hay wood. >> good afternoon supervisor cohen and supervisor wiener and supervisor peskin sophie hayward is from the mayor's office of housing and community development i'm here today to note we are, of course, supportive of this legislation anything we can do to bring the affordable units online faster we are supportive of and i want to note that this moves did needle but didn't overturn the application 6 projects since 2010 that require only a conditional use authorization those legislation will remove the hearing requirement for those projects in addition, i want to note that the commissions calendar and it is backlog is real simply trying to schedule something not contested a general taking two or three weeks to get on the commission calendar it is two to three or more months we save on the administrative side of those font o fonts thank you very much i'm available to answer any questions. >> i don't think we have any questions at this time thank you. >> madam chair at this point perhaps opium. >> i have speaker cards i'll call them please step forward when you hear them (calling nam

hay wood. >> good afternoon supervisor cohen and supervisor wiener and supervisor peskin sophie haywardfrom the mayor's office of housing and community development i'm here today to note we are, of course, supportive of this legislation anything we can do to bring the affordable units online faster we are supportive of and i want to note that this moves did needle but didn't overturn the application 6 projects since 2010 that require only a conditional use authorization those legislation will remove the hearing requirement for those projects in addition, i want to note that the commissions calendar and it is backlog is real simply trying to schedule something not contested a general taking two or three weeks to get on the commission calendar it is two to three or more months we save on the administrative side of those font o fonts thank you very much i'm available to answer any questions. >> i don't think we have any questions at this time thank you. >> madam chair at this point perhaps opium. >> i have speaker cards i'll call them please step forward when you hear them (calling names).

for the affordable housing most of city's programs serve the low income and i'd like to invite sophie haywardrom the mayor's office of housing and community development address some of the concerns we've heard. >> good evening commissioners and sophie hayward from the mayor's office of housing and community development and i'm joined we kate hartley our deputy for housing thank you for the opportunity we're emphasis about the program it increases the proximate of affordable housing i want to run through a few slides to address a top on defined terms and describe the portfolio the second point to highlight the needs in the affordable gap and i want to summarize what we see as a positive impact the projegrammi thi program on the production level. >> there so to start what is affordable housing and what are are we talking about the table on the screen details the salaries for single person heral holde households and families of 4 of a person 50 percent of area memoranda income is $36,000.51 for a family of four and by craft a person earning 84 is moderate and a single person earning hundred a mi

developer representatives who were here carl, he's with tissue man and inspire and we also have here sophie hayward yeah. >> jose provided you a good overview of the overall transbay area what i'm going to do is divi defi dooefd to the project block one is located on fulsome between main and spear street if i look at the zoning of the block it is zoned for a excuse me. three hundred foot tower, 6 story podium and 8 story podium and townhomes. >> for the project summary the reason the planned amendment is needed there is which we want to increase the height of the tower from three hundred to 4 hundred feet the project is planned a mixed income total three hundred and 99 units the public benefits of the height increases it increases the total project housing units and that will include 44 additional affordable units 40 percent of the unions one the project will be affordable 20046 units and the project is 391 that's how we calculate the 40 percent they will be disperses the first 26 floors with one and 16 one bedrooms and 22 two bedrooms and 55 three bedrooms which is the total of three hundred and 9

and finally there is a separate program 100 percent accountable projects to help the city and sophie haywardrom the mayor's office of housing will be talking about that in a minute. >> i want to extespend a minu talking about program design we designed this to make the thirty percent program for attractive the outcomes will better for our city if there are sites in the city with new highest development we want it to be the highest we have the most autonomy it is state mandated we can add nor restrictions and requirement to that so it is kind of an interesting dynamic between the state and local program states program has a dealer restriction so but you have to remember those programs are optional and 7, 8, 9 to make that program viable we have 10 recommendations for you today when we were crafting the recommendations we were really respond to comments from i and comments from the public but one of the things we tried to balance was the concerns people railroad expressing with the ability for the program it continue to have 5 thousand permanent affordable housing and we think the passage befo

. >> could even give him sophie hayward. i'm here on my own time. to speak in support for the waiver request made by adding the gross. i respect very much of the role of this commission in considering waivers vertically the time they spend considering special circumstances that may justify such request as these. it could go as same, but i'll say it, evan the scrupulous dissolves beside the point. we hope the comments here tonight to help provide additional information for you and for the public. but the specific role of evan's work before the housing development both in his previous work in the city attorney's office and in his current position. as director lee and many others have eloquently described, basically when evans current clients get a good deal the city also gets a good deal. we have our interests along. the city pays less in gap financing for the development of affordable housing. >>the majority of our financing for affordable housing the roman and san francisco it comes from the long-term housing tax credit. we then tax-exempt bonds. mo