with an organizing strategy to help keep track of this suite of projects that the city has processed over the past couple of years and the waterfront, obviously, together, representing an incredible amounamount of space for jobs ad Housing Units and we tried to coordinate an approach that makes the Public Benefits commensurate and the District Needs as a whole. And then moving to the context of this area of this c
And while the latter may be true, were really not yet sure about that, and that protection may last for only a few months, as opposed to for years or for a lifetime. A lot of communities and counties are instituting the policy of people having to worry a Face Covering. Maybe not an n95 mask, but a Face Covering out in public. If your opinion, good idea . Well, i think its a good idea for a couple of reasons. One, we hope that that will reduce the possibility that an asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic person would infect someone else, so reduced transmission by somebody who is infected, and we hope that would have some effect on that likelihood. And the second is the hope is that reinforces the notion that we all are in a special time, if you will. We all need to be thinking about our behaviors and social distancing and things like that. And the one caveat is in people think they can cover their face, but then do everything they wanted to do before, in large crowds, mingle with a lot
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