are difficult due to the requirement for speculation and other typical features found in 2 bedroom units to make the project economically feasible it varies than less than 40 percent of units contain 2 bedroom units the octavia plan courageous it to be approved the project sponsor has elected by payment of the fee must be received prior to the first site or building issuance the project seeks modification from the rear yard for the planning code and section of the property they exceed the size in order for the project to proceed the commission must grant conditional use authorization for modification from the unit mix of 40 percenter is to only 2 bedroom units the planning department represents approval are conditions for the following reasons the project was consistent with the policies of the market octavia plan with the residential and commercial ground floors were submitted and complies with the hiring programs and adds to the housing stock and pays all the fees for affordable housing fees for section 413 and the market octavia affordable housing fee for section 416 and the community

there is a 2 bedroom unit on the backside on the page we've showed on the gore you wouldn't get 7 unit on a floor you'll lose 3 unit because of that and i also said to the client i looked this and said those are a little bit dis20r9d by makes a dent in the density that's a marketing question i think other question that was brought up here and shows in that plastic bag as well as another one we said all right. take it a little bit further and get it down to see if it works we tried to put a 2 bedroom on market street and, yes, we're successful we have a 2 bedroom 8 hundred and 42 square feet with a bedroom in the book and one adjacent to it is a very poor plan that is an architect plan it is a 2 bedroom do we want to do this make the sacrifice because it's a small unique we can technically do it as you can see the core of the building and the core of the building there's no place to put it on site and it takes up 70 to 17 of the floor plan is circulation it is a difficult one we looked at it didn't brush it off we didn't say we wanted all one bedrooms we looked at it with the pla

think that i was to make sure that the inlieu fee will actually cover the cost to provide multi bedroom unit somewhere else when i look at the there's figure i don't know that i see that and see for that reason i'll really support getting the unit onsite but the current unit mix works for that site it is od block size it has not been in a leggings con recently but serving the populations that would otherwise be living together in unit that could be for families and i generally support the project i'll echo commissioner moore's comments there definitely needs work on the common areas 3 hundred and 50 or 4 hundred square feet i didn't see anything to allow for light and air and common space in the current configuration of the building not an architect but i have two eyes i playling these i'm sure a way to considerable for those reigns this is not a final project we need nor discussion sea work on the design to have common space but with that said. >> commissioner antonini. >> i'll agree with commissioner johnson i think that as i mentioned earlier with the statistics almost 65 percent of what

and 35 two bedroom unit all were proposed unanimously on january the 51201 tennessee street is an don't guess of an office story building and construction of a 6 story floor building and 2 hundred and 5 did bilk spaces this this has a mix existing of 6 bedroom units and one hundred and 5 two bedroom unit unit and 99 studio units all of the unit were approved by the planning commission on may 1st, 2015 planning code section within the zoning district that the developer enters into an agreement to restrict the recommend for thirty years reduction of thirty percent in the amount of one dollar square feet only one other took advantage of those that concludes my presentation. >> colleagues i have representatives from rain tree and a i g with that are the property owners supervisor wiener. >> that was from green before. >> supervisor jane kim i want to appreciate you talking to me before this item i want to clarify for the public when i read this agreement over the weekend i was a little bit surprised to learn during the process a piece of the plan that loud the developers to reduce

the unit plan on the bottom of the page is a 3 story three bedroom town home located at grade that would appeal to a larger family and has the upgrades. on the left is what we are calling our skip stop units. these are units in a town home configuration that we design to respond to a very specific site constraint on hillside which are some of the sites that are backed up against the retaining wall that you might be able to see in this model. so we realize that if we had a double corridor building with essential corridor and units on one side, some units especially on the lower floors would have a view into that retaining wall. we design the stack home type that inter locks like this that allows each town home to have, it does have a portion that faces back but each town home also has the opportunity to view south towards the bay. then on the right hand side of the page you can see some of the one bedroom loft types, so they are small one bedroom units but with a sense of expansiveness provided by the double height space with the loft configuration. the final sheet of unit plans shows one

are difficult due to the requirement for speculation and other typical features found in 2 bedroom units to make the project economically feasible it varies than less than 40 percent of units contain 2 bedroom units the

