is a variation on the redevelopment plans, however, the staff and the significant, for the on sight, bmr, condo owners that would have been at 181 freemont at this particular project under the planning department jurisdiction and also allows us to produce, more affordable housing in the transbay area and so with that, i would like to ask, chris tien, who is a senior real estate development, who will present the spefbs of this item. >> good afternoon, commissioners and thank you, director. mentioned that the item before you for consideration, is granting variation from transbay, on site affordable obligation, and acceptance of a $13.85 housing fee the item was continued from the meeting on september 12th in order to allow the staff to respond to questions raised by the commission at that meeting. the office, and just a quick summary of the project, as you can see here on the map, the project is located on freemont street just south of the transit center. it is in zone two of the project areas and under the jurisdiction of the planning department, the planning department approved the proje

at the hearing on september 12th, the commission expressed concerns about not giving bmr home buyers the opportunity to purchase the units in this project, despite the high hoa fees, to that end, the staff worked with the mayor's office with housing and community development to obtain additional information about the impacts of these higher hoa fees on the bmr buyers and units themselves and because the project is located in zone two of the project area, it is actually the public agency responsible for applying the city's inclusionary affordable housing program to the project and the long term enforcement of the affordability of the units in this project, and with the commission's permission, i would like to ask, maria benjamin who is the director of the home ownership to come up and just walk you through some of these impacts and explain, why it is in support of this variation request and then i will come back up and finish off the presentation. >> good morning, commissioners. when i heard 2000 dollar hoa fees, the hairs on my neck, i just... there are many reasons that we can see t

in this case the small number of units at the top of luxury tower make it practice hardship for the bmr owns first for state law the hoa can't be adjusted on the income level of the homeowners the bmr homeowners are required to pay the same amazes and the city and ocii hass have programmed that there is no program for assisting bmr buyers when increases 90 in hoa argues they without the support of bmr owners particularly in development with inclusionary units typical constitute a small number of the ownership and when hoa fees are increased people have a hard time making the mortgage and bmr owners will have to sell their units and marie the director of homeownership from the mayor's office of housing and infrastructure is here to answer questions about the hoa issues again kevin and supervisor kim discussed the 13.85 is 2 1/2 times under the cities inclusionary housing program it was determined by the developer and was backed up you by the concord group that will accruing crew to the developer if theirs converted to market rate units again, the fee will be used inform fund up to 69 uni

we can improve the ethnic diversity of bmr applicants. in order to provide that transparence, moh will collect data and report this beginning 2015 in our annual report. the last section in terms of recommendation are data-collection and dissemination of the data and moh should provide and annual report and quarterly affordable housing pipeline report. i have reviewed a draft final draft of the annual report. so i can assure the supervisors that we will indeed have an annual report by the end of the year. and it will cover two fiscal years. we will be working with the city's data officer about housing data and the housing portal that is going to be holding that data. and again, we will be highlighting our affordable housing projects within that housing portal. recommendation 6a and 6c, moh should be publishing metrics about our individual projects. that will be part of our both our annual report, as well as our housing portal in terms of our data. because what we'll be describing base upon the boston sort of template, the individual projec

reasonable deal has bun struck i think there's lessons learned number one having on site for sale bmr's in the towers leaguer or we're going to run into this hoa problem i wish it could have been discussed when we heard the original entitlement hearing i remember i believe in the corrosion a number of years ago a woman that lost her bmr because the hoa was too high this is a challenge maybe we can use this as a kinds study gordon's in the mayor's office task force to consider the hoa's and the solution that's been found i understand it's much closer to the dollar between the construction and the sale prices again that is information we take into the task force as a case study commissioner antonini >> yeah. i think this is a very good proposal and it's exciting to see this building under construction i've walked down there frequently and it is a be mixed use development not far away at fulsome and fremont that will be a mixture as most of the numbered parcels are of market rate and a candidate but there's quite a few of the of those under construction so there's many places to be employe

was displaced this is something we've encouraged in the development of the neighborhood and two the bmr units are on site and in part of their full engagement of the neighborhood they were fully engaged as well as lp n was assisting the formation of the lower polk benefits district it was not peripheral involvements that was indirect it was impactful and tricked to the formations of that district probably the most significant component of the project which we're very, very supportive of and excited about is how they dealt with the basic urban fabric element of our neighborhood the alley and the fact you've heard the architect speak to that the fact they've taken the risk and listened to us we're committed to changing the nature of the additionally this is the first project of the neighborhood that has taken this on as a challenge we're obviously just designing something we'll follow-up and work with the city as the city looked at redesigning what we bring to the city. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm a long term resident that lives nearby the pr

and second, the value of the bmr units may also increase in the near future as the incomes are expected to rise, and such increases in value could mitigate the increases in value for the market rate units and third the analysis is based on the project that is still under construction and it does not exist, and it is at a certain, fixed point in time and so it is impossible to really know exactly what the market dynamics are going to be at the point in time when the units are actually sold. and mr. corn well concluded that given the above considerations the analysis is still valid today. the affordable housing payment, which is about 2.5 times the amount of the affordable housing fee that will be paid for the city's affordable housing program will help oci, meet the affordable housing obligations in the transbay, and initially the staff estimated that up to 55 stand alone, affordable housing units on the public land parcels could be funded on the payment, with the assumption of $250,000 per unit in subsidy, and however, based on the review of the stand alone, affordable projects under wa

