The way that we look at it is the way that we look at other vices as well. At the end of the day it comes down to selfcontrol, to some extent. No one forces you to go into a bar or any other vice activity. Elsee same extent, no one forces you and you need to make the choice on your own. If this is something that you struggle with, you can signup for an exclusion list and they wont let you in if you show up. Another tweet for you well, i would say that the racing business in the u. S. , the horseracing business specifically is in a longterm structural decline. That is a bit of a different industry. However, it really seems that they you can draw some parallels between them, but it seems you are really losing your audienceaudience as opposed to e they were 50, 60, 70 years ago, although there are three big races every year, other than that people have not really been going to the tracks. When you look at the casino business, and i mentioned this before, there are structural issues they g
Board approval for the ports ifd policy which includes using ifd on their site and making sure we have maximum leverage areas. When we did rincon, we included a policy for the rest of the city and i think there is a lot of conditions there that are administrative conditions that require a real look at specific locations where the ifd would be considered with Economic Analysis around what the net benefit is as a result of the Geographic Area surrounding that area and this is a push for Additional Community participation through methods Like Community benefit, through participation in cbds for example rin conhill. I just think there is a lot of reasons why it does not appear to be the best one. As monique said we can consider but as we see other attractive options as better tools thats where we are focusing our energy. Thank you for your presentation. Next we have tim from mta. Hes going to discuss some of the priority transit projects. Transportation, okay. Good morning, supervisors, ti
Get throughout the city, there is numerous grants that we are looking to constantly close the gap as you have noted with the eastern planning area. We use the impact fees to leverage those grants and make it more competitive for those sources and we continue to do that is an example as well as other projects. 16th street where we are going to use Development Impact fees currently with what we have not enough to fully fund the project but to get the design started, start the Community Outreach work and figure out what transit improvements are necessary. The grants i talked about as projections for the future as they become available we are first in line to take those. Thats the strategic plan. 5 years ago we looked at what we had. As monique noted and the work is how do we try to fill that gap. One example also is a proposition b street bond that was passed in 2011 and road repaving to get into that infrastructure. Things have been done. Acknowledge its not enough, we know that. The ass
But that debate tonight went well beyond what we have ever seen. The topics ranged from the Supreme Court nominee to the pandemic. The night was chaotic. It was tough to watch on television. It got even ugly at times. It featured razorsharp exchanges and personal attacks. The 200,000 people that have died on his watch. You were here, it would be 2 million people. Heres the deal he has no plan for health care. He has no one. Like almost Everything Else he talks about. He does not have a plan. He doesnt have a plan. And the fact is this man doesnt know what hes talking about. Are you willing to tell the American People tonight whether or not you will support either ending the filibuster or packing the court whatever position i take on that, that will become the issue. He doesnt want to answer the question. Will we shut up, man. Is it true that you paid 750 in federal income taxes each of those two years . I paid millions of dollars in taxes. Millions of dollars of income tax. And let me
The ambassador wants a bigger latrine in his office, or we want 50 consular windows instead of five. That changes all the time. I mean, we saw it here today. It changed with Papua New Guinea. You had a plan to do something, all of a sudden the department says, no, we need more, for whatever reason. Theres right sizing that goes on constantly within the department. Theres the muchpublicized but im not sure how much its occurring, the pivot to asia. What does that mean for those embassies in asia . More people. Well, you know, five years from now it might be a pivot somewhere else. I dont know that were ever going to reach the perfect solution to say that we could build something thats good today and it will be good even ten years from now. Thank you. And mr. Chairman, i think the point that your research and what water hearing today is all about is that as you standardize and drive down the cost per square foot, the ability to build that few extra square feet and the flexibility is inhe