floor plans with an unit is non-conforming 3 rent controls will remain on site and one unit will remain 2 bedrooms and one, two family sized unit each the project is at an me out to roache the elements at the existing structure the definition for the demolition under the section of the planning code is proposed a removal of more than 50 percent of horizon and vertical eliminates it was continued indefinite in order for the project sponsor and adjacent neighbors to address the concerns related to light the project sponsor made revisions to the plan and other platoons mr. sanchez are before you today those are the major revisions at the rear of the major provision a set back from the property line 3 feet and on the front the bay window by one half and cutting the northeast corner wall a fire chief degree angle the department has received one letter in opposition to the past a of light and one letter in support of the neighbor on the block since it was approved it was for the modified project one phone call if a resident of noah valley objecting the department recommends you not take a dr because the

jonathan six hundred thousand dollars will buy you a two-bedroom unit in sydney.hat is out of reach of many many people who are in wages of around 70,000 annually. that's what the central bank is looking at. the domestic numbers and we saw strong building and really a wait and see approach. messaging and one would have to say and this is being very kind and has been rather confusing and have been giving the tale for some time. >> dan petrie. i am not shedding a tear for you when it comes to housing prices. when i look at london and compare it to sydney they have the same problem in australia that we have here in the u.k.? >> absolutely. increasingly, you are seeing in london where your the situation where people almost parking their cash and property and the same is the case in sydney. $600,000 and that was a two-bedroom unit. when you're looking at an actual house, people are paying $1.5 million, $1.8 million for an ordinary house. it is a case, where do you go? a lot of investors are looking for somewhere to park their money. so, the same problems which have bee

floor set back from the ground floor it becomes a garage the two middle unit become full floor 3 bedroom unit just to explain what we're done the current drawings you have reflect the notching of the building on the right side of the building above that colored planter to address concerns by the neighbor for access to light and security for her front door this is a birds and view in the front stair from the front door h how we cut off the corner at 45 degrees and pushed the bay window back to 18 inches this is the rear view of the building after negotiations and meeting with the neighborhood the same neighbor we pulled in the side on the left 3 feet going back to the formally to currently proposed so we think we've worked to address the concerns for light and privacy that the neighboring building has existing non-conforming windows by pulling 24 back this is just another birds eye of the original proposal where the building touched the neighbors this with the light well in the middle so the light well preserving the property windows for the neighbor this is a view for the south side this side

rear so we're able to add two additional dwelling units a transit corridor we're taking down two bedroom unit and the project architect offices up the street will be up to explain the details in a minute i want to walk you through the basics the bar was a problem in this neighborhood i've met with the neighbors had he heard the same store over and over the patrons use the rear yard the doors and window were left open and self-reliant noise often litter and people being route i didn't and you public urination we've taken the step to include a full kitchen restaurant to sort of change the nature of the location enacts with the community we're not increasing the floor area enjoyed by this pun the entire ground floor is dictated to the back of the house of the kitchen so you'll hear more later on from a restaurant consultant talking about how many more people b will be employed you'll hear from charley to explain how this allows us to have complete that sound like containment all the sound will be focused towards the front of the space no patron access to the rear of the space and will be sound c

those catch up units as stated will be on average 700 square feet per unit whether it's one or two bedrooms that remains to be determined. i would like them to come up and talk about their design process and what some of their early thinking is on the catch up units. >> brian lanar, urban. what we are, we didn't want to go ahead and start planning out the rest of the site. it's pretty important to the rest of the site to know that we are going to have the height and open space development modification before we start moving forward. we felt comfortable with the first phase moving but it's almost right after this, we'll start moving forward with the design on that and hopefully be here in the next few months. until then it's such a tricky site, it's hard to come up with detailed info that we've been asking for. as soon as we get it, we'll make it available. >> i have a follow up question. your marketing plan. we've been asking for a marketing plan of what demographic you are targeting and do we have that yet? what is the update on that? >> thank you, commissioner mondejar, i will let mr. zu

