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Head over to our website, bbc. Com news, german chancellor Angela Merkel visits china, as hong kong protesters asked for her support. The corgi comeback. Why their renewed popularity is creating business opportunities. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. Glad you could join us for this exciting friday edition of Asia Business report. Im rico hizon. We start off with german chancellor Angela Merkel who was in china for a three day visit. She has brought with her a large delegation of Business Leade...

Fully aware of this. Making a last offer here without talking to united to save the mission does not show respect for the community. I dont think it shows respect for the commission that sent us back to Work Together and talk. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi there. I am john jensen. A citizen of San Francisco and i support projects like this. I just want to be on the record that i support this project. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item . Public comment is...

If we move ahead to do anything with this project i would require that we condition it to have my affirmative vote, that we limit the amount of Corporate Housing rental that could be on the project to some reasonable level. What is a reasonable level . 10 . Why not zero . Zero. Okay. Would that maker of the motion except that accept that . Before i second its, another question i have of the project sponsor. He put an offer on the table, i dont want to get into private agreements, they cant accep...

Housing project to have a good portion of this project appear to be corporate rental like we talked at 2200 Market Street. If we move ahead to do anything with this project i would require that we condition it to have my affirmative vote, that we limit the amount of Corporate Housing rental that could be on the project to some reasonable level. What is a reasonable level . 10 . Why not zero . Zero. Okay. Would that maker of the motion except that accept that . Before i second its, another questi...

In the last two weeks i have been conversations not directly between myself or the project sponsor, but there have been conversations were once again the deal was put in front of them, we are ready to go. We will sign it this morning, and our understanding is no. Thank you. I still dont understand it, because i took what we said here as a direct invitation for those parties who were present in the room to talk to each other. I have a lineal way of thinking about that. That was the people i thoug...

Which is what you really want from an urban Design Perspective and then, the remaining variances that we are asking for , really, to some extent, are a quirk of the code because they flow from the corner lot location and the need to modify the rear yard, so just as a two other examples, the common open space that we have, if it were located in a code compliant rear yard, we would not need a variance for common open space, but because its in a modified rear yard that responds to the corner locati...

Her folks on the project sponsor. That communication was not going anywhere. It did not result in the acceptance of the agreement. In the last two weeks i have been conversations not directly between myself or the project sponsor, but there have been conversations were once again the deal was put in front of them, we are ready to go. We will sign it this morning, and our understanding is no. Thank you. I still dont understand it, because i took what we said here as a direct invitation for those ...

Various channels, as of last night there was still not an agreement acceptance on the deal on the table that had been devoted to an agreed to previously. That is why we are here today say we have no deal. We are ready, we were ready last night, we were ready two weeks ago. That is the latest i have heard directly from them. Im sorry, to, you are saying that the deal that you presented today has been available since the last hearing . That is what you are saying . And that is something that you e...

In the last two weeks i have been conversations not directly between myself or the project sponsor, but there have been conversations were once again the deal was put in front of them, we are ready to go. We will sign it this morning, and our understanding is no. Thank you. I still dont understand it, because i took what we said here as a direct invitation for those parties who were present in the room to talk to each other. I have a lineal way of thinking about that. That was the people i thoug...

Im sorry, to, you are saying that the deal that you presented today has been available since the last hearing . That is what you are saying . And that is something that you emailed to them, or how did that get communicated to united to save the mission . Weve got a lot of different folks operating the mission. Its a challenging environment. Challenging project sponsors. Challenging neighborhood groups. It is a very sensitive neighborhood. Up and until two weeks ago, there was lots of communicati...