mr. hillis. >> thank you. i echo those comments. i'm very supportive of this. i think we've been pushing small sites as a great tool to preserve the exiting housing stock. it also becomes affordable housing stock for decades. i mean, it would be owned by non profits, which i think is great. you can often do it per unit cost significantly cheaper than building new affordable housing, not to say we shouldn't be doing that also but building affordable housing, 900,000 plus a unit, where you could buy small sites for less in most cases than $500,000. i have the same concern that commissioner richards has. you mentioned $40 million, we've got to get after funding source should be 10 times that every year. $40 million gets you 200 units. this isn't the solution. finding funding. this is a good first step if it's good to see progression of funding for small sites but we have to grow it almost exponentially to make a dent. thank you. >> commissioner moore. >> i'm inspired that supervisor fewer had the courage to come up with something that i think all of you are forge.

the work that is coming up and some of the priorities within his shop. >> commissioner hillis: thank you. welcome, mr. true. >> thank you so much. thank you, miriam, and thank you to the planning department and commission for having me here today. i thank commissioner hillis and the other commissioners. it's great to be back before you after being absent for a number of years. it's an honor to be here and honor to be back on behalf of mayor breed and on behalf of all san franciscans to get who are housing built and more housing -- to get more housing built and more housing built quickly. i started almost exactly a month ago, the first friday of january , and you know, with the mandate of -- from the mayor to move housing project forward faster and to mandate necessary changes to expedite the process. there's a lot of new definition that's going to come over time, but i wanted to just briefly talk about my initial focus and what i've been working on so far. of course, i've been talking to a lot of different folks around the city, department heads and city staff in particular to understand what's happe

hillis: commissioner moore? >> commissioner moore: i think mr. frye added depths to the project that made me feel comfortable with that. there's one last question to mr. teague, design client at plan stage. there's one comment that the department does not allow installing transformers in the public right-of-way but to talk with pg&e with the public to be located on-site because the street is narrow, and i assume that's the reason the department does not support it. has that been addressed? >> yes, it has. the building will only require 400 amps and pg&e does not require an amp for 400 watts to a building. >> commissioner moore: okay. then i think we're ready -- >> >> commissioner hillis: very good. on the motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: very good, commissioner, that motion passes 4-0. what do you say? >> clerk: item 16 was continued, item 17 was withdrawn. placing us on item 18. [agenda item read] discretionary review. >> commissioner hillis: mr. horn? >> good afternoon, commissioners, jeff horn, planning department staff. item before you is requ

. >> commissioner hillis: okay. mr. horn will you address those two issues. >> the requirements and calculation of open space, the midblock courtyard will suffice for open space for the front two units. they have direct access to it. >> commissioner hillis: so he doesn't need the roof deck. >> so all three units can get access to open space by the midblock open space. >> commissioner moore: you're clarifying we're doing a single-family unit not a multifamily unit. so we have three units using that open space. >> yeah. i think it's roughly 130 square feet per unit, and obviously, that space is much larger than that. >> commissioner hillis: how about the code compliance of the access. >> commissioner moore: i'm not talking about code compliance. >> commissioner hillis: you know you're not talking about code compliance, but i asked. >> i think the fire department would make a determination if that's an adequate trades man alley or access that's required with. i don't know if you've done those discussions with fire departmen

. >> commissioner hillis: thank you, mr. whitting. next speaker, please, mr. webber. >> good afternoon. my name is paul webber. i'm a north beach resident and a delegate to the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. in december, i sent to each of you and to the board a memorandum entitled fair housing -- paired housing and office space. in it is described a solution for san francisco to protect its very limited housing space for residents who work in the city. it provides the development projects in san francisco must provide office or commercial space which could be freestanding in order to create more than a specified number of residential units. i suggested 25 -- or a specified number of square feet the office space and vice versa. the pairing could be across local boundaries. there must be available public transportation between them with maximum specified riding times, i suggested 15 minutes, and with specified frequently intervals during peak hours, i suggested ten minutes. there would be suggestions for 100% senior and possibly some classes of below