If i can have your attention, please. Im delighted to welcome you all to tonights conservative book of the year award ceremony. And my colleague dan mccarthy has the run of show and will be taking lead for us. So before i kick it over to him, im going to introduce him he is is ise a Vice President for the collegiate network as well as the editor of acs journal modern, which you all have your seats and they just modern age just introduced and launched a new website which you should go look at at modern age journal dot com and with that i will turn it over to dan thank you for being here. Thank you, tom. And thank you for joining us this evening. Isi has been educating liberty on americas troubled campuses since 1953. Our founder shorter of believed it was not enough complain about socialism and antiu. S. Southern ideology. We have to teach the alternative the roots of our civilization, the isi henry and an apology book award honors writers who excelled in defining the crisis of our time
If i can have your attention, please. Im delighted to welcome you all to tonights conservative book of the year award ceremony. And my colleague dan mccarthy has the run of show and will be taking lead for us. So before i kick it over to him, im going to introduce him he is is ise a Vice President for the collegiate network as well as the editor of acs journal modern, which you all have your seats and they just modern age just introduced and launched a new website which you should go look at at modern age journal dot com and with that i will turn it over to dan thank you for being here. Thank you, tom. And thank you for joining us this evening. Isi has been educating liberty on americas troubled campuses since 1953. Our founder shorter of believed it was not enough complain about socialism and antiu. S. Southern ideology. We have to teach the alternative the roots of our civilization, the isi henry and an apology book award honors writers who excelled in defining the crisis of our time
That are charging great rents but the experiences are not that great. I see a lot of opportunity to provide otherwise improvement to that corner, you guys all know the corner, we have a month to month rent with the bike shop that says basically free bikes on the outside of the building. Commissioner johnson. Thank you. You can have a seat. Thank you though. Ill be pretty short here. This project hasnt changed other than the agreement with the childcare facility from last time. I can still consider this a land use issue. The changes to the project makes it more of a residential project with transient occupancy and with the online projects, i try to side on the side of the project sponsor and sort of see the bright side of what is being proposed for us. On this particular one, i think there are issues with the lot and i dont think of it just as the dividing line, spoken about by various people in Public Comment but generally speaking with that corner lot with the elements of things makin
Theres been a strong desire to see improvements in the area. Sponsor has indicated that they will be responsible for maintenance and liability of the proposed improvements. Proposed improvements would consist of public works standard materials and maintenance covenant outlined as part of the encroachment permit and specific work will be established. The city is exploring a Community Facilities district to provide maintenance operations. The exact terms are being developed. If a cfd is established, funding could be generated by an annual tax agreed upon by all properties. The sponsor has committed to participating in a cfd to provide additional funding for maintenance and improvements in oak plaza the planning department, department of public works, department 7 real of real estate and City Attorneys Office has reviewed it and weve provided rounds of feedback. Placement of trees on the north sidewalk, improving loading and passenger dropoff has been improved. The plaza has been reviewed
For Fishermans Wharf to succeed, to go from north beach to Fishermans Wharf, we had an area that was dicey to say it mildly the the people who took on an amazing transformation is one of a kind and i think its pride of that success, including giving large numbers of people the ability to be live in decent housing and par take in how good housing lifts you up from nowhere to somewhere. That makes me want to stand with the remaining side, literally the pivotal side of the project to be a housing site. I have walked the site four times since we left, had our meeting and i have gone around it. I have observed it in the morning, in the afternoon, in the middle of the day at lunch. I walk down to the wharf and each time i go by, you can only be proud of this particular part of town. Its amazing. Its a lovely neighborhood and everything about it works. And its for that very reason that i have to stand by not supporting the hotel but looking for a Housing Development on this portion. Commissio