unit where ms. functions son lives a spare bedroom type of situation not a self-contained. >> it's not a kitchen. >> right >> thank you. >> mr. sanchez. >> thank you. good evening scott sanchez planning staff with a rh3 up to 3 dwelling units under initial review of our electronic records we're report i see a appropriate printout of is an unknown so no conclusion whether permits there was one in 2004 for roofing that is unreliable and the permit which is before you to remove the illegal unit that notes the number of units as two, that said the san born records to indicate two units the building construction date in our database says 19 hundred it is unknown because probable constructed around the earthquake and those records may have been lost in under the code certainly up to 3 twnlz of it was at the maximum decency it allows for the process code requirements can be waived so information i wanted to provide for the board no open enforcement case for this property i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> photo of the kitchen it looks like it was in the 60s or 70s. >> yes. and the current zoning den

our architectural practice has designed thousands of urban apartments, many of which are three bedroom units of only 1200 to 1300 square feet so 3,000 square feet is more than ample and would be appropriate for maintaining existing delicate neighborhood contextual scale. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. susie culver. >> hello supervisors. thank you so much for hearing us today and thank you scott wiener. i also live on vulcan on just above ord and lived there for 15 years and moved there because of the character of the neighborhood. i grew up in presidio heights in a large house, 4,000 square feet and most of which was never used and i know what it takes to raise a family in the city. our neighbors at number 3 vulcan have lived there for 50 years and they raised four children in a home very much the same square footage as ours which is 750 square feet so the argument saying that this ordinance would limit the ability of families to live in the neighborhood doesn't ring true. it seems that the controls that are suggested still leave plenty of latitude for existing families and

or 4 bedrooms could be listed three or four times ones for the entire unit and once for a bedroom and probably overstates the number of units to an the market we know that some of the listing may not be legalized not month to month the registration we know this is a new ordinance we're implementing now as emry stated a violation so for years so we've been enforcing this for several years from our experience the cases there is no primary resident not eligible for the program and of the applications we've seen so for 10 percent seem to meet the legalization requirement also some of the listing we've seen people may not step forward to legalize the program because of the terms of their lease does not allow it that's one of the requirement we innovative the property owner now to outreach since december we accept an it possible web page and the host we've worked with members of the press and on that covered the process and our director made announcements of the commission hearing and made regular postings and posted on facebook those materials provide detailed in

building and sharing a bedroom or sharing a unit this is larger with three or four people you can have your own unit just so for you this makes sense i'm supportive and move to approve. >> second. >> commissioner richards. >> i visited the project site a couple of days ago my comments on another project the question i have is there is office space in this building that requires an allocation of a small cap. >> richard from the department staff not allocations is required for 25 mosquitos. >> i think the affordable by design is an interesting concept one of the concerns the fact this type of building structure gets away with not providing any bmr unit or affordable housing fees the sentiment of my fellow commissioners to ask staff to determine how that might be accomplished i hear the gentleman's concerns about the alley i stood back there and saw cars. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> down clemente tina i support the project i support having staff exposure of having clemente tina west and having the cars going the same way way i l

. >> the developer has submitted detailed plans and information on proposed unit and bedroom sizes has not been confirmed yet. the gross building number don't include the full numbers yet. the title of the heading of the column is total building area square footage. that doesn't include a 30-50 percent increase in square footage. this doesn't include that. lanar has stated to us that for phase 2a there would be a minimum of square feet per unit and a lot bigger. brian can speak to that. this is something to change as their design team gets to progressing the designs and understanding more about the particular design into much more detail. you will see that in further schematic designs in the future. so as i mentioned the dda allows for the number of bmr unit in each project to 25 percent to 20 percent of the total number of units in that project except for every 300 units which they have to be at 10 1/2 percent. the developer account at phase 2a prior to phase 1 b. the make-up and type of six catch up units from block 55, 56, 57 can be seen on this table, approximations from that desig

