you heard underutilized land. i would invite you to go to the open space and try to call it underutilized, below which is a three-story parking lot. it's vacant. hotelers would love to build a hotel on that. you can partner with city college and create a solar farm, a solar garden. >> okay. thank you. thank you. all right. next is ms. kristie wang. are you here? good afternoon. how you doing? >> i'm kristie wang, spur community planning property director, focused on good planning and good government. you are probably familiar with our work on sustainability and resilience, but i'm working on housing. i'm here to support your government's work to make this site available for mixed-income housing and other uses like public open space. our city, region, state are all experiencing a housing short am and affordability crisis that's impacting people of all walks of life in our communities and impacting quality of life. we have a thriving economy that is attracting employers and employees and we don't have enough housing

don't like charter schools and they don't like the idea of public charter schools getting the underutilized space and i was the author of that policy so there are many districts in new york that are overcrowded but then some districts are underutilized literally the rate is between 40 and 70%. the taxpayers have paid for this but those seats are empty i proposed and initially bloomberg did not take me up why not allow the underutilized seats let charter schools use them and let them open up in those district buildings and now that is the policy of new york city of the 46 schools almost all of them are located in district schools and that means we can open schools much faster than if you had to build a building, raise the money, take the time to build the building it also take tremendous expertise where schooling and programming is hard enough but if a building is half empty underutilized you can open in that space and serve children to tackle that inequality really, really quickly. so we are co- located sometimes with seven or eight schools. in my most dense co- location there are nine scho

francisco residents, workers and visitors on a site of city-wide importance that is currently underutilized. the giants have worked closely with the neighborhood, various stakeholders and a broader city because of 2015's prop d. as a result, the project includes numerous community benefits that address affordability, livability and quality of life for those who will live and work here as well as for the broader community. those include 40% affordable housing for a variety of people with a range of incomes. eight acres of parks and open

why not let the charter schools use them to underutilized the district building that is now the policy of new i york city in the 46 schools almost all of them are located. it's where the schooling and programming is hard enough. if you can find a building that is half-empty you could open up in that space and begin to serve children. that is the building you are in and sometimes we are co- located with seven or eight schools in the location there are nine schools in developing and we have scheduled the cafeteria and auditorium. so you have 165 scholars in 2006 and 2017 you have over 14,000 what kind of training do the teachersha have? >> it is one of our biggest challenges. it's very important we have the national recruitment efforts and we recruit all over the country and in the tri-state area. this was from the founding of the academy we do 13 weeks every year for the new and returning teachers. if you worked in district schools you do science may be two days a week starting in fourth grade. we d did five days a week startg in kindergarten. managing th that kids with momem is scary i

he figured out i was this underutilized resource in his classroom and he could get coaching from me. i was happy to do that. i spent a lot of time with her family and ultimately traveled to the congo to understand better the journey via taken, why they had to leave the congo, what refugee settlement they went to, which i visited, and in what the journey was like you. i spent a lot of time with it, i got to know those boys really well. >> host: the united states is about people but there's a policy aspect. what's the status of these 22 students today? >> guest: the 22 students for the most part they are refugees. they arrived with refugee status, but in all cases they have left friends or family at home, in their own countries for the countries where they had been living. they are wishing that more people could come to this country as refugees. they are hoping in the future the united states well admit a greater number of refugees. >> host: how did you end up in denver? >> guest: i moved to denver for love. i moved to denver to get married, and denver has been a great home. i got to l

i think it started with utilizing an underutilized asset. to four hours in the day. it began by using an underutilized asset. now it is become a different way of consuming cars. we started migrating from being a product to a service. some people understand the utility and convenience it offers. now uber and grab and similar companies are gaining, [indiscernible] it is not a question of whether it will increase or decrease. they need to look at a different way in which the cars being consumed. which is through car sharing and ridesharing services. david: every year we see substantial progress in self driving cars. the most supportive regulatory environment for electric vehicles. who is leading the way as far as car manufacturers? who are the top one or two? vivek: first we need to understand where it is happening. the industrial revolution was led by western europe. but now it is asia. it is china, india, indonesia, thailand. all of them are electric carmakers. which -- determine manufacturers like mitsubishi and nissan are leading the way as

we're not going to underutilize any resource or opportunity to make our case to differentiate and to mobilize. and we have a great chairman to do that. i'm very proud of him. our members are unified. our message is a better deal. but the stronger message that we are conveying is a message of unity. and unity is the most eloquent statement, because it says shared values. that's what unifies us, not anything else but shared values. and that value is the health, education and well-being of our children, the security of working families in our country. that's why we're here. so we look forward to seeing how things go. as i say to the members, one good day at a time, one good week at a time, one good month at a time. the time, for sure, will go by. thank you all very much. i don't know if we'll see you again. if not, please enjoy the holidays. merry christmas, happy hanukkah, kwanza, whatever it is you're celebrating, enjoy your friends. my colleague coming up now is a humanist. i don't know what i say to him. but enjoy your family and friends. this is the advice i give my colleagues, rec

