. >> lisa chen. is new here. she most recently work an is a planner as a non-profit that provides technical assistance on transportation and healthy food and other public health issues. we welcome her to the department. >> good afternoon, commissioners, i'm lisa chan with the planning division. the transit impact development fee. the proposed ordinance would clarify language for transit impact development exceptions. the proposal also includes minor administrative improvements to deadlines to provide certain exemptions and calculating the fee. collective changes are intended to simplify the administration and make it easy for project sponsors to understand the policies and make it more consistent with other impact fees. currently it's mostly non-new projects. and direct many capital cost and increase to service. the fee includes residential projects, projects less than 800 square feet of new development and certain land uses. the proposed ordinance does not create new nor eliminate current categories of the assum

lisa, thank you very much. foreign policy also going to be the focus of tonight's speak. two years ago, they began to focus on asia. al jazeera melissa chen taking a closer look at what is being called the asian pivot. pat of president obama's pivot to asia. by 2020, the plan is to shift a majority, 60% of the country's warships to the region. along with maintaining six aircraft carriers. >> this is one major reason some consider the only reason behind the asia pivot, china. it's growing power too the united states and other countries. >> everyone in asia following the same approach, and that includes united states, japan, southeast asia. japan has watched as china has become boulder. they also claim possession over majority of the south china. when they stopped chalk it the pivot, opting for the more benigned rebalance, some wonder whether he had changed his mind. o.ing for a softer approach. they are top trading partners after all, and china has not lucked. considering the strategy. >> chinese, yes, they have this almost par par knowed view. and you can say and you can lay out, look at all the ways in which we are not encircled you, we