. >> i'm jean under i've lived in san francisco for 23 years i currently own my unit a two-bedroom condon the height i represent a room in my condo i want to be compliant with the new regulations but want to say that getting registered has been a night mayor, i had to take time off work to go and get a business lynette's license from the department of treasurery i got that but trying to get an appointment that the planning department is just been impossible i've left several messages and finally got a call back and said i have an appointment and another call with another appointment i called and left a message you can't get anyone to pick up the phone and asked which date was the right date and yesterday i got a call saying i missed my appointment and can't get an appointment so there has to be a better way of getting an appointment just leaving messages and waiting for a call back why not like dmv make an online appointment and choose the date and time that will work for you i ask i think there are a lot of people that want to get registered by can't i want to say if you want to ask rec

investigators tell us the fire started in the bedroom in a unit on the bottom floor of this building. a firefighter was hurt when he slipped and fell but no one else was injured. >>> and engineers are testing the soil at the center city intersection where six people died in a building collapse nearly two years ago. a committee hopes to break ground on a memorial at 22nd and market streets on june 5th. that's the second anniversary of the collapse. crews are testing the soil to determine the type of underground foundation needed for that construction. >>> and philadelphia man is on life support after police found him passed out inside his car in north philadelphia. after the man was taken to the hospital, doctors realized he was shot in the face. police returned to the scene, but found no evidence there. but they say his car had been blocking the street since 8:00 yesterday evening. and no one had called police. they're still trying to sort out exactly what happened. >>> and two people hospitalized after an accident in the honey park section of the city. nbc 10 on west honey park avenu

i have friends living in a cohousing arrangement that were mega homes whether it's in law units or more bedrooms the end result is density and more housing. especially as proponents of the large development and it's important to stress that in fills should happen everywhere and not confined to certain neighborhoods. otherwise what we're talking about is not in my backyard but over there where other people live, the mission instead of corona heights and i am concerned that conditional use is better and not making the expansion projects easier. in fact i think the implication is they make it harder and not ard adding new housing. which one is it? i can't follow the message. >> thank you very much. now if there are any members of the public that would like to speak on item number one please come up. please come up. please come to the microphone. >> i live on state street. i have a building there that is two small apartments total 700 square feet each, and i am so proud of supervisor wiener. i actually have not been supportive of him in the past but when i saw this legislation i was like you wo this

there and i'm not here to recognize that unit should be - >> i'm not asking for that opinion but the - so this kitchen the sole use for their use and the second bedroom that you're referring to the owner is going to rent it out. >> within that unit this is a self-contained unit a smoke alarm and 1230g9 and could you please state your name i stated the unit is legal. >> it appears to be legal. >> so the question is have you looked at the yard to see if there was permitting in regards to the kitchen open the ground level. >> there is no permit history that i saw again, the unit itself is xhfblth with the 3 r report there is 3 units in the building i believe this is one of the 3 original unit and the fourth unit where the sons live is the one that is probably not up to code again, i've never been in there it's appears to be an extension of the garage. >> we'll get clarification from the department. >> okay. thank you. >> okay. we'll hear from the permit holder. >> thank you, council for the permit holder we've stated in our papers all that the permit holder has been seeking to do is so see if this unit is legal shows entitled to do a property owner this

units offered in ami. one studio, two one bedroom and went from 245 to $244 to 400. we saw total of 85 applicants. they are broken down by lottery preference. 2 percent came from our cop, a resident burden and ellis act and we had one in the lowest lottery preference. moving on lottery applicants by zip code. you will see we have two households in the lottery. 941071, then we clumped in the regular folks, other sf resident is 33 and non-sf residents. two i should mention was a cop holder who resides in south san francisco. so, what does the pool of applicants look like. what are the demographics. 16 percent were african american, 62 percent were asian, 4 percent filipino, 7 percent hispanic, 2 percent middle east earn and 9 percent 9. i know i'm running through this quick but i'm sure you will have questions at the end. i'm happy to report that all 9 units are currently in contract. we had actually one rent burden household, one ellis act preference holder and one sf resident who were in that pool of the nine households and contract. we saw an average household size about two. average age was 37,

units offered in ami. one studio, two one bedroom and went from 245 to $244 to 400. we saw total of 85 applicants. they are broken