affordable housing from participation in the short-term rental activity chugging below market rate the bmr unit from the inclusionary and the single room occupancy units is and subletting or short term rentals at the request of the department it regulates single-family homes we require the residents of single-family homes for compliance with the residence requirement we have life safety and building safety requiring that anyone that registers with the city must be in compliance compliance with the plumbing and other interest would codes in order to be granted permission it so be revoked if there's new nos of violation orders of abatement access and deessentialist nos thank you supervisor cohen for her suggestion we require the posting of fire survivalist in each unit hosted supervisor wiener and supervisor farrell suggested we increase the liability insurance to one half million dollars to indemnify folks and i supported those amendments and also, they proposed that we require property owner notification when tenants have completed applications to rent let me he'd the process this has been

we were in unanimous support this is making active use in iowa is an underutilized site we love the bmr's on site the 12 permanently affordable housing and we like the bike parks and car parks onsite and making improvements to austin alley that will attract not only the folks from the community they've taken the feedback and you have a great project in front of you hope you approve it await delay thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon commissioner president wu and commissioners my name is adrian with the carpenters local 22 it's nice to be back up here just to let you know the carpets 22 supports this project as well as other try mark because they have support local 22 they make a commitments on all their projects and what that means to us and what it means to the city of is young folks learning a trade getting an apprehending and continuing their work and education because it's an education an apprenticeship is an education a pathway to a career that is they could end up sitting up there where you're at we appreciate that and hope you'll support this project like carpets 22 does. >>

cancel implies so we've got alleged policies to submit the affordable housing for the rental activity bmr units in the inclusionary affordable housing programming as well as single room occupancy we've heard about building code issues we've specifically said if you have any outstanding building electrical, plunging are mechanic, fire, health or housing e.r. violations any notice of violations for the notice of boiment access and deist orders you'll be denied sequoa i want to ask we make additional amendments to our legislation today so first continue to strengthen enforcement to require the posting of online adds without registration with a violation subject to penalty and to have a hosting platform for the violations we've also continued to hear from neighborhood associations and neighborhood activists we need to look at new neighborhood nuance u nuisance so we'll ask for amendments if you've been provided is a registration with the city and somehow you subsequentially violate the police health or noise or ordinances your registration could be scald 80 so clarify only a permanent residen

. >> through the president is that your intent to be as boarded as we can about excluding the bmr's and the sro's and the city induced unit. >> that's my intent i seemed mount prop c and small fund income restricted and involve the lo low income rate that leaves the question around in-laws and that is one we should vote on. >> i withdrew the part of the amendment that refers to city substituted housing but lease in the part of new mexico's. >> and colleagues any other questions or discussed on any of the amendments last call for amendments no other amendments so as our city attorney mentioned we have a disappointed file unless there's objection the way i think we precede we'll adopt each separate amendment that does not require a committee back to committee reference or a reference to planning commission and that will be one file and the second file will be you'll have those amendments that require a referral back to committee around planning commission supervisor chiu first then supervisor kim and i want to suggest i am wondering if we can before duplicating making the substituted amen

considered the phases to make sure that the affordable inclusionary development search warrants the blshgs p bmr development was on schedule and the block 52 action accompanied the major changes with that, i'd like to ask 30th to walk i threw those for your consideration. >> thank you director bohe welcome back commissioner booster to see my name is 30th the project manager for the hupd arrest today, our considering two actions and making environmental venthsd be pursuant to the environmental quality are sequa for short it is approving the application to increase the number of inclusionary units by one and update the table a inclusionary location map the section e second 5 d is on block 55 for sale housing unit for a schedule of performance the table seismic and conceptual design a vertical agreement for block 55 and to fascinate and provide you with background and an update on the project detail as a recreation on the shipyards history the project will be 1re789d in two phases that includes land on hunters point shipyard and candle stick point totally the land arbitration the first phase of the

to build those units off site, where the bmr units are paying their own and setting their own and paying their own hoa fees. and so thank you very much and again, we want to say that we are supportive of this and we want to be sure that it does not set a precedent for all projects being out. >> thank you. >> are there any other members of the public. >> no other speaker cards. >> we will close public comment. and turn it to the commissioners, commissioner singh? >> yeah. thank you. and madam president, and i have gone through already targeting this, and actually, i like this project, now, and i don't know before and also, i agree that it counts enough and so (inaudible) so i think that i like to move this. >> commissioner do you have any questions? >> no i just would like to second that. >> thank you. >> and the motion has been made and seconded, could you call the roll? >> commissioner singh, >> yes. commissioner bustos. >> yes. >> and madam chair. >> yes. >> three ayes and one absent. >> item five, consent agenda, approval of minutes, august 19, 2014. >> madam chair? >> yes, i believe

to the grand jury report; which was to create an electronic portal to allow for applications to our bmrs and which had we hope us in facilitating applications to all of our affordable housing in the future. >> one second, president chiu >> i wanted to ask about the use of technology to provide our public with more information on housing and one of the top constituent questions that we get and i'm sure it's a case for all colleagues, i need access and how do i apply and we hear continuous feedback of how byzantine the process is. i think as the civil grand jury well-pointed out there is a lot of information to decipher. so i very much appreciate the commitment that you have made to make the website more user-friendly, and to designate a website manager. for me, my hope is that your office becomes that one-stop center for anyone seeking housing, to get quick and easy and accessible information, so they know wherever they are in the city, whatever their income level, wherever they are eligible, they can figure this out. i'm awesome assuming that is where you are trying to do with the websit