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if we can focus their residential and academic buildings in the transit corridor, the transit-rich market, the civic center area, you can eliminate these empty buses that are basically running buildings. i want to commend supervisor dufty and tim cullen for doing all this hard work. i think tim's reference to boston creating 10,000 units of student housing with these incentives is exactly the model we are looking for. i think we all know what -- where this can be concentrated. i have two recommendations. my only concern is that you have in here that they have to provide annual report...

attention, i think it would be helpful in making sure nobody abuses it. i think you could states some preference for this housing being on or near transit. those are my suggestions. i support the legislation and commend the people who worked on it. president miguel: thank you. >> my name is henry. students are a segment of our society that many sort of think all they can do is go out and protest. let's face it. they are the future leaders of our society, our future doctors, lawyers, engineers, developers, innovators, and explorers. that is what they are going to provide for our city....

given the diminishing levels of public support, that is becoming increasingly difficult. it is vitally important that students who come to san francisco are able to participate in the intellectual community that they are paying to do, while providing that these benefits. i cannot speak highly enough of the benefits of student housing, the benefit students bring to this city and the vibrancy of its streets. i think the commission for its time. -- i think the commission for its time. -- i thank the commission for its time. >> i am jason smith from the san francisco conservatory of musi...

get this institution back on the straight and narrow -- it is going to take not just regulations, fees, and penalties, but incentives as well. this is just the tool we need. this, as you recognize, is the map of the 17 areas they would like to move into. what we need to do with those regulations and incentives is to concentrate them in the transit-rich mid market area around civic center. this is where there are residential projects that could buy. there are vacant lots that could be developed. there is the great building, which recently approved as a youth hostel. that is a shaky pr...

it, and for them to make the determination themselves, based on fafsa, federal requirements, and state requirements. some schools also use private need-based scholarships, and that should be eligible to. -- eligible too. we would like to see clear incentives for this. put the weight of the city behind this, that says this is a policy area we want to encourage, we want to make successful, and let it go. maybe sunset it in several years and see how it has performed and how it has worked. we think one thing is certain, having talked to all of our community. if the city puts lots of requ...