i move to have local building code followed and prevailing wage be part of the check list of the affordable housing piece. is there anything else anybody else -- >> clerk: i'm sorry. what was that last portion? richard richards the building code be followed and part of the prevailing wage. i thought that was part of it. >> commissioner richards: it was. to have it followed. >> same for the building code, that's what's always followed. there's no harm in putting it in the planning code. it's something that dbi takes care of. >> vice president melgar: second. >> president hillis: great. and you'll come back to us with improvements that are not planning code oriented to get at kind of the pop out and other pretty standard residential expansions? >> oh, absolutely, again, this is one piece along the long path of process improvements, including -- you know, let's change things internally, amen, and this is one of the pieces before us, so we'll absolutely be -- the regular reporting on all that will continue. i just want to ask for again, we have the draft resolution, i just heard, and i think i

clarify that as of right now, i can't support anything built in this city that does not pass the local building codes that we have here in san francisco. >> thank you commissioner johnson. >> i wanted to thank the member's office to put together a committee this is an issue that we talk a lot about. thank you. this is an issue we speak a lot about the commission, just the rising cost of housing production over all and i was shocked to see just how much the cost of affordable housing has skyrocketed. two years ago we were talking about every unit of affordable costs around $500,000 to produce and now those numbers are $750,000 to produce a single unit, so as that gp continues to widen and we struggle with ways to fund affordable housing, putting together a coalition of folks from industry, from nonprofits and committee organizations and other decision makers to come around and rally around a solution is the type of coalition i want to see because i believe the solution sits at the intersection of those different perspectives, so i am exciting to see what the three working groups come up with and what

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building standing the code provides for minimum standards for energy conservatism for heating and ventilation that sort of thing these reside verification that the instruction meets the legal standard in the state and localevel getting a permit provides you with a record for your building for the life the building that conforms to the code since the work was done all right. so work not requiring permits the following a short list of work not requiring a permit tool and storage sheds epilepsy one square feet and projected roof areas can have a storage or tool shed in the backyard as long as the roof area doesn't exceed one hundred square feet not build someone 10 by 10 will exceed one hundred square feet and fences the front of building excluding a corner building the front fence don't need a permit for a maximum of 3 foot high fence and fences at the rear of the believes the rear yard 6 feet high maximum retaining walls so retaining wall is the wall that holds dirt listened it or some other material without a permit 4 feet high without a surcharge we're going to hold questions to the end the smack t surcharge platforms and walks not parts of an exit that are equal to or loans 3 inches if our on the first

code in northwest spain's basque region. the strong tides coming in from the atlantic prompted locals to build a sea wall to protect the tiny harbor. then the bilbao based operator saw the potential for an additional function. turned into an existing seawall into a power plant. to generate electricity from the incoming waves but. the wave power station has already generated almost two million kilowatt hours since it was opened in twenty eleven. sixteen turbines inside the plant are an almost permanent operation and produce around three hundred thousand kilowatt hours per year. john the cuba is one of the plant's technicians. he's also a local resident. and is called up regularly to service the facility. and i laughed when i was they were putting the lower section of. the air jam i know they did in the second why they didn't ask her enters but it was the lazy upwards. and i tried to turn. turn generates electricity. and leave. through the turbine while main thing in the process. and i don't worry about myself when i put enough. innovative technology in a sea wall originally built for one specific purpose to protect the harbo

some of the new buildings built under these codes survived greatly with little damage. there is -- there are things that localederal governments can do to fortify the infrastructure. worse,ms keep getting they will have to be difficult decisions because some buildings, no matter how big and great, will never survive a huge storm. there are measures that can be taken to fortify infrastructures. host: the issue in puerto rico continues to be the electric grid. in the washington times, the associated press says millions caught and to the great since maria hit, puerto rican officials warned it could take far less than a storm at berea to cause a blackout like the one today. with 11,820 homes and businesses still without power -- "the grid ." there but it is teetering they say, even if it is a category one, it is in such a state, we will lose power, i do not know for how long. let's go to wisconsin. we are talking with emily atkin. caller: hi. isquestion is, how come hud allowed not to fulfill their housingon for emergency for dislocated people? they get a budget. how come there are not trailers or something like

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