President yee okay. Good afternoon and welcome to the september 1, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart and join with me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, who record each of our meetings and make them available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes. The record will reflect that during this covid19 emergency, members of the board of supervisors will participate to the same extent as if they were present in their legislative chamber. The board recognizes the pandemic has made the need for communication more acute and that those communities, with and without the internet, have the opportunity to participate, written
Can you see. T the Housing Market continues to thrive in the u. S. , Manufacturing Activity is recovering it jumped to a 19month high comparable data out of the eurozone and japan. Familiar names leading us up apple is up 5 market cap just hit 2 trillion earlier in the week. Its more than onetenth of the way to three trillion already. Incredible move for that stock with 59 minutes left in the trading day. S p 500 as we just showed you, up 0. 4 on pace for a record closing high speaking of apple, by the way, we have breaking news this hour on the companys fight with epic games. Josh so apple just responding with a legal filing the two epics charges. They alleged exactly the same things will all of the legal theories apple is saying here will fail as a matter of competition the motion will fail because they need to show the balance of equities and Public Interest are in its favor in fact, the factors favor apple. Apple goes on to say that epic knew full well that in circumventing the pro
Their specific comments. They reviewed the findings that we have and we had a series of conversations about the specific legislation and discussing things that could be made from zoning and land use perspectives and then some of the things that would require further investment and discussion with other city agencies. Thank you,. Sure. The specific changes are, expanding the boundary in which impacting money can be spent to provide funding for projects in the adjacent neighborhoods. Broadening the membership relative to the first, that is the existing boundary of one mile . Currently, the funds, the infrastructure funds can be spent in the planning area or within 250 feet . Ok. Broadening the membership of the market activity cac, allowing a land dedication option for Affordable Housing requirements in the adjacent neighborhoods and new requirement to support Community Serving use thats the groundfloor. Expanding the unit mixed requirement and new general plan policy to apply a racial a
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Be turned around within 72 hours but were seeing back ups especially with our provider labs and some of our own labs within the city. We are backing up seven days, ten days at this point. Thats something were seeing across the state and across the country. thank you director. Thank you madam mayor and dr. C olfax for your time. Any followup questions or questions after this meeting can be directed to dem press at sf dot org. Thank you for your time and that concludes todays press conference. Concludes todays press good afternoon welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee San Francisco board of supervisors for today monday july 20th. Im the chair of the Committee Supervisor aaron peskin joined by supervisor ahsha safai and dean preston and joined by colleague supervisor Hillary Ronen. Do you have any announcements . Due to the covid19 emergency to protect board members, City Employees and public, board of supervisors legislative chamber remain closed. Committee members will at