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To say the supervisors hit the ground running. I look forward to addressing the important question you have for me today. Thank you. With that id like to recognize our mayor district 4 colleague, supervisor tang. Good afternoon, mayor, colleagues, and i guess im the only one who has a question today. In light of major upcoming and potential new projects in San Francisco that may bring job creation and spur Economic Development sur as americas cup and the proposed Warriors Arena, how do you propose or how do you plan on working with neighborhoods that are further in proximity to ensure that the...

[gavel] good afternoon. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, march the 12th, 2013. Madam clerk, could you please call the roll . Supervisor avalos . Avalos present. Supervisor breed . Breed present. Supervisor campos . Campos present. Supervisor chiu . Chiu present. Supervisor cohen . Cohen present. Supervisor farrell . Farrell present. Supervisor kim . Kim present. Supervisor mar . Mar present. Supervisor tang . Tang present. Supervisor wiener . Wiener present. Supervisor yee . Yee present. Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you. Ladies and gentlem...

From. I am sympathetic to the businesses that will be impacted and every time we do major infrastructure work that in the long run will be hugely beneficial for the city or a neighborhood, sometimes there is disruption and we try to mine minimize that and do everything that we can to minimize the disruption. I believe this plan compared to other proposals does. Its using muni funds for expanding muni and improving transit service. And i would encourage the folks who have sent in those letters, i and others have been fighting some pretty big battles recently to actually try to stop muni funds f...

New housing. So it is so critical that as we add new population and grow, that our Transportation System is keeping pace. And that means investing in the system that we have today, and expanding its capacity and all of that takes quite a bit of funding. Now transit Impact Development fees, are a very important part of that equations, as were adding housing and office space and development, were generating funding to pay for those transportation improvements to keep pace. One of the provisions in the western soma plan, which actual will you i believe may not exactly, but tracks the similar prov...

Supervisor kim for her work on the plan. This is not a plan that was initiated when she was in office. And she has done an enormous amount of work on it and i am not envious for steping into a plan as controversial and complicated as this plan, but supervisor kim, i think, has done a very good job taking into consideration a number of the concerns that have been raised and asking if it can be steered to a resolution that people can live with. So thank you, supervisor. I have had some significant concerns about this plan. I just want to put that out there from the beginning and im looking forwa...