Francisco. Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. They will decide the controversial case of the Waterfront Development. If propositions b and c are approved, 134 units of luxury condos will be built there along with space for small businesses, a public park and other ameniti amenities. Scott shafer looks why a development on a small parcel of land 8 washington street is sparking such a big debate. Reporter there is would be things all sides on this debate agree on, this part of land is hardly inviting. A fitness club surrounded by a large fence and asphalt parking lot but what should we place it . Voters answer to that question tuesday could shape the course of Waterfront Development for years to come. Project supporter tim sees two options with an easy choice. One is to keep what we have that generates about 100,000 a year for the city versus a wonderful project that builds housing, it builds a large amount of new Public Open Space that doesnt exist now. Reporter one
Francisco. Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. They will decide the controversial case of the Waterfront Development. If propositions b and c are approved, 134 units of luxury condos will be built there along with space for small businesses, a public park and other ameniti amenities. Scott shafer looks why a development on a small parcel of land 8 washington street is sparking such a big debate. Reporter there is would be things all sides on this debate agree on, this part of land is hardly inviting. A fitness club surrounded by a large fence and asphalt parking lot but what should we place it . Voters answer to that question tuesday could shape the course of Waterfront Development for years to come. Project supporter tim sees two options with an easy choice. One is to keep what we have that generates about 100,000 a year for the city versus a wonderful project that builds housing, it builds a large amount of new Public Open Space that doesnt exist now. Reporter one
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Those students can meet the option one, graduation requirement s and we want to provide every single opportunity for that to happen and through the office of extended learning that is one of the thinks that we are using to do that, but potentially, 30 students is a board number, but we do believe that it will be less than that because we do believe that many of the students will be able to complete option one. Commissioner wynns . I had a discussion of the at the committee of the whole meeting but i think that this we are going to pursue, this is a big israelsue issue, and again, one of the disincentives to encourage the students to stay for a 5th year taken care of through the waiver work and that is it will be different and, it will be a different part of our district accountabilities system. I understand that that is not why we did it, but it made Everything Else harder, i mean the state and all kinds of things were really making it practically impossible to have fifth year plans fo
Follow and do. And the requirement, essentially involves, several procedural things, including posting of a copy of the report from the board office, putting it online, on the web and having an outside consultant perform the report and bring it to the board of education for passage and review. And so this is an annual event. And just as a brief summary, you may remember historically in the last five years, our developer fee collection was low because the economic climate of both the nation and the world was wo ful. It is a good indication, for both the School Districts and i think, the city and San Francisco, in general. That last year, we went from a collection of two Million Dollars, to a little over 9 Million Dollars. Which, i think, speaks very well to the health of our city and the work that is being done, and the Many Developers who were processing the permits throughout the city and hopefully that will continue and that bodes well for us to be able to do a lot of the kind of pro