I know when the cac was put together there was no one from the Entertainment Industry on the cac which i thought was i know was a complete oversight, it wasnt intentional. I know you assured me that [speaker not understood] in the community would be involved in the planning process. I want to make sure were continuing to really take into account the fact this is an entertainment venue. I think that community can have a huge contribution in making sure that it is successful both in terms of design, working with the surrounding neighborhood. I want to see if we can get a little update on that. Thank you. Supervisor wiener, we very much take seriously your questions and the need to integrate the entertainment and night Life Community into the design and programming and thoughts around this arena are critical to its success. The warriors have reached out to event promoters in the area in order to Start Talking to them about some of the specifics around the design. It is their intention not
Jamie whitaker sorry. Please feel free to line up on this side of the chamber if i called your name. Thank you. Good afternoon, my name is jamie whitaker. Thank you very much. For having this hearing. I took a break, went to the rest room and i overheard some conversation that was basically im just looking to get a piece of the pie. Thats fine. We all need to make a living. But my fear is that while a lot of folks are pursuing a piece of the pie, whether it be Building Trades unions, members, hotel union, lawyers, political lobbyists, theyre creating a dichotomy. What is getting lost in the process is the speed which this is going through, environmental and Impact Review in nine months instead of the typical year and a half is the Health Impacts that could be made worse by increased Traffic Congestion and other issues. The department of Public Health created a Healthy Development measurement tool to help evaluate projects in regards to does it increase the cancercausing particulate mat
Its now real vibrant. All the people that invested their livelihood making it a real good neighborhood now its too good of a good thing. And everybody wants to come to our neighborhood. The giants came, they improved, the giants did a first class development. I warriors, i can understand how the port and city want to develop this pier because theyve been trying to develop it. They voted in 1990 to develop the waterfront until there was a comprehensive waterfront [speaker not understood] to try to get the international [speaker not understood] cruise terminal built. [speaker not understood] the economy and the cost of updating the pier now the fiscal Feasibility Study which you supervisors have actually approved would cost the tax payers 120 million. Theres also another thing that is really critical is the congestion. The super congestion in the area. Luckily i live in this area because i wanted the multi ple transportation bay area options to me and i walk to bart every day. I dont hav
Lewis was all talk and no action, news came out that he plans to spend Martin Luther king day tomorrow visiting the new Smithsonian Museum focused on africanamerican history and culture. John lewis is the one who introduced the bill to get that museum built in 1988. Eugene, you touch on this. I want to push forward on it as well. Facts do matter. Trump called lewis District Crime i hridden which does incl major part of the city of atlanta. No one is defining there is crime in the city. To try to define an entire city in 140 characters of less is a massive overgeneralization. What will happen when he is in office saying these type of things . Well, if he continues this,
he can expect to be criticized increasingly but more than that, people really would like to see what his solutions to the problems he arises are. He had a meeting with talk show host, steve harvey, and his Hud Secretary nominee friday saying they would focus on some of the challenges in inner cities such as housing. If y
Explains. Plus, mexicos president saying theres no way theyre going to pay for Donald Trumps wall. Will trumps Biggest Campaign promise ever be built and paid for . Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead im jake tapper. Were going to begin with breaking news. Our politics lead moments ago, republicans in the house of representatives followed their colleagues in the u. S. Senate and passed that budget resolution that will begin the process of repealing obamacare. This comes after House Speaker paul ryan told me at a cnn town hall last night that the gop will introduce a replacement plan simultaneously to the repealing and that they hope to accomplish all of this within the first 100 days of the Trump Administration. Cnns manu raju is on capitol hill. Manu, what does this vote today actually accomplish . And what are the next steps . Well, jake, what this bill does it actually instructs congress, both the house and the senate, to develop legisl