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This morning i came in with thirty four n than thirty six now thirty seven said the temperatures trending up and that will continue today as we see temperatures in the upper fifties we should remain dry through the early to middle part of the afternoon but the rain moves in Late Afternoon evening and ill be back to show you that in the entire weekend and just get some for the downtown tunnel. Ashley been busy this morning weve already had a couple accidents. Whats up right and tricks to watch a ...

Look here across the region skies are starting to increase with some cloud cover its not terribly bad but partly cloudy right now there is more cloud cover down to the south and youre starting to see some showers creepy in the picture across parts of alabama and georgia those rain showers pushing up towards atlanta early this morning. This bush is going to move to our area and it will build across the region its coming in Late Afternoon and tonight it will move out early tomorrow before sunrise ...

Oncos fans across the area couldn wait to get tir has on that afc championsh gear. It was fing off the shelve last night. D some Stores Opened as early as 7clock this morng to help ns purchase and show their brco pride. News5 stopped a cole stores last night. Takeook at this video. Lot of excit fans ed over to get their gear. And manyie hardans say ese shirts take on a much rger mng. It anwere going to the superbowl know its fun, its great to get behindhe team, its good have somethg erybodyproud...

And im frank somerville. It should be epic. Stephan, lebron, the warriors and the cavaliers. Game one now just a week away but ticks are set to go on sale tomorrow. Already the city of oakland is starting to show its colors. Mike mibach tells us the mayor of oakland is promising everything is going to be ready in time for the tip off. Reporter warriors fever alive in oakland. I love it. Reporter buttons and banners, flags and signs. I hope they do it. Barbosa, hes the man. Reporter everything ye...

Goals of the tjpa and the city with this project is to Spark Development in the area surrounding the Transit Center to be a National Model for development where you have got the jobs and housing and recreation and shopping and retail and all in close proximity, and on this graphic you see that there is already in the transit city plan area, 19 buildings that are already under way and just south of the Transit Center plan area, there are eight additional residential buildings that are already und...

Art. And so those are just some of the highlights of the things they really noted as the best praks on the projects so i will have the report for the board in december. And finally i want the board to know that we have been working throughout the year as we have in years past on the rail extension on the project we have been working with the rail and the federal Rail Administration and we hear about the work and the advances on the engineering on the bath front and updated the cost and schedule ...

And here you see a graphic that you have probably seen many times before, and it shows the 1. 3 mile extension from the current terminal of the cal tran to the new Transit Center and you see on the graphic an outline of the Downtown Core and we saw a circle showing the area that we are going to see the benefits that maria was describing that are outlined in the report that you just received and the new neighborhood that the Transit Center is helping to create. And one thing to note, about this g...

Significant milestone, in terms of putting in place, the first major component of our phase two funding plan and those are revenues that flow from the Transit Center and district plan as all of you recall it was enacted last august and as part of the plan it allows for the up zoning of certain parcels on the planning area and up zoning allows for the developers to build the taller buildings and they are worth more money and so that is a significant benefit to the developers and in exchange, the ...

Enter city rail and the high speed rail into the new Transit Center and you see two numbers there, 1. 3 miles and 1. 95 miles and i will explain the difference between the two numbers, during the next slide and we want to enhance the connectivity of the cal trans and the other systems. And the other trail and the vehicle miles traveled. And the vehicle emissions and improved the air quality and the increase of Property Values that we were just discussing and it was also very important to us that...

The up zoning of certain parcels on the planning area and up zoning allows for the developers to build the taller buildings and they are worth more money and so that is a significant benefit to the developers and in exchange, the developers are required to pay Certain Property taxes and impact fees. And so, the city is working to put in place, formation legislation, that will set the rate and method of aportion for the special property taxes and they are taking the lead on that and the plan is t...