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Ladies and gentlemen, before i begin i would like to ask you to join me in recognizing an Incredible Group of soldiers sailors, airman marines and coast guards behind me. They are the best at what they do do, whatever they do including putting on sayreceremonyies like this one. Thank you very much. [applause] and mr. Secretary, i couldnt help thinking as the National Anthem is played i would hazard a guess how many times you have heard it but today it was played for you and i hope you remember t...

Cspan, cspan2, cspan radio and cspan. Org. Anthony foxx testified about the highway Transportation Group and was joined at the Senate Environment and pubic works hearing on transportation and infrastructure funding. This is two hours and 15 minutes. The meeting will come to order. I say to my friend the Ranking Member that the whole right side back there is oklahoma. I came in last night and they were having a dinner i thought two or three people i knew gary rid ridley would be there, he always ...

Theres much that we can learn from this 13year experience in how to take a more comprehensive approach, and to recognize while kinetic actions have a value all of their own certainly and thats blatantly obvious, nonkinetic actions do as well. We can do much better at that than what we have done. Thank you. General matt is my time is up, but do you have any you want to add . Very quickly senator i would point out we have to improve the process assuming there is a process. Ive been unable to ident...

Department of Homeland Security into rain in a executive overreach. That is it. It is simple. There is no reason for democrats to block it. Politico reports that Senate Democrats intend to to block the homeland spending bill. One democrat who has spoken out against it is Senate Minority whip dick durbin. He called for a clean appropriation bill while speaking for the american advocates group, americas voice. You can watch tuesday at 2 30 eastern. As always, we will have coverage on cspan3. Next,...

Walk you through the project itself good morning, steve werheim project manager for the central soma plan. If i could have the slides, please. This is great for planning and mta to work so closely together, really valuable for all of us. I keep this quick, but of course its difficult to distill three years of work into a few minutes so please ask questions when we are done. So why are we even doing the central soma plan . There are many reasons. The first and foremost the bay area is continuing ...

Into that. 3rd and townsend all the way up to market and onto kerney . Correct. I know its a work in progress, but it can barely work now. I share that concern and i go back to the reason why were doing this in the first place, which is there will be a tunneled subway under that, serving that and whether that our planning will be there will be fewer bus lines or greater headway there. No . No. The demand in that corridor is almost insatiable. I will come back to my original point that i hope you...

Going eastbound. So transitonly lane for the 8x. Crosssection for brannon. This is an opportunity to introduce bike facilities as requested by the public. They want to see more opportunities for that and we added cycle tracks and lined the sidewalks and of course to do that in the finite rightofway it requires taking some parking. And so we have done that, and were hoping it will be in place hopefully with minimal impacts. For 3rd and 4th streets, this is 3th street going northbound, but they ar...

With that being said, if we didnt change existing zoning, there is capacity today and a lot of parking lots and even in the neighborhoods that are zoned currently for housing and office. There is a lot of Development Potential and we could almost double the Housing Units without changing at all and could add another 20,000 jobs. If we changed zoning to central soma, adding Housing Units and jobs, depending on the market and the time, the market is flexible. We prefer to see jobs well push to hav...

Could add another 20,000 jobs. If we changed zoning to central soma, adding Housing Units and jobs, depending on the market and the time, the market is flexible. We prefer to see jobs well push to have more jobs, but we understand under certain economic conditions, developers will prefer to build Housing Units. So with that being said, i would like to turn it over to mara hunter from mta staff to get more indepth about the transportation that would accompany what were proposing for the land use....

Transportation challenges. Im going to turn this over to mara to complete the presentation. Very quickly, what are we proposing from the land use standpoint . Were proposing to maintaining the zoning especially north of the freeway, where the c3 or mixeduse neighborhoods that are already successful. What we have south of the freeway are industrial zoning that doesnt allow residential uses, it doesnt allow office uses. We spent a lot of time in San Francisco in the last ten years to create protec...