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So what all this means, diversifying the mixes in an ncd so that retailers can support their customer base, is it should include a range of storefront sizes, and storefronts should be designed to adaptablity, and be able to serve a wide set of uses. It also means that the office uses that that are not open to the general public could be located off the ground floor or on the periphery of an ncd. Limiting ground floor retail requirements for new development to the strongest locations for retail c...

One of the issues. Im curious because what i think in terms of one project. And im adding 17 for middle income. Then that is 170 units in just one project. So when you look at the funding that could be available for suggesting milling income i think it says 35 . Which means about 25 million a year. What are you going to do with the 25 million . You can explain exactly how its going to work . Is it to help bill or help to buy . Or what is it . [ please stand by ] type of building and the land val...

Of the population and this will help balance that and the remaini remaining funds will be for families or some other rapid rehousing. But i think we have quite a bit coming up in the pipeline in the next few years to serve that population. Great. I dont see any other questions from colleagues. I want to end with a couple key points. I think supervisor safai brought up a good point. We have projects in the city that have been negotiate and will continue to be negotiated on the larger scale. There...

Storefronts are vai cants or abandoned. A number we thought would be relatively easy to get. But it was not in a number of reports and measures made by both city agencies and, of course, private sector real estate companies. But none of them capture the totality of all commercial buildings and storefronts and their vacancy rates. We can get certainly a lot of information about downtown commercial properties and their van can si rates and we can get commercial spaces throughout the city that are ...

For way toss appeal to this increased emphasis on experience by doing things like Holding Classes and events or serving food and drinks in a retail location. And on the slides here, we have a couple of examples of this in San Francisco the retailers. On the left is a store called byrd and beckett with a music event. It is a record and bookstore. And on the right is san francycle with another event where people are encourage to come from the event, but these types of veterans draw in shoppers and...

Questions you might have. Thank you. Thank you very much for that overview. I know that our office work add lot on the registry issue. Given that a law was passed but we also noticed that it wasnt really updated as well. And i think as we go on into our other presentations, one of my observations now is that even if we were to have this wonderfully filled database of all the vacancis that that still might not address the issues that were dealing with in terms of the changing nature of retail. I ...

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Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. In keeping in the great way senator lindsey runs his meeting, we start here on time too. And well defer our opening comments out of respect to you so you can make your introduction and go on about your business. But you honor us by being here. We thank you for that. And the floor is yours to introduce one of our nominees. Thank you, chairman corker and Ranking Member. Thank you for the opportunity tew peer before the committee on behalf of the pres...