things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do here. >> there's a very full program that they simply joy that and meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more engaged not just the customers. >> with the help of community pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more information visit them as the pavement to parks or contact pavement to parks at sfgovtv.or just about expensive eat but food for everyone and there's organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to e

it is underutilized. i think you for bringing it. #nincompoops. thank you.nited nations ambassador nikki haley made it perfectly clear today, countries voting for a u.n. resolution condemning the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital will pay a price. general jack keane next on what that price might be. as senator rand paul tweets, "the obama administration may have been something worse than watergate." we spoke to senator paul about that. we'll get is, straight ahead. the sexual-harassment scale reaches a crescendo. we have the disturbing details on the latest allegations. plus, a rare interview with the lead fbi investigator in the las vegas shooting had walked in the world happen? stick around for what he has to ♪ >> shannon: it is the kind of tough talk that makes dove's shutter and talks applaud. our browser to the united nations, nikki haley, blasting nations who voted against president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. slowly warning there will be a o pay for standing in the way of american policy. >> we will rem

further the remove of two underutilized commercial loading zones would not be considered an unusual circumstance so a class 1 exemption was determined to be the properly level of review. other issues have been addressed and our responses the appellant claims the current project compliend combine combined with the other project -- thus we've addressed the other concerns in our responses. for the reason stated in our appeal responses and statements made at the hearing. the determination complies with the requirements of class 1 categorical exemption is the appropriate environmental review determination. the appellant has not provided substantial evidence to refute the conclusion of the department. therefore i urge you to uphold the department's exemption and deny the appeal. this concludes my presentation and planning and staff will welcome any questions you may have. thank you. >> supervisor breed: seeing no names on the roster we'll have up to ten minutes for the mta to do a presentation about the project. if you would like. if not, that's no problem. >> we can do a short presentation. i'm talli

this is not a developer saying i want to take the underutilized site and build more units. it's not a conversation about housing, it's about a culture, a pattern and practice and series of codes that need to be fixed. i would like to work with both departments to see if we can come up with something, because this has been going on for years. as we heard from the appellant, this is the most egregious manifestation of it in modern times. i want to say to the city attorney, i realize this was not your case, this comes out of code enforcement team, but when you have something like this, and that district supervisor and a supervisor long interested in preservation of the pattry moan of the city and i realize this does not come to the rules -- government audit and oversight committee i sit on, but we can change the thresholds for approval and there is, i think, a duty that you have in an extraordinary case like this, so see whether or not you're settling in appropriate way that really does what we want to it do, which is to discourage, if not eliminate this kind of behavior that

conditions of approval on the basis that the project represents the sensitive redevelopment of an underutilized site and because the project is in overall compliance with the policies and the general plan and the requirements of the planning code. this concludes my presentation and i'm available for my questions. thank you. >> thank you. we'll next hear from the project sponsor. you have 10 minutes. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is cyrus and i'm here with the project applicant.

both from the underutilization of the 20 feet and because they're putting private citizens' cars on the street, it's a random supply. one week, there would be a monster truck. next week, a mini. neighbors need to rely on, there will be a 4-door sedan there and i can count on that it will be clean and get-around was not able to -- >> i appreciate your analysis of the different business models, but i'm asking, is there an objective numerical standard for establishing what is enough to substantiate the right-of-way. where i'm going, the recently announced plan to designate curb space as loading zones. and do you believe that uber and lyft produces enough benefit for the curb space as it relates to the mayor's recently-announced proposal. >> got it. >> numerical standard and triggers benefit and do you think uber and lyft in this scheme meet that criteria. >> i will take the first one, which is more in my responsibility area, that the pilot we ran for a couple of years was looking at some fixed measures for a given space, how many unique users each month, how many reservations each day? how

it is underutilized. i think you for bringing it. #nincompoops. thank you.nited nations ambassador nikki haley made it perfectly clear today, countries voting for a u.n. resolution condemning the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital will pay a price. general jack keane next on what that price might be. as senator rand paul tweets, "the obama administration may have been something worse than watergate." we spoke to senator paul about that. we'll get is, straight ahead. the sexual-harassment scale reaches a crescendo. we have the disturbing details on the latest allegations. plus, a rare interview with the lead fbi investigator in the las vegas shooting had walked in the world happen? stick around for what he has to say. ♪ i text in full sentences. i refer to every child as chief. this hat was free. what am i supposed to do, not wear it? next thing you know, i'm telling strangers defense wins championships. -well, it does. -right? why is the door open? are we trying to air condition the whole neighborhood? at least i bundled home and auto on an in

francisco residents, workers and visitors on a site of city-wide importance that is currently underutilized. the giants have worked closely with the neighborhood, various stakeholders and a broader city because of 2015's prop d. as a result, the project includes numerous community benefits that address affordability, livability and quality of life for those who will live and work here as well as for the broader community. those include 40% affordable housing for a variety of people with a range of incomes. eight acres of parks and open space, including improved public access to the waterfront and connections to the bay trail. a renovated, historic pier 48 and neighborhoods serving retail. this info project is also doing the right things on the environmental project. it is located on major transit, the team is planning ahead for sea level rise and the project has bold environmental targets, including zero water waste and 100% energy use from renewable sources. and this project will generate revenue for the port and the city and county of san francisco. we think mission rock is a transformati