the bed rom principal and the bedroom hope of the arab community and the united states there was a path way to a two-state solution and he's renounced that and he did what he felt he did to win according to senator mitchell and he is a tactically tough politician but he denounced the arab citizens of that vibrant community and he promised more settlements which is an impediment to a two-state solution and announced no two-state solution and that is an impediment to the community and not just the united states. he won the election but may have created a longer term problem. >> and let's dig deeper into that, congressman. a lot believe that is critical to getting security for israel. clearly netanyahu is disagreeing with that. do you think that israel is better off with a two-state solution off the table? >> no. i don't. and keep in mind by the way, netanyahu got 30 seats out of 120 knesset so he got about a quarter of the votes. so there is enormous division within israel. but if you have a one-state solution that does mean the west bank is going to be occupied totally byize raelg and th

unit did not suffer life threatening injuries. when a ladder they were lowering after extinguishing a minor bedroom blast touched an electrical line. >> very frightening close call. i talk to both members. they say exactly the the same thing. >> his arm went from holding the ladder to dropped down to the side of the ground and he passed right out. >> reporter: protective gear of the more seriously injured fire fighter robert take already a 14 year veteran was pulled off of him by medics rushing to help. >> they laid them out and started unputting on his uniform and all that and they started working on him vigorously report rorrer fire officials a say fortunately the ladder after hitting the wire leaned back against the house, instead of staying in contact with the current. because, they say that wire carried a large amount of electricity. >> somewhere around 7500 volts. so this could have been a much worse incident when you think bit. so those members are blessed. >> reporter: the less seriously injured fire fighter, identified as eugene colter a nine year veteran now at home recovering. fire fighter taylor expect to be kept overn

bedroom apartments increased more than 50% over the past four years. the county will consider several options, including rent control and relaxing regulations on second units. >> no question, finding affordable housing here difficult, largely because it's so desirable, to live in the bay area. the weather one reason why. >> and that is free today and every day really. christina has our forecast for us. >> for now, anyway, until we get charged more for water. you always want to conserve if you can, every opportunity is a good opportunity, don't waste those, as they come your way. we got this interesting pattern, i know laura pointed out she had a little bit of shower activity on her way to work this morning. the jet stream is right on top of part of the bay area, mostly the south end, so as a result of that, we are going to see a little bit of that activity as we head throughout the morning but happy st. patrick a's day to you. thanks for waking up with us. temperatures are comfortable, 55 degrees in san francisco, 59 degrees to kick off the new day one degree shy of 60 to start in san jose. so here is the story of the day. low clouds, those light showers w

bedroom apartment has gone up more than 50% over the past four years. the county will consider several options including rent control and relaxing regulations on second units>> 5:36 right now. we're all wearing green. it's a festive day, st. patrick's day. lots of people outside and christina, they should find plenty of sunshine. >> later on today, we are going to start out mostly cloudy, happy st. patrick's day to you, sam and laura. 55 degrees at oakland. we can only say it so many times. 57 in san jose and 57 degrees to kick off the new day in san martin. happy you're joining us today and i can tell you, you are going to be headed out and about the luck of the irish is with us for today. widespread low clouds to start, the sun will rise at 7:19. rapid warming, 12:00 to 4:00 p.m., intervals of clouds and sun, and because we have had a decent rainy season in the bay area, our hillside nice and green, looking good for the st. patrick's day, better than it has been for the past few years. your sun will set at 7:18 and mild conditions are going to be headed out to the city. days away from the new season, march 20th is the kickoff of spring and here's what ha

bedroom apartment increased more than 50% over the last four years. the county is going to consider several options including rent control and relaxing regulations on "second units" >>> 6:16 right now. time to check the microclimate forecast on this tuesday morning, st. patrick's day, live look outside at&t park. the boys of summer there in the desert right now, warming up those already. getting close to baseball time. >> hiding out until april. sprinkling this morning, nothing too heavy. >> april is just around the corner. we have a game here on nbc bay area with our own san francisco giants getting into this friday, 6:05, taking on the reds. you don't want to miss it. this morning you might see these hit or miss showers as we get into the next couple of hours. not looking that likely north of the golden gate bridge but as we head throughout the next few hours, fair game for a little drizzle, little on and off activity. area of low pressure to our north in the jet stream, still right on top of the bay area. we'll be at 57 degrees to kick off your morning in livermore, 57 in san martin and 56 in san jose. numbers pretty much staying put as we head throughout the