conditions of approval on the basis that the project represents the sensitive redevelopment of an underutilized site and because the project is in overall compliance with the policies and the general plan and the requirements of the planning code. this concludes my presentation and i'm available for my questions. thank you. >> thank you. we'll next hear from the project sponsor. you have 10 minutes. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is cyrus and i'm here with the project applicant. do you know if i can turn on -- oh, perfect. thank you. first off, i want to thank all of you for your time this afternoon. and thank the supervisor and his staff along with the planning department. this is certainly a long and arduous process to get here. but one that we've been very excited about. i wanted to start off by giving you a little bit of context about the site itself. it is the site formerly of the lucky penny founded by geary and masonic. immediately adjacent to trader joe's. it's heavily serviced site of public transit and the future site of the geary rapid transit line as well, which is curren

but i think they are underutilized but it is also fair to say those side effects may be different than in the general population but the bottom line that you really need to hear despite those billions of dollars invested are not yet there were those disease modifying treatments so my argument is here is a chance for people with down syndrome to change that. >> you are generous to recognize that left left. [laughter] >> thank you chairman for convening this hearing and all of you on the panel for sharing your information and also your personal testimony but to highlight biomedical research and development it is truly fascinating to learn that that could translate with certain cancers just to name a few. i would like to recognize a couple people. [applause] they are constituents of mine from alabama we are excited to have you here as advocate and share your personal story and i had the opportunity to take them down with me so they can see firsthand the infectious personality loving life so thank you for sharing your day with me yesterday i am grateful you are all here. [applause] as a mo

and what is the fub of units unused for deck ates almost sitting there underutilized. those numbers are scary because they are in the numerical accounting of the reality of what is going on. i encourage all of us, all of us, to continue this discussion beyond with what we hear today. today is the annual report of this issue. it is far, far deeper and i hope that we can continue being really actively involved in asking ongoing questions. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you. when i said at the beginning that the commission needs more time to focus on the big issues, this is what i meant so i'm really happy that we're having this discussion today. and there will be things that we'll have an opportunity to talk about -- or you guys, rather. i won't be here. to have an opportunity to talk about in 2018. peter cohen made a bunch of great points that i want to touch on as commissioner richard and commissioner moore. so, i'll just high light a few things. first in terms of report. obviously thank you to the staff again. always great to have the great graphics. i've been to s

it's one that's been underutilized here. so i'm very, very thrilled with the initiative and look forward to working with the administration to create programs across the country. with that i have about a minute. and i do have a question. one of the areas that businesses have been concerned about in my district is on osha compliance. in fact, employers understand that it is important to provide a safe workplace, a healthy workplace for their employees but are concerned about the approach that osha has taken over the pass number of years where it's more punitive rather than collaborative. so i'd like to hear your thought on that. what ideas do you have to create an environment where businesses are receiving assistance to comply and to assure that they have a safe workplace? >> congressman, thank you for your words and thank you for the question. briefly let me say on the one hand we have asked for additional funding for a program called vppp which is in essence a compliance assistance program, a voluntary compliance program. a

it is underutilized. it is key differentiator between them and other players in this business.le going there. this deal with the gnat, it unlocks a huge base of aetna members. aetna would love nothing better than see its folks go to minute clinics for basic health care needs, rather than go to pricey hospital or doctor's office. it is really opportunity to cash in there. stuart: lizzie called it fast-food health care. that is not pejorative. liz: no. stuart: that sin know vision. liz: it is. ash and i were joking at the break, pig up gallon jug of mayonnaise and box of wine and check in with the health clinic for an x-ray. why not. >> why not. home devices you speak to them, you get things for you. play the beatles, they play theç beatles. google has got one. they're adding functions to it. amazon has one called the alexa, right. who is the winner here? there is room for two in the marketplace, jack? >> so far amazon has been, this alexa has been a huge hit. now google is adding features that will allow to you get home professionals. find me a plumber, this and that. they're pa

in the meantime these towers would continue to be underutilized to the detriment of consumers. with this in mind, with the realization the commission will not take action against tower owners by uncertainty caused by our doing, we take appropriate action. the contents of the draft program comment would exclude co-locations of wireless facilities on twilight towers from section 106 review. we are moving forward and closing this sad chapter in regulatory history. >> today we take another significant step in our ongoing effort to streamline the deployment of wireless infrastructure. we propose to resolve what's been a longstanding issue with twilight towers. the approach we adopt today will be adopting a document known as a program comment that would exclude co-locations of communications equipment on twilight towers from routine historic preservation review. this action could open up thousands of towers for the deployment of new wireless facilities. as such, these towers would be treated similarly to older towers that are already excluded from historic preservation review. we als